How Much Tea Can You Drink Before Your Bones Crumble

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[@nickharrison1477]

The guy above me is cool 👆

[@Style_224]

I want it but too expensive

[@kawayanan_art]

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[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

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[@APerson-ru6il]

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[@rayyt5566]

She had hyperteaemia. “Hyper” meaning high, “tea” referring to the beverage, and “aemia” meaning presence in blood: High amounts of tea presence in blood

[@sophierobinson2738]

She made >a< recovery.

[@sinon4]

based utata-p fan

[@OrlandoAponte]

@@sophierobinson2738 Nothing hurts more than the "a"

[@sneak1677]

Bri'ish blood be like

[@heheheiamderpmatter375]

r/unexpectedchubbyemu

[@pan1884]

I cannot tell you how relieved I am as a fan of black tea with skeletal pain to hear her dosage was 100-150 tea bags a day. I no longer worry about the 4 cups I tend to have. Good gravy.

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

i like tea as well, tho... that makes me think : is the tea we buy these days all natural ? or it has things added into it ?

[@digiquo8143]

@@itsMe_TheHerpes Depends where you buy it from. Big name brands might have some additives to enhance the flavor and give it a particular taste that competitors can't replicate. If you want all natural tea, you need to either grow it yourself or buy it local.

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

@@digiquo8143 true.... tho the real reason why additives are added these days is a lot darker than just "taste and competition" lol

[@kahimoon3638]

@@itsMe_TheHerpes better to grow it, it taste a lot better, at least for me. Haha

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

@@kahimoon3638 i never met a person who grows tea before. wanna be friends ? 😁

[@stopstopstop5361]

As someone who goes through 3-4 single tea bags daily, I’m just glad about the vast difference in quantity between that woman and I.

[@lostinme3191]

I used to drink 10-12 mugs of tea a day and in my opinion that was super high but this woman is just insane. Wonder how much was her monthly slending on tea

[@hananeqorar2510]

@@lostinme3191 I still drink that much of tea around 4 to 15 depending on the day 😅

[@lostinme3191]

@jdmguy2056 teaine not coffeine. Is even stronger. But who said we do not drink water etc? Cranberry juice you said, I hope you not mean the one from the stores what contains 1000000 of sugar per liter of juice.

[@edwardelric5019]

I have 2-3 a day.

[@kenhaze5230]

Between that woman and *me

[@taylordiamond]

150. Bags. Of tea. One Hundred and Fifty. In one pitcher. A day. Every Day. Was 80 bags too weak for her? As she added in the 120th bag into the brew she asked herself "Is this too many?" and her answer was "Not nearly".

[@ODST626]

My reaction too. I was like oh. A pitcher a day. That seems a bit excessive but all right. "Each pitcher had 150 bags of tea" Welp time to toss that stuff into the harbor again

[@FreakMeat74]

It's just a pitcher of pure tea leaf concentrate at that point lol probably almost sludge-like.

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

Right? I can’t imagine using so many tea bags in a single pitcher! How much was she spending on all those bags every month? OMG!

[@encro]

Assuming an Extra Large Pitcher of 1400 ml and 1 teabag per 80 ml, then that's about 17 teabags to get a standard brew. 9X Strength 🍵😮

[@floydlooney6837]

This is fine, she thought

[@edletts2219]

A friend of mine was drinking over 40 cups of coffee a day, when all of a sudden the trees and plants outside his house jumped through the window and started dancing around his bedroom. He went to the doctor and told him that he hadn't been taking LSD, or anything, but the trees and plants outside were dancing around in his house. The doctor took a blood test and when he got back the results back asked how many cups of coffee did he drink in a day, anyway. My friend said over 40. The doctor told him cut it down to two. The trees stayed in the yard after that.

[@notagain2856]

Must be pretty hard for him to go through caffeine withdrawal

[@NoNamer123456789]

@@notagain2856 just imagine the headache

[@businesschicken8699]

Sounds like your friend was taking in wayyy too much caffeine and suffered from extreme sleep-deprivation. I have a...mild condition that causes me to have this reaction easily after just two or three days of getting barely any to no sleep. In most people it takes 4-5 days of this to start genuinely hallucinating and acting "off". As in delusionally. I imagine the high levels of caffeine itself also worked in over-stimulating an already exhausted mind and body for such a long period that he started suffering from the effects of a stimulant OD, like taking too much coca*ne over a week-long bender after losing your job and your wife and half your house, money and possessions all in one weekend. (Not a personal experience, but I'm sure it's happened just a few times at least)

[@edletts2219]

@@notagain2856 He probably made up for it in packs of cigarettes smoked.

[@minicrushies]

:UM: h... how long was he drinking 40 cups a day for?

[@nodlimax]

Did no one ever explain to her the principle of "every food/drink becomes poison if you consume enough of it"? Even if you drink excessive amounts of water it will cause problems as it causes minerals and other essential things to be "flushed" out of your body.

[@Mrbfgray]

As young kids mom would have a "tooth pill" at every chair at breakfast, tiny nice salty tasting pill. We were on well water without any fluoride so the pills, presumably proper dose, made up for that. No one else we knew did that, we had no cavities into adulthood and no stained teeth.

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

Okay, so, I like tea, so I came here to check how close I was to the danger zone. Turns out, this woman is around a hundred times more of a tea drinker than I am. Whew.

[@Logitah]

Same! Let's toast with our teacups for moderation!

[@heyheymrpostman9631]

@@Logitah Cheers to healthy habits! ☕️

[@phantommaster4923]

Amen my brothers, to healthy tea habits!

[@drenawalker]

I drink my share of tea too but NOT 40 cups a day! I much prefer water or the occasional fruit juice. I DETEST soda-never TOUCH the stuff

[@Quagigitymire]

This seriously had me pondering the potential destructive nature of my 4 tea bag a day habit. Anyone know a good inpatient treatment center? Can't kick the lemon ginger dragon alone...

[@baburik]

she became addicted. this kind of strong tea has intoxicating effect. in Russian jails it's called Chifir (or Cheefeer - during USSR times getting drugs into jail was next to impossible, so prisoners had to be industrious, but even they knew better not to drink it every fn day).

[@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

Tea have caffeine. And it's an addictive.

[@zextac6014]

Yea

[@birdgirl8390]

I can't imagine drinking such a concentrated tea. I make really good tea, well at least I like it a lot lol and sometimes I lose self-control and keep making me one tea after another. There's nothing like drinking yourself into an anxiety fit 😂

[@notagain2856]

Caffeine has diuretic effect. With the amount of tea she drank each day, she must be peeing quite a lot even at night.

[@TheJSherriff]

I'm like brew. Prefer coffee myself.

[@galadrhim1]

I lived in Japan. Very old women were permanently hunched over. They could not stand up straight as their spines had deteriorated. It was common knowledge that green tea was the cause. English black tea is made from the same leaves, just processed differently.

[@asloppyjoedonut9616]

Soooo green tea is bad? How much overtime is bad and did all these old ppl have other issues wrong with them? Seems weird to just say it's tea..

[@johanhallgren]

Fluoride is always bad for the body and mind. Sugar is what is causing tooth decay. If you don't eat sugar you don't have to brush your teeth more than two times a week to stay healthy.

[@Bruce_Wayne35]

Green tea has many health benefits. Black tea also has certain health benefits. I wouldn't cut it out completely. Perhaps cut back a bit if you drink a lot.

[@Bruce_Wayne35]

@@johanhallgren Yes, I recall reading about a woman in a book called "The Town Without A Toothache." She didn't even own a toothbrush, but she had no cavities at all. She drank lots of raw milk, which is known to help your teeth build a strong resistance to cavities. Her teeth were dark-colored, but she had no cavities at all.

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

there's no such thing as naturally white teeth, it's always slightly yellowish or even brown depends on what one consume

[@hfreeman330]

Me: A pitcher with a few bags seems like a lot but not a completely unreasonable amount... Brew: ...100-150 tea bags every single day Me: THAT'S A LOT OF TEA!

[@matreen427]

I wonder how she got the budget to brew more than one box of tea everyday

[@Pengalen]

Ah, this saves me from needing to watch the video. I was like, uh, one pitcher of tea is not that much.

[@MammalianCreature]

@@JaiyanNaveed Their kettles would break.

[@karoshi2]

Boxes of black tea here have 25 bags usually and cost around 3 USD. Thus 100-150 tea bags would have cost roughly 12-18 USD per day. That's a lot, yet not unpayable. Neither from the US nor UK, so take this calculation with a spoon of sugar. _badum chah_

[@dwavenminer]

🇬🇧🎩 ☕🧐 That's alot of tea...

[@DoctorAzmain]

Such an interesting story! Fluorine is a poisonous gas, yet the ion fluoride prevents tooth decay. Sodium is a reactive metal, and chlorine is a poisonous gas, but sodium chloride (table salt) is vital for our survival. Your main message here is so important - everything in moderation is key. And a understanding of basic chemistry helps too!

[@rockspoon6528]

Fluoride is poisonous, and the EPA recognizes it as such in their water potability regulations. There is no valid evidence to back up the absurd claims that indiscriminately poisoning the general populations drinking water improves dental hygiene.

[@kaiseremotion854]

dihydrogen monoxide is what ya gotta look out for too! 100% of people who have consumed it have died :3

[@rockspoon6528]

@@kaiseremotion854 >.> You're not helping anyone with the 6th grade chemistry jokes.

[@The_Man_In_Red]

@@rockspoon6528 Bro you don't like toxic aluminum/steel production byproduct in your water? That's insane!!

[@KattMurr]

@@rockspoon6528 thank you for mentioning that!

[@johnb7337]

I researched this subject for a tea blog post and all of this sounds right. The main risks for overconsumption of fluoride relate to drinking a very high level natural water source or combining high level tea intake with consumption of fluoridated water. Working through the numbers isn't that complicated; it's summarized in two Tea in the Ancient World posts. About two liters of tea a day might max out standard caffeine limit levels, or maybe a bit over that, and depending on sensitivity and body size that might work for a rough limit range for fluoride too, although it's been awhile since I've went through all of it. It's better to not ingest a lot of any one thing on a consistent basis; striving for balance works out better than a "more is better" approach.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

I was wondering about the caffeine as well. A quick google search told me, a cup of black tea (presumably 1 bag) has about ½ the caffeine of a cup of Coffee. That means she drank about the equivalent of 50-75 cups of coffee every day.

[@lisapop5219]

I startled my husband with a loud OH MY GOD when they said how many teabags she used per day. I love unsweetened tea but I never used more than 8 and I didn't drink it in a day. I can't imagine how awful it tasted

[@UnrealObject]

yeah, this sounds more like a ocd thing. 100 teabags a day isnt something a non-ocd human would do

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@UnrealObject As a human with OCD, I don't think it's an OCD thing. There's no mention of her having anything else that could be indicative of the disorder, and I kinda doubt that this one behavior took up 2 or more hours of her day, which is the minimum amount of time consumed by OCD-type behaviors required to be diagnosed with the disorder. That, and and she listed a range, not a specific amount. People with OCD that relates to having to have things in certain quantities usually have VERY specific numbers or sets of numbers that their brain deems acceptable, not something as loose as a range. I say this as someone who's brain gets mad at her anytime she doesn't quite have time to read a number of sections of a book that is not divisable by three. Did this woman have a mental health problem? Possibly, but we don't have enough evidence to just throw a random diagnosis at her based on a single behavior, especially one that could just as easily be the result of some sort of misguided belief in health benifits...

[@TheSimArchitect]

I don't think I ever had more than 20 bags in a single day either. But not black tea, I like fruit (yes, it has some black tea in it because it's cheap, but you get the point) or other herbs tea like mint or lemongrass.

[@lisapop5219]

@@TheSimArchitect I love herbal tea too. Right now I'm loving peach as well as corn silk flavors. I like switching around. When I make a pitcher I do 1/2- 3/4 regular tea and the rest herbal to save costs

[@TheSimArchitect]

@@lisapop5219 Interesting. I would rather have no "tea" in my fruit tea, to be honest. I am not so sure about chamomile, lemon grass, mint and others that some of us might even have planted in our gardens. Glad I didn't take many of the 1mg fluoride pills I ordered from Germany because water in Europe doesn't seem to be fluorinated and I was afraid that is why I started having cavities after moving from Brazil.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Chunbyemu called. He wants his emia back.

[@chriswiddajonathan8941]

yeah, i noticed

[@UmuPadoru]

loool

[@hellstoastt]

BR is a 25 year old man presenting to the emergency room with hypercaffemia. Hyper, meaning high, -emia meaning presence in blood. High caffeine presence in blood.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

They should somehow do a crossover

[@LikaLaruku]

I want a crossover. XD

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

I'm just surprised it wasn't all the caffeine that made that woman end up at the Doctors. A cup of black tea has only about ½ the caffeine of a cup of Coffee, but that still makes her daily pitcher the equivalent of 50-75 cups of Coffee.

[@girla9480]

Huh, I thought I was a tea addict, drinking a whole pitcher a day made with two entire heaping teaspoons of loose-leaf tea. Some days tea would be my entire liquid consumption. Turns out I'm just a smalltime tea afficionado, but it's good to know how much it takes before it becomes a problem.

[@victoria7t]

Right? I mean up against her we barely touch the stuff.

[@clauday6467]

I only drank tea in 13 years as replacement for water

[@NoahGooder]

"drinking a whole pitcher a day" this is curretly my regular choice tho I do it the southern USA way where the tea is much lighter

[@shizukagozen777]

@@victoria7t 😂😂😂

[@got2kittys]

I have whole weeks in summer that I only drink iced tea. Or tea and lemonade.

[@azuill1126]

"Drank one pitcher of tea..." Oh, that concerning, that'd be what, 5 or so cups? Sometimes I think that much tea in a single day. "Made with between 100 and 150 teabags" Oh never mind then

[@Nuratikah96]

Exactly me. I drink like 3 to 4 teabags every single day. Thats like a pitchers worth. I was so worried 😂

[@SwankiestPants]

Same, I drink between 3-5 tea bags in a pitcher per day so I got spooked for a sec there, but assuming the fluoride never dissipated she drank for 17 years at 100 per day so at 5 a day I'd be fine for 340 years or so if my math is right which knowing me it probably isn't

[@KaySkywalker]

I was going to say. I drink 1 to 3 cups of tea a day but 100 to 150 bags a day??? Thats a lot

[@shadowyct]

@@Nuratikah96 SAMMEEE

[@arthena2130]

@@SwankiestPants Except the water was definatly saturated with how much tea it could absorb way before that.

[@alexanderdrude4265]

In Russian prisons, there is a tradition of preparing and consuming a very similar drink - Chifir. It i probably even stronger, though. Chifir is addictive (that's why the lady kept drinking it) and after prolonged consumption, it can cause similar effects to those described in the video, like falling out teeth.

[@MannyBrum]

This leaves me with one question- how many bags of tea does it take before a pitcher of water cannot absorb anymore? I feel like she would have gotten the same strength with fewer bags of tea, but how many?

[@voidremoved]

good point but if you really want to know, you need to know exactly how much water is in the pitcher as well as what the water is... The quality of the water she used to make the tea...

[@DarthGangsta]

This is a question for a chemist

[@sonic_wave_6031]

Time to open our Science school books !

[@MK-ti2oo]

I was thinking the same thing - although I'm not sure the saturation threshold of water for tea, there'd be a precipitate of some kind once every molecule was fully saturated. I'll probably never test it to find out lol.

[@kucinglaper]

Ideally one bag of tea is enough for a cup.1 cup/glass is usually around 250 lml while most water jug is around 1-2 litre. Let's say she has an extra big pitcher of at 5 litre then she'll only need 20 bags (8-10 for the 2 Lt one). By the way the healthy amount of water per day is around 2 Lt for women.

[@syriuszb8611]

What's weird for me is, if you want so strong tea, why use tea bags instead of leaves? They are more economical, better tasting and at this point, it would probably be easier to use leaves.

[@jaharileah]

Because you are using the tea leaves their just in a mesh bag.

[@kirin1230]

@@jaharileah If you're using 150 per day, I guarantee you the leaves on their own would be easier

[@ismata3274]

One can even ask if her brew had more tea or teabag constituents? Like microplastics, adhesives and the like.......

[@MollyHJohns]

​​@@ismata3274 this is probably why it happened to her like this, even if only one of the reasons.

[@kuuhgle]

@@jaharileah no, tea bag leaves are all the cheapest leaves and way worse quality

[@tanyabrown9839]

I have severe fluorosis in my teeth so the enamel of my second teeth when they come up were covered in brown marks and severely pitted to the point that my teeth had to be capped. This was caused by when I was a child, my mother had a container of raspberry flavoured fluoride tablets, so I'd sneak into the bath room cabinet to eat one or two at times as they were like little lollies.

[@shannond1511]

Wth did she have them for? And she should’ve prob kept them somewhere else…

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

I would eat the blue half of Mentadent toothpaste but I don't think that's the half with fluoride in it

[@francescagreetham1804]

After hearing it was 100-150 teabags I’m feeling incredibly relieved, but now I’m super curious to know HOW you brew that many teabags. How big was her jug!

[@VigilanteAgumon]

In recent years, the level of fluoride in drinking water has been reduced in the U.S. to offset the increase in fluoride in toothpaste and mouthwash.

[@Suzi195]

Also fluoride treatments that kids are given at some schools and at the dentist at least once a year.

[@TheMadisonHang]

@@Suzi195 your school gave flouride treatments? My Good God,

[@ghoust592]

@@TheMadisonHang yeah and that's how my teeth became a dentist's nightmare... we should like... try using alcohol or something idk

[@Elijah-cy9do]

Was really surprised to find out that this happened in Detroit and not Britain

[@Fightingforthelost]

"The only difference between medicine and poison is the dosage."

[@shinji_6]

My question is how she can drink that much, without vomiting

[@monke6912]

no gag reflex

[@nicolelewis5237]

@@monke6912 nah. I mean, I love tea but if you have too much tea in your stomach it could mess it up. Even if I had a gallon of reg tea over the day sometimes I would get nauseous over it.

[@Hayden11]

It's weird what the human body can put up with. Like people with pica who eat sand, or weirder things that aren't meant to be edible.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

It's over the course of a day so it's not as insane as you seem to think

[@aspirespire8847]

Ya I drink A cup of tea a day because it gives me good memories of my grandfather spending time with me but a whole pitcher would make me sick.

[@natetheavali784]

My grandma has dental fluorosis because of the high levels of fluoride in the water in Newdale, Idaho. A VERY small town. Only 337 people. She still experiences dental problems to this day, in her 70s.

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

I mean farming areas and small towns are often known for having high levels of fluoride.

[@mementomori845]

I almost had a heart attack when Brew said that the woman had a pitcher of black tea a day, as I usually drink two every other day. Only to be quickly followed by relaxing immediately after.

[@lolaartemis]

I really, really hope this is an inside drug joke.

[@brandonparsons7568]

Yeah I think it was more the 150 tea bags in one pitcher 😂

[@fbksfrank4]

If I’m not mistaken, 150 is a box.

[@Hitsugix]

@@fbksfrank4 oO 150 is one box? our black tea here (germany) comes in boxes of 20 - 30, depending on the brand. :D

[@luckytenor34]

I love how Brew stopped saying the disclaimer and “Let’s get into it” and everybody made their disappointment known so he had to compromise and stick to the “Let’s get into it” to appease the angry mob

[@bungiefan]

Also, portraits of real people have noses now. That was sudden. Guess someone complained about them being missing...

[@3DLasers]

Isn’t that what Rodney King said ? “CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET IT ON ?” I guess that would explain the population boom in Los Angeles after the riots huh ? Fascinating, just quite fascinating indeed… 🤔

[@IsaacCampbell-dx5gf]

So we are not gonna talk about how Brew perfectly spoke like chill at 2:07

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

This is why we bigfoots dont drink that much tea out here in the woods

[@o0o-jd-o0o95]

hey .... i thought i saw you the other day but i didnt . just be careful 😁

[@EricLeafericson]

I hope when your finally allowed to have your ancestral intelligence back, you spare us pathetic humans. You have my support, SCP-1000.

[@lameeon1919]

Whose phone did you steal bigfoot

[@ColonelSandersLite]

Huh. Would've thought you guys where down with the whole southern sweat tea thing.

[@Blackjack3905]

What about Pine Needle tea! It's good for you

[@tjiloveconducting]

My family seems to have a genetic predisposition that is adverse to the use of flouride. We used xylitol wipes and toothpaste on my infants until they could learn to spit the toothpaste out then we switched to flouride. Within six months, they has developed six cavities each. It took us trialing the dentist recommended high flouride toothpaste and developing six more cavities before we decided to STOP its useage. We only use xylitol toothpaste now and have gone years with no cavities. Flouride is definitely not all-user friendly.

[@artemisameretsu6905]

I feel this, I switched to xylitol toothpaste, Mr squiggle lol, bc other brands were giving me canker sores. I even stopped brushing my teeth for a time bc every time I did within days I'd have another sore 😔

[@nomoredream7689]

My family got a flouride allergy. It turns our teeth yellow and we get spots on our teeth

[@marcietownsend3635]

Fluoride is rat poison.

[@ruthie_rosario]

I stopped chewing xylitol gum all day long in between meals and wondered why I got 4 cavities in a matter of 2 years that progressed quickly, and 2 more cavities a few months later, even though I floss after every meal, use a top notch electric toothbrush, and even use prescription high fluoride toothpaste religiously. I even only drink water for beverages and 10 cups a day at that. My diet hadn’t changed either. So how is it that I went 9 years without a single cavity or even the slightest sign of tooth decay? Turns out that stopping my chronic gum chewing lead to this issue. Who would’ve known that I could’ve saved myself $3600 worth of dental work if I would’ve just kept chewing my Icebreakers cinnamon gum (it uses xylitol & is sugar-free).

[@slimjim7411]

Or just use baking soda. They did a long term study in China on 2 villages 1 they added flouride to the water, the other they left alone as a control. The results were the village with the flouride in the water suffered more tooth decay problems.

[@CMacK1294]

So, I think one of the most interesting things I heard on the subject of fluoridation of water: The main argument seems to be 'low income areas/families/individuals benefit from it' and while there's likely truth to this. . . "People with mental instabilities and imbalances are more likely to be low income, so should we start dosing lithium in the water?" And that really does raise the question. Just because it might help some edge cases, doesn't necessarily mean we should be dosing the water supply with various compounds that could have negative effects for people. Particularly given what we know about tea. . . It seems likely we could just recommend that poor people drink more tea. Tea is generally cheap, and the cheaper tea includes more fluoride, which would meet their needs without being exacerbated by the water supply.

[@CIoudStriker]

Thank you guys for starting to draw your more realistic-looking persons with noses! This massively decreases the uncanny valley effect I've been experiencing while watching your videos!

[@carlosandleon]

i though the uncanniness was the point. Too bad

[@CIoudStriker]

@@carlosandleon If it was, I'm glad they changed their minds. Seeing those noseless faces always made me genuinely queasy.

[@carlosandleon]

@@CIoudStriker yeah, that's the point

[@CIoudStriker]

@@carlosandleon The point is to make want to not watch the video?

[@carlosandleon]

@@CIoudStriker the point is to make it unsettling. You did watch them regardless, did you not?

[@daniellee4807]

I love how you do your videos, you state someone having a problem or something that has or is happening. You follow with a question 'is it this or that' then explain. Its great!

[@aaronchristiansoriano9889]

As a ceremonial and contemplatative tea drinker myself, thank you for clearing this up!

[@SentinelGhost]

I used to have a friend who was so paranoid about fluoride that he refused to use toothpaste when he brushed his teeth. By the time he was in his early 30s he pretty much didn't have any teeth left. (Keep in mind he also drank a ton soda every day which ate away at them)

[@ruffethereal1904]

I'm sad he was paranoid about the wrong everyday substance.

[@jasminecollins897]

Someone probably should've mentioned that there are fluoride free toothpastes. I'm thinking he probably wasn't mentally well to start with, though, and that wouldn't have convinced him to use it.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

at least he made the effort to brush his teeth. I know people who aren't paranoid about flouride at all they just don't brush their teeth ever because they're nasty af.

[@Call-me-Al]

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 the toothbrushing probably made the erosion worse actually. Drinking a lot of acidic substances softens the enamel to the point where brushing it will scrape it off. He would have been better off only flossing and frequently gargling with water or even slightly alkaline water than brushing his softened teeth away with water. Saliva is supposed to make your mouth non-acidic and restore the enamel's strength, but with how much acid he constantly put into his mouth the poor saliva likely never had a chance.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

Should have introduced him to nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste.

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

As a family of seven we only use around 2 to 3 bags of tea per days so this is terrifying the amount of tea this woman had

[@ansal847]

As a Brit i was worried i was in a danger zone since tea is basically our national drink. Turns out I'm practically a noob at tea drinking.

[@protoclone138]

You can consume too much of anything and suffer health effects.

[@Cracksome1]

It doesn't make it any less surprising.

[@Call-me-Al]

@@Cracksome1 it's like that radio contest contestant who drank so much pure water they died. They really should have added salt to it, then they would still be here today.

[@SarahEA1]

Yep, even plain water

[@mathewgoquesan3322]

I have about five flavors of teas (Peppermint, Matcha, Forest Fruits, Earl Grey, Chamomile) and i use about three bags a day. I thought i was gonna have to give up on tea but when i heard that she was using 100+ bags of tea, in a single pitcher even, i sighed with relief.

[@Blablablablabla392]

Matcha and Peppermint teas are so good 😋

[@ryankavanaughreal]

What are the forest fruits

[@jadediquattro5355]

This was way more in depth than people saying, "Flouride is bad for you." Thanks for sharing.

[@SonicdaShapeshifter]

Me: I guess I need to quit my daily cup or 2 of tea then... The video: she used 100 to 150 teabags a day in her tea Me: never mind I only use 1 teabag per cup and don't over steep it I'm fine

[@Vgy1592]

I would note this isn't the *only* problem you can run into from drinking a lot of tea, depending on the kind of tea or how you drink your tea. I, uh. Used to use about ~2-3 teabags a day, with sugar (we southerners love our sweet tea). This was mooost what I drank -- I'd make a pitcher for the day, and have cups throughout, and by the end of the day, I'd usually have had drank all of it. Eventually, I started having chest pains once I started drinking tea in any given day... Never got any formal diagnosis to find out what was going on, but made note of it, and it cleared up once I stopped. Of course, my case *also* involved much more than you sound to, but I felt like I should make note of it for the sake of noting that far less than 100 can still have an impact.

[@LikaLaruku]

I use 2 bags per cup & steep for an hour, but I'm still fine.

[@helgenlane]

@@LikaLaruku at that point you are making a drug

[@Wookiee925]

I don't like coffee so always have tea instead, but even my 4 to 5 cups a day is nothing on that quantity. Even if a do brew them till it's as dark as most peoples coffee 😅

[@isum9674]

@@Vgy1592 thats cos its black tea im guessing milk prlly helps

[@afrikasmith1049]

Moral of the story: Taking indulgence to the extreme with anything will always have it's consequences.

[@tptmanyhats]

You're so talented! Your visuals are creative and well-made, and the humor/sarcasm added into the videos is great.

[@sandhilltucker]

I remember going to a private dentist and him murdering my mouth via hamfisting needles and tools up on in there. Had to go to a different dentist because of health coverage lapse. The lady at the dental clinic was Indian 4'6 and young as they get. As I was mocking what i thought was coming in my head she said "okay all done close your mouth please, have a good day." Two cavities drilled and filled with silver that's still there in less than 5 minutes.

[@Mattm182]

That’s not silver- that’s Mercury.

[@Xakaion]

@@Mattm182 Mercury messes your brain up.

[@Mattm182]

@@Xakaion sure does.

[@Xakaion]

@@Mattm182 So then why'd they put mercury in it??

[@juanmanuelc6644]

@@Xakaion Not the best professional I guess

[@negspirito]

7:40 Gotta correct you there. While free Flourine atoms are indeed highly reactive, they tend to bond together into incredibly non-reactive two-atom molecules. It is remarkably difficult to break a Flourine-Flourine bond, rendering most Flourine essentially inert.

[@arielespoir8612]

Well, that's why fluorine is reactive. They bond with other things quickly.

[@JoshStLouis314]

@negsperito Gotta correct you there, diatomic fluorine has rather weak bonds ~160 kJ/mol. Pure oxygen in its bonded pair state takes ~500 kJ/mol to separate into reactive radicals, which is a lot more input enery needed than Fluorine. Most people consider oxygen pretty reactive, and fluorine is substantially more so. Additionally, the bonds formed afterward are much stronger with fluorine than oxygen releasing quite a lot of energy. Most metals and organics spontaneously react with fluorine, even if introduced in it's diatomic molecule form.

[@RobertSzasz]

Fluoride salts are pretty stable, but fluorine LOVES calcium and lots of fluoride compounds will break up to form calcium fluoride instead if calcium is available.

[@syzygy4365]

@@JoshStLouis314 senpai??

[@JoshStLouis314]

@@syzygy4365 musuko?

[@DGneoseeker1]

The question that immediately comes to mind is... if you're in an area where the water is fluoridated, and you're using high fluoride toothpaste, and you drink a lot of tea (but like a normal person not a complete nutcase)... is your fluoride level likely to be problematic?

[@LazySillyDog]

I always make sure to never drink tap water if I can help it. Fluoride is a neurotoxin, so I always drink reverse osmosis water. I use fluoride toothpaste, but I always rinse my mouth out so I don't swallow it

[@ahse479]

I would not drink fluoridated water if I were you, buy some filters!

[@LazySillyDog]

@ahse479 I think its really strange. It's I'm high enough concentration to be good for your teeth, but also it's a low concentration so it's not bad for you? Doesn't make sense. If your toothpaste has enough fluoride to be effective and it's bad to ingest it, how does putting it in water make your teeth better if it's such a low concentration? Much better to never drink fluoride, for sure!

[@Ganzicus]

@@LazySillyDog The chemistry of it is not strange. Only a low concentration of fluoride is needed to improve remineralization, and fluoridated water achieves that continuously by raising the level of fluoride in the saliva. But remineralization is dose-dependent: a higher concentration, as in toothpaste, has a larger effect. This is necessary for toothpaste because the teeth are only in contact with fluoride from toothpaste for a few minutes each day (maybe a bit longer if you leave it on, but I don't - feels gross). If toothpaste had the same concentration of fluoride as tap water, the short period of contact would make it useless. The warnings against swallowing toothpaste are meant to prevent acute toxicity, and fluoridated water does not contain enough to cause acute toxicity. This is not to say that water fluoridation is perfectly fine - it's not. The potential for chronic (long-term) toxicity is less well-understood, the treatment is forced, it is costly to opt out, and it does nothing against the sugar, soft drink, and other junk food industries that are responsible for much of the problem being treated. But those are mostly political issues; the basic mechanism is not in question.

[@plainlake]

You think bottled water is non-fluoridated?@@LazySillyDog

[@wouterverreydt9640]

"Is fluoride good for us?" This question is not at all hard to answer, neither is it far more complicated than one could sum up in one video. The dose makes the poison - it's as simple as that.

[@norXmal]

Not sure of adding fluoride is over-all a good thing, instead of teaching good dental care, just seems like the lazy option.

[@krejziks3398]

@@norXmal Teeth start decaying from within, so good diet is the answer. 25yo here and i never brushed my teeth with flouride toothpaste or any toothpaste in my life, i don't even know what toothache is...

[@norXmal]

@@krejziks3398 Lucky you, I agree that a good diet is detrimental for a healthy gum, which then keeps your teeth stronger, but there is the genetical disposition where you are born with a fragile gum and teeth, this is where fluoride toothpaste and flossing is very important. I was unfortunate to be born with a weak enamel and disfigured teeth, which severely increased the risk of decay, which then gives toothache, I still have toothaches sometimes, that is even with a good diet, fluoride and flossing. I would even say that my experience with braces for 5 years caused even more destruction on my teeth, albeit it's not crooked anymore. I am 27 if you were wondering.

[@krejziks3398]

@@norXmal I forgot to say my family is not so lucky, my brother has teeth problem since he was a kid and my sister too, my parent, i don't even want to start about them, i didn't know my grandparents if they had great teeth, so i can't say i was genetically blessed.

[@michaelferrum708]

@@krejziks3398 I don't know how accurate it is, but I have heard that diets with little to no sugars or carbs result in almost no tooth decay. Though, I find the concept of a no sugar diet hard to comprehend.

[@jerandasciffer6465]

Every single time I have happiness like eating a pound of licorice a day or 3 packs of gum, you show up and ruin it. Why the tea now

[@Style_224]

Because having to much a thing is not a good thing

[@monke6912]

@@Style_224 you are almost correct, everything is poisonus in certain amaunt examle Thimerosal (ethylmercury) mercurycontaining ingredient has been used as a preservative in vaccines since 1930s worldwide

[@TalesOfGod]

"Stop harming with your knowledge!" Relatable, I want to eat chocolate all of the time.

[@ZeoViolet]

Three packs of gum?! Well she swallowed it... I might chew two pieces a day (after eating) and I try to never swallow gum; it's an unpleasant sensation. Swallowing a piece once in a while does not harm anyone. But that much...yeah I can see her problem.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

It’s a good thing I don’t live in Scandinavia or I would get ochratoxin poisoning from eating all that salmiakki.

[@HelloJbGarces]

Whew! 150. Me and my 5 daily tea bags are relieved. Thanks Brew!

[@hdfsyu]

brew: says complicated stuff I dont understand Also brew: ur water is wack

[@QuasiMonkey]

Doctor: So how much tea do you drink? Lady: Oh you know not much, the normal amount... about 36,500 to 54,750 thousand Black tea bags a year.

[@nicolasaencinaso300]

I like to imagine that she just have a mountain of used tea bags composting in her backyard (wich is a really bad compost, very acidic xD).

[@QuasiMonkey]

@@nicolasaencinaso300 She would be dumping 100-150 tea bags a DAY in the trash or compost, after a couple of years she would have a literal mountain of tea bags in her yard compost lol

[@minecraftify95]

@@nicolasaencinaso300 acidic as fluoroantimonic acid

[@magicvampirelver1321]

😂

[@GamersBay]

While its true that flouride helps protect teeth enamel, it does nothing to stop tooth decay caused by bacteria. Those with a high sugar intake are more likely to see rapid tooth decay. Mouthwash does very little to help with this decay really. Rinsing with iodized salt water is a lot more effective than just brushing and using mouthwash alone.

[@mika9937]

As a physicist/chemist I must strongly question the possibility of solving 100 teabags in one single pitcher. At some point, the water molecules can't bind more black tea molecules (combination of different molecules). The solution becomes saturated. My guess is that happens way before 100 teabags. This is simply unrealistic. I would like to see a source of that.

[@KikiChan_007]

Just check the description

[@dannyanderson2236]

That's what I was thinking. Not to mention the mere act of fitting 100 tea bags in there.

[@potatoheadhaoy]

Could be that she just drinks the fully saturated solution. Whether or not the saturated solution contains the molecules of all 150 teabags doesn't seem quite as relevant as the potency of the solution nor the overall dosage of the active ingredients weren't provided. I think it would be interesting to see just how much tea would fully dissolve and do some numbers on her actual dosage.

[@door-chan]

uh well the source is in the description

[@calvinsmith47]

I am not a physicist/chemist, but I know enough that I would look up how much floride is in a saturated solution at room temperature and 1 atmosphere pressure. Then I would find the concentration of floride in cheap tea. From that I could calculate if a tea made of 150 teabags is saturated with floride. My point is that a physicist/chemist would not guess.

[@PlayboiMaui]

I love how Brew shows happiness when Grill and Chill arrive.

[@ravent2631]

Brew is adorable

[@TheMpo1986]

I make black tea. Cold brewed. For a full pitcher AT MOST ten bags. If one bag is enough for a cup of tea then 10 bags is enough for a little over a half gallon. So 20 bags for one gallon. 1.2,MAYBE. "150-200" are we trying to drink a bathtub?

[@MonkeyDKelsey]

Okay why is Brew lonely and imitating his friends all of a sudden 😭 @2:06

[@TrashPanda_lvl15]

REAL 😭

[@kakashykun]

I'm quite impressed that this lady was able to physically fit 150 bag into a pitcher. That's 70% of the volume just bags 🤷

[@sydecarnutz972]

She probably just took the cellophane off the box of bags and stuffed the box into a pitcher of hot water. ;-)

[@charlesstuart1119]

Not likely truth, not possible at all!

[@NoOctopuss]

I always had at least one cavity at every dental visit until I quit using flouride.

[@VSMOKE1]

What are you using thank you in advance

[@LumiLunar]

I've been drinking tea every day for the past 2 months and just got recommend this video. Good to know I'm not brewing with 100 bags a day.

[@RadenWA]

I love the irony that people who are against fluorides because it’s an “unnatural chemical” would be totally into natural things like tea...which contains way more fluorides.

[@Griffith74]

a good chunk of europe has banned fluoride water

[@RadenWA]

@@Griffith74 yeah they drink plenty of tea over there

[@digiquo8143]

honestly had no idea about black teas containing high concentrations of flouride, and i drink it quite often. gonna start cutting down

[@liyanareano4571]

Fluoride is toxic waste

[@oo0024]

@@RadenWA you think America doesn’t drink a lot of tea lol

[@GnosticAtheist]

There is no fluoride in my drinking water. Its illegal to mix in chemicals in the water supply. Granted, my country is not the US.

[@njgrant3988]

If your country is natively white then you are safe. Unless you got immigrants flying over there to live. They poisoned most lands where there is non whites. Think of it

[@mooselove]

I’m so thankful for that doctor having a nose. Thank you. You heard our pained screams.

[@LikaLaruku]

It's like a 1 out of every 5-15 episodes thing. lol

[@michellejirak9945]

This makes me wonder. I used to drink a lot of sugary drinks and my teeth were correspondingly awful. I stopped drinking them and switched to plain black tea. I know consuming less sugar was a big part, but I'm sure the extra fluoride hasn't hurt me teeth either!

[@teddybearroosevelt1847]

There are actually people who say fluoride is bad and that you need to switch to non-fluoride toothpaste

[@skrillah6259]

@@teddybearroosevelt1847yeah if you dont like your teeth thats a good idea

[@Naqua_official3948]

Me too but less consequences but I dont drink enough water.

[@chrislee176]

Government dentistry in Europe is a nightmare.

[@TheOdinsLance]

I have never loved anything in my life as much as this woman loved the taste of tea.

[@tigereyemusic]

I have mild hyperfluorosis in my molar teeth, according to my dentist. I grew up on a private water supply, with no additives, so I can only presume there was natural fluoride in it. There was a lot of calcium in the private supply too, even though the public supply we eventually moved to (and indeed most of Scotland) had extremely soft water (and also no added fluoride). There are a few places where you can find fluorite minerals, so I wonder if natural fluoride leeches into the water in those areas.

[@LordOmnissiah]

I think this proves that as long as people lay off the sugar, brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste at least once a day, and have regular dental exams that there is no need to put fluoride in the drinking water anymore.

[@crisqr16]

I loved Brew's impersonation of Chill hahaha

[@monad_tcp]

its because flouride makes you chill

[@rybolenefishbean4883]

Love your videos brew team, Always look forward to them. Thank you

[@slinkerdeer]

11:45 It made me laugh so hard at how during the middle of the part explaining the science behind what happened, you paused to mentally note how confusing it is why she even did this. Just , "WHY???"

[@cloudydaykumo]

"Mass Fluoridation" I picture this resulting in an increase of bud light consumption, weird crime reports and alligator fighting.

[@darkwing3713]

And everyone just staying home for spring break.

[@CosmicEremite]

I drink at least 4-6 tumblers of tea a day for a year or so, and I've been feeling like that was way too much and probably not good for my health. Wow...this is insane.

[@XxDiamondBubbles364xX]

You're not stopping me from drinking tea

[@Kruhee]

Me over here thinking "Oh no, I also drink tea" Her saying she drinks 150 teabags a DAY "Okay I think I 'm safe"

[@MelB868]

Yeah we are safe

[@SUPERFunStick]

Hey! The more detailed faces now have noses, and they look great! I love it! Also as a big black tea drinker in a flouridated city, this video terrified me.

[@LeoMidori]

You could always get a blood test and check your teeth for "patches" if you're concerned. I am, but I'm wondering if it's more my lackadaisical brushing habits that are my problem.

[@cturdo]

There is an argument that it should not be forced on the population through the water system.

[@bluegizmo1983]

Had me worried there for a minute! My family (four of us) goes through about 3 gallons of black ice tea every day and have for the last several decades! But we make it like normal people, with only 3 or 4 tea bags per gallon, not 100+ tea bags lol

[@Justice237]

I remember back during exams, I would have a 1L thermos flask of green tea made with two tea bags left in the flask while studying, and eventually I felt so dizzy and nauseous that I would throw up. I cut back on the green tea and I felt better pretty quick. I'm still obsessed with all kinds of tea but good gravy, 100 is way too much even for me.

[@anoniukas]

Green tea is a quite dangerous thing, especially if you had or have some health issues. I once had a Roto virus. This illness made me to understand how people, who wants to fall asleep deadly, still can't close their eyes even for a minute. That's what happened to me, while having constant and strong paing in my abdomen with constant sickness and horrible taste in my throat, which lasted for several days (I'm not even talking about often and fast sprints to the toilet). I got out of this illness several days later, but after about 2 weeks I went to people, who gave me a cup of green tea. After that I never drank this tea, because it made me feel exacly the same as if I had Roto virus, except abdomen pain and sprints to the toilet. Some time later I was told that anyone, who gets Roto or Nora virus can't drink green tea for a while (non less than 2 weeks), because it ,,calls out" the sympthoms of this illness again.

[@ArDeeMee]

Take the bags out, or the tea will get very bitter. That goes for all teas.

[@KatzenUndKale]

Tannins - definitely nauseating in higher concentrations on an empty stomach

[@dmanzawsome]

I had a phase in college where I drank about 20 strong cups of tea a day, i was obsessed with trying different loose leaf teas it got to the point where the tea made me feel ill so i stopped the habit.

[@renchesandsords]

the question is not "is fluoride good for us?" it's "how much fluoride is good for us?"

[@Miniae_Cecilia]

I'm British, I drink a lot of tea but it's not about how many tea bags you use that creates a strong tea but the length of time you leave the bag to "brew" in the water. (also for the best cup of tea the water has to be 100°C or boiling)

[@RobinCernyMitSuffix]

depending on the Air Pressure, 100°C is the boiling temperature >.>

[@JamMaul]

Explains the beautiful British teeth

[@apokkalyps6]

That is a statement from someone clueless in teas. Each tea has its own perfect temperature of water, dosage and brewing time. There are some teas that should be made at 65° temperature

[@nightowl7261]

Brits got horrible teeth

[@ArDeeMee]

Leave black tea in for more than 5 minutes and it starts making you sleepy. 👍

[@Qtish]

I guess he "forgot" to mention, that fluoride is also a neurotoxin. And there are studies showing, that kids outside places of water fluoridation academically perform better.

[@denizbluemusic]

source?

[@chickenlover657]

That is not correct. And FYI neurotoxins are everywhere: in the air you breathe, the food you eat, the soda you drink, the medications you are prescribed or drugs you take recreationally. Even your own body produces neurotoxins, such as nitric oxide, glutamate and formaldehyde. Fact is the exact same substance can have both toxic and therapeutic effects at different concentration levels. Dosage is everything.

[@bjap1563]

2:06 Brew: "I feel so alone at times! It hurts!" ☹️ 3:23 Brew: "Now I'm not alone!" 😄

[@houssam3075]

😆

[@descuddlebat]

How did she not have any more acute complications from all that caffeine though? A black tea's worth of caffeine is surprisingly close to that of a cup of coffee

[@SMtWalkerS]

Very interesting presentation. I also love tea and often have a cup of green or white in the afternoon. One of my sister's friends ate massive amounts of carrots to manage her weight and she ended up sick and orange! Moderation in all things is still a good rule to follow. Thanks for this video.

[@livenotonevil8279]

Everything in moderation: except watching Brew's videos

[@lydialady5275]

I adore how you have Muskegon, Michigan to the east and so far north of Grand Rapids. I can't help it, as a long time area resident, it bugs me. Muskegon sits on the shore of Lake Michigan. There is a beach and a Harbor. Grand Rapids is twenty miles inland, slightly less than straight east. Thank you for this fun video.

[@Lawrence330]

Relax, it's not like they can just Google the location of any city in America... Oh wait, they can? And they got it wrong anyway? Oh. Carry on! I've actually been to Muskegon, it's very nice (in the summer, at least). We took a quick ride over to Kalamazoo to check out the aeronautical museum, too. 10/10 would do again.

[@margaretcaine4219]

My mother drank around 12 cups per day, and lived to old age with her cognition very much intact. Who drinks as much as this woman?

[@SomeUniqueHandle]

I panicked when I saw this because I drink a few cups of tea each day. Then again, I make my tea weak - one tea bag in a cup that holds at least 3 normal servings of tea. I absolutely can't imagine having a pitcher of tea using 100 - 150 tea bags. That's beyond battery acid nastiness. How did her stomach not dissolve from all that acid?

[@ghoust592]

pH of stomach acid (hydrochloric acid mostly) is around 2 sometimes 1, pH of tea is 5... because pH scale isn't linear or even exponential, its logarithmic. This mix will be neutralized to pH of around 2.5. That 150 tea bags didn't do a lot since you can't dissolve tea infinitely into water because there's a physical limit

[@applesaucer2442]

My day is never complete without a video from brew ❤️

[@keselekbakiak]

It doesn't mean black tea is bad. However if you took something into your body too much, it will always have bad effect.

[@chevand8]

I can't believe Brew did a video about the effects of fluoridation in drinking water without making a single Dr. Strangelove reference, or even showing a video clip. XP

[@elmersbalm5219]

My body fluids!

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

“i like a stiff drink” you’ll be surprised of what we can out of context

[@gielxhedrick88]

?

[@cybercritterowo]

he likes a stiff drink alright. like ice cubes or something.

[@Flamsterette]

???

[@Anxmaly666]

Stay off the rule 34 man

[@johndavis6119]

Facts with a sense of humor. Gotta love it!

[@FashNFash]

The animations and art work look so great

[@purpl3grape]

Within a couple days, she's probably had more tea than I've had in my entire life.

[@jennybolt8420]

I'm 60 years old and I can guarantee these she's had more two bags and I have in my entire life

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

@@jennybolt8420what

[@thegatorhator6822]

That's an addiction though. No one with normal, healthy mental state is doing that kind of thing to themselves. Liking tea isn't the same as needing to consume literally 100x as much as is healthy and acceptable every single day.