kl.ImSoCold2323
Kava Curious
I've been drinking kava for about 3 months now. At first I was drinking pretty much every day (~6 days a week). Around two months in I felt like the effects started to stabilize.
I felt like I still needed more than most people to feel the effects. I typically do 1/2 cup kava to 4-6 cups water, depending on the strength of the strain. (I've always preferred a less potent drink. Drinking a specific amount of kavalactones slowly over the course of an hour or two gives me much longer effects than taking a super strong shot or two of the same amount.) Either way I got to a place where I would consistently feel great using my standard prep.
After I hit this point though I slowed down to 2-3 times a week. But now I barely feel anything. In the meantime I've switched to stronger strains (from BKH's Fu'u and Boruguru to N@H's Stone, Chiefs, and Wow), I switched from a muslin to fijan strainer bag (which should let a lot more of the finer particles through, making it stronger), and I've even gotten into better habits of making sure my stomach is empty when I drink. Yet as I said, the effects are barely noticeable now.
Curious if this had anything to do with reverse tolerance, I drank the last three days in a row. Since I'm off work I'm drinking in the morning when the effects are the strongest. The first day was Chiefs. For the second day I went ~22 hours without eating anything solid and had Paradise's 9yo ISA. Barely noticable. Today however, I made a batch of Fu'u, which has always been pretty weak for me, but I feel great!
So does the "reverse tolerance" buildup only last for a very short period of time? I'm trying to think if there was anything else I've changed over the last month that could account for the lessened effects. Am I just having bad luck?
I've also been noticing, sometimes when I do have a weak session, about half-way through my batch I'll feel it building up pretty strongly. Almost to the point where I'm wondering if I should actually take that next drink. But whether or not I do, the effects I'm feeling will completely disappear over the course of five minutes. It builds up stronger and stronger, then poof, it's gone. I didn't eat or drink anything, I didn't suddenly start exercising, I didn't go through an extreme weather change. I'm just laying on the couch watching TV and it completely disappears. And this has happened a decent amount of times over the last month. I'm lost on that one...
That was kinda long. I welcome opinions, ideas, comments. Otherwise, I always feel better when I rant a bit.
I felt like I still needed more than most people to feel the effects. I typically do 1/2 cup kava to 4-6 cups water, depending on the strength of the strain. (I've always preferred a less potent drink. Drinking a specific amount of kavalactones slowly over the course of an hour or two gives me much longer effects than taking a super strong shot or two of the same amount.) Either way I got to a place where I would consistently feel great using my standard prep.
After I hit this point though I slowed down to 2-3 times a week. But now I barely feel anything. In the meantime I've switched to stronger strains (from BKH's Fu'u and Boruguru to N@H's Stone, Chiefs, and Wow), I switched from a muslin to fijan strainer bag (which should let a lot more of the finer particles through, making it stronger), and I've even gotten into better habits of making sure my stomach is empty when I drink. Yet as I said, the effects are barely noticeable now.
Curious if this had anything to do with reverse tolerance, I drank the last three days in a row. Since I'm off work I'm drinking in the morning when the effects are the strongest. The first day was Chiefs. For the second day I went ~22 hours without eating anything solid and had Paradise's 9yo ISA. Barely noticable. Today however, I made a batch of Fu'u, which has always been pretty weak for me, but I feel great!
So does the "reverse tolerance" buildup only last for a very short period of time? I'm trying to think if there was anything else I've changed over the last month that could account for the lessened effects. Am I just having bad luck?
I've also been noticing, sometimes when I do have a weak session, about half-way through my batch I'll feel it building up pretty strongly. Almost to the point where I'm wondering if I should actually take that next drink. But whether or not I do, the effects I'm feeling will completely disappear over the course of five minutes. It builds up stronger and stronger, then poof, it's gone. I didn't eat or drink anything, I didn't suddenly start exercising, I didn't go through an extreme weather change. I'm just laying on the couch watching TV and it completely disappears. And this has happened a decent amount of times over the last month. I'm lost on that one...
That was kinda long. I welcome opinions, ideas, comments. Otherwise, I always feel better when I rant a bit.
