DoctorOz: Beat Caffeine Addiction with This 7-Day Detox Plan

You may be enjoying a nice hot cup of coffee right now, but you ever wonder that it's going to come back and haunt you later? Ooh, heartburn, anxiety, energy crash, or even a sleepless night. Today, a quiz to find out just how caffeine dependent you are and a caffeine detox that won't have you missing your morning cup. But first, caffeine extremes caught on tape. I asked my viewers at home to submit photo and video evidence of the extreme lengths their loved ones go to to get their daily dose of caffeine. These are just a few of my favorites. There's Jenna, who caught her co-worker, Teresa, not once, not twice, but six times. Six times in their break room coffee pot in just one morning. Next, take a look at the size of Christina's coffee cup. Now, she says she's a hashtag coffee addict. I mean, my folks, this mug is literally the same size as her head. And then, topping it all off, is Rebecca. Now, I had a little help with Rebecca. Her husband, Kevin, pulled a little prank and hid all of her energy drinks. Take a look at her reaction. I just pulled the biggest prank of my life. She's addicted to these energy drinks, and every morning when she wakes up, she has to have one to start her day. Well, I took them all out of the fridge and hid them. So let's see how this goes this morning. What the? I know I put them in here. What's going on? Every day, it's in here. Why is it not in here today? Honey, do you have any idea where my energy drinks are? They're always in here, and they're not in here. I love that. Just, what the? I think honey's in trouble now. But it's no doubt these folks are dependent on caffeine. But the question is, where do you fall on this scale? Audience, who here thinks they may have a caffeine addiction issue? Hands up. Yes? She's jumping on me. I don't have any coffee on me. So Giselle is joining us from the audience. She says she cannot start her day without a cup of coffee. Thank you for stepping forward and talking about this. So how much do you rely on caffeine? Dr. Oz, I am a coffee addict. I need it every day, all day. When I travel, I always bring coffee back. And recently, I even got my teenage cousin hooked on coffee. All right. So I want you and the entire audience and everyone at home to take out a pen and a paper. You all have your pens? Oh, you have them all. Perfect. Oh, it's so well-prepped. Folks at home, just take a paper out. All you got to do is write down one letter for each question. The question I'm going to ask you has to do with how dependent on caffeine you are. It's a quiz. Are you ready, everybody? You can find the quiz on DrOz.com if you miss it here. The first question is, how often do you drink a caffeinated beverage? Your choices are, take a look over here. A, is it, well, I usually have one in the morning and it's occasional after and pick me up as well. Or is it B, I refill my cup at least three to four times. Once is never enough. Or C, I might as well have an IV drip in my arm because the cup is never empty. So Giselle, what letter are you? Well, Dr. Oz, it does depend on the day, but I think I need an IV. Put it in there? I think I need an IV. In check your veins. Yes. So audience, vote A, B, or C. One of the three letters. Everyone at home, just remember, it's only four questions. You'll get this straight. Next question is, which picture best depicts how you wake up in the morning? Is it A, full of energy, ready to start your day? Is it B, groggy and dreading leaving the confines of your warm and cozy bed? Or is it C, wake up at your sleep. You're never going to get up. Your sleep through your alarm clock is normal. What are you? What letter? I might sleep through my alarm clock, but I think mostly B. It's just so hard to get out of that cozy, warm bed. It's so comfortable, Dr. Oz. All right, so we got one C and one B for you. Everyone's keeping track with you. Question number three, after your first caffeine boost of the day, you feel, A, very alert, finger up. B, have a little buzz going. Or C, like you can just sort of get back to normal. I mean, the usual. What letter are you? After the first cup. C, I need another. I feel like I need another cup. Takes you back to baseline. Yeah. I'm going to come back to that. It's really an important observation. And last question, what would a day without caffeine be like for you? Would it be rainbows and unicorns? Don't you love unicorns? You're just feeling great. Is it B, you're sporting a grimace rivaling grumpy cats as you drag yourself through your morning? Or C, it'd be the end of the world, headache, fatigue galore. Has your world just ended? I don't even want to think about it. It would be the end of the world. Another C. Yes. How many of you got As? Anybody? Oh, good. A couple As out there, thankfully. You guys are the caffeine conscious group. That's fine. You enjoy your caffeine in a responsible way. There might be some issues still. We'll come back to that. Audience, who's the Bs? Let me see the Bs. Mostly Bs? It's about a third of you. You're the caffeine committed, just teetering on the edge of dependency. You need to make some changes. And then there are the Cs. The caffeine crazed, full-blown dependents like Giselle. How many Cs up there? Yeah. I could have told from the earlier questions. All right. So all the Bs and the Cs out there like Giselle are in need of a caffeine detox. The As aren't off the hook either. Dependency is just around the corner. So I've got Maya Feller here. Are you going to pay attention to this? I'm going to, yes. Maya Feller, she's a registered dietitian. So we all think that caffeine gives us a jolt. And I can hear in some of the thoughts that the audience is expressing earlier. So it's normal. But recent research is saying it's not that simple. Right. Absolutely. So that caffeine-dependent person wakes up in the morning. And they're all, you know, hopping up and down. They're jumping. They're like, yes, I've had my caffeine. Thumbs up. When in fact, actually, really, it's a thumbs down. They're not getting that boost at all. What's actually happening is that the caffeine is stamping out the fatigue, the brain fog, the headache. And what you have is someone who actually needs a cup of coffee just to feel normal, not even great. So the question is, what if you don't want to give up on your morning caffeine ritual? We have a solution that will fool the biggest coffee lovers into thinking they're drinking the real deal. I handed it to one unsuspecting woman who voted C, a primarily C. Now, you're tasting it, right? And you're smiling still. It's good. I needed this. They needed this. You know what? It's not coffee. It's not coffee? Not coffee. We'll find out what it is when we come back. I bet you'll stay tuned. What is this? For all of you who ride the caffeine roller coaster of energy spikes and dips and the headaches and the brain fog, we have a seven-day caffeine detox that will give you even more energy without the consequences. And if you're skeptical that you can't live without it, don't worry. Nutritionist Maya Feller developed a plan that promises it will work for you. Now, Maya's developed the seven-day caffeine detox. Explain why seven days and give me some of the details. Okay. So the reason seven days is because it gives you time to kind of step down, wean yourself off. And then you're going to feel great when it's over. Right. So the rule of thumb here is the first step is to wean the caffeine with a quarter cup back every two days. That's right. So explain how that works. Okay. So basically what's going to happen is that you're going to replace a quarter of your caffeine with decaf coffee the first day. Two days later, you'll then go to half and half. And then on the fifth day, you'll only have a quarter of that cup as caffeine. And by the seventh day, it'll all be decaf. I should say, though, that, you know, decaf coffee does have caffeine, so don't think it's negligible. Right. Relatively. Totally. So I put our Giselle that we were talking to earlier on the test. Let's go up there. Giselle, you've been taste testing all these, right? Yes. I want you to tell me which coffee allows you to taste that it actually doesn't have the regular amount of caffeine in it. Do you see these lines here? Yes. That's the amount of regular caffeinated coffee versus the stuff we replaced it with. So by day three here. By day three. Well, day five, I guess. You're about halfway. Yes. So this is half and half, basically. Can you tell a difference? I can, yes. But could you tell it earlier? No, not so much on the second day. But by the third day, I could start to taste a slight difference. Subtle. And if you don't mind, just go all the way to the end here. Okay. Taste that. There is zero of the regular coffee in there. That is all decaf. Yes. You taste that. All right. Well, it's okay. I want to hear the truth. You don't have to go all the way. I do encourage you, just for a little experiment, go off the coffee for a week. But I've got more tips to get you there because I know it's not just the amount of caffeine. That's important. I think it's psychological, but there are other factors as well. Let me grab this here. Come on over here. The next step is to maintain your caffeine ritual. And this is important because the caffeine ritual is what gets a lot of people to have to have their coffees. So come on over here. I notice you have a soft drink can over there. I do. What's your first name? Anjali. Yes. So what's the deal with your caffeine and your soft drinks? Oh, my goodness. Diet soda is my jam. Honestly. It's the bubbles, and it's just invigorating. Just... Ooh. Does it just bring you to a place? Yes. I love it. That familiar sound. But you have another option. Here you go. Seltzer. No caffeine. Okay. Ooh. It's still the same. How's that? It's good. Yeah. I can tolerate that. I can deal with this. You can deal. All right. Next up, we got Brooke. What's your ritual? You're like, oh. What? It's a cup of coffee? So when I tell you I have probably two of these a day, that's bad because it's really more like four cups of coffee. You can bathe in that. That's big. It's gigantic. No. My... I don't know if it's the cup, but what I do is I wake up in the morning before. I have three little boys. They're little. Six-year and twin three-year-old boys. They never grew up, by the way. They're boys. But they always love Mama. Yes, they will. But for me, that's my quiet time before they get up. And I go downstairs. I make a cup of coffee. I sit on the couch. I watch morning TV before everyone wakes up. And just this cup. My one son will say to me, if he sees me drinking like a hot tea, because I'll do that in the afternoon, Mommy, you don't drink coffee in that. You drink coffee in your Krabby Cup. They know. That's how... Like, they get up. I have it. Come up here. We've got a little surprise for you. This is one of the... All right. I think one of the greatest ideas. And Maya brought it to us. This is a solution for every caffeinated coffee drinker out there who wants the comfort of the coffee without the caffeine. I have no idea why we're not all doing this right now. So take it away. Okay. So I love that story. I love that there's that moment where you're, you know, alone and you're in your bliss. I would never, ever suggest taking that away from you. Thank you. It's my one time, but a day. Absolutely. Right? Right. So what I would say, though, is let's replace that habit of having the caffeine with something a tiny bit healthier. You can use a coffee substitute that is chicory-based, right? And you can prepare it the same way that you would prepare your morning coffee, right? So I'm going to go ahead and pour it for you. Is that okay? Okay. So educate us about chicory, because I know this is popular in our parents' generation. Why did it fall out of favor? Well, you know, so I think that people just don't know about it, to be quite honest. And I'm, you know, it is a herbal substitute. It has such a wonderful flavor. The way that it's been roasted is that it kind of, it's really like coffee. It's coffee-like. It's just no caffeine. So go ahead and give it a taste. Again, guys, have you, who here tries chicory coffee once in a while? Nobody. Unbelievable. That's good. Is that good? I do like this. Yeah. You were having chicory coffee. Yes. And you were okay with it. It was good. I would do it again. Listen to the woman. I would. It tastes good. It's a fantastic contribution. There you go. I want everyone just to think about it. Go ahead and get some of the chicory coffee. What I like especially is you can make it really quickly. Absolutely. You can even get it in teabags. That's right. So it's super simple. It's got that same earthy taste to it. That's right. It's close to the coffee without being coffee. I bet even Giselle would be happy with this up there. I'll try it, but I'm trying to take this whole cup right now. Someone confiscate that coffee, please. All right. Start your caffeine detox today on DrRoz.com by checking out the plan or use the DrRoz app It's all right there for you. We'll be right back. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss out on new videos to live the good life.