 So, coffee is probably one of the most contradictory things you can consume on a zero-carb-corner or diet. Mainly because it pretty much embodies what a negative plant food is and because if this diet was our ideal diet, why do we need energy from coffee? So, first I guess you have to understand that coffee is a bean. It's a seed of the coffee cherry fruit and we take that bean, we ferment it for a couple months, we dry it out, we roast it and beans and seeds are trying to survive the digestive system, whatever eats them to be implanted in the fecal matter and grow into another plant. So, these foods are very high in anti-nutrients, particularly phytic acid and oxalates so they're very inflammatory to the digestive tract for that reason of being able to survive digestion. When you take this ground coffee and pour water over it, what you're pretty much drinking is a cup of caffeine and anti-nutrients. So, the other aspect is do we actually need to drink coffee if we're optimal on this diet? Well, that would make the most sense, right? I mean, if you do consume nutrient-dense foods and low-inflammatory foods, you should be at a point on the zero-carb-corner or diet where you don't need coffee for energy but to actually get into specifics of what negative things coffee can do to you, caffeine increases your cortisol levels which leads to insulin problems causing inflammation and decreasing your insulin sensitivity makes it difficult for cells to respond to blood sugar and there's definitely something to be said about the effect that has on your body storing excess body fat. Outside of that, coffee is known to be very acidic, causing heartburn, other various gut health problems or inflammatory to the gut. People do develop addiction and withdrawal symptoms to this food as it is a drug and related to the fight against inoxalates there is elevated mineral excretion in urine. In addition to that, I mean, another anecdotal thing that people experience is headaches, migraines, insomnia related to serotonin and how it affects sleep. So, there's various aspects of coffee both in regards to caffeine and just coffee itself, how inflammatory it is that can cause negative things in the body. Now, the question is, is caffeine in itself, if it was isolated from coffee, is that okay to take for performance enhancing reasons? And you could generally argue for that. And for anyone saying, Karefe had anti-oxidants, guys, please. Let's read the definition of anti-oxidant. A substance that inhibits oxidation especially one to counteract the deterioration of store food products such as vitamin C or vitamin E that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents. So, it removes damaging oxidizing agents. But if you're not consuming oxidized fats, then why would anti-oxidants be an issue, especially on the zero-carb carnival diet? Any time someone talks to me about, oh, if someone says to me that a food is good for you and they can't explain the specific metabolic processes of why it's good for you, I smell BS. So, you know, hey, listen, if you guys want to justify coffee consumption because you enjoy it and you know, hey, even in the case of like the French who drink wine, they can drink it in the context of high vitamin, healthy fats. So that makes it, you know, reduces the inflammation that it causes. But another thing to keep in mind is, you know, coffee has drastically different levels of quality and how they roast it is drastically different. The temperature they dry it at, some are sun-dried, some are mechanically dry. There's a variety of levels and quality of coffee that certainly affect how your body handles it. There's a big difference between someone having the highest quality espresso they can for dessert and someone that drinks half of, like, a whole kettle of black coffee every day. So, you know, removing it initially from the zero-carb carnival diet is definitely something that should be done and experimenting with different types of coffee to see what you can tolerate is fine. But to say that coffee is beneficial to you and that it depends on the person and all that BS, please don't kid yourselves, guys. You can try to say, I enjoy it, it doesn't, it's not too negative for me, you know, I sleep fine and those things, but there are very apparent negative things that happen when you consume coffee and there's no denying those things. To touch on the topic of tea, this is very specific to actually what type of tea you consume because there's obviously a big difference between a flour or herbal tea versus, like, a green tea because certain green tea supplements and people who've consumed large amounts of green tea a day, like five or six cups, have hepatotoxicity. It's a type of liver damage. So consuming green tea in large amounts every day might have something to do with liver damage, but that's not associated with black tea and other teas. So tea specifically, you know, although there's some, you know, it's pretty much leaves with various other compounds in it and there are some negative things, you know, you got to look up every single thing individually, guys. You might have a coffee, for example, that might have some type of mold because how it was grown. You might have green tea that was super, super fresh and might have more of this compound that's harmful to your liver. So please try to do, you know, your own individual research on the specific type of thing you are drinking and, you know, at the end of the day, removing these things from your diet for a period of time is beneficial and then reintroducing them to see how you react is ideal. Overall, you know, pros and cons of caffeine, pretty much how it affects your cortisol levels as well as serotonin and various pleasure responses in the body. There's just, honestly, there's too much to look into for me to summarize this in a video and overall, you know, at the end of the day, what are you going to remove it, see how you feel. If you don't want to remove it, if you're one of those people that were fighting me on my last video that I made about this, I had to redo this, by the way, this is a bit longer going more into detail and giving concrete information on what coffee actually does that might harm you. You know, just try it out, see how you feel and you guys like to support me. There's some, you know, social media and various things in the comments, but above all guys, if you can just please share the video and try not to get too salty. I know a lot of you guys like consuming coffee, but it is very contradictory from the standpoint of a zero carb diet trying to remove inflammatory plant foods as well as be kind of like your ideal version of yourself.