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Can You Drink Too Much Green Tea? (www.livestrong.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/tea

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No.

Unless you're doing it wrong by like.. adding sugar or something.

Time for another cup, I had 2 large heaped teaspoons of Gyokuro this morning, now I'll have some China Jasmine.

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[–] aika 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a term used mainly for Pu-Erh teas - being tea drunk. That describes literal caffeine high invoked by ingesting a lot of caffeine relatively quickly.

Speaking from experience - the worst that had happened for me was not being able to sleep the night after drinking a lot of strong gong-fu brewed Pu-Erh teas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, also had this. I'm generally insensitive to caffeine, especially in tea, but I remember my hands shaking even, when I drank a lot of gong-fu brewed Pu-Erh in quick succession with an empty stomach.

[–] aika 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An empty stomach makes it even worse imho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that was probably the main culprit. But thankfully now I know better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not caffeine but theanine.

[–] aika 2 points 1 year ago

Chemically theanine, taurine and caffeine are the same thing.