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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 6

August 28th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

 clipped from www.naturalnews.com Dr. Hibbs describes a male patient suffering from many effects of stress, including fatigue and constipation. The patient relied heavily on coffee to keep him going physically and had developed chronic adrenal fatigue. Dr. Hibbs took him off caffeine and sugar, which are both stimulants and were taxing his system. Appropriate exercise [...]

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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 5

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

clipped from www.naturalnews.com “Adrenal fatigue” The caffeine connection has been hidden by the fact that treatment for adrenal dysfunction disorders tends to be shortsighted and one-dimensional. As I have explained before, understanding the health effects of caffeine requires a long view, perhaps encompassing most of one’s lifetime. And from that long-term view, a two-phase phenomenon [...]

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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 3

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

 clipped from www.naturalnews.com Caffeine works by mimicking a hormone that tells the adrenal glands to crank out more adrenaline. The adrenal glands think there is a stressful situation and that they are supposed to be making more adrenal hormone. Herbal Defense by Ralph T Golan ND, page 280 A dosage of 50 to 100 mg [...]

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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 4

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

 clipped from www.naturalnews.com "Constant ‘fight-or-flight’ mode and the caffeine rollercoaster" If you continue to drink coffee or other beverages containing caffeine throughout the day, your adrenal glands will be constantly stimulated and you will find yourself in a chronic state of stress. Extra stress, I guarantee, you don’t need—it takes a toll on your body [...]

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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 2

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

 clipped from www.naturalnews.com The experts speak on caffeine, exhaustion and fatigue: "Caffeine’s immediate effects on your body" It doesn’t take a genius to see that there might be a downside to all of this neuron activity. In fact, uncontrolled neuron firing creates an emergency situation, which triggers the pituitary gland in the brain to secrete [...]

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How coffee causes exhaustion, fatigue and addiction, Pt 1

August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · My Health

clipped from www.naturalnews.com Most a.m. coffee drinkers don’t realize it, but their morning cups of coffee set their bodies up for a rollercoaster day of highs and lows, only to bottom out at the point of exhaustion. Just a few hours after consumption, when the artificial high dies down, many people may reach for more [...]

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How to Naturally Kick the Habit

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · My Family, My Health

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Coffee is probably the most consumed beverage on the planet and there are many reasons why. It’s both a stimulant and a laxative. So it wakes you up and makes you go… in more ways than one. For marketing purposes, coffee is often cited as a high antioxidant beverage, which may account [...]

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