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(Medical-NewsWire.com, November 22, 2013 ) Tokyo, Japan -- White tea can help to reduce the risk of heart disease, including both stroke and heart attack, by acting as a natural blood thinner, and also lowering the amount of cholesterol that is present in the blood. However, research is now also suggesting that white tea can slow down the aging process.
Work carried out jointly by Kingston University in London, and Neal's Yard Remedies, tested twenty-one different plant extracts and found that white tea consistently offered the greatest benefits to health. White tea was discovered to have extremely high levels of antioxidants, which are chemicals that help to prevent damage being done to the body.
Specifically, antioxidants help to prevent mutations occurring in the genetic material, or DNA. However, white tea was also found to prevent certain enzymes from breaking down proteins (most notably collagen and elastin) that form the underlying structure of the skin. Elastin provides flexibility and allows the skin to move with your body, allowing many important functions to take place. Collagen is a structural protein that is found in the skin, and also many of the connective tissues. The two function together to support the skin and prevent it from sagging. Both are also necessary in the repair of wounds.
Collagen and elastin make up most of the structure of the skin, but they naturally degrade over time as a result of enzymes acting on them and changing their shape. This leads to the characteristic signs of aging, such as wrinkles, lines and sagging of the skin. By reducing the action of these enzymes, the skin is able to retain its firm, youthful structure for much longer. These enzymes are also overactive in a number of degenerative disorders that involve inflammation, including rheumatoid arthritis.
The study, published in the BioMed Central Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, used extracts of white tea that contained much lower doses of the active ingredients than would be found in a single cup of the drink, so the actual benefits could be even greater than initially suggested by this research.
The availability of white tea is now increasing dramatically due to the growing awareness of the benefits that it can offer to health. Drinking loose leaf tea has consistently been shown in clinical studies to offer the maximum possible benefit, and white tea is certainly no exception. The release of products such as the Coolahoo Premium Tea Infuser take the hassle out of preparing loose leaf tea, producing a drink in minutes, and being extremely easy to clean afterwards.
Loose leaf tea consistently offers greater health benefits than the same product in a bag, because the leaves have been through less processing, meaning that they retain more of the important nutrients. The Premium Tea Infuser from Coolahoo means that preparing loose leaf tea really is as simple as dropping a teabag into a cup and pouring in the water.
About Coolahoo.com
Coolahoo is a new company and provider of the Premium Tea Infuser, sold on Amazon.com. The product was launched in July 2013 and is seeing robust sales and is getting many positive reviews. The tea infuser features a fine wire mesh basket to be used with mugs and cups, and it is easy to fill and clean while letting very little tea sediment through to the cup.
Coolahoo.com
Daniel Hall
512-772-1973
media@coolahoo.com
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