The Morning Cocktail I Drink Instead of Coffee

Try this morning tea cocktail instead of coffee. It's rocket fuel for the brain. I started experimenting with fat-plus-stimulant beverages in 1998 and 1999 while on the Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD). For the above tea blend, I now add turmeric and ginger to the aged pu-erh, usually Rishi brand. The above video was shot while filming the parkour episode of The Tim Ferriss Experiment TV show. We filmed 13 episodes back-to-back and I needed a morning pick-me-up that could be prepared quickly but sustain me for hours. The tea prep might seem reminiscent of Bulletproof Coffee, and it is.  They serve similar purposes.  For this reason, I jokingly referred to the cocktail as "Titanium Tea" with the production crew. Alas, BP coffee looks like a delicious frappuccino, and my concoction looks like diabetic horse urine. Here's why I still drink TT Horse Urine nearly every day: - I'm a caffeine "fast metabolizer" according to genetic test results from 23andMe, Navigenics (since acquired), and personal experience. If I drink a cup of black coffee, I feel like a superhero for 30 minutes, then need two cups to get back to baseline. But... - When I use a blend of -- say -- green tea and fermented black tea, I'm combining slightly different pharmacokinetics and biological half-lives, so respective peak plasma (blood) concentrations of stimulants and other compounds are staggered. Instead of one single high point and then a rapid descent into fatigue, I have multiple high points....
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news