EP 208: Reader Question - What about my coffee addiction?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Is there such a thing as being addicted to coffee and is coffee something that we should be careful with? Annie shares her view on the great coffee debate. Find out if Annie, herself, drinks coffee or if she’s a water only kind of gal.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace answering Reader's questions. I'm the author of this naked mind and today
0:32.2	I have a question from Jen. Jen says, hi, here's a quote question for your Q&A. You talk
0:39.2	about alcohol being an acquired taste, which should have tipped us off that something might
0:43.2	have been wrong here, but coffee at least for most people is also an acquired taste. Do
0:47.4	you consider coffee to also be an addiction? I have several AA friends, all of them treasure
0:52.3	their coffee as I do. I'm just curious about whether you're self-suffering coffee or whether
0:57.2	you see any problems with it. It's one of my great pleasures and I would find it hard
1:00.3	to give up. Thanks. So, you know, certainly there are addictive coffee is a physically
1:07.5	addictive thing, clearly. It does a lot of the same things neurologically inside the brain
1:12.0	that alcohol does and heroin does and other things. It creates a need for itself. You build
1:17.1	a tolerance to it. So, some of these very key things. I'd say one of the biggest sugar
1:22.2	is also a very addictive thing that I get asked about a lot, but one of the key differences
1:26.8	is that with both coffee and sugar, it certainly isn't as toxic. You're not harming your
1:32.8	body to the same extent as alcohol and other drugs and you're not going to harm anyone
1:40.2	else. So, you know, you're not going to change who you are in terms of you're not going
1:44.8	to get in a car. You're not going to drive drunk. You're overly caffeinated. I don't
1:49.4	think there's the same dangers in driving or overly sugared. So, I think for me, I certainly
1:55.3	drink and enjoy coffee. I've thought about giving it up a few times just for health reasons
2:00.8	or health benefits or, you know, for other reasons, but I think the key difference, well,
2:06.0	it is physically addictive is that from an emotional level, I don't have the cognitive
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