Best green tea herbal supplements according to redditors

I agree with you on all counts. I call these "Incentivized" reviews.

In Amazon's TOS, it says you're allowed to get a product for free or at a discount in exchange for a review, but only if you disclose the relationship. While the "disclaimer" always claims it's an honest and unbiased review, the data shows otherwise. After examining nearly 5,000,000 reviews, here's what we're seeing in the data:

Reviews that contain a "free/discount" disclaimer (Incentivized): 4.74 Average Rating

Reviews that do NOT contain a disclaimer (Non-Incentivized): 4.38 Average Rating

Furthermore, the distribution of ratings looks pretty bad:

Non-Incentivized

1-Star: 4.8%

2-Star: 3.7%

3-Star: 7.4%

4-Star: 16.9%

5-Star: 67.2%

Incentivized

1-Star: 0.4%

2-Star: 0.8%

3-Star: 3.1%

4-Star: 16.0%

5-Star: 79.6%

So people who receive free products are 10x LESS likely to give a 1-star review. Yikes.

You may be thinking that the incentivized reviews are higher because only brands that believe in their products will send them off to users for review, and that's not what we're seeing. Time and time again, we see that the reviews for the exact same product are higher when the reviewer got the item for free. Check the "Incentivized Reviews" section of these example reports:

http://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B01AD2IJL6 (5.0 from Incentivized, 4.1 from Non-Incentivized)

http://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B00RH5I8U0 (4.7 from Incentivized, 4.3 from Non-Incentivized)

http://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B00H4IBD0M (4.5 from Incentivized, 4.2 from Non-Incentivized)

Here's what we're also seeing in the data - the emergence of power reviewers who have 1000's of incentivized reviews who pretty much ONLY give 5-star ratings. This is because the 3rd party companies who facilitate the exchange of products for reviews allow the brands to vet the reviewers before sending the product out. Obviously they want to only send the product out to reviewers who only give 5 star reviews. So if you give too many critical reviews, you're cut off from your supply of free or discounted junk.

Anyway, I could write a book on why these reviews are totally biased (which of course I'd sell on amazon and give away a bunch of copies for free or at a discount in exchange for reviews). But here's a bit more on the incentivized reviews test: http://reviewmeta.com/blog/incentivized-reviews/

For anyone who gets too jittery from coffee -- a nice way to balance the caffeine is to take L-theanine alongside it. It's green tea extract and promotes calmness without interfering with the wakefulness/energy of coffee.

The article says he's suing the manufacturer (Vitacost).

Here is their green tea supplement on Amazon.

Don't get into the habit of using them, but if you can find valium or xanax, it helps massively in the weird brain zaps you get for the next couple days. Word of warning is that the normal weird dreams you get on MDMA comedowns get even weirder on benzos.

But the main thing is just do less mandy. You've not done permanent damage but have a break for a couple of months (at least 2 months I'd suggest) just so your brain can fully recover.

If you're getting 5-HTP, buy some green tea extract too - otherwise it all goes into your peripheral nerves which can fuck with your heart valves over time. This is what I have. Take one of them for each cap of 5-HTP you have.

This review: "This concentrated tea has huge amounts of a toxic ingredient called Epigallocatechin-3-gallate or EGCG, the most abundant of the naturally occurring compounds with antioxidant properties in green tea, called catechins. There are likely to be a number of factors that might make an individual susceptible to harm from EGCG including genetics, and the way supplements are used. It can cause liver failure. "

https://www.amazon.com/Vitacost-Green-Tea-Extract-Standardized/product-reviews/B0036V0GEU

Personally I use Now Foods brand for most all of my supplements.
I've been using their Policosanol, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Green Tea, and Super Odorless Garlic for 5+ years now.
Mind you, this is simply my opinion. I've not tried many other brands nor kept any records to compare results.

AWAKE Chocolate
It’s essentially equal to half a cup of coffee, plus they taste like chocolate and not coffee.

Green Tea Pills
I use these twice a day, bonus side effect is “weight loss”, however, they don’t keep you from getting tired, they just keep you awake. I’d use this in conjunction with other methods

Hi, so I’ll provide some insight from my n=1 experience with some body fat that was covering my abs. It appeared to have come about by trying to always eat at a surplus as well as extra fruit at night.
Note: I thought this was water retention until asking around Reddit. And this is at 10% bf!
https://m.imgur.com/XntafgR



But to make a long story short, the supplements I’m taking now daily is
> Decaf EGCGs with all or all-1 meals https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RH5I8U0

(I have up caffeine back in 2016 due to adrenal fatigue)

> Coleus Forskolii 1x a day https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0747YVVCB

> 2x l-carnitine furmarate inbetween meals https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013HXKC4


These have helped along with implementing carb cycling, IF, and some minor morning HIIT mainly with jump rope.

Here’s how I currently look now after these experiments from the past month, to today (greater Serratus visibility, 4pack looks “healthy”, and overall a lean but anabolic appearance)
https://i.imgur.com/C18moam.jpg


Background: my diet is pretty bulletproof being a low carb, low FODMAP, AIP Paleo. I’m 29 and 5 8. I also run once a week at a distance of 9miles, but my job is someway sedentary. Before implementing these changes, I was under the belief that calories don’t matter at all when eating a whole food approach. Now I’ve revised that thinking to say they PARTLY matter, but really it’s moreso about your selections of Whole Foods, and not always opting for say, berries.

To get here, last month I started out by doing a 10 day Keto (was going to do 3, then 7, then made it to 10 before I said F-this I want to be able to do push-ups again, lol)... so definitely I found insanely difficult primarily from just having no workout strength. The Keto community will say that that is not long enough to see results, but I did, and I know I can be in ketosis in as little as 24h or less due to already beings fat adapted and low carb inherently due to intolerances (as shown by some Organic acid testing) The willpower of also only consuming greens as my carb source rather than say butternut squash was also starting to play games with me. Carb cycling (3 days off such as only greens with your fat and protein, 1 day with whole food carbs) is much better for us smaller body types, that don’t have THAT much fat already. Carb cycling was something that I heard Chelsea Axe (Dr Axe’s wife) talk about in something she implements and has excellent success with. I found this very interesting and have had past acute success with (as noted by the first image, thinking I was holding water but was actually small “smooth” body fat)

However right now I’m not even really doing carb cycle. In fact the opposite, whereby i like to carb backload since I workout in the evenings, but instead of fruit I instead opt for a organic rooty starch like Pumpkin or Butternut Squash, and I’m doing this nightly. I may have like 5 frozen strawberries and raspberries if desiring that sourness. This was never something I did before, thinking that rooty startchy vegetables where causing this “water retention”... which was actually bodyfat. So now doing these starches instead, nightly only, at 1 meal (idk if eating these earlier would have any difference in effect, I just like to carb backload again due to schedule, but also biological knowledge about being more insulin sensitive in the evening too), I’m noticing good results. So why perhaps?
Maybe I’m increasing thyroid output and overall metabolic rate, while NOT intaking a bunch of extra glucose.

I’ve determined that getting my 2014 Keto caffeine abs back isn’t too sustainable
http://imgur.com/V0uSYo1

Here I was in a very fatigued, catabolic, but low bf% state, whereby I killed off all of carbs, and really wasn’t eating enough raw material, despite building these blocky abs from them being my complete workout focus. However I was also doing a TON of yoga at the time, and too much running as well. I was also fully caffeine dependent using it like a biohacker that had gone mad where I’d have beside teabags “brewing” in water bottles for the morning wake up. Anyway...

Last thing... This article was also handy and my main takeaways from this was:

• IF fast (which I can do easily)
  
• do HIIT (mines more like jump rope, and some random higher acute cardio stuff)
  https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/how-to-lose-body-fat-now-the-most-effective-methods-explained.html
  
  
  Final thoughts:
  If you want to abstain from caffeine for a week, you should note some greater effects when introducing it back in. This isn’t feasible for me, but I noticed this when forgetting that 90% cacao chocolate is loaded up with caffeine and seeing some crazy results. Personally I would go that route. Cut coffee and such. Then I member super dark chocolate 85%+ (not working about the fat or calories), and also Impelenbt matcha green tea powder to get loaded up on EGCGs.
  
  Otherwise, check out those 3 supplements, and do some IF. My fast simply is not eating until noon or 1p the following day after final meal is at 11p. If you haven’t already, switch to a high fat, high protein diet. I personally wouldn’t bother counting calories once your body setpoint is working and you can be easily satiated (and blood sugar stabilized with lots of fat) for hours with say, grass fed beef and ghee/refinded coconut oil.
  
  HMU if u have more Qs...
  
  [ Note: Probably typos in here, I wrote this on my phone after taking some CDP Choline; I want to see some upvotes on this dammit for the last 40min of life being fed into this post :P ]

If (like me) you would miss that hot tea/coffee like drink in your day it might be worth trying some different green/black/herbal teas to find one you like?
I find people adapt first to fruity or carob based teas if they are used to milk then build up a taste for the less sweet flavours (I have a lot of different tea/coffee drinks!).

Green teas vary a lot but for tea bags I like these https://www.amazon.co.uk/teapigs-Feng-Green-Tea-Total/dp/B005TKCO8C/
They are not cheap for tea bags but I get two pint mugs out of one tea bag. Good green teas are intended to be used more than once.

I also like sencha and I have a tiny japanese tea pot for that which is dead classy like. :D

Fucking lowlives. Sorry your mom got scammed. These are just general supplements that won't really do anything compared to a healthy diet. I wouldn't recommend buying them all. Maybe a multivitamin and fish oil, or a b-vitamin if she doesn't eat meat. Otherwise, they're likely a waste of money.

Here are some supplements I've taken that look like basically the same thing, though I don't see Amway's nutritional facts (with the list of ingredients) so I just have to go by the marketing nonsense on their site to guess at what all is in each.

Also, /r/supplements is great for questions like this.

1. just looks like a multivitamin
   
2. a superfood powder
   
3. cal-mag + d
   
4. fish oil
   
5. digestive enzyme
   
6. b vitamins
   
7. vitamin c complex
   
8. green tea
   
9. green tea with coenzyme q10. not sure about a supplement for that
   
10. probiotics
    
11. chondroitin, glucosamine, boswellia, and hyaluronic acid complex. you can find supplements and creams with these ingredients.

This is very interesting, thanks for bringing it up. I've tried regular Ephedrine HCL for ADHD purposes and it worked wonders... until the crash. One of the worst most anxiety ridden events of all time, no thanks. I'm wondering if the pure herb could be a caffeine alternative. Also check this extract that I can't order bc i'm in Canada. https://www.amazon.com/Brigham-Extract-Mormon-Natural-Dropper-Top/dp/B00AROF86A#customerReviews

EGCG works fine for me. From what I understand, EGCG will help prevent the 5-htp from being converted into serotonin before it reaches the blood brain barrier.

I use this one: http://www.amazon.com/Foods-Green-Extract-400mg-Vcaps/dp/B001DNV5CA

You accidentally the link :)

Personally I never used anything like that before, and am very skeptical of products like it to begin with. If anything just try keto for a few days and have some actual tea while doing so, and you'll feel pretty damn good anyway!

I would drop the vinpocetine:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/23457-vinpocetine-ditch-it/

Try taking the bacopa before bed, it makes some people tired.

Maybe lay off the CILTEP for a few days and try supplementing some glutamine, did wonders for me.

Try adjusting your choline intake, too much makes some people depressed, but not enough will also make you tired and brain foggy. Too much will give you muscle soreness and possibly a headache from muscle tension.

You could try some n-acetyl-tyrosine and see if it helps your motivation. I wouldn't take too much though since one of your ADs is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Have you always felt this unmotivated, or is it a recent phenomenon? If it's just a recent thing, what has changed in your life that might have caused it? If it is chronic, and n-acetyl-tyrosine works for you, you might want to ask your doctor about trying ritalin/methylphenidate.

I would also try to get off the SSRI/SNRI, serotonin is depressing. There is a common misconception, possibly due to incorrect ideas about how MDMA works, that serotonin makes you happy. SSRIs actually increase suicide risk for the first few weeks because the excess serotonin makes you depressed. The anti depressant effects take a few weeks because they are due to physiological changes in your brain due to the extra serotonin.

Do you take a multivitamin or any vitamins other than D? Personally I think the base of any nootropic stack should include a good multivitamin, some antioxidants, and probably fish oil, although some people react negatively to fish oil. Not including any racetams or ciltep or anything purely nootropic, every day I take:

AOR Ortho Core

B Complex

Vitamin C

Vitamin D-3

Vitamin E

Fish Oil

Green Tea Extract

Pine Bark Extract

Magnesium

Calcium

Probably less important, but I also take acetyl carnitine, alpha lipoic acid, alpha gpc, glucosamine/chondroitin/msm, rhodiola rosea, eluthero sibricus, jiaogulan, mushroom product including reishi and chaga, glutamine, l-phenylalanine, creatine, coq10, ashwagandha, lion's mane, bacopa, and astragalus.

In addition to all that I take various nootropics sort of randomly as I feel like, including sulbutiamine, piracetam, aniracetam, pramiracetam, noopept, and forskolin/artichoke/hesperidin.

Last, and probably most important, get plenty of good sleep.

I recommend taking an actual extra strength supplement if you are using ketamine more than 3 times a week.

https://www.amazon.com/Supplement-Capsules-Increased-Metabolism-Vegetarian/dp/B01HISZ31W

the only thing I've been able to find are green tea capsules, which have about 30 mg of caffeine each. these ones work pretty well for me http://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Extract-Gelatin-Capsules/dp/B0013OQL0U/ref=sr_1_1?&s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1434945611&sr=1-1&keywords=green+tea+extract

1. SleepyTime Tea I would drink this stuff every night when I was a kid. I was convinced it helped me sleep (because it was called "SleepyTime")
   
   
2. Any fabric that you think an adult female would like.
   
   FLAX

I thought it’d be useful to post a nicely-formatted list of everything I was taken, with links to the products as well as the evidence-based papers and studies for each.

Methodology

I won’t take anything based on someone saying “this worked for me.” It needs to have real, scientific evidence. I have read hundreds of journal articles, seeking out quality evidence for things that have been shown to help with ulcerative colitis.

Of things with evidence, I tend to focus on things that have the fewest side effects possible.

Unfortunately, some of these things are only available as “natural supplements” which means that rather than the active ingredient being perfectly isolated, they contain a bunch of other random stuff from wherever that came from. I tried to choose companies for the natural supplements that seemed reputable, so at least I’d hopefully be getting what they claimed I would.

Background

I was having a flare—including abdominal pain and blood in my stool. I continued taking my oral mesalamine, then as I had for previous flares, added a mesalamine enema, used nicotine patches, and took wheat grass tablets. I added each one every two weeks. After eight weeks, the blood had long since stopped, but the pain didn’t.

I contacted my doctor. He added prednisone at 40 mg/day. That made things worse. After a week, he upped me to 60 mg/day. After one week of that, and no improvement, I added many other things, as outlined below.

After taking all of these things for a month, the pain hadn’t stopped.

I had a colonoscopy, which showed no inflammation. None. My doctor and I agree the pain is likely from something else; I will soon have a CT scan to help figure out what.

Do any of the things below work? In theory any, all, or none of them could have contributed to my colon being perfectly normal and healthy. There is no way to know which, if any of these, did anything.

Everything I was taking, dosages, and evidence

IMPORTANT: Almost all of the studies referenced below combine these things with mesalamine. So nothing is a substitute for that! These must be taken in conjunction with mesalamine.


|Drug|Dosage|Study|Quality of Evidence|
|--|--|--|--|
|Prednisone ℞|40-60 mg/daily, then taper|Many|Excellent
|Lialda (mesalamine) ℞|2.4 g/daily|Many|Excellent
|Apriso (mesalamine) ℞|1.5 g/day|Many|Excellent
|Mesalamine Enema ℞|Nightly|Many|Excellent
|Visbiome (was called VSL#3)|225 billion CFU/day|Meta-analysis|Good
|Nicotine Patch|14 mg/day|Meta-analysis; Placebo-controlled|Good
|DHA/EPA (also sold as “fish oil”; this one is vegetarian because I am)|1080 g DHA+540 mg EPA/day|Meta-analysis|Good
|Wheat grass tablets|21 tablets/day|Placebo-controlled|Good; small study
|Sunflower lecithin|10 g/day|Meta-analysis|Good to moderate
|Curcumin (from tumeric)|2.6 g/day|Meta-analysis|Moderate
|EGCg|400 mg/day|Rat study|Good in rats; poor in humans; WARNING: Dosages over 338 mg/day cause liver toxicity
|Bupropion immediate release ℞|100 mg three times/day|Rat study; TNFα only|Poor; only shown to lower TNFα; no studies on its effect on UC; study done in rats
|Rutin|1.8 g/day|Rat study|Poor

℞ indicates a prescription drug. Mesalamine and prednisone are commonly prescribed for ulcerative colitis. Bupropion is normally prescribed as an antidepressant so your gastroenterologist may be reluctant to prescribe it for this, especially since there are no studies of its effect on ulcerative colitis in humans.

Yes it will help, but you want EGCG, the most important molecule in green tea. I like this one from Now Foods. Many people use more supplements like Yohimbine, MCT oil, EC stack, naringen, forskolin, synephrine, all kinds of stuff for cutting, but if you're making good progress already you don't really need all that, especially at 18. I think EGCG would be a good addition with basically zero side effects, other than positive things like more energy and focus. You could also add some caffeine if you want, which would help too.

All credit goes to the person I learned this from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/13vr5r/been_taking_5htp_for_3_months_how_worried_should/c78aqar

You can buy ECGC pretty cheap off of Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Extract-Gelatin-Capsules/dp/B0013OQL0U/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1425613032&sr=1-1&keywords=green+tea+extract

Now Foods is a good brand, but do a little research just so you're more comfortable with what you're buying. :)

It would seem reasonable to make the tea separately, boiling down further and then adding to the simple syrup. It’s easy enough to add mint extract to simple syrup too. Are there tea extracts...

Yes, there are,
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Tea-Extract-Supplement-Antioxidant/dp/B01MFFKWTY

I’ve got an idea brewing. Pun intended.

Green Tea Extract Max Potency... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072WGGW2X?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Big cup of coffee in the morning, followed by a little bit of L-theanine powder. If you are someone who gets a little too wired on caffeine, I totally recommend L-theanine. It lets you keep the awakeness and concentration improvement of the caffeine without the shakes or anxiety.

https://www.amazon.com/Wushan-Three-Gorges-Chinese-Health/dp/B013Y0WYNS looks like the leaves of a fruit tree. Called “goddess tree”

Of course. I use this one https://smile.amazon.com/Green-Tea-Extract-Decaffeinated-Weight-loss/dp/B0055CK0OE/, but I have seen others, too. Just check the bottle info when searching.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DNV5CA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Best bet is amazon.de I had no real luck finding them any where other than here. Yes a little pricy for all of them, but better safe than sorry.

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0016687K2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00151G8L8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000BD2KBI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001DNV5CA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0019GW38G/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000NRYTPM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use this for green tea extract as a part of the PAGG supplement stack for the 4-Hour Body diet.

It works great when I take all four supplements as described. It's like a constant slow-burn throughout the day. The author, Tim Ferris, expands on the supposed benefits of each supplement, including Green Tea.

The one I linked to is caffeine free which may or may not be an issue for you?

Good luck!

In that case I'd stack it with a caffeine source and EGCg since he also mentioned being healthier. EGCg will help fight free radicals and improve your overall health.