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Anyone drank black tea for many years, developed mental health issues?

Aging Well | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (18)
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Can you say a bit more about why you asked? I and many friends and family members drink black tea daily, and seem to have had no ill effect. My mom was a tea drinker and worked until she was 84. She had some dementia at 90, but it was unrelated to tea. Is this something you've observed or perhaps read about?

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robertwills | @robertwills | Nov 13 9:31pm

Yes. I read somewhere, I can't find it now, where some famous English writer or observer of mankind, in the 19th century wrote to the effect "Tea drinking causes one to become a dullard". I have not found any other literature or studies on the matter so thought I would start with any personal experiences.

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gloaming | @gloaming | Nov 14 12:13pm

I'm gonna make my response an emphatic Bravo Sierra. Everyone I know, and I mean E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E. drink tea at least some of the time, and my wife and I drink it daily. So did my father, and my mother, my in-laws....they all drink tea. Believe me, some dullard PhD student somewhere in some backwater university would long since have, even out of desperation, taken this gem of anecdotal 'wisdom' and run with it in order to get credentials. No research I have ever seen suggests that tea is in any way deleterious for humans who consume it....for centuries, by the billions....with a B.

Edit- didn't mean to respond to the person quoted at the top of my post...I'm sorry. I mean this for the OP Robert Willis

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