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"... The human body requires a certain amount of caffeine and research indicates that up to 10 - 12 cups of tea daily will not have any detrimental effect on the body."
I'm curious as to how much caffeine people here require, and how much they tolerate. I don't seem to require any, and can handle the equivalent of about 10g dry leaf per day. That might make anywhere from three strong mugs of EBT to a hundred gong-fu steeps.
-DM
I didn't need caffeine till I got myself hooked on coffee and coke. Then I was drinking two to three cups a day of the stuff. Now I've mainly switched over to tea- usually two cups of black in the morning and one cup of green or something else after lunch. That seems to be enough. By cup I mean about 8 ounces in a mug. Toci
indicates that up to 10 - 12 cups of tea daily
This strikes me as an absurd statement. "Requires"?? And whether
10 - 12 cups would be detrimental due to the caffeine content depends very much on how those cups were prepared. 10-12 cups of strong tea (all first steeps of, say, 5 minutes in length and using generous quantities of leaf ) could total in the range of 600 - 1000 mg and be way too much for most people. This is getting into the range of caffeine toxicity, according to most sources I have read.tolerate. I don't seem to require any, and
anywhere from three strong mugs of EBT to a
If you figure 4% caffeine by weight, that's about 400 mg/day if your steeps extracted all the caffeine. This is far too much for me, but may be fine for others.
I find that I can tolerate less caffeine as I get older. Too much (which I judge to be over 200 mg/day) and I feel like I'm going to explode. I'm just perfect on what I estimate to be about 100 mg/day. And I get a dull headache if I miss my morning cup.
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