Twohandsondeck
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As many members of the forum here are probably aware, there are anti-coffee people in the world for a number of their various reasons, off the top of my head I remember these arguments:
Coffee will...
-dry your skin out
-tax your nervous system
-spend ATP uselessly
-increase H. Pylori
-dilute stomach acid
-cause kidney problems
-dehydrate you
-cause dependency
-lead to mood swings via crashing
-cause an overproduction of adenosine receptors
-lead to chronic fatigue
-give a false sensation of reward
-hurt your sleep quality
-tax your wallet (spending @ coffee shops)
...but none of these claims have ran consistently true for me. If I was symptomatic of one of them, it was easily remedied by getting in some protein and sleep.
However, there is one claim which I've heard by Paul Chek and Jason Gallant (of "Natural Gallant Bodybuilding) which is that coffee will cause joint stiffness that may thereby increase the chance of injury during exercise.
Recently (about 2.5 months ago) I tweaked my lower back deadlifting. Very annoying recovery process, to say the least. Varying degrees of pain pretty much all the time for weeks.
To get the point across, everytime I would drink coffee during this healing process, my back would stiffen up by 20-30% for a couple hours after. It was extremely apparent, almost like I was sucking the fluid out of the area with the coffee.
At this point I'm 80-90% healed and I can squat or deadlift again and coffee doesn't do this anymore... but it certainly was a problem during the painful weeks.
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Coffee will...
-dry your skin out
-tax your nervous system
-spend ATP uselessly
-increase H. Pylori
-dilute stomach acid
-cause kidney problems
-dehydrate you
-cause dependency
-lead to mood swings via crashing
-cause an overproduction of adenosine receptors
-lead to chronic fatigue
-give a false sensation of reward
-hurt your sleep quality
-tax your wallet (spending @ coffee shops)
...but none of these claims have ran consistently true for me. If I was symptomatic of one of them, it was easily remedied by getting in some protein and sleep.
However, there is one claim which I've heard by Paul Chek and Jason Gallant (of "Natural Gallant Bodybuilding) which is that coffee will cause joint stiffness that may thereby increase the chance of injury during exercise.
Recently (about 2.5 months ago) I tweaked my lower back deadlifting. Very annoying recovery process, to say the least. Varying degrees of pain pretty much all the time for weeks.
To get the point across, everytime I would drink coffee during this healing process, my back would stiffen up by 20-30% for a couple hours after. It was extremely apparent, almost like I was sucking the fluid out of the area with the coffee.
At this point I'm 80-90% healed and I can squat or deadlift again and coffee doesn't do this anymore... but it certainly was a problem during the painful weeks.
//end post