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Remember that feeling when your morning coffee stops working? When three cups barely get you through lunch, yet you still crash at 2:30 PM? That's not just fatigue—it's central nervous system burnout.
I know because I lived it. My morning ritual of coffee became a pot-a-day necessity just to function at a basic level. I was constantly wired yet paradoxically exhausted—what functional health practitioners call the "wired and tired" phenomenon. This wasn't sustainable energy; it was borrowed energy with compounding interest.
The science is clear: caffeine triggers stress hormones (cortisol and adrenaline) while blocking adenosine, your natural sleep signal. This creates a vicious cycle—artificial energy spikes, poor sleep, depleted natural energy, and an increasing dependency on caffeine. Eventually, your body's natural rhythm becomes completely inverted.
The good news? Your energy system can be rebuilt. Through functional lab testing that reveals your actual cortisol patterns, strategic sleep optimization, adrenal support with adaptogens like ashwagandha and rhodiola, and circadian anchoring practices like morning sunlight exposure, you can break free from caffeine dependency without giving up coffee entirely.
This episode walks you through the five telltale signs of caffeine dependency, explains the science of what's happening to your nervous system, and provides a practical three-step framework for rebuilding sustainable energy. Because true high performance isn't about pushing harder—it's about creating balance that allows your natural vitality to flourish.
Ready to stop borrowing tomorrow's energy to get through today? Track your energy at 7 AM, 2 PM, and 8 PM for three days and notice the patterns. Your body's trying to tell you something—are you ready to listen?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if the very thing you rely on for energy
each morning is the reason youcan't get through your day
without it?
Today, I'm sharing the fivemost common signs that caffeine
might be a crutch, not a tool,in how you can rebuild your
natural energy using ahigh-performance health approach
(00:21):
that saved my life and mycareer.
Let's go.
Hello, I'm Jeffrey Mort.
If you're like mostentrepreneurs, you're busy
taking care of business, yetwho's taking care of you?
If you're ready to take yourenergy and performance to the
next level in your life and yourbusiness, then this podcast is
for you, because today you'regoing to start breaking
(00:44):
boundaries of your mind, bodyand business with integrative
health, and when you do that,your possibilities are limitless
.
I'm grateful you're here yes,always grateful for you joining
me on the Breaking Boundariespodcast.
You're going to love today'sepisode.
And for those of you that enjoysending me messages for the
(01:06):
program, for ideas or questions,you can use the send a message
feature in the show notes, and Iwant to share a little bit
right now to get started in thisepisode a little personal story
about the central nervoussystem burnout and caffeine trap
that I was in, and there was atime maybe you've been here too
(01:32):
where I couldn't even start myday without a strong cup of
coffee in my hand and then onecup turned into three.
Three turned into the entirepot of coffee.
Turned into three, three turnedinto the entire pot of coffee.
Morning coffee, an afternoon,pick me up a pre-workout
caffeine shot, rinse and repeat.
But I was always tired.
(01:53):
Well, I should say I was alwayswired from the caffeine, but
weirdly tired.
In the industry that I'm in inthe health and wellness space,
that is actually a thing that wecall wired and tired.
I don't want to call itsyndrome, but I can't even call
it a condition.
We're so limited on theterminology that we can use in
(02:13):
integrative health that doesn't,you know, infringe upon
conventional medicine.
But that's what I was.
I was tired and wired.
I couldn't sleep deeply atnight.
I couldn't wake up feelingrefreshed.
I thought I was burning thecandle at both ends, but really
I had no candle left.
It wasn't just fatigue, it wascentral nervous system burnout.
(02:38):
And coffee wasn't fixing it, itwas masking it, if not making
it worse.
Now don't get me.
Get me wrong.
Caffeine isn't all bad, butusing caffeine to replace real
energy is like putting 200 milean hour duct tape over your
check engine light.
Eventually your engine stalls.
(03:00):
So I want to give you the topfive signs you might be using
caffeine as a crutch.
All right, here we go.
Number five you're anxious,you're wired or irritable, but
not productive.
You feel on, but unfocused.
That is central nervous systemoverload, not that flow state
(03:20):
that you want, not that laserfocus that you're looking for.
Number four you wake up tired,even after seven to eight hours
of sleep.
This is a huge red flag.
If you're sleeping but wakingup exhausted, your cortisol is
likely dysregulated.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about cortisol in a
couple of minutes.
Number three you use caffeineto push through workouts.
(03:45):
You're not training with energy, you're forcing intensity from
a nervous system that's alreadydepleted.
Number two you crash mid-afternoon every day.
That 2.30 pm slump.
It's not because you didn'tsleep, it's because your body's
adrenal rhythm is completelyshot.
And number one, the number onesign that you might be using
(04:10):
caffeine as a crutch.
You just can't function withoutit.
Your brain doesn't boot upuntil that first cup Coffee
equals survival mode, notperformance mode.
So let's bring a little bit ofscience into this as well.
We're going to cover some of thepros and cons of caffeine on
the central nervous system.
As I said, caffeine is not allthat bad.
(04:30):
It's not the enemy.
A couple of the pros forcaffeine yes, it boosts dopamine
and alertness.
Short term.
It also enhances physicalperformance.
That's why a lot of athletesuse a caffeinated supplement
before or during a workout.
And it also increases reactiontime and mental clarity, but
(04:53):
only in short bursts.
Now the cons of caffeine itstimulates the adrenal glands,
especially producing cortisoland adrenaline.
That's what caffeine does.
That's where you get that boostin energy.
It also blocks adenosine.
This is your body's naturalsleep signal.
(05:14):
Some more cons from caffeine itdepletes magnesium and B
vitamins.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about those in just a
moment.
But these are needed for calmand recovery.
Caffeine also disrupts sleepquality and diurnal rhythm.
This is your.
You think of it as circadianrhythm, your natural rhythm of
(05:39):
nature, really, for the humanbody.
And then it also leads totolerance and dependence in some
cases.
So you know it can be a cyclethat keeps you stuck.
And the caffeine cycle thatkeeps you stuck is caffeine
leads to an artificial cortisolspike, leads to poor sleep,
(06:01):
leads to low morning energy,which leads to more caffeine,
can you see how this cycle cankeep you stuck?
And then, when you repeat itdaily, that equals HPA access
dysfunction.
Hpa stands for hypothalamuspituitary adrenal, talking about
the glands of your body, thehypothalamus gland, the
(06:22):
pituitary gland, the adrenalgland.
They all operate in an axis.
There's also the HPG axis, theHP um O-access.
There's several, but we'retalking about the adrenals here
and the dysfunction thatrepeating that caffeine cycle on
a daily basis creates.
This is also known as burnoutin disguise.
(06:43):
So the more you push, the moreyou borrow energy that you don't
actually have and the debtbuilds until your body has to
pay the tax with interest.
But I do want to say there ishope and I'm going to share with
you how I rebuilt my energy.
Naturally it wasn't overnight,but here's what worked.
(07:04):
I stopped chasing energy andstarted rebuilding my natural
rhythm.
And the secret was testing, notguessing.
So rebuilding the diurnalrhythm with high performance
health.
Step number one functional labtesting.
This can be done right at homewith a simple saliva cortisol
(07:25):
test.
We use four-point salivatesting because it tracks your
real cortisol rhythm throughoutthe day.
Blood tests miss this pattern.
Saliva shows what your body'sdoing, not just what is present.
A saliva test reveals morningcortisol peak or lack thereof.
(07:46):
Your cortisol is supposed to beelevated in the morning, that
waking morning cortisol.
That's where your naturalenergy comes from, and when your
diurnal rhythm is inverted, weusually see on this cortisol
test that morning energy is low,then afternoon drops or spikes.
This could go either way.
People that are completelyburnt out, they just are low
(08:08):
cortisol all day.
It's actually called Addison'sdisease and that is when there's
just the adrenals cannotproduce cortisol any longer and
so we can look at afternoondrops or spikes.
A lot of people, before theyare completely depleted, is
they're producing way too muchcortisol in the afternoon, and
(08:30):
caffeine can lead to that.
That's the whole point oftoday's conversation.
We can also look at eveningcrashes or false bedtime second
winds.
People say, oh, I got a secondwind.
What that is is your body'sdiverting from its natural
rhythm of wanting to have lowercortisol at night to saying, all
(08:52):
right, the mind is pushing thebody to its limits.
We must need this for survival.
I'm going to produce morecortisol and that's where that
second wind comes from.
Usually comes around 9 pm 10 pm, when you know you're just
refusing to stop working or getaway from the screens, or having
a stressful you know, stressfulevent in your life screens, or
(09:16):
having a stressful uh, you know,stressful event in your life.
That's where these second winscome from.
And then we can also look attotal, a total cortisol output,
and this tells us whether we aredealing with burnout versus
overload, versus, you know,optimization.
So that brings us to stepnumber two.
We want to optimize sleep forhormone and central nervous
system reset.
(09:36):
What does this look like?
This looks like magnesium andnatural melatonin support not
synthetic, not synthetic.
We want to use nature to beable to rebalance and optimize
the body.
This can also look like adigital sunset.
What's that mean?
No blue light 90 minutes beforebed, very, very important.
(09:56):
Now here's a point that a lot ofpeople miss is high protein and
high um.
Well, high protein and acomplex carbohydrate mixed
dinner, and you also want thathealthy fat in there as well,
and what this does is it helpsto support serotonin and sleep
hormones, and you want thatdinner at least three hours
(10:20):
before bed.
You don't want to be putting ina difficult to break down meal
when your body should beshifting to rest rather than
using its energy for digestion.
So rest and restore rather thanprocessing and digesting food.
So, three hours before bedtime,no food absolutely a game
(10:44):
changer for you.
And having, when I say highprotein, I'm talking about a
quality, easy to digest protein.
Some examples would bepasture-raised chicken,
wild-caught salmon those wouldbe excellent high-protein, some
omega-3s in there, some steamedvegetables for your
carbohydrates that would beamazing.
And then tracking your deepsleep using an Oura Ring, an
(11:09):
Apple Watch, a Garmin device ora WhoopStrap would be absolutely
amazing to track that deepsleep.
Now that moves us into stepthree.
Step three is to support theadrenals.
Naturally, that looks likeadaptogens, things like
ashwagandha, rhodiola, aluthero.
These are all absolutelyamazing adaptogens to help
(11:31):
support the adrenals.
And then vitamins, specificallyB vitamins, b5, b6 especially,
and B12 as methylcobalamin,absolutely essential for
supporting the adrenals.
And then vitamins like vitaminC and mineral yeah, vitamin C
(11:51):
and a mineral called magnesiumAbsolutely amazing Magnesium,
glycinate, magnesium, threonate.
We also use a full spectrummagnesium.
And why do we use this?
Well, because these are thingsthat coffee depletes.
When coffee robs us of thoseminerals, then our body can't go
through the enzymatic process,uh, processing enzymes, um, for
(12:17):
the systems that the body needs.
All of these b vitamins andvitamin c and magnesium, very,
very important and thensupporting the adrenals
naturally through things likebreath work and parasympathetic
nervous system training.
What this does is it boostsyour HRV, your heart rate
variability.
Absolutely amazing.
To do some resonance breathing,three to five minutes of
(12:39):
resonance breathing after dinneror before bedtime to calm that
nervous system and put it intothat parasympathetic state and
then start the process all overagain the next day by getting
morning sunlight and, for somepeople, gradual cold exposure.
That could look like in awintertime, getting out in the
(13:00):
cold, fresh air.
It could look like Putting yourface in ice-cold water in a
sink full of ice-cold water or acold shower or a full-on cold
immersion.
If the central nervous systemis not taxed, we want to balance
central nervous system beforewe get into that cold exposure
for that circadian anchoring.
(13:21):
But a great way to do theanchoring for your circadian
rhythm is that morning sunlight15 or 20 minutes upon waking
Absolutely amazing.
Now you might be thinking is hetelling us to give up coffee?
Is he telling us not to give upcoffee?
Let me be completely clear.
You can still love your coffee.
I do too.
(13:42):
I have it probably every otherday, maybe every three days.
The goal is to stop dependingon it.
And if you're ready to level upyour morning cup, then you can
try our daily high-performancecoffee blend.
It's formulated to support andnot stress your adrenals and
your central nervous system, andthis means that the coffee that
(14:02):
we recommend in our privatewellness practice is organic,
it's mold-free and it'spesticide-free free beans, which
is very important.
We don't want to be puttingthose toxins into the body.
In addition, it's also veryhigh in antioxidants, so it is a
health supplement when usedproperly or when processed
(14:23):
properly.
And then, for the decaffeinatedversion, it is swiss water
processed and that means thatit's decaffeinated version.
It is Swiss water processed andthat means that it's
decaffeinated through a veryspecific water process.
That was it began inSwitzerland.
And the other alternatives areusually chemical-based
(14:43):
decaffeinated processing becauseit's honestly less expensive.
So the lesser quality brandsare decaffeinating their coffee
using petroleum products, to becompletely honest with you,
which is not healthy to put thatin your body.
And then if you want to use acaffeinated version, then I can
recommend maybe you exploreusing a supplement called
(15:07):
L-theanine to be able to smooththat caffeine curve.
You can often find coffee thatincludes L-theanine with it, or
adaptogens, as we talked about,to be able to balance out that.
Cortisol Elevated levels ofcortisol could certainly be
helpful, and another option isto use functional mushrooms for
(15:28):
brain fuel.
That could absolutely enhanceyour high-quality coffee.
And another option is to usefunctional mushrooms for brain
fuel.
That could absolutely enhanceyour high-quality coffee.
So I will link up the coffeethat I recommend in the show
notes.
You're absolutely going to lovethat and try it out and let me
know you can use the send us amessage feature after you try
out some of this coffee and letme know.
Use it for three to five days.
(15:48):
Let me know how it is.
Now I want to give you an actionstep.
This week's action step is toaudit your energy.
We're all about the data.
At High Performance Health andin our private wellness practice
, the data really drives theresults.
So how do you audit your energy?
Journal your energy levels 7 am, 2 pm, 8 pm, do this for three
(16:12):
days, set an alarm on your phonefor those times 7 am, 2 pm, 8
pm and then use a scale of 1 to10 for your energy levels 10
being amazing, energy 1 beingcompletely depleted I have no
energy and then journal thosefor three days and kind of
evaluate that, audit your energyand also track your sleep
(16:33):
quality and your caffeine intakeand then notice the patterns.
And if you're tired of beingtired, even with coffee,
absolutely I recommend booking anervous system recovery call
with me, completely free.
I will give you arecommendation for the tests
that we use for your rhythm.
Build you a custom plan andstop borrowing energy.
(16:57):
So, wrapping things up herewith a closing thought, I
thought I needed more caffeine.
What I really needed was morebalance.
Energy isn't something you buy.
It, it's something that youbuild, and when you do it right,
you become naturally fueledwith high performance health.
I will see you in the nextepisode.
Keep breaking those boundaries,everybody.
(17:18):
Bye-bye.
What if the very thing you rely on for energy
each morning is the reason youcan't get through your day
without it?
Today, I'm sharing the fivemost common signs that caffeine
might be a crutch, not a tool,in how you can rebuild your
natural energy using ahigh-performance health approach
(00:21):
that saved my life and mycareer.
Let's go.
Hello, I'm Jeffrey Mort.
If you're like mostentrepreneurs, you're busy
taking care of business, yetwho's taking care of you?
If you're ready to take yourenergy and performance to the
next level in your life and yourbusiness, then this podcast is
for you, because today you'regoing to start breaking
(00:44):
boundaries of your mind, bodyand business with integrative
health, and when you do that,your possibilities are limitless
.
I'm grateful you're here yes,always grateful for you joining
me on the Breaking Boundariespodcast.
You're going to love today'sepisode.
And for those of you that enjoysending me messages for the
(01:06):
program, for ideas or questions,you can use the send a message
feature in the show notes, and Iwant to share a little bit
right now to get started in thisepisode a little personal story
about the central nervoussystem burnout and caffeine trap
that I was in, and there was atime maybe you've been here too
(01:32):
where I couldn't even start myday without a strong cup of
coffee in my hand and then onecup turned into three.
Three turned into the entirepot of coffee.
Turned into three, three turnedinto the entire pot of coffee.
Morning coffee, an afternoon,pick me up a pre-workout
caffeine shot, rinse and repeat.
But I was always tired.
(01:53):
Well, I should say I was alwayswired from the caffeine, but
weirdly tired.
In the industry that I'm in inthe health and wellness space,
that is actually a thing that wecall wired and tired.
I don't want to call itsyndrome, but I can't even call
it a condition.
We're so limited on theterminology that we can use in
(02:13):
integrative health that doesn't,you know, infringe upon
conventional medicine.
But that's what I was.
I was tired and wired.
I couldn't sleep deeply atnight.
I couldn't wake up feelingrefreshed.
I thought I was burning thecandle at both ends, but really
I had no candle left.
It wasn't just fatigue, it wascentral nervous system burnout.
(02:38):
And coffee wasn't fixing it, itwas masking it, if not making
it worse.
Now don't get me.
Get me wrong.
Caffeine isn't all bad, butusing caffeine to replace real
energy is like putting 200 milean hour duct tape over your
check engine light.
Eventually your engine stalls.
(03:00):
So I want to give you the topfive signs you might be using
caffeine as a crutch.
All right, here we go.
Number five you're anxious,you're wired or irritable, but
not productive.
You feel on, but unfocused.
That is central nervous systemoverload, not that flow state
(03:20):
that you want, not that laserfocus that you're looking for.
Number four you wake up tired,even after seven to eight hours
of sleep.
This is a huge red flag.
If you're sleeping but wakingup exhausted, your cortisol is
likely dysregulated.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about cortisol in a
couple of minutes.
Number three you use caffeineto push through workouts.
(03:45):
You're not training with energy, you're forcing intensity from
a nervous system that's alreadydepleted.
Number two you crash mid-afternoon every day.
That 2.30 pm slump.
It's not because you didn'tsleep, it's because your body's
adrenal rhythm is completelyshot.
And number one, the number onesign that you might be using
(04:10):
caffeine as a crutch.
You just can't function withoutit.
Your brain doesn't boot upuntil that first cup Coffee
equals survival mode, notperformance mode.
So let's bring a little bit ofscience into this as well.
We're going to cover some of thepros and cons of caffeine on
the central nervous system.
As I said, caffeine is not allthat bad.
(04:30):
It's not the enemy.
A couple of the pros forcaffeine yes, it boosts dopamine
and alertness.
Short term.
It also enhances physicalperformance.
That's why a lot of athletesuse a caffeinated supplement
before or during a workout.
And it also increases reactiontime and mental clarity, but
(04:53):
only in short bursts.
Now the cons of caffeine itstimulates the adrenal glands,
especially producing cortisoland adrenaline.
That's what caffeine does.
That's where you get that boostin energy.
It also blocks adenosine.
This is your body's naturalsleep signal.
(05:14):
Some more cons from caffeine itdepletes magnesium and B
vitamins.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about those in just a
moment.
But these are needed for calmand recovery.
Caffeine also disrupts sleepquality and diurnal rhythm.
This is your.
You think of it as circadianrhythm, your natural rhythm of
(05:39):
nature, really, for the humanbody.
And then it also leads totolerance and dependence in some
cases.
So you know it can be a cyclethat keeps you stuck.
And the caffeine cycle thatkeeps you stuck is caffeine
leads to an artificial cortisolspike, leads to poor sleep,
(06:01):
leads to low morning energy,which leads to more caffeine,
can you see how this cycle cankeep you stuck?
And then, when you repeat itdaily, that equals HPA access
dysfunction.
Hpa stands for hypothalamuspituitary adrenal, talking about
the glands of your body, thehypothalamus gland, the
(06:22):
pituitary gland, the adrenalgland.
They all operate in an axis.
There's also the HPG axis, theHP um O-access.
There's several, but we'retalking about the adrenals here
and the dysfunction thatrepeating that caffeine cycle on
a daily basis creates.
This is also known as burnoutin disguise.
(06:43):
So the more you push, the moreyou borrow energy that you don't
actually have and the debtbuilds until your body has to
pay the tax with interest.
But I do want to say there ishope and I'm going to share with
you how I rebuilt my energy.
Naturally it wasn't overnight,but here's what worked.
(07:04):
I stopped chasing energy andstarted rebuilding my natural
rhythm.
And the secret was testing, notguessing.
So rebuilding the diurnalrhythm with high performance
health.
Step number one functional labtesting.
This can be done right at homewith a simple saliva cortisol
(07:25):
test.
We use four-point salivatesting because it tracks your
real cortisol rhythm throughoutthe day.
Blood tests miss this pattern.
Saliva shows what your body'sdoing, not just what is present.
A saliva test reveals morningcortisol peak or lack thereof.
(07:46):
Your cortisol is supposed to beelevated in the morning, that
waking morning cortisol.
That's where your naturalenergy comes from, and when your
diurnal rhythm is inverted, weusually see on this cortisol
test that morning energy is low,then afternoon drops or spikes.
This could go either way.
People that are completelyburnt out, they just are low
(08:08):
cortisol all day.
It's actually called Addison'sdisease and that is when there's
just the adrenals cannotproduce cortisol any longer and
so we can look at afternoondrops or spikes.
A lot of people, before theyare completely depleted, is
they're producing way too muchcortisol in the afternoon, and
(08:30):
caffeine can lead to that.
That's the whole point oftoday's conversation.
We can also look at eveningcrashes or false bedtime second
winds.
People say, oh, I got a secondwind.
What that is is your body'sdiverting from its natural
rhythm of wanting to have lowercortisol at night to saying, all
(08:52):
right, the mind is pushing thebody to its limits.
We must need this for survival.
I'm going to produce morecortisol and that's where that
second wind comes from.
Usually comes around 9 pm 10 pm, when you know you're just
refusing to stop working or getaway from the screens, or having
a stressful you know, stressfulevent in your life screens, or
(09:16):
having a stressful uh, you know,stressful event in your life.
That's where these second winscome from.
And then we can also look attotal, a total cortisol output,
and this tells us whether we aredealing with burnout versus
overload, versus, you know,optimization.
So that brings us to stepnumber two.
We want to optimize sleep forhormone and central nervous
system reset.
(09:36):
What does this look like?
This looks like magnesium andnatural melatonin support not
synthetic, not synthetic.
We want to use nature to beable to rebalance and optimize
the body.
This can also look like adigital sunset.
What's that mean?
No blue light 90 minutes beforebed, very, very important.
(09:56):
Now here's a point that a lot ofpeople miss is high protein and
high um.
Well, high protein and acomplex carbohydrate mixed
dinner, and you also want thathealthy fat in there as well,
and what this does is it helpsto support serotonin and sleep
hormones, and you want thatdinner at least three hours
(10:20):
before bed.
You don't want to be putting ina difficult to break down meal
when your body should beshifting to rest rather than
using its energy for digestion.
So rest and restore rather thanprocessing and digesting food.
So, three hours before bedtime,no food absolutely a game
(10:44):
changer for you.
And having, when I say highprotein, I'm talking about a
quality, easy to digest protein.
Some examples would bepasture-raised chicken,
wild-caught salmon those wouldbe excellent high-protein, some
omega-3s in there, some steamedvegetables for your
carbohydrates that would beamazing.
And then tracking your deepsleep using an Oura Ring, an
(11:09):
Apple Watch, a Garmin device ora WhoopStrap would be absolutely
amazing to track that deepsleep.
Now that moves us into stepthree.
Step three is to support theadrenals.
Naturally, that looks likeadaptogens, things like
ashwagandha, rhodiola, aluthero.
These are all absolutelyamazing adaptogens to help
(11:31):
support the adrenals.
And then vitamins, specificallyB vitamins, b5, b6 especially,
and B12 as methylcobalamin,absolutely essential for
supporting the adrenals.
And then vitamins like vitaminC and mineral yeah, vitamin C
(11:51):
and a mineral called magnesiumAbsolutely amazing Magnesium,
glycinate, magnesium, threonate.
We also use a full spectrummagnesium.
And why do we use this?
Well, because these are thingsthat coffee depletes.
When coffee robs us of thoseminerals, then our body can't go
through the enzymatic process,uh, processing enzymes, um, for
(12:17):
the systems that the body needs.
All of these b vitamins andvitamin c and magnesium, very,
very important and thensupporting the adrenals
naturally through things likebreath work and parasympathetic
nervous system training.
What this does is it boostsyour HRV, your heart rate
variability.
Absolutely amazing.
To do some resonance breathing,three to five minutes of
(12:39):
resonance breathing after dinneror before bedtime to calm that
nervous system and put it intothat parasympathetic state and
then start the process all overagain the next day by getting
morning sunlight and, for somepeople, gradual cold exposure.
That could look like in awintertime, getting out in the
(13:00):
cold, fresh air.
It could look like Putting yourface in ice-cold water in a
sink full of ice-cold water or acold shower or a full-on cold
immersion.
If the central nervous systemis not taxed, we want to balance
central nervous system beforewe get into that cold exposure
for that circadian anchoring.
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But a great way to do theanchoring for your circadian
rhythm is that morning sunlight15 or 20 minutes upon waking
Absolutely amazing.
Now you might be thinking is hetelling us to give up coffee?
Is he telling us not to give upcoffee?
Let me be completely clear.
You can still love your coffee.
I do too.
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I have it probably every otherday, maybe every three days.
The goal is to stop dependingon it.
And if you're ready to level upyour morning cup, then you can
try our daily high-performancecoffee blend.
It's formulated to support andnot stress your adrenals and
your central nervous system, andthis means that the coffee that
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we recommend in our privatewellness practice is organic,
it's mold-free and it'spesticide-free free beans, which
is very important.
We don't want to be puttingthose toxins into the body.
In addition, it's also veryhigh in antioxidants, so it is a
health supplement when usedproperly or when processed
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properly.
And then, for the decaffeinatedversion, it is swiss water
processed and that means thatit's decaffeinated version.
It is Swiss water processed andthat means that it's
decaffeinated through a veryspecific water process.
That was it began inSwitzerland.
And the other alternatives areusually chemical-based
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decaffeinated processing becauseit's honestly less expensive.
So the lesser quality brandsare decaffeinating their coffee
using petroleum products, to becompletely honest with you,
which is not healthy to put thatin your body.
And then if you want to use acaffeinated version, then I can
recommend maybe you exploreusing a supplement called
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L-theanine to be able to smooththat caffeine curve.
You can often find coffee thatincludes L-theanine with it, or
adaptogens, as we talked about,to be able to balance out that.
Cortisol Elevated levels ofcortisol could certainly be
helpful, and another option isto use functional mushrooms for
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brain fuel.
That could absolutely enhanceyour high-quality coffee.
And another option is to usefunctional mushrooms for brain
fuel.
That could absolutely enhanceyour high-quality coffee.
So I will link up the coffeethat I recommend in the show
notes.
You're absolutely going to lovethat and try it out and let me
know you can use the send us amessage feature after you try
out some of this coffee and letme know.
Use it for three to five days.
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Let me know how it is.
Now I want to give you an actionstep.
This week's action step is toaudit your energy.
We're all about the data.
At High Performance Health andin our private wellness practice
, the data really drives theresults.
So how do you audit your energy?
Journal your energy levels 7 am, 2 pm, 8 pm, do this for three
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days, set an alarm on your phonefor those times 7 am, 2 pm, 8
pm and then use a scale of 1 to10 for your energy levels 10
being amazing, energy 1 beingcompletely depleted I have no
energy and then journal thosefor three days and kind of
evaluate that, audit your energyand also track your sleep
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quality and your caffeine intakeand then notice the patterns.
And if you're tired of beingtired, even with coffee,
absolutely I recommend booking anervous system recovery call
with me, completely free.
I will give you arecommendation for the tests
that we use for your rhythm.
Build you a custom plan andstop borrowing energy.
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So, wrapping things up herewith a closing thought, I
thought I needed more caffeine.
What I really needed was morebalance.
Energy isn't something you buy.
It, it's something that youbuild, and when you do it right,
you become naturally fueledwith high performance health.
I will see you in the nextepisode.
Keep breaking those boundaries,everybody.
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Bye-bye.
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