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How to Enjoy Coffee in a Healthy(er) Way

So many of the things we like to do, eat or drink are considered to be bad for us. Living what is supposed to be a really healthy life can be really rather boring. A quick survey of the Doctor Detox team revealed a chocoholic, a smoker, several drinkers, coffee addicts and steak lovers and one with a jelly bean addiction. None of us being willing to give up our little vices, we have found out how to do them in a healthier way.

Coffee is stressful to the adrenal glands, which produce the hormones we need to cope with stress, produce our own natural anti-inflammatories and control fluid levels in the body. Caffeine is mildly addictive and can cause headaches and affect blood pressure.  There are some beneficial properties in coffee though. For men it reduces the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Coffee also appears to lower the risk of certain cancers and to lower the risk of diabetes. 


Tip 1: Only drink organic coffee.
Insecticides, fertilizers and the soil the coffee bean plants are grown in can all lead to a high toxin level in coffee. A patient of Dr Ray was retested six months after her detox and had very high cadmium levels and some mercury again. Dr Ray asked her what had she been doing to account for such high levels. The only thing she could think of was she forgot to do her urine test first thing in the morning, so did it when she got to her office, after having a large cup of her favourite latte from a well known coffee chain.  Dr Ray asked her to go and buy another of the same type of coffee and had it tested. Full of cadmium and mercury. 

Tip 2: Make your coffee using the cold processed method!
Even organic coffee beans contain many polycyclic aromatic toxins that are only released from the bean with heat. Using this method these toxins are not released and you get a lovely smooth cup of coffee that has the required caffeine kick.

• Kibble your coffe beans the night before breaktfast
• Put coffee and water in a pot. Allow this mix to sit overnight.
• In the morning filter the cold coffee into a saucepan.
• Heat until the coffee is the right drinking temperature but do not allow to boil.

If you need to sweeten your coffee, use honey if you can. If you do not like the taste, use the most unprocessed form of sugar you can – really dark brown organic sugar.  Normal brown sugar is still better than white sugar, and white sugar is less harmful than aspartame based artificial sweeteners.

Tip 3: Use the binding power of Biologo-Rescue. If you do want to have a latte, espresso, cappuchino etc at a normal coffee shop either add some Biologo Rescue to the coffee and let it sink down to the bottom, it will bind heavy metals – don’t drink the dregs then, or a few drops of Biologo Rescue orally before or after you drink your coffee. 


Tips for heavy Coffeedrinkers:
Biologo Balance can help the liver better cope with caffeine, and Biologo-Adrenal Sir or Lady with the effect on the adrenals. If you are already taking Biologo Adrenal Sir/Lady, you will need to take an extra dose with your coffee for best effect.