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How Drinking Matcha Every Day Can Help You Live a Longer Life

10 reasons to replace morning coffee with matcha green tea

By Victoria KurichenkoPublished 3 years ago 6 min read
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How do you prefer to start your day? Would you get a cup of refreshing tea or a mug of flavored coffee?

What if I told you that there is a drink that fights cancer, improves digestion, cleans your organism, cures a hangover, and makes your skin look younger.

Yes, I am talking about matcha. It is indeed a gorgeous drink, possessing both medical and palatable properties. I start every morning with a cup of matcha to feel energized and motivated, and I want you to get familiar with this drink too.

Green Matcha Tea Gets Trendy

According to the WHO, Japanese citizens have the longest lifespan due to their diet and special drinking habits. Japanese must know some secrets about how to live a long and happy life. The miracle green matcha tea is one of them.

“Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.” — Kakuzo Okakura

The bright green color matcha tea is a powder that occurs because the Camellia sinensis leaves are kept in the shade during its final growth stages. It leads to a vast increase in chlorophyll, making the matcha powder incredibly green and provides tons of health benefits.

How to prepare matcha green tea. Image credit: Jason Leung on Unsplash

One of the main advantages of matcha is in its ability to replace coffee. While drinking matcha, you’ll get as much energy as from coffee, except for jitter and caffeine crash. Coffee stains the teeth and causes bad breath, while one of the matcha tea drinking advantages is the ability to refresh your breath.

Highlighted below are 10 miracle properties of matcha that would make you put down your vanilla latte and start drinking matcha.

1. Green Tea and Weight Loss

Matcha green tea contains active antioxidant compounds, catechins, which help to improve digestion and burn fat faster.

Should you want to lose excess kilos, start drinking one cup of matcha every morning. Once your stomach gets used to matcha, feel free to consume 2–3 cups daily.

2. Helps to Refresh Your Breath

Do you have a date soon? Do not forget to refresh your breath and impress your partner. However, forget about the mint gum this time. It lasts for a few hours only, and then you will need another one. Chewing gum and talking to others is definitely not the best idea, either.

There is a better, natural way to manage your special occasion. Drink a cup of matcha before your big date.

Matcha magical properties provide antibacterial protection for teeth, prevent the teeth plaque from building up, and improve the mouth cavity health.

Impress your partner, and do not forget to share why you started to drink matcha. Let’s engage more people in this healthy ritual.

3. Strengthen Your Immunity

It’s still summer, and there are plenty of vitamins available for us to back up our immune system and prepare for cold seasons.

How do you support your body in the wintertime? Do you drink tea with lemon? Or any other vitamins to provide your body with C, B, and A vitamins?

This winter, start boosting your immune systems by consuming at least 1 cup of matcha every morning.

4. Ensures Better Digestion

Matcha provides a tremendously positive effect on our bodies, such as lowering cholesterol to a normal one and decreasing the blood sugar level.

Increased cholesterol level is a risk factor for heart diseases, stroke, and other arterial diseases.

Why is this vital to know? Everyone should be aware of how our consumption habits affect our bodies now and what will happen in the future if the diet stays the same.

By consuming matcha daily, your blood sugar level should decrease. Some studies say that the contents in matcha tea could potentially reverse the effects of diabetes.

Our body is a machine; make it work properly to live a longer life.

5. Gives You an Energy Boost

Matcha is a powerful tool to fight fatigue.

Matcha green tea contains roughly one-third of the coffee caffeine. However, matcha caffeine is stored in our bodies longer and released at a much slower pace.

It takes up to three hours for our bodies to absorb the caffeine from the matcha green tea. It enables us to keep our bodies energized for a longer period. What a powerful drink, I should say!

6. Reduces the Stress Level

Matcha has insanely high amounts of specific amino acids that strongly influence alpha wave production in our brains.

Our brain produces these waves when we are not resting. At the same time, we do not deal with anything big that requires concentration.

The amino acids from the green matcha tea trigger dopamine and serotonin production, making us feel better, happier, relaxed, and reduce alertness.

7. Possesses Powerful Anti-Aging Properties

All girls want to keep their elastic and beautiful face skin for the whole life. When we are young, we might not even think about it. However, middle-aged ladies start questioning how to keep their beauty longer.

For those girls, who are very much focused on their appearance, it would be essential to know that matcha antioxidants boost anti-aging properties.

Yes, yes, you’ve got it right. Moreover, it helps to protect your skin from the harmful effects of UV radiation. Let it try for a few months and see its positive impact on your skin.

8. Your Skin Will Start Looking Better

Matcha contains powerful antibacterial properties that can help you clear acne outbreaks and clean up your skin.

Let me share my story here. During the quarantine period, I stopped putting makeup on my face, but I started to use daily face skin-care products and drink matcha every day!

The fatigue effect and dark eye circles disappeared! I might no longer come back to make up daily, but keep my morning rituals with matcha.

9. Help to Fights Cancer

It is impossible to count all the positive effects of matcha. It is like avocado, green, tasty, and extremely healthy!

Matha drinkers, did you know that matcha green tea helps to prevent cancer? There is no proper cure for cancer; better take care of your body while you are young. It will ensure you a happy elderly life.

Eric Gower, a green tea industry expert, shares that matcha has

“Cancer-fighting properties that may induce apoptosis [which is] the death of rapidly proliferating cancerous cells”.

Is that a strong enough reason to drink matcha tea? If it is still not enough, I have one more convincing reason for you. Read on!

10. Help to Cure Deepest Hangover

It is quite a good reason to start drinking matcha for women and men. Even though I did not test this magical matcha property, 2 separate studies claim that green tea has the power to protect our liver from alcohol.

Recall this info the next time you wake up after a long, full of alcohol party!

My Matcha Review

I’ve taken the morning matcha tea ritual from one healthy-lifestyle blogger, and I have already decided to make it part of my life from now on.

The benefits of drinking matcha every day are endless. I did not manage to find any source that would mention its drawbacks or side-effects.

Matcha does not only tastes great, but it contains an abundance of health benefits that could make you live a happier and longer life.

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About the Creator

Victoria Kurichenko

Self-made marketer & content writer. Writing daily. Creating SEO-friendly content for 3 years.

My site: https://selfmademillennials.com/

Let's get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-kurichenko/

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