I just wanted to say, you look so pretty!! These past couple of videos you've really been glowing. You're the main reason I've really pushed myself in my flexitarian/reducitarian goals and have stopped eating most meat, and to work on avoiding animal products in general.

"If you drink it moderately" *me 5 cups later*: yes, m o d e r a t e

Can you make a video about CBD?

I love the taste of black coffee so much!! I quit for a year, because I thought I was sensitive to it all of a sudden.. after drinking coffee my heart rate started to rise and skip a beat sometimes.. BUT what was actually going on is that I had a dangerous vitamin D deficiency of

I thought you had run out of these kind of videos...I love them!

Thank you so much for being you. I'm quite the perfectionist and I've had disordered eating for most of my life. Watching your videos gives me a constant reminder to just go easy on myself - and others. Being new to veganism I can say I'm more inspired by you than anyone else I've seen/watched.

I'm 33 weeks pregnant and the mother of a toddler. the idea of going even one day without coffee makes me want to cry.

I quit caffein because it enhances my nerves (lol), destroys my stomach, and causes heart palpitations. I’ve become very sensitive to caffein, especially after having children. Go figure! I adore coffee, but it’s never worth it! Herbal teas now.

It’s crazy bc KZfaq was recommending me your older videos looking back at your Raw diet days. So I watched all of them today! I love them! Glad there’s a new one :)

I personally LOVE the smell of coffee beans and coffee shops, but I am extremely sensitive to caffeine. I get super shaky and even nauseous ): sometimes headaches and twitches, it’s super weird.

I really enjoy seeing content like this where some one goes and looks at their past to see how they have grown and become a more science minded person.i can relate to this very much.Thanks so much for the content.

Honestly just looking at myself a few months ago I’m like.............who is that. By December I’ll be looking at me now and thinking the same thing. It’s like in my head every few days I become a different person lmao idk POINT IS I feel u

I LOVE THIS SERIES. You’re hilarious & I respect you so much for being able to talk openly about your past. Love love love your channel

You are so brave posting these videos. I love it so much. It's hard to laugh at yourself, so few people are able to do it. Awesome work

I love your honesty and humility. It takes a mature person to make vids like this. As always, much love ❤️

Years later I still adore these videos. They make me laugh so hard lol you are epic x

Your facial expressions when listening to your former you is gold :D By the way, I think it's great that you keep the old videos up and show how your view on life etc. changes. It does for most people because we get new experiences and evolve.

Love the frequent uploads! Again would love to see a video on robert lustig: sugar the bitter truth

Yesss! Love these videos! You are GLOWING by the way 😘

You help me so much I’m still finding my way and you are so encouraging and a voice of reason plus you seem totally genuine 🤗

I had an awesome day, my cats next to me, and i see you uploaded a new video. So happy!!

"I can not function without it" This is why I personally think caffeine is bad. I don't like being addicted to putting a stimulant drug into my brain multiple times per day, and not being able to function without it.

I recently found your channel and I've been enjoying your videos greatly. Thank you!

I absolutely love how transparent you are and how much your channel has evolved! You’re always by go to for debunking bullshit fads and beliefs.

I don't even sleep anymore, I just have a cup of coffee every hour or so.

Great video! Also I love your shout out to tums haha

Never stop doing these videos lol. Ps. Your hair looks so good

I love that you are probably the only honest person on the internet who is able to criticize your previous life choices.That is why what you do is so important:youtube needs more HONESTY,COMMON SENSE AND SCIENCE.Great job.

this video makes me hope that future me thinks i'm an idiot

My UnCaffeinated Anecdote: After 22 years of addiction to coffee (3 cups per day), I gave up caffeine and it was one of the best things I ever did for myself. My digestion is better, my sleep is better, my energy is stable all day, no headaches, I can handle stress a bit better. If I am fatigued, litterally, WATER HELPS (I said this in CAPS because I was surprised at how well water works for my energy levels. It's weird) or I have a snack and here is my energy. Now when I drink a cup of coffee (90mg), my blood vessels constrict and I am cold all day I pee all the time, my poop is uncomfortable, and I am more snarky and impatient. Even a whole chocolate bar (other than peeing all day) will do all this to me. The only draw back from being caffeine free is that I don't wake up as fast in the morning. I putt around for the first 30min-1hr upon waking. Withdrawl was shit for a month and a half and I didn't start reaping there benefits until a solid month in. The first week, my eyes were glazed over and I was living off ibprofuen to help headaches. The stable energy didn't happen for about 3.5 weeks after stopping caffeine. Oh but it was SO worth it. I am only 4 months into caffeine free and I love it. Okay, I am not caffeine free completely. I enjoy my life now and them. I will drink 1/4 cup of coffee OR 1/3 a bar of chocolate (never both) for a treat. Also (I am not a doctor), I keep coffee on hand to help me if I have an asthma attack. I usually just use my inhaler but it is nice to know I have coffee on hand to help open my airways. (Again, I am not a doctor, your inhaler should work, talk to your doctor first about caffeine. Take your inhaler. Don't rely on coffee to save you). ... Anywho, I would recommend anyone to get off coffee and give themselves 2 whole months to adjust first before deciding they need it. ...that said: caffeine is a lesser of evil drugs so, do what you need to do to get through this life. ✌️

Lmao I love when you look back at your old videos

For people with anxiety I can highly recommend to stop drinking coffee for a while and see if it helps. I did this a few years back and drank raw cacoe instead. It gives a slight lift without the raise of heart beat. My anxiety reduced drastically. Now I am able to drink coffee again, but I definitely needed the break. Anxiety and coffee do not go well together at all for many people.

I love these videos! I had a period of time where my opinions and way of thinking was really questionable... Not really logical at all. I relate to who you are now and who you were back then 😂

I love this video, not because I am a fan of coffee. I dislike it very much unless it is in my scrub, but I like how you are putting it out there that you changed your mind.

Love to see the transformation you've been through as a person

I wish I could drink coffee. I love the routine of it, the feeling of having a cup with my family on weekend mornings, or enjoying it on my own. But I don’t drink it anymore, because it makes me sick. It makes me almost crap my pants, it makes me feel lightheaded and feeling a bit hungover? I also only started to drink it because all busy/succesful people drink coffee. And the appetite suppressant part made me trying to survive on just coffee for the whole day. I still sometimes have coffee, because I love the flavor. lol

I love coffee, but I only drink it on Sundays with my vegan chocolate croissant. I do not want to be an addict to anything. When I drank coffee, I felt like crap and couldn't wake up properly without it. Now I wake up just fine by myself. I do enjoy the taste though, hence the weekly splurge ;)

This sounds like a great video to watch while I drink my morning coffee

You were such a source of sanity for me when I regained normal eating (two years ago now). I remember having felt so stupid that I fell for something as absurd as 30BAD/RT4, tha tI lost sense of myself as a critical thinker. It really helped to see someone say they did this too, and got over it, and that it's not a good diet. You really helped me regain a sense of humor about it too, honestly. And the reaction videos are just so good and validating like, it's such a good invitation to LAUGH at raw foodism, and not entertain it even for one second. I love watching you not take your past-self seriously at all. We need more of that. Anyway, I love these. And I'd love to see you talk more about the susceptible mentality that leads people to raw foods, the deperation (and the power-hungry egomaniacs online who try to convince people into dangerous lifestyles). I loved that you touched on that in this video.

I just never started drinking coffee. Then I drank it one morning because I didn't sleep at all at night and I had a test that day and I felt awful. The whole day I felt the coffee in my stomach and I just felt really weird and sick but that might have something to do with my lack of sleep too. But no coffee for me ever again lol 😅

Hearing you say you need so much sleep gives me such relief. Anything less than 8 hours makes it hard for me to even get out of bed

Also, what are your thoughts on magnesium for sleep and mood regulation?

I love watching the evolution in people. We're all changing so much. It's great you can look back at yourself and admit you didn't know what you know back then. When you know better you do better, and we should all live by that.

I appreciate that you take these moments for self reflection, even as you comment on what others are doing now. I remember asking my doctor if I should quit coffee - she asked if I had run out of problems in my life - apparently the answer to that question would be her recommendation (just my doctor speaking to my circumstances though) 😂😂😂

you are so genuine,intelligent, logical and beautiful I love your videos!

I think that you so strong by doing this ... i can’t even go back and listen to my old voice records it feels cringy 😆

Please make more of these!

This is important to see and analyze again because just the way you were so confident back then about telling this information to people, the internet is full of people who are talking about what they believe in with full conviction.. It's good to know that some years later they might change their mind? And of course people will change their minds about stuff! The more you know.. And someone's opinion and current view of anything is not an objective fact. And people who sound the most convinced (probably they really are) sound the most true to those looking for some signs or solution to their problems.

It's also easy to see many 'natural' foods/diets/cleanses etc from a perspective of "'what harm could it do to try" or "what have I got to loose" and I think this is why your channel is needed. If someone suggested that keeping a crystal in your back pocket might make you feel less depressed, the worst that will happen to someone desperate to try anything is they spend a bit of extra cash. However when people suggest something like fasting ... The risks are very easy to overlook or just not be aware of to the average person.

These videos are my favorite!!

I love watching current you judge past you. So much fun.

I get so excited when swayze uploads.

The problem I have with coffee is the caffeine. I've gotten headaches, heartburn and terrifying heart palpitations. :|

I love these types of videos

I need a lot of sleep too.

That lipstick looks so good on you!

You're so real. Love it.

WOW this intro! I love hearing you speak the truth. thanks!

Coffee just makes me very jittery & shaky, it doesn't boost my energy at all. I feel like it might be because of my ADD? At this point I only drink coffee when I'm out with friends at places like Starbucks, I'll indulge in a cinnamon latte. I do think people who drink more than like, 4-5 coffees a day are a little wild. My dad drinks well over 10 cups of coffee a day, even after 8pm he still drinks coffee & then he complains about having trouble sleeping, like duh! Coffee after 6pm can't be good for sleep.

I love coffee but I haven't drank it for couple of years. It makes me hyper, anxious and I sweat lol. So no coffee for me. But one thing is true is that coffee blocks absorption of nutrients.

lol, I had to sit through a dairy commercial before this video started.. Nice work, Swayze. I love coffee! Also, what is your favorite strain of marijuana? Greets from The Netherlands!

Baby Swayze’s opinions are so adorable. Growth is so hard to watch! But man, it’s worth it.

Caffeine does not give you "energy, " calories do. If you need coffee to function, you are dependent on it, no arguing that, you have a problem. Would be interesting to see how your sleep would change by giving it up.

I was talking about this with my mom recently and I wonder what you think about at what age it’s okay to introduce caffeine development wise?

I have never had a coffee come down? I usually feel amazing all day after 1 cup in the morning. I think also using coffee as a pre workout really helps! (: thanks for posting this!

I enjoy your outlook :)

I love these kind of videos haha

I think it’ll be interesting to see you make these looking back on yourself videos in 5 or 10 years (looking back on right now) if you’re still doing KZfaq.

These are my fav vids!!!!

If you still have the video about feeding pets a raw food vegan diet, could you react to that? I'm very curious about what you said. (If you feel comfortable doing that, of course.)

I relate so hard to your general sleepiness!

Hey girl. I loooooooooove your videos. P.S. I love coffee too.

I find your voice soothing. You should voice audio books, I’d definitely listen to you 😀

I miss coffee so much. My meds make it impossible for me to have caffeine and decaf is harder to get ahold of. Most places on campus have regular but if I want decaf I have to make it myself or go to Starbucks :(

The problem with coffee is that... you say you NEED it. :/ I don't drink coffee, and I don't need it. I don't like the taste and I also don't like the idea of drinking something that will give you withdrawal symptoms when you run out...

I rarely believe everything presented to me. I like you because you make common sense and when you are wrong or have evolved you own up to it. By the way I love that lipstick color on you.

Can you react to Blake Horton’s extreme intermittent fasting? He was on Dr. Oz.

i’m a pretty new viewer so i apologize if you’ve covered this but can you make a video about how you research/stay so up to date. I have a degree in biology and I work in clinical research so I know HOW to research. but just researching and staying up to date in my free time has been difficult. I just seem to get lost. I would appreciate some tips!

...what’s wrong with essential oils?

I always notice in your newer videos, you always look way healthier. The only thing with coffee is the creamer most people put in it. I’ve tried to wean myself off of creamer but am always unsuccessful

You are just incredible.

"I know from experience that this is not true" is a very anecdotal evidence. I have not studied for myself what the effects of caffeine are or whether drinking coffee is bad or not, but it seems to me like the arguments in this video are way more defensive than what I usually see here

I love you. One of my fave humans 😍😍

Love your videos

Could you talk about sleep and all the statements that are made about how much a person should sleep? Sleeping too much, or too little, etc. And how did you determine you need that amount of sleep? Was it simply by testing when you feel ok?

Hi there! I just want to ask a question. So i'm 15 year old and i have a thalassemia disease, i'm also very interested into vegan lifestyle but my doctor said that i should eat a lot of red meat i even asked if i was allowed to eat less meat and more vegetable that contain iron. So with my disease am i allowed to be vegan?

Can you review the Just Egg when it (FINALLY) comes out? I've been checking their Facebook page, & it seems like it will hit the PNW first.

so weird I was just rewatching the other videos in this series this morning

“Heartburn! Agggh!” *whips out the Tums* “Pregnant bitch’s best friii-end!” 😂 love it!

you convinced me to go vegan, you were the only one that doesn't look like a freak tho, Im 14 and u r my inspiration, lotsss of love from Mexico :D

Can you do a video on instant coffee? I heard it's bad, I really love it though, I have 1 cup per day, sometimes 2. Does it cause heart issues? So I've heard...

I love celery juice. I use essential oils, for aromatherapy and to use on my skin, too. PLEASE NOTE that it is not hysteria or crazy, or desperate, or silly (and such) to believe in using those things.

The sitting on the knee thing!! So true

Basically my view on caffeine is, if you’re going to drink anything with caffeine try to limit it to coffee or are any natural foods that contain caffeine. need caffeine? It just depends on the person. I went online no caffeine cake for like six months no soft drinks no coffee etc. personally for me I did not experience anything negative. No withdrawal symptoms or feeling exhausted. But for other people they may take caffeine for several different reasons such as like of course an energy boost are also along with some people may need it for ADHD because it keeps the brain stimulated and focused for some people of course. Some people may end up drinking caffeine to help them sleep at night because of course some cases of ADHD caffeine works in reverse on people with ADHD. If you’re wanting to quit caffeine I would just speak to your primary care doctor. And towards the myth that you will lose weight if you quit caffeine is bullshit I lost weight by quitting soft drinks after when I start drinking coffee and I actually stabilize my Weight.

Can you do a video on how to do plant based while insulin resistant? I can't do the; rice, pasta, bread and most grains but I'm really interested in becoming plant based. Is it possible/sustainable?

But caffeine does not inhibit iron absorption in the blood?

I’m the same way with sleep - I don’t feel well rested unless I get ~10 hours of sleep, which happens like once every two weeks. It’s such a struggle.

And caffeine's HALF-LIFE is 6 hours. It doesn't wear off completely until bedtime, and even then there are trace amounts left

I wish freelee would do a video like this.

I like your former self, don't be too harsh on her ;) Cool video!