My 5 Go-To Herbal Teas

I am a naturopath and believe in the healing and preventative powers of natural herbs. The synergistic effect of a variety of herbal teas will have a huge positive impact on your health and vitality. Tea is possibly the most inexpensive yet effective medicine known to man so drink up! The easiest way to help maintain your good health in addition to a proper clean diet is to implement herbal teas into your lifestyle. These are my 5 go-to herbal teas:



Green Tea will always be my number 1 tea. I love the taste and green teas overall health properties can't be matched. I drink many cups of green tea every day and also supplement with the green tea extract EGCG.

-Helps prevent Artherosclerosis by lowering triglyceride levels

-Lowers total cholesterol and improves HDL

-Antioxidant content help protect against cancer

-May help reduce inflammation associated with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two types of IBD (irritable bowel disorders).

-Helps manage diabetes by helping to regulate blood sugar levels

-Helps protect the liver against harmful substances like alcohol. Helps to prevent liver disease.

-Helps boost the metabolism and burn fat helping in weight loss

-May benefit arthritis by slowing cartilage breakdown and reducing inflammation

-Helps prevent tooth decay


Yerba Matte

Refer to my blog titled "Yerba Matte, Green Tea on Steroids"


Chamomile

-Anti estrogenic, especially helpful when under an environmental onslaught of xenoestrogens that wreck havoc on your health.

-Has a relaxing effect on the body and mind, helping you manage stress levels during the day and calm you down at night helping you sleep.

-Soothes stomach aches, eases the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, promotes elimination, and assists in overall digestion

-Helps women with mentral cramps. Increases levels of glycine which help ease muscle spasms.

-In poultice form, chamomile increases the rate of the healing of wounds.

-Has antibacterial properties which helps preventing and fighting off colds.


Dandelion:

-Helps to stimulate bile production which improves digestion of dietary fats and assists in detoxification.

-Is a great diuretic which helps flush your kidneys of toxins and shed excess water weight that makes you look and feel bloated and puffy. A well hydrated body has no need to hold onto extra water, water retention is a sign of chronic dehydration.

-Dandelion root tea is effective in fighting major infections like pneumonia, bronchitis and even boils on the skin

-Mannitol, an active substance in dandelion, helps to lower blood pressure.

-Can help manage blood sugar levels, helpful with diabetes.

-Improves and maintains optimum liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen, stomach, and gall bladder functions.

-Helps stimulate weight loss, by it's powerful detoxification effect. Toxins are stored in fat, get rid of toxins=shrink fat cells.


Milk Thistle:

-Helps lower fatty deposits in liver and increases the flow of bile. Bile is used in the stomach to breakdown dietary fat.

-silymarin (the active substance in milk thistle) is thought to stop cancer cells from dividing and reproducing, and shorten their lifespan.

-Helps increase efficiency of the liver helping to lower cholesterol

-Helps manage diabetes by improving insulin resistance and decreasing blood sugar levels