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Are there any actual health benefits to drinking green tea as opposed to just water?
>>35335124
yes
Yup
What benefits?
>>35335176
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Here you go senpai.
caffeine is bad tor you senpai
>>35335124
Positives:
>Small amount of L-Theanine will give you some focus
>Not as much caffeine as coffee but still enough to wake you up
>Buttload of antioxidants
>Good for controlling hunger
>1 Cup/day should help raise testosterone very very slightly by a small inhibition of aromatase
Negatives:
>Quite a bit of fluoride in the tea (The tea plant is a greedy fucker and will suck up any fluoride it can wrap its roots around)
>Not everyone is up for the flavor
>5 cups/day will actually decrease testosterone by about 25%, 10 cup by 60%! was tested on rats though: http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/12615/1/IJEB%2049%289%29%20689-697.pdf
pro tip, buy white tea instead of green tea, its the same plant, just the younger leaves, same benefits without the fluoride
i dont drink more then a cup/day since there are a ton of animal research showing it inhibits both testosterone and DHT in large amounts
>>35336959
I actualy drink quite alot of green tea, do you have some stuff to back up the fluoride thing and the decreasing testosterone? I would be open to suggestions if it's actualy true
>>35335124
I prefer camomile tea
>>35336972
On lunch break, will post research in 40
>>35337043
Cheers
>>35335124
kek
>>35336972
Fluoride content:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26647101
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749198001870
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18078704
as you can see from the third study, white tea is always lower in fluoride, same taste as green tea.
Testosterone:
>Chronic green tea consumption decreases body mass, induces aromatase expression, and changes proliferation and apoptosis in adult male rat adipose tissue.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18936213
>Rats injected with EGCG the active compound in green tea show 70% less testosterone then control
http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/endo.141.3.7368
>Rats give green tea extract daily equivalent to 5 cups of tea show a 25% reduction in testostorone production
nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/12615/1/IJEB%2049(9)%20689-697.pdf
Again, white tea, once a day is fine in my book.
>>35337421
Shit nigga, this is awesome. I judt came in the thread to learn more about green tea and learned some new info. Thanks!
>>35337421
all of these studies are cherry picked. Fucking faggot why dont you just drink your gay tea and il be here drinking what i want. dont force your way on me, nothings getting killed.
>>35337446
what the fuck are you on about, i stated in both of my posts that i still drink tea, just not a lot of it since there is a possibility that it could be bad for my gains in large amounts, and the switch to white tea instead of green tea is just a matter of grabbing the white box instead of the green box from the shelf at the store, it costs the same and tastes the same, its just has less fluoride in it.
>>35337473
stop forcing your way on other people.
>>35337486
you need to go back to reddit/tumblr or wherever you crawled out of 3/10 try again.
>>35337446
>>35337486
What the fuck is your problem you daft cunt?
I'd fucking bust your ass if you were in front of me
>>35337421
You're blaming green tea when it's a lot more fun than that. It's effect on Testosterone depends on the ratio of it's catechin content:
> EC + EGC / EGC + EGCG
Fluctuations in serum testosterone doesn't necessarily mean anything either. The drop may be due to a spike in SHBG, in which case the Testosterone molecules are still there, 'saved for later' per se, and are likely still bioactive to sone degree.
>>35336959
that stuff with testosterone is far-fetched
>>35337507
no you fucking wouldnt neckbeard.... muh flouride lol
>>35337496
stfu you newfag
>>35337530
EXPLAIN WHY you shitposter
>>35337514
im not blaming anything, i just cited some research done on rats at high doses, might not even apply to humans but i rather not take the chance, if all it takes to avoid the "risks" is not drinking a shit load of it then i dont see the issue.
>>35337421
Thanks, worth the read
>>35337514
So what should I fucking drink?
>>35337880
water.
coconut water.
juice.
not hard senpai
>>35337886
Juice? that's full with fucking sugars
>>35337905
yeah so?
>>35337923
So I don't want to get fat
>>35337929
ok, so dont get fat?
>>35337939
Ok I won't drink juice then
>>35337530
You know whats far-fetched?
Your mother whenever i pull my dick out
>>35338006
fuck off, my mom isnt actually a whore unlike your mom.
>>35337880
Water is ussually good, I like it with ice. Tea and seltzer is good but it's not good for the teeth. Non-sugar sweeteners disrupt the bacteria of the digestive track. Sports drinks are shit. Coffee is good in the morning, I put berry tea in it.
If you're White, physically active, and you lift heavy; milk. Add lactase to it if you're concerned about inflammation, bloating, or 'acne' (which I've never experienced from milk). Then you have a perfect dextrose+protein shake loaded with potassium. Dextrose is sugar, yes, but there is no evidence to suggest it is bad for you like fructose is in a state of surplus energy. Off-hand, I've seen data indicating that milk is more hydrating (not pissed our) than water, and far more than anything else.
Weston A. Price, a crazy dentist that died about 50 years before Dr. Oz got his nose job, had a hard-on for grass-fed milk. He's turned out to be right about a lot of things and grass-fed milk is creamy as fuck, doesn't seem to cause bloating. Regardless, tea isn't going to hurt you.
>>35338090
>milk
some of us have empathy bro, just switch it for almond milk or soy or any non dairy
>>35338090
advertisement for got milk had to be stopped because research showed no health benefits. But im sure you know more...
Is their a difference between matcha green tea and regular teabags? Is one more estrogenic than the other?
>>35335124
On one hand, fluoride. On other hand, it stains ur teeth pretty bad ovr time.
>>35337421
>>35337421
White tea is brewed at lower temperature, drastically reducing extraction. Actually has more caffeine in it really.
>>35338218
where is he claiming it has health benefits? you truly read what you want.
