I have to have a oversize coffee first thing in the morning.
I put 6 tablespoons of “light roast” coffee in a Mellita “pour over” single cup coffee maker and manually pour sixteen ounces of 190 degree water so that all the grounds get a get even wetting.
I add three teaspoons of maple syrup to this and begin sipping
while I immediately pour another 4 ounces of hot water on the already wet used coffee grounds to make a slightly more bitter small second cup.
I like coffee,
even though I did not start until age 38
but I also consider it a powerful mixture of drugs
because it contains:
caffeine
Phenylindanes
(part of the dark color of coffee comes this chemical)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2018.00735/fullIf someone gives you a hard time about drinking twice watered coffee you can answer:
“I paid good money for those fresh coffee grounds and I want to get most of the Phenyllindane out of it even if becomes bitter”
and it was recently discovered coffee contains
trigonelline
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-trigonelline-derived-coffee-cognitive-function.htmlOne of the oldest medicinal herbs,
first written about more than 3000 years ago,
is the seed of the legume plant “Fenugreek” ( literally “Greek Hay”)
which also contains trigonelline.
From 11 am to 1 pm I might have a one ounce shot glass of coffee if I begin to feel “blah” as the morning coffee wears off, but no coffee past 2 pm.
