I have a love/hate relationship with coffee. I love drinking it I hate myself for drinking it later when 1. I'm having a panic attack (mild to severe) 2. Can't focus if I have juuust too much 3. Can't sleep that night. It does seem like I've become more sensitive to coffee and I'm really wanting to drop coffee for at least a month or two to see what difference there is. It's hard to do though. Trying to step down to tea then maybe go caffeine free. I've felt better going caffeine free before. Just more aware and able to be. Also less jittery, nervous/anxious. Kava seems to have less effect sometimes with caffeine coursing through my system.
Posted before reading the thread but, yes, interference nails it in my experience. I'm drinking kava for the anxiety squashing benefits so why seesaw myself back to anxiety with coffee. I'll also get dehydrated more easily when drinking coffee and kava regularly.
Second washes of tea.. that's an interesting idea: Get the most out of your teabag!
Try steeping it in chloroform for full extraction.I drink loose leaf tea
But yeah unlike kava second washes, tea is pretty well studied and if you make two three-minute steeps with the same batch, the second one still has a decent amount of caffeine in it.
I just was wondering about this the other day, cuz I noticed that I wake up very alert the day after drinking kava in the evening. I didn't crave coffee like I normally do and went a whole week without it, but one day I drank some and got a crazy headache within a few minutes, I also noticed that i became super jittery which is not normal for me and the caffeine buzz seemed like it would never end! I was like whoa! Has anyone else noticed this??I've been drinking kava daily for 6 months now and find that I can't drink coffee any more. It keeps me jittery and awake for 14 or more hours. In fact, I'm awake right now because of coffee I drank this morning. I Googled this and found that kava inhibits the CYP1A2 enzyme which is responsible for metabolizing caffeine. So my question is, does anyone else have increased sensitivity to caffeine since they started drinking kava?
(Several more enzymes are affected according to the first link, for instance CYP2C9 which metabolizes ibuprofen and other drugs. They're listed in the first link and are interesting to examine. Kava could in fact affect the metabolism of hundreds of drugs and might be worth mentioning during your visits to the doctor.)
Cheers!
This is an old thread but I just googled this because I dont want coffee anymore and I was a coffee addict. Way too sensitive to it now and I have only been drinking Kava for a week!
Ah but you are also off the alcohol kavagirl. Maybe thats linked to not wanting needing coffee too.
