A cup of Earl Grey 'as good as statins' at fighting heart disease, study finds

Telegraph ^ | 3/30/14 | Alice Philipson

[zeugma]

BFL

[LambSlave]

I’ve heard about Republic of Tea, but never tried. Have to check it out; I like very full bodied teas with a touch of bergemot, but not enough to completely overpower the base tea.

[kitchen]

We stock Taylors of Harrogate, Typhoo, PG Tips, and Republic of Tea, but Taylors is the only Earl Grey we carry. Their 50 loose bags is a better bargain than the 20 “sachets” package. You might try a box from Bigelow, Choice Organic, Numi, Revolution, St. Dalfour, Stash, Tazo, Twinings, or Zhena's and see if any of them appeal to your tastes. Personally, of the teas we don’t carry, I think Twinings makes good stuff, Tazo does not impress me, and the others I‘m ambivalent toward.

For black teas one should use boiling water, steep for roughly 5 minutes, and remove the tea bag. Other teas may be best at 160 or 180. (Coffee water is best at 185, so expect that temperature if you order a cup of tea while dining out. Blech!)

If you’re still looking for more, drop an email to Metropolitan Tea Company Ltd., tell them what you’re looking for, and get a recommendation and a local source. I believe their teas are as good as it gets, at least in North America, but expect to pay a steep price for a quality improvement you might not taste. Sorry, I‘m away from the shop, on a netbook, and don‘t have access to my account.

[LambSlave]

I’ve tried Bentley’s, pretty good, although the base tea lacks boldness for my taste, I like traditional Brit/Irish style teas. I find Stash to be a bit weak on the tea and a bit overboard on the bergamot, but it is drinkable. Concur on Teavana. Haven’t tried Ahmed.

[blam]

"Statins have caused me nothing but trouble, to the extent that I stopped taking them. I’ll try the tea; what have I got to lose?"

Same with me.

[LambSlave]

Thanks for the reply! I’ve tried Twinings (fairly good), Bigelow (not quite as good), Stash (aaargh), and Tazo (as bad as Stash). I get the loose bags (240 or 160 count) of Taylors, and it is very good! I like very bold, old-world tea with a touch of bergamot.

[The South Texan]

I think I just rather have a shot of Grey Goose instead.

[JoeProBono]

I make my own blend

[MHGinTN]

I'm almost 69 years old. I have lived a good life mostly because I emjoy 'rituals'. Tea is a ritual. The first present I bought for my first wife, as an engagement present was a beautiful little blue tea pot. She could make great scones, so we had this little ritual of afternoon tea and scones and intimate conversation. I miss that woman so much ... but I digress.

There are lots of rituals in life that should be observed, to bring deeper meaning to living than just floating through. I'm convinced one of the aspects to drug addiction is the ritual shared with other addicts. They even have little paraphernalia assigned just for their ritual.

There are deeply spiritual rituals too. Like making love to your wife under the covers of a warm bed on a cold night. And the Eucharist, where one opens the soul to The Lord and receives absolution and embrace from the One in Whom The Grace of God resides.

[trisham]

I love Earl Grey tea.

[Yaelle]

Make sure you all understand the cholesterol myth, please. Yes, you can lower numbers through diet, but focus on true health, and know the good that cholesterol does for you.

http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/the-cholesterol-myth/

[peteyd]

I will at times use the Tazo conc.which is one of the best.
Never made chai from scratch ,but the Indian nurse I work with seems to enjoy the Stash chai.

[Salamander]

Lipitor camethisclose to crippling hubby so he stopped taking it, finally listened to me and switched to lecithin.

A year goes by and he gets his annual blood work and the doc is thrilled with his cholesterol.

Says “Keep doin’ what yer doin’! The Lipitor is working!”.

So we told him what we’d done.

His jaw hit the floor.

He stopped *his* Lipitor and bought lecithin, too.

Stuff is like Drano for your veins.

[beelzepug]

Is that a presciption or is it available in places that sell vitamins and such?

[steve86]

Probably been noted in the thread already that CoQ10 often can fully alleviate the myalgia problems. It did for me.

Regarding lecithin's efficacy lowering LDL, the following quote is typical:

For many years it has been thought that lecithin, a lipid found in the cell walls, can lower blood cholesterol. However, there is little evidence to support this claim.

[Salamander]

Plain ol’ lecithin capsules available in any grocery store or vitamin store.

Get the 1200gr and take a couple a day.

GNC sells really good lecithin granules you can put in food and never know it’s there.

They are, IMO, the most effective form.

Flush you right out.

:)

[Salamander]

I don’t give a flying flip *what* “they” say.

The hubby had a 3x CABG and I can’t afford to gamble on things that do not work.

Lecithin works.

Decades ago, my ex had massive hereditary cholesterol levels and I fed him the granules every day.

He went from a count of 500+ to 200 in less than a month.

Come to find out I could’ve killed him by dropping his levels that fast.

Unless you are buying the *Ubiquinol* form of CoQ10, you are just throwing away your money.

Himself still takes a big dose of that too and it was what ‘fixed’ the muscle and leg pain caused by the rat poison aka Lipitor.

“They” say nothing but drugs work because the drugs are obscenely profitable.

Lecithin is cheap.

A month’s supply is less than $20.

Lipitor finally tried to cover its arse by adding a piddly amount of CoQ10 to the pills to avert ~more~ lawsuits.

They -knew- it sucked it out of peoples’ bodies, causing them to drop dead but sold it anyway.

[Salamander]

^This^

[woodbutcher1963]

Help me out.
I too am tired of the statin Russian roulette.
Every one that I have tried eventually gives me muscle soreness to some extent.

I have seen CoQ10 in CVS/Walgreens. What is the Ubiquinol ? Is this the same thing as Lecithin?

[steve86]

Ubiquinol is a largely sales-created term for the “active, non-oxidized, higher absorption” (more marketing) of CoQ10. In fact, you just take a higher dose of the regular kind (much cheaper) and get the same effect. I have used both.

I would strongly caution you to be skeptical of getting technical information from someone who says “I don’t give an F what (the scientists) say” and I nearly killed my husband.

CoQ10 (several varieties) is very competitive at Costco.