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Juice Me Up, Scotty!!!
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I want to discuss caffeine with other people with wicked low cortisol and pity levels of the rest of steroids/sexual hormones AKA "Adrenal Fatigue".
My 23andme text revealed an homozygous mutation in the most relevant caffeine-related gene. I am a really slow caffeine metabolizer. No surprise but good to have the confirmation.
I know caffeine screws me up big time and is bad for adrenals but my sleep continues to be horrible and I find I keep coming back for some heavy-duty Pu-Erh tea. Today it made me somewhat jittery (right now!). But when I drink tea some of my old self comes back and feel my illness masked enough to say witty stuff.
Have you found tea tolerable, having adrenal fatigue AND being a slow metabolizer?
If I drop the caffeine I still sleep shitty but feel more the effects of my unbelievable low-quality sleep. I know some supplements give energy but honestly nothing like caffeine or dark chocolate (which is super inflammatory for my leaky gut so cannot take it). NONE of the adrenal herbs I tried do anything for me, and I even bought half a kilo of Ashwagandha and took heaped tablespoons for weeks with no effect. So much for all those studies and threads you can find praising it.
My 23andme text revealed an homozygous mutation in the most relevant caffeine-related gene. I am a really slow caffeine metabolizer. No surprise but good to have the confirmation.
I know caffeine screws me up big time and is bad for adrenals but my sleep continues to be horrible and I find I keep coming back for some heavy-duty Pu-Erh tea. Today it made me somewhat jittery (right now!). But when I drink tea some of my old self comes back and feel my illness masked enough to say witty stuff.
Have you found tea tolerable, having adrenal fatigue AND being a slow metabolizer?
If I drop the caffeine I still sleep shitty but feel more the effects of my unbelievable low-quality sleep. I know some supplements give energy but honestly nothing like caffeine or dark chocolate (which is super inflammatory for my leaky gut so cannot take it). NONE of the adrenal herbs I tried do anything for me, and I even bought half a kilo of Ashwagandha and took heaped tablespoons for weeks with no effect. So much for all those studies and threads you can find praising it.