Why caffeine plays a role in mood issues and sleep disorders.
Caffeine promotes1the release of cortisol (the stress hormone), triggering a stress response in the body.
We all underestimate how long caffeine lingers in the body.
Caffeine has a half life offive to seven hours2for most people.
Even a little bit of caffeine lingering in the body can disrupt the quality of your sleep.
What does this mean, exactly?
It means that drinking caffeine makes your nervous system eager for a fight at all times.
When you remove the caffeine, your stress response loses the wind from its sails.
Stuggling with your mental health?
Try this caffeine challenge.
After a week completely off caffeine, check in with yourself.
How’s your anxiety?
Any recent panic attacks?
How’s your mood?
Keep taking stock of your symptoms, and get intimately acquainted with the relationship between your symptoms and caffeine.
Open your eyes to the role this powerful substance plays in symptoms you thought were just who you are.
1 bestselling bookThe Anatomy of Anxiety.
She takes a functional medicine approach to mental healthconsidering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root.
Vora received her B.A.
fromYale Universityand her M.D.
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