30, December 2014

How tea can better our mood

Research has found that tea might play a role in changing your mood, helping you feel less depressed, more alert or even energetic.

Some of the benefits of tea include lower rates of some cancers, reduced risk for heart disease and stroke, and may protect against Alzheimer's.

These benefits are seemingly endless and so are the ways you can use tea to alter your mood, the Huffington Post reported.

Drinking a hot cup of tea is always an option, but so is using it to scent your room

The following teas can change your mood accordingly, for instance Herbal teas with lemon verbena makes the mood happy, Green tea or black "chai" make you feel energized.

Green and black teas makes you feel productive, while Honeybush and herbal chai blends release the stress.

Source: www.timesofindia.com

30.12.2014

Probiotics may ease anxiety, depression

Supplements to boost probiotics -- the helpful micro-organisms that reside in our bodies -- can alter the way people process emotional information and ease anxiety and depression, new research suggests.

Gut bacteria may also affect the immune system, which could in turn, influence the brain, Philip Burnet, researcher at the University of Oxford was quoted as saying.

For the study, researchers recruited 45 healthy people aged 18 to 45 years to take either a probiotic supplement to boost "good" bacteria or a placebo, every day for a period of three weeks.

They completed several computer tests to assess how they processed emotional information such as negative and positive words.

During one test, people who took the supplement paid less attention to negative information and more attention to positive information, compared with people who took a placebo, the findings showed.

A similar effect was seen in people who took drugs for depression or anxiety and the findings suggested that the people in the supplement group had "less anxiety about negative or threatening stimuli," Burnet added.

Researchers are not sure of how changes in gut bacteria might affect the brain. Some researchers suspect that the vagus nerve -- which conveys sensory information from the gut to the brain -- plays a role, LiveScience reported.

The study appeared in the journal Psychopharmacology.

Source: www.timesofindia.com

30.12.2014

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