Green tea or no green tea?

[begonia]

Oh good! I really like the stuff once I put lemon juice in it :-)

[Flava]

Freya ty for the calendar!

[atomic sagebrush]

In some post I read to drink lot's of green tea and other post says no green tea....now what??
I did buy some and making it for days now with truvia and lemon juice.
made DH to drink it too. but now Im not sure?

Hmmm I thought green tea was ALL good for TTC boy! I didn't see that other post??

[atomic sagebrush]

Green tea inhibit folic acid uptake by about 40% in cell cultures, so the researchers in the study recommended to drink it between meals if you're trying to become pregnant. When I drank it I drank it in the afternoons, just to be safe (I take my vitamins in the morning). But if you take really high doses of folic acid this shouldn't matter of course. I just chose not to (850 mcg a day), and was careful with the green tea instead (I didn't do BS or any of the boy drinks).

Yes, and this is something that REALLY can happen. Before I TTC DS 3 (I wasn't swaying) I drank green tea every day and he DOES have spina bifida even though I took a prenatal with folic acid. With DS 4 I took a lot more folic acid and he is fine.

[SpicyTunaSushi]

I did have so much less EWCM the month I was drinking green tea- so I am not going to drink it!

[Zivic-Bubac]

Green tea is not a good idea for dh since it raises estrogen.
But it obviously has other blue swaying ingredients when taken by dw. I'm drinking it religiously, 1 large cup in the morning ( but maybe I'll start drinking it in the afternoon bcos it inhibits FA absorption....)

[begonia]

Hmmm I thought green tea was ALL good for TTC boy! I didn't see that other post??

The sticky about ways to increase testosterone has a reply, I think maybe from Skrimpy? that says ... "OK a few notes - firstly, Viene noted that green tea can increase estrogen so we will stay away from that for trying for a boy."

Maybe this is where some of us are getting confused on green tea? Am I reading that incorrectly? It seems to indicate a negative for green tea w/ swaying boy.

Is it just me or the more I read the more I feel like so many things can go either way?!?! Ah the confusion of swaying ...

[TTC5]

I did have so much less EWCM the month I was drinking green tea- so I am not going to drink it!

Same here... had pretty much no ewcm? Does green tea do this? I thought this is why we drank it lol to make ewcm :S

[Hobbermittens]

I have been drinking it daily. I plan to use it as part of my sway. I have been drinking decaf.

[atomic sagebrush]

I finally stumbled onto that thread and read it!!! Thanks all for sharing where it was.

For now, most of the evidence says green tea is good for blue and I would keep drinking it to TTC blue. But if you find that it dries up CM maybe that is a sign that it isn't the best choice for you.