Q Right, I bet. So you were doing that and drinking... Caffeine, caffeinated beverages to stay with?
A Lots and lots of coffee, and the acid in coffee was really affecting my stomach, and it took a couple years, and finally the doctor was like, you have to stop drinking this, so I stumbled upon it through Guayuki, their yellow energy drink cans, but I wanted to get away from all the sugar, so it kind of went down the rabbit hole and started drinking, like, actual yerba mate, and when I started giving to friends and family, a lot of them still thought it was a little too bitter, too earthy, so I found this guayusa, and I started blending it into the, the mate, and it really smoothed it out quite a bit, and that's when friends and family started drinking, and that's kind of when the light bulb went off.
AI assessment note: “Lots and lots of coffee, and the acid in coffee was really affecting my stomach”