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Tea Really Does Help You Concentrate
A little known fact about tea is that it can help you to laser focus your concentration on what needs to be done right now. Want to bulldoze your way through that pile of paper work that has building up? Well, take a 20 minute break and make your self a decent cup of tea.
Any tea will do whether it’s Green, Oolong or Black tea but, as usual, you should generally stay away from tea bags if you want any real health benefits. It also doesn’t matter if the tea has caffeine or not although caffeine has been demonstrated to sharpen focus and even improve your memory.
The active component in tea that produces this wonderful focus and commitment to finish those boring tasks, (!), is an amino acid called theanine and it is all natural.
There has been a number of studies done which basically revolve around giving people theanine rich tea and then giving them a challenging mental task which required “looking and listening” brain activity.
Their brains became rejuvenated or specifically, the right parietooccipital cortex lit up like a disco light at a tea party. Well, you get the drift… The right parietooccipital cortex is the specific part of the brain related to attention span.
Just to mention caffeine one last time, there is some suggestion that this works synergistically with theanine to assist in preventing those really annoying distractions which really cut into your productivity.
And what about the Alpha Brain Activity I hear you ask! I’m glad you mentioned it. Brain waves are generally classified Alpha, Beta, Theta and Delta with Delta being associated with the deepest stages of sleep. Alpha activity is associated with a relaxed and effortless alertness, (hence the focus and concentration), which also give a “feel good” feeling. Theanine plays a major part in producing these very beneficial alpha waves usually after about 30 minutes or so after ingestion.
Here’s another great thing about theanine in tea, it produces no drowsiness. Imagine that, relaxation, focus, great Alpha waves and you don’t feel like dropping off to sleep in front of the computer.
And, just when you thought there was little else this blockbuster of a tea amino acid could do you should consider that it is also reputed to be a great stress buster. People under stress can moderate many of the burdensome effects of stress by taking a theanine rich tea without becoming sedated in the process.
An additional action to consider is a few minutes closing your eyes with gentle relaxation to further improve focus and concentration.
Modern research now tells us that Theanine has a strong and positive effect in regressing cancerous tumors and also reduces the toxicity associated with chemotherapy. [Source School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka. ISSN 0304-3835]. All this from a cup of tea!
And remember that Theanine is extremely safe, is not affected by food and may be taken anytime. There are no dietary limits with the exception of infant foods and a normal sensible precaution would be to consult your health care professional when pregnant or nursing.
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Jim
December 4, 2009 at 8:55 pm
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