#Theanine

[munaeem]

Tea vs L-Theanine: Which Is Better for Relaxation?

Should I Drink Tea or Take L-Theanine? When considering whether to drink tea or take L-Theanine supplements, it’s essential to look at the benefits of each option. Benefits of Drinking Tea Natural Source of L-Theanine: Many types of tea, especially green tea, contain L-Theanine naturally. This amino acid can enhance focus and promote relaxation. Antioxidants: Tea is rich in antioxidants,…

[snarp]

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[figofswords]

wow I didn’t think reblogging that tea post and then seeing people’s tags would deal me such strong psychic damage. come over I can fix you I can find a tea you will like. “I don’t like tea” how can you say that as a blanket statement when there are so many vastly different kinds of tea. head in hands

[friday-tea]

Tea Chem 101: L-Theanine! What is it, why is it good for you, and how heckin delish is it? 🍵🧬

In my bowl: Sugimoto Estate Ceremonial Matcha

[1teeth]

When u fuck up the medicine cocktail and go evil instead of sweetiepie

[smallestdogswilldie]

just took like 8 vitamins and im scared for some reason

[sleepyrays]

thinking about doing some home redecoration, which print would you recommend?

thats a scary question. i would just go with whatever best matches the type of decorating youre going for. take colors and themes into account for sure. any choice is a good choice methinks

[aquarivenus]

pro tip if you like to consume excessive amounts of caffeine like i do (i am currently getting clean from prescription stimulants and trying to combat the extreme fatigue) get urself some l-theanine and take it with your coffee or energy drinks. it helps offset the jitters and works synergistically to make u more productive cos it calms you down. god bless and godspeed

[kemetic-dreams]

The addition of caffeine (100–130 mg) to commonly prescribed pain relievers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen modestly improves the proportion of people who achieve pain relief.

A systematic review and meta-analysis from 2014 found that concurrent caffeine and l-theanine use has synergistic psychoactive effects that promote alertness, attention, and task switching; these effects are most pronounced during the first hour post-dose

Moderate doses of caffeine (around 5 mg/kg) can improve sprint performance, cycling and running time trial performance, endurance (i.e., it delays the onset of muscle fatigue and central fatigue) and cycling power output. Caffeine increases basal metabolic rate in adults. Caffeine ingestion prior to aerobic exercise increases fat oxidation, particularly in persons with low physical fitness.

Caffeine improves muscular strength and power, and may enhance muscular endurance. Caffeine also enhances performance on anaerobic tests. Caffeine consumption before constant load exercise is associated with reduced perceived exertion. While this effect is not present during exercise-to-exhaustion exercise, performance is significantly enhanced. This is congruent with caffeine reducing perceived exertion, because exercise-to-exhaustion should end at the same point of fatigue. Caffeine also improves power output and reduces time to completion in aerobic time trials, an effect positively (but not exclusively) associated with longer duration exercise

Chocolate derived from cocoa beans contains a small amount of caffeine. The weak stimulant effect of chocolate may be due to a combination of theobromine and theophylline, as well as caffeine. A typical 28-gram serving of a milk chocolate bar has about as much caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee. By weight, dark chocolate has one to two times the amount of caffeine as coffee: 80–160 mg per 100 g. Higher percentages of cocoa such as 90% amount to 200 mg per 100 g approximately and thus, a 100-gram 85% cocoa chocolate bar contains about 195 mg caffeine.

Regular consumption of caffeine may protect people from liver cirrhosis. It was also found to slow the progression of liver disease in people who already have the condition, reduce the risk of liver fibrosis, and offer a protective effect against liver cancer among moderate coffee drinkers. A study conducted in 2017 found that the effects of caffeine from coffee consumption on the liver were observed regardless of how the drink was prepared

In moderate doses, caffeine has been associated with reduced symptoms of depression and lower suicide risk. Two reviews indicate that increased consumption of coffee and caffeine may reduce the risk of depression

[penguinpyro]

boobo

[returnsandreturns]

i had a twenty minute zoom with my psychiatrist and she upped my lithium dosage because apparently i am suffering from symptoms or something

[bandofchimeras]

hoy got back on all my vitamins and supplements and feel normalcy returning to my brain do not underestimate the power of weird fucking carbon compounds to drastically affect your sense of whether or not life is worth living

[woodsteingirl]

guy who was just a second ago feeling like he was going to literally die voice ah well. c’est la vie i am going to listen to my musical and look at sims four custom content because this will bring me joy and peace………

[acelessthan3]

Taking my chill pill, sending this text that I have no reason to be anxious about but I am anyway, and going about my day

[thatmentalhealthguru]

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[harmonic-psyche]

I didn't realize that this kind of executive dysfunction had a specific name in autism. In the psychiatric literature I usually see it called low/poor/impaired “task-switching,” “attentional switching,” or more broadly “cognitive flexibility.” But I do like the name “inertia” because IME that is often how it feels.

Autistic inertia is probably just as common in ADHD, and probably experienced in basically the same way. “No differences in EF [executive functioning] were found between individuals diagnosed with ASD and ADHD” in a meta-analysis study trying to tease out differences between them, including on tests of cognitive flexibility.

50%–70% of autistic people have ADHD, making the conditions very frequently comorbid. Both are also highly (genetically) heritable, and both involve (itself extremely heritable) executive dysfunction.

Improving your task-switching and overcoming inertia is probably best accomplished the same way that we treat other kinds of executive dysfunction: stimulants like Adderall, caffeine (especially taken with L-theanine), and Ritalin. After all, unmedicated kids with ADHD are worse at task-switching than neurotypical kids, but ADHD medication makes their task-switching equivalent. Ritalin “selectively enhanced the children's ability to rapidly and accurately switch between tasks.”

IIRC exercise, nutrition, and (especially) getting enough/consistent sleep also help to improve task-switching.

…and yes, I did write this post while struggling to switch to a different task. Namely, my actual job. Heh. Hooray for autistic inertia…

Autistic Inertia is an autism experience that makes it hard to start, stop, and switch tasks.

It somehow doesn't get talked about enough - so I made this comic!

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Also, if you want to read the research study I based this comic on, it’s right here!