Hey everybody, it's Fletcher Ellison here with
Vision Pros Live. I'm your host and coach. Today
on the show, we have Steve Frazier. And Steve
Frazier is known for Release the Coffee Cups.
And he is an author, he is a coach, he is a speaker,
and we're delighted to have him on the show today.
Steve, welcome to Vision Pros. Thank you very
much. My pleasure. Yeah. Hey, Steve, we were
talking a little bit before the show. But I want
to dive right into it. And I'm going to ask you
to tell us about your vision. What's your vision,
Steve? My vision is to ultimately let the world
know what caffeine does to their bodies and minds.
Okay. And let them make that decision. But knowledge.
So you want to bring some additional knowledge
and awareness to the public around this thing
called caffeine. yes got it got it all right
why is that important to you caffeine is destroying
well destroying might be too hard of a word but
it affects so many people in such a bad way and
they don't know and particularly sleep and sleep
is the foundation of your health And if you may
or may not believe that or realize that, but
when you sleep, you heal, you dream, and you
reset. And if you're drinking caffeine chronically,
you'd never really reach a good stage four sleep,
REM sleep, and that's where you heal. And so
for men in particular, you know, testosterone.
uh dhe dhea which is a hormone that is men and
women but in particularly it's it works with
men with with testosterone and so all these things
put together leads you leads me to say i don't
think these people know what they're doing with
to themselves and ironically I just finished
the book. It's called Release the Coffee Cuffs,
Winning the Battle with Caffeine. And I I had
a little brainstorming session with myself and
I decided that the last chapter was going to
be an anecdotal story chapter where I could go
on to different different website or different
like Reddit. They have caffeine sites and and
get different people's stories. And then I went
to YouTube and you go on YouTube and you just
do quitting caffeine. And I realized that there
was a recurring theme. Ninety nine, ninety eight,
ninety nine percent of the people that that had
quit caffeine. Said undoubtedly that they were
getting the best sleep in their memory. Literally.
And that's impressive. It is. And it's way more
powerful than you might believe because if you're
sleeping well, you know, my daughter is a natural
healer. She's a clinical natural health person.
She owns her own clinic. And she is my and my
wife's primary caregiver. And, you know, there's
two or three different foundations to being healthy.
One is sleep and one is what you put in your
body. Those two. And so if you're putting caffeine
in your body all the time, you're not giving
yourself opportunity to be healthy because you
automatically go into a fight or flight state.
And that's with adrenaline. So the minute the
caffeine hits you, it releases dopamine and adrenaline.
So you're feeling great. So don't misunderstand
me. And I occasionally use caffeine. two to four
times a year. When I drive to Florida with my
wife and I drive 10 to 12 hours a day, I drink
caffeine because I'm alert and I'm not going
to fall asleep because I'm wired. I'm just being
honest. As a non -caffeine user, when I drink
caffeine, I get a buzz. And ironically, when
I do that, you know, That first night that we
stop in the hotel. I sometimes lay there for
two or three hours before I can go to sleep because
the caffeine molecules go into your adenosine
receptors up in your brain and your body is exhausted.
But your brain says you're wide awake. Right.
Because. Yeah. And so we should let the audience
know that adenosine, if it can't get in, if it
can't get into those receptors. you're not going
to feel begin to feel drowsy. Correct. Right.
So caffeine takes the caffeine. The caffeine
molecules molecule sits in the place where the
adenosine is trying to go. Exactly. It can't
go there. And so you feel alert. Yep. Now, that
feels good, obviously, to feel alert. But what
I hear, what you're saying is there is a natural
rhythm to the body. That adenosine is important
because it's what helps us go to sleep and that
we all need that restful sleep, right? Exactly.
And that's the circadian rhythm. Yes. And we
all have it because your natural circadian rhythm
is when you wake up. As an example, when I wake
up in the morning, I have my living room window
faces the east. So I stand there for two to four
minutes. I look at the sunrise or I look at the
sun or I'm often up at sunrise. And what it does
is it helps your body. to realize that okay we're
going to kick that cortisol in yes not adrenaline
but cortisol because cortisol is what gives you
your jump into your day so as you exactly as
you go through your day then the cortisol goes
down and the melatonin and the adenosine goes
up so you naturally will fall asleep yeah and
we should again let's uh let the audience know
that because a lot of people think cortisol oh
stress hormone no no cortisol Is wonderful. It's
super important. And it's just like you said,
it's what begins to awaken the body. So that's
why that morning sunlight is so good. It stimulates
the release of cortisol, which then gives you
a sense of being awake and alert. You could do
this for me. You obviously know exactly. Kind
of what I'm saying here. Yeah. And I think what
you're I think the messaging that you're bringing
is important because a lot of us, a lot of the
public don't know this. And so, therefore, they
don't have access to leveraging this information.
Is that would you agree with that? I would. Absolutely.
And the thing about caffeine, which many people
first thing they do when they get up in the morning
is they they they have coffee. Well, there's
two things that happen right away. One, your
cortisol jumps. So you're naturally supposed
to do this, but now you have stimulated artificially.
And so what happens is that you have now messed
with your whole circadian rhythm because it's
not going to be like that. You aren't going to
go to sleep at the same time. And it affects
if you only have one or two cups of coffee in
the morning, you can it will still mess with
your REM for stage sleep. OK, in the middle of
the night, because your rhythm is messed up.
And, you know, the adrenaline, that's that's
a whole nother that's a that's a big thing, because
if you adrenaline is supposed to be the fight
or flight, if you are under attack, if you you
know, you've heard of people lifting up cars
off of people, things like that. Yeah. Well,
when you're at your desk, you drink a couple
cups of coffee. That's what you're telling your
body. OK, but you're not getting you're not lifting
up a car. You're typing on your desktop or or
doing some work and your body's kind of confused.
Yeah. And it can be reset. There's no doubt,
you know, but it takes some time. Anywhere from
two weeks to six months to reset your whole hormonal.
Pattern rhythm. One of the things. Let me ask
you a question, Steve, because a lot of people
who are listening to this, they may be questioning
like, oh, I've never thought about my caffeine
intake, you know, to this level that it could
be affecting my sleep, that it could be artificially
reducing the amount of cortisol my body's creating.
They may have not thought about. So. And then
some people listening may be like, oh, my gosh,
I'm never going to give up caffeine or oh, no,
Steve's right. And I am kind of like I am handcuffed,
so to speak, to it. Right. What I want to know
about is is how successful are you at helping
people cut interrupt that that addiction? Well,
I just started the program, so I don't have a
client yet. OK, so this is brand new. Yes, it
is. Right on. Right on. The book is kind of the
foundation. I have over 200 references in the
book. Nice. So it's a scientific. There's three
sections that are not cited. That would be the
anecdotal stories, the introduction, which is
me talking to you, and then the conclusions and
observations. So I share my personal thoughts
in the introduction and the conclusions and observations.
and the 14 chapters in between i deal with a
whole bunch of things you know one one specifically
on women one specifically on man one specifically
on teenagers one on just the adrenal glands one
on dhea because these are all crucial and i i
did want to go back to one thing when you when
you drink that coffee first thing in the morning
it's also a diuretic okay and so You are already
dehydrated when you wake up because you've gone
all night and you haven't had anything to drink.
So your body wants nourishment and wants moisture.
So what I do, I drink a 20 ounce cup of water
with apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, organic
lemon juice, a liquid humic fulvic acid. That's
a heavy metal detox. And then I also put something
called cell food, which is an oxygenator. And
I also put a dash of Stevia in there because
the apple cider vinegar has got quite a bite.
So I'm tough, but I'm not quite that tough. So
I have to sweeten it up a little bit. But the
lemon juice alone with the water rehydrates your
cells. And so how do you start your day then?
You are now starting out. hydrated your body
is functioning well you're thinking clearly you
have no brain fog when you're on when you're
drinking caffeine what happens you and when you
are going to the bathroom all the time it also
releases a whole bunch of calcium and magnesium
a couple other minerals and so if you aren't
supplementing those you are you are deficit and
women women in particular With calcium, you know,
the older they get, the more coffee they drink
or caffeine. And tea is the same devil. Sorry,
I said it. It does the same thing. It wears.
It takes that magnesium calcium out of their
body. Their bones get brittle and they break
easier. Sure. Yeah. And we're talking about caffeine.
We're not just talking about coffee. There's
caffeine, caffeine in coffee, obviously. All
sorts of caffeine and soda pops, caffeine and
energy drinks, right? Chocolate. There's a lot
of caffeine in chocolate. Over -the -counter
medications. Many prescription medications have
caffeine. And guess what happens? We live in
a society of immediate gratification. And I don't
think anybody would argue with me with that.
So what happens is that if the doctor gives you
a medication, And he says, well, this is going
to help you feel better. But the actual medication
isn't going to have an immediate impact. You
throw a little caffeine in there. Guess what?
You get a dopamine hit. You get adrenaline. And
so. Everywhere you go, there's there's some.
Over the counter medications for women for when
they have PMS. My doll. extra strength Tylenol,
maybe extra strength Excedrin. Some of these
have up to 60 milligrams of caffeine alone in
one pill. Now, when a woman in her last two weeks
before she ovulates in her cycle, her ability
to clean the caffeine out of her body goes down
by 70 % because of what her hormones are doing.
And then it also stays with her two to three
times longer. So if she slams a 20 -ounce Starbucks
at noon, which has got probably two to 350 milligrams
of caffeine, it conceivably that it's still almost
at full strength at 10 or 11 o 'clock. The half
-life on that, it doubles for women in the certain
periods of their menstrual cycle. I want to pause
here for a second because sometimes when we present
this type of information to an audience, there
can be a lot of resistance. Hey, don't tell me
what to do, Steve. Right. Don't tell me I have
to cut out my caffeine. Don't tell me I have
to stop. Don't tell me I have to change the way
I am living. Right? Yep. So let's just be clear
because I really do get where you're coming from.
And I don't believe that you're here to tell
anyone what to do. Is that accurate? That is
past accurate. Yes. And so let me finish one
more thought. I can't make anybody do anything.
Right. I believe what you are offering people
is an opportunity to get curious about their
relationship to caffeine and to ask a very important
question. Does my caffeine intake serve my life
or is it a detriment? Is it hindering me? Yep.
Is that accurate? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I've
been involved in some situations where I learned
very the hard way. We can't make anybody do anything.
Because we all have free will and free won't.
Even parents. Parents can't make their kids do
anything. I mean, they can pick them up if they're
small enough and put them in bed, and as soon
as they walk out, they get out of bed, right?
But as you age, as you get older, and most of
the people that are watching this are probably
consenting adults. I have no intention of telling
them what to do. What is my endgame? My end game
is to inform people so that they can make decisions
about their bodies and their health. Yeah. Based
on things that nobody talks about. If you look
at the studies that are promoted in the mainstream
are generally done by coffee companies, soda
companies or or small little institution think
tanks that are funded by them. Well, they're
not going to tell you the caffeine is bad. I
mean, if you look back, you know, and I don't
know how old you are. You can Google this. I've
done some work on, you know, mind control with
the self -sabotage and also on EMFs. And when
I did that, I went into the cigarette advertising
back in the 60s. Yeah. And the theme there was,
which cigarette is better for you? This is insane.
Right. And this was everywhere. It was on TV.
It was in print. And I mean, I found some that
says this doctors recommend this cigarette more
for pregnant women than any other cigarette.
Yeah. Yeah. It's wild to look back at some of
that advertising and some of those old studies.
Right. Yes. Correct. Yeah. And you bring up good
points. It's always. It's always good to get
curious about who's funding a research document.
Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Steve, we're going to wrap this
up now, but I want to give you one more opportunity.
What would you like your listeners to take away
from this? I would like them to think about their
caffeine consumption. How much are they drinking?
When are they drinking it? And why are they drinking
it? All right. Those would be three keys to three
takeaways. Right on. Those are good quality takeaways.
Our guest today is Steve Frazier. Release the
coffee cuffs. You'll soon be able to get his
book. And Steve, where's the website that you
want your people to your audience to visit you
at? Release the coffee cuffs dot com. Thank you
for being here today. I'm really happy that you
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