We take a break from our regular scheduled programming about how much discipline you lack in your life to discuss my everyday coffee ritual!
Y’all. I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 30. I started after reading it helps with gallbladder problems. I was having gallbladder issues and since I’ve started drinking coffee they’ve subsided considerably. I read somewhere about the acidity of coffee and how it helps breakdown gallbladder sludge/stones or something. That’s a totally different conversation, but long story short: filtered coffee helps the gallbladder.
So does 1 glass of red wine after dinner, allegedly. The trouble is that nobody wants to stop at 1 glass! Discipline my sweets. I don’t drink alcohol on a daily basis personally because I’m way too vain. I’m so glad it isn’t my vice. Alcohol is dehydrating. When I’m dehydrated, I feel gross.
I’m wanting to keep this Tropikaux-puss-puss hydrated and glowing honey. How it finna glow on a diet of musty and fermented grape juice? You are what you eat so some of you are musty grapes and that’s okay: awareness is key.
Gosh. My ADD is off the chain today. Now where were we? Oh yes. This coffee combination is going to change your life. You will never have your coffee the same way again ever. There’s something about this combination that just works and we are going to get into it right now.
DIRECTIONS:
Step 1) Get 1 x mug of black filtered coffee
Step 2) Add 2 x scoops of Marine Collagen peptides (it’ll crystallize on the surface of the coffee)
Step 3) Open 2 x Red Panax Ginseng capsules and add to coffee
Step 4) Sprinkle Organic Cinnamon Powder (optional)
STEP 5) Chase 2 x Maca Root capsules when the coffee is cooler than 176°F/80°C
WOWZAH! Now let’s breakdown why this concoction is so powerful.
Red Panax Ginseng
You know how you go to the gas station and they have those boner pills? You know the ones. They sell them for like $20 a pill and they’re all about love-making and sex or whatever. If you were to look at the chemical that most of those pills are, they’re all a derivative of some type of Ginseng.
Ginseng is a root plant similar to ginger and there are several different types depending on where you are in the world. There’s Siberian Ginseng, American Ginseng, Korean Ginseng, and countless others. Through my research, I find that Red Panax is the most powerful and potent.
The root works to open up blood vessels and allow blood flow through the body. This is why they’re “boner pills” because they open up the blood vessels around the groin that allow more blood flow to go to, well, downstairs lol.
But the blood-flow opens up everywhere, including the brain! Ginseng is known to increase alertness and apparently multiple studies have shown that it helps caffeine become more bio-available, meaning our bodies absorb more caffeine than it typically would without Ginseng.
WARNING
Ginseng is a known hormone disturber if you take it longer than 2 weeks at a time. I do 2 weeks on, 1 week off. The 1 week off is always tough but I do notice it makes the 2 weeks on become much more effective and I’m protecting my precious hormones.
As we get closer to 30 we produce less collagen. Less collagen production means more fine lines and wrinkles. Multiple studies have shown that collagen peptides can help supplement the lost collagen that our bodies begins to stop producing.
But I take mine for gut health. Collagen peptides have plenty of non-essential and essential amino acids that help with digestion. Glycerine is one of them and I believe glutamine is another. You only have to look at the side of the package to see how many different amino acids are in this miracle powder. I don’t believe that collagen can fix and heal the gut, but I believe it can protect it from any further damage if it is indeed under stress.
I started having shoulder trouble this last Olympic cycle and I believe it was most probably joint pain from overuse of my right shoulder. This was the official diagnosis given to me by Team Tonga’s Physiotherapist at the Olympics. Upon further research I believe it might have been several different things including overuse. One of the things I realized is that I was suffering from “damp-heat” but that’s a blog post for another time.
After consistently taking Marine Collagen peptides and I do feel my right shoulder pain subsiding quite substantially. I don’t think this collagen is the type that “sticks” or rebuilds anything, I think it’s just a supplementary to what our body already produces.
One of the criticisms of collagen is that our body doesn’t efficiently break it down. This is why I recommend taking collagen with something highly acidic like coffee so that it helps synthesize the protein. One of the most popular collagen supplements on the market contains Vitamin C injunction with the collagen to help dissolve the collagen. I would NOT use this collagen supplement for coffee. I repeat: DO NOT USE THIS TYPE OF COLLAGEN IN YOUR COFFEE.
Why? Because the Vitamin C and the acidity of the coffee is too much acidity, and it will start to synthesize and break down the collagen beyond recognition before it gets to where it needs to go. This popular type of collagen is the best used for smoothies or teas where the acidity is low and the body needs it to break it down.
If you are putting collagen in your black coffee, you don’t need an added Vitamin C synthesizing agent. I would go with this brand WITHOUT the Vitamin C synthesizing instead. It has never led me wrong!
Did you know some people call Maca root “Peruvian Ginseng” ?!? There’s something about them Peruvians. And that something I suspect has to do with the Maca Root. A known hormone booster and great for the human libido. Maca is an adaptogenic plant, meaning it gives our bodies the ability to adapt or resist what's going on in and around us. Things like anxiety, stress, and depression.
Maca is temperature sensitive, so I take mine at the end of my coffee when I know it is less than 176°F/80°C. I used to mix it into my hot coffee but after learning that the super-food properties combust at high temperatures, I switched it out.
If you like Iced Coffee, you can open the capsules and sprinkle the Maca root on top of the ice the same way you would with like cinnamon or whatever. When taking supplements we’re minimizing how much cellulose goes into our bodies because cellulose and vegetable cellulose feeds candida. With as many supplements that we take, we have to be weary of cellulose and vegetable cellulose because they have the ability to collect within the body and constipate us. Gelatin capsules are fine because they’re more bioavailable by the human body, but gelatine capsules break easily and are expensive so most supplements use cellulose or a derivative of that chemical.
Did you know that cinnamon is an anthelmintic? That means it helps the body expel parasites and pathogens out of the digestive tract. We really don’t want parasites or pathogens growing inside of our bodies. If you think I’m joking, I’m totally not. Things like mold, mildew, and all kinds of fungus are capable of growing inside our digestive tract. I’m being 100% serious.
In TCM, the main use of cinnamon is to help with yang deficiency. Yin is a certain kind of energy, yang is a different kind of energy. Both pertain to different organs. Through balancing our yin and our yang we can find our most optimal place of health.
Yang is a deficiency that primarily affects our kidneys, which affects the following five body parts: the Small intestine, Triple Heater, Large intestine, Gallbladder, and Urinary Bladder.
What is the Triple Heater? In Mandarin-Chinese it means San Jiao, which means "triple burner". And there are 3 different parts that make up the triple burner. The upper burner relates to organs in the thorax and the breathing function (throat and neck). The middle burner relates to the organs on top of the stomach and the digesting function (liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen). The lower burner relates to the organs below the abdomen and the urogenital functions. When the three burners function well, then the organs are in synergy.
Cinnamon is also a known testosterone booster, so Gentlemen should definitely dust this on their coffee for a libido boost in the bedroom and a bit of extra strength in the weight room. Cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar levels with people who have insulin resistance. But cinnamon also Cinnamaldehyde appears to increase blood glucose absorption, which makes me think that too much of it too often in coffee can increase high blood pressure, especially when taken injunction with a sugary snack… Cinnamon helps your body absorb sugar more, and that can’t be a great thing for our health and our gut so I’m strictly no sweetener and no sugary treats with this coffee concoction.
PLEASE TRY THIS COFFEE! IT IS A PERFECT WAY TO START THE DAY. IT IS GREAT FOR GETTING OUT OF BED DEFEATING DEPRESSION. YOU WILL LITERALLY FEEL YOUR BLOOD VESSELS OPENING UP AND YOU’LL FEEL MORE BLOOD FLOWING ALL AROUND YOUR BODY!
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This song is what my brain feels like after drinking this coffee:
I just wanna feel good
Gotta lay down ,with some good kush
Got a good girl, a real good bush
Come and go get, a real good puss