Getting up early for a cup of tea is refreshing and refreshing. This may be a habit of many tea lovers, but they do not realize that this is an unhealthy lifestyle. What needs to be explained here is that drinking tea itself is very healthy, but this does not mean that tea can be drunk casually under all circumstances. Just like we drink water every day, but the temperature, source, and amount of water are also important to health, the same reasoning.
There are many functional ingredients in tea, the most of which is tea polyphenols, which account for 18~36% of the weight of dry tea.
Tea polyphenol itself is an astringent substance, what does it mean?
Think about what happens when you take a bite of an apple that is not fully ripe. Not only is it sour, but there is also a feeling of "tightening" in the mouth. This is the astringency of some substances, that is, astringency.
In the morning when the stomach is empty and the tea reaches a certain concentration, the stomach and intestines will be stimulated by this "tightening" for the first time, and discomfort and even pain will follow.
Of course, this phenomenon also varies from person to person. Some friends who have good digestion and strong gastrointestinal functions may not have obvious feelings. Different people drink tea on an empty stomach and have different feelings of concentration. But often like this, it will inevitably be overwhelmed in the future. .
There are many small habits in life that are like this, such as unbalanced diet, little exercise, sedentary...All of them will feel nothing for a while, and will pay attention only when the body is unwell.
After drinking tea, the human body will become excited, which is the heart-strengthening and nerve-stimulating effect played by the alkaloids in tea. For tea lovers who are physically weak and anemia, getting up early and taking a cup of tea on an empty stomach can easily cause dizziness and weakness.
At this time someone asked: Can you drink some black tea? I heard that it is fermented tea, which nourishes the stomach.
In fact, all teas don’t have “nourishing the stomach”, but the tea polyphenols of fully fermented tea are oxidized and decomposed during the processing process, which is less irritating to the stomach and intestines. Drinking black tea and dark tea on an empty stomach is not worth recommending.
Tea drinking method worth promoting
When you wake up in the morning, the human body is relatively dehydrated. You can replenish water first, eat breakfast after washing, add energy, and drink tea after the stomach and intestines work normally for a period of time (half an hour is recommended).
Tea is the healthiest beverage in the world (usually not one of them) and has a history of drinking for thousands of years.
As the old saying goes, "a cup of tea before a meal is better than a robber entering a poor house, and a cup of tea after a meal, and a medical practitioner is idle" (referring to drinking tea on an empty stomach in the morning has no effect, drinking tea after a meal has a great effect). Although it is a bit exaggerated, it also coincides with the explanation of modern science.
Everyone wakes up early and enjoys breakfast, then make a cup of tea to start a new day, you will feel the health and happiness that tea brings to you.