THE PROBLEM WITH COFFEE

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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:46 pm

Post subject: THE PROBLEM WITH COFFEE

 

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There are at least two different ways that coffee contributes to

osteoporosis:

 

- promotes estrogen dominance

- raises the acidity in the blood

 

 

We've already seen how estrogen dominance leads to osteoporosis.

With acidifying of the blood, calcium is pulled from bones and teeth

in order to keep the blood from becoming too acid. This is called

buffering - a basic survival mechanism.

 

The increased rate of hip fractures with coffee intake was clearly

shown in a 1995 study in, New England J Med (Cummings) Another study

in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition of over 85,000 nurses

showed three times the rate of hip fractures in the group who drank

the most coffee. Promotion of osteoporosis from coffee is not just a

theory.

 

 

THE PROBLEM WITH COFFEE

 

Most people realize that coffee has no real food value, but they

figure it won't kill them. And the idea of getting going in the

morning without coffee would be unthinkable after all these years.

Many would probably choose death over withdrawal. You've might even

know someone like that.

 

So why are we talking about coffee in a chapter about HRT? Simple:

it's in the loop.

 

Both are locked into the biochemical choreography of the swirling

hormones which blink in and out of existence every second.

 

Adrenals, thyroid, and ovaries are not three separate and

independent entities. They're more like three instruments in an

orchestra, or three ingredients in a cake, or three members of a

yacht crew: change any one and the whole outcome is threatened.

 

Coffee is an adrenal stimulator.

 

So are white sugar, a leopard in your living room, and the morning

commute.

 

The adrenal hormones trigger the fight-or-flight thing, a leftover

from the earlier days of our species' evolution.

 

Stress. Like from modern, empty foods, toxic exposure, and emotional

worry - you know the list - which send constant messages to the

adrenal glands. The message is : either prepare me for battle or get

me out of here.

 

Now if you have a friend who calls you on the phone fifty times a

day because there's an emergency, pretty soon you won't get so

worked up about the next call. Same with the adrenals.

 

Only it's probably closer to several hundred calls a day, if you're

in Silicon Valley, or any metropolitan American city.

 

After awhile the adrenal glands get fried, depleted, out of gas,

used up.

 

As the most evolved system in the universe, the body's got back-up

plans for everything. And the first of the Plan B's for spent

adrenal glands is to convert another hormone into adrenal hormone,

thereby taking the burden off the adrenals themselves.

 

Guess which hormone is first on the list for this understudy duty?

Right: progesterone.

 

Remember, progesterone is the precursor, or basic raw material, for

all the steroid hormones (see above chart).

 

So for many women who are really stressed and have been for years,

they are relying in large measure upon alternative sources of

adrenal hormones.

 

With progesterone being the first of the volunteers to be changed

into adrenal hormones, this leaves little or no progesterone left to

perform its primary function, which was what?

 

Right again, to maintain the dynamic balance with estrogen. The

result: further promotion of estrogen dominance, which you know all

about, from the above pages.

 

Sumption, the nutritionist cited above, lists the B-complex vitamins

that are depleted by coffee - the same ones that are depleted by

estrogen.

 

Without B vitamins, the body is drained of energy.

 

Coffee does not give you energy; coffee gives you the illusion of

energy.

 

Coffee actually drains the body of energy and makes you more tired,

because of vitamin and adrenal depletion.

 

What is the number one symptom that the most people have? Give up?

 

Fatigue is the what more Americans have than any other daily

complaint. Many people don't sleep at night as much as collapse from

simple exhaustion. A sign of this is when you wake up in the morning

exhausted, not refreshed. The body is tired from all that repair

work it had to do while you were asleep. There is no feeling of

waking refreshed and renewed.

 

So what do we do, to crank it up one more time? Coffee.

 

Decaf? I don't think so.

It's not the taste that you're addicted to.

 

Decaf causes the same overwrought cycle of fatigue in a different

way.

 

Any coffee is a metabolic burden that has to be dealt with.

 

It contributes nothing to nutrition - no vitamins, no minerals, no

enzymes.

 

Beats up the adrenals, uses up progesterone, promotes estrogen

dominance. And now you know what that means.

 

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