Coffee and caffeine and your candida diet
Some people don’t think that coffee is that bad.. if you are drinking it black.
I have to respectfully disagree here.
I used to be a HUGE coffee “user”. I had built up such a tolerance to caffeine that I could drink it like water all day long and go straight to sleep at night. I didn’t “use” it because of it’s stimulant effects. I “used” it because I loved how it tasted.
Then I did some research though, and when I became pregnant with my first child, I gave up coffee and caffeinated tea altogether. I didn’t have any withdrawal (even though I’d abused it for so long). I did start to notice though that I actually felt BETTER without the caffeine than I thought I would.
Now, I’ve come to realize that caffeine is a very potent drug that’s used and abused WAY too much these days. It’s hard on your circulatory system (heart and blood vessels), and I remember reading somewhere that detoxing from caffeine takes 4-5 days whereas detoxing from heroin take 2-3.
If I’m living naturally without drugs, why would I want that garbage in my body? Especially now that I don’t react to it well at ALL. When I drink a cup of coffee (non-decaf), I find myself breathing fast, feeling jittery, and getting this tightness in my chest that makes me feel like I can’t breathe.
Caffeine is BAD NEWS, and I think people are much healthier without it.
But if you’re like me and like the flavor of coffee, you can find naturally decaffeinated coffee (that’s decaffeinated with steam, usually, as opposed to solvents.) But since I used to drink my coffee (decaf or regular) with cream and sugar substitute, it’s just not appealing to me anymore without the cream. 
