Expectations
In addition to my previous blog about starting to drink decaf over regular coffee, which you can read here, I received a few comments that made me look into decaf rather sooner than later.
Let's be clear when I say that I have questions whenever a light product is presented or when something is presented as the healthier option and pushed as a narrative. After many years of hardships and discovering how some things really work over how we're conditioned to just follow blindly what we're told, I surely can't just assume they're telling the truth with anything. I therefore question most things by default, although I won't always take action to research things immediately because I also learned that there are too many things that I will not be able to change, therefore accepting it is the best thing for a good state of mind.
When it comes to coffee, and in this case decaf, I also had expectations that this would not automatically make it the better option out there. Although I didn't instantly dig into it, I put it on my list for when things have calmed down and I would find time to get to that topic.
My reason for decaf
I think I mentioned it in the other post but my reason for drinking decaf was health, dealing with the side effects of painkillers (read: the withdrawal of trying to quit them) I felt discomfort and wanted to rule out any thing in my diet that could make things worse. These heart palpitations I had for many days made me feel so scared that I was afraid to drink coffee because it felt that this could make it even worse. Instead, I started cycling indoors every hour for just a short period to get through the intervals of the heart palpitations easily.
As the palpitations faded while I switched from fully quitting the heavy medication to taking half dose of the less heavy (and safer according to the doctor) variant to ease the symptoms, I already didn't take any caffeine for 5 days and noticed that my cravings for coffee were gone.
I didn't have any headaches either which was lovely, so it made me decide to continue this path and take a decaf cup whenever I'd feel like having a coffee.
One cup a day
Until this very day it means that I only drink 1 cup a day and don't crave coffee throughout the rest of the day or even evening like I used to and I have to say that I like this a lot. While I published the previous post, I fully expected at least one comment about decaf as I already had some expectations that it would not automatically mean decaf is better for you.
The Swiss water method
There were a few more than one and the one from 
This was super helpful because I went to check on the L'or website for this method but could not find it. I found a lot of talk about sustainability and some labels but not that. I know for a fact that many brands use other names or expensive words to masque their true story.
Let's find out which method my favourite brand uses
I sent out an email to L'or to ask directly if they use the Swiss water method and this is the email I received back:
Now there are a few things I'd like to say about this email, first, I asked directly if they used the Swiss water method and instead of a 'no, we use x or y...' I got a whole lot of talk before throwing the expensive words 'supercritical CO2 and dichloromethane - DCM' in the next sentences.
Although I had no clue what the heck that meant, I already felt this mail was written in a way that I expected one of these terms to turn out to be exactly what I didn't hope. On top of that, the CO2 part would someone who doesn't know this (like myself) believe that's water so it's the Swiss water method, lol.
Maybe that's a dumb thought but I felt as if this was implied without saying it directly. The part mentioning that things are safe and stuff like that is something every company would probably mention and I believe they have some quality standards they indeed have to live up to but we all know this often doesn't make it healthy by default.
So what now?
I just bought another pack of the cups so I will not throw these out but at least finish this pack, especially considering that I drink only one cup a day. I'm curious if one cup a day or even two of them would cause any issues over drinking 4 maybe 5 regular cups with caffeine (including the sugar and milk) or that it's to be neglected.
At this moment, I don't know enough about this method and therefore I will have to read more about it and mostly, first find another alternative to drink because I'm not willing to drink bland decaf, I didn't enjoy that with caffeine and surely will not do so without it. One thing I know for sure is that I will check any other brand further before buying it. Until then, Lor it is!
Conclusion
As per my expectations, decaf is not all roses and sunshine and I think 
If you have any more to add or thoughts about the email I received back, please share them in a comment below, I'd like to read it!
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