The Golden One - Marcus Follin - My Colonial Addiction Had To Go: Quitting Coffee
Aired: 2019-02-23
Duration: 04:25


=== Quitting Coffee Routine (04:24) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello lads, today I want to talk a bit about my colonial addiction.
[00:00:05]  So what I'm talking about here is coffee.
[00:00:08]  If you have been with me for quite some time you know that I am a big fan of coffee, of this colonial luxury good.
[00:00:18]  So basically I thought to make this video about three months ago but I always have so many video ideas so usually I say to myself that I will talk about something and then a lot of things come in between.
[00:00:30]  So yes we're a bit behind schedule here because I stopped drinking coffee on a regular basis at least in September last year.
[00:00:40]  So it's been quite a while and what I mean with quitting drinking coffee is that during the last seven years or so I had three or four cups of coffee every single day.
[00:00:51]  So that was my routine addiction as it were.
[00:00:55]  And I thought to myself, you know, this is not reasonable to do anymore.
[00:01:00]  So I stopped cold, which meant that I had one last cup of coffee during a Friday, I remember.
[00:01:07]  And then the Saturday after I had a tremendous headache.
[00:01:11]  So if you are thinking about quitting the coffee consumption, be prepared that at least one day will probably be quite hard in that regard.
[00:01:22]  The days after that I felt a bit sluggish but after that it was back to normal and then I felt regularly energized etc.
[00:01:31]  And one thing you will notice when you go off coffee as well that sleep yields much more and this makes perfect sense because if you drink coffee for a long period of time your brain will become dependent upon caffeine to stimulate the awakeness hormone in your brain.
[00:01:51]  I will link our video below so you can get the science behind coffee.
[00:01:56]  But anyway I thought to myself that since I'd been on it for so extremely long I thought you know why I'm gonna challenge myself where I'm gonna quit this addiction and see if it's any problem and it wasn't really a problem.
[00:02:08]  The first day was yeah as I said a bit unpleasant but it was good.
[00:02:15]  Anyway so what I did after that I waited about two months and then I started having one cup of coffee every Saturday and that yielded a tremendous effect I can tell you that much.
[00:02:27]  Then I was hyped the entire day.
[00:02:29]  Very good for video production because then I could just you know make three videos for one day just because I was so hyped from that cup of coffee.
[00:02:38]  So what I do now is that I have a cup of coffee every once in a while maybe three cups each week or something like that.
[00:02:47]  The thing also with coffee in Sweden that it's such a social thing that you have a filka which basically means that you have a coffee with someone and that is a social thing so it's not reasonable for me to cut it out completely but it is also not reasonable for me to drink it three or four times a day because it's unnecessary simply simply put.
[00:03:08]  And it's also a thing about the teeth.
[00:03:10]  That's actually something my dentist said that if you drink coffee with either sugar or milk, I drank it with milk, then you have the onset of carriers every time you drink it.
[00:03:20]  So now I drink the majority of times now I drink it black.
[00:03:24]  So that was also one thing, the teeth.
[00:03:27]  But yeah, mainly it was just I didn't want to feel addicted to something.
[00:03:31]  I wanted to you know let the sleep stand for the rejuvenation of the body each night.
[00:03:38]  So yeah that was my experience of quitting coffee.
[00:03:42]  If you're doing it yourself be prepared for maybe one day at least where you feel an unpleasant headache but after that it's it's fine after a week and then you're back to normal.
[00:03:53]  And then also even if you want to continue drinking coffee on a regular basis, I would still recommend that you go off every once in a while.
[00:04:01]  And going off being then that you don't drink for a week or so because then you reset the receptors in your brain.
[00:04:07]  So basically what we'll do going forward is that I will have a coffee every once in a while but not going back to the you know regular routine of drinking like three or four cups a day.
[00:04:19]  So that was just an update so you all know.
[00:04:24]  Exact so.