Do you have any weight loss goals? Or any skin care-related issues, or do you want to strengthen your digestive system and improve your gut health? Well, if you would be asking about these concerns to anyone. 8 out of 10 people will suggest a lifestyle change whose first step will be to include green tea to benefit from it.
Have green tea to fasten your weight loss journey, or basically to improve your metabolism and all other health-related issues, but why is it so that green tea has been recommended by everyone, both normal human beings and from a prescription as well?
Green tea is a non-herbal tea and is the least processed tea among all the non-herbal teas because it is made up of steam dry method, the crucial process of making green tea basically makes it one of a kind, and extremely rich in nutrients and antioxidants.
There are many health, skin, and brain-related benefits of green tea, let’s have a look at them and make a wiser decision of adding a green diet to your daily diet.
What makes green tea a magical one?
Green tea is not just any other beverage, the beverage that would accompany your food, but it’s more than that. Green tea is usually suggested to take first thing in the morning, it doesn’t only work out as a detoxifying drink but also helps you improve your metabolism if you take it empty stomach.
It can charge and uplift your mood instantly. Green tea has abundant nutrients like catechin named epigallocatechin-3-gallate EGCG, polyphenols that help you prevent your skin from damage and reduce ageing, help to cure symptoms of cancer and much more. EGCG is one of the main components that make green tea the most medically recommended product, it holds the power to treat tons of diseases just via regular consumption of it.
- Green tea helps your brain function better:
Green tea is not just any wake-up tea/drink. Green tea helps you think better, and eventually do better in real life as well. It basically renovates your brain, makes it stronger and improves the total activity of the nervous system. One of the main components which are responsible for this is caffeine, also known as a stimulant. It has the right amount of coffee, neither too much nor too less. Not something that would drive you crazy but something that will help you take up the regular chores of the household with ease.
Many researchers have proved this to be very true when it comes to caffeine, be it having fewer mood fluctuations, better reaction time, memory retention etc. Caffeine actually blocks one of the main inhibitory neurotransmitters named adenosine. Another component of green tea that helps function our brain better is L-Theanine, which stimulates the nerve that causes anti-anxiety effects, and helps you regulate a better blood-brain.
2. The great catalyst to lose weight, and burn fat:
Green tea is the most recommended and most used drink for weight loss. Simply because of its fat burning and improving the overall metabolic property. The sole reason and the component is basically catechins, polyphenols, which help in easing and fastening the process of fat loss.
Most weight loss or fat loss drinks do consist of a high amount or percentage of catechins because of their fat-burning properties. Though it is not a medically claimed, “drink to lose fat” it still is an important part of your diet, if you are switching up for a healthier lifestyle.
Overall effects do vary from person to person because of genetics and other external, and internal factors.
3. In cancer prevention:
A recent study has shown through the statistics that the countries which consume higher green tea have relatively fewer cancer patients. Though this is not something very reliable because there hasn’t been any direct result regarding whether green tea really helps you prevent cancer.
Polyphenol, one of the major components of green tea, does have a major role in the overall protection of skin from UVB radiation. A 2018 study did claim that the proper consumption of green tea’s polyphenols is ultimately the chemoprevention of skin cancer. Green tea is highly rich in powerful antioxidants, and thus it helps to cure various types of cancer as well, curing the different symptoms.
Let’s take Breast cancer, women are the major victims of breast cancer, due to tons of hormonal changes throughout their lifespan and naturally not giving too much attention to their breasts, which first reflects as lumps and later as breast cancer in most cases. However, studies have shown that the components of green tea make you a little tougher, and daily consumption of green tea overall lowers the risk of breast cancer by around 20%-30%.
Just like breast cancer, green teas have shown immense successful results in preventing the cases of prostate, and colorectal cancer by 15%-20% as well.
4. Gives you better breath:
Green tea overall gives you great oral health. Catechins are the one source for all the remedies you are looking for, be it for your skin infection or for lowering the overall bacteria, ultimately the infections.
One of the main bacteria which is responsible for all the bad breath for most of us is streptococcus mutans. It basically creates a thick plaque over teeth, which eventually turns to cavities and then the ultimate decay of teeth. Green tea, and more importantly catechins help you to prevent the growth of particular bacteria, making a healthier home for your teeth to grow.
5. Makes your skin brighter and better:
Green tea has tons of anti-inflammatory properties, which help to make your skin feel rejuvenated inside out by maintaining and improving the microcirculation of the skin.
Most of the products in the beauty industry use the extract of green teas to create one-of-a-kind formulations for the overall improvement of your skin. By now you must have understood which are the exact components that must be extracted to create an effective beauty product, which helps in reducing aging lines, and wrinkles as well. Yes, that’s epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG).
Conclusion:
Now that you are aware of how rich green tea is in various nutrients that can cure things that take tons of medicines otherwise and also years of being on those medicines.
Consistency is the key, you’ll have a cup of green tea and most of your various body issues will fade away, this is never going to be the case. You definitely have to consume it on a regular basis. Wait and see how your body reacts to it particularly and how you can uplift those results, by having it once or twice a week.
