That's a good topic. I am dyslexic,so for me it's my medication,helps me to stay focused. I'm all over the place and with anxiety with life. Sad that people in our country do not know about it. Kudos to you and I like all of your great videos. P.S you also are a good narrator and have a good perspective on this wonderful God given herb, medicine...

@yerbamatenow

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

When I was working an overnight job I got a few of my coworkers into mate. I'd brew a big french press full of it and invited them to partake if they so desired. They did, and half an hour later asked me if it was rocket fuel. I like coffee, but am totally convinced that mate is a much better stimulant. You can prepare mate many different ways, using cold fruit juice is awesome during the summer.

@yerbamatenow

5 ай бұрын

I don't know why I haven't ever done fruit juice mate on the channel, but I like it a lot, and summer is coming up in Florida!

@NikeaTiber

5 ай бұрын

@@yerbamatenow I think my favorite juice is probably lime. So damn good on a hot day. I think we are cut from the same cloth, I came here from your snus/snuff channel.

amazing video enjoyed watching this while drinks some chimmarao

Yep i always wonder why yerba mate isnt even thought of in mexico or canada or US but it makes sense when you explain it

@yerbamatenow

5 ай бұрын

There's a whole lot of historical context that I took notes on that I think has quite a bit to do with it, but it wasn't appropriate for this video. Maybe one day I'll do a full history!

The only way it can start in my opinion is with mate cocido, it's faster to make and drink, plus you can easily add sugar to make it more appealing to the american market. Another way is if starbucks adds a drink that has yerba mate in it, similar to how they have match drinks, maybe they add a "yerba latte" or something similar.

@yerbamatenow

3 ай бұрын

One can only imagine!

very much enjoyed the video. good stuff and i share common thoughts on most of the points you made throughout the video. would love to see more videos of this style thrown in along with the usual videos this channel puts out. keep it up

@yerbamatenow

5 ай бұрын

That's the plan!

Nice to see a different take on your videos. Enjoyed this one

@yerbamatenow

5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Despite me looking really sleepy I really enjoyed doing it.

Sé toma mate en Uruguay 🇺🇾

15:00 what politicians? I'm Polish and never heard about it

@DellaStreet123

Ай бұрын

I think the only Polish celebrity who is known for being fond of yerba mate is Wojciech Cejrowski. He isn't a politician, though -- in order to be a politician, you need a political office, either past or present. He just likes ranting about political subjects.

I looked the Yerba up at Amazon USA. The cheapest costs around 10 USD for 500 Gramm. That is way way to expensive to consume as your main drink daily as coffee is. Over here we consider it expensive when we pay 1.5 USD for an pack of 500 Gramms of Yerba with natural herbs (no artificial flavours). Locally here in Southamerica it costs around 1.5 USD per 0.5 Kg pack. There is no way people will afford Yerba for Terere or Mate if the package of 0.5 Kg costs 10 USD + tax in the USA. One 0.5 Kg pack lasts your around 1 week or less if you take 4 times a day Terere (like in hot states you would take Terere and not Mate) as your daily water consumption each Terere (new Yerba in Gourd) being consumed with 1.2 liters of ice water. We take here less Yerba per Gourd as you do per Terere session of 1.2 Liters. I take these 40 Oz Stanley tumblers as Terere pitcher. One gourd full of fresh Yerba lasts you exactly 1.2 Liters of cold water. By volumen you fill up an 4 cm wide and 9 cm high round cylinder with Yerba which gives you the approximate amount of Yerba we use in each Guampa (gourd) per serving (per Terere it is called). So 500 Gramm of Yerba lasts you allmost a week. Over here we drink around 2 to 4 times Terere per day so up to 4 fresh gourds full of Yerba per day and each time with 1.2 Liters of water for total of over 4 Liters of water consumption per day per person with Yerba (Terere). If you use it as your main water consumption per day the Yerba has to be cheaper in the US - way cheaper.

@user-jg6hh5bc4m

9 күн бұрын

1lb bag in Canada is $15. Lasts for months

@9mmfederalrimmed235

4 күн бұрын

@@user-jg6hh5bc4m In Canada they bring the Yerba from Paraguay where the mennonites settle. So I know from Manitoba, specially Steinbach aerea. They used to bring it in containers. Much, much more expensive than in Paraguay and just the ordinary stuff but hey, it was availlable. There is now way a 1 lb yerba pack will last you months if that is your standard daily water intake. You use that as an exotic drink to show off you buddies. In Southamerica it is drunk 3 to 4 times a day. So 3 to 4 gourds per day you fill up. That way a 1 lb pack last you max 1 week. Only this is consumed over here - no coffee at all. Northamericans and Europeans most likely drink that as an exotic drink once in a while. Then I see you slurp on the straw (bombilla) which in Latinamerica never is done. Stop thinking of Yerba as an exotic bewerage but start to use it daily as your only source of water intake. It has nothing magic on in nor does it have more hidden health benefits compared to other teas. It is however more healthy than coffee and I never have seen any addiction in Latinamerica to Yerba but I have seen lots of canadians directly shaking if they did not get their dose of coffee soon enough. I have never seen people that addicted to coffee than in Canada. That you will never see with Yerba - even less with Terere (yerba). Use yerba preferably with cold water and not hot water. Or even natural tap water inside the house in winter time in Canada. Tap water Terere (yerba) is very fine as well and I do that all the time in winter time in Southamerica (+10 degrees Celsius outside and the like). Tap water room temp water yerba is fine as well. They consume it here like that as well in winter.

You did not mention the elephant in the room: Discrimination in Northamerica of all and everything which is not anglosaxon based. In Northamerica I was looked weird by natives when I started to drink Terere there. Basically they saw me as an outsider and basically I heard them asking already "tell me when are you leaving?". Discrimination is a reality in Northamerica of everything unusual of the "native englishmen" so that way they treat Yerba as an kind of newby religion while it is just common stuff in Southamerica on a daily basis. Coffee is here not so popular and tea even less in the english manner. We consider ourselves as an tea nation as the english but we are not aknowledged by others as such. For the US and Canadian englishmen you are a weird bird if you drink Yerba and they immediately see you as an outsider. You will experience immediately discrimination and you will not advance in any means in Northamerica if they see you with a gourd, bombilla (straw and filter) and Terere pitcher. They even invite you under the hand to go back from where you came. Basically the locals think: Why did you come in the first place?! Weird bird just go back... So discrimination and societal bullying are the main reasons why Yerba never will become main stream in Northamerica. They even suspected me to drink liquid cocaine suspended in the Yerba once. I could not convince the english of the contrary at all. I invited them to try but they denied frankly. I knew they saw it as an culture non grata in northamerica since it "was not from them". Once out from Northamerica I stopped immediately drinking coffee completely. Wasn't the worst thing in my life to do. I saw how northamericans started to shake if they did not have their tumbler of strongest coffee. So I realised they where all hooked up onto coffee addiction. Yerba as Terere suspends very little coffeine so you can not even get addicted. It makes mostly just flavoured water with some micronutrients suspended (but it does not give you really a kick specially if only natural herbs are added). So there is no addiction with Yerba hence americans and canadians despise it. That way it goes - it's all about getting drugged up for americans. Can't do that, ain't any good. Sad but true!

The real problem, imo, is just American pedanticism. Americans as a whole, don’t truly live up to the melting pot ideal. They don’t actually care to learn & amalgamate the MANY cultures that make up this country. There is wisdom to be found everywhere, which is why this place is supposed to be the best, because we’re supposed to evolve by absorbing the best bits of all of the best bits, & somewhere along the line, we just stopped doing that. I have FAITH though, because it’s like a muscle, you have to use it for it to get stronger, & vibrations are infectious. #BlessUp 😉♥️🕊️🙏

@yerbamatenow

5 ай бұрын

American pedanticism is a big factor! It's a big world - why not enjoy what it has to offer without fear?

@MoreMushroomThanMan

5 ай бұрын

@@yerbamatenow precisely 😉