Anxiety is a state of intense fear, uncertainty, or discomfort due to an imagined or real threatening future events. Anxiety can be physically and psychologically harm the lives of patients with anxiety. Anxiety is often sub-Categorized as threat. There is social anxiety, separation anxiety, dating anxiety, performance anxiety, math anxiety, etc. ..
Stress and anxiety often go together and can lead to depression and feels powerless to get out from anxiety.
There are various anti-anxiety medications available. For some, anxiety medications has been proved to be source of anxiety relief. The other prefers not to use anti-anxiety drugs and opt for more natural treatments for anxiety management. These may include herbs, acupuncture, aromatherapy, vitamins, or therapy such as hypnosis.
But perhaps not many people know that amino acid L-Theanine is a natural remedy for relief of anxiety. L-Theanine in green tea, is effective in treating symptoms of anxiety and relief of anxiety.
L-Theanine is a unique free form amino acid found only in the tea plant and fungi Xerocomus badius and certain species of the genus Camellia, c. japonica and C. sasanqua. Often, green tea drinkers report a sense of calm that they feel after drinking a cup or two, even though green tea has about half the caffeine of coffee. Because of the high L-theanine content.
In addition to reducing anxiety symptoms, studies have shown that L-Theanine can be effective in promoting concentration, support the immune system, improving the performance of learning, lower blood pressure, and increased levels of dopamine in the brain among other positive benefits with no disadvantage known.
Studies in collaboration with Taiyo Kagaku Co., Shizuoka University and the Institute for Family Planning in Japan have shown that women who is taking L-Theanine 200 mg daily have reduced the incidence of PMS symptoms. These symptoms include physical symptoms, mental and social. Overall, there was a significant reduction of PMS symptoms by L-Theanine.
L-Theanine is considered safe based on its historical use as a component of tea and favorable toxicology studies. Tea is the most consumed beverage worldwide after water, and has been consumed for thousands of years by billions of people. It is estimated that a heavy tea drinker (6-8 cups a day) will consume between 200 and 400 mg L-theanine daily.
Since individual's depression and anxiety level is different, it is recommended to take 100 to 200 mg 1-3 times daily for relief of anxiety. Based on the results of clinical studies, it was found that L-theanine is effective in single doses of 50 to 200 mg. It is suggested that subjects with higher levels of anxiety take a dose at the upper end of the effective range (100-200 mg) to overcome anxiety.
