Caffiene addict!!
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
This is what I found a while back about it. What do you think about it? I want it to be wrong! LOL So, do you think that the oxalates binds to the large doses of calcium DS'ers take? That is how I read it but I could deffinately be wrong.
Oxalate content and calcium binding capacity of tea and herbal teas.
Charrier MJ, Savage GP, Vanhanen L.Source
Institute of Science and Engineering Techniques, University of Angers, Angers, France.
Abstract
Thirty-two commercially available teas consisting of green, oolong and black teas were bought from supermarkets in Christchurch, New Zealand in June 2001. Fifteen herbal teas were also purchased at the same time. The soluble oxalate content of the infusate made from each of the teas was determined using high pressure liquid chromatography. The mean soluble oxalate contents of black tea in tea bags and loose tea leaves were 4.68 and 5.11 mg/g tea, respectively, while green teas and oolong tea had lower oxalate contents, ranging from 0.23 to 1.15 mg/g tea. The soluble oxalate content of the herbal teas ranged from not detected to 3.00 mg/g tea. A regular tea drinker consuming six cups of tea/day would have an intake of between 26.46 and 98.58 mg soluble oxalate/day from loose black tea, 17.88 and 93.66 mg soluble oxalate/day from black tea in tea bags and a maximum of 18.0 mg/day from herbal teas. The oxalate intake from the regular daily consumption of black teas is modest when compared to the amounts of soluble oxalate that can be found in common foods. However, oxalate in black teas has the potential to bind to a significant proportion of calcium in the milk, which is commonly consumed with the black teas.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12495262
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "oh crap! she's up!
I was a 2 to 3 cups in the morning coffee drinker.
You may want to try the coffee's that you brew at home that have half the caf in them. Also, to get through the withdrawel of it which brings on headaches, try coated aspirin.
I know after my surgery, I was taking prevacid to coat my new stomach. I read somewhere that the caffeine would bother my new stomach, ie: acid. I tried room temp coffee, which didn't go over well with me. I felt like I was burping up a lot of acid. But I was burping a lot to begin with after surgery. So I'm not sure the coffee made it worse. I switched to green tea, ginger tea mixed with green tea. The ginger tea seemed to soothe my new stomach and kept the burping down. I stayed away from coffee for about 3 to 6 months. The green tea and ginger got me through wanting caffiene and keeping me awake in the morning. :) Then I slowly went back to coffee. However, my coffee now is the half caf blend and about 2 cups a day.