Hot Topics / Re: I've been experimenting with coffee
« on: November 23, 2015, 02:40:43 am »I will say that though I've really appreciated coffee's euphoriant, stimulant, nootropic, and social benefits over the years, I am very wary of anything that taxes the glands/endocrine system in any significant way. Though biological units (body's, regardless of the species) are generally, mindbogglingly brilliant with respect to resilience and such, one unavoidable bit of truth I've learned to recognize over the years is that cause and effect are easily seen with substances and conditions which somehow drastically impact the glands. Nuclear radiation, hormones/disruptors in the food, air, ground and water, stress hormones easily observable with epigenetic and genetic consequences for generations, drugs (laughingly called medicines (maybe by Dr.Mengele?) of the pharma variety, and that doesn't even factor in sound/light/subtle frequencies which all get digested by the system, which add enormously to the variable-soup, leading to the physical manifestation of our actual hormonal state. Balanced hormones are absolutely synonymous with good, physical, foundational health, and can be challenging to achieve in our stimulus/disruptor laden environments, internal and external.. then add to all of that, the delicate hormonal chain reaction through sperm and egg production and gestation, probably good to be a bit paranoid of the fallout of whatever it means to excessively tax the glands.