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Is this super tea so much healthier than coffee?

Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
5 min readMay 29, 2020

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I’m not anti-coffee, just looking for healthy alternatives. The best tea?

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I drink coffee every day and love it in the mornings. I like the smell the taste the feeling. It’s just that I have to check my caffeine intake due to my atrial fibrillation.

My family has used Rooibos tea for ages. I grew up with it. I never knew how healthy it actually was until I did some research. So in my quest to find a healthy alternative for coffee, I re-discovered Rooibos tea.

IMPROVES HEART HEALTH

Rooibos tea is a natural angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. This helps regulate blood pressure and as a bonus also boost heart health according to this study.

Another part of the Rooibos tea health benefits is that it contains Quercetin which is a powerful antioxidant. It cannot be produced by the human body so one way to get it in is with a cup of Rooibos tea.

CAFFEINE-FREE

It is totally CAFFEINE FREE, no it is not some sort of decaffeinated version of rooibos, the real “thing” is NATURALLY CAFFEINE FREE! This may be one of the most important health benefits of “redbush” tea.

For my afib heart, that is very good news. I know that the jury is still out about if too much…

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Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

Written by Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

www.myafibheart.com Blogger, Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF), AFIB(Atrial fibrillation) and panic! survivor. Weight & Body tracker notebook https://amzn.to/3hVGCUd

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