Dr. Diego Bohórquez

And it's not as bitter as mate, but it has almost as much caffeine as coffee, and it has antioxidants and other compounds, which give you this very smooth experience.

So natives in the Amazon,

They take a drink of Guayusa every morning around 4 a.m., between 4 and 6 a.m.

They wake up early.

They actually call it, yes.

Yeah.

Some people understand that joke.

They call it the Waisa Upina Ura.

the hour of the Wayusa and is ritualistic drinking of the Wayusa in the morning and where they talk as a family of the issues that they have had the days before or the weeks before, like either with other communities within the family, if they have to reprimand or reprimand one of the children or talk to them about like some mistakes that they're making and then they plan the full day of activities.

by drinking wayusa.

And around 5.30, because they will boil the wayusa, right?

And they keep boiling the wayusa and they just keep adding water to it.

And then around 5, 5.30, then they will have what is called a bowl of chonta.

And chonta is this...

palm date, very rich in lipids and fibers.

So they will have the guayusa because the guayusa, they say, that gives them energy.

It heals any pain.

It shuts down appetite, so they will eat at like 3 p.m., you know, shuts down, modulates appetite.

As does Yerba Mate.

And then if you combine that to Chonta, which gives you the lipids,