Americans are fascinated by caffeine. It's usually either a
coffee or soda fix. There is a drink that is widely unheard of, and just might be the solution that many of you are looking for.
This WONDERDRUG is called Yerba Mate. It's generally drank as a tea, but it is a relative of a Holly. This is an ancient ceremonial tea from South America. Nearly 75% of households drink Yerba Mate in certain South American countries. Like any claim, you need to try this elixir for yourself.
I found mate because I am a loose leaf tea fan. After my aunt bought me an entire bag of loose tea, I fell in love. I was never a fan of coffee, and falling for tea made it even worse. I forget how I found mate initially, but i was hooked when I read how the ceremony was similar to a
Native American peace pipe ceremony. Where the indians would sit in a circle and smoke the peace pipe, people in a Yerba Mate ceremony congregate in a circle to enjoy the Mate and the company of others. I'll be honest and tell you that there's a whole slew of health benefits that I am going to cut and paste below. These were gathered so that I could make a short social media post about this tea.
Sure, I realize that this tea is healthy for many things. It helps level out my attention deficit among many other things. I drink it, because it makes me feel good. This tea makes me high. I'll admit it. Once I sat down and steeped 3 or 4 glasses of hot tea in a row, I was lit. This tea made me jolly, I felt great, and it's got like 10 times more health benefits than green tea. I use to brew mine into sweet tea, and there's a special procedure for that. You
should give this tea a try. You could fall in absolute love.
Cut and paste info about Yerba Mate from a previous article of mine (all pulled from cited sources and studies)
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Yerba Mate and it's health benefits EXPLAINED -
- Stimulates and wakes mind without nervousness and jitters of coffee
- "whole body tonic"
- 196 active ("volatile") chemical compounds (144 same as green tea)
- 11 polyphenol phytochemicals (antioxidants)
- Saponins (stimulates immune system & protects against disease)
- more potent antioxidants than Vitamin C or butylated hydroxytoluene (1997 Biochemical and Molecular Biology International)
- Contribute to increase the antioxidant defense against free radicals attack (2000 March journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications)
- Highest Flavonoid and Caffeoyl derivatives than 6 other South American Species (2001 November “Filoterapia”)
- Potent Direct Qenchers of free radicals 1,1-dipheyl-2-picrylhydrazyl & rich source of polypheols and antioxidant properties comparable to green tea (2003 June Journal of Alternative Complimentary Medicine)
- Total Polyphenol Content (mmol quercetin equivalents per liter)
1 Yerba Mate – 6.5
2 Green Tea – 1.8
3 Black Tea – 1.13
- Comparison of Free Radical Quenching Activities (1x10^(-1) dilutions)
1 Yerba Mate – 75%
2 Green Tea – 35%
3 Black Tea – 2%
- henolic coumpounds were absorbed and promoted plasma and LDL protection against ex vivo lipid peroxidation. Mild but significant effect on antioxidant activity of plasma
- Vitamins: A, C, E, B1, B2, Niacin (B3), B5, B
- Complex Minerals: Calcium, Manganese, Iron, Selenium, Potassium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Zinc
- Additional Compounds: Carotene, Fatty Acids, Chlorophyll, Flavonols, Polyphenols, Inositol, Trace Minerals, Antioxidants, Tannins, Pantothenic Acid and 15 Amino Acids.
- “All of the vitamins necessary to sustain life” (Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific Society)
- Pantothenic Acid “Rare to find a plant with so much of this significant and vital nutrient...indeed difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to mate in nutritional value” (Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific Society)
- Health Benefit of antioxidants in natural form – more beneficial than supplement with pills
- Anti Cancer – 65% inhibition of antitopoisomerase II activity versus 15% for green tea (2005 Journal of Agricultural and Food Science)
- Consumption of Flavonoids associated with prevention of age-related chronic conditions including cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Flavonoids have antitopoisomerase activity and can inhibit cell proliferation. Beneficial effect of tea polyphols against cancer at most stages of development (2005 Journal of Agricultural and Food Science)
- Inhibition of oral cancer cell proliferation – cytotoxicity against malignant oral carcinoma cells while causing little damage to normal or premalignant cells in the cancerous lesion (2005 Journal of Agricultural and Food Science)
- No connection between polyphenol levels and anti-cancer activity. Polyphenolic content (of different Mate samples) did not correlate with the degree of topoisomerase inhibition. This suggests the inhibition of topoisomerase and oral carcinoma cell proliferation may be due to the presence of other unidentified phytochemicals. This is a potential source of still unknown active substances that can be added to the arsenal of compounds that could be used in cancer prevention and treatment (2005 Journal of Agricultural and Food Science)
- Catechins – no EGCG contained – but has compounds that act similarly such as 3,5-dicaffeoylquinic acid – potent preoteasome inhibitor comparabile to EGCG
- Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, Antimutagenic and Lipid-lowering activides – with evidence that seems to provide support for beneficial effects of drinking mate on chronic diseases with inflammatory components and lipid metabolism disorders (Borges MC, Vinolo MA)
- MAO inhibition – inhibiting monoamine oxidase activity by 40-50% in vitro, so it may be useful for treating a vareity of disorders such as depression, attention-focus-mood-emotional disorders, Parkinson's disease, hypertension, substance abuse, extrapyramidal disorders, eating disorders, withdrawal syndromse and the cessation of smoking. (2002 Patent and Study)
- Central Nervous System Stimulant
- Maintain Aerobic Breakdown of Carbs during exercise for long periods of time. More caories are burned thereby increasing cardiac efficiency and delaying the build up of lactic acid
- Helps Relieve Allergies – opens respiratory passages to overcome allergy symptoms. Reduces severity of some allergies and
hay fever by stimulating the adrenal glands to produce corticosteroids – supressing the inflammation and immune response due to allergies (Page, Linda Rector N.D. Ph.D.)
- Weight Loss/Managment – used for years by physcians in Europe for obesity
- Rise in Proportion of Fat Oxidized: Study of available Plant preparations with anti-obesity claims – no significant increase in
energy expenditure (EE) with any preparation, also no change in respiratory quotient (RQ) except after treatment with Yerba Mate indicating a rise in the proportion of fat oxidized. (1999 Swiss University)
- Yerba Mate, Guarana, Damiana (YGD) – significantly delayed gastric emptying, reducing the time to perceived gastric fullness and induced significant weight loss over 45 days. Maintenance treatment given in an uncontrolled context resulted in no further weight loss nor weight gain in the group as a whole. (2000 Charlottenlund Medical Center Denmark)
- “Promoted Weight Loss, attenuated the HFD-detrimental effects on adiposity and insulin sensitivity and decreased blood levesl of the inflammatory biomarkers.” Concluded that it reduces cardiometabolic risk markers (Sao Paolo University)
- Lower growth rate of adipose tissue, lower body weight gane and lower obesity in high fat diet fed
mice (2012 study)
- Obesity and Diabetes- Mate affects food intake, resulting in higher energy expenditure, likely as a result of higher basal metabolism in mice. Reductions in serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides and glucose concentrations in mice that were fed a high fat diet. (2012 study)
- Improves Digestion – South American indians use to treat gastrointestinal disorders such as eupeptic and Choleretic agent.
- Increased bile flow and enhanced intestinal transit (Argentina, Catedra
de Farmacologia , Buenos Aires)
- Diabetes – shown to inhibit the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) with effect comparable to that of two pharmaceutical grade AGE inhibitor drugs. The formation of AGEs play a part in the development of diabetic complications
- Diabetes – 2 to 2.5 times higher fold polyphenols that are capable of inhibiting advanced glycation end-products compared to Green Tea. Demonstrates a significant dose-dependent effect of Yerba Mate on AGE adducts formation where green trea displayed no significant effect . Inhibition of AGE formation was comparable to that obtained by using millimolar concentrations of the standard antiglycation agent aminoguanidine (2005 Touro University, California)
- Inhibition of Lipid Peroxidation – LDL oxidation is inhibited by extracts of Mate. Oxidation of LDL is considered to be the initiating factor to the onset of atherosclerosis (thickening and hardening of the arteries) (1995 Biochemical Molecular Biology International by Gugliucci)
- Inhibition of the Progression of Atherosclerosis in Cholesterol fed
rabbits (2006 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
- Bad Breath – polyphenols found in mate have been shown to prevent both the growth of bacteria responsible for bad breath and the bacteria's production of odorous compounds
- Parkinson's – hydroalcohol extract of Mate may have an antipoarkinsonian profile in animal models, probably through its antioxidant activity and antagonist action on adenosine A(2A) receptors.
- Oral Cavity Defense – produced significant increase in both secreted peroxidase and total peroxidase activity
-Coffee Consumption and Pancreatic Cancer – strong association between coffee consumption and pancreatic cancer in both sexes (1981 New England Journal of Medicine)
- Acrylamide – 24 brands of coffee and 7 brands of espresso tested finding small amounts of acrylamide a “probably human carcinogen”, which is likely formed when the coffee beans are roasted.
- Tea is Second only to
water in worldwide consumption. Very Hot Tea associated in 2 to 3 fold risk of esophageal cancer.
- Zero Native Harmful Substances
- Balances Sleep – does not interfere with sleep cycles – has tendency to balance the cycles, inducing more REM sleep when necessary or increasing the amount of time spent in delta states. Many report that they require less sleep usually indicating deeper, more relaxed sleep.
- “giving patients tea who need to stop using caffeine-containing products for health reasons. I like having a healthful substitute for coffee, tea and colas to offer” (K.L.P., M.D.)
- Memory – improved the short-term memory of rats (2008 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
- Theobromine – the feel good chemical in Chocolate as well as theophylline
- Increases HDL, Decreases LDL – in people who had high cholesterol and were being treated with statin drugs (2009 study)
- Free Radical Scavenging Ability of greater than 89% (called an excellent result)through test called DPPH assay (2007 Sao Paulo University)
- Better than Green Tea and Red wine at protecting cells from peroxynitrite (2005 Touro University-California)
- 100 fold higher amounts of antioxidants and polyphenols compared to the 16 ainstream non-tea-based drinks and Guayaki Yerba mate had the largest antioxidant and polyphenol content among the 15 tea-based energy drinks (2010 University of Illinois – Dr. Elvira de Mejia)
- Anti-Inflammatory - “a promising anti-inflammatory outcome mainly through the PGE(2)COX-2 pathway.
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