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S 438: Debunking "Carbs Before Coffee" - Understanding Cortisol Awakening Response, Caffeine, Fasting, Functional Health Trends, and More!

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Coffee and Caffeine

Having a cup of coffee or caffeine may not be detrimental, especially if someone has performance goals and they're consuming it within a threshold that's reasonable. If your stress bucket is full, just eating a rice cake or half a bagel before a coffee while you're eating 1200 calories a day and training hard six days a week isn't really even enough to take a few drops out of this sort of overall stress burden. The clear thing that would actually make a difference is bringing down stress, improving stress management, bringing up energy availability,. trying to get into a parasympathetic state a little bit more often.

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