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Caffeine withdrawal headaches can be incapacitating. Often they are accompanied by fatigue as your body starts to recuperate from its former caffeine-driven pace. It may interest you to know why you get a headache when you skip your morning cup. Caffeine acts a as powerful vasoconstrictor in the brain. That is, it constricts blood vessels in the brain and decreases circulation! When caffeine is not present, the sudden increased circulation causes headaches. While this keeps millions of people addicted to the caffeine habit, the good news is that you can avoid this pitfall by slowly weaning yourself off caffeine over a two to three week period.
Start by mixing your normal coffee 3/4 to 1/4 Teeccino Herbal Coffee. Gradually reduce the percentage of your coffee over a two to three week period until you are drinking 100% Teeccino Herbal Coffee. You should be able to avoid the headaches and also gradually adjust your body to less reliance on stimulants.
Example: Use the following proportions if you make a 10-cup pot of coffee daily:
Day 1-3: 4 tablespoons of your regular coffee
1 tablespoon TeeccinoDay 4-6: 3 tablespoons of your regular coffee
2 tablespoons TeeccinoDay 7-9: 2 tablespoons of your regular coffee
3 tablespoons TeeccinoDay 10: 1.5 tablespoon of your regular coffee
3.5 tablespoons of TeeccinoDay 11: 1 tablespoon of your regular coffee
4 tablespoons of TeeccinoDay 12-13: 1/2 tablespoon of your regular coffee
4 1/2 tablespoons of Teeccino
Day 14: 5 tablespoons Teeccino!
Helpful Herbal Tonics and Nutritional Supplements
Some people find their natural energy returns easily but others suffer from some energy lows during the first few weeks after quitting coffee. Allow yourself to feel more tired than usual. Your body is giving you some important signals you may have been ignoring for some time as you continued to seek energy from caffeine. That tired feeling is temporary but you may find you need to catch up on some much needed sleep.
Herbal tonics that help rebuild adrenal health and detoxify the body can help you restore your natural energy more quickly.
FUSION HEALTH™ products include ancient and modern Chinese formulas. Other Fusion Health formulas blend scientifically researched and effective Chinese herbs with a selection of proven Western herbs. Fusion Health provides unique therapeutic benefits in 14 different products.
- Fusion Energy Formula is a powerful tonic to increase energy; enhance drive and physical performance; relieves fatigue and lethargy; reduces irritability and tension; promotes a healthy immune system; maintains a healthy heart; provides an aphrodisiac effect.
- Fusion Whole Body Tonic optimizes the health of the whole body to enhance vitality and wellbeing; supports all body systems; improves resistance to stress; helps detoxify the body; tones the liver and aids digestion; enhances circulation and promotes healthy ageing.
- Fusion Health MEMORY formula - formulated with Brahmi, Ginkgo, Schizandra, Siberian Ginseng and Gotu Kola. Overall this fast acting formula improves memory, promotes concentration, enhances recall, reduces nervous tension and increases resistance to stress. It is a brain tonic suitable for long-term use. (Click here for more infomation and to buy Fusion products online)
Some heavy coffee drinkers experience "brain fog" in the first month or so of quitting caffeine. Good nutrition along with a supplement, such as The Missing Link® Master Nutrient Formula (click here for more information) coupled with the Memory formula above, will help to overcome this problem.
You might also consider some herbs to help detoxify the liver, kidneys and bowels. The 8 herb formula, Flor*Essence, is a powerful detoxifier that assists the body in its process of cleansing and detoxifying. It can strengthen and support taxed systems of elimination which have been exhausted by too much caffeine. (click here to for more information on this product)
Remember to drink more water - at least 8 cups per day - during this detoxification period.
Nutritional supplements that support adrenal health are the B vitamins and in particular pantothenic acid (B-5). If you need an additional energy boost during your recovery, try a bioenergetic nutritional supplement that has Co-Q10, alpha ketoglutaric acid, chromium, potassium and magnesium aspartate. You'll find it gives you a real energy boost by increasing metabolic efficiency rather than stimulating the nervous system. This approach can be likened to feeding the horse rather than whipping it.
Beware of products parading as energy uppers that simply contain more harmful stimulants. Many of them depend on caffeine from lesser known sources such as guarana, kola nut, and yerba mate, or ephedrine from Ma Huang.
Here is an article on how Teeccino help us better absorb Essential Minerals
Here is a link to more articles on how Caffeine effects our bodies
