Avoid consuming your morning coffee on an empty stomach and pair it with a snack to protect the stomach from acidity and avoid disrupting the natural production of cortisol, the wakefulness hormone.

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Coffee does indeed stimulate acid production in the stomach, but reviews of data from the Cleveland Clinic indicate that this does not disrupt the comfort of healthy individuals. Only those who are already sensitive or prone to acid reflux will benefit from accompanying it with a snack to buffer it. Regarding energy, cortisol naturally peaks in the morning to wake us up. Although caffeine slightly stimulates its secretion, controlled clinical trials by researcher William Lovallo show that our body quickly develops a tolerance, greatly attenuating this impact in regular drinkers. Finally, the claim that coffee on an empty stomach blunts cortisol or directly generates fatigue and stress lacks robust scientific evidence. This energy crash stems rather from the natural cycle of adenosine, the drowsiness molecule, which caffeine merely masks temporarily.

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1. 1Lovallo WR et al. 2006
2. 2Gardiner C et al. 2023
3. 3Lovallo WR, Whitsett TL, al'Absi M, et al. 2005