Tea story
There are 287,654 different plant species on the planet that we know of, and billion on the planet have hooked on to one plant for a beverage, Tea. Even Monks Consume it. When plugging in to an EEG testing, it’s essentially seen that humans have 4 brain waves. Two of them are sleeping and two while awake, out of which Alpha wave is where we want to be, awake and relaxed. This stage is easily reached by religious meditators in about 90 minutes and possibly be sustained for longer. For common man, one can either meditate everyday or just drink some tea to reach there. L- theanine that enters your brain after you drink about two cups of tea is sufficient for brain wave activity to reach Alpha state.
The side effects to so dramatically altering your brain daily by drinking tea from tea plant, lower cholesterol level and living a significantly longer life.