Green Tea Improves Attention, Focus in Young Boys with Limited Concentration

Natural Healing

Adolescent boys often face some degree of complication when it comes to concentration and memory. Primarily associated with hormones, young boys often face complications in peer groups, interpersonal relationships, and in school when unable to focus and concentrate.

If your son has shown signs of complications with memory and concentration, he may benefit from the daily consumption of green tea. As a product that has a high level of antioxidants, green tea has long been considered a supplement that can reduce the long term effects of oxidative stress and alleviate aging and other chronic disease. In young boys, however, green tea may promote concentration, focus and memory. The key to this outcome may lie in the polyphenols found naturally in green tea.

Polyphenol is the term used to describe flavanols and catechins found in green tea. Because polyphenols can penetrate the blood-brain barrier, many parents are using green tea as a viable natural option to improve their son's memory, focus and concentration. In fact, the young boys diagnosed with autism, ADHD and generalized anxiety disorders are finding benefits in the use of green tea on a daily basis.

If you find that using green tea in your son provides for some therapeutic benefit, it will be important to keep apprised of the health research associated with prescription medications that are derived from green tea extract. While there are many prescription drugs on the market today that offer some resolution to a child' complications with attention, focus and memory, the use of green tea extracts is still being explored in a medicinal product.


Battle of the Antioxidant Teas: Lipton Green Tea Versus Stash Green Tea

In my comparison of green tea, I must mention a very unscientific fact or two. First, if you are a native Texan you were probably raised on iced tea. Iced tea for other folks means a cold drink in the summer time but iced tea for a Texan is a year round drink.

Back in the good old days (before sports drinks) tea was also what we drank to replace the fluids we lost when we sweated. Now people from other states perspire in the summer. We Texans sweat! We were told that tea was good for us. Now we realize that what we considered healthy then does not even come close to green tea in the "healthy" category. The second unscientific fact is that we Southerners were never properly taught how to brew a good cup or pot of tea. We tend to over cook it. Good tea is "steeped" which is means simply put tea in very hot (right below boiling) water and let it sit for a few minutes.

For today's comparison I have chosen two brands of green tea. For most of us people from the south, when you say tea, we tend to think of the brand Lipton. One of the teas I have chosen is Lipton Green Tea and the other brand was unknown to me but I chose it because I liked the appearance of the packaging. This brand of green tea is Stash Green Tea. I really had to wonder how they came up with that name.

Now let's literally take a look at these two brands. I cut a tea bag from each brand opened and poured the bags on two separate white plates. Side by side each had a greenish color. The Lipton Green Tea had an almost black green color while the Stash Green Tea had a dark olive green color. If you were expecting whole tea leaves you will be disappointed, as both brands were chopped into very fine pieces. Both were so fine they left a powdery spot on the plate almost like powder from an instant tea mix.