My Experience Of Drinking Green Tea Instead of Coffee In The Morning

I tried to create the Steemit logo with green tea.

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From Coffee to Green Tea

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Some weeks ago I made the change. I changed to green tea instead of coffee to start my day. I've had problems with my sleep when I drank coffee so I thought I would try change my morning dose of caffeine to come from green tea. Other than that I've aways thought that green tea is healthier. Don't know if that is true or not.

Green tea	Coffee
From China	From Ethiopa
4000+ years old	1000 + years old
Is green	Is not green
20-40 mg caffeine	100-200 mg caffeine

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Caffeine

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We all love, I think so...Some of us need it in the morning when we feel like we could easily feature in The Walking Dead. Some of us are almost dead when we wake up, and some us look like we have been dead for ages. But after that cup of dose of caffeine we turn into a super human.

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I have no idea what this gif shows us, but here you go.

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Even though the lethal dose of caffeine is equal to 100 cups of black coffee, it still has effects on our body and mind. When we wake up in the morning the body already shoots cortisol (the stress hormone) through our body, which means we dont actually need coffee in the morning

Wait what? Shut...up..I NEED IT, YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!

This is one of the main reason I changed to green tea. I thought that when we drink coffee in the morning we are actually putting our body into unnaturally shock, so by drinking green tea instead, I would sent my body into a "better and healthier" shock.

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The half life of caffeine

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When you wake up, and make your morning cup of Joe you will still have it in your body through out the whole day.

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If a unicorn drinks a cup a coffee with 200 mg of caffeine in it. The unicorn will feel the immidiate effect and start jumping around in rainbows and riding on dolphins. This effect will normally subside after a few hours, and he will start relaxing or feel a bit more tired. But the unicorn dosn't know he still have the caffeine in him/her body for many hours. Because caffeine has a half life of 5 hours. That means that if the unicorns drinks his cup of coffee at mid day, he will still have 100 mg of unicorn juice in his body at 5pm. Then take in consideration that unicorns normally drink more than one cup of coffee a day, this could really disrupt their sleep. Poor unicorn.

As the unicorn I had problems sleeping, so I tried to change from coffee to green tea.

I know it was a silly example, because everybody know that unicorns dosn't drink coffee but blood from infants.

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My experience of drinking green tea instead of coffee

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• More calm
• Better sleep
• More energy
• More alert
• More peace of mind

I feel like I am a lot more calm in the morning, and not as more in a rush. Coffee would normally make me do things in a pace that was not needed. Also my sleep has improved a lot. Because my sleep has improved I also have more energy. Normally I would wake up in the middle of the night at least one time. I don't do that anymore. It makes me more alert during the day. When I drank coffee I normally needed more cups of coffee during the day to keep the same level of alertness. This alertness have given me an increased peace of mind.

Green tea has become an important thing in my morning habits which also includes cold showers and a healthy breakfast.
I enjoyed writing this post with a cup of green tea ;)

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Thanks for reading!!

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