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Its like taking speed. It kicks your system into over-drive, which has some pleasant effects for a while but then you come back down. When you go back down, you’re lower than where you started, and you need more of the substance to feel normal. Your adrenal glands suffer and scream in agony during all this because its just a catalyst to free up more of your own stored energy for faster use; its not that its actually giving you any energy.

There is also the horrific changes to bowel movements, the least of which is that you get habituated to using coffee to go. Your small intestinal villi are screaming in agony and losing their ability to assimilate nutrients and especially minerals.

I suspect but can’t prove that probably the worst thing in coffee is really the oils. We all know that bad oils can be *really bad* for you and the oils in ground coffee can go rancid very quickly.

They say anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But what if some of those things make you stronger in the short run, are really taxing/killing you in the long run? I think studies showing coffee “good” for your heart, for alertness, etc… are reflecting this phenomenon. My observation as a health-care practitioner: coffee drinkers age faster and suffer the consequences sooner.