While coffee has a myriad of health and performance benefits which we have touched on in 10 Health Benefits Of Organic Coffee, one thing that needs to be addressed is the way your body adapts to excessive coffee consumption.
After drinking a lot of coffee on a continuous basis, your body’s beta-2 receptors will start to experience down-regulation. When this happens, your body will start to become desensitized to caffeine, requiring you to use higher and higher doses of caffeine to elicit the same effects.
You Do Not Want This
Eventually, if you fall into this trap you will continuously have to drink more and more coffee each day to get the same benefits you previously did with a much smaller amount.
This is the reason why some individuals will need several cups of coffee to get going in the morning, while others may only need half a cup. Their receptors are fried and they seemingly need to pound coffee back by the litre to stay productive and energetic throughout the work day.
What you want to do to avoid this from happening to you, and still be able to get all of the benefits from coffee that you want without having to consume extreme amounts, is cycle your caffeine consumption.
Cycling Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
Cycling caffeine essentially involves taking periodic breaks from coffee/caffeine entirely in order to re-sensitize your beta-2 receptors and allow your body to recuperate from any down regulation it has undergone.
It also gives your Central Nervous System a break, and once you start drinking coffee again you will find that you are sensitive to the caffeine again.
It actually doesn’t take an extremely prolonged period of cessation of use to re-sensitize yourself to caffeine either, or get over that hump of shitty withdrawals you may experience if you are a heavy-duty abuser of caffeine.
When Shouldn’t You Cycle Off Caffeine/Stop Drinking Coffee
If you are consuming coffee for disease prevention, it is not a necessity for you to cycle off coffee.
For example, if you are simply drinking coffee to reduce your risk of Type II Diabetes, or to reduce your risk of getting Parkinson’s Disease, then you absolutely SHOULD NOT cycle off coffee.
When Should You Cycle Off Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
The blatant effects of adrenaline are noticeably reduced as your tolerance grows to caffeine.
Adrenaline mediates the fat loss, appetite suppression, enhanced levels of cognitive abilities and focus that we all know and love from coffee.
When your adrenaline response is inhibited from a developed tolerance to coffee consumption, then you will start to experience diminished levels of benefits from it.
In addition, dopamine signaling is literally destroyed when you develop a high tolerance to caffeine.
One of the great benefits of coffee is the dopamine response that results in high energy levels and euphoria. This will completely disappear if you let your tolerance go through the roof without cycling coffee/caffeine.
How To Cycle Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
If I go by my experience with coffee, it goes something like this:
Day 1: Quit drinking coffee and stop all caffeine consumption = Headache city + Brain fog levels 10/10.
Day 2: Headaches intermittently throughout the day. Brain fog 6/10.
Day 3: No headache at all. Brain fog 3/10.
Day 4: Very minimal brain fog, if any at all.
Day 5: Feel completely normal. I am a caffeine virgin again!
Obviously your experience may differ from mine, but making it through those few shitty days is necessary to up regulate your beta-2 receptors, de-stress your Central Nervous System, and get your body to actually respond in a sensitive manner to the caffeine in coffee again.
It doesn’t take rocket science to assess how you are feeling, and it becomes pretty obvious once you have gotten over that hump of withdrawals you may experience.
I suggest taking a week off of coffee/caffeine entirely once you start noticing that you are having to greatly increase how much coffee you are drinking to get the same effects you used to with much less, or you are getting headaches when you don’t have any caffeine that day.
You may need longer than a week, or less, this is dependent on your individual physiology and how bad your tolerance is, but it is a good benchmark and guideline you can definitely follow.
Potentiating The Effects Of Coffee/Red Monkey By Combining Them
Red Monkey is our premiere mood-enhancing supplement, which goes hand in hand with our coffee as their benefits are directly compounded greatly by each other.
The Nootropics and Phenibut (more specifically) in Red Monkey are directly potentiated to a great degree by our Coffee and Red Burner (or any calorie free caffeine source).
To maximize the effects of Red Monkey, it is highly suggested you follow the guide above in regards to coffee/caffeine cycling to avoid diminished returns from your favorite products.
If you have never had Red Monkey on a totally empty stomach with our calorie free caffeine products, I urge you to try it next time with a cup of our coffee, or a couple capsules of Red Burner.
You will see what I mean when I say they work together synergistically.
Whenever I want to be in an absolutely fantastic mood and feel like Superman I will pop a serving of Red Monkey with a cup of coffee or a serving of Red Burner
Because I depend so highly on my receptor sensitivity to be fresh, even for products that don’t have caffeine in them like Red Monkey but depend on caffeine for potency, I responsibly cycle my caffeine consumption and regulate how much coffee I drink.
Personally I cycle off caffeine whenever I feel myself becoming dependent on it. For example, if I start feeling like I NEED a cup of coffee in the morning to get my day started, then that’s an indication to me that it’s time to cycle off caffeine.
This varies person to person but a good indication that you may need to cycle your caffeine usage is when a normal cup of coffee doesn’t really affect you anyone and you need a huge cup or multiple cups of coffee per day just to keep your energy levels steady & constant.
I was thinking of purchasing Red Coffee, but I am very sensitive to caffeine. About 4-6 oz of coffee is enough to make me feel jittery and nervous as the day goes by. Is there any way to counteract this? Could it be the quality of my coffee?
There are a few ways to counteract the negative symptoms from drinking coffee/caffeine.
1. Space out your caffeine intake. Instead of drinking 1 cup of coffee in 20 minutes, space it out over 1 – 2 hours.
2. Considering supplementing caffeine intake with L-Theanine. L-Theanine (found in sources such as green tea) has been shown to have a positive, synergistic, effect with caffeine. Taking L-Theanine with caffeine can help reduce many/all of the negative symptoms of caffeine (jitters, headaches, nervousness, anxiety, unstable energy) and replace them with a cool, calm, and collected level of focus and smooth levels of energy.
3. Upgrading the quality of coffee that you drink tends to have a noticeable, immediate impact. Unfortunately a lot of coffee on the market is low quality, mass produced garbage, that makes you feel like crap after you drink it. That’s why it’s important to only purchase coffee from verified organic, small-batch, local farms found around the world. (Such as Red Coffee). These higher quality of coffees tend to help promote a smoother level of energy, without the stomach aches, headaches, jitters and anxiety that can sometime accompany drinking low quality types of coffee.
Hey Shaine, thanks for reaching out. Green Tea actually does contain caffeine, so if you’re trying to reset your caffeine tolerance as fast as possible, (4-5 days), we would recommend not drinking it (or anything else that contains caffeine) for a week or so.
After that week, feel free to start drinking Green Tea again. You’ll be surprised at how much more effective it is for energy, concentration, and focus after your break!
Also, the cool thing about Green Tea is that it also contains a natural source of L-Theanine. L-Theanine is an amino acid that helps to calm your nerves, relax, and focus. When combined with Caffeine, it helps to reduce or negate many of the negative side effects of caffeine that some people can experience such as: Jitters; brain fog; restlessness; anxiety; increased heart rate; etc.) That’s why a lot of people feel better after drinking green tea vs. drinking coffee or energy drinks.
Yes you can definitely use decaf coffee to replace the habit of having a hot cup of coffee in the morning.
Just be aware that decaf coffee does contain a little bit of caffeine, so that may prolong the cycle. Instead of 1 week to “refresh” your receptors it may take 2 weeks.
Have you ever tried any caffeine free tea? Herbal teas are great for having that refreshing hot cup of tea in the morning but without the caffeine to give your brain a break.
Have you ever noticed that after drinking coffee for a while, you end up needing more and more to stay awake and feel its effects? Maybe a few months ago all you needed was 1 cup of coffee to get you going all morning… Now it seems like before 10 AM you’ve already drunk 3 …
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Caffeine Cycling 101: How to Get The Most Out Of Your Coffee
While coffee has a myriad of health and performance benefits which we have touched on in 10 Health Benefits Of Organic Coffee, one thing that needs to be addressed is the way your body adapts to excessive coffee consumption.
After drinking a lot of coffee on a continuous basis, your body’s beta-2 receptors will start to experience down-regulation. When this happens, your body will start to become desensitized to caffeine, requiring you to use higher and higher doses of caffeine to elicit the same effects.
You Do Not Want This
Eventually, if you fall into this trap you will continuously have to drink more and more coffee each day to get the same benefits you previously did with a much smaller amount.
This is the reason why some individuals will need several cups of coffee to get going in the morning, while others may only need half a cup. Their receptors are fried and they seemingly need to pound coffee back by the litre to stay productive and energetic throughout the work day.
What you want to do to avoid this from happening to you, and still be able to get all of the benefits from coffee that you want without having to consume extreme amounts, is cycle your caffeine consumption.
Cycling Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
Cycling caffeine essentially involves taking periodic breaks from coffee/caffeine entirely in order to re-sensitize your beta-2 receptors and allow your body to recuperate from any down regulation it has undergone.
It also gives your Central Nervous System a break, and once you start drinking coffee again you will find that you are sensitive to the caffeine again.
It actually doesn’t take an extremely prolonged period of cessation of use to re-sensitize yourself to caffeine either, or get over that hump of shitty withdrawals you may experience if you are a heavy-duty abuser of caffeine.
When Shouldn’t You Cycle Off Caffeine/Stop Drinking Coffee
If you are consuming coffee for disease prevention, it is not a necessity for you to cycle off coffee.
For example, if you are simply drinking coffee to reduce your risk of Type II Diabetes, or to reduce your risk of getting Parkinson’s Disease, then you absolutely SHOULD NOT cycle off coffee.
When Should You Cycle Off Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
The blatant effects of adrenaline are noticeably reduced as your tolerance grows to caffeine.
Adrenaline mediates the fat loss, appetite suppression, enhanced levels of cognitive abilities and focus that we all know and love from coffee.
When your adrenaline response is inhibited from a developed tolerance to coffee consumption, then you will start to experience diminished levels of benefits from it.
In addition, dopamine signaling is literally destroyed when you develop a high tolerance to caffeine.
One of the great benefits of coffee is the dopamine response that results in high energy levels and euphoria. This will completely disappear if you let your tolerance go through the roof without cycling coffee/caffeine.
How To Cycle Caffeine/Coffee Consumption
If I go by my experience with coffee, it goes something like this:
Day 1: Quit drinking coffee and stop all caffeine consumption = Headache city + Brain fog levels 10/10.
Day 2: Headaches intermittently throughout the day. Brain fog 6/10.
Day 3: No headache at all. Brain fog 3/10.
Day 4: Very minimal brain fog, if any at all.
Day 5: Feel completely normal. I am a caffeine virgin again!
Obviously your experience may differ from mine, but making it through those few shitty days is necessary to up regulate your beta-2 receptors, de-stress your Central Nervous System, and get your body to actually respond in a sensitive manner to the caffeine in coffee again.
It doesn’t take rocket science to assess how you are feeling, and it becomes pretty obvious once you have gotten over that hump of withdrawals you may experience.
I suggest taking a week off of coffee/caffeine entirely once you start noticing that you are having to greatly increase how much coffee you are drinking to get the same effects you used to with much less, or you are getting headaches when you don’t have any caffeine that day.
You may need longer than a week, or less, this is dependent on your individual physiology and how bad your tolerance is, but it is a good benchmark and guideline you can definitely follow.
Potentiating The Effects Of Coffee/Red Monkey By Combining Them
Red Monkey is our premiere mood-enhancing supplement, which goes hand in hand with our coffee as their benefits are directly compounded greatly by each other.
The Nootropics and Phenibut (more specifically) in Red Monkey are directly potentiated to a great degree by our Coffee and Red Burner (or any calorie free caffeine source).
To maximize the effects of Red Monkey, it is highly suggested you follow the guide above in regards to coffee/caffeine cycling to avoid diminished returns from your favorite products.
If you have never had Red Monkey on a totally empty stomach with our calorie free caffeine products, I urge you to try it next time with a cup of our coffee, or a couple capsules of Red Burner.
You will see what I mean when I say they work together synergistically.
Whenever I want to be in an absolutely fantastic mood and feel like Superman I will pop a serving of Red Monkey with a cup of coffee or a serving of Red Burner
Because I depend so highly on my receptor sensitivity to be fresh, even for products that don’t have caffeine in them like Red Monkey but depend on caffeine for potency, I responsibly cycle my caffeine consumption and regulate how much coffee I drink.
I highly suggest you do the same.
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10 replies to “Caffeine Cycling 101: How to Get The Most Out Of Your Coffee”
Buster
How often do you cycle?
RedSteve
Personally I cycle off caffeine whenever I feel myself becoming dependent on it. For example, if I start feeling like I NEED a cup of coffee in the morning to get my day started, then that’s an indication to me that it’s time to cycle off caffeine.
This varies person to person but a good indication that you may need to cycle your caffeine usage is when a normal cup of coffee doesn’t really affect you anyone and you need a huge cup or multiple cups of coffee per day just to keep your energy levels steady & constant.
Justin
I was thinking of purchasing Red Coffee, but I am very sensitive to caffeine. About 4-6 oz of coffee is enough to make me feel jittery and nervous as the day goes by. Is there any way to counteract this? Could it be the quality of my coffee?
RedSteve
Hey Justin, thanks for reaching out.
There are a few ways to counteract the negative symptoms from drinking coffee/caffeine.
1. Space out your caffeine intake. Instead of drinking 1 cup of coffee in 20 minutes, space it out over 1 – 2 hours.
2. Considering supplementing caffeine intake with L-Theanine. L-Theanine (found in sources such as green tea) has been shown to have a positive, synergistic, effect with caffeine. Taking L-Theanine with caffeine can help reduce many/all of the negative symptoms of caffeine (jitters, headaches, nervousness, anxiety, unstable energy) and replace them with a cool, calm, and collected level of focus and smooth levels of energy.
3. Upgrading the quality of coffee that you drink tends to have a noticeable, immediate impact. Unfortunately a lot of coffee on the market is low quality, mass produced garbage, that makes you feel like crap after you drink it. That’s why it’s important to only purchase coffee from verified organic, small-batch, local farms found around the world. (Such as Red Coffee). These higher quality of coffees tend to help promote a smoother level of energy, without the stomach aches, headaches, jitters and anxiety that can sometime accompany drinking low quality types of coffee.
Shaine
What about having green tea while you detox>
RedSteve
Hey Shaine, thanks for reaching out. Green Tea actually does contain caffeine, so if you’re trying to reset your caffeine tolerance as fast as possible, (4-5 days), we would recommend not drinking it (or anything else that contains caffeine) for a week or so.
After that week, feel free to start drinking Green Tea again. You’ll be surprised at how much more effective it is for energy, concentration, and focus after your break!
Also, the cool thing about Green Tea is that it also contains a natural source of L-Theanine. L-Theanine is an amino acid that helps to calm your nerves, relax, and focus. When combined with Caffeine, it helps to reduce or negate many of the negative side effects of caffeine that some people can experience such as: Jitters; brain fog; restlessness; anxiety; increased heart rate; etc.) That’s why a lot of people feel better after drinking green tea vs. drinking coffee or energy drinks.
PJ Pires
I really need to cycle. But it’s tough to wake up and dont have a hot cup of coffee.
Can I drink decaffeinated while in detox cycling?
RedSteve
Yes you can definitely use decaf coffee to replace the habit of having a hot cup of coffee in the morning.
Just be aware that decaf coffee does contain a little bit of caffeine, so that may prolong the cycle. Instead of 1 week to “refresh” your receptors it may take 2 weeks.
Have you ever tried any caffeine free tea? Herbal teas are great for having that refreshing hot cup of tea in the morning but without the caffeine to give your brain a break.
Randall J Kraujalis
how do i cycle red burner with red monkey?
Please advise
Derek @ RED
The same you normally would. Red Monkey bears no weight on your caffeine tolerance.
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