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Build Muscle With Black Tea
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Build Muscle With Black Tea
Hey, guys. This is Nathan Hopkins from 3xMethod.com. Im sure youve heard me and lots of other people talk about the benefits of green tea. Well, Im going to talk today about something else that is equally beneficial that is definitely beginning to add to the current things that youre currently drinking and just doing nutritionally to really help you build muscle, preserve the muscle as well as burn fat. Its not to often you find something to help you do that and thats why I want to talk about black tea today, something you definitely need to be checking out.
The reason why is as guys, we do lots of things that stress us out work, family life, everything. Some source of good stress, some source of bad stress, even working out causes us to have stress and what that does is that affects our cortisol levels. Cortisol can actually increase your high levels of cortisol in your body and can actually cause the muscle to be broken down which is going to make it more difficult to build muscle mass, which is going to make it more difficult to have a higher metabolism and have a low body fat percentage.
What I wanted to share with you today specifically, The University College London did a research done with black tea where they took 75 guys and they took a portion in them and actually gave them black tea. They did four cups of black tea a day and they gave the other group placebo, something that tasted like black tea minus the active ingredients like the catechins that are what actually help you with reducing the cortisol levels. They went through the tests. They put the guys into a stressful situation and then measured their level of cortisol in their body 15 minutes after that test. What they found, the guys that drank the four cups of black tea had decreased their cortisol levels by 50%, whereas the group that took the placebo had only done by 25%. Big picture.
Black tea, after drinking it after youve worked out and then through the course of the day is going to help you keep your stress low, its going to help you preserve your muscle mass which is going to help you be able to have a high metabolism, be able to burn more fat and just keep a cooler frame of mind on things. Its just going to help you operate better and just keep overall better health.
Just something I wanted to share with you real quick and this is actually my favorite brand right here. Its called Numi. Its a black tea, its actually an Earl Grey. Its a good one to go with but there are actually lots of other ones that are great too.
Just another tip I want to share with you guys. Go out and get some black tea. For more tips like this subscribe to my YouTube channel. Just click on the subscribe button right there or just go to 3xMethod.com and you can subscribe to my newsletter and video newsletter there, and you can be updated whenever I have a video message just like this.
Alright, see you guys later.
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