If you are reading this, you probably already agree that Tea is a wonderful beverage option. Whether you drink a lot, or just a little.
Tea is incredibly diverse. There are so many different options to choose from, depending on what mood you are in, or what kind of effect you want to have on your body. Two tea drinkers may not like the same kinds of tea at all. They may not have the same taste in anything. Yet they have one main thing in common: they like Tea.
A recent study suggests that there may be an even more compelling reason to like tea. The positive impact it has on your brain. Especially an aging brain.
Researchers studied a number of elderly people and concluded that regular indulgence in teas such as black tea, oolong tea, and green tea can have a very positive effect on brain connectivity as you age. Slowing age-related hinderances such as memory loss.
“Our results offer the first evidence of positive contribution of tea drinking to brain structure, and suggest that drinking tea regularly has a protective effect against age-related decline in brain organization,” explains Feng Lei, an assistant professor in the psychological medicine department at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
Past studies have demonstrated that tea intake is beneficial to human health, and the positive effects include mood improvement and cardiovascular disease prevention. In fact, results of a 2017 longitudinal study that Feng led showed that daily consumption of tea can reduce the risk of cognitive decline in older persons by 50%.
“We have shown in our previous studies that tea drinkers had better cognitive function as compared to non-tea drinkers. Our current results relating to brain network indirectly support our previous findings by showing that the positive effects of regular tea drinking are the result of improved brain organization brought about by preventing disruption to interregional connections,”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/tea-protection-against-brain-decline/