I bought the kettle on Amazon

It works great, and heats the water to any temperature within about 2 minutes.

But don’t buy the Ingenuitea tea pot they offer with it. Too many of the tea leaves get through the filter and into the cup.

I just went and bought this tea cup with built in infuser.

I have also seen lots of information in general, that too much of a good thing isn’t so good.

Plus it’s my gut feeling that is accurate, and had a lot to do with my diagnosis.

Quite interested in your comment re: megavitamins “causing” your MCL.

Is there any evidence in the literature that this is possible or is it just your gut feeling. Is there any one vitamin in particular you blame?

Don’t forget your dad had some type of leukemia (CLL if I remember correctly).

Don’t you think there can be a genetic predisposition, rather than vitamins that plays the major factor?

Alan

I still believe it was my mega dosing on the so called good vitamins (those vitamins high in anti oxidants that would prevent cancers etc.) which caused my MCL, so I’m not interested in trying such pills, especially if you can’t be sure of the quality of the pills themselves.

I’ll just keep getting it naturally for now.

In the clinical trial, “doses ranged from 400 milligrams (mg) to 2,000 mg administered twice a day. Researchers determined that they had not reached a maximum tolerated dose, even at 2,000 mg twice per day.”

“…many of them saw regression to some degree of their chronic lymphocytic leukemia,” says Tait Shanafelt, M.D., Mayo Clinic hematologist and lead author of the study. “The majority of individuals who entered the study with enlarged lymph nodes saw a 50 percent or greater decline in their lymph node size.”

And the tea that I bought, actually looks like green tea, and tastes much better.

Now I’m beginning to wonder what I’ve been drinking for the past 6+ years.

On Tuesday’s and Thursday’s when I’m at work, I drink another 2-3 8 oz cups. That’s another 40 oz, and then at least two days (and most times 3 days) a week, I’ll have another big cup (probably 12 oz) of tea at the local coffee shop (always the caffeinated version), for another, we’ll say 30 oz’s.

So all told, that’s about 294 oz of green tea per week, or on average approx 40+ oz per day.

And thanks for the information on Inderal. It might help someone willing to take it, but you should know by now, I don’t take drugs except under extreme circumstances.

I’m confident I’ll still get plenty of EGCG, even if I have to cut the regular tea with some decaf.

Out of curiosity, how many oz. of Green tea do you drink a day? Do you add anything to it (milk, sugar)?

I don’t know how you feel about “drugs” but taking a small dose of Inderal daily would probably eliminate the palpitations you get from caffeine if getting the extra EGCG is important.