Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: alex3686
What gets everybody up in the morning coffee, five hour energy or monster drinks just curious what everybody's opinion is.
Water? I have no need for those drinks to get me up, fortunately. Id hate to be addicted to caffeine or anything else.
I will on occasion have an iced coffee with lunch or a cup of coffee in the afternoon, because it is easy to get tired after so long. But it amounts to maybe once a month, if that. A brisk walk is a better bet.
Depending upon what you read, coffee may have antioxidants and whatnot in it that are pretty good for you. I might consider drinking a little with a bit more regularity (I just take it with milk, no sugar) if there is a bona-fide benefit in that regard. But I fear very much being reliant on any substance, or getting a withdrawal headache type thing from not "getting my caffeine". No thanks.
The bona-fide benefit of coffee for me is that caffeine and naproxen sodium are the only things (in combination) that keep my migraines at bay. Been that way for the past 26 years. Tea is an arguably healthier way to get my caffeine, but the arguments are tenuous and if I order right at Starbucks, it's heavy enough to count as breakfast.