How Will Your Health Improve With Yerba Mate?

If you're asking yourself "What the heck is Yerba Mate and how will it improve my health?", you're not alone. That's how most people react when they first here the name.

Yerba Mate (yurba mah-tay), or Mate as it is often called, is a South American herb that is legendary across Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil for alleviating fatigue, boosting immunity, and providing an invigorating sense of mental clarity.

The natives use Mate to boost immunity, cleanse and detoxify the blood, tone the nervous system, restore youthful hair color, retard aging, combat fatigue, stimulate the mind, control the appetite, reduce the effects of debilitating disease, reduce stress, and eliminate insomnia.

It's also a natural stimulant devoid of side effects and toxicity, a natural source of nutrition, and a health promoter par excellence.

One of the best things that Yerba Mate does for diabetics is to balance blood sugar levels.

Claims that Yerba Mate reduces the risk of diabetes are supported by both its historical use and medical research. Studies suggest that "Ilex paraguariensis extracts [Yerba Mate via the Traditional Method] are more effective than either green tea or red wines." (Bixby, Spieler, Menini, Gugliuccit, Life Sciences, 2005, #77 pgs 345-358)

Yerba Mate deserves the attention of every person interested in optimum health.

Take a look at some of the other things Yerba Mate can do to improve your health:

• Induces mental clarity
• Improves digestion
• Regulates appetite
• May help burn fat
• Increases endurance
• Sustains energy levels
• Helps relieve allergies
• Detoxifies the body
• Aids in colon cleanse
• May help reduce blood pressure
• Retards aging
• Tones the nervous system
• Prevents over stimulation of the nervous system
• Contains 15 amino acids, 24 vitamins & minerals, and 11 polyphenols
• Contains xanthines, chemicals that boost your metabolic rate by 10%!

It even fights bad breath!

But, there's even more health benefits of Yerba Mate.

Yerba Mate contains numerous vitamins and minerals: Carotene, Vitamins A, C, E, B-1, B-2, and B-complex, Riboflavin, Biotin, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Potassium, Manganese, Silicon, Phosphates, Sulfur, Chlorophyll, Choline, and Inositol, to name a few!

There are a total of 15 amino acids, 24 vitamins and minerals, and 11 polyphenols, making Yerba Mate a healthy addition to your diet.

Clinical studies indicate Yerba Mate leaf inhibits Lipoxygenase, an enzyme involved in inflammation and inflammatory diseases.

Yerba Mate has significant antioxidant activity, demonstrated in numerous studies. The main characteristic of an antioxidant is its ability to trap free radicals. Highly reactive free radicals and oxygen species are present in biological systems from a wide variety of sources and can initiate degenerative disease. Having a good diet is part of the natural way to rid your body of free radicals, and Yerba Mate can help.

Scientists are studying the exceptional health benefits of Yerba Mate.

A recent (2002) U.S. patent cites Yerba Mate for inhibiting Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) activity by 40-50% in vitro, reporting that it might be useful for a variety of such disorders as "depression, disorders of attention and focus, mood and emotional disorders, Parkinson's disease, extrapyramidal disorders, hypertension, substance abuse, eating disorders, withdrawal syndromes, and the cessation of smoking."

Yerba Mate produces an energy like coffee, but without the muscle tension, allowing you to stay relaxed, yet alert. In addition to many nutrients, Yerba Mate contains a substance belonging to a specialized class of chemical compounds called Xanthines. Though only small amounts of these substances occur in Yerba Mate, their presence has generated a huge amount of attention. The primary Xanthine in Yerba Mate is called Mateine.

Let's get a little technical here for a moment.

Some Xanthines are obviously less desirable, such as caffeine. Others, such as Theophylline and Theobromine, have specialized action and a characteristic set of side effects. Although the Xanthines have similar chemistries, each has a unique set of properties.

Researchers at the Free Hygienic Institute of Hamburg, Germany, concluded that even if there were caffeine in Yerba Mate, the amount would be so tiny that it would take 100 tea bags of Mate in a 6-ounce cup of water to equal the caffeine in a 6-ounce serving of regular coffee. Consequently, the active principle in Yerba Mate is not caffeine!

That's good news for everyone who drinks coffee or those unhealthy energy drinks.

"Over the past year, I have been giving the Yerba Mate tea to my patients who need to stop using caffeine-containing products for health reasons. I have had good feedback on the results. I like having a healthful substitute for coffee, tea and, colas to offer them.' -- K.L.P., M.D.

So, although you may not have heard of Yerba Mate yet, you'll be hearing a lot more about it shortly. The health benefits to each one of us are amazing.

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