Lurker13 wrote:Bassist_Diver wrote:I drank too much coffee today - as in to the point that I was shaking, became extremely existential, panicky, and super jumpy. AKA enough to mimic cocaine.
When I drink too much coffee I just get sleepy. It feels like I've depleted my supply of stimulants, which just leaves me groggy.
read an article a few years back about coffee. things i remember, which might not be completely accurate of course, are that coffee is best consumed for its stimulant effect not first thing in the morning, but instead mid-morning.
coffee creates a chemical in the brain that blocks the tired feeling.
your brain naturally creates this chemical after you wake for such and such period of time, until mid morning.
the caffeine effect of blocking the tired feeling chemical only has so much staying power, then you crash.
i'm def familiar with the feeling of getting sleepy after drinking a shitload of coffee, as a person who tries to stay up for 2-3 days at a time sometime, without using drugs (which would make it easy, let's keep it real)
like a trendy bitch i'm doing keto, drinking bulletproof coffee to break my daily fast (fasting not a necessary part of keto but you probably know that already)
i dont load it up as heavy as is recommended online (which is like 1-2 Tbsp grass fed butter and 2 tsp-1T coconut oil or snake oil overpriced analog)
but holy shit man it is a rush beyond standard coffee
it probably helps that i am drinking it before putting anything else in my stomach after a daily 16 hour fast
it would probably be
really awesome if i wasnt using a drip machine and pre-ground seattle's best like a basic bitch
oh, one more thing i wanted to note.
like i said, sometimes i stay up for 2-3 days at a time.
so of course, i get caffeine from lots of places other than coffee.
and i can say, at least for me, that coffee is not the same as energy drinks, soda, whatever, when it comes to the caffeine and its effect.
when i don't drink coffee for a few days, the sense of well-being benefit i get from coffee is gone. this may be unique to me.
i don't have to drink much, but when i drink coffee regularly, i get a subtle yet important sense of well being on a daily basis. and it's not just after drinking my morning cup or whatever, it's an ever-present thing.
so i would assume there's probably some other chemical composition that occurs naturally in a coffee bean that does something beyond simply caffeine
but time.. so most of the time I get Javatopia french roast or Medaglia D'Oro in a pinch.. 