When the caffeine leaves your system, hormones drop your cortisol and everything drops.

Your blood sugar sometimes drops. And your body can manage all this if you're feeling well and

very resilient. But if you're somebody who's very fatigued or under chronic stress, which is

where a lot of middle life women find themselves, coffee on an overworked stress response just causes

more trouble than it's worth. Like it can increase

anxiety, disrupt blood sugar and so on. Whereas adaptogens work in a totally different way. They can

support the body's own ability to produce and regulate energy. Now, are you always running low

on energy? Or herbal polypharmacist, Sia Mitchell Sinclair,

says it might be time to kick the caffeine habit and explore adaptogens instead.

Welcome to Age Better with me, Liz Ear. Now, this episode is brought to you by the Herb Tender.

And, you know, my mission is to change the conversation around

aging. And through this podcast, I really want to share the knowledge and the tools that can

help you thrive in later life by us taking action today. So I wonder now, are you listening to

this while you're having your morning or your mid-afternoon coffee break?

Is it a conscious ritualistic moment or maybe a desperate attempt to find the energy to plough through the next few hours?

You know, I have a real love, semi-hate relationship with caffeine.

I love my morning coffee.

And I think over the years I've become a little bit more of a caffeine skeptic because I use it for polyphenols and for the taste and

try not to use it to give me that energy lift because I think there are just much more better

alternatives. And what if I said to you now that there was a way to work

with your own body to effectively expand your body's energy reserves over time, for example,

for sustained and stable energy rather than relying on these quick fixes? Well, you know,

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