Yerba Mate 8% Extract
What you are buying
You are purchasing high quality Yerba Mate
extract 4:1. Packaging of the product is dependent
on the quantity purchased, more information on
this can be found on the packaing page.
Description: The product is a light brown
powder with a musky smell and bitter taste.
Uses / Benefits
- Induces mental clarity-
Yerba mate has the ability to quicken the mind and
increase mental alertness and acuity. It also
provides sustainable energy due to its complex
combination of xanthine alkaloids and caffeine.
Although its caffeine content is comparable to
coffee, the stimulation is balanced by yerba mate's
nutritional content. Clinical studies have shown that
caffeine-sensitive individuals generally have very
positive results and don't experience the hard side
effects (jitters, stomach discomfort, headache)
commonly associated with caffeine.
- Sustains Energy Levels/Reduce
Fatigue-Yerba mate is a central nervous
system stimulant. The metabolic effects of it appear
to include the ability to maintain aerobic
breakdown of carbohydrates during exercise for
long periods of time. As a result, more calories are
burned, thereby increasing cardiac efficiency and
delaying the build-up of lactic acid. Additionally,
Mate's blend of xanthine alkaloids: caffeine,
theophylline and theobromine, provide sustaining
energy.
- Boosts the Immune
System-The Yerba mate plant contains a
number of powerful phytochemicals called
saponins. When studying the effect that saponins
have on plants, it has been discovered that
saponins are the plants active immune system and
function as a natural antibiotic. Research looks
very promising that the effects saponins are being
transferred to the human body when ingested.
Scientists are looking at how saponins can help
humans fight fungal infections, combat microbes
and viruses, boost the effectiveness of certain
vaccines.
- Helps Relieve Allergies-
Linda Rector Page, N.D., Ph.D., notes that yerba
mate is helpful in opening respiratory passages to
overcome allergy symptoms. Shown to reduce the
severity of some allergies and hay fever, yerba mate
works by stimulating the adrenal glands to produce
corticosteroids, which help suppress the
inflammation and immune response due to
allergies.
- Aids in Weight Control-
For many years now, physicians in Europe have
been incorporating yerba mate in treatments for
obesity. In 2000, a research team studying obesity
at the Charlottenlund Medical Center in Denmark
tested an herbal preparation of yerba mate,
Guarana, and Damiana (YGD) for gastric emptying
and subsequent weight loss. They concluded that
the herbal preparation, YGD capsules, significantly
delayed gastric emptying, reduced the time to
perceived gastric fullness and induced significant
weight loss over 45 days in overweight patients
treated in a primary health care context. In
addition, maintenance treatment given in an
uncontrolled context resulted in no further weight
loss, nor weight regain in the group as a whole.
Guayaki recommends that the product be used as
part of a program that includes a healthy diet and
sufficient exercise.
- Aids in Elimination-The
indigenous of South America traditionally use yerba
mate to treat gastrointestinal disorders as eupeptic
and choleretic agent. Research conducted by a team
at Catedra de Farmacologia in Buenos Aires,
Argentina found that yerba matedoes in fact induce
an increase in bile flow and enhance intestinal
transit.
- Diabetic Treatment-Yerba
mate has been shown to inhibit the formation of
advanced glycation end products (AGEs), with an
effect comparable to that of two pharmaceutical
grade AGE inhibitor drugs. The formation of AGEs
plays a part in the development of diabetic
complications.
- Inhibits Lipid
Peroxidation-A study conducted by
Gugliucci and published in Biochemical Molecular
Biology International (1995) claims low-density
lipoprotein (LDL, or bad cholesterol) oxidation is
inhibited by extracts of yerba mate. Oxidation of
LDL is considered to be the initiating factor to the
onset of atherosclerosis (thickening and hardening
of the arteries).
- Fights Bad Breath-
Polyphenols found in tea and yerba mate have been
shown to prevent both the growth of bacteria
responsible for bad breath and the bacteria's
production of odorous compounds.
Information on Yerba Mate
Yerba mate is a species of holly
native to
subtropical South America. Yerba Mate was first
scientifically classified by Swiss botanist Moses
Bertoni, who settled in Paraguay in 1895. Yerba
mate has been referred to for centuries as the
"drink of the gods" and is drunk daily
by
people for optimum health, sustained energy and
mental clarity. Of the six commonly used
stimulants
in the world (Yerba mate, Coffee, Tea, Kola nut,
Cocoa and Guarana), yerba mate triumphs as
natures most balanced stimulant, delivering both
energy and nutrition. The leaves of the yerba mate
tree naturally contain 24 vitamins and minerals, 15
amino acids, abundant antioxidants. In fact, The
Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific society in
1964 concluded "it is difficult to find a plant
in any
area of the world equal to mate in nutritional
value"
and that yerba matecontains "practically all
of the
vitamins necessary to sustain life."
