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Re: Caffeine withdrawal is no joke
You may also want to start drinking other teas and gongfu brew them. Rinsing the tea during the brewing process is said to cut the caffine dramatically.
Re: Caffeine withdrawal is no joke
I have been told the same thing about gongfu and caffeine (or just steep any tea for 30sec to remove caffeine), however, I've just been re-informed that this is incorrect (by a bay area tea expert @ Teance who is in contact/relations with the Chinese Tea Institute), especially with whole leaf teas; it may be a little more effective with broken leaf teas (japanese greens, etc), but even then, there will be caffeine released with every infusion (apparently, the higher the quality of the tea, the more likely this is to be true - I think the original findings on this were relative to lower quality, highly fragmented/broken-up teas found in tea bags?).
Sorry.
I was very disappointed to receive this information.
Also, as I've been on a deep cleanse/detox/rebalance lately (under the guidance of a kinesiologist - in response to a severe, harrowing, 10 hour stone-less gallbladder attack), and thus much, much increased sensitivity and awareness to all food and beverage effects, I've noticed this to be true - with every infusion of white tea, I actually notice significant caffeine effects (among other things). But then this is just me and my body.
The kinesiologist found that green tea, black tea, and puerh teas weaken me, so for now I'm off them.
Perhaps you need a break from tea? All things in balance/moderation?
As I'm finding out, these "healthy" teas are not always healthy for us, sometimes they may even be unbalancing or even harmful/toxic?
I found out from a TC member (intuit), a [biomolecular chemist, or something like that], green teas (maybe all teas?) actually chemically grab onto magnesium and take it out of the body. There are other effects as well in addition to all the benefits.
So who knows.
Seems as though a break from tea can be a good thing. It seems to be for me. Hurray for the herbals
(and I used to be such an anti-herbal, pro-green/oolong/puerh snob
- ahh, humility).
Cheers!
Sorry.
I was very disappointed to receive this information.
Also, as I've been on a deep cleanse/detox/rebalance lately (under the guidance of a kinesiologist - in response to a severe, harrowing, 10 hour stone-less gallbladder attack), and thus much, much increased sensitivity and awareness to all food and beverage effects, I've noticed this to be true - with every infusion of white tea, I actually notice significant caffeine effects (among other things). But then this is just me and my body.
The kinesiologist found that green tea, black tea, and puerh teas weaken me, so for now I'm off them.
Perhaps you need a break from tea? All things in balance/moderation?
As I'm finding out, these "healthy" teas are not always healthy for us, sometimes they may even be unbalancing or even harmful/toxic?
I found out from a TC member (intuit), a [biomolecular chemist, or something like that], green teas (maybe all teas?) actually chemically grab onto magnesium and take it out of the body. There are other effects as well in addition to all the benefits.
So who knows.
Seems as though a break from tea can be a good thing. It seems to be for me. Hurray for the herbals
(and I used to be such an anti-herbal, pro-green/oolong/puerh snob
- ahh, humility).Cheers!