HEALTH

Hemp seeds are landing in shopping carts today alongside flaxseed and pumpkin seeds, yet they still raise questions. Some people associate them purely with marijuana and dismiss them outright, while others treat them as a trendy add-on without checking what they actually contain. The truth is mundane: these are ordinary, fully legal seeds of industrial…

Cranberries used to be associated mainly with the sauce served with turkey at Christmas. Today, the dried fruit of this shrub ends up in a bag on the desk, in breakfast porridge and in a jar of snacks at work – a handful is enough to enjoy a distinct, sweet-tart flavour and add something more…

Boarding in forty minutes. In the airport business lounge, the third coffee machine of the afternoon is running, and the passenger by the window sets down the cup after one sip, feeling that another coffee means a racing heart even before takeoff. This scene repeats itself in larger lounges and VIP zones dozens of times…

Balayage takes two hours, keratin straightening can take three, and a facial treatment with a mask and cream under foil isn’t a five-minute affair either. The client sits in the chair with foil on her head or lies with her eyes closed, while the coffee she was given as a welcome has long gone cold…

The bell ends the third hour of the language class, the group heads out for a ten-minute break, and a queue forms in front of the coffee machine in the office. The same scene repeats itself at language departments, language schools and certificate preparation courses – classes run in blocks of two or three hours,…

The bell rings for the second screening, the queue at the bar reaches the door, and the coffee machine is grinding coffee for the third person in a row. Anyone who has worked even one evening in a cinema or theatre foyer knows this moment: people are waiting for the show, they want something hot…

An hour of vinyasa or reformer pilates in the morning gives the body something coffee simply can’t provide – calm alertness. Instructors who lead several classes a day know that moment right after the last savasana, when they still have to welcome the next group, and the body craves more than lemon water. Yerba mate…

Fifth coffee before 3 PM and still hard to focus? That’s the most common sign that coffee at the office has stopped working and started just maintaining a habit. Yerba mate at the office and in coworking spaces is gaining more and more fans for exactly this reason: it provides energy that builds up calmly…

Two lines on a test and the first question can be surprisingly down-to-earth: what to drink in the morning instead of coffee now? Yerba mate often comes up in this question, because on one hand it’s “just an infusion,” but on the other hand it contains caffeine, which every mom-to-be has heard needs to be…

This email keeps coming back to our customer service inbox, especially from customers looking for support for their skin and hair: “I see vitamin E on your yerba’s packaging, does that mean a cup a day will give it to me?” The “Yerba mate and vitamin X” series exists precisely to answer such questions honestly,…

The same email keeps coming back to our customer service every so often, especially in autumn, when the days get shorter and the topic of vitamin D returns to the media: “I drink yerba every day, will it help with my D deficiency?” We answer just as honestly as with every other ingredient in this…

This question comes up regularly in messages to our customer service: since yerba mate is dried leaves, dark green and full of chlorophyll, maybe it also contains a lot of vitamin A? We’re checking this just as honestly as with every other ingredient in this series — without bending the conclusion to fit a marketing…