I bet your doctor reflexively tells you about caffeine and high blood pressure. So don't do this. Where is your doctors' coffee protocol? I've only written 125 posts on coffee, most of them on the benefits. Has your doctor told you if you process caffeine easily?
How you react to coffee might hold major clues to your metabolism
If you don't process coffee normally for all its benefits what is your doctors' protocol to get those benefits instead? I don't know is not a valid response.
World's strongest coffee
The "world's strongest coffee" is now available in the US, but just one cup could spill you over the daily caffeine limit.
"If
you want to stand out, you need to be the 'est' -- the biggest,
smartest, strongest, or cheapest," said Black Insomnia founder Sean
Kristafor. "So when we wanted to compete in coffee, as a caffeine
product, we had to be the strongest, but obviously, we don't exceed the
world guidelines."
As
a coffee aficionado, Kristafor created the company after retiring from a
corporate job. He found a top coffee roaster online and created Black
Insomnia last June, first selling locally to cafes in Cape Town, South
Africa.
Retailing at $19 a pound,
the company's online business sold three tons more than the other local
shops in August, he said. By October, they had customers in 22
countries. And by March, they were listed on Amazon in the US. Now, the
company says it sells five to six tons of coffee a month.
With
a sweet nutty taste, Black Insomnia's strength comes from the type of
bean, robusta, and the way they are roasted. To prove their "world's
strongest" title, Kristafor had his beans tested chemically against
competitors.
At
58.5 mg per fl. oz., Black Insomnia is more than twice as strong as
Starbucks' dark roast, at around 21.25 mg per fl. oz. This all depends
on how you brew the coffee, of course.
Kristafor
said this level is well within limits for a shot, but one cup (12 oz.)
could add up to 702 mg of caffeine. The FDA and the International Food
Information Council recommend 400 mg of caffeine for daily consumption.
Twice the kick
"For
the same amount of coffee, you will get double the amount of caffeine,"
said Mary Sweeney, who researches the effects of caffeine at Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine.
"This
makes it easier to consume more caffeine than you intend to and effects
can range from mild to severe, for example, jitteriness, nervousness,
restlessness and trouble sleeping. The most serious effect would be
cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)."
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