Green Tea May Protect Brain from Lack of Oxygen

The fans of green tea should be grateful because the compounds found in green tea may protect the brain from the effects of sleep disorders that cause snoring and stopped breathing.

Component or active ingredient found in green tea is suppose to ward off nerve damage due to breathing disorder that occurs in those who experience sleep disorders. Similarly, a study of the animal.

The scientists found that when they add the antioxidants contained in green tea drink that is given to the mice seem content of these chemicals protect the brain these animals when deprived of oxygen that is designed similar to the symptoms that occur due to the effects of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or sleep disorders.

These findings suggest that components in green tea should be taken into account for further investigation as a potential therapy for these sleep disorders (OSA).

OSA is a temporary disruption that occurred in the soft tissues of the throat. This disorder causes respiratory tract obstruction during sleep. As a result, there was briefly stopped breathing during sleep several times during the night.

Symptoms usually appear soon a loud snoring sound that goes with chronic and panting and occurs not only during sleep tonight, but also during naps. If not handled properly, OSA may cause disruption throughout the body, such as increased blood pressure. Moreover, the lack of oxygen supply to the brain can come up with memory impairment.

However, it turns out, the component in green tea called catechin polyphenols was found to protect the brain from lack of oxygen. Catechin polyphenols act as antioxidants. These elements help to neutralize the particles cells damaged by free radicals. Free radicals are a byproduct of metabolism that cause oxidative stress when excessive.

Lack of oxygen also causes oxidative stress that lead to cognitive impairment in those who experience sleep disturbances.

When the mice were in crisis because of lack of oxygen for more than 14 days is a sign that oxidative stress occurs in the brain, the brain is protected and not declining function in a meaningful way due to water containing green tea polyphenols are given. While the mice not given green tea conditions are opposite.

A regular intake of green tea is the standard treatment that can be used to treat OSA. Even so, is clear evidence that green tea can help OSA disorders should be tested further with a try it on humans.

Green Tea Not Just for Slimming

Do you realize, that the various menus of food and cosmetic ingredients are now fortified with green tea? If you've enjoyed the Green Tea Frappuccino, or massage with cream green tea that is fragrant, you certainly will instantly remember.

Many manufacturers of food and beverages and cosmetics that are now increasingly aware of the benefits of green tea for humans. In the past you might only know him as a slimming drink. But green tea turned out to store a variety of benefits to other health. If you may not know it, or even to have forgotten, this article can be a reminder.

1. Reducing cancer risk
The content of polyphenols, antioxidant ingredients in green tea helps keep cancer cells do not remain in the body. The way to prevent their growth, and combating the production of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow. Various studies have found that people who drink green tea regularly will reduce the risk of breast cancer, colon, prostate, stomach, and esophagus.

2. Soothes skin
If your skin is scratched or scuffed, take the rest of your green tea. Dip a cotton bud or a little cotton in green tea, then apply to the wound. Tea is a natural antiseptic ingredients that will relieve itching or swelling. Try also in the inflamed skin, sunburn, or swollen eyelids.

3. Protecting skin from sun exposure
You started to see green tea used as cosmetic ingredients such as sunscreens, moisturizers, and creams to body scrubs or creambath? Results of laboratory tests indeed proved that green tea applied directly to the skin (or consumed) may help prevent skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.

4. Being a blood pressure remained normal
Blood pressure is normal or healthy is in the range of 120/80 or below. To keep it in the normal range, make it a habit to drink green tea (a half cup of course) to reduce the risk of hypertension by 50 percent. Materials that have benefits for it is the polyphenols (especially those known as ECGC). Polyphenols help keep blood vessels to contract and raise blood pressure.

5. Protect memory
Another benefit of green tea is to maintain brain health. Adults who regularly eat two cups of green tea a day will reduce the risk of cognitive problems in half, rather than who consume less. As has been known earlier, tea has a high content of antioxidants that will fight against the destruction of brain neurons from free radicals. This destruction resulted in neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

6. Stay young
The younger and healthier arteries, you are also getting healthier and younger. Prevent for plaque did not grow up in your blood vessels. If left unchecked, plaque will increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, leading to premature aging, and sucking your energy. For that you need to consume about 280 grams of green tea a day, which also will hinder the body's absorption of fat-clogged arteries and cholesterol.

7. Lose weight
Green tea will work to accelerate the process of burning calories in your body. Is not this the benefits of green tea are most desirable?

Healthy Benefits of Tea

Since the first tea is known to have many benefits for health. By drinking tea can make the body more relaxed in living activities. Tea can be consumed in various ways, brewed with hot water or added with ice, just delicious. There is even a kind of tea leaves can be eaten.

Tea processing is the result of shoots (young leaves) of tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is used as a beverage ingredient. There are various legends of the origin of tea, but the most popular is the legend of Emperor Shen-Nung from Yunan province of China in 2737 BC. While it is cooking water drink, with a leaf accidentally from dry twigs he uses as firewood, fly and submerged into the water kettle. Water steeping the leaves are then produce a new beverage that distinctive aroma, which until now was known as a tea.

A good tea is produced from the shoots (pecco) plus 2-3 young leaves, because the young leaves are rich in polyphenol compounds, caffeine and amino acids. These compounds will affect the quality of color, aroma and flavor of tea.

The primary basis of tea processing is the use of the existing oxidation of polyphenol compounds in tea leaves. The oxidation process is commonly called fermentation. Based on the nature of fermentation, known as four different types of tea, namely:

1. Black tea
Black tea is easily recognizable in the market because it is black and the most widely consumed. In the process of fermentation occurs given a full opportunity (perfect chemical changes so that almost all the tannin content of fermented into theaflavins and thearubigin) that will change the color of tea leaves from green to brownish and with the drying process to turn black.

  2. Oolong tea
Generally produced from the tea plant that grows in semi-tropical regions. The process is the same as black tea, but the fermentation process only a portion (approximately 30-70% shorter and the change lasted half perfect that still contain some tannin and some compound derivatives) so that the color and aroma of black tea and green tea.

3. Green tea
Tea leaf fermentation were not given the chance (almost no experience the process of chemical change). Usually the bud immediately processed with heat / steam to stop the enzyme activity so that the same as the raw leaf (originally tea leaves), so besides the color is still green are also still contains tannins that are relatively high.

 4.White tea
Is the best type of tea due to get it, just taken from one shoot every single tree, which is the highest and the main shoot. Highest antioxidant content. In the process, tea leaves left to wilt naturally so that the color to white.

The quality of tea is a collection of properties owned by the tea, both physical and chemical properties. Both of these properties have been owned since I was a bud or obtained as a result of handling and processing techniques are performed.

The content of chemical compounds in tea leaves consist of three major groups, each of which has benefits for health, namely: 

1. Polyphenols

Polyphenols are antioxidants types of bioflavonoids that are 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times that of vitamin E. Benefits:

o Lowers cholesterol levels

o Lowering the pressure and blood sugar levels

o Helps prevent the occurrence of renal and gall stones

o Streamlining digestion

o Dissolve fat and prevents bad cholesterol

2. Caffeine

Elements of caffeine in tea fewer in number than the coffee. Benefits:

o behave as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system that facilitate the circulation of blood to the brain

o By drinking tea regularly will increase the level of memory, cognitive performance, and the feeling of pleasant mood.

3. Essential oil

Tea also contains proteins that felt big role in the formation of aroma. Benefits:

o Dissolve fat

o Streamlining the digestive and circulatory

There are various benefits of tea consumption on health, including:

• Lowers the risk of cancer

Various studies of tea consumption, indicating a role in reducing the risk of cancer. Polyphenol compounds in tea can provide protection against carcinogenic substances. ECCG (epigallocatechin gallate) found in green tea is the active compounds that play a role in preventing cancer.

Epidemiological studies in Japan showed inhabited the main producing areas of green tea is very little level of death due to cancer. Studies in Iowa, the United States against 35 thousand post-menopausal women, reported that tea has cancer-fighting properties. The study concluded that those who consumed at least two cups of tea each day will reduce the risk of bladder cancer (40%) and digestive tract cancers (68%) than those who did not consume tea.

Tea can prevent and cure disorders of the kidneys because it can neutralize hydroxyl radicals that cause disorders of protein metabolism in the kidney.

• Lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease, among others, associated with high levels of lipids (fats), blood and blood pressure. Several studies have shown that tea has properties reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by lowering cholesterol levels and blood pressure.

Prevention is happening because tea polyphenols have the ability to inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and inhibits platelet clumping of cells that would prevent the blockage of blood vessels.

• Losing weight

A recent study conducted on the potential of tea is its role in weight loss. Results of research showed that green tea is known to have potential as thermogenesis so as to increase burning of calories and fat that have an impact on weight loss.

• Prevent osteoporosis

Osteoporosis or bone loss is one of the problems facing post-menopausal women because the hormone production estogen as a trigger bone growth, has stalled. Osteoporosis causes bone mass to shrink and break easily.

A recent studies showed that drinking tea regularly to maintain the integrity of bones and prevent osteoporosis. Active compounds contained in tea act like weak estrogen hormone that helps protect bones against brittleness process.