In the past couple of years articles about “brain fog” have been leaping up all over the internet. It seems that everyone (including me) has been in the same boat at one point. We can remember a time when our brains felt sharp, ready to absorb information and crank out any sort of work we …
We’ve all been there, we didn’t get our morning (or mid-morning/afternoon/mid-afternoon/evening) cup of coffee and you feel a dull ache starting to develop. If you’re a caffeine lover (like myself) your dull ache might develop into a raging headache within the next couple of hours unless you can find some liquid caffeinated relief. While the …
I remember the first time I had a BANG! energy drink. Unicorn Rainbow flavor. Whatever that is. I was going through a particularly stressful time and had been having huge amounts of caffeine to maintain my schedule of school, night-shift, husband/dad duties, and repeat. BANG! was one of the first and most successful drinks to …
During my first year of college, I figure I consumed almost 200 grams of caffeine. By the end of the year, it seemed like I didn’t have any energy no matter what I drank or did. It wasn’t until a year or so later (when I was even more burned out) that I realized that not only …
I didn’t even know how much I relied on caffeine to get me through the day until I didn’t have it. I knew, of course, that any form caffeine didn’t have much effect on me anymore. In fact, I hadn’t felt energized from the caffeine in years. I drank it simply to feel normal levels …
If you’re here you’re probably already aware of something: giving up caffeine is going to suck. I knew that quitting caffeine wasn’t going to be easy but it still took me three or four tries before I finally kicked the habit. There are some rare individuals out there who can drink 10 cups of coffee …
If you’re visiting this page, odds are you’ve tried detoxing from caffeine before. When I first became aware of the negative effect that caffeine was having on my body, I tried to quit cold turkey. That was when I found out that I was a noodle of a man… or at least, I thought so …