Caffeine, Stimulants, and Individual Response

would you suggest people like limit say for example caffeine and stimulant um intake like away from workouts as an example so that's something i've been trialing is having uh i was a bit bit of a caffeine junkies like massively knocking that on the head and only having caffeine pre-workout and i've found that's made a big difference for me in terms of a reducing stress and anxiety and then also when it's time to flip on and off it's much easier to control that almost yeah you know i mean that's a that's a big topic because everybody responds to caffeine differently so you have um people that are hyper responders and people who are not very fast responders or you have people that metabolize fast and don't like i'm a fast metabolizer most substances that you would ever take um whether that's caffeine or fun stuff you do in holland or whatever um not not that i would know about that stuff you know um but my wife she's the opposite so if she drinks a Red Bull at six in the morning, she can't sleep at 2 a.m. the next day, right? So I can get up and drink coffee one after another, after another. In fact, like my students will tell you this. They think it's funny because they bring me six shot coffees when I lecture. And I think one day in London, I drank 36 shots of coffee between like 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. And I was totally fine. But that's the difference, right? So there are great health benefits to coffee if you keep it within reason. But coffee also can be very irritating to some people's guts. So if you have gut issues, it might be a good idea not to do that. If you have Crohn's, a lot of people with IBDs by IBS as they're drinking coffee, coffee can be cross-reactive with autoimmune diseases like Crohn's. So if your doctor said, hey, you can't have gluten because you've got this autoimmune disease, well, you shouldn't really have coffee because that can sometimes in certain people cross-react. Same thing with chocolate. A lot of things that can become cross-reactive. If you're just stressed out and you're a habitual coffee drinker, it's probably not that big of a deal. now if you're railing off a line of crystal and having a coffee you probably want to cut the crystal down a little bit you know so you got to look at like how hard are some of these substances coffee really not that bad and if you're drinking six shots before you get out of bed in the morning you probably want to cut that down to a couple shots of espresso but again the only way you know is if you cut it out you cut it out and you feel better that's a positive sign that you probably need to limit your exposure to that. That goes with anything. Different foods, coffee, different illicit substances, whatever. Exercise. I think that's the magic key. I think too many people don't test things and are not patient enough with it. I tried probably a few months ago a whole week with no caffeine, no stimulants at all. I actually felt worse for it. You felt worse? Yeah. It's pointless.