STOP Drinking These 5 Coffees – They’re Quietly DESTROYING Your Gut & Hormones

About this video

• Video Title: STOP Drinking These 5 Coffees – They’re Quietly DESTROYING Your Gut & Hormones
• Channel: Ben Azadi
• Speakers: Ben Azadi
• Duration: 00:16:12

Overview

This video by Ben Azadi explains how common coffee choices can negatively impact gut health and hormone balance, leading to issues like weight gain, brain fog, and poor sleep. He identifies problematic ingredients and preparation methods, offering healthier alternatives and advice on optimizing coffee consumption for better health and energy.

Key takeaways

• Pesticide Contamination: Up to 97% of coffee beans are sprayed with pesticides like glyphosate, which can cause leaky gut, hormone disruption, and potentially cancer.
• Mold Toxicity: Cheap coffee beans, especially from commercial chains like Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, can develop mold in humid storage, producing mycotoxins that cause brain fog and gut dysbiosis. Heavy metals like cadmium are also found in some beans.
• Problematic Coffee Additives:
  • Oat Milk Lattes: Oat milk is often sprayed with glyphosate, is inflammatory, and causes a significant glucose spike, leading to energy crashes and cravings. Many also contain preservatives, emulsifiers, added sugars, and inflammatory seed oils.
  • Almond Milk Lattes: Almond milk is largely water, and the almonds contain oxalates, which can be inflammatory to the digestive system.
  • Commercial Creamers: These are ultra-processed and often contain inflammatory seed oils, corn syrup, artificial sweeteners (which can cause cravings and gut issues), added gums, and carrageenan. They can disrupt leptin signaling, affecting satiety and fat burning.
• Healthier Coffee Alternatives:
  • Milk: Opt for whole milk, half-and-half, or heavy cream in lattes for fewer glucose spikes and better satiety.
  • Creamer Substitutes: Blend butter, ghee, coconut oil, or collagen protein powder into your coffee.
• Optimizing Coffee Timing:
  • The 90-Minute Rule: Wait 90 minutes after waking up to drink coffee. This allows natural cortisol levels to decrease, preventing jitters, anxiety, and energy crashes.
  • Caffeine Curfew: Avoid caffeine after 12:00 PM (noon) due to its 6-8 hour half-life, which can disrupt sleep quality.
• Choosing the Right Roast: Medium roast organic coffee beans contain the highest amount of chlorogenic acid (CGA), a polyphenol beneficial for blood sugar, liver detoxification, and fat loss. Dark roasts lose a significant amount of CGA.
• Ideal Coffee: Look for organic, medium-roast coffee beans tested by a third party for contaminants like glyphosate, mold, and heavy metals. Purity Coffee is recommended as an example.
• Sweetening Coffee: Use natural sweeteners like cinnamon, stevia, erythritol, xylitol, or monk fruit instead of artificial sweeteners or sugar-laden creamers.
• Moderation: Aim for 100-125 mg of caffeine per day, consumed an hour after waking and before noon. (Note: 8 oz brewed coffee ≈ 95 mg, 1 espresso shot ≈ 63 mg, 8 oz decaf ≈ 2-7 mg).