What is green tea?
It comes from the same plant, which gives very popular tea, only for green tea some very special processing is carried out, it comes at least three types
Green tea in teabags
Green tea in powder form
Matcha tea
For nootropics most powerful is matcha, then green tea powder, and in the last green tea bags
What is so important in green tea?
Green tea has ingredients, which normally do not occur in another plant source, these belong to the polyphenol family and act as a very powerful antioxidant, most of the health benefits are mostly from these polyphenols,(1),(2),(3)
Let's see
What are the health benefits of green tea?
1,:-May improve brain function
Caffeine and L- theanine both work together and provide very good benefits for brain caffeine blocks adenosine, which also acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter, and by doing this increases the neurons, dopamine, and norepinephrine, and in the end, it leads to improve most of the brain functions
Mood
Vigilance
Reaction time
Memory
L- theanine is amino acid it can cross the blood-brain barrier, increase the activities which has an anti-anxiety effect, it also increases dopamine and alpha waves in the brain, a combination of caffeine and L- theanine produces some kind of synergistic effect on brain
2,:-May protect the brain from aging?
Green tea affects the brain in the long term basis, it protects the brain from aging
It protects and helps in Alzheimer's disease
It protects and helps in Parkinson's disease
Lower the risk of dementia
Because of all these effects, it is used in nootropics
3,:-May help in diabetes type-2
It improves the insulin sensitivity
It reduces the blood sugar levels
4,:-May help in Heart health?
It reduces bad, LDL cholesterol, and thus helps to heart health
5,:-May help in weight loss
Reduces the fat in the body, burns fat to energy
Reduces the total weight
Reduces waist circumference
Reduced belly fat
6,:-May help in Cancer
Research studies indicated that green tea extract works as an anti-cancer agent it lowers the risk of cancers particularly, breast, prostate, colorectal cancers
7,:-Very high in Antioxidants
It has a very unique type of antioxidants, which helps in most health conditions that involve inflammation.
8,:- It reduces bad breath
It suppresses the growth of those bacterias which are responsible for bad breath
How to use it in a better way?
It can be used in the form of tea, you can add sugar, honey, lime, milk, depending on your liking.,(4)
Does green tea is better for Nootropics?
Well it has large activities focused on brain health, mostly for protection against aging that's makes it very good nootropics, it already used in supplements meant for nootropics.
What can be a negative impact?
Most of the negative impact is because of caffeine, if you take more, then caffeine toxicity comes as an issue.So all said and done from nootropics facts, it is very true that green tea is very unique and special, it has the highest antioxidant activities, much much height than a lot of other naturals so it has a special place, about nootropics activities also it's excellent, we feel it deserves first place in nootropics.