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    Coffee & Methylation: To Stop or Not?

    Hey Tor, glad to hear you are having positive results! The first time I tried to quit I weaned for a week too but I just couldn't sleep without it! It took me months to get down to zero and the pain/sleep is still a major issue but I do have more energy and potassium seems to be helping with the...
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    Coffee & Methylation: To Stop or Not?

    Good luck to you as well Tor!
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    Coffee & Methylation: To Stop or Not?

    I have been asking myself the same questions..should i quit? is it helping or hurting? There is a lot of conflicting information out there so I decided to test it out for myself and quit. It was extremely difficult to quit this time around, however, once I did the whole game changed. I can...
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    Drinking coffee improves my sleep. Wait, what?

    Thanks for the links @Critterina I'll be reading these tonight. Some thought provoking responses. Thank you. Adrenal issues may be involved here. I have a pretty unusual history with adrenal insufficiency. At my worst (circa 2008) my doctor had me on 70mg oral hydrocortisone (this is 3.5 times...
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    Drinking coffee improves my sleep. Wait, what?

    I'm trying to find an explanation for why drinking coffee improves my sleep. I don't consider this a good thing, I'm not advocating drinking coffee to improve your sleep. My quick run down is this: Lots of pain and low grade depression since I was a teenager. Steadily got worse until an almost...