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Tea Can Help With Stress (2 Pretty Cool Things) · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I need to tell you two things. Cubby and Christine's.
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  Speaker 1: Two pretty cool things.
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  Speaker 2: Christine is under the weather. We got Nina Del Rio
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  Speaker 2: sitting in. Are you ready for my cool thing?
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  Speaker 3: Do it.
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  Speaker 2: Regular cups of tea can help speed recovery from stress.
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  Speaker 2: Researchers at University College London said people who drank balance
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  Speaker 2: tea and black tea. I have my glasses on, but
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  Speaker 2: for some reason I saw balance. Black tea. Drink black
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  Speaker 2: tea four times a day for six weeks. And those
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  Speaker 2: people that did that had lower levels of stress hormone cortisol.
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  Speaker 2: And the tea drinkers also reported a greater feeling of
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  Speaker 2: relaxation after performing tasks designed to raise stress levels. So
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  Speaker 2: they purposely made you do things that would be stressful
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  Speaker 2: because they've been drinking the black tea. They were like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: What, they push you in front of a train or something?
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  Speaker 1: What do they do? Yeah, let it hit me. I've
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  Speaker 1: been drinking tea. That's a fair amount of caffeine, actually,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: What, black tea?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as opposed to herbal tea, which is just herbs
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  Speaker 1: in a cup.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good point.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if Christine is down with the flu, maybe she
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  Speaker 3: should have some mustard. Put mustard on your sandwich because
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  Speaker 3: a dollop of mustard every day will strengthen your viral
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  Speaker 3: immunity in as little as one week, according to UCLA research.
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  Speaker 3: The secret ingredient there would be turmeric. The yellow spice
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  Speaker 3: found in all mustard varieties. I guess you could also
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  Speaker 3: just have turmeric.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Black tea and mustard. That's your diet today.
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  Speaker 1: Delicious.
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