List of Proven Advantages of Green Tea

green_tea_pyramidWe all known that Green tea, native to China and India, has been taken  and hailed for its great health advantages for hundreds of years globally, but has only lately became popular in the US.

Tea is regarded as the most common drink on the globe behind water, on the other hand 78% of the tea consumed globally is black and only about 20% is green.

Green tea is made from un-oxidized leaves and is one of the less processed types of tea and thus it contains one of the most anti-oxidants and beneficial polyphenols.

Green tea was used in traditional China and Native Indian medication to control bleeding and cure injuries, aid digestive function, improve heart rate and psychological health and regulate body’s temperature and many more.

How does it work?

The useful areas of green tea are the foliage bud, leaf, and stem. Green Tea  is not fermented and is made by steaming fresh leaves at high temperature. During this process, it is necessary to preserve important elements known as polyphenols, which seem to be liable for many of the benefits of green tea.

Polyphenols might be able to avoid inflammation and swelling, guard cartilage between the bone fragments, and decrease joint damage. They also seem to be able to battle human papilloma virus (HPV) attacks or infections and decrease the development of irregular tissues in the cervix.

Green tea contains around 2% to 4% caffeine, which impacts thinking and alertness, boosts urine output, and may strengthen the function of brain messengers important in Parkinson’s disease. Caffeine is thought to activate the neurological system, heart, and muscles by increasing the discharge of certain substances in the brain named as “neurotransmitters.”

Antioxidants and other ingredients in teas might aids to guard the heart and blood vessels.

Here’s a list of some of its awesome benefits — advantages that you may not have been conscious of. Some of these advantages are still being discussed, so please do your own analysis if you want to use green tea for therapeutic reasons.

Weight Loss. Green tea helps to boost the metabolism. The polyphenol the antioxidants of green tea work to strengthen levels of fat corrosion and the rate at which your body changes food into calories.

Diabetes. Green tea unsurprisingly helps to control glucose levels reducing the rise of glucose levels after eating. This can protect against high insulin rises and resulting fat storage.

Type 2 Diabetes: Studies regarding that the relationships between green tea and diabetic issues have been unreliable. Some have shown a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetic issues for green tea consumers than for those who consumed no tea, while other research have found no connection between tea consumption and diabetic issues at all.

Heart Disease. Researchers think, green tea works on the lining of blood, helping to keep them stay relaxed and better able to hold up against changes in hypertension. It may also protect against the development of clots, which are the primary cause of strokes.

Esophageal Melanoma. It can prevent esophageal cancer, but it is also generally thought to destroy cancer cells   without harming the healthy tissue.

Cholesterol. Green Teas decreases bad cholesterol levels in the blood veins and improves the rate of good cholestrerol levels to bad cholestrerol levels.

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It is said to delay the destruction caused by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Research carried out on rats revealed that green tea protected brain from dying away and restored broken brain cells.

Tooth Decay. Research indicates that the chemical anti-oxidant “catechin” in green tea can eliminate bacteria and viruses that cause throat infections, oral caries and other oral conditions.

Blood Pressure. Regular consumption of green tea is believed to prevent high blood pressure or hypertension. It prevents cholesterol build-up in arteries and inhibits cardiac arrest.

Depression. Theanine is an amino acid which is found in green tea leaves. This element provides a relaxing and tranquilizing effect and be of great benefit to green tea consumers.

Anti-viral and Anti-bacterial. Green Tea catechins are powerful anti-bacterial and antiviral providers which make them effective for the treatment of influenza to cancer. In some research natural green tea has been proven to inhibit the spread of many illnesses.

Skincare. Green Teas can obviously also help with facial lines, wrinkles and the signs of aging, this is because of their anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Both creature and human scientific testing on people have confirmed that natural green tea used topically can reduce sun damage.

Osteoporosis.  Studies suggest that drinking natural green tea for 10 years is linked to increased navicular bone mineral density. Also, early analysis indicates that taking a natural green tea compound containing 500 mg of catechins, an antioxidant in green tea, and daily for 24 weeks improves navicular bone strength in post-menopausal women with low bone density.

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