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01 - Living My New Norm After Surviving Breast Cancer
Tea Tales for a Healthier Life
Discover the transformative power of tea as your ally in health and wellness. Join me, Sherry, for a soothing exploration of matcha's energizing benefits for mental clarity, turmeric's potent anti-inflammatory properties, and the calming embrace of lavender chamomile. These teas aren't just drinks; they’re vital partners in our quest for balance and relief. I'll share practical advice on brewing techniques to unlock their full potential while helping you avoid common pitfalls like bitterness or sleep disruption from overindulgence in caffeine-rich teas.
I’m also excited to introduce you to a dear friend who has courageously managed chronic pain. She unveils her personal journey, offering invaluable lessons and insights that can guide anyone facing similar struggles. Together, we emphasize the importance of self-care and the proactive step of scheduling annual mammograms for early detection. So, find a cozy spot, brew your favorite cup, and let us accompany you on a journey toward greater well-being and inner peace.
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Hi, my name is Sherry and welcome to my podcast, silver Tea. And this podcast is about drinking tea for medicinal purposes, and I just want to say I am a tea enthusiast. I love all kinds of teas. I have favorite teas, but I like trying different teas, and the teas I'm going to talk about are not going to be in any particular order. Well, they will be in a particular order, but they're not going to be in my favorite rating of order. They're going to be in how I consume tea order. Okay, so I just want to get that clear.
Speaker 1:I love tea. I've always been a person that enjoyed tea. You know, when we used to watch Kung Fu Theater on Saturdays, it wasn't just about the Kung Fu and the fighting and all the cool moves, but it was about the tea, how they just served the tea and they were. So you know, I just got my tea out, you know, and how they would serve the tea and you would drink the tea. I loved, I loved tea, and back then I was drinking black Tuttley tea and I later got into drinking tea with creamer in it, because now I think I'm British, right? So what's going on with that? So I love tea, and later in life I started trying different types of teas, and these teas that I'm drinking now are so super helpful for when I am dealing with pain, when I'm looking for more focus and concentration, or if I'm looking to relax or mellow out. And these teas are all wonderful for all the things I talked about.
Speaker 1:So I want to talk about my first tea of the day and it's not a part of my three teas, because I usually start out my morning with drinking tea because I like the. It feels so good, it warms my stomach. I love the feeling of the tea. But then I will get my shower and then I start preparing my desk for success, shuffle my papers around, get my pens all where I need it to be. I have to use colored pins because I work in engineering, so I want to just get everything where I need it because I'm ready to go. So now I need that focus. I need to get my focus on. So what do I do?
Speaker 1:The first tea I start of the morning is matcha tea. Matcha tea is a very good tea. It tastes good. I love the green taste of it all. It's strong. But I take this tea in the morning for two reasons, I would think is it three or two, but two. One is for mental focus. This tea will have you trying to solve the earth issues. Okay, this tea will get your focus that that strong. This is some serious tea. I love this tea and I take it as a shot.
Speaker 1:So normally I'll take and make sure you follow the steeping instructions and the temperatures that you should be heating your teas at, because sometimes if you have a tea too hot and you drop something like this tea in there in boiling temperature, which is what 212 degrees you drop it in there. These teas are very tender, delicate teas, tea leaves, even though you can't see them, but they will burn and then they make your tea taste bitter. So you want to make sure you know what you should be having matcha tea or green tea at. Okay, so, um, so you put your tea in there. I use. I use about maybe two to three tea tablespoons of heated water to wherever the temperature I think is 170, 165, doesn't say on here, but I pretty much know, like my's, 160, 175, 185, somewhere around there. I'll heat this tea and then I'll take a little wisp and wisp it up. I I think I did some video, so I, I, if I have a video, I'm gonna drop it in here, um, and I'll whip it up and I'll just take it down and it's almost instantly you start getting these benefits. You focus, you feel better, you have an overall well-being. Now you're just ready to go. You've been rejuvenated from drinking this tea, so you feel really, really good.
Speaker 1:So this tea is wonderful and it just and it helps with your skin. So it does. You know, we women or men, we like to hold on to our youth as long as we can and or we like to age gracefully and beautifully. So this tea is good for your skin. It keeps your skin glowing. It just does a wonderful job on that.
Speaker 1:And this is caffeinated tea. So the reason I want to talk about this caffeinated is because I want to make sure, when you're drinking this tea, that you're drinking this tea getting one cup or one shot. However you want to do it. You're drinking this tea with that, that one shot a cup a day. If you do two, it's probably okay, but don't do it too late in the day, because this tea will keep you up because, again, it has caffeine in it. So this tea is good for your brain function, it rejuvenates you and it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful for your skin. So we at our age like to age gracefully and beautifully. So we want to keep our skin looking good and glowing. So we want to drink this tea, but don't drink too much of it. You want to start drinking, you want to stop drinking this tea early because you don't want to drink it into the night and then you're like wired and you can't go to sleep. So enjoy this tea, but just don't drink too much. That is tea number one and that is consumed in the morning time, before I sit down to to go to work. In the afternoon, after working I don't know four or five hours and and you had your lunch and and you did your walk and a little sleep. After a while the sleep kicks in again.
Speaker 1:The next tea that you want to drink, which is I said I didn't have any favorite teas, but I I think I had to say this turmeric tea is my favorite tea. I love turmeric tea. I just discovered it this year. Uh, I fell in love with it. I I drink turmeric tea with a nut milk. I don't like it with um cow milk. It was because it makes my stomach feel heavy and bloated. So I kind of stay away from the the cow milk. I like it with the nut milk and I like it with almond coconut nut milk and I like this, this um brand. You can try any brand you want. This is blue diamond. I have tried other other brands but this seems to be my favorite one and this is not. This is not the one that I I use anymore. This used to be my old one. It's an unsweetened almond milk but I fell in love with the unsweetened coconut, the unsweetened almond coconut milk, fell in love with it. Love, love this tea.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't me that actually got it, I, I sent my nephew to go get it and it was like this happy accident, like, oh, I, I like this tea. I mean, he got the wrong tea, but it's not the wrong tea, he actually got the right tea. I'm the one that's been buying the wrong tea. So I absolutely love I'm sorry the wrong milk. So he got the. So he, he got the wrong milk. And I was like, no, no, I'm the one that's been buying the wrong milk. Because he's got the right milk, because I love this milk better the nut milk. So I drank this.
Speaker 1:I make this um, turmeric tea with the nut milk which is the arming coconut nut milk. So I'm gonna tell you the ingredients here. Let me show you the ingredients. Start with the number one ingredients the name of itself, turmeric. I will take about a one. I'll take one. I'm trying to remember one fourth, one fourth teaspoon of turmeric. This is just dry turmeric, dry turmeric, and I just do like one fourth teaspoon of that.
Speaker 1:Now it I forgot to mention this part I'm actually heating this nut milk in a little, a little pot. I don't want to heat it in the microwave. I'm over the microwave, I I prefer the good old-fashioned way, heated on the stove. So so I will pour that one-fourth teaspoon of turmeric into my milk that's in a pot, so a pot that just waiting to be heated. Here's my other one, cinnamon sticks. So I'll take one cinnamon stick and I'll break it up. I'll break it up and put it in there.
Speaker 1:I love that. I just love the taste and the smell of the cinnamon when it's, when it's in there. I like the kodama. Kodama has a wonderful spice too. I love I'm not, would I say, kodama, I meant to say so. I love this one, which is goma sala. Absolutely love goma sala and my turmeric tea is wonderful. I love it, I love it, I love it and, last but not least, to which I believe is very important, don't ever forget to put this in there, because this helps you absorb all the wonderfulness of the turmeric tea and the beneficial, the most beneficial part of the turmeric tea that helps you with inflammation. So make sure you do a couple of twists of cracked pepper into your, your nut milk that you're already heating on the stove. Hi, I hope you're enjoying the podcast so far, and the way you can help my podcast is by hitting that subscribe button below and you'll be notified when I release new and exciting podcasts. Thank you, and enjoy the rest of the podcast.
Speaker 1:So this is in the afternoon, after I had lunch, I've been for my walk and I'm starting to wind down now. So a good walk at lunchtime is great. It's good for your mental focus as well, but I find that I still get a little sleepy, maybe an hour later. So what I do is I quickly make this turmeric tea, and the turmeric tea wakes you up, it gives you energy, it takes away any pain you may have, and I won't say takes away, it's like it's completely gone. But what it does is it takes off a good part, take off the edge. And the good part of the edge is it really just takes it off and you're feeling good and you're focused. So it brings back that mental focus that you just kind of felt, like you kind of just kind of spud it out a little bit and it brings that back. And the most beautiful thing about this turmeric tea is it doesn't have caffeine in it, so you don't have to worry about it having you wired by the time it's time for bedtime and you got you wide open and you can't sleep. Now Turmeric tea doesn't do that. It's a wonderful tea.
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, some people use turmeric tea to calm them down and unwind. I don't use it for that. It does help you unwind, but I found that I have a harder time trying to sleep if I drink it at that time. But I do go to sleep it just I'm just kind of laying there thinking again about whatever I'm thinking about I need to I have at night and this is one of my favorite teas as well.
Speaker 1:This is the lavender Uh-oh backwards the lavender coconut, I'm sorry. The lavender chamomile. This is the lavender chamomile. This is the lavender chamomile tea that I like to have at night. I put it in eight ounces of water, hot water. I mean not boiling point please, because I know the chamomile flowers. These are all whole flowers. They are not grounded, grounded up. But you can buy the tea bags if you like. I, I like to, I like them whole and loose, I just just me it's preference. So whatever, whatever is preference for you. So the chamomile I believe you have to heat it to 185. So you want to make sure you you follow all the steep the the steep time. You want to make sure you follow all the steep time. You want to make sure you follow the temperature of these teas. So make sure you get those in there, because then that gives you the best tea when you follow those instructions of how hot it should be, how long you should brew it or steep it. It's very, very good. I enjoy, enjoyed very much. Let me put this over here because that that table got crowded. It's a little crowded over there, so I'm gonna put this over here.
Speaker 1:So now, one thing I did not say about these teas. I do want to say the turmeric tea and the, the matcha tea. Those two teas are very strong and high in antioxidants and we need those antioxidants to help us fight cancer. So that's why I prefer them. They really help with fighting cancer. And the reason I'm kind of slowing down on saying is because I'm thinking about all the other wonderful benefits that these teas have that I I could go on for another hour talking about how tea, which god created these plants to help us heal our bodies, how tea is a wonderful benefit, and this, the antioxidant system growing in the sun, and and it's just, it's just so good. So I, before you even try any of these teas, just do your own research and see what you think will work for you, because I did not just happenstance on figuring out how these teas work. I actually actually experiment with them. I read about them. I became almost a master tea mixer in my own apartment trying to figure out how to get these teas going. So I absolutely love these teas. They're very good for so many things and I I would always advise you to just take your time and try them, and sometimes I would. I'm gonna say this I want to put this disclaimer in check with your doctor on some of them, and I say this because you know I'm saying this from experience, right, I say this because I fell in love with one tea that I cannot take.
Speaker 1:It was called licorice root tea. You see, this licorice root tea. Oh my goodness, this tea is so good, but the problem was it was stopping my body from absorbing the medicine for high blood pressure. And I kept saying I was drinking this tea every night. I was like this tea is good, it's simple, it's easy, it's relaxing. No sugar required, no honey required because I don't do sugar, no honey required. So I'm just like, okay, this tea is great, I don't have to add no sweetener to it, nothing, let me tell you.
Speaker 1:I went to the doctor and they said, yes, your problem is you're drinking that tea and it's and it's blocking your body from absorbing the high blood pressure medicine and so, because of that, I can't take it. So, but it doesn't mean it's off my shelf and it's in the trash. What it means is I want to get rid of high blood pressure medicine, right, I want to get rid of that and I want to keep this on my shelf. So I'm going to give myself some time to try to work out how to get rid of high blood pressure medicine and use natural natural, uh ways to control my blood pressure, because I actually did not have blood pressure before I had before I was diagnosed with cancer. That seemed like it kind of came when cancer came I think that was it for me I stressed out and blood pressure just went crazy. So, um yeah, it's not off my shelf forever, it's just off my shelf temporarily. It's not off my shelf, it it's not off my shelf, it's just. And I don't even sneak and try, even though I thought about it. But I'm like no, sherry, don't do that.
Speaker 1:So I'm a good girl, I'm going to give myself a chance to try to find a natural, holistic ways to be healthier, and I have a very wonderful friend that gave me some advice on trying holistic ways to try to to get myself off of these, these medications that we, we just can't take. It you know we can't, we can't take, for I don't want to take for the rest of my life not, not a chemical, because it's it's killing something else in your body. So I don't want to be taking it forever. So the reason I take a lot of these teas is because I don't know about you, but a lot of pain seems like it comes when you start getting old. You got arthritis pain, you got pain from the medication, or so you find a way. So I am trying to allow these teas to be a a substitute to pain medicine, because I live with chronic pain every day and I would love to hear what you are doing to help with your chronic pain. As you see, I talked about teas and how they help with inflammation and chronic pain and arthritis pain and taking less of those chemical pills.
Speaker 1:I would like to hear from my listeners and viewers what are you doing to help with your chronic pain? So my next podcast I'm going to have a dear friend of mine who lives with chronic pain every day. Have a dear friend of mine who lives with chronic pain every day and she is going to come on and she's going to talk about how she's been dealing with it and she's also going to talk about how she and how, where her chronic pain came from and what she's doing to manage it. So hopefully you will stay tuned for that podcast. I would love for you to come back and listen in. And you know what I always say, ladies Early detection is the best detection. So please get your annual mammograms done today. So until next time, ladies, have a cup of tea.