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[moonvoice]

Things I shouldn't be drinking...

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[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

you have a very cute teapot :)

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

ok I bite, can't bear the crypticness of the post. Why not???
:-D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Drinking green/white/yellow/black tea is reaaaally not good for iron absorption. Like, it's anti iron-absorption.

It's also not good for GERD, but it's mega-not-good for iron absorption.

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

oh....


that is right. How tedious for you. No pun intended.

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

er, also, what is gerd?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Gastro-esophageal reflux disease - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GERD

Wiki can explain it better than I can! But I'm on prescription meds for it.

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

oh yep, know all about that crap. We were hospitalised for gastritis a couple of times, and that was what made us so ill after our gallbladder removal: a week in hospital and -17 kilos later...

I/we tried not drinking tea or eating spicy foods. We tried EVERYTHING. And happily (?) not drinking tea didn't make any improvement so we went back to drinking it. But acidic foods like oranges we have to be reeeely careful of.

We don't tend to get much reflux to the esophagus, luckily, but it is all part of the same family of illness so we understand lots about it. We tend to get gastritis of the stomach and upper duodenum (er, think that's right) We are a PPI, (somac) as well as the older style one, Ranitidine. And if we stop taking it, in addition to literally unbearable pain, we stop being able to eat, get diarreah, lose weight, get malnourished and totally hit a downwards spiral. Yay.

The people in the hospital sent the psychiatrist around, and he said the symptoms were totally physical and needed to be treated as such, but we would never get on top of it unless we got on top of the PTSD. He was the Vietnam Vet expert. I think he was right about it all. To be honest, I think he saved our life...

Meh.

You know, sometimes it just pisses me off that my body doesn't work properly. And then I remember what Eddy says "Your body has been through things bodies weren't designed to go through." Then I feel a bit more sympathetic to my body, after all.
Er, yeah, too tired to stop dribbling off at the mouth...and too tired to not edit stream-of-consciousness into something more sophisticated
*sheepish grin*

[amorvincitnos.livejournal.com]

If you add a little lemon juice/vitamin C somehow (although yeah, that sounds weird to put into tea) it'll reduce that effect a fair deal.

Although apparently I was fibbed to before by a nutritionist who said adding milk to tea would reduce the effect of tannins (if Wikipedia is right, anyway). So I definitely sabotage myself with tea, too. But isn't it so lovely?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Lemon juice / Vit C are really bad GERD triggers. And alas, I'd be too much of an elitist to do it to my tea anyway. *blush* I don't even add milk or sugar or honey to b lack tea. Hee.

[sotepetsenu.livejournal.com]

Shit, really? I have low iron (which my doc still has not forwarded a prescription to me of... jerkoff) and I drink tea like a motherfucker. Well then.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Rooibos and Chai are fine, but anything made from Camellia sinensis not only blocks iron absorption, but can reduce the iron count in the body too.

Very crappy, no?

[sheistheweather]

A lot of chai I've had contains black tea, unfortunately.

[songtoisis.livejournal.com]

What if, instead of that adorable teacup, you drank tea out of a cast iron pot? y/n? ^~^

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only! But it would spoil the flavour of the tea. And I am a tea elitist. *hangs head*

[redsixwing.livejournal.com]

I have a cast iron teapot. It is lacquered on the inside, though, and does not leach into the tea, which I suppose is rather not the point of the above comment. X3

Your tea set is adorable, and that tea looks great.

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

That tea looks very tasty. I'm on my third mug of coffee this morning and you just reminded me to appreciate the coffee (good Arabica) and the mug more. The cup was a gift, it shows different types of leaves on it. Even more importantly (in my eyes) this particular enamel enhances the flavor of the coffee. I'm actually tempted to buy some real bone china for the purpose, too. Do you have a preference for tea making materials?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It's an oolong formosa, though I'm actually mostly drinking it right now to make room for a jasmine I ordered (I am insanely dependent on jasmine tea! I'll do crazy things for that!)

I do have a preference in tea-making materials; clay or porcelain only. I prefer oolongs and richer green teas like pu-erhs in clay, and white-tips and yellow teas in porcelain.

There is a saying that the lacquer and clay absorbs some of the flavour of the tea, so you should really only use one type of tea per teapot. I am not this finicky, but I do only brew certain teas in the above teapot, and have a glass teapot for my more fragile teas.

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

Oh see, I drink tea everyday and have gerd...didn't know it was ver boten (sp?). sucks, I don't have many other options, as I cut soda out (I drink a local soda, and ginger ale, hardly nothing else).

Need to work better on it, I sometimes think my Rx med isn't enough these days.

Lovely cup and pot though!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it's not one that is bad for everyone with GERD, but the high tannins can make it a trigger (the same thing that makes red wine, grapes and so on a GERD trigger).

[pyewackettt.livejournal.com]

The pot is cute though! :)

[luwana.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, so pretty! I want to have a teapot and little teacups (preferably matching) and have a selection of wonderful teas. So, so much.

Sadly I hate tea. I do however try to live this dream of mine through my mum. She is my tea drinking surrogate.

[earthguardian.livejournal.com]

I like this teacup.

:D