Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

CAFFEINE IS POISONING YOU!

31 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video titled "CAFFEINE IS POISONING YOU!" (creator: Josh Trent). The clip features a conversational exchange in which Josh and a second speaker mention the folkloric origin story that goats/sheep discovered caffeine-containing berries and reacted energetically; the wider video discusses caffeine's effects and argues for paraxanthine as a preferable alternative.

I heard that caffeine was found by some goat farmer or sheep farmer, and he saw that his sheep or goats were eating the caffeine berries.
That fell. Exactly.
Wigging out.
And he's gonna try that. Yeah. Think about how much green tea we're growing, how much coffee we're growing, how much of all these plants, kola nut, all these things, like all these sources. Cacao. Right. If you look at the numbers, you'll see that 70 to 80% of caffeine is converted to paraxanthine. So someone might say, okay, well, if I consume caffeine, I get plenty of paraxanthine. When you consume caffeine, you have to go. These other chemicals you have to go through the theophylline, the theobromine, their metabolites. Caffeine itself hangs around and is fairly toxic and has all these issues with sleep disruption, anxiety, brain fog, jitters, all that kind of stuff. It can be like three days to get rid of it out of your system, to clear it. We're avoiding that kind of slow drip drop to paraxanthine, and we're going straight away to it. Paraxanthine is where we're seeing all the nootropic benefits and health benefits. Caffeine is where we're seeing most of the side effects.