one month kombucha review

[TheSomeBody]

so i started to drink kombucha because of the damage that ritalin caused me. it made me have candida overgrowth (not something serious, pretty mild) and having ibs, both of them are much better since i stopped using ritalin but not healed . my doctor said that the candida is because my gastric juices are too acidic. so i thought that i need probiotics ,maybe the ritalin changed my bacterial environment so now i have high ph.  i cant eat yogurt beacuse of the ibs (luckely i can eat icecream) and other fermented food i dont like so kombucha is the only option or buying expensive probiotics pills which are confusing and there is lots of trial and error .

health results:

-two cups a day but its has 70%-80% kombucha and 20%-30% fruits .

so from internet review kombucha is great and bad for candida (so unreliable), after one month of use i dont see any change.

for ibs surprisingly it helped like 10%-30% , maybe it will get better in the future . on the other hand i can eat more crap now so i dont know if i am really happy about it haha.

another surprisingly results is better skin and acne,the skin is smooth and i barely have acne . i dont have lots of acne but i have maybe 1-4 times a month , i barely have something now. for this post i ate chocolate (it gives me pimples every time) and i got nothing . 

facts:

not enoght probiotics- i saw the opposite claim that kombucha has lots of probiotics, i didnt mesure my kombucha but there is lots of yeast and bacteria when i am making kombucha, i can see it with my eyes because it is so big, so my guees is that there is lots of probiotics but there is a need to check it empiricly , i might do it or i will ask people on reddit to do it for their kombucha , probably we will have same results.

b12- i saw on bottles of kombucha insane amounts of b12, might be a good source of b12 .however taking pills is better option and esier .

any information- it is literally internet disaster to know health benefits of kombucha , i am writing it here just to have some kind of order in this mess. just try it for yourself and be careful . i would use the internet only for knowing how to grow kombucha and for recipes.

downsides:

sugar content is might be a problem, when you are fermenting is first time almost all of the sugar converts into acid and co2 but when you are adding taste you might use lots of sugar, i used only the sugar from the fruits but it is pretty sugary . personaly the taste of the kombucha is pretty bad, especially the smell so i like to use fruits till it doenst have any kombucha taste or smell. also you can use green tea for having weak kombucha taste . i didnt saw any change in behevior of the kombucha when i did the change , same everything .

for me the sugar content doesnt matter but for some of you it might be . it is for sure 

making it , but it is pretty easy .

uses:

health benefits for sure 

drinking it instead of soda ,  i would buy sodastream instead of using kombucha, it is pricy than kombucha but generally pretty cheap.

b12-  i dont know why you wouldnt buy pills but you can use kombucha for that

taste -  if you like vinegar taste you should try it. 

maintaining hippy identity- i was shocked to see how many hippies are using it .

the experience:

so it is really fun to have this bubly sweet drink, i am really wainting for the morning and night to drink it .

making it is really easy , you dont need to even check it. just once a week you need to bottle your tea and make a new one . it takes like 20 min with lots of waiting to make both of them.

it beally takes a space to make it , you can have the drink outside and not fridge it if you are using it within a week or so.

how to get it and how to grow it:

so for how to grow is really easy , just binge on this channel and you are set to go https://www.youtube.com/c/YouBrewKombucha , it will take you less than an hour to see everything that you need.

for how to get there are couple of options, i will say all the bad ones: buying it online, buying a kombucha bottle at store, buying a kombucha bottle to grow a scoby, buying it from a grower.

the good option: finding a local hippy that will give you a scoby for free , just looks on facebook (probably) or anywhere else and you will find a hippy that will be nice and give you free scoby.  i found a guy that gave me a free bottle in addition to two scobies. usally people have a scoby hotel so they will throw around scobies to random people , scobies are multiplying really fast . you can also eat them , it has 20% protein, might do a review about it in the future.

my tip- dont buy a 4 liters jar, buy 2 jars of 2 liters instead. it i will cost you half the price, easy to find and you wont need a scoby hotel.

happy brewing!

 

 

 

Edited December 18, 2021 by TheSomeBody