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Tea also has noticeably less caffeine than coffee, yet it has been treated as an energizing drink since it was first discovered. When you don't have any adrena

Tea also has noticeably less caffeine than coffee, yet it has been treated as an energizing drink since it was first discovered. When you don't have any adrenal stimulants in your diet at all, even a small amount is noticable. Caffeine also has a metabolic half life of roughly 5 hours in the body, if I remember correctly. A few berries might not do much, but surely a handful will be enough.

jessekv 2y ago
Tea leaves usually have more caffeine than coffee beans, but tea itself is usually more diluted than coffee. If you want a jolt, make a matcha shot with the same mass of matcha as you would normally do for coffee ;)
- fashion-at-cost 2y ago
  Or a traditional Maté
  - rwyinuse 2y ago
    Somehow caffeine from Maté feels different though. To me coffee gives a fast spike and then comedown, while Maté's effect is more balanced, and lasts longer. And I don't think it's just caffeine content, because tea is nothing like that for me. For staying productive for hours, nothing beats Maté for me (except stimulant medication).
Projectiboga 2y ago
Tea bushes use an entirely different metabolic pathway to produce caffeine than coffee bushes. Here is an article that further describes how we believe caffeine synthesis evolved in multiple land plant lineages. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/38/10613 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/38/10613 Caffeine synthesis involves several enzymes, but the enzyme family (called the SABATH family) involved in the final stages of its synthesis can trace its origins back to the first land plants. These first enzymes are thought to have been very promiscuous (capable of having activity with several molecules), partially contributing to how caffeine synthesis managed to evolve independently multiple times throughout the evolutionary history of land plants.
hermitShell 2y ago
This is why I routinely wean myself from coffee by drinking tea on most holiday weekends. I feel it helps me to dissociate less while I should be present with family, plus when I return to work I have much less residual caffeine and can hit peak productivity, crank out some code. Props to devs who don’t rely on drugs!

jessekv 2y ago

Tea leaves usually have more caffeine than coffee beans, but tea itself is usually more diluted than coffee. If you want a jolt, make a matcha shot with the same mass of matcha as you would normally do for coffee ;)

fashion-at-cost 2y ago
Or a traditional Maté
- rwyinuse 2y ago
  Somehow caffeine from Maté feels different though. To me coffee gives a fast spike and then comedown, while Maté's effect is more balanced, and lasts longer. And I don't think it's just caffeine content, because tea is nothing like that for me. For staying productive for hours, nothing beats Maté for me (except stimulant medication).

Projectiboga 2y ago

Tea bushes use an entirely different metabolic pathway to produce caffeine than coffee bushes. Here is an article that further describes how we believe caffeine synthesis evolved in multiple land plant lineages. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/38/10613 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/38/10613 Caffeine synthesis involves several enzymes, but the enzyme family (called the SABATH family) involved in the final stages of its synthesis can trace its origins back to the first land plants. These first enzymes are thought to have been very promiscuous (capable of having activity with several molecules), partially contributing to how caffeine synthesis managed to evolve independently multiple times throughout the evolutionary history of land plants.

hermitShell 2y ago

This is why I routinely wean myself from coffee by drinking tea on most holiday weekends. I feel it helps me to dissociate less while I should be present with family, plus when I return to work I have much less residual caffeine and can hit peak productivity, crank out some code. Props to devs who don’t rely on drugs!