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How Can Tea Keep You Healthy?

Since my diagnosis with MS in December 2014 I’ve been attacking living with this auto-immune disorder with all the gumption I can muster. As a part of my holistic health plan, I’m trying to ensure that my body always has a daily dose of antioxidants.

What is an antioxidant you ask?

Well let’s just pull up the handy dandy dictionary.com

Antioxidant

Ok, wait what is a free radical?

Free Radical

Ok so if I have free radicals causing havoc in my body, I need antioxidants to stop free radicals from causing harm. This is the easy way I break down science for my brain to understand it.

For those with MS that may be reading this, I found this article in the US National Library of Medicine when I was first doing research on holistic treatments.

“Free radicals have been found in high concentrations within inflammatory multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. The inhibition of the production of free radicals in PBAMs may represent a new therapeutic mechanism against inflammation during MS.” 

In all my research, I found two kinds of tea that are very high in antioxidants. These were and are easy for me to have once a day. I usually crave a hot drink in the afternoon so I’ve been making either Mushroom Chaga Tea or Matcha Ninja Green Tea every day. I usually switch it up and make one and then the other the next day. I’m super excited to let you know that I’ve negotiated discounts on my favourite teas! All of my email subscribers get either 10% off any order from Raw Elements or $5 off a Match Ninja Green Tea web order.

Back in May, I wrote a blog post called “What is Mushroom Tea?” featuring Chaga Tea by Four Sigma Foods. I love the instant packs this company makes and I found a Canadian online retailer that stocks it! Raw Elements is an online retailer with a great mission. Their goal for you is to enjoy the education while shopping for the best 100% whole food, plant-based, organic superfoods geared towards helping your body be the best. They are offering you 10% off everything in the store. They ship to Canada & the United States.

Here is the product page for the Chaga Tea I love.

Chaga Tea

Matcha Ninja Green Tea: 100% Raw Organic Premium Matcha powder Matcha Ninja is super soluble. I use one small spoon in a mug of hot water every day. They offer worldwide shipping!

Green Tea

My Secret Weapon

If you follow me on Twitter you’ve probably seen me post several times about my love affair with….

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TEA!!

In the past two months I have discovered David’s Tea at Yonge / Eglinton.

I was offered a great blend called Secret Weapon at my first visit. It has been my go-to morning tea during this crazy flu season. It is made with White Bai Mu Dan tea which really means nothing to me but the little add ins are what make the tea. So the tea on it’s own is high in antioxidants and they add in bits of licorice and goji berries for the added oomph of more antioxidants. This helps me combat all the crazy free radicals that affect my body every day from potentially getting the flu to recuperating after a hard workout. The goji berries are also supposed to have 500 times more vitamin C than oranges according to the label.

The best part though for me is that it’s flavoured with almonds and cocoa nibs for a rich flavour boost.

Check out the store locations online. My favourite is the uptown Yonge/Eg location, there is one at Queen West beside the Rivoli and one on Bloor West as well.

It looks like 1 has opened up in Vancouver, 3 in Montreal and 1 in Laval.

Happy steeping.