Tea is one of those rare beverages that's pretty much universally accepted by science as a healthy one. But just remember, as with everything in life you can have too much of a good thing. So don't over do it with the green tea.
The number one thing that makes green tea so good for you is that it's loaded with healthy nutrients. All of these bioactive Polyphenols are awesome for your health, and you may have heard of some of them known as Flavonoids, or Catechins. Those are antioxidants that prevent free radical damage to your body, and free radical damage to your body over time can cause cancer, but let me break that down a bit.
I know all of you have faucets at home whether it's in your bathroom or in your kitchen. Some of those faucets have rust on them and the rust is a direct result of that free radical damage we always talk about. Now antioxidants prevent that rust from forming so think of antioxidants as the rust prevention within our own bodies.
It’s proven that those who drink green tea have lower rates of cancer, and it's been theorized that it has something to do with the huge amount of antioxidants found within green tea.
We have to not get too excited by this fact because this is only a correlation and not a causation. Yes, it's good to drink green tea, but no it's not gonna cure and prevent all types of cancer.
And a second great point about green tea is… Do you get a stinky breath? Maybe you should try some green tea. The nutrients within green tea that we just mentioned on this last point known as Catechins, do a great job of inhibiting and killing certain types of bacteria, in fact studies were done and proved that bacteria known to cause bad breath within your mouth was killed by drinking green tea. Also when you have less of that specific bacteria you have less plaque.
So green tea also decreases the risk of developing a cavity.
Green tea does a great job of giving you stable energy without all the jitters. It has about 30-50 milligrams of caffeine, which is roughly half a cup of coffee. You'll still be focused, still be stimulated, but you don't have that jittery feeling that you get with a big cup of coffee.
Another nutrient within green tea that works together with caffeine to boost your brain function is called L-Theanine, and it's benefit is that it gives your brain the relaxation without the added sedation or drowsiness that come along with other relaxing agents.
While we've seen in animal and lab models that it increases your good cholesterol and lowers your bad cholesterol. What we've found in animal, lab and human trials is that green tea lowers your blood pressure.
It is very important to keep your blood pressure under control.
Green tea can help you burn fat… well, maybe. This is more of an individual case by case basis thing, because not all studies agree on this. But there is a promise of increased metabolism, and fat oxidation, essentially fat burning.
Some of the lab models have shown a decrease in new blood vessel formation within your fat storage. Meaning that it literally takes away the vital nutrition for your fat, and makes it die. Kicking that fats butt.
Another benefit is to decrease the risk of you getting Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Animal and lab models both show that Catechins, the nutrient we keep mentioning over and over again, decreased the risk of you developing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Science isn't clear on why this occurs but it's theorized that it has something to do with the decrease in the development of plaque within the brain.
If that doesn't encourage you to take a sip I don't know what will!
Now for the last Health Benefit, this is a very important one, this is the one that everyone gets excited about as well. Green tea may increase your lifespan!
There's been a ton of research done on this. Some studies even have 40,000 participants that show those who drink 3-5 cups of tea a day have an increased life span, have a decrease all cause mortality, that means dying from anything. They have a decrease in heart disease, decreases in strokes, but, before we get too excited we need to remember correlation vs causation. Just because those who drink green tea live longer, it doesn't mean green tea is the sole thing that's responsible for that effect.
So yes, enjoy your green tea, drink from Organic Sources as much as you can, but don't think you're gonna live forever. Here at EU Organic Tea, the only Organic Tea Farm in the whole of Europe, we have the best conditions and resources to give you only organic tea without harmful chemicals, and besides being from already within Europe, everything is controlled and regulated from the beginning, plus the tea gets as fresh as possible to your Tea Table.
As a Bonus! Here’s how you create the healthiest cup of tea possible:
Don't add green tea directly to boiling water as it destroys those healthy Catechins we've been talking about.
Don't go decaf, because the decaffeination process hurts more the nutrients found within green tea.
Add lemon into your tea as it aids in the absorption of some of these nutrients.
Finally, don't cheap out, go for the good premium stuff, as it contains more of the healthy nutrients we've been talking about all along.
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