What is your favorite brand of tea/how do you prepare it? How important is it for tea to be organic + imported from *unpolluted states* (given that tea might bioaccumulate from soil)

#1

I’m only starting to really brew looseleaf green tea as of late last week, and hate myself for not doing it frequently earlier. There’s the classic “pour boiling water into a teacup” thing which I only learned earlier this year. Plus, tea seems to work better than Adderall on me (I don’t know what happened to my response to Adderall, I seem to “freeze” on it more than before, but it’s okay if I just need tea)

Tea is one of the most potent pro-longevity interventions for so many reasons, such as appetite suppression. Even early Taoists associated it with “eternal youth”

I also fill the container to the very brim with leaves, which massively increases the dose of caffeine, but tea is safer than coffee in large amounts.

Ideally you want a tin to minimize microplastics

The Republic of Tea

Jasmine Pearls Full-Leaf Tea

Buy Jasmine Pearls Full-Leaf online. Tea of Integrity - Harvested in early spring in Fujian province in Cina, te coicest, tippy leaf and bud sets are

https://www.crsociety.org/topic/18164-green-tea-is-associated-with-reduced-all-cause-mortality-risk/#comment-44828

I also once threw up after eating raw Persian oolong tea at MILA last year, which caused some aversion for a while (I did eat tea leaves raw for a while…)

mindbodygreen – 13 Apr 18

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Are You Drinking Toxic Tea? Here’s How To Avoid Pesticides & Heavy Metals

Your tea might not be as healthy as you think.

https://medium.com/labdoor/can-organic-tea-cause-heavy-metal-poisoning-e511c9130b3f

LeafScore – 1 Jul 20

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The 6 Best Organic and Lead-Free Green Tea Brands - LeafScore

The unfortunate reality is that your green tea may contain lead. Here are the best organic and lead-free options to avoid health concerns.

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Mike Lustgarten uses Ocha & Co tea (imported from Japan)

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2023-08-15:

I drank so much tea yesterday that I could barely sleep last night, and taking 350-440mg melatonin also did not make me sleep much, and feel hyperalert today

[this puts my nicotine overdose last year in better context too, because I took heavy doses of melatonin when i did this too]. I dose heavily on melatonin for doris-loh reasons [it’s one of the safest molecules ever]

#2

Theanine in tea is calming. I drink Whole Foods 365 generic green tea, which I think is from Celestial Seasonings. I drink about 6 x 16oz a day (4 tea bags total).

#3

I buy my tea directly from Ippodo Tea
The tea is really top quality and they ship worldwide.

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#4

Same here, been buying from Ippodo for many years. Iconic place in Kyoto and Tokyo.

#5

I buy the TickTock brand as it is decaffeinated and comes from South African uplands which I hope are much less polluted than China or India.

#6

What do you feel from drinking tea?
I’ve tried to drink it everyday and two times a week. I remember that two times a week there was clear positive valence from drinking the tea. Even mildly if not euphoric. I don’t consume any caffeine right now except from soda every now and then.

When I took a 100 mg caffeine+200 mg l-theanine capsule after being off caffeine for months IIRC, that was pretty crazy. It felt like my personality shifted 2 standard deviations to openness. I wanted to fill my apartment walls with paintings. :rofl: Of course the subjective feeling was very energized.

#7

Anything above ~1 mg melatonin tends to make sleep worse, there is no extrapolating from melatonin where more = better sleep. Taking hundreds of mg’s of melatonin is probably not a good idea IMO.

#8

It’s for Doris Loh antioxidant/geroprotector reasons, it is one of the most potent anti-damage agents ever

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#9

I wouldn’t say it is risk free though. Melatonin is a powerful way of setting circadian rhythm. It’s there to signal night/day. Who knows what happens if you maximize the signal so it becomes noise. Brain effects I am concerned about.

#10

Compared to actual damage that matters, that signal is a rounding error…

Also the signal seems to super-saturate at very low concentrations.

Anyways, you know it when you feel it. I don’t always take melatonin because I hate feeling tired

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#11

https://twitter.com/adic_9/status/1760510341199561011?t=A_gHZHuOFNopE-quMPAJBA&s=19