Tea Can Manage Your Stress Levels

After a long day of tiring work a cup of hot refreshing tea is a delight to a stressed soul. If we were to believe scientists, a research says that drinking that delightful beverage is beneficial for your body too. According to a recent study, drinking your daily dose of tea can help reduce cortisol – a hormone responsible for higher stress levels. In many cultures, drinking tea is traditionally associated with good health, although theoretically there is a large possibility that drinking tea leads to a lower stress levels, a credible and documented scientific proof is yet to be established.

Dating back to 5000 years, tea drinking is an essential part of India and China. Regarded as beneficial for various health related problems tea drinking is expected to be a major factor for the longer life that most of the Japanese and Chinese people live. Apart from the famous and largely exhibited antioxidant properties of tea, it is also responsible for preventing blood clotting, lowering cholesterol levels and neutralizing enzymes that help in restricting cancer and tumour growth.

Prepared from the leaves of camellia sinensis plant, tea is usually grown in countries with warm and evergreen climate. Touted to be the second most extensively used beverage, tea comes second only to water in terms of usage. Study also shows that drinking black tea can shorten the recovery time that is needed to revive the body and mind from stress related injury.

While tea is available in a variety of forms, black and green teas are the most popular forms of tea. Recent corporate, media and advertising promotions have created a great hype and equally greater interest in other forms of tea like ginseng, herbal, oolong (red) and white tea also. Although the leaves of camellia sinensis are basic necessity in creation of any tea, the processes and the method used to process these leaves varies according to the differentiating tea types. While all leaves are picked from the plants, rolled, dried in sun and heated with artificial or natural methods; green tea is steamed before packing, black tea along with oolong tea is partially dried in sun, crushed and then fermented; the length of this fermentation is one of the important factor in determining the colour and nature of the tea.

Because of comparatively less processing that is involved in the creation of green tea it is regarded as the healthiest option as it contains antioxidants that usually get depleted in other tea’s due to extensive processing. Along with relaxation, tea drinking also leads to lower blood platelet activation that relates to low levels of blood clotting and thus lowers the risk of heart attacks also.

Today’s fast paced life with equally hectic work schedule may require you to invest long hours at work, thereby increasing the chances of stress related diseases like heart attacks, blood pressure etc. Thus regular consumption of tea is a habit people is something that you can try to incorporate to keep stress far away.