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Yerba Mate.
Topic Started: Jul 18 2015, 03:06 PM (158 Views)
crow
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I've always studiously avoided this stuff, simply for not finding the name to my taste :)
But having overcome my distaste, and having researched it somewhat, I decided finally to try it.

Bought as a loose tea, I set about also buying a tea-ball, which was an adventure in itself, since all (apparently) Canadian tea-balls are manufactured in China, and thus seem not to work very well, if at all, even if they are cheap.

Finally, though, after two tea-balls and a lot of time spent with pliers and a vise, I managed to brew myself a cup or two...

Interesting, to say the least. This is an alkaloid, along the lines of a weak psychoactive. It gives a caffeine-like boost, but without the jitters.
It surreptitiously sweeps the drinker off into a very pleasant state, both alert and calm. The taste is better than other reports led me to believe it would be.
Sleep is also affected, and for the better, although it's too early yet for me to say to what degree.
I read it is packed full of vitamins and minerals, too, and for fat people, can make better use of their stored fat, rendering some weight-loss benefits.

My wife loves it, and immediately became a three-cups-per-day aficionado.

I can see how this could easily replace coffee, or at the least, cut way down on coffee consumption.

Not so much a stone, as a stone without the stone, and very benign. Pleasant, through and through.

Try it.
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Yerba seems to stimulate for many hours, on some levels, and I begin to notice it interferes with the ability to sleep.
This may be coincidental, though, so research is ongoing.

Who needs sleep anyway :)
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Brendan Brazier (Ironman competitor) uses maca to recover from yerba mate, the latter which he recommends taking sparingly.

This is from one of his books:

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Maca is an interesting foodstuff. I would recommend taking as little of it as that man recommends taking of yerba mate - but then, most people seem impossibly desensitised to everything...
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