| If you always feel tired then it's no doubt | | | | However, as a result of your coffee addiction it |
| frustrating, however, you can relax safe in the | | | | will make you feel worse, also the coffee can |
| knowledge that you're not the only person | | | | make you irritable and cause you to endure |
| suffering from this condition. I have suffered from | | | | headaches. If you're always tired then coffee |
| fatigue for years. Tiredness affects many people | | | | won't help you, it only works as a temporary pick |
| in today's modern society in every country in the | | | | me up. Stimulants only mask the symptoms of |
| world and I often hear my mates complaining | | | | the tiredness, they do not actually treat the |
| about being tired. Most people use stimulants to | | | | condition at the root of the problem. And so even |
| give themselves an energy boost. Many people | | | | though the symptoms are being treated, it won't |
| use energy drinks, caffeinated and sugary drinks | | | | help you. Stimulants will cause you to continue |
| as they feeling it gives them a boost. Coffee is | | | | pushing your body too hard, it just can't continue |
| by far the most popular stimulant in use at | | | | doing what it's doing at the moment and so you |
| fighting tiredness. As a student my liquid intake | | | | will be left suffering from chronic tiredness. If |
| consisted mostly of coffee (and a little alcohol of | | | | you're always tired then it's important to stop |
| course!). If you are tired in the morning, then a | | | | doing whatever you're doing to make yourself |
| cup of coffee might be enough to motivate you. | | | | tired. You should stop drinking coffee! Of course |
| However, if you are always tired then stimulants | | | | you should probably try to wean yourself off the |
| are unlikely to work, they can actually cause you | | | | coffee rather than quitting cold turkey. If you |
| to be more tired because you are forcing your | | | | can't give up coffee completely then you should |
| body to work harder. If you are tired all of the | | | | at least cut down the amount you drink. Try to |
| time then you need to treat the condition rather | | | | reduce the amount that you drink every day. Of |
| than the symptom. Coffee is thought to relieve | | | | course few people actually want to do this for |
| the tiredness symptoms, right? So why would it | | | | one reason or another. Drinking coffee becomes a |
| cause more tiredness? Even if you know that | | | | sociable habit which you partake in with work |
| you're tired, a cup of coffee will force your body | | | | colleagues, friends and family. If you're not willing |
| into working more. Caffeine triggers a type of | | | | to cut down on your coffee intake then you |
| gland, the adrenal gland, to produce adrenalin. The | | | | should at least drink your coffee at the same |
| effects of this release of adrenalin are short lived, | | | | time each day. This really does make a |
| they won't last long. They will help you to feel | | | | difference, as your body will get used to this. |
| better for a little while. After the effects have | | | | Your body knows when it will be getting its |
| worn off you will feel worse than before as your | | | | coffee fix, and so adapts and is ready to accept |
| body is even more exhausted. When you feel | | | | this. This reduces some of the negative effects |
| tired you may feel the need to enjoy another | | | | caused by coffee. Now if you need an extra |
| cup of coffee, you see it's a vicious circle! It's | | | | incentive to cut out your coffee then here |
| easy to get caught up in the coffee drinking | | | | goes…If you drink too much coffee then |
| cycle, thinking it will make you feel better. | | | | it can actually cause an iron deficiency known as |
| Everybody at work does it. You can see the | | | | anemia, vitamin deficiencies, or adrenal exhaustion. |
| queue forming in the kitchen prior to a long | | | | None of those really sound like a walk in the park |
| meeting to ensure they get their caffeine fix. | | | | now do they?! |