21/05/2020
International tea day has fallen during mental health awareness week! Perfect for tea and mental health facts. I'm sharing an interesting study that was carried out by Andrew Steptoe, a psychologist at University College London.
The study examined the effects of healthy men drinking black tea compared with a caffeinated placebo.The researchers found that tea helped people to recover more quickly from a stressful task.
Saliva levels of the stress hormone cortisol fell to 53% of baseline levels within 50 minutes of the task for the tea-drinking group, compared to 73% of the baseline for the placebo drinkers. The tea drinkers also said they felt more relaxed than did those who drank the placebo.
If you want to know more go look up Steptoe's study and yes, do read it over a nice hot cuppa!
