Re: Adrenal fatigue and coffee enemas?

Actually, I'm doing some reading now that suggests drugs taken rectally can be processed differently. Since the hepatic portal vein goes through the liver, drugs taken rectally are subject to "first pass metabolization".

However, caffeine appears to be largely unaffected by first pass metabolization.

Whoops. So you still get your caffeine effect and you still stress your adrenals. THIS IS BAD.

#132242's assertions that it's just different somehow, supported with a little hand waving, shows they don't know what they're talking about.

"in the case of coffee enemas, the rapid jolt that goes straight to the liver causes the detoxification. it may be a synergistic action of the caffeic acid and the palmitic acids in the coffee, or possibly some other unknown components that no one has identified. but we do know for a fact that it works."

No one has identified? This person is dangerous, making recommendations without doing research. There's tons of information out there on how coffee enemas work.

The proposed mechanism is that the palmitic acids of coffee promote the liver's producing glutathione s-transferase, which helps purge the system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutathione_S-transferase#GSTs_and_biotransforma...). The theobromine and theophylline help with vessel dilation. The caffeine, it seems, just makes you feel good. Briefly.

Anyway, this mechanism means you can probably get the cleansing effect you want with decaf, because your decaf coffee probably still has palmitic acids. Indeed, you could probably get the effect you want with just a palm Oil Enema -- but I wouldn't trailblaze a new technique without knowing what you're doing.