People really do underestimate the effects caffeine has on mental and physical health. And how addictive it is. It’s so ubiquitous that we don’t even see it as a drug. But it is a drug – a relatively mild one, but still.
Try going completely without caffeine for a month, see how you feel. You’ll need a week or two to get past the withdrawal symptoms – mostly headaches and lethargy – but after that, I bet you’ll feel overall much better.
I’ve joked about how normalized it is that we use caffeine as a drug to feed an almost civilizational addiction.
Imagine checking into a motel room and saying “Oh, man, this motel doesn’t even have a spoon and a lighter to cook my heroin in! What a cheap joint this place is!” or going to a social gathering and wondering “I wonder when someone is going to offer me some meth. It’s only polite!”
I take energy shots roughly 2 times a week as needed, and occasionally enjoy a coffee with a cigar, but I have friends who are legitimately physically addicted to it. It’s crazy how normalized it is.
People really do underestimate the effects caffeine has on mental and physical health. And how addictive it is. It’s so ubiquitous that we don’t even see it as a drug. But it is a drug – a relatively mild one, but still.
Try going completely without caffeine for a month, see how you feel. You’ll need a week or two to get past the withdrawal symptoms – mostly headaches and lethargy – but after that, I bet you’ll feel overall much better.
I’ve joked about how normalized it is that we use caffeine as a drug to feed an almost civilizational addiction.
Imagine checking into a motel room and saying “Oh, man, this motel doesn’t even have a spoon and a lighter to cook my heroin in! What a cheap joint this place is!” or going to a social gathering and wondering “I wonder when someone is going to offer me some meth. It’s only polite!”
And yet, here we are, a world of addicts.
I take energy shots roughly 2 times a week as needed, and occasionally enjoy a coffee with a cigar, but I have friends who are legitimately physically addicted to it. It’s crazy how normalized it is.