Re: Coffe/Green Tea---pulse, blood pressure

[Guest guest]

There is nothing good about coffee except the taste, and I don't even

like that because it leaves a yucky after-taste in my mouth. It's

another of those multi-billion, maybe even trillion dollar businesses

which must be perpetuated because of how much money it makes.

Decaffeinated coffee? That seems to me like " no-alcohol " " beer. " Is

it even actually beer if it has no alcohol? And what is the purpose

of drinking it if it contains no alcohol? None, really.

Green tea has plenty of caffeine, though it does have significant

anti-oxidant benefits. There are naturopaths and other health

professionals who feel the negatives of caffeine in green tea weigh

too heavily against its benefits. They recommend things like red

raspberries/red raspberry powder, stinging nettle and other

plants/herbs.

I was taking 7 capsules of green tea daily for weeks, and have found

that my resting pulse, taken first thing in the morning before

becoming active, has risen from 60 to about 82! My blood pressure,

last time I checked it, was 133/83, which I believe to be just into

the danger zone. There are other possible factors, such as my having

been down with serious bronchtis/sinusitis for the last 6 weeks, and

my not having exercised much at all during that time. But I do not

think the green tea extract did me any good in that regard.

I have been off green tea extract for about 3-4 days now, and am back

to exercising and the bronchitis has calmed down considerably. I am

waiting to see if my pulse and blood pressure come back down.

Elliot

> >

> > drinking a green tea is always better than coffee. Just look in

a

> coffee cup and you can see

> > what ends up in the pipes ! I am using honey rather than brown

> sugar. Any reports on how

> > honey is for cancer(against it or not) ? I am down to one

cigarette

> every hour and a half to

> > two hours now. fourth day of reducing the nicotine intake.

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I would be careful concluding a cause-and-effect relationship from a

coincidence. Barring repeatability (and even there expectation might come in), a

better indicator might be how it makes you FEEL on a deep level.

Tea is noted for a soothing effect -- which is what I always experience (whereas

coffee, which I don't drink, except for an occasional decaf, gives me a VERY

unpleasant buzz), so I would be a little surprised if it were responsible for

the effects you mention, but individual effects can obviously vary.

I really think that the caffeine in tea works differently than that in other

contexts for most people, but again, anything's possible, especially on an

individual basis.

P.S. What would be the purpose of drinking beer without alcohol? -- a pleasant

fermented beverage.

> > >

> > > drinking a green tea is always better than coffee. Just look in

> a

> > coffee cup and you can see

> > > what ends up in the pipes ! I am using honey rather than brown

> > sugar. Any reports on how

> > > honey is for cancer(against it or not) ? I am down to one

> cigarette

> > every hour and a half to

> > > two hours now. fourth day of reducing the nicotine intake.

> > >

> >

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