Raised on tea. Elixir of the gods.
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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoAs an American who wasn’t ever raised on tea of any kind but is starting to really love teas, I have to ask: how the hell do you manage to drink 8–10 cups per day without dying of dehydration? If I drink more than 3 cups a day I start to really feel dried out!
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yay thank you!
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Thanks so much for the suggestions!
Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to try out Yorkshire Tea (I’ve heard they’re amazing), they don’t ship internationally, so as I live in the USA, I don’t think that’s an option for me. :C
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Caffeinated beverages don’t dehydrate you. Yes, caffeine has a mild diruetic effect, but it’s nowhere near enough to cancel out the water in the drink.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
To be fair, although admittedly a nitpick, I will say I never said that the caffeine dehydrated you, just that the teas and tisanes do, the latter of which may or may not have caffeine.
That being said, I looked it up and yeah you’re right. The evidence does seem to demonstrate that the diuretic effect of the caffeine in teas not substantial enough to really affect hydration levels.
However, it does lead me to wonder why my body seems to dehydrate if I drink more 2 cups of tea in a day. Like, it doesn’t cause me to pee more (at least not more than an equivalent amount of straight water would cause me to pee); my body just dries out.