Drinking tea bad for you?

[PeonyPatch]

Is drinking tea bad for you?

I must get through about 3-4 cups of tea a day, maybe even 5 or 6!! and I’m wondering if this is a bit of a pattern I need to change. Does it dehydrate you? Raise cholesterol? Am I overthinking this? Haha

I use skimmed milk and decaf - surely then it's basically just flavoured water 😂 I hope not OP, 5 cups is standard for me.

I work in a care home and most of my residents survive on just tea and would probably have a tea IV if they could! Some are nearing 100, so I don't think it's that harmful.

Well Google says no, not particularly 🤷‍♂️

It’s healthy if you drink it black apparently. My aunt has around 15-20 cups of bold k tea a day. If you need to find her just find the nearest loo!

My urologist is adamant it’s too blame for my shitty OA bladder. I pointed out that When I give up tea and drink more water I wee more. Apparently it needs 3 weeks to leave my system. That’s depressing. I’ll stick with Tena ladies

Well I drink 25-30 teas and coffees a day so I'd imagine 4 cups is absolutely fine 😂

Depends if you add sugar I guess. I drink several cups of green tea a day and it’s supposed to be very good for you. Even black tea is good. They contain flavonoids. Google it.

I’ve read that tea impacts iron absorption and friend has been told to restrict her intake. I don’t think I can - it’s all I drink!

Nonsense! I drink about 20 mugs of tea a day.

I drink mainline large mugs of tea from the time I get home from work until I go to bed. I qualified for an over 50s check-up at work this year and although I'm overweight - which won't be down to the tea - all my blood tests came back way better than average for my age somehow (the doctor actually looked rather insultingly surprised 😂). So that anecdata conclusively proves tea is good for you, obviously...

Are you perimenopausal? An increasingly overactive bladder (24/7) and night sweats were my most debilitating symptoms aside from new to me anxiety and insomnia - HRT have largely eliminated the overactive bladder and night sweats and reduced the other symptoms. Worth a try if you're not already on it and are late 30s or over.

I'm up twice a night usually unless I'm having a night of insomnia. And before anyone says that my insomnia is due to the drinks, no it's not. I've had severe insomnia since I was a young teenager. I think my body isn't affected anymore by caffeine tbh. I eat a normal amount of food.

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I’ve heard it’s good for you but then people say it’s hydrating and I know the days I don’t drink water and drink more tea I’m definitely not hydrated, I can feel it and my skin dries out

Devilsmommy · Today 15:10
I'm up twice a night usually unless I'm having a night of insomnia. And before anyone says that my insomnia is due to the drinks, no it's not. I've had severe insomnia since I was a young teenager. I think my body isn't affected anymore by caffeine tbh. I eat a normal amount of food.

Have you tried cutting it out from the afternoon though? I thought I had insomnia until I cut out my last two cups of tea and stopped screens at 6. Slept amazingly. When I drank my evening cup of tea again woke up nightly

I have a whole pot of tea to myself 3 times a day as DH is a coffee drinker. I do have decaf and skimmed milk though and no sugar. I'm not giving up my tea!

How do you have the time?

🤯 wow do you work?

You must be drinking more water in volume than tea . Tea is just flavoured hot water so your post doesn’t make sense

Desk job very close to a little kitchen!

Love tea
Try and have some decaf in there too
I was totally addicted to the caffeine. Took a week of headaches to wean off

It's good for you

It's good for you