Green tea is a favorite drink of many. It has a pleasant taste, invigorates, perfectly quenches thirst. However, your drink should not only be tasty, it should also be healthy.
Green tea is a drink that contains caffeine. Many people remember that coffee contains the same substance that can affect blood vessels and the heart, but not everyone thinks that the caffeine content in green tea exceeds that in coffee. Drinking tea leaves undoubtedly has an effect on blood pressure.
Up and down
The caffeine in green tea has two effects on the body. First, it stimulates the heart, making it beat faster and more intensely pumping blood through the body. At this time, the pressure in the person who has consumed the drink rises. However, tea also has an effect on blood vessels. They expand, and the pressure, in turn, decreases. As a rule, within twenty to thirty minutes after drinking tea, people experience an increase in blood pressure, followed by a decrease.
Who Should Drink Green Tea: Hypertensive or Hypotensive
Green tea is recommended for hypertensive patients. After a short-term jump in blood pressure upwards, its decline follows, which can last two to three hours. Large companies producing the drink have repeatedly conducted studies, during which it was found that hypertensive patients who regularly consumed high-quality green tea began to feel better, and their pressure gradually decreased. For hypotonic patients, doctors advise to be suspicious of this drink, because after a short period of vigor they will face dizziness, weakness, confusion and headache.
Individual reaction
Different people have different reactions to green tea. Some hypertensive patients, who, in theory, should get better after drinking this drink, may feel unwell, and by measuring their blood pressure, they may find that it has increased. And, on the contrary, individual hypotonic people, having drunk a couple of cups of tea, are able to feel full of energy. First of all, listen to your reaction to a particular type of tea when deciding whether to drink this drink.
Drink or medicine?
Do not trust that green tea will help you cope with hypertension better than the recommendations of doctors and the drugs prescribed by them. First of all, it is a tasty and aromatic drink, with a cup of which it is so pleasant to spend time. High-quality green tea can help normalize blood pressure, but it can only be an adjunct and will not replace medicine.
