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At that point I might do a full medical checkup. If it's so easy to get headaches and become "useless" for the day just because of coffee, that sounds like something else is going on in your body that makes you extra suspecible to these things, but I'm no medical professional, it just sounds extreme/rare to me, something worth checking out
I do a coffee detox every Sunday, and can tell you that the brainfog and lethargy is real. In my case, it's 2-3 cups a day Mon-Sat for this effect to occur on Sunday.
If I limit myself to 1 cup of coffee a day, and do the Sunday detox I just generally feel irritable and eat more sweet things to compensate but without any headaches
No, your experience is yours, others have other experiences. We don't all have the same exact reaction to caffeine. Don't project how things affect you on others.
I understand, but coffee is amongst the most consumed things in the world, yet headaches from it is something I don't really hear around, so it's not completely wild or out of the blue to suggest a check-up. Something similar was happening to me with energy drinks 10+ years ago, which was related to my blood pressure.
Folks who drink coffee consistently are likely perpetually dehydrated and get worse sleep on average cuz they use the coffee to counteract the effects of less sleep daily.
Coffee literally hydrates you. The fact that you believe a popular myth makes me assume you don't really understand coffee.
The worse sleep is a fair argument, but coffee drinkers generally live by a golden rule - no coffee 6 hours before bed.