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Now there are three really important things that you should know if you drink a lot of tea.

Normally when you think about tea you think about something that's pretty healthy and I mean it's

better than coffee right and people drink a lot of tea. In fact the great majority of the planet

drinks tea but there are three things that are just really important to know if you are a tea

drinker. Now certain teas are high in something called tannins. Now especially if it's black tea like

English breakfast tea those teas are really high in tannins. Now green tea is very low in tannins

but when you're exposed to tannins there's a couple things that happen. Number one tannins tends to

bind or keylate iron okay zinc and calcium. So if you're drinking a lot of black tea you're

binding up your iron your zinc and your calcium and then you may start experiencing symptoms of

those minerals but also tannins block the absorption of thymine B1 and B1 from IV point is one of the

most important vitamins. I've done a lot of videos on B1 but if you're deficient in B1 you're

going to get anxiety. You're going to have nervous tension. When you go to sleep at night you might

have more vivid dreams or even nightmares or restless leg syndrome but B1 deficiencies relate

to a lot of problems with your nervous system and since you're on the topic of B1 I think it's

really important to understand other things that can deplete B1 as well. Let's go to the list.

Caffeine which by the way is empty and coffee. Coffee has tannins as well. Sugar, refined grains,

sulfites, alcohol, metformin which can cause a symptom of lactic acidosis which is kind of

dangerous. So if you're on metformin you better be taking more B1 as well as B12 because both of

those vitamins get depleted. All right raw fish can deplete you a B1 as in sushi, antibiotics and

acids, diuretics, birth control pills, SSRIs as an anti-anxiety or antidepressive medication,

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