Comments on: Why I Gave Up Drinking Coffee For Good.

By: Jean

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 02:46:20 +0000

I think I’ve known for a long time that coffee wasn’t helping my very sensitive, gluten-inflamed gut, but I drank it a little at work for decades, quit for awhile, and started up again in recent years as a retiree to give me “energy”. I do love a non-bitter cup w a conservative splash of vanilla syrup and 2% milk. But if I don’t eat something healthy beforehand or right after, I definitely don’t feel good. Not as bad as you, but my tummy feels “raw”. I get skin blisters from gluten as well as the systemic and gut issues. But I avoid everything but a few, select, certified g-f products… and my skin still erupts, sometimes badly (and always very painfully). I hate it. I’ve been telling myself lately to try dropping either coffee or dairy, but I love at least some dairy and I don’t really need the coffee — I just like it. Funny thing is, though, I’ve never been a COFFEE! drinker, drinking a lot each day and all the really bitter-smelling and -tasting types. In fact, just the smell of very strong coffee brewing makes me feel sick, and, when my brother drinks his coffee almost all day long and the harsh kind, I’ve been known to laugh and ask him how he can drink that “rot-gut stuff”. <— Apparently, my gut has been subliminally trying to convince my brain about something that coffee does to it!
Thank you for this article! I will be weaning myself down to a half-cup a day in order to finish a bag of quality grounds, and then quit cold turkey. I have pretty good will power when I'm motivated by proof, and your article helped a lot!
P.S. Tell your readers this — if you want to wake up body and mind in the mornings w/o coffee and on a very healthy way, find a type of apple you love the taste of, and have one every breakfast w some peanut butter or other nut butter to dip in. Your digestive system and your brain will thank you!!! :)

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By: Heather

Sun, 02 May 2021 16:04:58 +0000

I highly enjoyed this read! I too was an avid coffee-drinker (one cup a day) and said I’d never stop, but recently I decided to try alternating Chai and Matcha during the week. Girrrrllllll, this has saved me. My stomach is flatter, I feel thinner, I think I lost a couple pounds… overall I feel so much better. It has been a struggle sometimes with the digestive aspect, but if I need to I’ll have 2 cups of Chai, lots of fruit, and maybe an herbal laxative at night and that helps a lot. I also experienced headaches for the first couple weeks, but my body is super sensitive. I’m honestly in shock that I was able to get off of coffee and I’m excited about my future health! I’m with you though, that I’ll still enjoy the occasional cup of coffee on the weekend. :)

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By: Robin

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:54:34 +0000

In reply to Chanamon Chaiwechnimit.

My stomach is bloated and burning as I read this.
I know it’s because I drink cold brew coffee Every day!
I love the caffeine buzz, but my tummy is so upset!
Great article.
Thank you!

Robin

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By: Bec

Fri, 22 May 2020 06:46:20 +0000

Hi all:
I can recommend Organic coconut oil (food grade) for constipation. Just add it to your coffee/hot drink in the morning. Start with 1/4 teaspoon and then increase to a teaspoon or more. All works with ease after taking it. In regards to coffee, I know bone broth is a great alternative to a morning cuppa. Best of luck!

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By: Amy

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:38:50 +0000

This is a great article. I have acid reflux and gastritis. Every morning for many years I have drank about one-and-a-half cups of coffee and a hot water with lemon, along with a mostly fruit breakfast and 2tbsp of raw cacao mixed with powdered peanut butter to make a rich chocolate peanut butter paste. All too much acid for an empty stomach? Do you think it’s the acid? The caffeine? The coffee only? The chocolate? I’m nervous to quit this habit because I think it helps me go #2. Will stopping the coffee cause constipation? Help! Right now, my stomach bloats after breakfast, stools are loose, gas builds up, and mucus actually propels out with gas. So debilitating!!! Help please. Any information or advice would be SO appreciated.

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By: steven collier

Sat, 04 May 2019 20:04:21 +0000

hi ,ive just given up coffee due to my colon feeling sort of full all the while and i have alot of gas,bowel movements although regular seem to be not very well digested soft stools and pale in colour.After going coffee free for 3 days ive noticed stomach feels less bloated and i dont have to pass urine so often,i thought i may have a prostate problem but that feels fine now..i’m 61 years old.I’m hoping my sleep improves now because i only sleep for about 4 hours..will report my findings in a couple of weeks.

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By: Does Drinking Coffee Affect Your Gut Health? Here's What The Research Shows - Bustle - Airiters

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:31:48 +0000

[…] It also depends on your personal experience. Marketing specialist Caroline Høgh Groth wrote on her website that because she has a sensitive gut, giving up coffee was the right thing to do for her. She cited things like GERD, excess stomach acid, food rotting, and inflammation as ways coffee can upset the balance of a sensitive gut. […]

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By: Steve

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:48:54 +0000

In reply to Chanamon Chaiwechnimit.

I’m with you Chanamon! Going to try give it up for a week.

Lovely name by the way. Where is it from?

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By: 11 Ways to Practice Self Care (For Yourself - Not Others).

Tue, 08 May 2018 02:20:48 +0000

[…] you follow me, you’d know I quit drinking coffee a few months ago now. Instead, I swapped it with tea and now I can’t live without it. […]

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By: Caroline Høgh Groth

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:40:19 +0000

In reply to Theresia.

Hi Theresia,

Ah, I’m so glad you’ve jumped onboard the no-coffe wagon, too! How good does it feel? I feel so much more clear in my head and my thoughts, especially after lunchtime where I’d normally have my dip.

Hope you can continue, and maybe just have a few sneaky coffee’s sometime ;)

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