The reason why tea drinkers appear calmer is because tea (as in from Camellia Sinensis plant - the actual real tea) has L-Theanine in it, which is a relaxing, anti-depressive, calming amino acid that works in synergy with caffeine that gives you alertness, but that alertness is more gradual and calmer, and weens off slower as well, avoiding the crash. I used to be an avid coffee drinker but as life has become more stressful, adding even more to that stress started to feel counter productive. My drink of choice at home now is always black or green tea, and I will drink coffee only when: 1) I REALLY need that jolt (like waking up very early) 2) Socially once in a while. For me, it has become not a regular drink, but an "occasional" drink so to say. I think Coffee is great when taken for when you really need it. But a lot of people would benefit from going to tea for their go-to drink at home.
The nicest thing a person can do is make you a cup of tea without you asking. One of life's simple pleasures is having a cup of tea with somone special.
I always drank tea, switched and became a coffee addict in 2017. I only drank coffee...I quit nearly 2 weeks ago, returning to tea, reducing caffeine intake by about 70% in the process too. Now I feel very calm, clearer headed, easy to concentrate, no anxiety/stress, shoulders are relaxed, sleeping very well. I'm very glad I switched back and kicked the addictive cycle of coffee...it is a false friend, false energy.
I’ve been off regular coffee for over a week now, been drinking either mushroom coffee (much less caffeine) or green tea. I have ADHD and am a massive overthinker. Since off it, I haven’t felt any anxiety or felt like my brain was racing a 100 miles a second. I feel like an absolutely changed person.
I switched to tea a few months ago and my mood overall has improved , I’m less anxious , I don’t need mid day naps because I don’t have crashes anymore and Ive been sleeping better . My wallet also loves it as tea is much cheaper than coffee and I don’t need to waste money on buying creamer since I just need a splash of milk . I too hope to see more of tea culture !
I'm right there with you.🍵 To each his own, but personally I find it calming to start my work day with a cup of decaf green tea or vanilla chai, then invigorating to have a cup of matcha tea in the afternoon after lunch to reenergize myself and to then end my night with a cup of self soothing stress therapy tea, which is a flavorful blend of lavender, cinnamon and chamomile.🍵🫖😌 Like coffee, no two teas are alike so it's always best to experiment with which ones are most enjoyable and beneficial to you.💛
LSD never took much in Cuba, a dose taken after a Cuban double expresso could be the factor. Then there's Santa Cruz, California mountain hippies & bikers. Neil Young knows. So does Mari in Watsonville & her Café de Olla. Jangling? Is that like Cumbia
Yeah it can mess with your circadian rhythms in terms of energy stability. One cup every so often surely becomes a cup a day, then two cups a day, and boom you’re a fiend looking for your next hit
@@michaelschramm1064 Matcha does contain caffeine but it also contains theanine which helps reduce stress and anxiety and can help improve sleep. Though someone sensitive to caffeine shouldn’t consume it right before they sleep.
@@JT-zy2ft Yes, the L-theanine levels are key, endemic in matcha owing to young, first or second flush leaf selection. I consume matcha in morning or midday regardless.
I've gotta say the great thing about caffeine not affecting me is that I just get to enjoy the flavours of coffee and tea without worrying about anything
I agree with all of this. I drink matcha lattes and Yerba Mate mixed with chai lattes. No coffee for me but I MUST have my caffeine in the form of tea!
It can be attractive for addictive personalities for sure but I think tea is more habitual ritual than it is actually addictive by itself. Plus majority of teas have various health benefits so net positive imo. Go without for a day or two you might itch for it but it’s not intense withdrawals like coffee where you feel utterly useless unless you have a cup
Tea is so much better. It’s more versatile, it tastes better, there are more flavours, there is no horrible caffeine crash. I love tea and hate coffee.
Bravo…I’ve always felt the same way. For the most part, coffee is basically coffee wherever it’s grown. Japanese green tea alone has so many distinctive taste sensations, whether it’s sencha, matcha, gyokuoro, kukicha or genmaicha.
I know I would take my nutritional advice for someone who's 150 lb overweight actually coffee has tons of polyphenols and it can reduce fatty liver if if you drink it black
Colonial America had British influence, so Colonial Americans drank tea. After the American Revolution, drinking tea was considered “unpatriotic” and the early Americans switched to coffee, hence the coffee culture. But I think we’ve come a long way after 2 centuries. Time to bring back tea!
@@simondemirjian1075 It’s amazing how many people seem to fail to understand the backstory to the 1773 Boston Tea Party. Colonialists were peeved because they felt like pawns in Great Britain’s plot to save the East India Company and their tea exports by purchasing it at cost and then foisting it on the Colonists, enacting a tea tax and also sidelining their efforts to purchase from other sources.
I drink both no crash ..it's the overbearing caffeine like for Expresso or over..and I don't relate to to what issues caused I'm mellow 😂that's not related
Ohhhh noooo😳 Real healthy organic coffee, brewed properly absolutely does not bring those behaviors. It’s all the mold, and chemicals in badly processed coffee that gives coffee a bad rap❤️
The beverage of choice in the original colonies was overwhelmingly tea in the 1700s, owing to cultural ties to the British crown. As a furtherance of defiance of England making a unilateral decision to have the colonists consume tea purchased ONLY from the East India Company, colonists did indeed spill the boxes of tea and gradually gravitated to coffee. But they were HUGE tea consumers up until 1773.
@@hituw2x4 The Boston Tea Party was focused on the MONOPOLIZATION of tea. The colonists wanted a say where their tea was sourced and the British monarchy was having none of it.
@@iplaywhatiwant3738 I feel quite confident that an MD and graduate of Harvard Medical School would be well apprised on the Revolutionary War. In all likelihood Dr. Weil would inform you that the Boston Tea Party of 1773 was an open rebellion against the British crown holding a monopoly over the then Colonists as to where their tea was sourced-namely from the East India Company. Great Britain purchased many tons of the tea at cut rate prices and then levied a tax on its retail purchase in the Colonies, excising access to other sources of tea.
@@abrahamvanhelsing6723 It was indirectly over taxes. Ironically, the tea the British crown procured from the struggling East India Company would have been cheaper overall all, since they purchased large volumes at a reduced price. What the Colonists resented was being used as pawns for King George, being locked out of other sources of tea.
@@abrahamvanhelsing6723 Every time I try to explain what the British Crown did to the Colonists TH-cam scraps my comments even though it’s written within a simple and concise historical context.
@@bunnybun3353 No…they were drinking tea. What the colonists rebelled against was tea foisted on them from the source the British crown wanted-tea from the East India Company. In other words, the issue was free market manipulation.
@@marutinandan182 The Boston Tea Party was about HOW the colonists tea was sourced and monopoly ploys by the Crown-nothing whatsoever to do with tea being “foisted” on them.
The reason why tea drinkers appear calmer is because tea (as in from Camellia Sinensis plant - the actual real tea) has L-Theanine in it, which is a relaxing, anti-depressive, calming amino acid that works in synergy with caffeine that gives you alertness, but that alertness is more gradual and calmer, and weens off slower as well, avoiding the crash.
I used to be an avid coffee drinker but as life has become more stressful, adding even more to that stress started to feel counter productive. My drink of choice at home now is always black or green tea, and I will drink coffee only when:
1) I REALLY need that jolt (like waking up very early)
2) Socially once in a while.
For me, it has become not a regular drink, but an "occasional" drink so to say.
I think Coffee is great when taken for when you really need it. But a lot of people would benefit from going to tea for their go-to drink at home.
Every word he is saying is 💯
Agreed 😊
Uncle Iroh still advocating Tea
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Top quality humour 😂
The nicest thing a person can do is make you a cup of tea without you asking. One of life's simple pleasures is having a cup of tea with somone special.
I always drank tea, switched and became a coffee addict in 2017. I only drank coffee...I quit nearly 2 weeks ago, returning to tea, reducing caffeine intake by about 70% in the process too. Now I feel very calm, clearer headed, easy to concentrate, no anxiety/stress, shoulders are relaxed, sleeping very well. I'm very glad I switched back and kicked the addictive cycle of coffee...it is a false friend, false energy.
Bro u can drink black tea or milk tea
Agreed! And tea taste better !!
Exactly! I agree with you buddy and tea does taste great especially Red Rose Tea
Which is the tea I drink
I found that tea (green and earl grey) makes me alert without overthinking. Coffee just tends to make me crash and stress out.
I’ve been off regular coffee for over a week now, been drinking either mushroom coffee (much less caffeine) or green tea. I have ADHD and am a massive overthinker. Since off it, I haven’t felt any anxiety or felt like my brain was racing a 100 miles a second. I feel like an absolutely changed person.
London Fog! Let’s Go!!!!! 🌫️😶🌫️
I switched to tea a few months ago and my mood overall has improved , I’m less anxious , I don’t need mid day naps because I don’t have crashes anymore and Ive been sleeping better . My wallet also loves it as tea is much cheaper than coffee and I don’t need to waste money on buying creamer since I just need a splash of milk .
I too hope to see more of tea culture !
Lazy - go for coffee.
Active - go for tea .
I wish him well with his health, he has helped a lot of people. 💕🙏
I'm right there with you.🍵 To each his own, but personally I find it calming to start my work day with a cup of decaf green tea or vanilla chai, then invigorating to have a cup of matcha tea in the afternoon after lunch to reenergize myself and to then end my night with a cup of self soothing stress therapy tea, which is a flavorful blend of lavender, cinnamon and chamomile.🍵🫖😌 Like coffee, no two teas are alike so it's always best to experiment with which ones are most enjoyable and beneficial to you.💛
LSD never took much in Cuba, a dose taken after a Cuban double expresso could be the factor.
Then there's Santa Cruz, California mountain hippies & bikers. Neil Young knows. So does Mari in Watsonville & her Café de Olla. Jangling? Is that like Cumbia
Hospitalised with gastritis, so coffee had to go. Wow I'm calmer without it
I am coffee lover
@@djharddone5130 I’m a tea lover.
No crash with Tea...
Lol I'm one unhappy grumpy bum if there's no tea in the cupboard. 🙄
growing up native american. we LOVE TEA! we start drinking it quite early as kids actually. Bush tea made over the open fire is the best!
Tea without sugar is phenomenal.
So true, tea without any added ingredients allows you to taste the full range of flavor
I agree. I switch between tea and coffee often and do that because coffee seems to have a negative effect after drinking it for too many days in a row
Same! Too many days in a row of coffee and I’ll start not sleeping well and just get random pain all over.
Yeah it can mess with your circadian rhythms in terms of energy stability. One cup every so often surely becomes a cup a day, then two cups a day, and boom you’re a fiend looking for your next hit
Im addicted to both. Coffee in the morning and green tea or matcha at tonight.
@@JT-zy2ft Top grade ceremonial matcha has nearly the same level of caffeine as coffee
@@michaelschramm1064 Matcha does contain caffeine but it also contains theanine which helps reduce stress and anxiety and can help improve sleep. Though someone sensitive to caffeine shouldn’t consume it right before they sleep.
@@JT-zy2ft Yes, the L-theanine levels are key, endemic in matcha owing to young, first or second flush leaf selection. I consume matcha in morning or midday regardless.
i like tea instead of coffee because its more soothing to drink overtime
Switched from being a coffe drink for years to the cup of green tea in the morning 2 years ago... haven't gotten sick since and feeling really good
Who is this dude ? He sounds like a good man to listen to.
Dr. Andrew Weil, bestselling author of books on natural medicine and a graduate of Harvard School of Medicine.
@@michaelschramm1064 Thankyou 🙌🏻
We need a tea culture in the UK instead of pubs. Like the Turkish tea houses 😍😍😍
The UK doesn't have tea culture? 😂
@@grassytramtracksthat's literally
@@grassytramtracksthere's more coffee drinkers than tea drinkers.
@@grassytramtracks Not anymore they don’t. Have to visit Ireland to witness tea culture in Great Britain.
Always been a tea fan. Maybe because I grew up drinking tea. 🫖
I've gotta say the great thing about caffeine not affecting me is that I just get to enjoy the flavours of coffee and tea without worrying about anything
I agree with all of this. I drink matcha lattes and Yerba Mate mixed with chai lattes. No coffee for me but I MUST have my caffeine in the form of tea!
In south asia 99% political arguments occur in tea-stalls
What on Earth is a “Tea Stall”? Sounds like a barn.
black tea The main Chinese black teas include: Keemun black tea, Lapsang souchong, Jinjunmei, and Dianhong.
My cuban family raised me to drink coffee & tussle! 😂
lol same here i feel like we def dont fit into this team group of what could be. we drink coffee literally after dinner lol
any time of the day and does now affect us with the "crash" afterwards lol we got different blood
I was raised drinking tea but coffee was occasional.
I’ve never watched this channel before. I’m a straight male but damn the host of this show is so handsome 😂 good for you bro. You look good 👍🏼
Santa hitting us with knowledge
Very true
Green tea 🍵
I'm a tea addict 😂
Same…
Totally isn’t obvious…
It can be attractive for addictive personalities for sure but I think tea is more habitual ritual than it is actually addictive by itself. Plus majority of teas have various health benefits so net positive imo. Go without for a day or two you might itch for it but it’s not intense withdrawals like coffee where you feel utterly useless unless you have a cup
I love tea 🙏❤️
❤
Same. If you drink tea strong, dark the way that coffee is, you will feel extreme stimulation. In moderation it's good.
Yes every time I go into a cafe I feel like I’ve been teleported into a dive bar, those wild and crazy coffee drinkers 🤬🥊
i so totally agree 🌻
Hey good point
When I think of tea I always think of Iroh lol
Real shit…
Yeah I love my boba tea
I have a cup of coffee in the morning and 2-3 cups of matcha the rest of the day.❤
The closest thing to coffee that I can drink is cappuccino. The only thing I like about coffee is the smell.
People say don't drink coffee at night , but my body says even if you drink saudi arabian coffee it won't stop me from sleeping 💀
Tea is so much better. It’s more versatile, it tastes better, there are more flavours, there is no horrible caffeine crash. I love tea and hate coffee.
Bravo…I’ve always felt the same way. For the most part, coffee is basically coffee wherever it’s grown.
Japanese green tea alone has so many distinctive taste sensations, whether it’s sencha, matcha, gyokuoro, kukicha or genmaicha.
I’m thinking of starting to drink tea as coffee has been making me very jittery and anxious recently. I don’t know where to start with tea.
@@Hbm1923 Start with sencha, matcha and gyokuro. Purchase the top grade varieties of these exceptional Japanese green teas.
Tea is better than coffee
😂Yeah, TEA!
@@Alan-71351yeah, laugh! 🌾🌾🌼🌻
We have a better option try using Arjun tea along with your regular tea and see the wonderful changes.
I know I would take my nutritional advice for someone who's 150 lb overweight actually coffee has tons of polyphenols and it can reduce fatty liver if if you drink it black
Man, I could use some earl gray right now
What about the Boston tea party?
LOL
It's not north america . It's british culture
Colonial America had British influence, so Colonial Americans drank tea. After the American Revolution, drinking tea was considered “unpatriotic” and the early Americans switched to coffee, hence the coffee culture. But I think we’ve come a long way after 2 centuries. Time to bring back tea!
@@simondemirjian1075 It’s amazing how many people seem to fail to understand the backstory to the 1773 Boston Tea Party. Colonialists were peeved because they felt like pawns in Great Britain’s plot to save the East India Company and their tea exports by purchasing it at cost and then foisting it on the Colonists, enacting a tea tax and also sidelining their efforts to purchase from other sources.
Uncle Iroh!
That tea really works. He's only 25
i strongly recommend the Chinese pure tea, like pu er tea, white tea, black tea. you will feel calm.
no flower no sugar no milk
I find the top grade Japanese green teas like sencha, matcha, gyokuro, etc to be the zenith for taste, sustained energy, mood enhancing and more.
I drink both no crash ..it's the overbearing caffeine like for Expresso or over..and I don't relate to to what issues caused I'm mellow 😂that's not related
“I don’t wanna bash coffee”…;then proceeds to bash coffee
Yessssss
Hum
Coffee are cigarettes
Tea is more like pipe tobacco.
What is he on about? The british started wars over tea
Boston tea party incident
What is the name of this man? 🤔
Andrew Weil, MD Harvard Medical School graduate and author of many books on wellness.
This guy is talking fact’s
this guy: coffee is addicting
UK: hold this cup of tea.. and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one. what's for lunch? tea?
Why does the old man looks like charles darwin
@@Jasonvoorhesss He’s a medical doctor, steeped in the field of nutritional biochemistry. Andrew Weil probably holds Darwin in high esteem.
brother it’s just a drink
@@than3500 Not to the Japanese it isn’t. They hold their tea in greater reverence than the French and their damn wine.
Hmm....political activism.....*Boston Tea Party*
WEED= Soma
Ohhhh noooo😳
Real healthy organic coffee, brewed properly absolutely does not bring those behaviors. It’s all the mold, and chemicals in badly processed coffee that gives coffee a bad rap❤️
@@stanleepalmisano7116 No matter what, coffee still doesn’t contain healthy constituents to prevent jitters and crashing, like L-theanine.
The Boston tea party would like to have chat with u 😂😂😂
The beverage of choice in the original colonies was overwhelmingly tea in the 1700s, owing to cultural ties to the British crown. As a furtherance of defiance of England making a unilateral decision to have the colonists consume tea purchased ONLY from the East India Company, colonists did indeed spill the boxes of tea and gradually gravitated to coffee. But they were HUGE tea consumers up until 1773.
Santa
I wish it was easy to move away from coffee 🥺
@@fitnesschef94 Purchase high grade Japanese gyokuro green tea-the caffeine levels are near identical to coffee.
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What is his name?
Andrew weil....
This dude is known for being into health but his belly says other wise....
Isn't he a health guy? Why does he have a big gut?
Who is this guy?
Dr. Andrew Weil, graduate of Harvard Medical School and a bestselling author of numerous books focused on holistic health.
How is political activism bad? Is he against the enlightenment?
Drink less caffeine
OMG…..if ever a snippet proved ‘Doctored’ Abs to be a shill…..
A cup of coffee before the Boston Tea Party
@@hituw2x4 The Boston Tea Party was focused on the MONOPOLIZATION of tea. The colonists wanted a say where their tea was sourced and the British monarchy was having none of it.
There's a come down w tea....
Fun fact: "Coffee doesn't affect me. The caffiene just gives me a mild headache. It's the same with cake and chocolate."
I feel like his opinions would look different if he knew what the Revolutionary War was
@@iplaywhatiwant3738 I feel quite confident that an MD and graduate of Harvard Medical School would be well apprised on the Revolutionary War.
In all likelihood Dr. Weil would inform you that the Boston Tea Party of 1773 was an open rebellion against the British crown holding a monopoly over the then Colonists as to where their tea was sourced-namely from the East India Company. Great Britain purchased many tons of the tea at cut rate prices and then levied a tax on its retail purchase in the Colonies, excising access to other sources of tea.
If you’re referring to The Boston Tea Party, then you should know that it was about taxes and not the tea itself.
@@abrahamvanhelsing6723 It was indirectly over taxes. Ironically, the tea the British crown procured from the struggling East India Company would have been cheaper overall all, since they purchased large volumes at a reduced price. What the Colonists resented was being used as pawns for King George, being locked out of other sources of tea.
@@abrahamvanhelsing6723 Every time I try to explain what the British Crown did to the Colonists TH-cam scraps my comments even though it’s written within a simple and concise historical context.
were the Bostonians drinking coffee when they threw the tea in the harbor? 😂
@@bunnybun3353 No…they were drinking tea. What the colonists rebelled against was tea foisted on them from the source the British crown wanted-tea from the East India Company. In other words, the issue was free market manipulation.
Just don’t drink any of the 2, take back your life.
@@BeautifulMan4015 Right…like the sencha green tea consuming Okinawans, many of whom are centenarians, LOL.
People were loud and violent even before coffee, it probably revved it up a bit, but tea also has it draw backs as well. Both can make people sick.
What are teas drawbacks?
@@missmarmalade790 Tea is anything steeped in water, it could be anything. Even nature made/makes people sick and die.
Why do all tea advocates come off so pretentious?
@@randomnumbers84269 So what? There are no Frappuccino or macchiato snobs…?
Uhhhh who is associating coffee with argumentative behavior? What a quack
Boston tea party 😂? Very calming and meditative and not argumentative
@@marutinandan182 The Boston Tea Party was about HOW the colonists tea was sourced and monopoly ploys by the Crown-nothing whatsoever to do with tea being “foisted” on them.
All I hear is: ”I’m a fat guy!”
What I hear: A bestselling author and graduate of Harvard Medical School.
BS
Feel fairly certain that a graduate of Harvard Medical School knows a tad more than you.
Dumb
What is this guy even talking about 😂
I hitchhike occasionally, when someone gives me a ride I give them a couple of sealed tea bags as a token of my appreciation of their generosity 🙏🫖❤
This is crap. I am severely addicted to tea.