5 Benefits... How Does Tea Protect You from Aging and Senescence?

SadaNews - The speed at which your body and mind change with aging may largely depend on your lifestyle. A simple habit, such as drinking tea, may help slow the aging process and support a longer, healthier life.

Tea Provides Your Body with Powerful Antioxidants

Tea offers your body antioxidants (such as polyphenols) that fight unstable molecules contributing to cell damage and diseases like cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Antioxidants in tea help reduce the risk of diseases, thus slowing biological aging, according to "Verywell Health."

Tea Protects Your Heart Health

The "polyphenols" found in tea are beneficial in reducing arterial stiffness, one of the most common cardiovascular diseases.

Regularly drinking tea can also protect your heart by lowering cholesterol, protecting the heart muscle, reducing high blood pressure, decreasing heart inflammation (myocarditis), and supporting the lining of blood vessels.

Tea Features Anti-Obesity Properties

Antioxidants in tea help reduce obesity by speeding up fat oxidation (how the body breaks down and uses fat). One study found that drinking oolong tea helped increase fat oxidation by 20 percent within 24 hours of consumption.

Certain compounds in tea (polysaccharides) also affect gut bacteria and contribute to enhancing metabolic efficiency.

Tea Helps Regulate Blood Sugar Levels

Tea helps improve blood sugar management and reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes through its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, as well as through reducing insulin resistance.

One study conducted on Chinese adults found that individuals who regularly drank black tea had a 45 percent reduced risk of developing diabetes.

Tea Supports Your Brain Health

Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a prevalent antioxidant in green tea, improves brain health. Green tea also contains two amino acids, theanine and arginine, which have stress-reducing effects and may further slow brain aging.

Regularly drinking green tea helps reduce the risk of dementia, a group of conditions characterized by cognitive decline.