Put This in Your Cup to Slash Stroke Risk
Here’s another reason you should be enjoying tea: It can reduce your risk of stroke.
A recent study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association shows that drinking at least three cups of green or black tea daily can slash stroke risk by 21 percent. What’s more, each increase of three cups was associated with an additional 21 percent reduction.
Researchers believe the effect may be due to an amino acid in the tea called theanine.
Because most tea is high in fluoride, choose a safe, fluoride-free alternative (like Body Ecology’s Green Tea Extract) or consider a theanine supplement. There’s approximately 20 mg of theanine in one cup of tea, so 60-120 mg in supplement form would give you as much theanine as the people in the study were getting.
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