Energy Supplements/Foods: Coffee Alternatives

Energy Supplements/Foods: Coffee Alternatives

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Note: I have no medical or alternative medicine degree or certification.  Please validate any of my advice with your health provider.

Coffee is perhaps the most popular drink in the world with 54% over the age of 18 drink coffee (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/facts/).  Coffee is a stimulant with pros and cons associate with it.  My main issue with coffee is that it doesn’t address the root cause of fatigue.  Here are 3 coffee alternatives:

1) CoQ10

CoQ10 is a mitochondrial booster.  Your mitochondria are little organelles (cell versions of organs) which is primarily responsible for energy production.  When your muscles grow as a result of excercise it is a result of the increase in the number of mitochondria.  Common doses are 60mg, 100mg and 200mg.  I myself take 100mg and sometimes 200mg when fighting a cold or particularly fatigued.  Ubiquinol is more absorbable than Ubiquinone in general.  Also a particular fermented formulation, the “Kaneka KH” formulation is even more absorbable still.

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2) Liposomal B12

B12 is known as the energy vitamin.  Unfortunately it’s not well absorbed.  Sublingual tablets bypass the digestive system and enhance absorption somewhat, but the best solution is a liposomal formulation.  Liposomal formulations package the B12 in a nanosphere of phospholipids (the same thing that forms your cell membranes) and like two soap bubbles coming together, when these spheres come in contact with a cell membrane, they release the payload and bypass your digestive system entirely.  Be sure to supplement with a full B complex while taking B12 to avoid depleting your stores of other B vitamins.

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3) Ginseng

Ginseng is an energy Ayurvedic (plant medicine) used for centuries for energy and immunity.  The supplement I take contains a few synergistic ingredients.

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4) Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll is the green component of plants which turns sunlight into food (sugar) for the plants to eat.  It is virtually identical to haemoglobin (our oxygen carrying molecule in our blood cells) except at it’s core is magnesium (giving the green colour) compare to hameoglobin’s core of iron (giving it the reddish colour).  When ingested in increases your body’s oxygen carrying capacity and hence gives you energy and in general, better health through better oxygenation.  If it were up to me, the coffee shoppes on every corner would be replaced with Chlorophyll Shoppes.  It is a much healthier energy booster than coffee.

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