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2 guides tagged Coffee
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Kava and Caffeine: Can You Mix Them? (2026)
Kava relaxes you; caffeine wires you. So what happens when you put both in your body at the same time? The honest answer is that they pull in opposite directions — some drinkers use a little caffeine to take the edge off kava's grogginess and report a workable calm-alert feel, but the two partly cancel, the combination is genuinely under-studied, and the mutual masking makes it easy to overdo both at once. Here's what people actually report, the sensible cautions, the timing that matters, and why this is a different question from "kava vs coffee."
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Kava vs Coffee (2026): Calm Focus vs Jittery Energy
If coffee has started giving you more jitters than lift — the racing heart, the 2 p.m. crash, the anxious edge, the wrecked sleep — you've probably wondered whether kava is the swap. Here's the honest answer: kava and coffee are near-opposites, not substitutes. Coffee is a stimulant that blocks adenosine to push alertness; kava is a GABA-leaning relaxant that calms the body while leaving your head clear. Kava is not a one-for-one replacement for raw morning alertness — but for the anxiety-prone, the afternoon cup, and the evening wind-down, it's the better tool. Most people don't quit coffee; they keep the morning cup and swap the 3 p.m. one.
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