Is Mercola Right to Embrace Coffee?

• I have seen too many of my female patients resolve chronic conditions, most commonly painful fibrocystic breasts, when eliminating coffee from their diets. Recently, after one of my patients stopped drinking it, her chronic painful vulvitis (inflammation of the vulva) largely disappeared.

 

• A good night’s sleep is a blessing that unfortunately eludes many a coffee drinker. Perimenopausal and menopausal women seem especially susceptible. This may be related to a tendency toward heart arrhythmia or palpitations which occur in some individuals when they consume caffeine.

 

• I have also found that most of my patients who suffer from migraines do better without coffee.

 

One might wonder why these people reacted so negatively to their coffee. Was their brew somehow tainted by commercial agricultural or processing practices? Well, one would conclude otherwise since many had conscientiously chosen to focus their consumption on higher quality organic brands. Alternatively, one might ask whether each set of symptoms had been an allergic reaction mainly unique only to that individual unfortunate enough to have experienced them? Once again, many of these patients had been tested with Muscle Response Testing and other clinical and laboratory assessments to determine sensitivity and none were found to suffer from allergies to coffee. Finally, it would appear that their symptoms simply resulted from a direct inflammatory response produced in their tissues by the common every-day act of merely drinking a good cup of coffee.

“One Person’s Cure is Another Person’s Poison”

As one of my mentors has stated, “One person’s cure is another person’s poison.” So pay attention. If you decide to give coffee a try, take note of any changes in your health. If you start to feel worse after three weeks, realize that you are not one of those people who should be drinking coffee. If you already are a coffee lover and suffer health challenges, take a break from the brew for three weeks and see how you feel. Know that, if you add cream or milk, non dairy creamers, and or sugar or certain other sweeteners to your coffee, these ingredients could also cause health challenges, so test your coffee without them. Always remember that you and your physiology are unique! You need to listen to your body. It will tell you what to do.