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Secret tea ingredient that’s better than Xanax
By Hannah Graham | ; ?>
I’m reading The Ultimate Tea Diet by Mark Ukra (”Dr. Tea”). It’s a very informative book and in it he discusses the three secret ingredients of tea.
L-theanine is one of the three secret ingredients in tea and only one other plant (an obscure mushroom) contains it.
Because of the way L-theanine affects the brain’s alpha waves, it relieves stress, anxiety and tension. In 2004, researchers in Australia compared L-theanine to Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication. Ukra reports that “they found that L’-theanine tended to reduce anxiety during a relaxation phase of the study, while the drug had no such effect.”
Pretty cool.
I’ll have more posts about the information in Dr. Tea’s book, including the two other secret tea ingredients. Stay tuned.
Topics: Health Benefits |
April 14th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I’m interested in learning more about this ingredient…like how much tea and what kind of tea should be taken to get this effect?