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Thanks, everyone, I appreciate the information. Yes, I sought treatment last year for my panic attack issues and deliberately requested no SSRIs as they have had adverse and unusual side effects on me in the past. Instead, I specifically asked for a mood stabilizer that had helped me with other issu...

Glad to see this subject come up, as i have been without tea for over 6 months as a consequence of persistent and strong negative reactions to tea whenever I would drink it. The symptoms Bok describes are exactly what I get when I have a greatly distressed stomach - whether from tea or not. I had ga...

... To be clear, I have no problem with anyone drinking anything. I just had Southern iced tea, so I’ll never throw stones at a person’s choice in tea (unless they are bashing other person’s choices in tea). ... I have zero issue with people consuming what they prefer, regardless of what that may b...

The senses might be more desensitised compared to someone who eats more naturally grown and little processed food. Not smoking, drinking alcohol and meat free also seems to produce a more sensitive palate. ... Ten or fifteen years ago, I'm sure that I would have been underwhelmed by a pure tea from...

At the start of the year I subscribed to White2Tea's monthly subscription. The best thing I can say for W2T's teas is that I always finish them. None have completely blown me away - save for their 2020 ZeroSum white tea, which really was excellent - but there's never a dud. It's all been eminently d...

I think part of the blind spot is that Americans assume that marketing looks a certain way due to legal protections that shape the way it can look, making some types of marketing seem like no marketing because they have never been exposed to that style of marketing. When sales go global, however, t...

... I feel like I've said a ton and yet am sort of all over the place - basically, recommendations are a useful piece of building that model where the output is hopefully tea we will enjoy, but it's just a piece and we have to consider human limitations and psychology when using them. And I rarely ...

I think this is an interesting subject, and I agree with different aspects of what everyone else has said. As someone who comes from a sort of joint arts-and-science background, I try to apply both a scientific understanding of the limits of, and biases inherent in, human conclusion formation, on on...

Very excited that my tea from Daxue Jiadao arrived today. I was apparently the last customer to get an order placed before the the new setup/layout is implemented - originally I had inquired in late December and a variety of circumstances (my email got stuck in their spam folder, I missed their repl...

Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up. did it work? meanwhile, piracy is an option 🤫 :lol: No, I wasn't able to get it work. Netflix has gotten too skilled at preventing region block circumvention, it seems. I did find some cool...

Looks interesting. NordVPN has a Taiwanese server connection available - I'll see if I can get it to come up.

Lots of conversation here since the last time I was posting much, and lots of good points about environmental impact. I'm happy to say I am no longer purchasing bottled water to use for these experiments as it turns out that a lot of the issues i was having with my tea were due to my reflux and issu...

For those of you who try to embrace drinking the same tea many days in a row (and not for reasons of freshness, but as a completely voluntary thing), at least some of the time, is this something that has always been your approach to drinking tea or did this come much later, after earlier periods of...

For those of you who try to embrace drinking the same tea many days in a row (and not for reasons of freshness, but as a completely voluntary thing), at least some of the time, is this something that has always been your approach to drinking tea or did this come much later, after earlier periods of ...

Teas intended for chilled consumption do not have to be started cool. A little boiling water to soften and open leaves, then diluted with cool water and chilled can give a different brew. ... I use enough leaf to make the desired quantity of tea as I would brewing up hot tea--but taking into accoun...