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Lately I'm using black tea to regulate my schedule. I find I'm at my lowest around 4-5 in the afternoon, so cup or two help me get over it in an elegant matter.
by radu_floricica 18y ago
Lately I'm using black tea to regulate my schedule. I find I'm at my lowest around 4-5 in the afternoon, so cup or two help me get over it in an elegant matter. I guess a short nap would be the same, but it's not so easy for me to sleep in the afternoon.
I used to drink rather large quantities of coke. Since I stopped (and yes, it took a week of headaches, though after I started drinking tea it got a lot easier) I find not only I'm in better shape overall but I sleep much better at night. I guess the trick is very small amounts and good timing.
- silentbicycle 18y agoThe caffeine in tea seems to be absorbed more smoothly than coffee's. An amino acid called theanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine) helps counteracts some of its negative side effects, especially the nervousness. You can get theanine on its own as a relatively cheap nutritional supplement. (It tastes distinctly like Japanese green tea, which is often shade grown in a manner that greatly boosts the theanine content.)
- michaelneale 18y agoI found its the sugar in coke/soft drinks that really makes it unpleasant. I am sure tea is lots better - the general health benefits and some caffeine, and not the toxic amounts of sugar (and if in the US, its high fructose corn syrup which is really much worse then just sugar).