"DogMa" wrote:

Interesting comment in http://www.dilmahtea.com/web/faq.asp:
"... The human body requires a certain amount of caffeine and research indicates that up to 10 - 12 cups of tea daily
will not have any detrimental effect on the body."

This strikes me as an absurd statement. "Requires"?? And whether
10 - 12 cups would be detrimental due to the caffeine content depends
very much on how those cups were prepared. 10-12 cups of strong
tea (all first steeps of, say, 5 minutes in length and using generous
quantities of leaf ) could total in the range of 600 - 1000 mg and be
way too much for most people. This is getting into the range of caffeine
toxicity, according to most sources I have read.

I'm curious as to how much caffeine people here require, and how much they tolerate. I don't seem to require any, and
can handle the equivalent of about 10g dry leaf per day. That might make anywhere from three strong mugs of EBT to a
hundred gong-fu steeps.

If you figure 4% caffeine by weight, that's about 400 mg/day if your
steeps extracted all the caffeine. This is far too much for me, but may
be fine for others.

I find that I can tolerate less caffeine as I get older. Too much (which I
judge to be over 200 mg/day) and I feel like I'm going to explode. I'm just
perfect on what I estimate to be about 100 mg/day. And I get a dull
headache if I miss my morning cup.


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Randy