Alkaline Diet Tip #5 Giving Up Coffee – Quick Recommendations

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giving up coffeeHi guys

Back from my paternity leave and right back into it!

This is just a quick one – I just got an email asking me for recommendations on giving up coffee and I thought it might be useful to share my response here.

I know getting off the black stuff is a big one for lots of you 🙂

Question from JF

Could I ask, being something of a coffee-freak and looking for alternatives, do you know if dried dandelion root pieces boiled in alkaline water to make dandelion coffee would result in an alkaline drink? It is quite palatable.

Answer from Ross

There are two things I recommend with coffee:

    1. Find a good daily alternative: dandelion root is a great one, another is Rooibos tea (as it is quite bitter like coffee). I also recommend, as a side benefit, to have a glass of water every time you put the kettle on. Keeps hydration easy.
    2. Still enjoy the best quality coffee you can as a treat once or twice a week, for as long as you feel the desire to. Cravings mixed with going cold turkey make things extremely difficult. Our minds do something horrible to us when it thinks we’re depriving ourselves and it plays all sorts of tricks on you to try and convince you to crack! And with most people, when they crack they go hard. SO, to counter this, its best to let yourself know you can still have a coffee (but make it an awesome one) once or twice per week, and that it is going to be delicious.What you will find is that within a few weeks you probably won’t even want it, as your body gets more alkaline and used to not having the coffee. Worst case scenario is you have a coffee once per week – in the grand scheme of things this won’t do you any harm, especially when compared to having multiple coffees per day.
    3. Oh and when you DO have a coffee, just have a big glass of (preferably, if possible) alkaline water right after. If you have access, mixing 1/2 scoop of pHour Salts into that water will really help neutralise the acids from the coffee.

Hope this helps!
Ross

See Also: The Beginner’s Guide to the Alkaline Diet & Living Alkaline


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  1. Marilyn Reply

    Thank you, Ross. I take hydrochloric acid capsules with every meal because I have low stomach acid. I am now concentrating on becoming more alkaline. I’m taking a variety of green powders, liquid chlorophyll, ACV before meals, and then added potassium gluconate to my water. The bottle says to take it with food as it can cause gastritis. I’m wondering, though, if I’m taking HCL to digest food while at the same time taking all this stuff to lower acidity, am I going about things in a convoluted way? When I’m taking all of this stuff, I can drink coffee and still maintain a pH in the green zone, about 6.8 or 6.9 according to the strips I’m using. I just started a few days ago though as I began to realize I should be concerned about being too acidic.

  2. Owen Algate Reply

    I am wanting tips for Detoxifacation in my Complete Body

  3. Lindsay Reply

    Im curious what kind of coffee I should buy if I want to have some. Thanks in advance.

  4. ann-maree Reply

    I get patients off coffee over a number of weeks.

    Week 1 – beverage made from 3/4 scoop of coffee and 1/4 scoop of roasted dandi root
    Week 2 – beverage made from 1/2 scoop of coffe and 1/2 scoop of roasted dandi root
    Week 3 – beverage made from 1/4 scoop of coffe and 13/4 scoop of roasted dandi root
    Week 4 – beverage made entirely from dandi root.

    I’ve never had a patient tell me that they had the usual SEs from coffee withdrawal using this method.

  5. Rheter Reply

    All day long I looked forward to the next cup of coffee. Thought about it constantly. To get over the addiction I swopped pure coffee for decaff coffee. After a while I no longer thought or craved regular pure coffee. Found myself wanting lots of pure water instead. Now that the addiction is over very seldom think of coffee at all.

  6. Gerry Reply

    Thank you …… will try to have less coffee…….suffer from
    fibromyalgia…..do you have some more help in your
    books for me ???

    Kind regards, Gerry Grasman

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