At Integrative Cardiology Center of Long Island, our team understands the benefits of taking a holistic approach to heart health. While there are a multitude of factors that play a role in your cardiovascular health, monitoring what you eat and drink is essential. If you’re committed to keeping your heart as healthy as possible, increasing the amount of tea you drink could be highly beneficial. Our cardiologists would like to share the benefits drinking tea can bring, and which ones are the best for your heart.

Helping Your Heart As You Age

As we age, a majority of our bodily functions, unfortunately, begin to lose their efficiency, causing our health levels to suffer as a result. According to the American Heart Association, drinking tea can help diminish the negative effects aging can bring to your heart. Tea drinking can also help limit the intake of bad cholesterol that builds up in your arteries. Tea may also help stop the loss of good cholesterol that takes place as we get older. Because of this, drinking tea can likely help mitigate the risk of suffering from both heart disease and stroke. 

The Best Teas For Your Health  

When you visit our facility for an appointment to better your heart health, our team may give you a variety of options on how you can reach these benefits. Increasing your tea intake is just one of the many options that we may recommend. With so many different tea groups to choose from, it’s important you know which teas can bring along the most benefits to your heart. To improve your levels of heart health, consider drinking more of the following:

  • Black tea
  • Green tea
  • White tea
  • Oolong tea
  • Chamomile tea
  • Ginseng tea

Consider Your Medications

Before increasing your intake of tea, it’s important to let our cardiologists know about any heart medications you’re currently taking. Drinking certain types of tea while you’re on certain medications can adversely affect your heart. By discussing your medication history with our team, you’ll help limit the chances of something like this developing.  

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When you take a holistic approach to heart health, the benefits to be had can be endless.  Sometimes, all it takes is to increase the amount of tea you’re drinking to get your heart back to a healthy level. However, don’t make that decision on your own if you’re not comfortable.  Request an appointment with our team today and learn more about the steps you can take to keep your heart as healthy as possible.