Posted on 03/08/2021 8:08:32 AM PST by syriacus
Excerpt: "The one interesting side effect that seems to have stuck with me, is my response to drinking tea. It actually effects my mood enough to make me tangibly angry. Yes, tea makes me angry. "
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Looking back to my teen years, I realized that some of my most irritable morning walks to catch a train to go to High School might have had a connection with having had a cup of tea at breakfast.
I can find very few online mentions of a tea -> anger connection.
Has anyone else heard of this?
Regular Tea can have more caffeine than coffee.......
You could be caffeine intolerant.....
Last I saw Britain wasn’t rioting from end to end so I’d bet that it’s not a common issue.
No, but I find this => “(Excerpt) Read more at” after one measly sentence to be at least mildly irritating.
I know that I can get pretty pissed off if I CAN’T get a cup of COFFEE in the morning.
But, tea? I have only known tea to have a calming, soothing effect on me and others I know. Then again, everyone’s body chemistry is different, so there might be something in tea that affects you.
But what would that be? Any FR chemists who would know?
> I drank a lot of tea (instead of soda) at a neighborhood pizzeria and realized I was really angry afterwards <
Was it unsweetened tea? If not, maybe the sugar is what got you all ramped up.
https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/how-sugar-harms-mental-health
Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
1. What kind of tea (peppermint tea; orange pekoe; darjeeling; Earl Grey; chamomile; etc.)?
2.With milk / cream / sugar / lemon?
3. Quantity
Etc.
Regards,
Was it true for various brands and types of tea?
The most common thread would seem be the caffeine, but obviously tea has it’s own botanical chemical profile, with higher tannic acid as one example.
If you have a mild allergy to some constituent compound, particularly if you consumed it frequently suppressing acute reactions, it wouldn’t surprise me that you’d experience an agitated mood.
Of course, tea also contains tannin. A quick Google of tannin reveals some varied effects of it. Some answers might be found there. Drink very little regular tea myself.
As someone who lost their stomach to stomach cancer and told not to drink caffeinated coffee, I have researched this a lot.
I used to love coffee but now it does not go down too well. When you have a stomach, it absorbs 50% of the caffeine and is also diluted acid-by-acid prior to introduction to the small intestine where the free 50% balance is absorbed promptly giving us that coffee kick. Without a stomach, you would be hit with its caffein kick essentially double and all at once with similar acidic impact.
Like many thinks even the decaf form no longer tastes “right” so I drink a lot of tea. Tea of all sorts.
The caffeine in tea is bound to tannins and is absorbed slowly and throughout the intestinal track. Its lower caffeine helps moderate its effect as well. Sure, you could make tea in a bitter ridiculous strength but normal black tea, like English Breakfast, is 50% the caffeine of coffee. Many White’s and Oolongs are 20% and Green tea is normally 10%. Rooibos tea is not really tea and has no caffeine. Almost all herb teas without black tea added are caffeine free.
Tea should be made with 195 degree water for black and 175 degree water for green and only 203 degree for herb and Rooibos. Steep the tea for as little as 3 minutes for green and no more than 5 minutes for black. Herb tea can steep longer.
Our US habit of boiling water with bags left in the pot is ruinous for traditional tea.
Only some of the items you mention are real TEAS.....they have to be of the Camellia Sinensis plant.
Other items like Camomile,Peppermint and the like are really HERBS and are more subtle.
https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-tea-and-tisane-231011
I found that green tea gives me some dizziness and an upset stomach. The effect lasts for several days. Regular tea, I drink on occasion. I go through about 10 ounces of leaves/year.
Tea leaves have a lot of caffeine but a cup of tea has less than half the amount of caffeine than does coffee. Also, caffeine from tea is delivered more gently and over time than the jolt caffeine from coffee delivers.
http://coffeeandteacorner.com/caffeine-in-tea-and-coffee/
All in all, there doesn’t seem to be a reason for anger to arise from tea more so than coffee.
Makes me want to throw it all into the harbor!
Tea is very dangerous.
An Indian Chief was fond of drinking a lot of tea.
Once, after a great victory he drank more tea than he ever had before.
They found him dead the next morning - in his Indian tent.
Took me a while to catch on.
....Capt. Oblivious
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