Tea has anti-aging effects
The ancient Chinese learned through observation and practice that tea is beneficial to human health. With the deepening of people’s understanding of tea, its anti-aging and anti-aging effects have also been widely recognized.
So, how does drinking tea prevent aging? This starts with free radicals. Free radicals are atomic or molecular groups with asymmetric electrons, such as hydrogen radicals, superoxide radicals, hydroxyl radicals, peroxide hydroxyl radicals, organic radicals, and so on. These are highly active and reactive particles that, in addition to being produced in the body through food and drugs, can also be induced to form free radicals by radiation, high temperatures, or environmental abnormalities. Human growth and metabolism are certainly governed by genetic factors, but they are also influenced by internal and external substances. So, these substances generate free radicals in the human body.
The harm caused by free radicals to the human body is enormous. It can cause damage to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), leading to intellectual decline, muscle atrophy, and premature aging; It can also oxidize and damage proteins in the human body, and oxidize unsaturated fatty acids in the body, causing fat to deteriorate and leading to hardening of cell membranes, mitochondrial membranes, and lysosomal membranes, resulting in arteriosclerosis. From this perspective, free radicals are the main culprit in accelerating human aging.
However, free radicals are not scary. It harms the human body, and the human body also has the instinct to clear and defend against it. The human body can produce enzymes to clear free radicals in hydrolysis reactions, and antioxidants are often inhaled in the human diet to alleviate the harm of free radicals. Therefore, taking non enzymatic vitamins C and E orally is usually beneficial to the human body, and tea contains these nutrients.
Tea contains not only high levels of vitamin C and vitamin E, but also beneficial catechins for the human body. Catechin compounds have strong antioxidant properties and can have good anti-aging and longevity effects. In addition, tea polyphenols contained in tea also have strong antioxidant and physiological activities. They are scavengers of free radicals in the human body, which can effectively block lipid peroxidation reactions, clear active enzymes, and have an anti-aging effect 18 times stronger than vitamin E.
In today’s life, drinking tea is not only a part of improving dietary structure, but also has strong antioxidant activity, and its role in delaying aging has been increasingly recognized by more and more people.
