Yerba Mate Tea

Rainforest plants include some remarkably beneficial ones. Take the tea of the gauchos of Brazil and Argentina...Yerba Maté.

Unlike acai and cupuacu, which are fruits, this plant is in the evergreen family. The leaves and stems are used to produce tea. It is called by some the "green tea of South America". There is good reason for this, it is the national drink of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

In the Amazon basin the indigenous Indians have been consuming it for centuries. Spanish explorers who came to South America in the 16th century described drinking a tea made by the natives that produced exhilaration and relief from fatigue.

Millions of South Americans drink the tea as a matter of fact, and mate bars have sprung up all over the continent just as coffee bars are popular in North America and Europe.

Benefits of drinking yerba mate tea include more energy and vitality, increased fat burning and weight loss, increased mental awareness and elevated mood, less undesirable cravings, increased vigor of the immune system.

There are always disputes among herbalists and nutrition scientists about what the exact energizing component of mate may be. Some say it is because the tea contains mateine, a chemical cousin of caffeine that has slightly different properties.

Unlike caffeine, mateine is believed to relax peripheral blood vessels, which would actually reduce blood pressure. And though mateine stimulates the central nervous system, users report that it does not result in sleeplessness and nervousness the way it is sometimes reported among late night coffee drinkers.

The debate is still unresolved, researchers working on yerba mate have called the tea "nature's most perfect beverage" and the "beverage of the gods".

Mateine

The mateine content means that it is going to give you some extra energy. Like other rainforest fruits and berries, yerba mate tea has its own powerful protective antioxidant story to tell. It contains polyphenols, those wonderful phytonutrients that mop up the free radicals before they can damage your cells. One more reason the title "the green tea of South America" is quite appropriate.

That is by no means the whole story. Recent studies in Switzerland have revealed that mate is one of the most effective weight loss aids available today. Using mate caused healthy people to burn fat as energy at a higher rate than people who consumed a placebo. More fat burned means less fat stored, a very simple and powerful idea. As if that was not enough, people who consumed mate felt full longer, ate a lot less because of it, and ultimately lost weight.

That should give you a more complete picture of yerba mate: Strong antioxidant activity, mateine for non-jangly energy, increased fat burning and weight loss. Enough to convince even a skeptic that this product would be a good thing to try.But of course, there's more.

Look up the word "monoamines". It describes a molecular family that includes extremely important brain neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, which affect moods, cravings, and even addiction to smoking.

By reducing monoamine oxidase, the enzyme that breaks down these master molecules, mate can elevate your mood and reduce unhealthy cravings.

Here you have a product that will give you energy, protect against free radicals, aid in weight loss and make you feel great!

A healthy energy drink if ever there was one! What's even better is that you can probably find it at your local health food store. It's a sleeper, first congratulate yourself on discovering it, and then take action and try some for yourself.

Yerba Mate Tea

Custom Search