Does anyone drink green tea regularly?

[DSan]

Have recently started to drink decaff green tea - 3 or 4 cups a day. Find that I get a dull stomach pain afterwards. The extract in green tea is supposed to help reduce endometriotic lesions. I drink the organic, non chemically decaffeinated version. Does anyone else have problems with green tea?

[Jdgirl030]

I do if I drink it on an empty stomach. I get really nauseous. I tend to find drinking it an hour or so after breakfast lunch and dinner causes no problems for me.

[DSan in reply to Jdgirl030]

Thanks Jdgirl030, will try drinking it after food

[daffodil]

I drink green tea also and was told by herbalist that you must use boiled water, that has been let to cool 5minutes,not just boiled water.This is never on the instructions! The tanins in green tea can make it very bitter and I find that allowing water to cool takes the bitterness away.I always drink green tea with breakfast.I have no idea if it works on lesions but it is a great antioxidant so definitely worth having 2-3 cups daily.I only drink herbal teas now and even though I very much miss normal tea,any time I drink it(if herbals not available) I get an immediate headache and nausea.Hope this helps.

[DSan]

Thanks daffodil, I know that if you drink matcha green tea you should let the water cool for 5mins before adding to the tea powder but didn't know this for green tea bags too. I've read that some people are sensitive to the tannins in the tea so I'll also try steeping the teabag for less time.

[esbjorn]

Thank you Daffodil for the tips re cooling down!!

I've drunk 3-5 cups/day 5 days a week (ie at work instead of instant coffee or just hot water) for over a year now. It has certainly helped me in respect of inflammation and pain levels. Green tea is no panacea for the pain (instead the prostap injections have given me my life back + some hot flushes on top ;-)) but it helped me manage my pain and inflammation levels before Prostap.

I even did a comparison test by stopping drinking green tea for 3 weeks and the pain came back after approx one week and then increased back to 'normal' pre-green tea levels within 2-3 weeks. When I started back on the green tea it took approx 1 week for it to have a perceivable effect again on the pain. I could then cut pain medication by about 15-25%. For example down from 1,000mg naproxen to 750mg/day and less paracetamol and only codein 2 out of 3 days for ex. So good luck, hope that you notice the difference as well. As I drink a fair amount of green tea I try different varieties, some organic, some not, some mixed with fruits etc and I hope that this will stop it from having any other side effects. So I would definitely recommend it as having an 'angiogenisis inhibiting' effect on the blood vessels that supply my endometrial lesions and stop them from growing too much..

You may have seen this report already but if not: 'Green tea may help control endometriosis' bottom 1/3 on page endometriosis.org/news/cong...

Also;

PubMed ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/186...

PubMed ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/229...

Take care, hope you have a sunny, pain free rest of the week

[shukudai]

I'm astonished green tea is that good! as i'm japanese I have been drinking it since my childfood. i am still in pain and my painkiller is increased the dose. i drink it throughout a day and it is my main drink.

Dafodail is right that you need to cool down the hot water after boilling. better quarity tea needs cooler hot water. you need to have cooler hot water as you don't put milk in it o it will e too hot to drink if you don't cool it.

I hope you enjoy green tea. I got a hope maybe my green tea slowing down my endo.

i found chinese green tea more bitter than japanese one...

take care.

xxx

[DSan]

I found that Clipper green tea is less bitter and is also organic and decaffeinated using the non chemical method which is recommended for endo sufferers. I tried the 'cooling down' method- think it definitely helps decrease the bitterness too.

[wildflower15]

Nope. I can drink 2-3 cups a day. I'm good with it. I do other things too though.

I drink a loose green tea known to have a pretty high level of anti-oxidants. It's worth checking out how to brew it well.

Typically the water should be off the boil, so boil the kettle and wait one minute before pouring.

I deal with loose leaves so I use a small pot with a measured amount and brew for a specific time. This is to control the caffeine that goes into it. I have yet to find a decaffeinated version that actually tastes like caffeinated green tea.

If you're using teabags I find it can get very strong very fast, much stronger than in my pot, because they chop the leaves up smaller. Also, one teabag might have a quantity a little too great for a cup.

On the caffeine front, whilst I do try to keep everything to an absolute minimum to keep my liver happy, it's always worth keeping a good perspective. Coffee is obviously rammed full and tea, when examined, looks similar. But when you brew, you use way less tea than you would coffee once it's in the cup. Controlled brewing can keep it minimal.

It's worth checking out nettle tea too if you want to add some variety.

I drink Clipper organic peppermint and nettle. (The peppermint obviously benefits your digestive system). Nettles have their own antioxidant effect and a whole host of other useful jolly things in. As weeds they suck up all the good stuff out the ground and when you drink it, you get that good stuff back! Obviously for a plant like that you only ever want organic.

I like the peppermint to make it taste quite nice!