How To Use Green Tea For Weight loss

Over 100 million people are starting the day off with a cup of green tea and you could be one of those people, but did you know that green tea can also help you lose weight as well?

Green tea overall is a really healthy drink, it contains tons of healthy nutrients and antioxidants that can improve your health in multiple ways whether it be preventing diseases or helping you get rid of extra fat. Let’s go over some proven ways the green tea will help you lose weight

Helps You Burn More Fat During Exercise

Multiple studies show that green tea improves the fat burning process during a workout. There was a study where half the participants took a placebo while the other drank real green tea and the results showed that the ones that actually drank the tea burned 17% more fat than the half taking the placebo. Drinking a glass of green tea a half hour before a work out can have the same effect on your fat burning process.

Contains EGCG and other antioxidants

Where green tea differs from other drinks is it contains high levels of antioxidants and catechins, the most powerful and important antioxidant in green tea is EGCG.  EGCG has been shown to enhance your metabolism and natural calorie burn throughout the day and is great for your overall health.

Green Tea gets rid of fat quicker by improving hormonal levels

EGCG can also increase levels of norepinephrine in your body. One of the functions of this hormone is to alert fat cells telling them to break down and be used as energy. This process helps get rid of fat out of the body faster and keep more lean muscle tissue.

Green tea helps you lose dangerous visceral fat

Visceral fat is the abdominal fat that surrounds your organs, even slim people can have dangerous amounts of in their abdominal region. Visceral fat can lead to diabetes, inflammation, and heart disease. Green tea has been shown to help eliminate some fat around the stomach region thus helping get rid of that visceral fat.

Green tea boost your metabolism short and long term

the combination of egcg and caffeine seems to have short term and metabolic effects. In a study of 60 obese individuals, the group taking green tea extract lost 7.3 more lbs. and burned 183 more calories per day after 3 months.

Green tea isn’t only great for weight loss, it also has other health benefits. It lowers the risk of certain diseases and cancers, for instance women who drink green tea are 22% less likely to develop breast cancer. It is usually regularly consumed by some of the world’s longest living sub cultures so I may even help you live longer

Three main ways to Intake green tea to lose weight.

Green tea extract

Which is an herbal derivative of green tea leaves, by using green tea extract you can get 25-50% more antioxidants from the extraction process. Green tea extract usually isn’t something you drink and comes in pill form, so if you don’t like to drink green tea then taking the pill can be a quick short cut for you.

Taking it by pill is not the most effective way to get out all the nutrients from the green tea, drinking green tea will allow your body to absorb more of the nutrients within it.

Green tea steeped in a cup

To make bring water to a high tempter and add a packet of green tea then let it sit for 1-3 minutes and stir. The benefits of this method are that it is easy to drink, and you can get more nutrients out of it.

The best green tea is Matcha green tea

Matcha green tea is made with a special shaving process in japan giving 3x the amount of EGCG and antioxidants than the other types of green tea.

The only negatives are that it’s a little more expensive and can take longer to make. It does not come in a packet, so you have to whisk it yourself, but with the right tools it's not that time consuming.