Can someone please tell me what the health benefits of cutting out caffeine are?

Oh... what? You can't?

That's because there is no reason for the vast majority of people to reduce caffeine intake.

Can't sleep? Sure, you can try reducing caffeine consumption. In reality if you're sensitive enough for it to cause sleeplessness then you aren't consuming enough of it for there to really be an issue.

High blood pressure? Any increase in blood pressure is extremely short lived. So unless bending over is no-no for you, you're probably gonna be ok. In my highly unqualified point of view, the stress of giving it up will increase your blood pressure way more than the caffeine.

1st trimester? OK, you got me there. Caffeine in excess of 200mg (about 3-4 cups of coffee) might increase the chance of miscarriage . For each study that has found a link another has found caffeine safe.

Taking Luvox? Being one of the earliest SSRIs, Luvox is now rarely prescribed for much of anything. A side effect of the medication is that is messes with the way your liver metabolizes all kinds of things. So it's possible that your second cup would be like coffee number 4 or 5 for the rest of us. As an aside, the only growth area for the drug is an off-label use. Luvox appears to help in the treatment of ... pedophilia!

Caffeine overdose? Well, depending on your tolerance and your metabolism, that would be somewhere between 80 and 100 cups of coffee consumed in about 30 minutes. If you need that much coffee to get out of bed, you may wanna take a personal day.

I could go into the tremendous number of benefits that caffeine brings us, but I'm beginning to get the shakes and need to fire up another pot.

Sincerely,

Dan Hughes, Caffeine Pushers of America.