Gyokuro Magic?

[clareandromeda]

I have a gyokuro problem. Frankly, it is all I want to drink. I splurged at Ito En recently and bought the Yame and Uji and have been drinking it most days. I have noticed that on the days that I drink it i feel calmer and happier. Drinking gyo feels like a form of meditation.

I'm on medications for depression and anxiety, and I'm beginning to think that gyo should be prescribed! It calms me better than the pills I take when I have anxiety attacks! How amazing is that!

Anyone else experience this magic with gyo or other teas?

[olivierco]

Although I have been drinking many excellent gyokuro for the past three or four years, I haven't experienced any magical effect. I don't believe in magic anyway.
I guess drinking (or eating) something you really like will give you a positive effect, especially when it comes about anxiety or depression.

[Tead Off]

I have a gyokuro problem. Frankly, it is all I want to drink. I splurged at Ito En recently and bought the Yame and Uji and have been drinking it most days. I have noticed that on the days that I drink it i feel calmer and happier. Drinking gyo feels like a form of meditation.

I'm on medications for depression and anxiety, and I'm beginning to think that gyo should be prescribed! It calms me better than the pills I take when I have anxiety attacks! How amazing is that!

Anyone else experience this magic with gyo or other teas?

Imagine how calm you will be when you start drinking the organic stuff.

Which is more expensive, the meds or the tea?

[clareandromeda]

perhaps "magic" wasn't the best choice of words.... It's use is sullied with usage for things like "magic tricks".

I have had stressful things going on in my life lately, but once I drink my Gyo I see the bigger picture, and feel calmness when I would normally feel panic. Western medicine can only offer me a sedative. Gyo calms me.

Perhaps there are things in this world that we (humans) can't comprehend (yet) but still exist nonetheless??? Gyo Magic is one of them


AND

I have insurance so the pills are cheaper. If only I could get my insurance to cover gyo so that a months supply of daily only cost $15!!!

[Kevangogh]

Gyokuro is loaded with theanine, your "magic effect" is not in your imagination. I hear it works good for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

[Seeker]

Abracadabra!!

Love that gyokuro magic.

Thank you Theanine.

[Intuit]

One can purchase both theanine and GABA, at very high purity in bulk powder form, cheaply.

[TokyoB]

One can purchase both theanine and GABA, at very high purity in bulk powder form, cheaply.

Funny you mention that, I just saw them for sale at Whole Foods the other day. I was wondering how pure they are though - how does one know? And perhaps more importantly - is there scientific evidence of their benefit or effect? and appropriate dosage?

I tried GABA tea from HouDe a couple years back - it had a unique flavor, but not one that I appreciated.

[Intuit]

If you purchase from a bulk chemical supplier (and we're only talking about 100g or so, not kg quantities), they supply customers with batch chain of custody and product lab analysis forms.

What do you mean, is there scientific evidence that they work?
Do your homework, please.

[Chip]

[Smells_Familiar]

One can purchase both theanine and GABA, at very high purity in bulk powder form, cheaply.

Funny you mention that, I just saw them for sale at Whole Foods the other day. I was wondering how pure they are though - how does one know? And perhaps more importantly - is there scientific evidence of their benefit or effect? and appropriate dosage?

I tried GABA tea from HouDe a couple years back - it had a unique flavor, but not one that I appreciated.

Well, supps at Whole Foods= expensive!

Intuit has given you basic ideas on the cheapest way to buy quantity cheap. A more common way for "average" someone to buy smaller "bulk" quantities of supps is through a very reputable site like http://www.iherb.com/.

A good forum for someone wanting to learn about and discuss supplements is this sub forum on the Immortality Institute's website forum: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php? ... howforum=6.
After a bit of searching a forum like this and quite a bit of follow-up on pubmed, you can
1) start putting together a list of supplements you might want to obtain in bulk.... or

2)you could decide it's best to just stick with a very healthy diet, low in calories, and lots of tea . Periodic evaluations of diet with something like cron-o-meter. or

3) a bit of both.

I'm with #3 (strong #2 with a few well researched supps).

and back to tea... Clareandromeda, I do get a feeling of relaxation from most every Japanese green, with matcha providing an equal or greater kick of energy. My mood mix right now is simple: tea and ashwagandha.

[Tea and coffee]

I think that actual tea is better than tea supplments as you are getting the vitamins and antioxidants or whatever...

I have been drinking green tea (that is supposedly organic) and in the past few months my health tests have improved a lot.
My heart function was much much worse...had a ton of tests done and the only thing I changed (not taking any medications) was adding 3 cups of tea a day.
I still drink coffee,but not as much (was 2 small cups a day now usually 1,2 rarely).

[TokyoB]

What do you mean, is there scientific evidence that they work?
Do your homework, please.

Yes I have read about the benefits of l-theanine, that's true - don't mean to be lazy. However when I last researched GABA it wasn't clear to me that there is a benefit, particularly from drinking GABA tea. In my limited non-scientific experiment of drinking the GABA oolong I didn't find any relaxtion type response - in fact it seemed to have the opposite effect - perhaps from having more caffeine than what I usually drink. I also find that gyokuro can be rather high in caffeine so isn't always relaxing either.

As for drinking organic gyokuro, I have also been trying to drink more organics. From what I understand though an organic gyokuro is generally likely to have less l-theanine and less caffeine. No?

Anyway, I do drink tea because I enjoy it although I'm always curious about the potential health benefits.

[TokyoB]

Well, supps at Whole Foods= expensive!

Off-topic now but that's very true - supplement prices are crazy there. Just happened to notice them there when looking for something else that I couldn't find elsewhere.

[tea fish]

Well, supps at Whole Foods= expensive!

Off-topic now but that's very true - supplement prices are crazy there. Just happened to notice them there when looking for something else that I couldn't find elsewhere.

Vitacost.com has some good prices--you can get 100 caps of theanine for under $8. And shipping isn't too pricey.

Although I haven't had gyokuro yet, I've experienced benefits similar to yours, Clareandromeda. Between the theanine and the ritual of making tea...it all just makes a body saner!