I am big on the "substitution principle" of replacing something bad with something good. So, in this regard tea has provided a much better beverage consumption versus the junk I was drinking previously (which really was not that bad since I had long done away with soda and the like).
But for me there seems to have been more to it than this. When I started drinking tea, specifically green tea, more specifically Japanese ... suddenly my annual acute sinusitis (that made me feel like I was on the death bed every single year) ceased.
My acid reflux stopped.
My stomach pains that I had also been experiencing also stopped.
Now this goes against at least some degree of medical logic as the health care industry as we know it in the USA would have said, "Chip, you must cut out the tea, you must cut out the caffeine, we will make you healthy, trust us. We will give you pills to make you healthy again."
Am I ready to go on Dr. Oz and proclaim my conclusive discoveries? Or is this ... coincidence? ... were there possible other factors affecting my newly renewed health? ... maybe yes.
I am not a scientific case study. But am I conclusively better without question 100% because of Japanese green tea?
Wellll, I will go so far as to say "I believe" Japanese green tea played a big part in this.
By the way, at the time I refused to give up dark chocolate, another dietary no no for what ailed me. I did eliminate peppermint based upon my own personal research. And I did begin to use saline nasal spray (which I swear by during the Winter heating season).
