What does ray peat say about sweet tea?
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This brand is just water sugar and tea, is this not the most peaty drink ever created?
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Sorry for low quality post I made an account just to ask this question because I couldn't find anyone talking about it on either of the forums.
Anyways could this be a cheap replacement for orange juice? Is this a forbidden fruit banned from the peating world? -
@Zeb Nope. Not a replacement for OJ. OJ has potassium, sugar, narengin, narengenin; the last two are anti-estrogenic.
Tea, on the other hand, contains tannins, which block thiamine function. Thiamine deficiency/functional blockage will block oxidative metabolism which is about as anti-Peat as you can get.
Suggested reading: http://synergyhw.blogspot.com/2013/08/thiamin-deficiency-altered-circadian.html
also: The importance of thiamine (vitamin B1) in humans
"Vitamin B1, thiamine, is a vitamin with a multidirectional action on the human body and has long been of great interest to doctors, nutritionists and scientists. Thanks to its high biological activity and its role as an enzyme cofactor, thiamine has both direct and indirect effects on cell metabolism. Its deficiency in the human diet results in disturbances in many important biochemical and metabolic processes, such as an impaired glucose metabolism, disrupted bioenergetic processes, mitochondrial dysfunction, lactic acidosis (the consequence of pyruvate dehydrogenase [PDH] dysfunction in mitochondria), insufficient DNA synthesis due to low transketolase activity and ribose-5-phosphate synthesis in the pentose phosphate pathway and impaired neurotransmitter synthesis. " -
@mostlylurking Thank you my friend, was a good read. PEACE AND LOVE
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@Zeb you're welcome.
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I think black and green tea also has fluoride in it which antagonizes t3 some how. I still have it occasionally. Green tea has some good polyphenols that are good for the microbiome
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Ray said about tea: “The addition of lemon or milk to tea reduces the reactivity of the tannins. In recent years, the tea industry has very commonly been adulterating the product. Pu erh is one that still seems to be o.k.”
Ray said in other quotes that the tannins (a type of plant toxin) and antioxidants in tea and Yerba mate can suppress digestion. Sounds like adding lemon/milk would mitigate that. The other thing with Yerba mate is to make sure you only drink un-smoked varieties to avoid carcinogens.
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there is a guy who has posts on rpf that claims yerba mate tea in argentina poisoned him severely. now he is planning a violent revolution. guillermo something his website is called modern procer
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It's said that white teas contain less fluoride. I personally do like the taste of such teas but interestingly I've noticed they sometimes give me a stomache ache, something I normally don't get.
