Fermented Foods & Digestion : Eating Healthy with Kombucha

You make kombucha with tea and sugar... By all means don't mention the mushroom culture which enables anyone to make it at home.

I'm saying that acidic foods do not create and acidic environment. She said that acidic foods are bad, and that kombucha can help counter that and alkalinize the body... she made a mistake. Acidic food alkalnizes the body, like lemons and kombucha

I dont understand what you are trying to say. Are you trying to say that acidic foods alkalize the body? Or is what you mean to say is that some acidic foods will create an alkaline ash in the body, thus helping to make the body more alkaline? I know that drinking coffee creates an acidic environment with minimal benefits if you were to drink it daily, and it is not alkalizing. Can you please clarify what you mean? Thanks

actually eating acidic foods reduces the acidity in our bodies and alkalizes it... kombucha contains acid...so it's good.

The study to which you refer is merely a researcher documenting four kombucha-related hospitalizations. Three of them had symptoms that could have occurred with any other severe allergy (people have died of peanuts & eggs; are peanuts & eggs dangerous?).

The 4th was an alcoholic presenting with jaundice after drinking 16oz/day of kombucha. Alcohol - liver problems. Take home lesson: alcoholics, don't overdose on KT.

I'm sure the doctors who I'm referring to have heard of something called 'allergies'.

Pick any random food or drink and there will be a small percentage of the population for whom it causes allergic reaction, nausea, vomiting, or headache. It's called allergies.

yay mushroom tea!!!!!

Don't take your information from one source. Kombucha provides good bacteria and other beneficial nutrition. Its been used for years. You might need to use it yourself

EPIDEMIC !! It is the newest trend

The mixture of sugar, tea, room temperature, and yeast/bacteria provides an ideal breeding ground for many micro-organisms (some pathogenic) and airborne fungi.

I know at least 5 people who drink this stuff regularly FOR YEARS and they are so healthy they never seem to get sick and don't even have doctors, also the indidginous peeps who drink this stuff are known to be centurians more often than not. Something you can't say about the american culture and what they choose to feed their faces. Hmmm

Watch out for this stuff!
In a study (1997) by Srinivasan et al., they found that use of Kombucha tea in proximity to onset of symptoms and symptom resolution on cessation of tea drinking suggest a probable etiologic association.
Symptoms included side effects probably related to consumption of Kombucha tea are reported in four patients. Two presented with symptoms of allergic reaction, the third with jaundice, and the fourth with nausea, vomiting, and head and neck pain.

J Gen Intern Med. 1997

yum yum!

she said "have a bowl" lol, teewker!!!!!!!!!

Folic acid is a b vitamin (b-9). dumbass