Herbal Teas to Avoid During Pregnancy
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Pregnant? Avoid these six types of herbal tea!
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about which herbal teas to avoid during pregnancy. Some teas can contain compounds that have the potential to cause complications during pregnancy. Take a look.
1. Hibiscus tea - in excess, hibiscus tea can potentially lead to delayed puberty, cause a miscarriage, and stimulate mensuration.
2. Nettle tea - nettle tea can stimulate contractions of the uterus. This is not good for early pregnancy.
3. All caffeinated teas - black, green, white, matcha, and chai teas can increase your risk of early pregnancy miscarriages due to high levels of caffeine.
4. Fennel tea - fennel tea can increase your estrogen levels, which may lead to pregnancy complications.
5. Fenugreek tea - this tea can induce early labor.
6. Licorice tea - this tea can increase cortisol levels, which can throw off your normal balance.
If you’re not sure about a certain herbal tea, make sure you do your research and ask your doctor before you have it to help avoid potential pregnancy complications.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you |
| 0:08.4 | on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. |
| 0:27.6 | Now, herbs come from plants, and plants have a lot of chemicals that can influence your body, |
| 0:29.8 | including your hormones. |
| 0:34.6 | And so there are various herbal teas that you should avoid if you're pregnant. |
| 0:37.4 | Okay, so this video is for pregnancy. Let's start with |
| 0:38.3 | hibiscus tea. It has certain phytal nutrients that can delay puberty. If consumed in |
| 0:43.8 | excess, it could potentially cause a miscarriage. It can actually stimulate menstruation. |
| 0:49.8 | So avoid this tea if you are pregnant. Number two, nettle tea. |
| 0:55.2 | This has a potential to stimulate contractions of the uterus. |
| 0:58.6 | So this tea might be good to take if you're just about ready to give birth and you want to increase the contractions, but not before. |
| 1:07.1 | Number three, all caffeinated teas. |
| 1:10.3 | This includes black, green, white, macha, chai. Why? Because there is some risk, |
| 1:17.6 | it could potentially increase the risk of early pregnancy or even a miscarriage. At 100 milligrams of caffeine, the risk goes up by 2.4 times. So I would keep your caffeinated beverages very, very low. Of course, |
| 1:31.4 | this also includes coffee. Next one is fennel tea. Fennel tea can increase your estrogen. So you might |
| 1:38.7 | want to avoid that. All right. And then we have Fennel Greek tea. Well, that's a tea that they use to induce |
| 1:43.8 | labor. So you definitely want to avoid that a tea that they use to induce labor. |
| 1:45.0 | So you definitely want to avoid that one, |
| 1:47.0 | unless you're ready to deliver that baby. |
| 1:49.0 | And then we have liquor's tea. |
| 1:50.0 | You have to be careful with liquorish tea |
| 1:52.0 | because it can increase cortisol. |
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