Ten good reasons to quit coffee

1. There is a lot of controversy about coffee. Is it unhealthy or can one or two cups be beneficial? It is common ground that coffee in any case places a burden on several organs. Coffee also destroys vitamins, coffee acidifies the body and an excess of coffee causes a rushed feeling. On the other hand, that one cup of coffee during the morning provides a bit of relaxation. While a healthy body should get along with one to two cups a day, it's healthier to quit coffee altogether. An overview of ten good reasons to quit coffee.

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1. 1. Coffee is bad for your stomach and intestines 2. Coffee destroys vitamins 3. Coffee sours the body 4. Coffee reduces the amount of minerals absorbed 5. Coffee also contains other harmful substances 6. Coffee unnaturally increases blood sugar 7. Coffee disrupts the proper functioning of the liver 8. Coffee causes adrenal fatigue 9. Coffee reduces fertility and breaks down testosterone 10. Coffee gets the rest from the body it needs Quitting coffee, good idea, but how do you do that?

1. Coffee is bad for your stomach and intestines

1. Too much coffee and caffeine damage the stomach and intestinal walls. Everyone knows the feeling that you get an upset stomach after too much coffee. This is not just another signal that you should ignore it. Internal damage is not visible, so sensitivity or pain is the body's only way to give a warning. As is known, the intestinal system is an important part of the immune system. Why would you overload or even damage that with too much coffee? Even stomach bleeding can be a result of drinking too much coffee. Ultimately, an overload of the stomach and intestines will decrease your internal energy. Coffee drinkers will compensate for that exhausted feeling with even more coffee. A downward spiral is the result. Quit coffee and your stomach and intestines will be healthier.

2. Coffee destroys vitamins

1. Coffee breaks down vitamins, especially vitamins B (including B1, B2 and B12) and C. Vitamin C is an important antioxidant, is important for the immune system and enhances the iron absorption in the intestines. Vitamin B1 plays an important role in memory. Vitamin B2 is important for the metabolism (conversion of fats), respiration, for the healthy growth of skin, nails and hair, and for the formation of red blood cells. Vitamin B12 is also important for the formation of red blood cells and oxygen transport. Certainly when coffee is drunk immediately after a healthy meal, many vitamins are destroyed. Anyone who drinks a lot of coffee will therefore have to take more vitamins.

3. Coffee sours the body

1. Within natural medicine, coffee, alcohol and refined sugars are considered the major acidifiers of the body. The more acidic the body is, the healthier it is. Metabolic processes, energy supply, oxygen transport, everything in the body benefits from a healthy acid-base ratio. As a rule, in a body that is too acidic, all these processes go less well. Poison also accumulates more easily in an acidic body, on the other hand, in a body with a healthy acid-base ratio, waste and toxins can be removed better.

4. Coffee reduces the amount of minerals absorbed

1. Today our food contains less and less minerals. This is a result of the depletion of the soil on which our food grows. By also drinking coffee the body receives even less minerals. Coffee hinders the absorption of minerals, including calcium and potassium. Calcium is necessary for healthy bones and prevents bone loss. Potassium is necessary for a healthy acid-base balance, fluid balance and blood sugar levels, and a healthy blood flow. Coffee also increases zinc secretion. We need zinc for a properly functioning thyroid gland, prostate, for the proper functioning of antioxidants and for the immune system. The absorption of iron is also reduced by coffee (partly because coffee breaks down vitamin C), iron is needed for oxygen transport. Coffee also increases selenium secretion from the body. Selenium (commonly found in nuts) is an important detoxifier, mainly because it removes the toxic metals cadmium, arsenic and mercury. Coffee also breaks down magnesium, magnesium is very essential in the energy supply in the body and plays a role in the conversion of L-tryptophan into 5-HTP and then into serotonin.

5. Coffee also contains other harmful substances

1. Coffee and caffeine stimulate you and make you a little fitter. But too much caffeine can cause headaches, insomnia, shakiness and migraines. However, coffee not only contains the harmful caffeine, but also other harmful substances. For example, the carcinogenic substance acrylamide, or the LDL-cholesterol-increasing cafestol, which is bad for your heart and blood vessels. The coffee roasting process releases chemicals that are carcinogenic, which is why a Los Angeles judge decided in early 2018 that coffee companies should put a cancer warning label on the packaging. So don't just focus on the caffeine content that you consume while drinking coffee. Keep in mind that decaffeinated coffee can still contain harmful substances.

6. Coffee unnaturally raises blood sugar

1. Caffeine is known to increase blood sugar levels enormously. Coffee gives the adrenal glands a strong push to release adrenaline, which increases blood sugar levels. That is the energy that coffee drinkers love. The sugar level rises right in your brain. That is why we also take a sweet filled cake with the coffee. The pancreas, in turn, has to produce extra insulin to burn all the sugars. This does not work completely, so many excess sugars are converted into fat. Indeed, drinking coffee makes you fat. Research published in the medical journal Diabetes Care has shown that from four cups of coffee the sugar level rose by an average of 8% to a maximum of 26%. Mind you, this is an unhealthy unnatural stimulus. Remember that drinking coffee early in the morning forces all of the organs involved to go into top gear. Incidentally, as a result of too much insulin (because the pancreas had to go into the highest gear) the blood sugar level can drop too much again, causing nervousness and fatigue. And so we grab another cup of coffee to give us a boost.

7. Coffee disrupts the proper functioning of the liver

1. The body has to detoxify daily, the liver plays an important role in this. Coffee makes the liver less able to perform this task, because the liver now also has to process all the poison from the coffee drunk. It's not just caffeine that's bad for the liver, coffee contains many bad substances such as acrylamide and cafestol, all of which must be broken down by the liver. With excessive coffee consumption, the liver becomes exhausted, causing the body to become increasingly contaminated with waste products and can become acidic.

8. Coffee causes adrenal fatigue

1. What we all really want is to be healthy and fit. Then don't drink coffee. Coffee depletes the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands produce cortisol, a hormone needed to make us feel extra alert in times of stress or illness. It is therefore possible that during long periods of stress or illness the adrenal glands “naturally” produce a lot of cortisol and thus become heavily burdened. But why should we, whether we are healthy or ill, exhaust our adrenal glands even more with coffee? Coffee stimulates the adrenal glands and makes them produce extra cortisol. And not once, no, that happens several times every day for a coffee drinker. Exhausted adrenal glands are the result, often associated with a malfunctioning thyroid gland.

9. Coffee reduces fertility and breaks down testosterone

1. Too much cortisol, which is released by the use of coffee, breaks down testosterone. Part of this testosterone is made in the adrenal glands. A lack of testosterone makes you fat faster. In addition, the conversion of testosterone into estradiol is increased as a result of coffee. We need testosterone for our self confidence and it plays a role in short term memory. It is also important for keeping the reproductive organs healthy. Too much caffeine per day also reduces fertility in women.

10. Coffee takes the rest from the body it needs

1. Just while the body needs rest in the morning, coffee forces it to go full throttle. This can never be healthy. The kidneys are overloaded because they have to expel extra fluid. As mentioned, coffee increases the stress hormone cortisol. Too much of this hormone causes concentration problems and reduces movement coordination. Ultimately, coffee causes a poorer memory in the long term and makes you less emotionally stable. But more importantly, by drinking coffee you never give your own body a chance to really relax. The body must first be allowed to be really tired before it can recover.

Quitting coffee, good idea, but how do you go about that?

1. If you are going to stop with coffee, this will first of all cause the same complaints as those that cause too much coffee. These are headaches, nervousness and restlessness. But these are all temporary symptoms that last only a few days. In the long run, quitting coffee is getting your body back to the pace it needs.