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How much tea, as in how many cups, would be ... utterly way too much tea? (taling of the cafinated Indian variety) We keep buying boxes and boxes of the stuff, and never seems to last long... just bought another 360 Punjana teabags today... and that's without the two or three boxes of fennel tea I drink a week or the lemon balm, or the peppermint too can you have too much tea?

The Lone Ranger's trusty sidekick Tonto entered a tea drinking competition. He won first place but sadly died later that night. He drowned in his tepee.

bravo! more! more! more!

If I recall correctly, I think I heard "The Unknown Comic" tell that joke when I was around 11 years old. 11 year old me thought it was high-larious.

well I think its hillaryass too! and I'm.... a little older than that... well.... I claim that I was born in 1996.... but that is such a lie

A friend of mine was told by her doctor that she drank too much tea and it was affecting the acidity of her blood. I'm not sure that I believed this.

Me neither.... I mean, there are whole systems to regulate blood acidity, and I can't imagine a few cups too much tea per day, would be sufficient to override them...

What did the doctor base his acid blood theory on?

She had a strange affliction called spondilitis, where acidic blood affects your nerves. He attributed it to the tea.

"Spondylitis is a form of arthritis that causes inflammation in the facet joints (joints of the spine)... Several other types of spondylitis exist such as psoriatic arthritis, enteropathic arthritis and reactive arthritis."
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Acidosis can come from poor lung function which allows C02 to build up in the blood. Poor kidney function can be a factor. It can also be a complication of diabetes or dehydration or excess alcohol intake.

If someone drinks a lot of tea, dehydration is probably not the case.

I suppose the answer to the question would be determined by how much tannin and how much caffeine your system can take. In 2legs' case, there is probably no limit.

So that leaves the amount of liquid. Sipped over a day, I can't imagine there's much of a limit to that either.

So go ahead - drink your tea, as much as you like, provided it doesn't stop you doing anything else.

Have you thought that the tea consumption might be affecting your sleeping, though?

I switch, about 6 or 7 PM, up to then, its about twenty cups of cafinated, Indian tea, then its on to herbal... fennel ath the moment, sometimes the lemon balm, sometimes peppermint, sometimes cammomile, sometimes a mixture of all of them, over an evenign/night.... - mind, I don't drink the epic litres of coffee I once did, too.... - I think my steroids work quite well on their own as an explination of weird sleep combined with the dopamine and seratonin abnormalities, and the melatonin stuff its a biochemical nightmare in my body...

I might drink tea at a Chinese restaurant.

When I'm not chez les Chinoises, it's wild blackcurrant tea from Heath and Heather in Scotland -- noncaffeinated.