Dave Asprey

It's not full.

So what system in your body is making you pee?

It's your kidneys and bladder, and they're doing it to protect you because the toxin that's most common in mold in coffee is called ocrotoxin A, which is a kidney and bladder toxin.

That's what I had.

There you go.

I had it too in my house, right?

What that means is if you have most coffee that has OTA in it,

and you drink it, your body says, oh my God, get it out of here.

And then you pee right away, and there's like a half a cup of pee.

When you drink clean coffee, it actually hydrates you, especially when there's electrolytes and minerals like danger coffee, but it doesn't give you the pee response.

So if you want to monitor how much OTA you're getting or one other toxin from plants, the frequency that you need to pee is a really big variable.

You should pee when your bladder's full, not have to pee before it's full, unless you're getting rid of toxins.

No.

Studies show that mold toxins don't survive the brewing process.

The mold is long gone, but the poison that's left is there.

Think of it like penicillin is there, even though you're not eating the mold where penicillin comes from.

So when you do cold brew, is it limits your ability to get the, actually a lot of the dissolved good things in coffee.

So a heat extraction of any herb is going to get more out of it.

And the reason people do cold brew is because it limits some of the bitter compounds or you could roast the coffee properly and get higher quality coffee.

So you get less polyphenols that way.