Yerba Mate

[abrader]

So this friend of mine from the islands got me drinking this stuff from South America called Yerba Mate....

I have had a few different kinds over the years in neo tea shoppes etc but never this real 100% kick ass stuff twigs and all from the rainforest....

So you gotta drink it out of this gourd thing - which is kinda strange for some....

I have one of these...



but some more common 12-15$ gourds look like...



Anyway you pour a ton of this yerba mate stuff into the gourd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate

followed by some cold water to make the herbs and twigs etc swll - then you pour in some hot but not boiling water....you stick that bombilla things which is basically a silver straw with a cage on the end to filter out the twigs and such into the gourd and drink the mate which ends up tasting like dark bitter green tea coffee - the kind I have tastes as strong as expresso....

Anyway - I cant even explain how different I feel - I went from a $7 redbull habit to a $8 matte habit and its a better caffeine boost, I get the nutrients of a multi vitamin and just about every aspect of my health feels improved.

I highly recommend trying it - !

Not sure how long till I get burned out - the boost is actually far from the only reason I like redbull (AKA the champaign of energy drinks)

[abrader]

that was $7 per day on redbull vs $8 per week for Mate

[abrader]

Holy hell guys - no love for The Drink of the Gods?

ineral: Potassium (high levels), Magnesium (high levels), Manganese - (high levels), Calcium, Iron, Selenium, Phosphorus, Zinc
Note: traces of aluminum and arsenic are found, as well.
Vitamins: A, C, E, V, B, B1, B2, B3 (Niacin), B5
Compounds: Carotene, Fatty Acids, Chlorophyll, Flavonols, Polyphenols, Inositol, Trace Minerals, Antioxidants, Tannins, Pantothenic Acid, Amino Acids (15 of them), PhytochemicalsSuperfoods”, Saponins
Note: 196 volatile chemical compounds found in Yerba Mate (144 are also found in some teas). The infusions of Ilex paraguarensis are less astringent than those made of tea.
Alkaloids: caffeine, theophylline, theobromine - most interesting compounds from a therapeutic standpoint.
Components: water, cellulose, gums, dextrin, mucilage, glucose, pentose, fat substances, aromatic resin, legumin, albumin, xanthine, theophylline, caffearin, folic acid, caffeic acid, viridic acid, chlorophyll, cholesterin, essence oil.
Ashes contain great amounts of potassium, lithium, folic, sulfuric, carbon, chloric, citric acids “

According to Dr. Mowry, Director of Mountainwest Institute of Herbal Sciences, one group of investigators from the Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific Society of 1964, interested in this “Drink of the Gods”, did a thorough study of its properties and concluded that Yerba Mate contains “practically all of the vitamins necessary to sustain life” They focused especially on Pantothenic Acid, remarking that it is “rare to find a plant with so much of this significant and vital nutrients…It is indeed difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to Mate in nutritional value.”

[Eric P]

interesting but it sounds like too much of an investment in time and equipment to try something like this blind

[abrader]

interesting but it sounds like too much of an investment in time and equipment to try something like this blind

Well my green tea drinker is all silver and was $170 - but i couldn't very well carry a gourd to the office with me - people would think it is a bong or something.

You can guy gourds and bombillas to drink green tea for like under $20 - and that really all you need besides the matte.....

MAKE sure you do not buy repackaged matte =- the shyt I get comes straight from Argentina sealed in bags with their agriculture stamp.

When you get ripped off and pay $5 for 2 oz at a tea shoppe you dont know how old it is etc...

They need to have smoked it for 2 years and then there is a 6-8 month period when the nutrients are at peak levels.