The Golden One - February 23, 2019


My Colonial Addiction Had To Go： Quitting Coffee


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

165.56766

Word Count

770

Sentence Count

33

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello lads, today I want to talk a bit about my colonial addiction.
00:00:05.280 So what I'm talking about here is coffee.
00:00:08.040 If you have been with me for quite some time you know that I am a big fan of coffee.
00:00:14.800 Of this colonial luxury good.
00:00:18.600 So basically I thought to make this video about three months ago but I always have so many video ideas
00:00:24.480 so usually I say to myself that I will talk about something and then a lot of things come in between.
00:00:30.160 So yes we're a bit behind schedule here because I stopped drinking coffee on a regular basis at least in September last year.
00:00:40.440 So it's been quite a while and what I mean with quitting drinking coffee is that during the last seven years or so
00:00:47.680 I had three or four cups of coffee every single day.
00:00:51.140 So that was my routine addiction as it were.
00:00:55.440 And I thought to myself you know this is not reasonable to do anymore so I stopped cold
00:01:01.900 which meant that I had one last cup of coffee during a Friday I remember
00:01:07.260 and then the Saturday after I had a tremendous headache.
00:01:11.860 So if you are thinking about quitting the coffee consumption
00:01:16.740 be prepared that at least one day will probably be quite hard in that regard.
00:01:22.440 The days after that I felt a bit sluggish but after that it was back to normal
00:01:27.660 and then I felt regularly energized etc.
00:01:30.800 And one thing you will notice when you go off coffee as well that sleep yields much more
00:01:37.640 and this makes perfect sense because if you drink coffee for a long period of time
00:01:41.940 your brain will become dependent upon caffeine to stimulate the awakenedness hormone in your brain.
00:01:51.600 I will link a video below so you can get the science behind coffee.
00:01:55.860 But anyway I thought to myself that since I'd been on it for so extremely long
00:02:01.080 I thought you know I'm gonna challenge myself here I'm gonna quit this addiction and see if it's any problem
00:02:06.340 and it wasn't really a problem.
00:02:08.340 The first day was yes I said a bit unpleasant but it was good.
00:02:14.740 Anyway so what I did after that I waited about two months
00:02:18.500 and then I started having one cup of coffee every Saturday
00:02:22.100 and that yielded a tremendous effect I can tell you that much.
00:02:27.100 Then I was hyped the entire day.
00:02:29.320 Very good for video production because then I could just you know make three videos for one day
00:02:34.880 just because I was so hyped from that cup of coffee.
00:02:38.000 So what I do now is that I have a cup of coffee every once in a while
00:02:42.200 maybe three cups each week or something like that.
00:02:47.020 The thing also with coffee in Sweden that it's such a social thing that you have a fika
00:02:51.800 which basically means that you have a coffee with someone and that is a social thing
00:02:56.200 so it's not reasonable for me to cut it out completely
00:02:59.100 but it is also not reasonable for me to drink it three or four times a day
00:03:03.780 because it's unnecessary simply simply put.
00:03:07.980 And it's also a thing about the teeth.
00:03:10.780 That's actually something my dentist said that if you drink coffee with either sugar or milk
00:03:15.180 I drank it with milk then you have the onset of caries every time you drink it.
00:03:20.140 So now I drink the majority of times now I drink it black.
00:03:24.460 So that was also one thing the teeth health but yeah mainly it was just I didn't want to feel addicted to something.
00:03:31.880 I wanted to you know let the sleep stand for the rejuvenation of the body each night.
00:03:38.660 So yeah that was my experience of quitting coffee.
00:03:41.660 If you are doing it yourself be prepared for maybe one day at least where you feel an unpleasant headache
00:03:48.640 but after that it's fine after a week and then you're back to normal.
00:03:53.200 And then also even if you want to continue drinking coffee on a regular basis
00:03:57.620 I would still recommend that you go off every once in a while
00:04:00.780 and going off being then that you don't drink for a week or so
00:04:03.980 because then you reset the receptors in your brain.
00:04:07.440 So basically what we'll do going forward is that I will have a coffee every once in a while
00:04:12.060 but not going back to the you know regular routine of drinking like three or four cups a day.
00:04:19.520 So that was just an update so you all know.
00:04:24.220 XXO. Boom.
00:04:37.440 So.