The Kavasutra blog
Everything worth knowing about kava, a straight answer on kratom, and a few things that are just fun. Explainers, the questions people actually ask, and local guides for the towns where the bars are.
A straight accounting of the published research on kava benefits, what the named reviews concluded, and the much longer list of what nobody has established.
A sober bar is a bar that serves no alcohol. Here is what that actually means, the other names it goes by, and why kava bars were doing it first.
Kratom is legal in Colorado for adults 21 and up, with state rules on labeling and 7-OH content. Here is what the law requires and where local rules differ.
The tingle is immediate. The rest takes longer, and the one published human study puts peak plasma kavalactones at one to three hours. Here is the honest timeline.
Beaches, downtown, the Eau Gallie arts district, Space Coast day trips and an evening plan, sorted the way a local would actually spend the day.
Kratom is the leaf of Mitragyna speciosa, a coffee family tree from Southeast Asia. What it is, where ours comes from, and how it is served.
What NCCIH, the FAO and WHO, and Australian regulators actually say about kava dependence, and the honest list of what nobody has established yet.
A week-by-week plan for Sober October at a kava bar: what to order first, which night to keep, and what to carry into November.
The kava effects people describe most: a tingle, then a calm that leaves your head clear. What it feels like, and what it does not, from the bar.
Empty shell
This one is still brewing. The root gets pounded, the kava gets strained, and the writing takes a little longer than either. Check back soon, or start with what is already on the bar.
