The people who say they need 3 cups of black coffee to start their day are just addicts with a high tolerance that experience mild withdrawal symptoms each morning.
If you feel like that, it’s your body crying for you to take a break.
If you like an occasional cup of coffee or energy drink to get through something, then that’s fine. But if you ever feel like one isn’t working like it used to, you should take a break from caffeine to reset your tolerance, not up the dosage like an addict.
I’m both. I’m addicted to caffeine, but I’m also a coffee snob that appreciates a good coffee blend prepared by a skilled barista.
I’d rather go without caffeine than drink bad coffee or hyper sweet energy drinks, yet at the same time I take yerba mate to work every day, because I appreciate both its taste and its caffeine.
So yeah, both…