Someone there in the last stream asked Anchu Baranova about lactose-free milk and decaf coffee in case of anxiety disorder and irritable bowel syndrome.
Ancha suggested using lactose-free milk as an ultrafiltered or lactase-treated product. Like this, you can avoid intestinal problems. I didn't understand about coffee.
Ancha spoke negatively about decaffeinated coffee, in the sense that caffeine from such coffee is washed out with chemicals, which then remain in decaffeinated coffee and can harm.
Well, in terms of anxiety disorder, Ancha believes that coffee has nothing to do with this case.
Lactose
I'll start with lactose. I completely agree. Lactose-free, ultrafiltered, or lactase-treated milk can make your stomach ache less. This is important for people with irritable bowel syndrome.
Allergen
The only problem is that milk with irritable bowel syndrome harms in two ways: not only lactose, but also cow's milk allergens. If you can get rid of lactose, then allergens are more difficult. They can make your stomach ache a lot, and you can't just throw them out of the milk.
Therefore, people with irritable bowel syndrome are sometimes more suitable for a soy milk substitute or milk from other animals. Because irritable bowel syndrome sometimes flatly refuses to be friends with cows.
Decaffeinating
We have already discussed coffee several times. It is being tested in medical research. Understandably, they test caffeinated coffee and decaf coffee there. Because the effect is not always associated with caffeine. Sometimes there is something incomprehensible. So, I have never seen any mention of the harm from chemicals that decaffeinate coffee.
In fact, caffeine is removed from coffee in three different ways:
- Just water. It is safe in any case.
- Liquid carbon dioxide. It's safe too. It turns out ordinary carbon dioxide.
- With chemicals. This can be harmful.
Previously, these decaffeinating chemicals may have been harmful, but now they remain in coffee in such scanty quantities that no one remembers them.
If you really crave decaffeinated coffee without chemicals, then buy organic coffee. It was processed without chemicals.
That is, there is usually no harm from the decaffeination process itself.
Let's go further.
Abdominal pain from coffee
Ancha doesn't know about it. It can easily hurt. Coffee acts as a laxative. Myself caffeine acts as a laxative, and decaffeinated coffee acts as a laxative. Maybe there are residues of caffeine, or maybe the coffee itself, like a plant, weakens. The fact remains. With irritable bowel syndrome, any coffee can hurt your stomach.
Anxiety disorder
Ancha believes that coffee does not work for anxiety disorder. Actually it works. Coffee makes anxiety disorder worse, especially if you drink a lot of coffee and if you drink it sporadically. Familiar people are less sensitive.
Summarize
With irritable bowel syndrome, the stomach can get sick not only from lactose, but also from cow's milk proteins. Then you will have to give up cow's milk.
Decaffeinated coffee usually does not contain detectable amounts of chemicals. But if you really want to, you can buy yourself a caffeine-free organic one with no chemicals at all.
Any coffee can hurt your stomach.
Coffee has been linked to anxiety disorder. It could get worse. This is because of the caffeine.
I advise you to read my articles on caffeine through the links in the text and here below. There are many interesting things.
Lies about osteoporosis from coffee
Coffee in bed cures a rare type of headache
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