What's up guys Dave Mate, Circle of Drink has a going. Filling up my gourd I'm drinking some metamate. Very smoky. Very strong. Mate from Brazil. It's not a mate review. I thought I'd tell you a little bit about it. I love it. How much mate do you drink? I drink about an average one and a half to two liters a day of mate. I don't know. When I first started drinking mate I was drinking about half a liter a day. Never exceeding one liter. Probably for the first year. After the first year I started drinking at least one liter to one and a half liters a day. Now this is my third year of drinking mate. It's my third year and I'm drinking at least one and a half to two liters a day. Sometimes more. There were times when I drank three liters four liters sometimes a day. Especially if I had a lot of mate circles with friends, a lot of people coming over. How much do you drink a day? I just want to know. I'm doing some research and I want to find out how much you guys drink. The true mate drinkers drink every single day. They drink mate every single day and they drink at least one liter a day. That's what I call true mate drinker. Anything less than one liter a day. Not drinking it traditionally out of a gourd. I'm sorry but I don't really consider that a mate drinker. I consider that someone who just plays around with mate. They drink it once in a while. They kind of flirt around with it. They treat it like green tea. There's no harm in that. That's cool. Everyone has their own relationship with mate. But I won't call that person a true mate drinker, true mateiro. The true mate drinkers drink it every day. They drink at least one liter a day. And they drink it traditionally. Nowadays we're seeing a lot of new age mate drinkers. They're drinking it out of coffee machines, French press, moque presses. And for me, my personal take on that is sort of ridiculous. That's just me. That's my own two cents. If you're not drinking mate traditionally out of a gourd, I don't think you're really drinking mate. I think you're drinking something else. And I don't think you're really getting the true benefits of mate. Now, if you research mate and you study the various pharmacological reports, studies on obesity, studies on cholesterol, lower end property, studies on cancer, things of that nature, you'll see that most of the tests have been done with the assumption that people drink at least one to two liters of mate a day. Sometimes one to three liters of some of the studies will show. So the extracts that scientists are using in these tests are equivalent to one at least one liter of mate a day. That makes sense because most people in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, who are real mate drinkers, drink at least one liter a day, we could see as the science suggests that the true benefits of mate help benefits at least come from drinking at least one liter of mate a day. So drinking anything less, sure, you're going to have some benefits of mate because of the high concentration of polyphenols, antioxidants, saponins, minerals, vitamins. But you're not going to be able to, as the science suggests, you're not going to be able to really explore the full health benefits of mate, the true potential of it. Of course, that's more of a health issue. Now, of course, some people don't really consider the health issues when they're drinking mate. They just love it, it tastes great, it's an amazing drink, and they're not really thinking about the health issues. So they'll drink them more casually, you know, a lot of people here in the United States will just drink mate coseto, which is mate out of the tea bags, and they'll drink, they'll drink it like tea, you know, they'll drink one to two cups a day. And that's great. I'm not against that. Great, you're drinking mate, salude to you, cool. But you're not going to really fully be able to experience mate on a cultural level and on a health level, unless you drink it out of the gourd, and unless you drink at least a liter a day. I mean, I don't know how else to say that. So the thing with that is that here in the United States, my opinion on it and my take on it is that a lot of people flirt around with mate. They don't really fully engage it. And I'm speaking from my own personal experience of introducing mate to dozens of people. And a lot of people, I would say 90% of the people who I introduce it to here in the United States, they'll start to play around with it, they'll start to drink it, you know, maybe once or twice they'll have it, and then they'll just won't continue making it. They won't continue brewing it and creating the traditional gourd of it. They'll just sort of fall out of a favor with them. And they'll just won't drink it again until I see them maybe a week to months later, what have you. Why is that? I don't know. I just don't think people are willing to really traditionally make mate. It's kind of a cumbersome. And for them, it's sort of a hassle. And they just, they're like, oh, it's so much work, I'm not going to make mate traditionally. Maybe I'll drink it out of the teacup once in a while, I'll make mate go seedle, I'll mate out of a tea bag. But other than that, I'm not going to spend my time making mate traditionally. It's a cultural thing. Here in the United States, we haven't grown up with mate, so we don't really relate to it in the way that the Argentinians do and the Uruguashans do. And the Brazilians do. And the ones that really do drink a lot of it up to one to three liters a day, they just grew up with it. So for them, it's nothing to sit over a kettle or papa in Spanish. And wait for the mate word to be prepared. And then, you know, add the mate, the sherbato, the gourd, and then shake it. And, you know, add your warm water, then add your hot water, then try it out two times before passing it on. That is a very ritualistic ceremonial thing that's very cultural and rich. South America. Here in the United States, mate is just so much of a unknown entity that it's been hard, I think, for the average American to really catch on to what mate he is. I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen maybe within the next five to ten years, of course, through education. But right now, it hasn't caught on. Mate in America right now is about 20 under a $20 million industry. And worldwide, it's at least a hundred, I don't know, worldwide, it's at least a $1 billion industry from 2007 reports, 2004 reports rather. So, mate is so new in the United States of America. I would just like to see that was sort of the reason for making this video. How much mate do you drink a day? And if you're a mate, if you're a true mate, drink your drink at least one liter a day, because you have to, because you love it, because it's amazing. And you're getting the full health benefits of it. And if you're just still flirting around with Mate playing around with it, having a couple of tea bags a day, that's cool. But if you really want to experience the full impact of Mate, which is an infinite impact, there's no real limit to it, you're going to have to make it traditionally drink it out of a gourd and have at least one liter a day. This is one liter. Let me know what you guys think. This is Dave Mate, Circle of Drink. Check out our website at circleofdrink.com. Be some mosquitoes or kill them here right now, so I'm about to get inside, upload this video so you guys can watch it. Take it easy, salute.