Drink Tea to Calm the Brain There is science inside your cup of green tea. L-theanine, a naturally occurring amino acid in tea, crosses the blood-brain barrier and has been studied for its effects on relaxation, attention, and brain activity associated with a calm, wakeful state. Unlike a sedative, L-theanine is particularly interesting because of its potential to support calm without necessarily causing drowsiness. So when I say, “Drink tea to calm the brain.”

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Rwanda a Country of a Thousand hills and Tea

One. One person. One decision. One voice. One act of courage. One moment when someone decides, I cannot simply look away. We often think that changing the world requires enormous resources, powerful institutions, governments, organizations, or thousands of people. But history tells us something very different.