When coffee, tea or soda drinkers are confronted with enough information as to why caffeine should be eliminated from their diet, they may decide to go cold turkey. “I’m not taking any more caffeine, starting now,” is a likely response. The problem with that is that heavy coffee, tea or soda drinkers will experience headaches…. [Continue Reading]

Caffeine is probably the world’s most popular stimulant. Although associated mainly with coffee, it is also found in tea, cola, chocolate and energy drinks. Why do we love caffeine so much? What happens when we stop taking it? How can we live without it? Caffeine increases the heart rate; it increases mental activity, wakefulness and… [Continue Reading]

You’ve made the plunge and decided to quit coffee cold-turkey. Bad idea, but if you insist, be aware there’s going to be some suffering. The most likely and immediate effect is going to be a headache. You have to work, headache or not, so what can you do about it?   Caffeine Headaches There’s a… [Continue Reading]

Caffeine, besides being that really delicious stuff in coffee that most people start craving even before they wake up, is a stimulant drug, much like nicotine, cocaine, and amphetamines. Simply put, caffeine gives its consumer a “boost” of energy so they don’t feel as tired and lethargic; in your body, something a little more complicated… [Continue Reading]

When coffee, tea or soda drinkers are confronted with enough information as to why caffeine should be eliminated from their diet, they may decide to go cold turkey.  “I’m not taking any more caffeine, starting now,” is a likely response. The problem with that is that heavy coffee, tea or soda drinkers will experience headaches…. [Continue Reading]