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[Dafaq]

Beber café com moderação significa, um por semana.
As pessoas bebem 2/3/4/5/10 por dia.
Eu tambem ja fui idiota. Fdx sabia lá eu. Passei de reactivo e frenetico a calmo. Sinto Deus em mim embora nao acredite nisso. Quando bebia cafe acreditava mas nao o sentia.
Ha um dia ou outro que tenho saudades de estar frenético. Mas eu ja sei, se bebo um, marcha um jarro seguido.
Eu bebia café para me hidratar.

[Dafaq]

Isto é facil de ver.
Olhem á volta so vosso gang familiar e amigos.
Quem bebe e quem nao bebe.
As pessoas que nao bebem sao muito mais saudaveis da cabeca, menos reactivas, menos gossip, melhor pele, sem dôr fisica, melhor saude, etc etc. basta observar.

[Counter Retail Trader]

porque es um exagerado. Muitas das pessoas que tem panca sao exageradas em alguma coisa... o que leva ao excesso de algo.. ou carencia.

[Dafaq]

Nao é daqui mas vai aqui este
Coffee
Ainda no verão do ano passado vi uma miuda a cair no chao do shopping a tremelicar. Fui ao pe dela a correr e perguntei lhe o que tinha. Ela disse que tinha almocado com umas amigas e que bebeu redbull. Perguntei se bebia cafe ou cha, e ela sim, bebo tres cafes de manha e chá verde durante o dia. Entretanto estava uma pilha de gente à volta ja. E ela nao parava de tremer. Chamei o 112 e la foi levar soro. So lhe disse, nao bebas mais isso. Eu ia morrendo. ( nao ia mas foi para ela acreditar)
Todos os dias vejo putos na repsol a comprar redbull, duas e quatro latas. È uma questao de tempo ate ficarem com panicos. Mas nao dizem que è daquilo, porque o amigo bebe e nao tem sintomas.
A cafeina è um veneno mais cedo ou mais tarde. Grande parte da doenca mental actual vem da cafeina e estimulantes. E tambem è comum ouvir, " tive um stress lixado e nao dou a volta, ando ansiosa neurotica nao durmo" eu pergunto, qual foi o stress? Assim e assim, sei la um chefe parvo ou tive um stress com uma amiga. Bebes cafe? Sim.
Whatever, o pessoal nao chega la.
Porque o cafe é legal e faz bem, logo nao pode ser disso.

Mental Illness or Caffeine Allergy?
28 Nov 2018
Author: Lindsay Johnson
Read time: 9 min
Category: Archive
Unaware of her caffeine allergy, Ruth continued ingesting caffeinated products for the next 25 years. Her physical and mental health deteriorated, and in 1999 she was diagnosed with personality disorder and bipolar disorder, which resulted in her being committed to a locked ward.

Finally, a wise doctor diagnosed her with caffeine allergy. Her story inspired her to write Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy — A Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia.

Caffeine Sensitivity/Caffeine Allergy

Coffee, colas, Red Bull, chocolate, diet pills — we are a nation on legalized speed. This is of concern. All that caffeine is throwing some of us dangerously off track.

Caffeine is an addictive stimulant found in coffee, tea, colas, cocoa and chocolate. It is also in some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs. Caffeine drives the adrenal glands to produce stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. While some people feel comfortably alert and awake as a result, others are sensitive to this adrenaline rush and experience the flight-or-fight response: fast pulse, rapid heart beat, quick breathing and muscle tension. These physiological responses typify anxiety states. The affected person feels jittery, shaky, nervous, irritable, anxious, restless and can experience insomnia.

Other people, are more than just sensitive to caffeine. They are considered allergic, although the line is fine between the two responses. The allergic person may experience sneezing, an itchy mouth, hoarseness, difficulty breathing, hives, swollen throat/tongue/lips/face, difficulty swallowing, eczema, fainting, heart palpitations, pain in the chest or hyperventilation.

From Jitters to Psychosis

These horrific physical symptoms are accompanied by psychiatric responses. Depending on the degree of caffeine consumption, people may also experience confusion, inability to focus, dizziness, mood swings, anxiety, light sensitivity and PMS. Medical physicians or psychiatrists commonly misdiagnose them with anxiety disorder, ADHD, panic, OCD, bipolar disorder or depression and mistakenly put them on medication. In severe cases, as with Ruth Whalen, they become schizophrenic, experiencing delusions, paranoia and hallucinations, and are given even more potentially dangerous drugs. In her book, Whalen tells the story of a caffeine allergic woman who was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for over 40 years.

Why would caffeine cause someone to go over the edge? Psychosis occurs because adrenaline increases dopamine, our "feel good" reward neurotransmitter, and abnormally high dopaminergic transmission has been linked to psychosis and schizophrenia.

When some people are taken off caffeine, the schizophrenia disappears. Caffeine withdrawal would help explain why some Russian doctors have been able to cure schizophrenia with 30 day fasts. In some cases, caffeine allergy was likely masked as schizophrenia and the fast purged the caffeine out of the person’s system.1

Another serious condition tied to caffeine consumption is anorexia, as, to encourage loss of appetite, anorexics typically drink loads of coffee and diet sodas and refuse to give them up.2 The heavy caffeine consumption further deteriorates their body and brain, locking the anorexic further into distorted body image thinking and starvation.

Harming Yourself and Not Knowing It

Why is caffeine allergy not better known and diagnosed? To start, sometimes it can take several hours after caffeine ingestion for allergy symptoms to crop up and you don’t associate caffeine with the response.

Further, people may be unaware that they have ingested caffeine. For instance, not everyone knows that chocolate has caffeine or that, contrary to popular belief, coffee enemas are absorbed into the bloodstream and send caffeine sensitive people like me, who hasn’t had a cup of coffee in forty years, into overdrive. Also, doctors rarely diagnose caffeine allergy because few know of it. Nor do most doctors routinely inquire about coffee intake.

In the dark, people continue to use caffeinated products, wearing down their vital organs, including their brains. In 1984, in an article in Science magazine, Harvard Medical School neurologist James A. Nathanson stated that plants use caffeine as a natural insecticide to ward off dangerous pests and that these substances interfered with behavior and growth in many insects and insect larvae.

For example, after being given a caffeine compound, larvae showed signs of confusion.3 Little wonder humans, too, can experience confusion and even psychosis.

Caffeine destabilizes your nervous system in other ways. A diuretic, caffeine speeds elimination of many minerals and vitamins, such as potassium, zinc, magnesium, calcium, vitamin C and the B vitamins (especially the anti-stress vitamin B1). This can lead to deficiencies, which increase anxiety, panic, mood swings and fatigue. The problem is compounded as caffeine causes blood sugar to rise in the first hour after consumption, creating an initial buzz, and then drops to subnormal levels, causing an energy crash.

Coffee: the Worst Offender

Coffee is especially bad because it contains two other stimulants: theophylline and theobromine. A mere four cups per day can make a person nervous and jittery, while eight cups will send some into a panic attack. Caffeine injections also produce panic in healthy volunteers participating in anxiety studies. If you are already suffering anxiety and panic episodes, even a little caffeine will make you feel uncomfortable and jittery and aggravate the frequency and severity of episodes. Caffeine causes panic attack by interfering with adenosine, a brain chemical that normally has a calming effect, and by raising levels of lactate, a biochemical implicated in producing panic attacks. The effect can last for as long as six hours and interfere with sleep.

But what about caffeine junkies who can’t live without their fix and appear to tolerate caffeine well? Apparently, these folks are also getting into a tizzy. In a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1,500 psychology students were divided into four categories based on coffee intake: abstainers, low consumers (one cup or equivalent a day), moderate (one to five cups a day) and high (five cups or more a day).4 The moderate and high consumers demonstrated higher levels of anxiety and depression than the abstainers. Further, the high consumers had higher incidence of stress-related medical problems and lower academic performance.

This tells us that even if you are not caffeine sensitive, consuming large amounts of caffeine — usually more than 250 mg per day — can be dangerous for your physical and mental health.

Give Up Caffeine

To break the caffeine habit, start by cutting out caffeine products. These include:

All coffee (de-caffeinated coffee still contains some caffeine)
Teas: black, green, kombucha, yerbe maté
Soft drinks
Energy drinks: Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle , etc.
Caffeinated waters
Frozen desserts containing coffee, mocha, or cappuccino
Chocolate, including raw cacao (which contains theophylline with a similar effect as caffeine)
OTC drugs: NoDoz, Excedrin, Anacin, Dexatrim, Midol, etc.
Check labels. Few know, for instance, that One A Day vitamins for women contain the caffeine equivalent of one cup of coffee. Yes, even some vitamin pills are caffeinated!

Withdraw Slowly

If you are addicted to caffeine, you must reduce your consumption gradually to avoid caffeine withdrawal symptoms like fatigue, shakiness and headaches. In most, withdrawal takes around four to six days. If you are allergic, physical withdrawal could take 12 months or longer, and recovery symptoms can be severe, including: memory loss, confusion, tremors,

agitated states, insomnia/somnolence and nightmares.

Tips to help you kick the caffeine habit:

Replace caffeine with healthy products.
Drink an herbal coffee substitute like Teeccino.
Eat carob in place of chocolate and cacao.
Include arousing spices like ginger, cayenne and peppermint in your diet
Start your morning with natural energizers.
Drink something with intense flavor like pure cranberry juice, or suck on a lemon.
Eat something that makes you chomp and bite, like an apple, as heavy work to the jaw is energizing and alerting.
Take a cold shower.
Do quick, intense physical activity, like jumping jacks or push-ups.
Listen to upbeat music.
Use herbal energizers and adaptogens to stay alert. These include: ginseng, ashwagandha (winter cherry), licorice root, reishi mushroom, rhodiola rosea and St. John’s Wort.
Take vitamin B6.
Detoxify Your Liver

The more sensitive you are to the caffeine jitters, the less efficient your liver is at metabolizing the drug and cleansing it from your body. Help your liver do its job by eating whole, preferably raw, organic food as much as possible. Organic is important because caffeine is often used as a form of pesticide for many fruits and vegetables. Eating high nutrient, low calorie foods will also help you to give up some of your comfort food and drinks naturally by feeding your nervous system the nutrients it needs, easing the feeling of loss that you may experience.

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CAFFEINE ALLERGY: Past Disorder or Present Epidemic? 
by Ruth Whalen, Medical Laboratory Technician 
Cape Cod, MA USA.
Tenpaisleypark@hotmail.com
With the upswing of "chemical imbalance" disorders that surfaced in the latter twentieth century, many researchers frantically attempt to unravel the brain's intricate clockworks. In turn, as the number of persons suffering with mental issues mount, it seems that doctors, pressed for time, are quick to refer patients to psychiatrists. Failing to request a medical physical, many psychiatrists hand out medications, often masking the underlying physical problem.

People have overlooked two simple but deleterious factors: 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine and allergy. Simply put: caffeine allergy.  It is medical knowledge that the longer a person is exposed to a drug, the higher the chances are for developing a tolerance, and an allergy to the substance. Once this happens, caffeine allergic persons can't properly metabolize caffeine, which is rapidly absorbed by all organs, and distributed into intracellular compartments, and extracellular water.

Mentioned in a 1936 article by Drs. McManamy and Schube, a young woman, allergic to caffeine, presented with alternating states of delirium and mania, resembling schizophrenia (1). After the recorded case, allergy documentation becomes rare. And not surprisingly.

The drug's stimulating properties masks its allergic symptoms. Circulating adrenaline (epinephrine) increases in caffeine consuming persons (2,3). In its synthetic form, epinephrine is the drug of choice for anaphylactic reactions, halting allergic reactions. But added to a stimulant reaction, excess adrenaline may induce delusions. And the breakdown of some adrenaline byproducts mimics symptoms of schizophrenia (4).

Brain levels increase proportionately with dosage (5). In allergic persons, each cup of coffee, cola, tea, every piece of chocolate, and any ingested caffeine products, intensifies toxic psychosis. Half-life increases. Subsequent doses, including minute amounts, act as a bolus. Cells are poisoned, including neurons.

Symptoms of cerebral allergy can range from minimal reactions, such as lack of comprehension and inability to focus, to severe psychotic states, such as delusions, paranoia, and hallucinations (6). It's known that amphetamine psychosis can't be distinguished from schizophrenia (7,8). With a caffeine allergic person's inability to eliminate, continually ingesting caffeine, neurotransmitter levels, including dopamine and adrenaline, quickly increase. Cells rapidly absorb the drug.

Dopamine increases proportionately to the amount of stress (9). The higher the adrenaline level, the greater the increase in dopamine. Serotonin also increases. Dopamine and serotonin decrease during partial, toxic withdrawal states. But as long as caffeine remains in the toxic body, neurotransmitters never adjust to the victim's natural state.

Toxicity is known to cause excitement, agitation, restlessness, shifting states of consciousness, and toxic psychosis (10), mimicking amphetamine psychosis. Allergic individuals may be erroneously diagnosed, medicated, and lost in a dark disturbed world, until death.

Adenosine receptors are blocked by caffeine (11,16), maintaining neuronal firing. Persons remain excited and often euphoric.

Caffeine toxicity may be mistaken for bipolar disorder (1,12). Symptoms include: chattiness, repetitive thought and action (resembling obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD), restlessness, psychomotor agitation, alternating moods, anger, impulsiveness, aggression, omnipotence, delirium, buying sprees, lack of sexual inhibition, and loss of values.

Allergy can mimic Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) (13). As far back as 1902, T. D. Crothers noted that many caffeine consuming children "exhibit precocity" and "functional exaltation" (14).

Caffeine poisoning may also resemble schizophrenia. One woman's conversational topics wandered from subject to subject. She screamed, and believed that she was in prison. Natural judgement was impaired (1). In 1931, a truck driver brought to the hospital in a confused and irritable condition, complained of being attacked by flies. Flies were never present. Examination revealed that he'd consumed large amounts of cola (15). One gentleman ended his political speech with predictions and threats, out of the ordinary for his personality, stunning the audience (14). Another case describes a man, who imagined himself very wealthy, and assumed that his mental state was normal (14).

Caffeine toxicity may also masquerade as depression, and anxiety. In 1925, Powers described nervousness, visual problems, and dizziness, in patients he discovered suffered from caffeine toxicity (16). In 1974, caffeine toxic patients, experiencing the same symptoms, were erroneously admitted to a psychiatric hospital, for treatment of anxiety (16,17). In other studies, depression and anxiety are also correlated with caffeine intake (18,19,20,21).

In several reports, patients diagnosed with anxiety disorder experienced panic attacks with ingestion of caffeine (18,19,20). One study reveals that six persons improved with caffeine cessation and remained improved for at least six months (21). Other reports reveal that some persons not afflicted with panic disorder, experienced panic attacks with intravenously administered caffeine (22, 23).

Written materials on panic disorder symptoms and anaphylactic symptoms do not clearly differentiate between the two. Parasthesia (pins and needle sensations), a feeling of choking, hyperactive symptoms, chest pains, and hyperventilation, amongst other symptoms, are common in both conditions. They're also common in many caffeine consuming persons.

This suggests that caffeine allergy may be responsible for many cases of panic disorder. In which case, panic attacks in allergic individuals are suppressed anaphylactic reactions - mimicking ADHD, and panic disorder. They're "have to get up and run" and "I think I'm losing my mind" feelings, brought about by increased neurotransmitter levels, associated with the "fight or flight" syndrome.

Dr. William Walsh connected anxiety and severe allergic reactions. Dr.Walsh maintains that allergic anxiety stems from a choking sense, and loss of air; not a psychological deficit (24).

Caffeine converts into many byproducts, including theophylline. Theophylline keeps the bronchial tubes open. Allergic individuals are less likely to suffer respiratory collapse, during an anaphylactic reaction.

A proficient Boston neurologist mentions that sixty-six percent of elevated CPK MM (creatine phosphokinase of muscle) levels are of an "unknown origin" (25). Innumerable mid to late twentieth century studies reveal that a high number of persons diagnosed with mental disorders, including personality disorder, mania, BPD, depression, catatonia, and schizophrenia, exhibit elevated CPK MM levels (26,27,28-38,39,40-50).

The high majority of these studies, and others, attribute elevated CPK levels to a commonality between patients with mental disorders. Not one focuses on caffeine allergy as a contributing factor of mental disorders.

CPK MM, a muscle enzyme, increases with severe muscle trauma, burns, inflammatory states, and poisoning. This may stem from drugs (36,37,38,39), including cocaine, alcohol, amphetamines, heroin, and stimulants (37,40). Antihistamines, salicylates, cyclic antidepressants, theophylline, and others also cause this disorder (37).

This condition, called rhabdomyolysis, stresses and inflames tissues, including brain cells, breaking down muscle fibers, and discharging potentially toxic cellular matter into the bloodstream (37). Caffeine poisoning can cause rhabdomyolysis (10,37,41).

Myoglobinuria is a symptom of rhabdomyolysis, but often urine myoglobin disappears early in the course of the disorder, or is absent altogether (37). Generalized muscle cramping (associated with rhabdomyolysis) (14,37) may also be absent, or subside early on. Accumulation of caffeine acts as morphine, alleviating pain and discomfort, often inducing muscle rigidity.

With toxins leaking into the bloodstream, the CPK increases. The higher the CPK, the higher the neurotransmitters, and the deeper into psychosis a person spirals.

In the late 1960's, Bengzon et al proposed that the leakage of CPK and aldolase might explain schizophrenia (26). Studies on patients with non-restrictive diets, concentrated on various factors, including medication, but failed to include caffeine as a possible factor (26). More recent studies have also overlooked caffeine allergy as a factor in any mental disorders, including schizophrenia.

A study theorized caffeine as a possible, psychosis inducing agent. Researchers eliminated patients' caffeine for a short duration. It was decided that caffeine aggravates symptoms of thought disorder and psychosis (42). Caffeine was reintroduced-never allowing for sufficient withdrawal times-and significant improvements.

Proportionate to toxicity, physical withdrawal may take up to 12 months, or longer. Recovery symptoms include memory loss, confusion, tremors, agitated states, insomnia or somnolence, and nightmares associated with amphetamine withdrawal. Following physical recovery, residual mental symptoms, primarily confusion and mood alterations, may exist for several months.

Evidence suggests that caffeine, and synthetic neurotransmitter altering medications, merely balance one another, and that upon cessation of caffeine, medication is no longer needed. Several reports indicate that upon caffeine cessation, tremors increased in lithium consuming individuals (43). In some patients, caffeine withdrawal increased lithium levels (44). After experiencing a 10-year course of seasonal BPD, a woman eliminated caffeine from her diet. She no longer needed BPD medication (45).

Caffeine may compete for benzodiazepine receptors (5). In which case, benzodiazepines reduce caffeine's effects and vice versa; balancing each other.

Chronic toxicity may affect functional aspects of every organ (14). Allergic persons may become sensitive to bright light, and resort to sunglasses. It's not uncommon to find dilated but reactive pupils on examination (14). Toxic persons usually present with a whitish, or grayish coated tongue (14, 46). Other findings imply that caffeine inhibits anaphylaxis, by suppressing histamine release (47,48). Due to caffeine's antihistamine properties, a skin test for caffeine allergy may be negative.

Several laboratory tests may be used as markers for allergic toxicity. A detectable  Theophylline level in a patient not receiving Theophylline therapy, and an elevated CPK level are indicative of caffeine toxicity. Along with these, an increased glucose level (10,49) and an elevated white blood count (1,49) may also be significant of toxicity, as many patients assumed afflicted with mental disorders present with elevation of these (1,50). An elevated sedimentation rate, indicative of inflammatory processes, might signify rhabdomyolysis.

It's highly probable, that millions of consumers developed an allergy to caffeine, especially since availability and production increased rapidly mid- twentieth century. In which case, natural insights, and physical and mental health, have been sacrificed to chronic toxicity, resulting in organic brain, silently posing as ADD, ADHD, anxiety, BPD, depression, OCD, panic, and schizophrenia. Physical ailments resemble amphetamine poisoning, and include drug eruptions, masquerading as "rosacea."

Back in 1936, McManamy and Schube maintained that in all probability, many people of that era might have already been erroneously diagnosed with some form of mental illness. The doctors further predicted, that in the future, with lack of time, and proper medical insight, many doctors would not be able to diagnose simple disorders such as caffeine allergy, and would label many patients as psychotic (1).

Well, here we are. Welcome to the future.

(Copyright 2001 © Ruth Whalen M.L.T., ASCP, BA. Tenpaisleypark@hotmail.com Reprinted with permission.)

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[Counter Retail Trader]

Nao é daqui mas vai aqui este
Coffee
Ainda no verão do ano passado vi uma miuda a cair no chao do shopping a tremelicar. Fui ao pe dela a correr e perguntei lhe o que tinha. Ela disse que tinha almocado com umas amigas e que bebeu redbull. Perguntei se bebia cafe ou cha, e ela sim, bebo tres cafes de manha e chá verde durante o dia. Entretanto estava uma pilha de gente à volta ja. E ela nao parava de tremer. Chamei o 112 e la foi levar soro. So lhe disse, nao bebas mais isso. Eu ia morrendo. ( nao ia mas foi para ela acreditar)
Todos os dias vejo putos na repsol a comprar redbull, duas e quatro latas. È uma questao de tempo ate ficarem com panicos. Mas nao dizem que è daquilo, porque o amigo bebe e nao tem sintomas.
A cafeina è um veneno mais cedo ou mais tarde. Grande parte da doenca mental actual vem da cafeina e estimulantes. E tambem è comum ouvir, " tive um stress lixado e nao dou a volta, ando ansiosa neurotica nao durmo" eu pergunto, qual foi o stress? Assim e assim, sei la um chefe parvo ou tive um stress com uma amiga. Bebes cafe? Sim.
Whatever, o pessoal nao chega la.
Porque o cafe é legal e faz bem, logo nao pode ser disso.

Mental Illness or Caffeine Allergy?
28 Nov 2018
Author: Lindsay Johnson
Read time: 9 min
Category: Archive
Unaware of her caffeine allergy, Ruth continued ingesting caffeinated products for the next 25 years. Her physical and mental health deteriorated, and in 1999 she was diagnosed with personality disorder and bipolar disorder, which resulted in her being committed to a locked ward.

Finally, a wise doctor diagnosed her with caffeine allergy. Her story inspired her to write Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy — A Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia.

Caffeine Sensitivity/Caffeine Allergy

Coffee, colas, Red Bull, chocolate, diet pills — we are a nation on legalized speed. This is of concern. All that caffeine is throwing some of us dangerously off track.

Caffeine is an addictive stimulant found in coffee, tea, colas, cocoa and chocolate. It is also in some prescribed and over-the-counter drugs. Caffeine drives the adrenal glands to produce stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. While some people feel comfortably alert and awake as a result, others are sensitive to this adrenaline rush and experience the flight-or-fight response: fast pulse, rapid heart beat, quick breathing and muscle tension. These physiological responses typify anxiety states. The affected person feels jittery, shaky, nervous, irritable, anxious, restless and can experience insomnia.

Other people, are more than just sensitive to caffeine. They are considered allergic, although the line is fine between the two responses. The allergic person may experience sneezing, an itchy mouth, hoarseness, difficulty breathing, hives, swollen throat/tongue/lips/face, difficulty swallowing, eczema, fainting, heart palpitations, pain in the chest or hyperventilation.

From Jitters to Psychosis

These horrific physical symptoms are accompanied by psychiatric responses. Depending on the degree of caffeine consumption, people may also experience confusion, inability to focus, dizziness, mood swings, anxiety, light sensitivity and PMS. Medical physicians or psychiatrists commonly misdiagnose them with anxiety disorder, ADHD, panic, OCD, bipolar disorder or depression and mistakenly put them on medication. In severe cases, as with Ruth Whalen, they become schizophrenic, experiencing delusions, paranoia and hallucinations, and are given even more potentially dangerous drugs. In her book, Whalen tells the story of a caffeine allergic woman who was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for over 40 years.

Why would caffeine cause someone to go over the edge? Psychosis occurs because adrenaline increases dopamine, our "feel good" reward neurotransmitter, and abnormally high dopaminergic transmission has been linked to psychosis and schizophrenia.

When some people are taken off caffeine, the schizophrenia disappears. Caffeine withdrawal would help explain why some Russian doctors have been able to cure schizophrenia with 30 day fasts. In some cases, caffeine allergy was likely masked as schizophrenia and the fast purged the caffeine out of the person’s system.1

Another serious condition tied to caffeine consumption is anorexia, as, to encourage loss of appetite, anorexics typically drink loads of coffee and diet sodas and refuse to give them up.2 The heavy caffeine consumption further deteriorates their body and brain, locking the anorexic further into distorted body image thinking and starvation.

Harming Yourself and Not Knowing It

Why is caffeine allergy not better known and diagnosed? To start, sometimes it can take several hours after caffeine ingestion for allergy symptoms to crop up and you don’t associate caffeine with the response.

Further, people may be unaware that they have ingested caffeine. For instance, not everyone knows that chocolate has caffeine or that, contrary to popular belief, coffee enemas are absorbed into the bloodstream and send caffeine sensitive people like me, who hasn’t had a cup of coffee in forty years, into overdrive. Also, doctors rarely diagnose caffeine allergy because few know of it. Nor do most doctors routinely inquire about coffee intake.

In the dark, people continue to use caffeinated products, wearing down their vital organs, including their brains. In 1984, in an article in Science magazine, Harvard Medical School neurologist James A. Nathanson stated that plants use caffeine as a natural insecticide to ward off dangerous pests and that these substances interfered with behavior and growth in many insects and insect larvae.

For example, after being given a caffeine compound, larvae showed signs of confusion.3 Little wonder humans, too, can experience confusion and even psychosis.

Caffeine destabilizes your nervous system in other ways. A diuretic, caffeine speeds elimination of many minerals and vitamins, such as potassium, zinc, magnesium, calcium, vitamin C and the B vitamins (especially the anti-stress vitamin B1). This can lead to deficiencies, which increase anxiety, panic, mood swings and fatigue. The problem is compounded as caffeine causes blood sugar to rise in the first hour after consumption, creating an initial buzz, and then drops to subnormal levels, causing an energy crash.

Coffee: the Worst Offender

Coffee is especially bad because it contains two other stimulants: theophylline and theobromine. A mere four cups per day can make a person nervous and jittery, while eight cups will send some into a panic attack. Caffeine injections also produce panic in healthy volunteers participating in anxiety studies. If you are already suffering anxiety and panic episodes, even a little caffeine will make you feel uncomfortable and jittery and aggravate the frequency and severity of episodes. Caffeine causes panic attack by interfering with adenosine, a brain chemical that normally has a calming effect, and by raising levels of lactate, a biochemical implicated in producing panic attacks. The effect can last for as long as six hours and interfere with sleep.

But what about caffeine junkies who can’t live without their fix and appear to tolerate caffeine well? Apparently, these folks are also getting into a tizzy. In a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1,500 psychology students were divided into four categories based on coffee intake: abstainers, low consumers (one cup or equivalent a day), moderate (one to five cups a day) and high (five cups or more a day).4 The moderate and high consumers demonstrated higher levels of anxiety and depression than the abstainers. Further, the high consumers had higher incidence of stress-related medical problems and lower academic performance.

This tells us that even if you are not caffeine sensitive, consuming large amounts of caffeine — usually more than 250 mg per day — can be dangerous for your physical and mental health.

Give Up Caffeine

To break the caffeine habit, start by cutting out caffeine products. These include:

All coffee (de-caffeinated coffee still contains some caffeine)
Teas: black, green, kombucha, yerbe maté
Soft drinks
Energy drinks: Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle , etc.
Caffeinated waters
Frozen desserts containing coffee, mocha, or cappuccino
Chocolate, including raw cacao (which contains theophylline with a similar effect as caffeine)
OTC drugs: NoDoz, Excedrin, Anacin, Dexatrim, Midol, etc.
Check labels. Few know, for instance, that One A Day vitamins for women contain the caffeine equivalent of one cup of coffee. Yes, even some vitamin pills are caffeinated!

Withdraw Slowly

If you are addicted to caffeine, you must reduce your consumption gradually to avoid caffeine withdrawal symptoms like fatigue, shakiness and headaches. In most, withdrawal takes around four to six days. If you are allergic, physical withdrawal could take 12 months or longer, and recovery symptoms can be severe, including: memory loss, confusion, tremors,

agitated states, insomnia/somnolence and nightmares.

Tips to help you kick the caffeine habit:

Replace caffeine with healthy products.
Drink an herbal coffee substitute like Teeccino.
Eat carob in place of chocolate and cacao.
Include arousing spices like ginger, cayenne and peppermint in your diet
Start your morning with natural energizers.
Drink something with intense flavor like pure cranberry juice, or suck on a lemon.
Eat something that makes you chomp and bite, like an apple, as heavy work to the jaw is energizing and alerting.
Take a cold shower.
Do quick, intense physical activity, like jumping jacks or push-ups.
Listen to upbeat music.
Use herbal energizers and adaptogens to stay alert. These include: ginseng, ashwagandha (winter cherry), licorice root, reishi mushroom, rhodiola rosea and St. John’s Wort.
Take vitamin B6.
Detoxify Your Liver

The more sensitive you are to the caffeine jitters, the less efficient your liver is at metabolizing the drug and cleansing it from your body. Help your liver do its job by eating whole, preferably raw, organic food as much as possible. Organic is important because caffeine is often used as a form of pesticide for many fruits and vegetables. Eating high nutrient, low calorie foods will also help you to give up some of your comfort food and drinks naturally by feeding your nervous system the nutrients it needs, easing the feeling of loss that you may experience.

O tatanka não acredita nisso….das mulheres (as vezes ate os homens ) que jejuam e desfalecem...

[Automek]

Esta bebida devia ser abolida e proibida.
Ficaria so o decaf que tambem nao é grande coisa para a saude.
As pessoas quando vao a um gastroenterologista queixam-se disto e daquilo. Nunca vi um medico a recomendar parar de beber cafe. O cafe faz bem. Ha estudos e vem na Visao. Beba cafe. O café depois dos 35 tomado com regularidade mata, devagar mas mata e os efeitos sao sistémicos.

Bom, ainda bem q nao bebo café ou álcool...

Kaspov, tens algum vício ou queres mesmo morrer saudável ? 

[vdap]

o V é especialista em amarrotar tópicos e depois sai de fininho, ou com uma imagem na maior parte das vezes ofenciva ao mais puro dos visitantes, ou com um estudo com cerca de 500 pág, que não tem nada a ver com o tópico.

Quem vem a seguir nem sabe por onde lhe deve pegar

[deMelo]

o V é especialista em amarrotar tópicos e depois sai de fininho, ou com uma imagem na maior parte das vezes ofenciva ao mais puro dos visitantes, ou com um estudo com cerca de 500 pág, que não tem nada a ver com o tópico.

Quem vem a seguir nem sabe por onde lhe deve pegar

Ahahahahahah
Muita bom!!!

Ele é o jihadista do fórum.... kkkkk

[ShakaZoulou7]

Acho que a hipótese mais provável para o sucesso da Itália na gestão da segunda vaga, é porque o vírus já matou quem não tinha o sistema imunitário robusto para o combater. Recebo informações de que em Milão quase ninguém segue as regras impostas, Nápoles terra de mafiosos e foras da lei estão a seguir mais rigidamente. A Bulgária impôs restrições á liberdade, mas a população não liga nada, acaba por funcionar como a Suécia e não há descontrolo. Vou passar por três países no espaço de uma semana, em todos eles querem saber a cor das minhas cuecas. Já pensei na solução, escrevo a lápis e dou só o nome, contacto e a localidade onde vou ficar e onde hábito, nem sei quem são as entidades que recolhem os dados e que tratamento lhes dão e com quem podem partilhar, também tenho de comprar um pacote de batatas para poder viajar livre do açaime.

[Dafaq]

Rsrsrssrss muito bom

[Automek]

A patetice com a covd já atingiu níveis difíceis de aturar.

Governo britânico desconfina contacto físico para casais que não partilham casa

[deMelo]

Como a malta começou a tomar atenção aos falsos positivos...


hoje o TERROR, a TRAGÉDIA, ...

Os noticiarios ao almoço falaram sobre o problema dos falsos negativos... 

[Automek]

É óptimo para ostracizar um desgraçado sobre quem recaiu a suspeita de covid e, ainda por cima, teve o azar de dar negativo. É pior que um positivo. Esses ao menos ficam em casa.

[vbm]

Recebido de um amigo,

«24 setembro 2020

CARTA ABERTA AOS MÉDICOS PORTUGUESES
 
‹‹As epidemias são fenómenos sociais e políticos com algumas implicações médicas›› – Rudolph Virchow
 
Prezados colegas,
 
O impacto do COVID-19 e das medidas de contenção têm tal magnitude que é necessário discutirmos este assunto na “praça pública”, abertamente e sem quaisquer rodeios. 

A narrativa apocalíptica, a “covidização” do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) e do sector privado da saúde, aqui incluindo os consultórios médicos, o confinamento de pessoas saudáveis e assintomáticas, a generalização do uso de máscaras, o higienismo e o distanciamento social, são fruto do pânico e da ignorância e, é necessário que o proclamemos bem alto, não têm qualquer justificação médica.

A narrativa apocalíptica, comecemos por aqui, devia ter sido imediatamente denunciada pelas Associações Médicas como falsa e alarmista, potencialmente maligna sob o ponto de vista social e indutora de comportamentos que, por si só, acarretariam consequências fatais. Estou a pensar nos idosos “abandonados” nos lares da terceira idade, por exemplo, pela ausência de funcionários compelidos a quarentenas questionáveis.

A covidização do Sistema de Saúde, no seu conjunto, constituiu e continua a constituir uma tragédia infame. Milhares de pessoas viram os seus tratamentos adiados, e muitas centenas faleceram por falta de assistência médica.

O excesso de mortalidade verificado nos últimos meses, depois de excluir as fatalidades COVID, é o reflexo dessa falta de assistência e também do pânico incutido na população, que foge das urgências como o Diabo da cruz para falecer em casa, de forma prematura e desnecessária.

A profilaxia das doenças oncológicas estagnou, e podemos garantir que a mortalidade relacionada com estas patologias irá explodir em breve. O cancro da mama e do cólon, para só falar destes, são curáveis se detetados numa fase inicial, mas, passando essa janela de oportunidade, tudo fica em causa.

A Ordem dos Médicos (OM) deve exigir o regresso à normalidade, deve exigir a des-covidização do Sistema de Saúde. Não faz sentido exigir testes de COVID a pessoas absolutamente assintomáticas, antes de intervenções programadas, quando não se exigem testes para outras doenças contagiosas, como a Hepatite B, o HIV ou a Tuberculose.

Por fim, é imperativo que os médicos denunciem as medidas governamentais de contenção do COVID-19 que não tenham fundamento na “legis artis”, na prática clínica consagrada pelo tempo, ou que sejam desproporcionadas face aos riscos existentes.

O confinamento de pessoas saudáveis e a generalização do uso de máscaras, especialmente em espaços abertos, não tem qualquer base científica. São medidas que nunca foram utilizadas no passado e que, por assim dizer, foram inventadas em 2020.

Impedir uma pessoa saudável e em idade ativa de sair de casa e trabalhar para “pôr pão na mesa”, para si e para os seus, é uma violação do direito à vida, porque priva os cidadãos dos recursos necessários à sobrevivência. Quando vejo filas, à porta da sopa dos pobres, de vítimas das medidas extravagantes do governo para a “guerra ao Coronavírus”, sinto uma profunda tristeza e revolta.

O estatuto da OM determina que esta deve ‹‹contribuir para a defesa da saúde dos cidadãos e dos direitos dos doentes››. Descurando a verdade sobre a epidemia do Coronavírus e sobre as consequências das medidas de contenção, a OM poderá estar a violar os seus próprios estatutos. Estamos perante uma crise em que “calar é colaborar com o maior abuso de sempre perpetrado sobre a população portuguesa”. Milhares de médicos, por todo o mundo, estão a interpelar as respetivas associações profissionais, questionando a cobertura implícita que estas têm vindo a dar às medidas do governo; é necessário terminar com esta passividade cúmplice.

Na Alemanha, perante a relutância dos políticos em auditar as respostas ao COVID, foi organizado um “Inquérito COVID Extraparlamentar” que conta com a colaboração de muitos médicos especialistas em epidemiologia e doenças infectocontagiosas. Em Portugal, poderemos ter de fazer o mesmo. (1)
 
Há dias, fui surpreendido por uma declaração do nosso bastonário, o meu estimado amigo Dr. Miguel Guimarães, favorável à obrigatoriedade do uso de máscaras em espaços abertos, em todo o território nacional (2). Com todo o devido respeito e amizade, é necessário afirmar que esta declaração não tem fundamento científico sólido, nem corresponde às recomendações da OMS. (3) Iria, contudo, estimular o medo e a ansiedade da população.

Quando é necessário apaziguar o pânico e regressar logo que possível à normalidade, os médicos devem estar do lado da ciência, do bom senso e da razão. Temos de contribuir para que “a cura não seja pior do que a doença” porque esse é o nosso compromisso com a humanidade.
 
Joaquim Sá Couto
Médico
 
1.     https://acu2020.org/international/
2.     https://observador.pt/2020/08/07/bastonario-da-ordem-dos-medicos-diz-que-se-devia-pensar-seriamente-na-utilizacao-de-mascara-no-exterior-em-todo-o-pais/
3.     https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---5-june-2020»

[Dafaq]

Ja se vê mais gente na rua com mascara.
Ate a conduzir fdx.
E vejo ate malta nova de mascara a passear.
As campanhas resultam.

[Dafaq]

Em principio nao era covid. Hoje fiz uns hiits e passou-me tudo. E ontem ha noite meti peróxido na jorelhas.
Acho que foi da chuvada que apanhei ha 3 dias

[Incognitus]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-dangerous-is-covid-a-swedish-doctor-s-perspective/amp?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0jh6PsHvexuV8MRwuoJq_GZhIW-gtouShQ1ugo1mJbqoifr6qCJ0jywMM

[deMelo]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-dangerous-is-covid-a-swedish-doctor-s-perspective/amp?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0jh6PsHvexuV8MRwuoJq_GZhIW-gtouShQ1ugo1mJbqoifr6qCJ0jywMM

Covid na Suécia:

[deMelo]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-dangerous-is-covid-a-swedish-doctor-s-perspective/amp?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0jh6PsHvexuV8MRwuoJq_GZhIW-gtouShQ1ugo1mJbqoifr6qCJ0jywMM

Concordo com esse texto.

Aliás, isso tem sido a tecla que temos aqui batido ao longo dos meses.

Valeu mesmo a pena fechar a economia e criar este pânico todo nas pessoas?

Nesse texto não fala em todas as mortes que surgiram porque fechamos tudo, porque na Suécia não fizeram essa parte do lockdown.