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Yeah, you have to accept 3 days of headaches and feeling a bit out of sorts but I now sleep 1000% better and wake up feeling refreshed rather than lurching straight to the coffee pot like a zombie.
Basically, when you're stressed you produce a hormone called cortisol. Too much cortisol is bad. Caffeine keeps you in a vigilant state and stops your body processing it, along with other bad things I've learned about like if you drink coffee immediately after a meal, it helps flush out lots of the nutrients your body is trying to absorb. Exercise also produces cortisol, so if your cortisol levels are already high, instead of feeling better and de-stressed you feel like shit-almost like you're hungover like I did the day after a hard ride.
No coffee, one month off the bike, lots of snoozing=feeling much better for it and far less wired/intense on a day to day basis and after rides I don't get the hungover/totally fucked out feeling too so decaff only for me from now on!