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Why do you ask? What sort of intolerance are you having?
I don’t drink it until I’ve been up a few hours and not within a few hours of sleeping, that works for me.
When young though, nothing felt better than sleeping on amphetamines or caffeine. So many dreams and so refreshing. I can’t do it now, too close to sleeping just makes it hard to sleep.
Sometimes, when I have my second cup of coffee, my chest gets tight, but I don’t always have that.
Maybe tea would suit you better? It contains the L-Theanine others here have recommended, and usually has less caffeine.
You could also just make smaller servings if you want to drink coffee twice, literally just use a smaller cup, or don’t fill it all the way?
Aeropress might be good too - it makes a nice strong tasting cup of coffee but the water is not in contact with the coffee for as long as it is for drip coffee.
Try developing an uncommon sleep disorder that basically makes you immune to the effects of caffeine. Tolerance won’t be an issue after that.
If you need the caffeine to function, you should maybe talk with a doctor if you can. If you just like coffee you can start to dilute it with milk or a creamer. A hot coffee tasting beverage is all I need.
Two ways:
- meditate to develop awareness of when you’ve entered and when you’ve exceeded your optimal stimulating level. When you do enter, or leave, the state, stop and pay as much attention to how good or bad it feels. Soak up the awareness of the feeling. This conditions your subconscious to feed you the right amount of caffeine, enhancing the subtle signal of anxiety levels and optimal flow, to overpower the more direct “addictive substance = take more!” reflex your brain wants to do.
- When you’ve accidentally overcaffeinated, take some L-theanine to utterly destroy the anxiety/avoidance feeling of the overcaffeination.
You know, you don’t have to. Try having a goal to feel as good as possible as often as possible. If caffeine helps, so be it, if it harms, so be it.
Drink enough of it and you’ll wonder how to better tolerate not having caffeine when the headaches start.
??? I couldn’t so I eliminated it. It can be hard given how available and addictive the drug is, but I cope much better without it.
Who’s forcing you to drink it?
Uh, nobody?
Then why do you need to tolerate it better?
There’s something missing in this ask. If you don’t handle a food very well, you simply avoid/reduce it. Whether it’s caffeine, an allergy, or whatever.
Why do you need to change your body’s reaction? Why not just switch to decaf or other drinks?
Yeah, good point. I asked a vague question.
But at least I’ll answer these comments more.
Practice
develop a dependency
I smoke some crack before drinking coffee…
That way I didn’t feel the effects of caffeine…
With consistency. Whether I have 1 cup of coffee in the morning, or drink caffeinated beverages all day, the key for me is to do that consistently, or suffer dire consequences. Ramping up, I can’t focus and anxiety attacks. Ramping down I get migraines.
Woe betide me if I am on a ramp down and find myself having to take an Excedrin or three. That spike keeps me up for days.
By developing a caffeine addiction so it stops affecting me. Also ADHD.
Flashback to all those high school nights slamming monsters and passing out like nothing happened. If only there were signs so I could have been tested earlier.
Try making a rich hot cocoa with a raw cocoa. Cocoa contains theobromine which can give a somewhat similar surge of energy as caffeine, but I find it less harsh.
Oh man, that sounds delicious!
I use lactose free whole milk, maple syrup, a generous amount of cocoa, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and sometimes a touch of nutmeg.
My wife likes to go really heavy on the cinnamon and adds some cayenne pepper for more of a mexican chocolate style drink.
Delicuous indeed.
Cocoa does contain some caffeine, so people with no tolerance at all might not be able to enjoy it, but it’s something like 10% the amount that’s in coffee.
If i have more than 2 homemade-sized cups i drop a little cbd in to kill the jitters.
