Kombucha Tea
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This weekend I haven’t been around the net much. I actually got out with the love of my life. We got a babysitter. And went over to Overland Park, Kansas in search of cheap electronics and better food. The last time was a "starving artists" art sale. Well, we didn’t find the electronics liquidation sale, but we did get some food and books.
In Phoenix, you could find whatever you wanted to find. They had a natural foods store there called Sprouts. Nothing of the sort here. So we crossed over to Kansas. We ate lunch before shopping. I thought what I got was a natural version of an energy drink.
I have considered an IV of caffeine at times. Energy drink, coffee, Mountain Dew with extra syrup, I will drink it.
But this was no energy drink. It was Kombucha Tea. I had no idea what it was, but it tasted like vinegar flavored juice. Not exactly a thirst quencher. Then as we went on shopping, I experienced something that made me want to research this as soon as I got home.
I found my validation in a Wikipedia article:
Aside from any possible health benefits, many users report a subtle but definite perceptual shift after consuming kombucha. It is generally characterized by mild euphoria, relaxation, and an overall sense of physical and mental well-being.
So it was quite a bit more than an energy drink effect. The best I can explain was energy from attitude. Yes, there was energy. But it came from the fact that I had somehow changed my attitude from one of just so-so to one of "nothing can go wrong" and "I am really overly happy to be grocery shopping". I can deal with that and never quite experienced that combination before. Energy drinks don’t touch it.
I am not one to jump on any colloidal silver, coral calcium, noni juice bandwagon but I am looking into this one further.
The commercial stuff is a little pricey to be drinking daily. But I am looking into brewing my own. It seems to be a simple process.
So how’s that for a strange tangent off of my normal blog posts. But I haven’t been thinking about blogging this weekend or technical details. I’ve been spending time with my wife, relaxing and playing with a new theme enough to give me my quota of "work". I picked up The 4-Hour Workweek on the trip and am reading that. And tomorrow starts the grind.
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Now that’s something I’ve got to try! It sounds interesting.
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Hey Stephan,
Very cool and unexpected post! I have been enjoying and recommending Kombucha for years now and it’s my “secret” method for keeping up with all the crazy things I seem to challenge myself to accomplish every day. It’s also incredibly good for your digestive process and the ginger-flavored kombucha settles an upset stomach like nobody’s business. Check out GT’s Kombucha and see if you can get it locally. It’s the best (IMHO) and has the highest active probiotic activity (it’s raw) and you can use a bottle to start your own “momma” also called a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture OF Bacteria and Yeast).
If you want to go whole hog, check out the Happy Herbalist:
http://www.happyherbalist.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=4
This is where I get all my brewing supplies and more and I think they have the best stuff.
Enjoy your Kombucha journey! Would love to hear about it later if you decide to try brewing . . .
be well,
-Zack
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Thanks for the link. I looked around a little, but that place seems to have the most variety of kits and the best price. I am pretty sure I will be brewing soon and I may look into more natural foods like this.
My dad is an herbalist, so I picked up a little. I played a little with nootropics like vasopressin, desmopression, piracetam, and selegiline. I have tried st. john’s wort, GABA, and 5HTP.
But this is the best stuff it seems. It’s like it’s a mood brightener like GHB (yes, a prescribed antidepressant in some countries despite what it is used for on the street in America), which is actually a different class of antidepressants than any of those prescribed in America.
But I have always studied what I could about the mind, both on the chemistry side and on the psychology, game theory, cultural anthopology and sociology side. It’s what seperates us from the rest of the animals and where all of our advances will come from in one way or another.
It’s amazing what the average individual doesn’t know about his own self.
I bought the kit here:
http://www.happyherbalist.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=185
Always wanting to find a way to expand the ways I make money online, I checked to see if they have an affiliate program. They didn’t but I found this site:
http://naturalaffiliates.com/
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I almost exclusively drink Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper. (Or on rare occasions, juice, milk, plain old water, or on very very rare occasions, something with a bit of alcohol in it.) Maybe it was the years of youth- oriented advertising that hooked me on …
I am big Mountain Dew drinker also and Rockstar energy drink, can’t stand the other brands. But I finally have some of this tea brewed. Awesome stuff. The home brewed type takes like Apple Cider soda, if such a thing exists and it’s packed with B vitamins and amino acids and a lot of other good stuff. Urinalysis of people who have drank it proves it flushes your body of heavy metals and other nasty stuff.
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Thank you dude..
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Cool tip. I will definitely try this. Thanks