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I rid myself of a 6+ cup a day habit by switching over to tea (well, yerba mate at the moment, which I suppose is technically (and oddly) a kind of holly). I s
by unignorant 17y ago
I rid myself of a 6+ cup a day habit by switching over to tea (well, yerba mate at the moment, which I suppose is technically (and oddly) a kind of holly).
I still drink quite a bit of tea, but the accumulated caffeine intake is much less. It's a possibly reasonable way of tricking the psychological dependence into submission.
- chasingsparks 17y agoI tried that for a while, but for some reason, tea stains my teeth far more than coffee. A friend of mine actually told me about yerba mate. He's a big fan. However, yerba seems to have some other biological interactions that I would have to research. I had cancer before, so phrases like "some experiments showed an increase in oral cancer cell proliferation" are a bit terrifying. Incidentally, caffeine itself may be cancer fighting. Caffeine is an mTOR inhibitor. mTOR has been implicated asa growth pathway in many cancers. If their are any bio-geeks on this site, I'd be curious to know what quantities are caffeine are comparable to a dose of rapamycin.
- hernan7 17y agoI guess it depends how you drink it, but I found yerba mate to be more stimulant/jitter inducing than coffee. At least if you drink it the Argentinian way with the gourd and straw. The official story in Argentina is that yerba has "mateine", which is basically indistinguishable from caffeine if you ask me. So not sure if you are really combating the caffeine addiction by switching to mate. Oh, and whatever you do, don't pour sugar in that mate...