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Friday Fun Thread for December 2, 2022

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Not going to repeat at length the "adhd ~ acting as part of a social life-path one isn't innately interested in" thing

Reading the wiki article + a few papers on theanine and anxiety, the evidence seems inconclusive.

The mean L-theanine content of white, green, oolong, and black teas were 6.26, 6.56, 6.09, and 5.13 mg/g, respectively. The same values for caffeine content were 16.79, 16.28, 19.31, and 17.73 mg/g.

Halfway through reading your post, my guess was caffeine might be the cause - and you'd expect the caffeine content of tea to have more psychological effect than theanine, given it's what people notice when they drink tea. But caffiene would tend to increase blood pressure and anxiety, does the theanine (if it has that effect) have an even stronger effect? Idk.

adhd ~ acting as part of a social life-path one isn't innately interested in

Please do explain or link.

I am quite certain that caffeine can't possibly be the reason, because I've been drinking plenty of coffee of late before switching to EG, and all it does (and ever did!) is worsen my palpitations.

Tea is quite low in caffeine in the first place, at least if using coffee as a benchmark. I assume the degree of wakefulness produced is also a function of caffeine tolerance, which would be much higher in coffee drinkers, though it certainly doesn't outweigh it enough for coffee to not be more wakefulness promoting AFAIK.