Green tea

I gave this up years ago but I still keep hearing about the benefits would you try?

Does green tea affect thyroid medication?

While green tea contains significantly less caffeine than coffee, it still supplies 30 mg to 40 mg per cup. 4 Caffeine is known to inhibit proper absorption of the common thyroid hormone replacement drug levothyroxine. If you are taking this medication, it's best to wait 30 minutes before consuming green tea.

[greygoose]

I would wait an hour, if I were you. There should be no problem after that.

Why did you give up green tea? I don't know if it has any benefits, but I drink it from time to time with no ill effects.

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

I gave it up at that time because I was on T4 (10 years ago ) I was really suffering on T4 at that time it stopped working for me .

I stopped green tea then .

I was drinking a lot of it as I found out it was a goiterogen - probably spelt that wrong 😑

I do eat cabbage and sprouts tho ...which are goiteogens too

Think I’ll give it another go see if it can help shed some hormonal weight gain 🥺

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Yes, but when you're on thyroid hormone replacement of any sort, goitrogens aren't going to affect you. What they do is impede the up-take of iodine by the thyroid. If you're taking THR, not only are you getting extra iodine from that, but your thyroid isn't even using the iodine it has because it's not making hormone anymore. So, forget goitrogens - except soy. That's the exception.

I don't know if drinking green tea will help you lose weight - I rather doubt it, somehow, never did for me - but it won't do you any harm in moderation.

[Hidden]

Thanks for this 😇 made me happy knowing I can go back to it .

Yes it’s suppose to rev your metabolic rate up

I was also having ooolong tea. Really strong black tea 🤢 for the health benefits. It stained my teeth so badly it looked like I smoke 90 woodbine a day

[Serendipitious in reply to Hidden]

This made me laugh but it reminded me that I have a box of green tea and I should try it again. What does the oolong taste like? It’s fermented isn’t it? Thanks.

[Hidden in reply to Serendipitious]

It is partially fermented

Yes the oolong is very very strong I always had it without milk . It’s excellent healing properties as I remember but you’d need to get your teeth polished every 2 weeks or your teeth look very stained . Mine did I was alway booking in for a polish my dentist did well out of me then I stopped drinking it .

Tried white tea too as that was suppose to have similar benefits but that had a strange taste .

I’ve drunk fennel and lemon which I like , lots of peppermint and lemon and ginger . But I did fancy trying the green again

To see if it would help shift some hormonal belly 😊

[Serendipitious in reply to Hidden]

If I do recall correctly there is a positive link between green tea and oestrogen metabolism.

[Hidden in reply to Serendipitious]

That sounds positive thank you for this . It makes it even more appealing. Do you drink it ?

[Serendipitious in reply to Hidden]

No, like I said your post reminded me that I have some from a while back which I should finish off but often forget and I go back to normal black decaf tea with milk. I will try to.