I have been taking cayenne and ginger in capsule form also….and got away from that also recently. Had the in-laws here for the wedding and mom actually threw out a package of empty capsules that I use for argenine, maca and the cayanne/ginger mix.
(Sigh…)
They have gone back to their cave now, so things are slowly returning to normal.
The combination of all of those things seem to help with loss of EQ due to hard training with the stretcher.