Got to bed late last night (well, early-ish this morning), so I did an unusual thing at the start of my day and dug out the coffee — and some molasses. The molasses supplies some of the things which the caffeols strip out of your system, and it appears to work. At least, many of the symptoms I usually show when hitting the coffee have failed to show on this occasion (a few have, but are a pale shadow of their former selves).
The taste, however...
...is odd. Just odd.
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Coffee is hungry for vitamins, but the human system uses a pretty reasonable amount of almost everything to maintain homeostasis in the face of acidic, drug-laden, oil-laden, whatever-laden coffee. Which (like cigarettes and alcohol) is why it’s so fiercly addictive.
Molasses is broad-spectrum gunk, so I guess tends to replace a lot of what gets used up by simply making a variety of more or less random stuff available when it’s most needed. I think you could boost the effect considerably by adding a multivitamin and a bunch of extra C as well.
I still got a moderate amount of the hangover effect, but the rest was much reduced or absent.