Thread 76755830

Last time there's one. Let's discuss all about tea. So what tea you drink?

>>76755830 (OP)
Irish breakfast is my go to. Earl grey is also good. English breakfast sucks imo

>>76755830 (OP)
My wife grows her own flower and herb garden. Lemon balm is for rough days, and chamomile with farmer's market honey is almost nightly. She adds lavender to hers, but I don't like the taste.

>>76755916
i HATE darjeeing
thanks for reading

>>76755830 (OP)
>30% higher test
>studies show

Yeah goy just drink the poisonous seed water laced with caffeine very good for testosrerone very good sucky fucky fucky

>>76755830 (OP)
Currently drinking a pretty generic assam tea, nothing special. I've got some fancy dragonwell as well, but can't drink it every day. Too expensive.

>>76755830 (OP)
I prefer raw puerh specifically from the Yi Wu area.

currently on deck
>kukicha green
>imperial grade laoshan black
>yunnan black dragon pearls

the kukicha is interesting but not quite my cup of tea. the laoshan black is great

>>76755830 (OP)
Green tea with honey and sometimes ginseng

>>76755830 (OP)
is any of that caused by the green tea tho

Green tea + hibiscus tea for blood pressure and reducing the risk of cognitive decline with old age.
Two cups of each every day at the office

>>76757062
>>76757087
>>76757125
>>76757303
You can stop samefagging now

>>76757129
You in the tea thread on /ck/ brah?

>>76757599
What does that have to do with a 30% increase (it doesn't) in test? Fuck your gay shit.

I tried green tea it gave me the shits

Effect of green tea leaf extract on reproductive system of adult male albino rats
>sperm count and motility were reduced
>testosterone was reduced
>inhibition of spermatogenesis due to disintegration of seminiferous tubules of testis
>potent CASTRATIVE effects
lol what the fuck

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4788727/

>>76759223
It doesn't. OP wanted to know what tea everyone drinks, so I replied with what I drink and my rationale for my choices. I don't drink tea for test, mine is already high enough.

Anyways, posting smuggies implying that information is false simply because it's related to a study is NPC behavior.

>>76759320
Nah, you lyin, get lost.

>>76759520
>NPC behaviour
>for questioning the legitimacy of an uncited study with wild claims
You are a sub-npc tier brainlet and your opinions are worthless.

>>76755830 (OP)
I love tea, but it is loaded woth fluoride.

>>76759945
You question the legitimacy without reading the study itself. It wasn't cited, but it isn't hard to find. It took me a couple minutes.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1531953/full

Posters like you are extremely annoying. You have a chip on your shoulder and feel like you have to prove to everyone how intelligent you think you are, as if being a contrarian chud who rejects the claims of any and all studies makes you an intelligent person.

2-3 other people made essentially the exact same post as you in this thread, which effectively makes you an NPC. Does that make you upset? It seems like it does. Not really any different from redditors who spam the same unoriginal jokes in every comment section.

I don't really care about the study's claim, to be honest. I just find posters like you annoying, you're all the same. Post some bullshit to virtue signal about how you're so contrarian and then flame anybody who disagrees. Nothing about the way you are posting is original, I've seen this same interaction play out probably hundreds of times.

>>76760089
God what a dogshit quality study.
Not even an attempt to control for placebo effects and not even a mention of it.

Pure trash.

>>76759908
maybe the egghead labcoats who conducted that study are lying but anon isn't

Been doing oolong recently, about to switch over to a puerh as the weather gets colder. Butter tea in the morning keeps me warm.

Tea is my pre workout. Usually puerh, sometimes oolongs.

>>76757062
THIS MANS READING COMPREHENSION IS UNMATCHED,
YORKSHIRE TEA IS THE ONLY TEA BTW

>>76755830 (OP)
Tea used to be so expensive, Liu Bei Xuan De had to save his peasant wages for an entire year in order to buy a small bag of it for his mother. I don't trust it

>>76757087
>seed water
it's leaf water though fix your shit chatgpt

>>76760528
I hate you. I hate you more than I've ever hated anyone or anything in my life.

>>76755830 (OP) (OP)
Current blend cooling in my freezer:
>green
>ginseng
>raspberry
>hibiscus
>strawberry
>pomegranate
>blackberry
>chamomile

>>76760994
He probably died from not drinking enough of it then. I go like a dozen disemboweled tea bags deep making a liter.

>>76761062
But why

>>76759320
>people are rats

>>76760142
Hm, okay. Fair enough. That is a reasonable opinion on the study.

>>76761089
Big protip on this whole line of debate: there are some proteins entirely conserved with muh murine, while others are wildly different or only expressed in humans or murines.

There is a reason animal models exist and sometimes but not always generalize.

>>76755830 (OP)
Ive been growing mint in my apartment lately and I want to try making mint tea. has anyone ever tried it? I think it will suck but I dont really have any other uses for mint.

>>76761143
Spearmint or peppermint? I'm the anon with the herbalist wife. Both varieties are great for straight up chewing after you brush your teeth, or after a meal to freshen your breath. Peppermint is also good for an upset stomach. Taste is subjective; I don't like a strong brew of either, nor would I recommend it. If you make your own hot chocolate, try adding peppermint leaves to it. You can either eat the leaves or remove them. Also, peppermint and cucumber water is pretty good, too.

>>76761176
Spearmint I think, though Im not sure since I propagated it from a friends mixmatched herb garden. Those are all good uses, Ill write them down. Except after brushing teeth, I already use spearmint toothpaste lol.

I drink chamomile and ginger and want to add green tea as well.
Reminder to use loose tea instead of tea bags.

>>76761333
>loose leaf
It’s a must. Tea bags and even cheap sachets are made out of plastic.
>>76755830 (OP)
Loose leaf is the way to go. I like green tea and herbal tea.

>>76761560
most likely peppermint then, theres a little bit of purple on the stems, though not much

>>76761508
>plastic
Where I live basically only the expensive pyramids contain plastic. Still the content of every bag is very much processed which reduces the health effects.

>>76759320
>>76760410
Now I didn't read the study, but when they give lab rats extracts, they usually give them much higher doses of some substance than a human would be exposed to in the real world, so you can't directly apply the results to humans.

Example
>study: we gave rats a green tea extract that's equivalent to 500 cups of green tea a day and it gave them insomnia, further research needed
>internet response: omg, studies show that green tea leads to insomnia, I should quit my two cups per day!

>>76755830 (OP)
Black tea with milk

I drink lots of sencha and herbal tea + some Chinese tea gongfu'd in the morning. Gotta drink something, and tea is fine. Heicha (fermented tea like pu'er, liu bao, fu cha) seems very promising for gut health and more, and at the higher end of quality, pu'er in particular is where the action is.

>>76761333
>Reminder to use loose tea instead of tea bags.
Whenever I have to resort to bagged teas I'm astonished at how bad it is by comparison. No wonder my countrymen so rarely see value in this drink.

>>76761986
what kind

>>76762126
low fat. i use whole fat for coffee.
why?

>>76759320
I think this study neglects how much a healthy dose of caffeine can alter a human's day. If I start my day with tea or a non-crackhead dose of coffee, by noon I have done enough to retire for the day and still come out ahead. I learned this in my late 20s early 30s recovering from hangovers that caffeine really can be used for good, but you can't overdo it with ungodly doses like those in energy drinks.

>>76760544
>YORKSHIRE TEA IS THE ONLY TEA BTW
Big Dawg coming in with facts.

>>76757062
Its probably due to the lower cortisol and better sleep
Its not really a test booster, it probably just means that tea drinkers who get good sleep have a better chance of maintainimg natural and healthy hormonal levels than a person with a penis who drinks 12 cups of coffee a day and only gets 6 hours of sleep does

>>76760457
>>76760528
>puerh
Lesbians gtfo

>>76759320
>albino rats
/fit/ ain't no cracka forum

>>76755830 (OP)
None.
I actually love inflammation

I'm inflationmaxxing right now

>>76755830 (OP)
i developed a sensitivity to tanins at some point and so one morning when i decided to brew up a bunch of english breakfast tea, drank the whole lot, felt a bit sick to my stomach, and then started projectile vomiting the tea all over the table and floor. i pretty much stopped drinking tea after that and now it call it 'english barf-fest' in honor of the event

Some herbal teas of particular interest to /fit/izens:
>nettle
Known to reduce test to DHT conversion and be helpful in treating enlarged prostates, it might also raise test through other mechanisms.
>holy basil/tulsi
Another potential testosterone-booster, but this one is also weirdly anti-fertility; like nettle, it's tasty and generally healthy but that mixed effect on sexuality means it probably shouldn't be an everyday drink.
>yerba mate
Very different from other "herbal teas" because it's loaded with caffeine. This one seems to lend itself to physical performance even more than true teas or coffee, and is a fine preworkout. Nice and cheap, too.
And a few heavy hitters for general health:
>ironwort
>Ivan-chai
>jiaogulan
>kudingcha (for the bitter-lovers out there)
>jujube leaf
>astragalus and angelica
>eleuthero

Why drink disgusting tea shit when tisanes exist, offer actual variety of flavors and aromas, have no dogshit caffeine and oxalates?

>>76755830 (OP)
how many calories are in tea?

green tea is my favorite!