Caffeine issues

Approximately 16 weeks ago, I went out on another day climbing, a week after having a massive vertigo attack. Indeed the body still felt unstable, wobbly. I jumped onto a boulder problem called Anorexic at Crumbly, a routine warm up here with a rather powerful last move. As luck has it, when your balance isn't great, your movement lacks fluidity. As a result, torn A2 pulley that still hurts.

But what brought relevance here to this disease is this. In the last 20 or so years, the consumption of coffee has increased significantly, meaning more and more of us are addicts of caffeine. Coffee and caffeine are heavily correlated with the inability of the body to adsorb vitamin C, which results in massive other issues. However, for a climber, Vitamin C is responsible for a myriad of related collagen regeneration which are crucial for the recovery of tendon stresses during super-compensation  and indeed, recovery from injury. Even more so, coffee's stimulant properties does 2 things - makes you exercises and think you are fully recovered moments after feeling tired and drained - and secondly, it disrupts your recovery, resulting in the overtraining symptoms. 

Vitamin C is needed for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body. It is used to:
Form an important protein used to make skin, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels
Heal wounds and form scar tissue
Repair and maintain cartilage, bones, and teeth

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Taking vitamin C supplements is one very good option, but as nature has it - your body isn't the most efficient at adsorbing the acid on it's own. Indeed the enzymes available in fruits assist in the adsorption making fruits one of the most crucial forms of food your should consume. Some of the best include things like oranges, strawberries and blueberries, the latter containing a serious anti-oxidant punch.

Vitamin C reduces glutathione back to the active form. Once reduced, glutathione will regenerate vitamin C from its DHAA or oxidized state. The prophylactic effects of vitamin C as an antioxidant during exercise, when free radical formation is high, will be discussed in future sections of this literature review. A well-known function of AA is the role it plays in hydroxylation reactions that are essential for the formation of collagen. Vitamin C is important in collagen formation as it allows for a tight cross-linking of the triple helix, thereby resulting in stabilization of the peptide

http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/Antioxidants/VitaminC.html

I love my coffee - and I am an addict, but to watch your body deteriorate before you in love of what you do, is not just frustrating, it generates change, and indeed letting go of ones attachment. But to realise this change has had a massive contribution to how I've been handling Meniere's, is a wonderful realisation. Today I'm still trying to reduce coffee consumptions to once every 2 days, allowing myself a lesser and lesser shot during the coffee consuming day. And every vitamin C supplement I take is now accompanied by a serve or 2 of fruits, spread across the day.