Posted on 06/04/2025 9:07:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Maybe coffee doesn't need to be the very first step in our morning routines.
While it's often associated with wakefulness, experts claim there may be benefits to holding off on that cup of joe for a different time of day.
Cortisol, a stress hormone, is highest in our body right as we wake up, according to Julia Zumpano, a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic Center for Human Nutrition.
From there, she said, it begins to decline naturally throughout the day.
Caffeine is a stimulant, so if it's consumed (by drinking coffee, for example) when cortisol is high, that can increase stress levels that were already high at the beginning of the day.
"The [cortisol] decline is different for everyone but typically occurs one-and-a-half to two hours after you wake," Zumpano said.
That's the best time to have coffee, Zumpano said.
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Whatever time YOU pick is the right time. Nuff said!
I can’t even find my pants until I’ve had at least 2 cups of coffee in the morning.
The perfect morning would be to crawl out of bed onto a massage table for my back and have them start a coffee IV
As a herd, the woke sheep will all start drinking coffee one-and-a-half to two hours after they wake.
The optimal time to drink coffee is when it’s available.
1) Coffee is bad for you
2) Coffee is good for you
3) Coffee is good and bad depending on when you drink it
That's hardcore.
Never could get the idea of cold coffee. If my coffee’s not slightly under “burn my tongue” temperature, I won’t drink it.
I do almost the same. If I am in a hurry it is 15 minutes but if I do all the stuff, feed the barn cats, special care the timid ones, pet them all a little etc. it is nearly an hour before my first cup.
My Momma drank some coffee all day. There was always a pot of coffee. There were also partially consumed cups of coffee all over the house by the end of the day. No smoking though or drinking. She lived to be almost 92.
I thought I was at least one of a few that messes the troops before himself in the morning and evening.
My sweetie & I got up at 5am when we were working. I always fed the cats first, while Sweetie got himself ready for work & then it would be my turn & then coffee.
While I’m now retired, the cats insist on maintaining their routine. No sleeping in for me.
I wish the giverment would fund a research of a liberals brain.
I start at 6 am, and end about 7 pm.
“Never could get the idea of cold coffee.”
The only cold coffee I liked was when I had Chick-Fil-A Frosted Coffee. It was delicious.
Then I found out it’s really a milkshake. 😋 It was nice being in that Fool’s Paradise for a while when I believed it was just good coffee.
I switch to Manhattans at 4:00PM. 😉
Stuff it...I will drink coffee whenever I feel like it...sheesh
I found myself in a downward spiral as a coffee addict. I needed it in the morning to get rid of the brain fog.
I also found the hot coffee helped me clear my sinuses and breathe better. It’s the “theobromine” and “theophylline” in the coffee, the same chemical in asthma inhalers that clear my sinuses.
Regular primarily contains caffeine, with smaller amounts of theobromine and theophylline.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
Caffeine:
Coffee beans contain caffeine, ranging from about 0.75% to 1.5% by weight. This means that a typical cup of coffee (8 oz) might contain around 100mg of caffeine.
Theobromine:
Coffee contains very small amounts of theobromine. While theobromine is a stimulant, it’s found in much higher concentrations in cocoa.
Theophylline:
Like theobromine, theophylline is present in coffee in trace amounts.
Caffeine Metabolism:
When you consume coffee, caffeine is metabolized in the liver, and some of it is converted into theobromine and theophylline.
Problem is, caffeine destroys the diamine oxidase enzyme, the enzyme responsible for the degradation of histamine in the body. The histamine receptors in the brain and sinuses were getting worse and creating more brain fog and sinus inflamation.
The come down off of coffee was severe and I woul crash, due to the high histamines in my blood.
The more coffee I drank, the more histamines.
High histamines also gave me a heart arrhythmia and lung congestion that the pathology results caused my Dr’s to diagnose emphysema.
For three weeks I limited my coffee intake to one 8 oz cup at noon, and it has now been 9 days with zero coffee.
I began supplementing with diamine oxidase enzyme (DAO), and feel 30 years younger as all the inflamation in my sinuses, lungs, muscles and joints is gone. So is the brain fog caused by the histamine receptors in the hippocampus and also the heart arrhythmia. (The heart contains all four types of histamine receptors)
The decreased inflamation in my neck and lungs caused me to no longer need a CPAP machine.
Too bad this coffee addict (I drank lots of coffee and 24/7) didn’t learn this earlier as it would have prevented my colon cancer and lung cancer. I lost most of my left lung and 2 ft of my colon learning all this.
You’ve earned yourself an extra cup of coffee with that. Cut all the idiotic funding.
While I understand the DAO & histamine issue pretty well, I do have a question about your cancer.
What leads you to believe this situation led to your two bouts of cancer?
(from a former cancer patient)
Inflamation is what allows the cancer cells to enter the tissue.
For example, the area of my lung where the cancer attached to the lung wall was so inflamed that they told me I had emphysema.
Both times I had cancer, it was a single large mass, one on my colon and one in my lung. Both times the inflamation was do bad they removed large amounts of additional tissue, expecting it to contain cancer. With the colon cancer, they biopsies 32 additional lymph nodes expecting cancer. None was found.
My surgeon for the colon cancer is the chief of thoracic surgery at Duke Medical and she didn’t believe pathology and went to the pathology lab and examined the large section of colon (22 inches) and found no additional cancer.
Both times, oncology recommended no chemo or radiation as the margins were clear.
Taking the DAO Enzyme crashed my CEA results.
I’m right now researching the location and types of histamine receptors in the heart, and exactly how they create heart disease. It parallels the Covid-19 effects on the heart.
I need to go back and compare and contrast cytokines with histamines. The influence on the body is very similar.
I am convinced that the CYP450 group of enzymes in the liver are allosteric and can both remove toxins to prevent disease or allow toxins to facilitate disease. They appear to be the switches that work with consciousness to predispose a person to disease.
Does inflammation cause cancer?
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