Thx for sharing your expirience.

My condition was grown in the military (taking me out of high sec bunker for 3 day field survival to give me official status to train sport and combat evoked that lasting souvenir, grasses still high on reaction list as are some tree pollen) and was active during 40+ years with different vices (adrenaline, booze, caffeine ... smoke) and combinations thereof, with stable stretches of several months of no coffee at all without me noticing large differences (happened when living with females running on other stuff...).

But as I am currently non-smoking, non-alcoholic low-adrenalin it might make sense to try again as other noxic substances are already out of system. As I am somewhat addiction prone, cutting it out totally is something I am used to if trying to modify behaviour. Energy drinks not used here at all, but coffee having some of the "social" effects of company - as I hate tea and don't want to start having Champagne breakfeasts again, something to ponder in advance.

Will give it some thought and a 6 week try, perhaps including with the order of a heavy bag to balance psyche while trying to train down some of the fatty tissue growing as of late as another way to eliminate caffeine stores ;-)

thx again
thomas

>About 30 years ago I had a similar condition (but without food sensitivities I was aware of). Somewhere I read an article blaming caffeine, with the author claiming that cutting it out cured their symptoms. One twist was the author claimed whatever causes the problems (either caffeine itself or its metabolites) is stored in body fat, so it takes a minimum of 30 days for levels to drop low enough to start seeing benefits. In other words, if you cut out caffeine you won't see benefits the next day, you need to stay off it for at least a month.
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>Long story short, I gave it a try, and it worked great for me. No more hay fever or trying to deal with the side effects of Sudafed et. al. I still occasionally have caffeinated products but they no longer give me hay fever, I suspect levels in my body fat stay low. OTOH its temporary stimulatory effects are stronger than before :)
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>Sample size 2 (me + the author) :)
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>Cutting out caffeine can be harder than it seems. Drinkable decaf coffee is not hard to find these days, but I don't know about decaf tea. A lot of soft drinks contain added caffeine, even those not specifically marketed as "energy drinks".

>>Mine is age bracket, overactive immune system resulting in hay fever plus minimal body reaction to some foods or other environmental change.
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