First just to get them out of the way we are going to talk negative, here are all the “no’s” having to do with the actual fermenting with your scoby

No Smoking, no incense or painting the room with your cultures in it, no harsh cleaning fluids instead use orange or grapefruit oil based cleaners for cleaning the area where you ferment which you should do anyhow, light is O.K but no direct sunlight, no yelling, no violent sex, no metal including heavy metal, no rings on your fingers when coming in close contact with the cultures. No soap residue. No tap water. No plastic that is not food grade plastic and then not much of that.

Those are the “no’s” now here are some “don’t’s”

Don’t screw with your cultures unless you have too. Don’t boil your spring water but just bring it close to boiling, If you must use tap boil it for 10 minutes and with either source of water, don’t bring them to your kombucha unless they are room temperature. Don’t talk down to your kombucha, they know whatup.

When you first drinking kombucha .. start slowly... 4 ounces in the morning and 4 at night and if your system is sensitive start even slower

Very important and I am not kidding Water is very important, try to use the best spring water. The important thing about water is you must drink it and lots of it. Even without doing kombucha water is the most preventive way to avoid metabolic imbalance and disease. It is easily said and easily ignored but it is very true and very important. You are now doing a new regimen of diet and your system will be affected by it. Whether it is kombucha, kefir, noni juice, aqui or goji berry; whether it is heavy meditation or a move to be a vegetarian, you are going to release long held toxins and these toxins must be removed quickly from you systems. Water is the way and without lots of water these toxins may cause problems manifesting in flu like symptoms, sleeplessness, headaches, diarrhea and worse. So just drink the water. The average person needs about a half gallon or 8 cups and big football type guys need more. Oh, and kombucha is also a diuretic and makes you pee. Don’t drink so much kombucha, especially at first, just because it is good and taste good does not mean more is better. Drink a lot of water,