Sorry about mis-spelling hydrochloride before... keying too fast and no time to proof well these days...

I'm wondering if you drink coffee? I drink coffee only on the weekends. Once in a while we have a long weekend and I'll drink it 4 days in a row. I'm still okay on the 2nd day but the 3rd day I start to feel 'down'... and by the 4th day I'm really struggling with my mood. I have not isolated whether it's actually the coffee or the sugar (it's about the only refined sugar I get through the week also as we use honey for anything else).

So I am curious as to whether others who struggle with mood are drinking coffee.

What I think is happening is that either my adrenals are being drained or my vitamin levels. I say this because I've found that since I've healed from my diet, the last year or so I haven't required daily vitamins. However, if I start to feel 'challenged' from my coffee intake, I have figured out that if I give myself a good dose of B50, zinc and magnesium, then I start to 'pull up' very quickly. It only seems to take a couple of days and then I'm fine.

I'm starting to play with taking the vitamins while drinking the coffee but don't have any results yet to speak of.

Now, I don't want people to think that I think coffee is a bad thing only. I like it on the weekends not just for enjoyment or a treat. I also feel that it helps to 'tidy' my system from any toxins that I may have built up during the week. Nothing scientific about it... just the fact that it seems to 'clean me out' if you know what I mean. And after reading about coffee enemas I think, why not put it in the top and clean out the tubes all the way down? I think the problem is that it cleans out everything and one needs to 'top it up' again re: vitamins, etc.

I do feel very strongly that a lot of my mood issues in the past had to do with malabsorption. So, seeing this type of correlation with too much coffee ingestion is not necessarily surprising to me.