Intro 0:03
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Doc Mok 0:32
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Jacky Homme 0:48
Hello, hello, hello, Maximal Beings. We're back! And it's me. Your favorite lay man, Jacky P, with of course, your favorite co-hostess with the mostess, Doc Mok. Doctor Mok, how are you today? Of course radiant as ever, how are you?
Doc Mok 1:07
Yeah, you know, Jacky P, I had clinic today, which may not be my favorite day of the week. But today I had a patient that I gave all of these beautiful lifestyle recommendations to and this man took it upon himself and did everything and he is just killing it. And I mean, if you want to be like inspired as a doctor and you walk in and you say, hey, you know, stop smoking. You know, let's eat this way. Try taking turmeric. And if you get one of those things you're like, yeah, but this man is like, stop smoking, eating a Mediterranean diet, lifting weights, like he's just rocking out. So props to that guy. And his pancreas will thank him later. So
Jacky Homme 1:52
Wow
Doc Mok 1:53
I am enlightened and I am inspired today.
Jacky Homme 1:56
That is amazing. As you know, as two people who give advice as a profession. You know, it's very happy to be like, hey, listen, you came to see me to take advice. And it is refreshing. It is refreshing.
Doc Mok 2:11
It's probably like you saying like, a few months ago, don't go crazy and dump all of your investments and the people are like, all right, I think I'm gonna listen to this guy because he's, he's friggin Jacky P, you know?
Jacky Homme 2:23
Exactly, exactly. So I love it. And speaking of refreshing, you know, I like around this time of year, Iced Tea. It's one of my things. I love sweet tea. I know you're not supposed to have sweet sugary tea, but you know, I drink, I drink green tea as well. And I drink white tea. And also speaking of a prior guest, I had to, I just off of a three day Koso cleanse, I'm still rocking Koso, I've, you know, they don't pay me to do this. They don't pay me, this is just something I like. But that brings us to today's guest. So I'm excited. Because first of all, I'm we're gonna get to Jenny Je? Tse? I ruined it.
Jenny Tse 3:08
You got it
Jacky Homme 3:08
Okay. Founder of Sipping Streams tea company, and we're gonna talk about tea. And also we're going to talk about Jenny's background, because she's been bouncing all over the map here, looking at where she was born and raised and everything, but we'll get into that. But before we start, Jenny, how are you today?
Jenny Tse 3:29
I'm great. I'm great. I actually am very great. It's, it's another beautiful day here in Alaska. Then in a summer day. We just had summer solstice. So technically, we're losing daylight again. And yeah, so it's a little sad. But we have 24 hours of sunlight right now. So I mean, lots of vitamin D.
Doc Mok 3:53
It's wild.
Jacky Homme 3:54
Whoa, I was gonna ask that as like is the summer solstice because I know the days are longer nights are longer there. So you have 24 hours a day, like, I don't want to derail, but how do you how do you cope? How do you function with that?
Jenny Tse 4:09
Well, I think it's because I grew up here. So I actually do better not having darkness. Or if it's the wintertime and we have 24 hours of darkness. Like I just acclimate to it. I don't take my cues of how I should feel or when I should go to bed from the sunlight. It's more of like an internal meter of like, what's going on. And so the 24 hours of sunlight. Time is just time, but I mean, it's nice that it's nice light out, but I can sleep when it's light. I don't have any blackout curtains or anything like that. So I find sleeping in sunlight like if I was on a beach and just like laying there on the beach. I'd be conked out like there's just too much light and it like puts you into sleep. So, but uh, so yeah, it's, for me it's not a problem, but I grew up here. My whole family's like used to that we just didn't grow up with blackout curtains but family members who would visit we'd make sure we got like really dark shades and stuff like that for them because they're not used to it. So yeah
Jacky Homme 5:20
That's, that is pretty cool. And you know Alaska is on one of my bucket list excursion. So maybe after this we'll talk about the places to go, and the times to go because I know I'm a sunshine person. I'm from Florida, but I don't know if I can do 24 hours of sunshine. I do not like the nighttime, which is, you know, but
Doc Mok 5:38
A lot of good things happen in the nighttime.
Jacky Homme 5:41
This is true. This is true, a lot of good things. And we'll leave it there, we'll leave it up to your imagination to imagine what those things are.
Doc Mok 5:49
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Jacky Homme 8:22
Let's get into it. Right you're certified tea specialist. I didn't even know there were tea championships, but you've won first, second, and third. In a North American tea championship. Right. There, you're in a tea, top tea infusionist competition. I don't even know tea got down like that, which is exciting for me. So talk to the people. Let's go into how did Jenny who's used to 24 hours of sunlight right, what is your origin story? Like did you grow up saying hey, you know what, tea slaps, so I want to match their tea. Like how did you become the Jenny that we're talking to today?
Jenny Tse 9:02
So I grew up a coffee drinker. I've been drinking coffee since I was like four. Like, I like black coffee. And when I say I like black coffee, I still like coffee. I don't drink it all the time. I don't drink it every day. Like every now and then. And if I drink my coffee, it's gonna be black. So I like the taste of coffee. And so when people go, oh, but you don't like getting coffee and like, oh, what? No, that's not like I started. I didn't mean I mean, okay, so I was born in Hong Kong. I came to Alaska when I was month and a half. It was like 30 below 40 below is wintertime. My mom and I, was like first time I ever saw. Snow because it came from Hong Kong. My dad already worked here for many years for like the boom of the Alaska pipeline being built. So you know, he was already here and established and then after I was born, then I came here. So growing up in the 80s, it was very different culturally, it's very much like Asian people, first of all, don't like to make waves. It's just culturally like their thing. And growing up in Alaska, it's very accepting of all kinds of people, all because people come from everywhere unless you're indigenous, but everybody else came from somewhere. So like, even the Russians, right, they're from Russia when they came to Alaska and settled there. So it's very welcoming of all types of people. But the Asian way is not to make waves. So my dad, he drink coffee. That's, that's what everybody else did. And then I drink coffee because my dad drank coffee. My mom, she didn't really drink tea growing up. She just drink water, hot water. And my grandparents on my father's side, when they would come up seasonally, like every other year, so they did the weird Chinese things. And like being a kid, like I got teased a lot. English was not my first language. It was my second language, because my parents were chefs. So they cooked in Chinese restaurants. They didn't have to speak English. And so it's kind of like, you know, the Mexican restaurants, same thing. Don't you speak English, we speak, you know, Spanish here. So we did the same thing too until I had to go to public school, where I'd gets teased because my parents are speaking to me in Chinese. I'm like, the only Chinese person in my class. There's not a lot of Asian people here anyways. So I just wanted to fit in, like very much so. I get my Chinese food, go to school, and all the kids make fun of my food. Like I very much relate to like that movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where all I wanted was like white Wonder Bread. I mean, it's totally unhealthy for you. But I'm just saying I just wanted to have like, hot lunch. Like, why couldn't I have like pizza and mac and cheese. And my parents were like, amazing chefs like five star restaurant chefs. So they're just like, horrified that I'd want like pizza or mac and cheese. So like, why would you want that like, we cook like these like amazing dishes. And I didn't know that I was so blessed to be in this family. Because all my cousins that I had met later on when I was already in college, they did not eat like a five course meal for dinner every night, where my family did. Like, I'm like, oh, you've got some meat and some rice. I'm like, where's all the other stuff? You know, but they're like your dad's a professional chef. You know that right? And I go, yeah, I know that. But I just didn't see the difference. So not growing up around other Chinese people. Just assimilating drinking coffee. But as a kid, I guess that was weird. Because all my dad's friends thought it was strange that his child was drinking coffee. But I think because like an Asian cultures, kids drink tea, adults drink tea. It's very normal. So I didn't get into tea until my last year of college, when I was studying athletic training. And tea was the cheapest thing on the coffee shop menu. So it was more of a budget reason of why I started drinking tea. And then a bunch of people started asking me all these questions about the health benefits of tea as if I was like a tea drinker all the sudden, I'm like, have you seen the drink tea for the last four years? Like ever? I'm not a tea drinker, I don't know anything. But I was going into athletic training and physical education, teaching K through 12. So you ask a person who's like education minded questions, they usually pretty excited go find answers for you. So that's what I did. I'd go and do my own research, go and look in the Journal of Sports Medicine or whatever, and be like, oh, here's a case study on tea. And so then I would tell my friends what I learned, it didn't answer all their questions, because it was just the answers, depending on the demographics of that case study. So um, and that's kind of where it started. And people were like, oh, you need to talk to Jenny. She knows about tea. Gee, I'm just trying to look up the answers.
Doc Mok 14:14
I really like that you get the scientific literature to the point where like, you know, that if you read one case study on something that it doesn't correlate to all populations, which is such a problem with like, all medical literature, predating maybe the 1990s which is it's all like, one demographic or another, you know, so thank you for sharing that with our listeners.
Jenny Tse 14:38
Oh, yeah. Because everyone is different. And you know, like your, like you guys have said before, not all diets fit one person, one type of person, you know, there's different things, different needs, from our DNA to our daily activities, to our surroundings. I mean, I have tons of vitamin D right now. It's not going to happen in six months. It's gonna be like none, because it's gonna be completely dark. So.
Doc Mok 15:03
And also, I wonder where the pizza and macaroni and cheese kids are right now I guarantee they don't have a degree in sports medicine, right?
Jenny Tse 15:14
I didn't remember any of my classmates eating a bunch of pizza and macaroni and cheese.
Doc Mok 15:21
I do.
Jacky Homme 15:23
Yeah, I do. I do too. So, so you're a senior in college, you start drinking tea, right? Because of budgetary constraints. You know, walk us through, I guess, you know, your friend start asking you about the benefits, you start looking for the benefits? Did you have like, an aha moment? Was there like a moment? Because typically this dichotomy, right, there's a tea drinkers, and then there's caffeine people, right? Very few folks are okay with both, like myself, I like both. Because I didn't want to have a drink. I'd have either or, but like, did you remember maybe a moment saying, hey, you know what, there's research here. And maybe there's something more here that I want to dig into? Was there something more here that want to share with the world? Like, did you have a moment like that?
Jenny Tse 16:12
Yeah, I think it was not, while I was in college. So once in college, I'm just trying to find answers. You know, like, it's let's all information I'm opening, open to not knowing, and, and open to receiving and learning. And when any anything that you go into, you just don't know what both sides of it right? The case study, like what type of people were like most of my case studies were on Scandinavian men aged about 50 to 60 years old, I'm not Scandinavian, nor am I a man. And I am definitely not that old. So maybe it doesn't work for me. But, um, at the same time, I would, when I when I moved back to Alaska, I worked in physical therapy. So I worked in fair physical therapy clinic. And like I said, we have all sorts of people who come from all over the place here. And a lot of my patients were in the military, because our physical therapy clinic was very close to the military base. And actually, both of them, the Air Force and the Army. And so I'd have a lot of patients that I would deal with who were from the South, or you know, like, well, a lot of them were from the South that I remember Arkansas, Georgia and the ones in Alaska, like the local patients, like Alaska is a coffee drinking state. Most people drink coffee here. So I would have my Lipton tea bag, nothing fancy, it was just whatever was free at the clinic, you know, in the break room, and I just take out my Lipton tea bag. And every time I had my unfortunately Styrofoam cup of Lipton tea bag, a patient would say, oh, you're a tea drinker. And then started talking to me about X, Y, and Z about their experiences of tea. And I was like, I'm actually not really a tea drinker, but I'm gonna let you tell me your story. Because they didn't let me actually answer they just go into oh, you're a tea drinker, oh I remember drinking tea in the South was my aunt on the porch, and I made sun tea, have you had sun tea, and they would just tell me everything. Granted, I'm there to do their, you know, physical therapy, like their therapy on them. So I'm not here to really tell them anything. But every single time I have my Lipton tea bag, people just tell me about the life story around tea. And I was like, that was my aha moment was when I started to realize that they identify me because of a tag hanging out of my cup. I didn't actually answer or tell them anything. They just assumed that they have some sort of like, really personal, intimate truth about themselves connected with this beverage that they just want to share with me. Like like an unspoken, like secrets society, right? Because you know how there's like the coffee drinkers and then there's tea drinkers and tea drinkers just start talking to each other. Even if they're like strangers, you go into a coffee shop. Say you we went into a Starbucks, right? It's gonna start talking to you because you're drinking some Starbucks. They all just kind of do their own thing on that laptop or whatever. So that's, like the biggest aha when I realized there was a difference in the culture of a tea drinker versus a coffee drinker.
Jacky Homme 19:46
That's, that's interesting. I you know, I would say I've had similar experiences. I've I've actually today ordered tea instead of coffee because I was on the last day of my cleanse and I just heard someone basically, I'm paraphrasing, but just like nice, like, you know, like, oh, so like he drinks tea instead of coffee. So interesting. So, you know, you mentioned your compostable cup. Right? And, you know, I know about, you know, your organization and sustainability with your packaging and you know, and I think if I if I say it's wrong, please correct me, but like a geothermal or solar powered tea farm or something like, like the first geothermal. So how did how did that come into play? Like, what did you like? What did you like? Was that something that also like almost this, this tea-spiration that you have, like, folks, or I felt like the universe was telling you, Jenny, tea, come to the tea world, right, because everyone's asking you, or telling you about their tea experience? Was that the same with your geothermal tea farm? Or was it something that you had the intention said, hey, you know what, I want to make sure that we're being more sustainable. Like, how did that come about?
Jenny Tse 21:10
Yeah, definitely the universe calling me, for all the above. I went, I went to college, hoping, you know, well, in high school it was like, oh, I'm going to be a doctor. And then but I was really into athletics. So like a high school teacher was like, you might think about athletic training. And I'm like, what's that? Because I want to be an ER doctor. I love like, emergency response and stuff like that. And their like, you get to do that but like in athletics, I was like, oh, that's cool. And I love kinesiology and physical therapy, and just like biomechanics and stuff like that, I'm very like, math, science, brain. And, and so like, the moving and the whole tea thing. It was like more and more people, either when I worked at the physical therapy clinic, they would say, you should start a tea business. And I'm like, what, who's gonna do your ultrasounds, like you know, who's gonna do your physical therapy? If I'm not here, then I won't be doing it. There'll be somebody else, like, you want me to leave? Like, you know, for me, it was almost like, not like offensive, but it was like, am I not doing good enough job, like, you don't want me here? But it was, I understand people, like you're so good at this. And I'm like, I'm not good at anything. I'm just like, excited to share with you what you are wondering about, right? I love answering people, helping people, really just helping people find the answers solutions that are towards what they're interested in. And so that's essentially how my tea journey began. And then after that, I taught English in Hong Kong, after I worked the physical therapy clinic just to like, heal a little bit of my cultural identity, because I'm, like, a person from Hong Kong usually looks like a supermodel. They're like, really, you know, very proper, you imagine like the Gucci and the Louis Vuitton, at least my family's like that. I mean, they don't have Gucci and Louis Vuitton, but they're, they look at me, and I'm very more like, leisurely, outdoorsy, casual. But I also grew up in Alaska, I just identify myself as an Alaskan. So I don't really care about looking like really, you know, that my clothes are all like straight and ironed all the time and everything. So, um, so they're always looking at me, like, why are you so frumpy? Like, this is what you look like, when you're going to a business meeting. I'm like, I guess I'm not really sure what you guys are talking about, because I didn't grow up in Hong Kong, like my cousins did. And so, so I went to Hong Kong, so I just kind of come to terms like what does it mean to be, you know, a Chinese person that grew up in Alaska, like, who am I really, so I went through that whole journey. And then when I came back, I got offered a position as a high school teacher, because remember, I'm also a certified PE teacher K through 12. But I have extensive math and science. So I was hired by a very small private school to do all the math and science classes and PE class. And then from that school, they asked me, it was a co-op. So it's almost like a private school slash homeschool collective, because all the parents like they're what do you call that, a shareholder. Like they're a part of the board. And they're like, we want you to teach a tea class. And I was like, you know, I have to design a whole semester curriculum on that. They're like, oh, you could do it. You're really knowledgeable. And I was like, okay, so I started designing a whole curriculum, and you know, and then I had this semester long tea class. And so it was kind of like, it wasn't my idea. I was just at one of the school board meetings. And they're like, can you do that? I think my child would benefit from like, the opportunity to learn from you. And I was like, okay, I will try my best and good teachers, like we talked about in the beginning, or good doctors, they're open to not knowing everything, but are flexible in receiving the possibilities of what's out there, right. And so that's just kind of how I went. And then. And then as then one of the summer breaks, I decided to actually investigate more like, what would it look like if I started a tea company. So I flew to Hong, or Hong Kong and China and all over there. And I essentially made my own personal tea tour. I am from Hong Kong. So I don't speak Mandarin, like what the main dialect of China, so I actually had to hire a translator. And he was white, six feet tall, you know, very weird because like, I'm a Chinese person in China, I can't speak Chinese. But I can speak French. That's all I knew about your last name, because it took four and a half years or French. And the one of the very first tea farms, I went to the one of the tea engineers, he studied about the horticulture of the tea plant in France. And so my translator was like, you should speak to him in French because you can't speack to him in Chinese. I was like, oh, this is very odd. So, um, but you know, you're just kind of flexible and open to like, the possibilities, right? So anyways, when I was going to China, I actually got laid off from the school, because there's only going to be five kids coming back the next year, like, not enough to have two full time teachers. So I didn't take it as like offense. You know, I was just like, all right, I guess I'm doing this tea thing, since I'm already going to China. So, um, and so that's why I say like, you're kind of right. It was like the universe has like steered me and with like, this flexible, mind mindset of adapting to the opportunities that are given to you. That's essentially like how my whole tea career has come about. Now. I've been in business for 16 and a half years, the geothermal part was, I have a tea education program called the Universi-tea program.
Jacky Homme 27:08
Oh that's a good pun
Jenny Tse 27:11
And my tea students, it was COVID. So I had canceled my tea tours. And I sent all of my tea students, a tea plant in the mail, you know, how gardening and you know, taking care of plants was really big during COVID. And so I mailed every tea student a tea plants, and that way I could show on the plants, the stock of the plant, where you would pick, what kind of plants, what kind of tea you would make, why you would pick it the way that you would. And so they start asking me, I know you're really busy, Jenny, but when are you going to start a tea farm? And I was like, wow, that's just crazy. And every time I say something like that the Universe has, the universe has other plans. So I start a tea farm in Alaska, and my husband's like, so what would it take to start a tea farm? So I was like, and I've already thought about this, because I've visited tea farms. And I was like, okay, the only place I can think of that could happen right now would be at Chino Hot Springs Resort because of their high tunnel, greenhouses that they grow produce in all year round. And it's heated completely sustainably by geothermal heat. They have their own geothermal power plant, they have the hot springs, they have the water source, like everything is 100% sustainable. Because if I was to make a greenhouse, say in my yard, what am I going to heat it with? Wood? Charcoal? Fuel? Like how sustainable does that look, especially in the tea industry, if you're going to take something away from its natural environments, of when it's going to, like, essentially rejuvenate that place? I just feel like, you know, things like fossil fuels and stuff don't really, you know, encourage, we'll have like us a symbiotic relationship with that thing. Like so we know the owner of the resort and my husband was like, well then just pitch to me your idea. And I was like, pitch you my idea? Like, this guy is like a multimillionaire and he owns all these different businesses. I don't have time for that. I mean, he doesn't have time for that. And I don't think he's gonna have time for me. And so when he did call me back, he was like, let's do it. And I was like, oh, man, now I'm gonna start a tea farm.
Jacky Homme 29:31
Jen, Jenny was, Jenny. The universe has brought you kicking and screaming this entire time. No matter how hard you try to ignore the signs, you were meant to have a tea farm and start a tea business.
Doc Mok 29:49
Yeah, yeah.
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Jacky Homme 31:41
So okay, so you have the tea farm running, it's up and running. And let's let's talk about tea now. Right? Because, you know, we all we know all know people that drink tea, and we know there's a lot of benefits. So let's let's get into the benefits. Right? So my favorite tea actually is peppermint tea. And I don't know if it's good for me or not. But I just like how it tastes. So what would you say Jenny are some health benefits and it doesn't have to be peppermint tea. But I just do know it's on a list of, it's always on the list of teas that are good for you. But what are some, I guess we can start in either direction teas that are good for illnesses or illnesses that are good for that might be helped with tea. Right? What would you say are some of the results that some of the individuals you work with have been seen?
Jenny Tse 32:37
Yeah. So it's really interesting how I was saying in the beginning, how tea is so much more than like just a substance, right? Like a supplement. It's more, what was very fascinating, that aha moment was the culture around it. The way of being, right, we're on the Maximal Being show, right? And, and that is the biggest theme that I can find that is like so transformative of millennia of cultures. Tea is the number one most consumed beverage in the entire world next to water. Did you know that? Have you heard that?
Doc Mok 33:18
Yeah
Jacky Homme 33:18
Yeah
Jenny Tse 33:18
And it is the largest industry. Like if you want thinking of billions of dollars, the only business that beats tea right now is bottled water. So, um, so when you think about it, tea has got to be beneficial. People keep drinking it, they like the flavor of it. It doesn't really do them any harm unless they're putting in like a whole two cups sugar or something like that, careful with sweet tea. But, you know, it's it's something that people crave. And even the, in the thousands of years of the history even in like Chinese traditional medicine. they've tested it on themselves as a way to heal, quote unquote heal any ailments that that come their way. Right. So there was a Chinese guy, his name, his name escapes me right now. But it's really easy to find like his name. It's like Laos or something. No, I think that's a different philosopher. Anyways, so sorry about that. And he tried all these different toxic and poisonous things. And he tried testing different plants on himself. But he always came back to tea as one of the things that would heal his ailments. And it's like, oh, there's just something about this plant because he was just one of those crazy, you know, thousands of year guru guys who's like, I'm just gonna try all kinds of things and make myself really sick. So
Jacky Homme 34:45
Science
Doc Mok 34:47
Early, early science
Jacky Homme 34:49
Gotta love it
Doc Mok 34:50
Which is now back.
Jenny Tse 34:53
Yeah, document your findings, right. And so tea is 99.9% water, and we know that water is extremely healing, in fact your body needs water. So when you think about the hydration of tea and the mental capacity of like, thoughts, action, you know, hydration helps you think, right, for your brain to work, for your body, organs to be optimized. So just the fact that you're drinking mostly water is super powerful, then you have this medium of a plants, whether it's going to be peppermint, whether it's gonna be hibiscus, whether it's going to be Rooibos or whether it's actually going to be the tea plants. And when I say tea, I mean, the Camellia sinensis plants that makes up the five main categories of tea which are white, green, oolong, black, and pu-erh. They're all from the Camellia sinensis plants. Everything else, Peppermint, Chamomile, Hibiscus, Rooibos that would be considered a tisane, which is a French word for herbal infusion. And those have completely different benefits. So when you're talking about the plant, just like when we talk about gut health, there are so many different things that do different things. So when I just talked about the tea plants itself, the Camellia sinensis plant, there are very powerful, well documented components of that plants and how they help the body. Some of them is, one of them is one of the many antioxidants that are in the tea plant called ECGC. I can't say the whole word, it takes me a while to practice the whole giant chain of words. But for a long time, you might have seen that in the grocery store like 10 years ago, like powerful ECGC includes ECGC, like snapples, got it on the label Lipton, whatever, all those ready to drink things. And they're marketing it because there's a lot of research that that one antioxidant, polyphenol, flavonoid whatever you want to call it, that's huge chain, this complex is non-cell specific. And when I say non-cell specific, it means it does not discriminate, it needs to cell that it touches, it creates a barrier around it, to help it from being broken down, you know, for a while, you know, because we get wear and tear on our bodies. So it's so powerful, because any type of cell that it protects or wraps around, that means it's anti-aging, anti-cancer, right, because you're not letting that cell get damaged and multiply in a not healthy way. So and that's why there's so many of these other benefits that come from it, because you're breaking it down to the science about one antioxidant type. Now, there's many antioxidants in the tea plant. But that's one that's very famous is that ECGC that covers all your cells, well, not all your cells, but any cells in your body. And so if you keep cleansing yourself with tea, drinking that tea, and like every day, and I'm talking about the Camellia sinensis plant specifically, you're you're rejuvenating the the protection of your cells, whether it's in your gut, whether it's your cardiovascular cell, you know, whether it's, you know, cell in your hair, your eyeball, you know, whatever it is, right, all those cells, and you know, that water transports in the whole entire part of the body. That's another thing that's, like non-cell specific, you might say is that how the importance of hydration of h2O is to your entire system. So when you break up super, super, super down to the fundamentals and what tea is, that is one of the most powerful things. And another thing that's in tea that's super powerful, and a lot of people who are new tea drinkers might not realize but are benefiting from is an amino acid called L-theanine. And you've probably heard of L-theanine, it's a calming component. So you get this balance of the yin and yang in there, like tea itself, good high quality tea, like matcha or early season pit white tea may have extreme high amounts of caffeine. And if you're a tea newbie, drinking all these high end teas, and you don't feel jittery like you do with coffee, it's because it's also got a lot of L-theanine in it, which occurs in any green leafy plant, but not but not the coffee berry pits. It's not a green leafy plant. So L-theanine is going to be in your romaine, it's going to be in your kale, it's going to be in your spinach, any green leafy plants and tea, the Camellia sinensis plant is purely just green leafy parts. And so that's why you get a lot of L-theanine. And the Camellia sinensis plant has one of the highest concentrations of that amino acid that calms and relaxes your body. So all you got this energy in your head, the caffeine if you've got good quality tea that you're drinking, but like you feel like almost enlightenment, that's why there's ancient poems in Chinese that talk about the seven cups of tea and how you know, it progresses and how you feel and how tea makes you feel. It's not that just makes you feel a certain way it's actually doing it to your body.
Doc Mok 40:14
Super cool. I didn't know that L-theanine was in tea. I learned something. That was that was awesome. And you'll be so proud of me. One of the things my patient did is start drinking green tea because there are tremendous benefits for pancreas health and pancreas cancer prevention. So
Jacky Homme 40:30
Wonderful. Good job patient. If you're listening, we're all proud of you here.
Doc Mok 40:36
Yeah.
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