3: The Future of Processed Foods

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Theres your morning shower, your morning paper, and perhaps most crucial, your morning beverage.

In fact,tea is the most consumed beverage on the planet after water.

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But really, your standard black coffee and black tea arentactuallythat different.

Theyre both essentially water mixed with caffeine and a lot of various anti-inflammatory and antioxidative agents, he continues.

Of course, caffeinated teas also come with potent (and unique) health benefits.

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And while coffee is also high in antioxidants, it does not contain L-theanine.

It can be fermented, whichcomes with its own host of health benefitsthat are especially good for your gut.

With that kind of gut support, youre getting improvements in energy, inflammation, immunity, and mood.

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Fermented tea helps to increase butyrate production, which plays a wide range of important roles in your body.

And given thatbutyrate also helps to increase dopamine release, Trout notes that fermented teas can have mood-boosting effects.

Just one more reason to jumpstart your day with a bottle of booch.

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