Tea IS Brain Food…
The Cognitive Advantages of Tea…Brain Food for Long-Term Neurological Health...
When we think about tea, we imagine something healthy for us and often think about the antioxidants protecting us from free radical damage and oxidative stress.
There is an advantage that comes along with drinking tea that most are not aware of, as beneficial as the antioxidants in tea…if not more.
As we go through life, we place growing value on our memory and our ability to work through complex mental issues and challenges. Our reaction time and ability for quick recall become highly desirable capabilities that can have great effects on our long-term quality of life.
Who knew of the valuable role that the simple act of consuming the right teas could have on our ability to preserve knowledge, memories, and maintain a clear and quick mental response?
How Can Tea Help Me?...
There are two basic ways tea is a natural therapeutic:
Yes, it is remarkable that the taken-for-granted cup of tea can be brain food, holding one of the keys to protecting your mind function for long-term mental health, and be an aid in minimizing age-related mental decline.
There are proactive things we can do to put our best foot forward in our quest to maintain lifelong high-level cognitive function. Four factors that we can readily affect are sleep, diet, and two kinds of exercise.
Sleep is first on the list for a reason…without it, you don’t have a chance of maintaining quality long-term mental function. Your brain requires sleep to convert acquired memory to permanent long-term memory, as well as adequate rest & freshness to intake new input into acquired memory.
Diet is second on the list, but is of utmost importance in supporting our bodies' ability to perform the functions needed for cognitive function, memory retention & recall. In the diet category, of course, comes the tea…treating your body to brain food...
Third, but certainly not least, are two kinds of exercise…physiological exercise of the body, which benefits memory through increased blood flow resulting from aerobic exercise, mutually benefiting cognitive function, judgement & thinking skills, and second, exercise of the mind…
Use it or lose it; our mind is no exception. Having enjoyable mind stimulation activities in addition to whatever type of daily work/routine you do allows you to regularly exercise your cognitive ability, just as physical activity exercises your body.
Let's take a deeper look into the cup...why we say tea is brain food...
The ancient Chinese would say that tea is 10,000 medicines...how could it be?
Many of us are skeptical about the connection between tea and health...longevity... that is why it is so reassuring to review the information compiled by the Tea Council of the USA:
Bioactive compounds are brain food...
In this report, the Tea Council of the USA tells us about modern scientific data that backs up the ancient Chinese health claims.
Purify The Body and Preserve The Mind…
It goes on to explain that the Bioactive compounds in tea are doing the hard work, supporting our natural systems and helping us along the path to wellbeing and longevity.
The Evidence Is Documented…
How tea works in the body...
Tea is the perfect brain food because it is a synergistic companion to mental exercise, as the powerful combination of L-Theanine and Caffeine in tea team up to produce a state of mind conducive to neurological health and cognitive performance.
L-Theanine, commonly known as Theanine, is an amino acid shown to have a calming effect and to be responsible for lowering blood pressure as a result of stress resilience, improving both psychological and physiological stress responses.
See especially High Theanine Teas here...
The good fortune for us tea drinkers is that Theanine only naturally occurs in Camellia sinensis (the actual tea plant) and the Boletus Boletus mushroom.
Theanine’s ability to easily cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) positions it to provide many brain-related benefits, while its beneficial relationship with the caffeine in tea creates an alliance that is especially impactful on our cognitive function.
Some major advantages of this miracle brain food bioactive compound in tea:
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Improved GABA levels from Theanine play a central role in stress/anxiety reduction by restoring depleted GABA levels to the point where they again allow appropriate relaxation. Gamma-aminobutyric acid relieves anxiety, improves mood, and lowers blood pressure by relaxing capillary walls.
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Improves Brain Neurotransmitters, a fancy way of saying it makes our brain work better! By increasing the levels of the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, and GABA, our learning, memory recall, and mood are improved by Theanine. Additionally, Theanine acts as brain food by stimulating the growth of new brain cells and neurons by increasing nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).
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Boosted focus, mood, alertness, and concentration all result from the synergistic relationship of the Theanine and caffeine in tea, the result being enhanced cognitive performance.
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Improved attention and relaxation result from Theanine’s ability to cause improvement in the alpha activity brainwave state, which is the same brainwave state people reach during meditation.
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Theanine has Neuroprotective properties. L-Theanine acts as brain food, improving cognition and memory by increasing blood flow to the brain and protecting the brain from environmental neurotoxins.
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Enhanced Sleep Quality comes as a result of Theanine helping to relax your mind and allowing you to more easily drift off to sleep…It does not put you to sleep, but can facilitate higher-quality sleep.
I say Tea IS Brain Food because tea can help your brain function better…both while awake and asleep. Tea can help improve cognitive function, starting immediately, making each day more effective and enjoyable. Tea can also help you negate mental decline as life goes on.
The clinching thought is that the right teas can help you relax, focus, and obtain that critical sleep you need to support the brain, helping it be the best it can be.
The Drink Great Tea Recipe for the Healthy Tea Lifestyle…
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Sleep…your body’s restorative time
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Consumption…awareness of what you eat & drink
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Stress Management…critical to Longevity
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Exercise…sustainable
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Measure…if you don’t measure, you can’t improve
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Enjoying a variety of healthy tea types…brain food