Sol Brah is quitting coffee after years of drinking high-quality organic blends, arguing that caffeine's long half-life interferes with the body's natural relaxation and repair cycles. After four days off, he's noticed better sleep and a calmer nervous system. He's switched to Aurum Morning Blend nootropic tea and is inviting others to try a month-plus experiment.
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Greetings. So I wanted to talk about why I'm quitting coffee, or at least having a long break from it, while I enjoy these delicious oysters. Can actually see that I've lost an oyster in transit and getting here, but that's okay. Just got to apply the lemon here. Incredible. By the beach, as you can see. And so why am I drinking— or why am I not drinking coffee? So I've been having this feeling for a while now that I should just quit coffee entirely. And firstly, I've never been someone that uses coffee and is like oh my God, I'm anxious from coffee, or I feel so bad, I get the shakes from coffee. Never been like that. And unless I really overdid it with coffee, then I wouldn't have any issues. Like, usually I have one coffee in the morning, maybe two early, and it's an organic freeze-dried coffee, so it's really not anything like it's, it's the highest quality you could get. And also I have it with raw cream, raw milk, raw honey, so you're gonna negate a lot of the possible negatives from low minerals or low blood sugar or whatever else, which is a lot of the issues that people have with coffee. Or they're having very low quality coffee like tap water, uh, drip coffee from— that goes through like a machine with the plastic Keurig cups. Like that, that is garbage. You're just dosing yourself with plastics, pesticide coffee, and tap water as well. So there's really a spectrum on coffee. Like, what is just coffee? Comes in so many different forms. Um, so as I said, I was doing it very well. Even still, coffee and caffeine— well, coffee specifically is something that's been cooked several times, has been roasted. And I was doing the freeze-dried coffee because it avoids that kind of second cooking of the brewing. Like, if you have an espresso, it's hot water that goes through, and so the freeze-dried is a very different feeling effect than like a hot espresso. So I was still doing the better version, but still, at the end of the day, it's been roasted to get to that freeze-dried coffee. uh, form. So obviously, knowing what I know about raw foods and the energy of foods, coffee, as far as something that you're having every day, is still not going to be optimal and ideal for your energy, for your life force, and everything else— enzymes. So that's one thing. Then there's the caffeine factor of the stimulation of the coffee. Where you're going to be put in a heightened nervous system state. And that's fine if you have a balance where you're, you know, you're relaxed a lot of the time, uh, you're having good raw fats and you're just chill, like you're mineralized. It doesn't really make a difference. As I said, I don't feel anxious, I don't feel jittery and all these things from coffee, but at the end of the day still, it's a stimulant. You can't avoid that. And if you're having a stimulant every single day, the caffeine half-life is quite significant. So for the majority of the day at least, and probably the whole day, the whole 24 hours, there's still some caffeine left in your system. So it doesn't allow your body to get into that really chill, uh, relaxed state where the, the best detox happens, the most, the most repair happens, and so on and so forth. So Even with having it the way that I did, it's not optimal for every single day. That's just unavoidable, even if you're having it in a nice way. And I know that there's some schools of thought online that it's like, the more coffee, the better. The more sugar you have with your coffee, it's, it's a health food, it's unlimited. No, that's not the case. Like, have coffee in a, in a, in the best way that you can. In moments that you necessarily need the boost. Like for me, as I said, I've been having this feeling for a while that I should be off coffee more. Um, I kind of stuck with it because I was using it for work, so I could just get in a flow. Like I'd sit down, I'd have my coffee, and then I would do emails or write content, whatever else. I find it very, very good for that. But eventually I kept on having the thought of, hey, you should probably just like at least have some time off coffee. And then I wasn't doing it. So eventually I thought to myself, hey, you're actually just coping at this point. Like, it's, it's a daily thing. You're not having a full break. Like, are you, are you relying on it? Are you dependent on it? And at this point, it's been years and years and years of the majority of my days having coffee. So whenever you're using something for years and years and years, you have to analyze like, okay, what's happening here? Am I actually, uh, you know, in control? And it's not like my life was out of control from having coffee and having 10 a day or anything, but on some level, like, you're, you're a slave to something that you can't cut out entirely and you can't perform without it, whatever. So I had to prove to myself that that was the case. So we've gone off coffee. It's been like 4 days now, and like I said, I was still sleeping really well. I haven't immediately noticed like, wow, I feel so much better with coffee— without coffee. And I think part of that is because I was having it in such a good way. But also, it can take a few weeks to get out of this nervous system state, uh, that you were possibly in before. Now I am having my Aurum Morning Blend nootropic tea, which is really delicious, and it's got green tea in it as well as the nootropic herbs, which are— have no caffeine but they activate the brain. And that's been my morning drink. Now green tea does have some level of caffeine in it, allegedly, and it's, it's far less obviously, and it's a different form. Like, I just think the— there's no roasting going to the herbs. The herbs are just dried, and then you have— I brew my tea with not boiling hot water, just warm water. And so that's entirely different. Some may argue like, oh, it's still a version of green tea, it's still a stimulant. And down the line, maybe I will also have that cut out as well, just to be, you know, really sure on this stuff. But As for the moment, it's far less. I don't feel the same stimulatory effect, and the idea is to just get into a fresher, lighter, uh, drink with the green tea and otherwise not be relying on coffee. So what would I expect to see? I would say like more chill nervous system in general, even though that's very, very chill for me anyway. And yeah, I've spoken to a few people that got onto the raw diet and or otherwise just quit coffee, and some people have a really significant powerful effect with it in terms of like, wow, my— after 5 days I was having these huge headaches and everything else. I've had slight twinges of headaches maybe a couple times, but that's it. Like nothing, nothing which other people have kind of mentioned with these excessive headaches over days and days. Um, so what else am I expecting? I don't know. I'm not really saying in any case, like, I definitely think that my perception of time has increased. With a coffee, you kind of, you activate the dopamine, you get into a work, work, work cycle, and then kind of 2 hours blast by. And yeah, you've probably done some more work, or you've done some work, but you're less present and centered in the moment. And so your time— the— your perception of time decreases. And I think that that's a massive issue with a lot of people, is they're go, go, go all the time, slam a coffee, get to work, hit the workout, do whatever, and then they realize like they have— the whole day is kind of passing by because they're in this go, go mentality. And Excuse me. I don't think that that's necessarily the best way to go through life, especially if you're looking to have a more spiritual perception or a more spiritual path. And that's what I'm looking to do, you know. Like, one thing that does really stand out to me is the way that coffee is so accessible in our world and so like normified, like, oh, gotta have my coffee in the morning. And I hate identifying or relating with any of these things that have been pushed onto the masses. And I gotta wonder, is coffee one of these things that pretty much— like, I would say the majority of people are having coffee every day, and they're— they are addicted to it, and it is negatively decreasing their energy because they're spiking their adrenals, maximizing their cortisol, and they're addicted to this kind of stress cortisol release. Energy which they give themselves, and that's not the same as pure relaxed body energy, uh, that comes from a relaxed state and high nutrients and all the rest of it. So that's another side of it, is I don't want to just fall into the masses of the herds and have coffee. Oh, found the oyster I lost. So how long am I going to do it? I, I would say at least month, couple months. We'll see. I'm not setting a time limit on it. Um, if I cut it out for the most part and then I'm in Europe in a couple months, maybe have an espresso, just go with it. I know that that's not going to like ruin my progress or anything, but it's just a recalibration. As well as a little project just to see, and just to see how I can go without it, to make sure that I'm not reliant, and make sure and just experiment. And, um, I'll get back to you guys what I find out. Um, as I said, I was doing it very well with the coffee. I think most people would benefit from doing something like this. And if coffee— if you've quit coffee, I want to hear from you, like, comment and see what you've experienced from quitting coffee. If you want to try quitting coffee, do it with me. Let's, uh, let's— part of the reason why I wanted to speak about this is because then I wouldn't be able to just like sneakily myself, oh, go on, just have a coffee. Like, no, now I've, I've put it out there to you guys, uh, I'll need to actually stick with it. So that's part of the reason why I'm doing all this stuff and, and talking about it. So thanks for helping me, uh, do this. Join me, comment down below if you're going to stop coffee, or this goes for energy drinks as well, anything that you're having daily. Like if you have a pre-workout in the gym every single day, it's the same thing. You shouldn't be relying on it, uh, it's taxing your nervous system over and over. So yeah, any of these drinks, these stimulants, caffeine-related things let's have a time without it, let's see how it goes. And I think that there's going to be a lot of benefits, even if it's just a recalibration period where you have a time off and then come back to it, but using it once a week and so on and so forth, I think is a much healthier way to live. So that's why I'm quitting coffee for now. Forever, who knows? Let me know your experience with caffeine, experiences with quitting, and let's talk it out in the comments below. Thanks.
