{"id":150452,"date":"2023-04-30T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=150452"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:19:16","slug":"herbal-tea-update-rooibos-nettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150452","title":{"rendered":"Herbal Tea Update: Rooibos &#038; Nettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Herbal Tea Update: Rooibos &amp; Nettle\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IrLNIaynYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\u201cHerbal Tea Update: Rooibos &amp; Nettle\u201d Rooibos, or red tea, is anecdotally\r\nreported to aid stress-related symptoms but has none of the mood-altering\r\nphytonutrients thought responsible for the increased calm and decreased\r\nstress after drinking green tea. So, why do some people feel\r\nless stressed drinking red tea? Well, researchers recently found human\r\nadrenal gland cells in a petri dish produce about four times fewer steroid\r\nhormones in the presence of red tea. Yes, this could quite possibly contribute\r\nto \u201cthe alleviation of negative effects arising from elevated [stress hormone\r\nlevels]\u201d if it damped down adrenal function that much in real life. But, the effect was so dramatic\r\nthey became concerned it might adversely affect the production\r\nof sex hormones, as well. But, that\u2019s not what they found when\r\nthey tested it on \u201chuman test subjects.\u201d The same may not be true,\r\nhowever, of nettle tea. Nettle is used to relieve\r\nsymptoms of prostate enlargement by boosting estrogen levels.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut, men drinking too much may grow\r\nbreasts, and women may start lactating. Nettles are often picked wild,\r\nso there\u2019s always a risk that someone might accidentally pick\r\nsomething like this, instead of this, and come down with atropine poisoning because the nettle tea you thought you were drinking had some\r\nbelladonna (deadly nightshade). Also, not a good idea to put\r\nthe leaves in your mouth fresh. They don\u2019t call them\r\n\r\nstinging nettles for anything This is a close-up of the impalement\r\nof a nettle spicule in the skin\u2014 not something you want your tongue. Nettle tea is touted for its\r\nhigh mineral content, which always seemed kind of strange to me. I mean, yes, if you boil dark green leafy\r\nvegetables long enough, you do lose minerals in the cooking water. But, how many minerals could we\r\nbe getting if we just steep some tea? We never knew because it\r\nhadn\u2019t been tested\u2014until now.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/7615461\/pexels-photo-7615461.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThey compared the mineral content\r\nof nettle tea to chamomile tea, mint tea, St. John\u2019s wort, and sage. Nettle tea didn\u2019t seem to have\r\nmuch more than any of the others\u2014 but, maybe they\u2019re all high? Well, one cup of nettle tea\r\ndoes have the iron of a dried apricot (that\u2019s more than I expected), the zinc found in one pumpkin seed,\r\none-twentieth of a mushroom\u2019s worth of copper\u2014 but four peanuts\u2019 worth of magnesium,\r\nand an entire fig\u2019s worth of calcium. I agree with the researchers that,\r\nyou know, a cup of herbal tea may not be an important source\r\nof minerals, but it\u2019s not negligible. You know, greens are so packed\r\nwith nutrition that you can benefit from just drinking some hot water\r\nthey\u2019ve been soaking in for a few minutes.\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-IrLNIaynYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As found on YouTube<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.depress1on.hop.clickbank.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Destroy Depression \ua19b System-Cure Depression Naturally<\/a> YOUR DEPRESSION HAS BEEN IN CONTROL LONG ENOUGH. It’s Time to Fight Back <a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.depress1on.hop.clickbank.net\/\">☂🗯<\/a> \u201cDepression Sufferer Of Over 20 Years Reveals His Simple 7-Step System That Gives You The Power To Destroy Your Depression, End Your Feelings Of Sadness And Hopelessness, And Get Your Life Back.\u201d “<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.depress1on.hop.clickbank.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This didn’t just change my life, it saved my life.<\/a>“","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cHerbal Tea Update: Rooibos &amp; Nettle\u201d Rooibos, or red tea, is anecdotally reported to aid stress-related symptoms but has none of the mood-altering phytonutrients thought responsible for the increased calm and decreased stress after drinking green tea. So, why do some people feel less stressed drinking red tea? Well, researchers recently found human adrenal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Herbal Tea Update: Rooibos &#038; Nettle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,106,7,409,63,446,94],"tags":[60185,60155,60159,56481,49,60192,60184,56645,60176,60119,34199,60183,60171,56387,60150,43569,60174,60193,60146,60187,60126,60122,59895,60182,5696,33944,35832,60165,55514],"class_list":["post-150452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-causes-and-prevention","category-entertainment","category-getting-help","category-health","category-life","category-parents","category-social-online-media","tag-apricots","tag-breast-development","tag-breast-health","tag-calcium","tag-chamomile-tea","tag-copper","tag-dried-fruit","tag-estrogen","tag-greens","tag-herbal-tea","tag-hormones","tag-iron","tag-lactation","tag-magnesium","tag-mens-health-2","tag-mushrooms","tag-nightshades","tag-peanuts","tag-prostate-health","tag-pumpkin-seeds","tag-red-tea","tag-rooibos-tea","tag-side-effects","tag-st-johns-wort","tag-stress","tag-tea","tag-vegetables","tag-womens-health-2","tag-zinc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/htmlF_IMG_644db62538f08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150486,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150452\/revisions\/150486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}