+Vyacheslav Semenko No need to be snappy about it, tea is a term colloquially used very broadly, it's a common misconception. And thank you +nevramm, that make sense.
+Alyssa Laurel Yes, what nevramm said, just infusions from Camellia sinensis, though there are a lot of varieties of even just that. Not any 'herbal teas'.
Ray Pak In some places (notably Asia) black tea is called red. Although he may have been referring to redbush or rooibos tea, which is also not true tea. "Red tea" is also apparently a slang term for a type of methamphetamine. (rainbow)
Interesting. As a tea drinker, I was hoping to find more reasons to drink it but I guess people really should drink coffee or tea if they like it, not based on possible health benefits.
+Tracy Li Well, tea and coffee are harmful to me. Last time I had caffeine in a diet coke at 12pm, I couldn't sleep until over 24 hours later. And no, it's not placebo. I didn't know it had caffeine until I looked at the can in the trash when I wondered why I couldn't sleep.
Inorganic Vegan that's impressive. the only other time I've heard of someone being anything like _that_ caffeine sensitive was a Chinese woman who had heart palpitations if she had any. I didn't ask how it affected her sleep. I've noticed in the past year that I've gotten _more_ sensitive to caffeine, slightly, but it used to have no noticeable effect on me at all.
@@xxmountaindewxx7893 milk? umm.. why?? not judging or anything, but I find your tea drinking habits weird and disturbing! try better quality leaves and master your brew times and temps 👌
I've started drinking unsweetened and unflavored iced tea moreso to wean myself off of drinking soda, which I admittedly used to drink way too much of. It used to be so bad that I'd drink at least 2-3 20oz servings of soda a day, but I've gotten it under control and now I'd say it's closer to maybe 2-3 a week at most. I've chalked up my recent health changes (namely reduced acne and slight weight loss) more to the fact that I'm not drinking nearly as much sugar/calorie laden soda and not because I'm drinking tea. However, those health benefits that you mention don't seem like anything to complain about, so I suppose I'll keep on with my newfound tea drinking ways.
I think the main benefit from tea drinking is that it can replace other, less healthy drinks, such as sodas or coffee drinks with milk and sugar. Also, tea is tasty, which is a good reason to drink it. Get loose leaf and use a good brand, delicious!
andres Jones why because your simple minded and can’t see the benefits to meditation. Meditation is literally one of the most healthy things you can do
I suffer from asthma. Recently, I had an attack so bad I had to go to the ER. I was given treatment and some new prescriptions to better control my asthma. The nurse recommended that in addition to my new meds, I should also drink more black tea and honey. She said it might help relax my bronchial tubes and sooth some of the soreness from coughing. I like black tea and honey, so I don't think this will hurt anything. I like to drink a hot beverage anyway after I recover from an attack. The steam is soothing to my respiratory passages. I haven't had to deal with an attack since I started the new meds though. They are working much better to control my asthma than the old ones.
i recently switched from coffee to tea in which it helped me greatly and i have slept better in ages than i ever did whilst drinking coffee and i felt more calm and relaxed .
I go through phases with tea. I just hit a tea phase a little over a week ago. Been drinking between 2 and 3 cups a day. I suffer from pretty bad depression (just going to work is hard). Without realizing it until I watched this video just now, I have gotten more done in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 6 months. Just today after work (normally too tired to do anything but sleep) and 2 cups of tea, I have done more cleaning than I have in over 6 months, reconnected some speakers I have been meaning to, fixed a gadget I have been meaning to fix, and cooked my food for work tonight. All before watching this video. I think I am going to make this a permanent regiment.
Isn't saying that the studies done in Asia where tea is more heavily consumed, the same as saying the studies done in the states where coffee is more heavily consumed?
We've been talking and doing tea in business for over a decade and post articles on studies on tea and health all the time on our Facebook. I was raised in a Norwegian family that only drank coffee, and have never felt better since changing to tea. The brewed caffeine level being 1/3 to 1/2 of coffee is really helpful and the L-theanine in tea actually makes the caffeine effect of tea different than coffee..not that up/down jolt.
Being a tea drinker, this video automatically caught my attention. I drink tea not only because I actually like the taste of it but also because I have heard of it having some health benefits as well. I did not know that it could potentially help lower the risk of liver disease or cancer, heart disease, stroke, depression, and diabetes until I watched this video. I thought that it was interesting that black tea did not reduce the risk of endometrial cancer whereas green tea did by 11%. I do agree that all of the statistics that were in the video should be taken with a grain of salt considering that most results are shown if a person drinks 3 or more cups of tea a day. It also caught my attention that most of the studies that were done with black and green tea were done overseas in places like Asia where tea is consumed much more than in the U.S., where only a few studies were done. I like tea and will continue to drink it especially now since I know there are some potential benefits. The only question that I had while watching this video was what about other kinds of teas like, English Breakfast or Earl Grey. Do those kinds of teas have benefits as well like black and green tea or are they different and less beneficial?
I agree with several arguments made in this video. The final conclusion after reviewing the findings in this video was that you should consume tea if you like it, and don't consume it if you do not like it. Although I can see the reason why tea has been concluded to be such minor addition to a diet, I believe that tea does more good than harm and it should be consumed regularly if one can stand the taste. In the studies shown, tea has been known to reduce the risk of chronic liver disease and depression. By just consuming one cup a day, studies show that you have a 21% decreased risk of having a stroke. As shown in the video, there are plenty of other possible benefits, and although the studies may not have all been a randomized trial, even the possibility of a reduced risk of disease is good enough for me. I understand that there are different kinds of teas, but in general, I believe that drinking tea does a lot more good than harm for the human body and people should make it their goal to enjoy a cup a day.
I love tea , I've used it for milk production for breast feeding for my baby , raspebery tea for period cramps , and sleepytime tea to help sleep :3 Tea is a gift from the gods lol
Mr. Rize AG _"Herbal tea is the only true tea."_ (O.o) but it's not tea... tea means that particular plant. herbal tea might be the only true _infusion,_ I suppose, but it's not tea...
The conclusions of the studies relating to stroke and depression, to me, at least point to the process of the consumption of tea playing a big part in reducing stress. One significant difference between tea and coffee is that while coffee can be made quickly and is traditionally drunk quickly, making good tea is a much slower and methodical process. When it says people that drink at least three cups of tea a day, it indicates the type of people who might take time out of their day to boil water, get the tea pot read, scoop out the tea, carefuly brew the tea as to not make it bitter and sit to drink and enjoy the tea. Setting out to do this at least tree times a day can greatly reduce a person's stress and therefore reduce the prolonged effect of stress on the body resulting in the positive outcomes noted in the studies. Personally I drink tea not necessarily because of the health claims that it would speed up my metabolism or make me loose crazy amounts of weight. Most of the time if someone goes from drinking high caloric beverages to drinking tea, the weight loss is most likely attributed from cutting out sugar, not the addition of tea. I drink tea because it is enjoyable and calming. Once you get into a habit of it, it can almost be meditative. Sure there are people who just get some hot water and just dump a tea bag into the water and be done with it, but I would assume that isn't what the Asian countries are doing, especially China where the traditional tea brewing method is called Gonfu cha (also pronounced as Kung fu cha) which means "making tea with skill". And it is totally a skill to make a good cup, not that bitter stuff that people brew after keeping the cheap tea in the bag in the water for too long.
ThoperSought You mean the majority of the people in those studies just bought the tea at the store? Or are you talking about the average American, who weren't the majority of the subjects in those studies?
Chloe Malveaux can you buy two-liter bottles of tea in grocery stores in the US, now? I wasn't aware. no, you were talking about Asia, the studies were largely Asian. In Japan, and certainly in China, too, most of the tea that people drink is pre-made in a factory. Yes, there's the Tea Ceremony in Japan, and Yes China has gongfu for tea, but the Tea Ceremony is a really niche hobby in Japan-overwhelmingly done by older women-and China has gongfu for _everything._ these do represent an important part of the culture, and do have an effect on the mainstream, but aren't really that major. so, yes, the average Asian probably _can_ make better tea than the average American, but most of them don't do it that often.
What kind of tea are they counting as 'tea', though? (re: the studies that don't specify.) This is important to me, since I can't have caffeine. Decaf coffee still has tons of caffeine, but herbal infusions prepared without tea leaves have none.
+Take Walker Herbal tea isn't tea at all, technically. The official, literal "tea" tea comes from only one plant, and how much it is processed determines whether it is white, green, or black. This video is just taking about "tea" tea.
Well played. I get what Krystalcove is saying, though. Of course, it still begs the question, what benefits, if any, do herbals teas have? Though I expect it depends greatly on what's in a given infusion (assuming it's not just a blanket 'none').
There are youtube videos about the "blue zones" these 5 areas of the world where people live the longest. They all drink some kind of herbal teas (hawthorne, milk thistle, hmm, forgot).
Hi HCT ! I would like to make a suggestion. When you enumerate study results, it would be great if you could write somewhere on the screen if the results are good or bad. You could indicate correlations that are good for your health in green, and bad ones in red, followed by a check mark or an X to indicate if the study found it. For example: "[in green] Correlation with higher HDL [X]" and "[in red] Correlation with higher LDL and VLDL [check mark]" Could indicate to someone who doesn't know biochemistry that the results are bad news. And by the way, your channel is awesome. Keep up with the good work, team! [dftba]
My mother went into liver failure, and ultimately needed a liver transplant do to green tea. She wasn't drinking it, but was taking the extract in a supplement form.
As someone who drinks tea regularly and likes all types of tea from hot green tea to iced tea I was understandably drawn to this video. I am surprised to see all of the health benefits that green tea offers as opposed to black tea. I have heard all of the seemingly recent hype over the benefits to drinking green tea but I did not realize that it was that substantial. I thought the benefits of green tea consumption only extended into weight loss benefits. I did not realize that tea in general was beneficial and that the benefits of it also extended into the risk of depression with a decrease of 37% for every 3 cups of tea consumed per day and the decrease of stroke by 21% per 3 cups of tea consumed a day. What surprises me the most about this video is that there is no correlated benefit to bone health. The correlation only exists between tea and mental health as well as organ health. While 3 cups of tea a day seems like a large influx of tea into someone’s daily diet, that’s only one cup of tea with every meal. So instead of drinking a carbonated beverage with your meal you’re one swap away from the significant health benefits that tea has to offer. With that being said, I think it’s time to amp up my tea consumption!
I think drinking tea and coffee (unsweetened) might help mostly because you replace a glass of a sugary drink (cola, pepsi etc) with a glass of a non-sugary drink, and that alone might help reduce obesity and heart problems. so if these are tested "as opposed to water" that might not be the whole picture. for example, if an obese person tries to lose weight with their diet, they might be gaining a lot by switching from dr. peppers to green tea, even if the tea itself is only mildly good for you, the switch is greatly good for you.
It's interesting that there's a difference between drinking Black Tea and Green Tea since both come from the same plant. The only difference between the two is the way the leaves are prepared before they are packaged to be sold to customers.
The link for the extra reading appears to be broken but I would assume that all of these studies focused on real tea, that is, an infusion made from the leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) as opposed to 'herbal teas', which are made from various other plants. When drinking tea or coffee, also take into account anything you add to the drink. Milk, cream, sugar, honey, lemon juice, etc will affect the amount of fat, sugars and other nutrients that you end up consuming, though I imagine the effect is fairly small unless you're drinking a lot of sweetened tea or coffee.
+E “Anonymous Nerdfighter” Hernandez I think there was a bit at the top left that specified it was Camellia Sinensis at least for most of the studies, so yes. the others would be too diverse to summarize, anyway.
The use of the word 'more' seems to suggest that the studies were focussed on the _increase_ in consumption, possibly leading to the conclusion that it is an increase in liquids that lead to these effects, rather than an increase in the chemicals found in tea. Drink more water and most of the beneficial effects listed are already documented.
4:53 "small but nonsignificant"? Seems like an oxymoron to me - I thought the whole point of significance was to have a threshold that we consider not due to chance... am confused please explain!
It depends on what tea, loose leaf or tea bags. With tea bags you get the sweepings, which is just the tips of the tea leaf. loose leaf is the whole tea leaf and contains the goodness fount in the leafs.
Yes, tea has fluoride, the cheaper and older tea leaves have a higher concentrations of fluoride. To make matters worse, boiling water increases the waters concentrations of fluoride. Coffee is safer, but decaffeinated coffee is awful! They use fluoride to take the caffeine out of decaf. So, if you want to avoid fluoride, drink coffee, and don't let the water boil before pouring!
@@brandenbolt5573 Thank you but everything you said I'm aware of an unfortunately I can't drink too much coffee and I try to stay away from coffee all together. It's kind of like you can't have too much of anything in the first place. I had a friend of mine tell me that I need to stay away from me even though I don't even drink tea all the time just when I need it like for singing Because it definitely helps and I haven't had a problem with drinking tea and it hasn't affected me but then again people have to use their own common sense for them as a specific individual. However I couldn't take her word because she uses alcohol to substitute her use of medication since she suffers from depression and so I felt like I'm listening to a hypocrite LOL My best advice to anyone would be that there is something dangerous and everything and this is so true and the best thing that you could do is just don't have too much of anything because too much of anything is no good in the first place. I had this other woman who I used to hang out with but I don't anymore because he's just not good news who only was drinking water as a drinking beverage because of everything that she had heard and only to end up in the hospital and to have to cut down from water. she drank too much water and her body wasn't breaking it down. best believe that it is best for everyone to use their own common sense and consider their individual blood type because the blood type definitely matters. I follow a book that has to do with following a diet for your specific blood type and it's doing wonders for me. it's really hey to each is own sort of thing.
I drink tea, but I get the feeling that a lot of the benefits are from tea/coffee substituting sweet drinks. There is a limit to how much people drink of anything every day, so some of the benefits might be from less sugar.
I wouldn't think tea itself would carry any real risks, but I know some tea addicts that put a lot of sugar in their tea. Maybe something to note for heavy tea drinkers is to stay conscious of their sugar intake if they do take sugar in their tea.
I recently stopped drinking coffe and instead started drink tea. I had trouble focusing and often turned and changed my day and sleeping cycle. Iv also had issues feeling overall very drowzy some hours after i took my coffee. When i woke up from sleep i felt very slow. Now after like 1 week with tea i have already improved my sleeping and day cycle. I cant stay up to 4 am anymore and wake up 12 pm. I also feel less tired after i wake up. I feel overall more balanced doing ordinary stuff and not some drowzy caffine crash. U can generally say that i must have been sensetive to caffine...but tea so far has been a real gamechanger and i drink 2-4 cups a day.
2:21 The title of the study says "depression" but the text and audio say "diabetes"--I assume the title at the bottom contained a typo and meant to say "diabetes", is this correct?
Whether or not tea has tangible health benefits, you know it makes you feel good when you can enjoy a variety of high quality grade teas; black, green, white and oolong. And feeling good is half the battle.
I have been drinking black tea at the rate of five or more cups a day for most of my life. However, I have had endometrial cancer, type 2 diabetes, and a hemorrhagic stroke, a kidney stone, and a few other unpleasantnesses.
I drink tea fairly often. But I only drink hot tea in the cooler months. Does any of this info apply to just hot tea or is it likely that the possible benefits are also gained from cold tea? I'm guessing it doesn't matter, but I'd be curious if it did.
Suggest you do an essay on the problem with cohort studies: If Earl Gray gets a reputation for making smart kids, parents who are interested in their kid being smart will buy Earl Gray. After a while, whadaya know.... Earl Gray seems to be correlated with smart kids.
One thing I'm wondering about this is are you referring to the way the British/Irish drink tea (served hot with sugar and milk) or unsweetened iced tea?
Maybe it's just an association rather than a causation, but given that so many of our ailments are caused by poor lifestyle choices, perhaps broadly emulating the lifestyle choices associated with healthy living isn't a bad idea overall.
A woman working in a blood donation clinic told me drinking tea lowers the level of iron in your blood - to the point it may be the reason I often am not allowed to donate blood. Do you have any studies about the link between tea drinking and iron levels?
Hi, if you're still out there. Yes, my niece had the same story. Tea tea (not herbal tea) blocks the absorption of non-heme iron. (Heme iron comes from animal sources, non-heme from plant sources.) So if you're a vegetarian, you could develop an iron deficiency. I find when I drink tea I eventually start craving beef.
6:00 "less generalizable because they were conducted in other countries" should I take all the other stuff on this channel less seriously because studies were conducted in US?
+Vaibhav Gupta I hope he meant that since the studies were mostly conducted in one part of the world, the results might not be general enough for the rest of the world. There are probably many many many genetic & epigenetic differences between people in different parts of the world.
Hello, HCT team! Can you guys do a video explaining the terms you use often on the show? Especially those related to the research? Thanks for the attention, good holidays to you all.
How was the tea "treatment" applied to the subjects? It seems like there could be a pretty substantial confounding factor due to the correlation between the diets and ethnicities of tea drinking nations. I'm hoping these are not Observational Studies.
its good to stay realistic and demystify some assumptions about tea and health benefits. I am still a japanese green tea drinker and like the taste and the effect. Thanks for the informative video!
Yes, I was drinking tea while watching.
+Stefan Travis I was only steeping the tea when the notification for this video appeared. Too soon.
+Stefan Travis same
+Manil Chowdhury lol
+Stefan Travis SAME
Same
Tea is such a broad term, what types of tea do these studies refer to?
+Vyacheslav Semenko No need to be snappy about it, tea is a term colloquially used very broadly, it's a common misconception.
And thank you +nevramm, that make sense.
+Alyssa Laurel He didn't seem very snappy too me. o.0
+Alyssa Laurel Yes, what nevramm said, just infusions from Camellia sinensis, though there are a lot of varieties of even just that.
Not any 'herbal teas'.
+Vyacheslav Semenko Tea is not black, green, or red... the main 4 are black, oolong, green, and white in order of decreased processing
Ray Pak
In some places (notably Asia) black tea is called red.
Although he may have been referring to redbush or rooibos tea, which is also not true tea.
"Red tea" is also apparently a slang term for a type of methamphetamine. (rainbow)
Interesting. As a tea drinker, I was hoping to find more reasons to drink it but I guess people really should drink coffee or tea if they like it, not based on possible health benefits.
+Tracy Li
Well, tea and coffee are harmful to me. Last time I had caffeine in a diet coke at 12pm, I couldn't sleep until over 24 hours later.
And no, it's not placebo. I didn't know it had caffeine until I looked at the can in the trash when I wondered why I couldn't sleep.
Inorganic Vegan
that's impressive. the only other time I've heard of someone being anything like _that_ caffeine sensitive was a Chinese woman who had heart palpitations if she had any. I didn't ask how it affected her sleep.
I've noticed in the past year that I've gotten _more_ sensitive to caffeine, slightly, but it used to have no noticeable effect on me at all.
Tracy Li
_"not based on possible health benefits"_
I can't imagine forcing yourself would be good.
what kind of tea do you like best?
ThoperSought Jasmine.
Tracy Li
jasmine is good
1:28
I drink more than 3 cups a day
And I'm still depressed
Interesting though
*Sips tea*
I drink 5ish cups of green/black tea, milk no sugar.
I'm not that motivated too
@@xxmountaindewxx7893 milk? umm.. why?? not judging or anything, but I find your tea drinking habits weird and disturbing! try better quality leaves and master your brew times and temps 👌
Maybe you’re just lonely?
@@romama647 I've got Yorkshire tea, drinking it without milk makes my throat hurt
Edit: brew time is 5 mins for black and 3 mins for green
Tea is life ☕
Raihannn that emoji is cofee ._.
@@schwanncell9922 lmao
Shawn we can pretend
In a world where tea takes over.
@@schwanncell9922 Shut up xD
Oh no, it won't reduce my risk of hip fracture! I was... totally... relying on that? Is that a thing people think tea does?!
I've started drinking unsweetened and unflavored iced tea moreso to wean myself off of drinking soda, which I admittedly used to drink way too much of. It used to be so bad that I'd drink at least 2-3 20oz servings of soda a day, but I've gotten it under control and now I'd say it's closer to maybe 2-3 a week at most. I've chalked up my recent health changes (namely reduced acne and slight weight loss) more to the fact that I'm not drinking nearly as much sugar/calorie laden soda and not because I'm drinking tea. However, those health benefits that you mention don't seem like anything to complain about, so I suppose I'll keep on with my newfound tea drinking ways.
I think the main benefit from tea drinking is that it can replace other, less healthy drinks, such as sodas or coffee drinks with milk and sugar. Also, tea is tasty, which is a good reason to drink it. Get loose leaf and use a good brand, delicious!
Coffee, Tea, next up Hot Chocolate?
Well, actually chocolate suppouse to stimulate the segregation of serotonin
+Kieron George thousands of meta analysis and randomized controlled trials found that hot chocolate is actually...
very delicious!
I've been researching into quitting drinking and found a fantastic website at Sebs Magic Tactic (check it out on google)
Kieron George yay 😥
can you do health benefits of meditation
Anthony Pooled that is a big lol
andres Jones why because your simple minded and can’t see the benefits to meditation. Meditation is literally one of the most healthy things you can do
Meditation is DEMONIC!!!!
@@naomikidane5473 hahahaha!!!!!
@@andresjones580 LOL!!!!!!!!!
So what I got from this is that I should expect to live for eternity.
**Sips tea**
Just Drinking tea
*sips p*ss
@@ih3lixz why, why did you have to make weird?
☯Zen☯
It’s a jojo reference 😂
Neo Flitzz SHUT YOUR MOUTH GIORNO
@@bruhdestroyer3051 **fighting gold intro starts*
What are the health benefits and risks of a vegetarian diet? Reason I'm asking is I'm gling on a vegetarian diet at the beginning of the year.
+Panayiotis Joannou
I would just like to chime in and say to take a multivitamin/multimineral supplement. They're very cheap and effective.
+Inorganic Vegan does that mean I have to take more tablets?
Panayiotis Joannou
Sure. However, it's one pill with every vitamin/mineral you need. I don't see how that's too much to ask.
Then again, if you're going vegetarian and not vegan, you'd likely not need it
+Inorganic Vegan well considering I take 15 already then I guess why not and yeah vegetarian
I suffer from asthma. Recently, I had an attack so bad I had to go to the ER. I was given treatment and some new prescriptions to better control my asthma. The nurse recommended that in addition to my new meds, I should also drink more black tea and honey. She said it might help relax my bronchial tubes and sooth some of the soreness from coughing. I like black tea and honey, so I don't think this will hurt anything. I like to drink a hot beverage anyway after I recover from an attack. The steam is soothing to my respiratory passages. I haven't had to deal with an attack since I started the new meds though. They are working much better to control my asthma than the old ones.
I absolutely love the way you present information. you cite your facts and you admit your biases.
As5
i recently switched from coffee to tea in which it helped me greatly
and i have slept better in ages than i ever did whilst drinking coffee
and i felt more calm and relaxed .
Omg same. I've never felt more relaxed before. I love coffee but tea is ♥️
i wonder if anyone has consider that the people drinking tea aren't drinking fizzy drinks that contain more sugars.
I go through phases with tea. I just hit a tea phase a little over a week ago. Been drinking between 2 and 3 cups a day. I suffer from pretty bad depression (just going to work is hard). Without realizing it until I watched this video just now, I have gotten more done in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 6 months. Just today after work (normally too tired to do anything but sleep) and 2 cups of tea, I have done more cleaning than I have in over 6 months, reconnected some speakers I have been meaning to, fixed a gadget I have been meaning to fix, and cooked my food for work tonight. All before watching this video.
I think I am going to make this a permanent regiment.
Nice comment
What do you drink?
@@niellalien Usually just lipton black, but lately I have been really into this "Good Earth Sweet and Spicy" tea. I make it extra strong.
Coffee and tea are both good in moderation. Tea helps me so much when I have a cold and coffee helps when I need a kick. They are both great tools
Hmmmmm **watches video** oh yass queen.
**drinks the whole kettle in one sitting** ah. Tea is amazing .
I want to know if I'm wasting money on skincare haha
Isn't saying that the studies done in Asia where tea is more heavily consumed, the same as saying the studies done in the states where coffee is more heavily consumed?
I drink lots of tea and still have DEPRESSION
You need probiotics for good gut bacteria!
I’m a tea addict and a less change of a stroke strokes run in my family
Yes drinking tea good for you it's good for bad breath also aye chill.
Yorkshire Gold gives me IMMORTALITY!!!
We've been talking and doing tea in business for over a decade and post articles on studies on tea and health all the time on our Facebook. I was raised in a Norwegian family that only drank coffee, and have never felt better since changing to tea. The brewed caffeine level being 1/3 to 1/2 of coffee is really helpful and the L-theanine in tea actually makes the caffeine effect of tea different than coffee..not that up/down jolt.
Being a tea drinker, this video automatically caught my attention. I drink tea not only because I actually like the taste of it but also because I have heard of it having some health benefits as well. I did not know that it could potentially help lower the risk of liver disease or cancer, heart disease, stroke, depression, and diabetes until I watched this video. I thought that it was interesting that black tea did not reduce the risk of endometrial cancer whereas green tea did by 11%. I do agree that all of the statistics that were in the video should be taken with a grain of salt considering that most results are shown if a person drinks 3 or more cups of tea a day. It also caught my attention that most of the studies that were done with black and green tea were done overseas in places like Asia where tea is consumed much more than in the U.S., where only a few studies were done. I like tea and will continue to drink it especially now since I know there are some potential benefits. The only question that I had while watching this video was what about other kinds of teas like, English Breakfast or Earl Grey. Do those kinds of teas have benefits as well like black and green tea or are they different and less beneficial?
Thought never in my life I would ever drink tea but ever since my visit to London and I grown to love it overtime so there’s that
I agree with several arguments made in this video. The final conclusion after reviewing the findings in this video was that you should consume tea if you like it, and don't consume it if you do not like it. Although I can see the reason why tea has been concluded to be such minor addition to a diet, I believe that tea does more good than harm and it should be consumed regularly if one can stand the taste. In the studies shown, tea has been known to reduce the risk of chronic liver disease and depression. By just consuming one cup a day, studies show that you have a 21% decreased risk of having a stroke. As shown in the video, there are plenty of other possible benefits, and although the studies may not have all been a randomized trial, even the possibility of a reduced risk of disease is good enough for me. I understand that there are different kinds of teas, but in general, I believe that drinking tea does a lot more good than harm for the human body and people should make it their goal to enjoy a cup a day.
Sound like tea is not as helpful as some say it does. I choose what works for me.
I love tea , I've used it for milk production for breast feeding for my baby , raspebery tea for period cramps , and sleepytime tea to help sleep :3 Tea is a gift from the gods lol
Kayla Luna damn you look like your 17 tho
Soul Glo I was lol I turned 18 today
Kayla Luna oh lmao happy birthday
Soul Glo thanks 😂
What kind of tea are you talking about when you say tea?
harbouringempaths
Camellia Sinensis == tea. _herbal_ tea =/= tea
+ThoperSought Herbal tea is the only true tea. Everything else is just cockwater.
Mr. Rize AG
_"Herbal tea is the only true tea."_
(O.o) but it's not tea... tea means that particular plant.
herbal tea might be the only true _infusion,_ I suppose, but it's not tea...
frostek
I think you meant, "harsh, but false by definition."
Earl Grey...Or English Breakfast!!
Hmm I'll switch to tea now.
Maybe someday I won't think about dying.
Paul Staker Death anxiety? Same here.
I've death anxiety
BTS J-hope better make an appearance live alone whats that?
MyLife ByMe Death Anxiety is anxiety of which the cause of the anxiety is thoughts of death.
What has worked and what hasn't
The conclusions of the studies relating to stroke and depression, to me, at least point to the process of the consumption of tea playing a big part in reducing stress. One significant difference between tea and coffee is that while coffee can be made quickly and is traditionally drunk quickly, making good tea is a much slower and methodical process.
When it says people that drink at least three cups of tea a day, it indicates the type of people who might take time out of their day to boil water, get the tea pot read, scoop out the tea, carefuly brew the tea as to not make it bitter and sit to drink and enjoy the tea. Setting out to do this at least tree times a day can greatly reduce a person's stress and therefore reduce the prolonged effect of stress on the body resulting in the positive outcomes noted in the studies.
Personally I drink tea not necessarily because of the health claims that it would speed up my metabolism or make me loose crazy amounts of weight. Most of the time if someone goes from drinking high caloric beverages to drinking tea, the weight loss is most likely attributed from cutting out sugar, not the addition of tea. I drink tea because it is enjoyable and calming. Once you get into a habit of it, it can almost be meditative.
Sure there are people who just get some hot water and just dump a tea bag into the water and be done with it, but I would assume that isn't what the Asian countries are doing, especially China where the traditional tea brewing method is called Gonfu cha (also pronounced as Kung fu cha) which means "making tea with skill". And it is totally a skill to make a good cup, not that bitter stuff that people brew after keeping the cheap tea in the bag in the water for too long.
Chloe Malveaux
or you just buy a two liter bottle in the grocery store. that's really what most people do, honestly.
+ThoperSought Eww.
pisiupo
really? it's good. why _"Eww"?_
ThoperSought You mean the majority of the people in those studies just bought the tea at the store? Or are you talking about the average American, who weren't the majority of the subjects in those studies?
Chloe Malveaux
can you buy two-liter bottles of tea in grocery stores in the US, now? I wasn't aware.
no, you were talking about Asia, the studies were largely Asian. In Japan, and certainly in China, too, most of the tea that people drink is pre-made in a factory. Yes, there's the Tea Ceremony in Japan, and Yes China has gongfu for tea, but the Tea Ceremony is a really niche hobby in Japan-overwhelmingly done by older women-and China has gongfu for _everything._ these do represent an important part of the culture, and do have an effect on the mainstream, but aren't really that major.
so, yes, the average Asian probably _can_ make better tea than the average American, but most of them don't do it that often.
Guess I'll go get my 3rd cup for the day.
Have you got that 3rd cup of tea? I'm curious
What kind of tea are they counting as 'tea', though? (re: the studies that don't specify.) This is important to me, since I can't have caffeine. Decaf coffee still has tons of caffeine, but herbal infusions prepared without tea leaves have none.
+Take Walker Herbal tea isn't tea at all, technically. The official, literal "tea" tea comes from only one plant, and how much it is processed determines whether it is white, green, or black. This video is just taking about "tea" tea.
Well played. I get what Krystalcove is saying, though.
Of course, it still begs the question, what benefits, if any, do herbals teas have? Though I expect it depends greatly on what's in a given infusion (assuming it's not just a blanket 'none').
This was my question too. I drink herbal tea almost daily, but very rarely drink green or black tea.
There are youtube videos about the "blue zones" these 5 areas of the world where people live the longest. They all drink some kind of herbal teas (hawthorne, milk thistle, hmm, forgot).
Hi HCT !
I would like to make a suggestion.
When you enumerate study results, it would be great if you could write somewhere on the screen if the results are good or bad.
You could indicate correlations that are good for your health in green, and bad ones in red, followed by a check mark or an X to indicate if the study found it.
For example:
"[in green] Correlation with higher HDL [X]" and "[in red] Correlation with higher LDL and VLDL [check mark]"
Could indicate to someone who doesn't know biochemistry that the results are bad news.
And by the way, your channel is awesome. Keep up with the good work, team!
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My mother went into liver failure, and ultimately needed a liver transplant do to green tea. She wasn't drinking it, but was taking the extract in a supplement form.
See??? Tea is good for you, it is pretty good, and it’s mostly good!
Have fun losing your precious coffee, and HELLO TEAAA
Coffee is good but tea is 😮💨😮💨
As someone who drinks tea regularly and likes all types of tea from hot green tea to iced tea I was understandably drawn to this video. I am surprised to see all of the health benefits that green tea offers as opposed to black tea. I have heard all of the seemingly recent hype over the benefits to drinking green tea but I did not realize that it was that substantial. I thought the benefits of green tea consumption only extended into weight loss benefits. I did not realize that tea in general was beneficial and that the benefits of it also extended into the risk of depression with a decrease of 37% for every 3 cups of tea consumed per day and the decrease of stroke by 21% per 3 cups of tea consumed a day. What surprises me the most about this video is that there is no correlated benefit to bone health. The correlation only exists between tea and mental health as well as organ health. While 3 cups of tea a day seems like a large influx of tea into someone’s daily diet, that’s only one cup of tea with every meal. So instead of drinking a carbonated beverage with your meal you’re one swap away from the significant health benefits that tea has to offer. With that being said, I think it’s time to amp up my tea consumption!
This video was 6 years ago , but this 2022 has lot more studies and research about TEA . That proven to be beneficial to our health
I think drinking tea and coffee (unsweetened) might help mostly because you replace a glass of a sugary drink (cola, pepsi etc) with a glass of a non-sugary drink, and that alone might help reduce obesity and heart problems.
so if these are tested "as opposed to water" that might not be the whole picture.
for example, if an obese person tries to lose weight with their diet, they might be gaining a lot by switching from dr. peppers to green tea, even if the tea itself is only mildly good for you, the switch is greatly good for you.
It's interesting that there's a difference between drinking Black Tea and Green Tea since both come from the same plant. The only difference between the two is the way the leaves are prepared before they are packaged to be sold to customers.
The link for the extra reading appears to be broken but I would assume that all of these studies focused on real tea, that is, an infusion made from the leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) as opposed to 'herbal teas', which are made from various other plants.
When drinking tea or coffee, also take into account anything you add to the drink. Milk, cream, sugar, honey, lemon juice, etc will affect the amount of fat, sugars and other nutrients that you end up consuming, though I imagine the effect is fairly small unless you're drinking a lot of sweetened tea or coffee.
+E “Anonymous Nerdfighter” Hernandez
I think there was a bit at the top left that specified it was Camellia Sinensis at least for most of the studies, so yes. the others would be too diverse to summarize, anyway.
short answer: yes, it makes heart disease diabetes and cancer risks lower.
I love tea. But drinking nearly 12 cups of it everyday surely aint good 😂 and in ireland nearly every person I know drinks it
I drink only tea, because I don't like the tap water. Like, 2+ liters of tea a day. Is that alright?
I just want to say that as a MedStudent I love your videos!
Could the reduced risk of depression have to do with the ritual of preparing tea rather than the actual tea itself?
Whiskey and Tea
The use of the word 'more' seems to suggest that the studies were focussed on the _increase_ in consumption, possibly leading to the conclusion that it is an increase in liquids that lead to these effects, rather than an increase in the chemicals found in tea. Drink more water and most of the beneficial effects listed are already documented.
4:53 "small but nonsignificant"? Seems like an oxymoron to me - I thought the whole point of significance was to have a threshold that we consider not due to chance... am confused please explain!
It depends on what tea, loose leaf or tea bags. With tea bags you get the sweepings, which is just the tips of the tea leaf. loose leaf is the whole tea leaf and contains the goodness fount in the leafs.
"I'm also a coffee drinker" I picked up on that
Another possible confounding factor may be education level, since intellectuals and health-concerned persons tend to be tea tea drinkers
I'm drinking tea and good luck with the family.
What about the fluoride in tea? I keep finding that it contains a lot.
Yes, tea has fluoride, the cheaper and older tea leaves have a higher concentrations of fluoride. To make matters worse, boiling water increases the waters concentrations of fluoride.
Coffee is safer, but decaffeinated coffee is awful! They use fluoride to take the caffeine out of decaf.
So, if you want to avoid fluoride, drink coffee, and don't let the water boil before pouring!
@@brandenbolt5573 Thank you but everything you said I'm aware of an unfortunately I can't drink too much coffee and I try to stay away from coffee all together. It's kind of like you can't have too much of anything in the first place. I had a friend of mine tell me that I need to stay away from me even though I don't even drink tea all the time just when I need it like for singing Because it definitely helps and I haven't had a problem with drinking tea and it hasn't affected me but then again people have to use their own common sense for them as a specific individual. However I couldn't take her word because she uses alcohol to substitute her use of medication since she suffers from depression and so I felt like I'm listening to a hypocrite LOL
My best advice to anyone would be that there is something dangerous and everything and this is so true and the best thing that you could do is just don't have too much of anything because too much of anything is no good in the first place.
I had this other woman who I used to hang out with but I don't anymore because he's just not good news who only was drinking water as a drinking beverage because of everything that she had heard and only to end up in the hospital and to have to cut down from water. she drank too much water and her body wasn't breaking it down.
best believe that it is best for everyone to use their own common sense and consider their individual blood type because the blood type definitely matters.
I follow a book that has to do with following a diet for your specific blood type and it's doing wonders for me.
it's really hey to each is own sort of thing.
There's also the obvious benefits of being a calorie free beverage, often complimenting a healthy diet very well.
For me personally it helps me stay awake and it helps me be energized
I drink tea, but I get the feeling that a lot of the benefits are from tea/coffee substituting sweet drinks.
There is a limit to how much people drink of anything every day, so some of the benefits might be from less sugar.
I wouldn't think tea itself would carry any real risks, but I know some tea addicts that put a lot of sugar in their tea. Maybe something to note for heavy tea drinkers is to stay conscious of their sugar intake if they do take sugar in their tea.
I always use honey for my tea it is better for you than sugar
I recently stopped drinking coffe and instead started drink tea. I had trouble focusing and often turned and changed my day and sleeping cycle. Iv also had issues feeling overall very drowzy some hours after i took my coffee. When i woke up from sleep i felt very slow. Now after like 1 week with tea i have already improved my sleeping and day cycle. I cant stay up to 4 am anymore and wake up 12 pm. I also feel less tired after i wake up. I feel overall more balanced doing ordinary stuff and not some drowzy caffine crash. U can generally say that i must have been sensetive to caffine...but tea so far has been a real gamechanger and i drink 2-4 cups a day.
I wonder if the observed effects may be primarily due to displacing less healthy dietary items.
2:21 The title of the study says "depression" but the text and audio say "diabetes"--I assume the title at the bottom contained a typo and meant to say "diabetes", is this correct?
Whether or not tea has tangible health benefits, you know it makes you feel good when you can enjoy a variety of high quality grade teas; black, green, white and oolong. And feeling good is half the battle.
thats why i like tea and drinking for a long time
I'am 14 and i drink 3 or 2 cups of tea a day so is it good or not ?? Cause Im lowkey scared
You can watch my video to know amount of tea safe for health 😊
Did these tea studies have a negative control, say hot water? Is it possible that some of these positive effects are a result of improved hydration?
Now you must do a video on drinking 'yerba mate'!
I must know the benefits of all my hot drinks! ;)
So everytime I eat or drink certain items just search on RUclips about it and binge watch it about
I have been drinking black tea at the rate of five or more cups a day for most of my life. However, I have had endometrial cancer, type 2 diabetes, and a hemorrhagic stroke, a kidney stone, and a few other unpleasantnesses.
depends on what kind of tea you drink.
It depends what kind of tea you are drinking. I personally love organic ginger tea and organic whole leaf tea...
I drink tea fairly often. But I only drink hot tea in the cooler months. Does any of this info apply to just hot tea or is it likely that the possible benefits are also gained from cold tea? I'm guessing it doesn't matter, but I'd be curious if it did.
Suggest you do an essay on the problem with cohort studies:
If Earl Gray gets a reputation for making smart kids, parents who are interested in their kid being smart will buy Earl Gray. After a while, whadaya know.... Earl Gray seems to be correlated with smart kids.
Walter Clark
would like to see a vid about that
+ThoperSought
Yes, whadaya got?
Walter Clark
sorry, that wasn't a question. _I_ would also like to see a vid about that.
+Walter Clark
that's advertising buddy.
I drink tea everyday and every single time i feel like i want to
Is it OK to suck on the tea bag after using it
Are the effects from drinking tea, or just being more hydrated in general?
tea, iam going to replace coffee with tea.... every day
I only have 2 cups of tea a day but they are big assed cups will that do?
+brian whittle When he says "cups" he means the measurement cups, not like a physical cup you hold in your hand
Krystalcove we don't use such archaic measurements in the uk, over here a cup is something you drink out of.
thank you for parsing through all dat data and delivering us the knowledge summary.
Many people say, "If I don't drink tea, I have an acute headache."
Why is he implying any study from Asia is worthless? Maybe studies from America is what is garbage.
One thing I'm wondering about this is are you referring to the way the British/Irish drink tea (served hot with sugar and milk) or unsweetened iced tea?
Is tea good for me as I am drinking tea everyday
Are you talking about green tea or milk tea???
Jonh Green from Precision Nutrition?
Maybe it's just an association rather than a causation, but given that so many of our ailments are caused by poor lifestyle choices, perhaps broadly emulating the lifestyle choices associated with healthy living isn't a bad idea overall.
A woman working in a blood donation clinic told me drinking tea lowers the level of iron in your blood - to the point it may be the reason I often am not allowed to donate blood. Do you have any studies about the link between tea drinking and iron levels?
Hi, if you're still out there. Yes, my niece had the same story. Tea tea (not herbal tea) blocks the absorption of non-heme iron. (Heme iron comes from animal sources, non-heme from plant sources.) So if you're a vegetarian, you could develop an iron deficiency. I find when I drink tea I eventually start craving beef.
Drink tea, eat a bowl of oatmeal with fruit and beans, perfect breakfast.
6:00 "less generalizable because they were conducted in other countries"
should I take all the other stuff on this channel less seriously because studies were conducted in US?
+Vaibhav Gupta I hope he meant that since the studies were mostly conducted in one part of the world, the results might not be general enough for the rest of the world. There are probably many many many genetic & epigenetic differences between people in different parts of the world.
Seikowski V i get that point.
So, i as an Indian, how much seriously should I take the studies that were not conducted in India?
I just wanted to know if I could keep drinking Lipton, Tai, chai, etc not if they would stop my cancer
I'm sure it's been asked but did the studies focus on black or green tea?
I drink lots of coffee at work, and tea on my days off. It's my way of countering my daily 6 pack of beer
i have a question:
what kind of tea
did they look at that people drink less soda when drinking tea and if water has the same effects.
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Hello, HCT team! Can you guys do a video explaining the terms you use often on the show? Especially those related to the research? Thanks for the attention, good holidays to you all.
How was the tea "treatment" applied to the subjects? It seems like there could be a pretty substantial confounding factor due to the correlation between the diets and ethnicities of tea drinking nations. I'm hoping these are not Observational Studies.
its good to stay realistic and demystify some assumptions about tea and health benefits. I am still a japanese green tea drinker and like the taste and the effect. Thanks for the informative video!
Try poka tea jasmine green tea i drink them they are good
Could you make a video on the benefits and risks of energy drink consumption?