Hosted by award-winning author Al Kushner, the official Adrenal Foundation podcast blends neuroscience, real stories, and practical tools to help you successfully quit caffeine and heal your overstimulated nervous system.
Episode Summary: For a college journalist juggling classes and two jobs, coffee seemed like the only way to get everything done. It took a disastrous boat interview where a severe caffeine overdose triggered uncontrollable vomiting for her to finally say enough is enough. This confession is about th
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Episode Summary For 28 years, caffeine was the silent co-pilot of every career, every relationship, and every late night. It took a scooter accident and three months of recovery to accidentally break the habit — and discover a peace that had never existed before. This confession is about inherited p
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Episode Summary This confession opens with one of the most striking lines in the entire book: "Caffeine is a gorgeous demon." What follows is a deeply personal account of how caffeine became less of a habit and more of a relationship — one that pulled her away from real love, real life, and nearly e
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Episode Summary A journalist burning the midnight oil on a daily deadline discovers that her chest pains, irregular heartbeat, and shaking hands aren't a heart condition — they're caffeine. And the migraine medicine she was taking to cope? Also caffeine. This episode is a wake-up call for anyone in
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What starts as a Mountain Dew at an 8 a.m. high school class quietly becomes a caffeine tablet addiction that costs one woman her relationship, her pregnancy, and her sense of self. This is the confession nobody expects — because the drug nobody takes seriously ended up being the one that took every
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He thought Stephen King got over cocaine. He just drank coffee. This is the confession of a writer who couldn't write without caffeine — or at least that's what he told himself for years. Four dollars a day at Dunkin' Donuts. Eight cups at Denny's, scribbling on legal pads. Friends who mocked him th
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She used to read about addicts in magazines while sipping her fifth cup of coffee — thinking how lucky she was to be so grounded. She had no idea the trap had already closed around her. This is the confession of a young woman who walked into her first classroom full of hope, a teaching degree, and z
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She was a Wall Street trader running on 64 ounces of diet cola before she even reached her desk. For nearly two decades, caffeine wasn't a habit — it was a career strategy. The trading room demanded it. The MBA nights demanded it. The pregnancies, the babies, the mergers, the divorce — all of it pow
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What starts as one cup of coffee to survive sorority pledging quickly spirals into a full-blown addiction that nearly derails an entire academic career. In this episode, we dive into the story of a college student who discovers the hard way that caffeine isn't just a harmless pick-me-up — it's a dru
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They say addiction runs in families — but what happens when the addiction is caffeine, and it starts before kindergarten? In this revealing episode of Live Unwired, a woman looks back on a childhood where her alcoholic parents replaced her milk and juice with coffee to save money, leaving her hooked
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What does it take to finally walk away from caffeine? For today's guest, it took an ambulance, a heart monitor, four days unconscious, and a week-long hospital detox that doctors said could have killed him. A successful audio engineer running a NYC studio, he never saw it coming — until his body com
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She started with soda at age 4. By 28, her organs were shutting down. In this episode of Live Unwired, a survivor opens up about how caffeine became the thread running through decades of drug addiction, bulimia, homelessness, and five suicide attempts — and why she finally stopped paying the price.
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