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abcdefg said:They also say no human could drink enough black tea to have any real effect.
They say that because it works out to be around 100 cups of black tea for the avg adult male.
Taken from HLH
ckdude said:Ok I looked at the study to see how these doses extrapolate to humans:
"For animal studies, the tea infusions (15 g tea leaves/L water) were freshly prepared every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and were used as the sole source of drinking fluid for tea-treated mice throughout the study."
They don't specify how large the mice were or how much they drank. I used to study lab mice and a typical adult is 25-30g and drinks ~6ml per day.
15g/1000ml * 6ml = 0.09g per day (90mg/day)
Adjusted for bodyweight:
90mg/30g = 3 mg/g = 3 g/kg
Average human adult male = 70kg
Equivalent human dose:
3g*70kg = 210g = 0.21kg/day
A typical teabag is 2g so that's ~100 cups of tea.