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Coffee vs Green Tea?

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Which has the most potential benefit, or detriment to a PCa patient? Your thoughts?

I've read both, for both... So trying to gauge user experience or opinion. Scientific data welcome as well. I drink both, was drinking about 40oz of green tea per day, only because I'd fill my hydro flask before work and drink it throughout the day. Haven't done that in a while (2 years). But my PCa was unaffected regardless...

So here we are ;)

All thoughts and opinions welcomed...

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Cooolone

Thank you for the comprehensive links to allow for reading up on the subject! Awesome!

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Brianne07

relax and enjoy both brian

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anony2020

Some as tofu, soya etc. Both good and bad depending on the study. 🙂🙂🙂

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Garbonzeaux

For me, it's coffee 4 times a day and green tea twice a day. I also take a green tea extract capsule (mostly epigallocatechin gallate, EGCG) with breakfast. Does it help? Who knows?

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Cramlingtonboy

Before prostate cancer I drank several cups of tea daily. During ADT I couldn't stand it and moved to coffees. Once ADT ended I found caffeine of any type intolerable as it would make me jittery. Now I'm slowly coming back to tea again but only one or two as well as lemon ginger herbal teas.

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jackcop

My two cents. I drink between 24-32 oz of green tea and about 20 oz of coffee per day. Besides PCa been sick twice: Shingles and what I think was Covid (back in January, 2020 when it first started). However, I don't think it affects my PCa at all. YMMV.

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Cooolone in reply tojackcop

How do you sleep? Lol, that's a lot of caffeine :D

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jackcop in reply toCooolone

I had a head trauma when I was 21, been taking Dilantin and 60mg of phenobarbital daily, for over 50 years. That's the only thing I can think of...and I can go to sleep at will and wake up refreshed. Basically, I don't know. 😐

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ck722

Big glass of m a c a with stevia is nice. So is a big glass of apple cider vinegar with stevia. Water throughput just makes me feel better. Plain water is just too boring.

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timotur

In the mornings, I rotate between coffee and black tea, one or the other daily. Trying to keep a taste for both, yet not overly addicted to one. I enjoy tea more in the summer because it's lighter, coffee more in the winter. Several afternoons a week, I drink Japanese green tea with a few blueberries on the side. I like the version with roasted rice (gennmaicha).

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ck722

Yes, the Japanese tea has a great bouquet.

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MateoBeach

You received many responses to this, but I’ll add my take. Suggest using whichever you enjoy drinking in whatever amounts. Personally, I am only having one cup of coffee in the mornings now. As for the potential healthy benefits that both most certainly contain (even though specific effects on APC are not known), I take supplements: high potency ECGC from green tea daily. And since much of the phytochemicals potency in coffee is substantially reduced in roasting, I also take a capsule of green coffee bean extract fairly often. Keep it with my coffee pods to remember. Both these supplements have little to no caffeine.

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Islandboy2021

Definitely coffee and green tea help with boosting energy levels while on ADT.

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Cooolone

I love tea, have always drank tea, never much coffee except maybe some expresso when out dining. But have gravitated towards enjoying an morning cup of java. I will drink my green tea as well, but usually limited to the same now, a cup in the a.m., lol

I've always been high energy, high metabolism kinda guy, wouldn't do well with a few cups together as I'd be bouncing off the walls!

I just wondered between the two, if there were those who felt between all the Polyphenols, Catechins, Lipids, Esters and all the other chemistry, etc., whether or not there was a preference. It appears as with me, I drink it merely for enjoyment. Green Tea somewhat for the antioxidants too. And I do balance the caffeine as I don't need it for any boost or bump during the day. Hahahaha, is something I could never understand those who kept going back to the Keurig at the office, some 6+ cups a day...? Nuts right?

We could extend this discussion and talk about preference of coffee? Type? Same for Green Tea?

For me, Kona coffee rocks! But is a bit expensive (real stuff). I do splurge here and there for it. But mostly I have my Keurig and the Tea&Leaf Company Costa Rica blend is nice. As is their House Medium Roast blend. Just can't beat the convenience of a quick cup. But I do French Press here and there too, mostly the Kona. But the absolute BEST brewed cup is the old style electric drip, hands down! Lol...

For tea, I enjoy my Gunpowder Green Tea, various suppliers. Also do mix half with Rooibos Tea, and sometimes slip in a little manuka honey!

No milk to teas, and very little to coffee, same for any sugar in coffee, barely a half teaspoon of at all.

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