I make it myself as well and drink it every day. Not a miracle cure to anything, but it's a healthy beer alternative. You can tweak it so it's got a couple percent alcohol in it and tailor the flavor to exactly how you like it. It's now my much lower calorie and healthier alternative to the beer with dinner (but isn't suitable to replace beer in general!).
Kombucha Tea
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Kombucha Tea
Homeboy yonder, Brewin' Kombucha, looks a little pale and peakid.
Looks like he could use a good Tonicin'
Exceptionally fine set of SCOBYs.
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The Health Risks of Brewing Kombucha, and How to Do It Safely
https://lifehacker.com/the-health-risks-of-brewing-kombucha-and-how-to-do-it-1789891831
Floating way up firm and high.
Cheers!
The Health Risks of Brewing Kombucha, and How to Do It Safely
https://lifehacker.com/the-health-risks-of-brewing-kombucha-and-how-to-do-it-1789891831
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Never tried the stuff, but this part doesn't leave me feeling warm all over:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha#Adverse_effects
Yep, that'll give pause.
Of course one of those side effects (acidosis) also comes from lifting too much. And I actually know someone who had to go to the ER from water intoxication, so at some point you gotta realize that anything has potentially harmful side effects and figure out what the actual odds are.
It was at flight school during survival training in Florida. They kept warning us about dehydration and heat stroke, and telling us to keep drinking water. This one woman who was pretty small was probably drinking as much as the men and started to show signs similar to hear exhaustion so they told her to drink some more water. It got worse so they told her to drink more water. Then she basically passed out and at the ER they realized that she had too much water which can apparently kill you due to electrolyte imbalance or something similar. Unfortunately the symptoms of too much water are similar to too little, so they unwittingly forced her into it. No one is sure how much she actually drank, she doesn't remember much and it was a bit crazy out there to start with as part of the training. Plus she was probably 130lbs and the survival techs were used to 200lb average guys. Its not something you have to worry about if it's your regular routine, but if you decide to do a tough mudder in Florida and aren't acclimated you might end up messing up your hydration in either direction.
Scary stuff. Yes, I read that too much water/fluids can result in precarious electrolyte imbalances, especially sodium. But if the water is consumed too quickly, the kidneys can apparently get overwhelmed and waterlogged.
Whenever I come across this stuff, I keep thinking maybe I should cut back a little.
Hope it was not the instructors at a Survival Training Exercise in FLORIDA that dispensed that terrible advice.
Water is just the solvent for all the biochemical reactions that run the mill. Electrolites, SALTS of various minerals are one vital payload that the h20 solvent transports to feed the reactions, as it were. Salts excrete on a continuous basis, especially in FLORIDA Survival conditions. Krikey.
Those excreted minerals are not available for more reactions and need to be replenished just as water needs to be available in proper proportions.
If anyone's ever done construction on a slab in August, 106 degrees, direct sun from top, sunlight and heat bouncing up from the slab you're framing up from, or the like, they used to have salt tablets that'd go down the hatch with a slug of water if on any rare occasion one was needed. We'd see guys dropping once every great while, not often. Happened one time for me. Severe no-barf nausia. Green around the gills. Bugzy handed me a salt tablet. I was sceptical but 5 minutes later I was back to work kicking ass and makin' frames.
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At the ER, that poor "patient" from survival school probably got an IV drip, a pat on the back, and a "go get em tiger" from the staff. They'd seen it all before. Coulda been a demonstration on it's own. You never forgot it did you.
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