This article says too be careful not to take too much green tea.. like in supplement form;
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...uantities.html
I will be sticking with green tea (in tea form)
Anyway, what ive learned over the past two years is, often times people (myself included) in search of optimum health sometimes end up making decisions that actually harm them.. taking too many vitamins/supps., taking the wrong kind, unintended side effects, stress over being healthy/ill, etc.
I really believe everything we need is in food.. if you eat the right stuff.. People say, you cant get everything you need on the standard american diet (SAD) etc. but many health conscious people DO eat a good diet, I think often times supplementing with synthetic vitamins etc is actually harmful.. if you feel you need more nutrients - why not use nutrient dense/rich foods instead from good sources.. and superfoods etc.
And multivitamins/etc are crap imo.. like the Vega stuff I was taking.. its supposedly 'whole food' etc.. but you get 100% RDI of almost all vitamins in one dose.. clearly thats not healthy.. if im getting 100% RDI of all my vitamins in one meal then im overloading my system the rest of the day. Also getting all of that stuff in one go is kind of a shock to the body - nutrients should be dispersed slowly through out the day, taking a pill or powder that just dumps it all at once is too much I think.. probably stresses out the liver/kidneys.
From now on im sticking with good diet, herbal tea's and tinctures when needed, exercise, adequate rest, stress reduction = healthy me
BTW- todays my first day NOT using Vega and I havent had any gas or discomfort.. cant believe I was drinking that crap for months feeling gassy/bloated /odd stools and thinking there was something wrong with me haha