# My sneaky tweaky coffee tweak....

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**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [July 26, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/my-sneaky-tweaky-coffee-tweak/4816 "2007-07-26T15:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![tacitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tacitus](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/tacitus)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/my-sneaky-tweaky-coffee-tweak/4816/1 "2007-07-26T15:21:35Z")

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Lots of coffee has the double edged pleasure-angst of fantastic energizing with the downside of nervous miserable excesses… 🆒 so what did I discover… green tea contains an amino acid Theanine, which functions as a “caffeine relaxer”… giving you the good part of the caffeine buzz minus the skranky gritzels of one cup of primo fesh ground too many by 11:00 a.m… so I was sitting there, thinking gainfully employed thoughts, and the synergy came over me… why not take the mellowing part of green tea and add it to the unmellowing part of strong coffee ?.. game on…

What I found out is that Theanine works much better if taken about 10 minutes before the first caffeine dose, and works much less if taken with or after… and take note, it needs to be taken before your first cup for it to work right… I gulp 2 200 mg. capsules first thing in the a.m… then hie off to Starbucks for my morning Zen whack…

Done right, Theanine substantially takes the funky edge off (technically by modulating NMDA receptors sensitivity to the glutamate particle) while leaving the up-ness pretty much intact…

Maybe they should think about adding this directly to coffee products ? Supposedly Theanine also has some good anti-cancer properties as well, tumor cells hate the stuff… 🙂 🙂

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**Author:** ![noblelady](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/noblelady/32/2391_2.png) [@noblelady](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/noblelady)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/my-sneaky-tweaky-coffee-tweak/4816/2 "2007-07-26T21:18:37Z")

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😃 coool!