Dr. Steven Novella
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So he was this real character Londoner at this time.
He also was very anti-tea.
He was an opponent of tea.
What is going on with this guy?
He thought it was bad for your health.
So I'm not with him on that one.
And a lot of other things.
There were some other ones.
He was really ahead of his time in some ways, not so much in other ways.
He was an eccentric.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He thought that tea drinking caused bad breath, ugliness, and weakened the nerves.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, you know, same plant, you steep it, you know, pretty much the same stuff.
So black tea, white tea, and green tea are all made from the same leaf, and they all have caffeine.
They're just oxidized for different lengths of time.
Black tea, I think, has the most caffeine of the three, but they all do.
Herbal teas do not.
There are other plants, but those three— Yeah, they're not technically tea.