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What are the health benefits of Kombucha Tea?
Detoxification
Detoxification produces healthy livers and aides cancer prevention. One of kombucha’s greatest health benefits is its ability to detox the body.
It is rich in many of the enzymes and bacterial acids your body produces and/or uses to detox your system, thus reducing your pancreatic load and easing the burden on your liver. Kombucha is very high in Glucaric acid, and recent studies have shown that glucaric acid helps prevent cancer.
I know two people in my immediate circle of friends who have had cancer (pancreatic and breast) and fought it into remission without any chemo or radiation therapy. Instead, they warded it off by detoxing their lives (going 100% organic, removing chemical cleaners and agents in their home, changing their diet to be at least 80% raw or fermented, etc.)
Central to the detoxification process was drinking Kombucha regularly. Even Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the recently deceased Russian author and nobel-prize winner, in his autobiography, claimed that kombucha tea cured his stomach cancer during his internment in soviet labor camps. (And because of this testimony, President Reagan used Kombucha to halt the spread of his cancer in 1987. You’ll note he didn’t die until 2004, and that was from old age, NOT cancer.)
Joint Care
Kombucha contains glucosamines, a strong preventive and treatment all forms of arthritis. Glucosamines increase synovial hyaluronic acid production.
Hyaluronic acid functions physiologically to aid preservation of cartilage structure and prevent arthritic pain, with relief comparable to NSAIDs and advantage over glucocorticoids. Hyaluronic acid enables connective tissue to bind moisture thousands of times its weight and maintains tissue structure, moisture, lubrication and flexibility and lessens free radical damage, while associated collagen retards and reduces wrinkles.
Aids Digestion and Gut Health
Because it’s naturally fermented with a living colony of bacteria and yeast, Kombucha is a probiotic beverage. This has a myriad of benefits such as improved digestion, fighting candida (harmful yeast) overgrowth, mental clarity, and mood stability. As such, it’s noted for reducing or eliminating the symptoms of fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, etc.
Immune Boosting
Kombucha is extraordinarily anti-oxidant rich, and you all know the benefits of anti-oxidants for boosting your immune system and energy levels.
Listed below are some of the wonderful ways which Kombucha can revitalize your life. Please remember that the benefits you experience may vary from person to person.
- Probiotics – healthy bacteria
- Alkalize the body – balances internal pH
- Detoxify the liver – happy liver = happy mood
- Increase metabolism – rev your internal engine
- Improve digestion – keep your system moving
- Rebuild connective tissue – help with arthritis, gout, asthma, rheumatism
- Cancer prevention
- Alleviate constipation
- Boost energy – help with chronic fatigue
- Reduce blood pressure
- Relieve headaches & migraines
- Reduce kidney stones
- High in antioxidants – destroy free-radicals that cause cancer
- High in polyphenols – antioxidants
- Improve eyesight
- Heal eczema – can be applied topically to soften the skin
- Prevent artheriosclerosis – a disease where plaque builds up inside the arteries.
- Speed healing of ulcers – kill h.pylori on contact
- Help clear up candida & yeast infections
- Aid healthy cell regeneration
- Reduce grey hair
- Lower glucose levels – prevent spiking from eating
- Weight loss
Here is the information pertaining to making kombucha. If you would like starter kit I have some, let me know!
Please remember that everything gets washed with vinegar before use, your bottles, any cutlery, hands etc. Only use glass containers and no metals or plastics. I use 1 litre mason jars Make sure to remove any rings as well
It is recommended that you start with Black or Green tea when starting out. After you have a good understanding of what the scoby looks like and how those two teas work you can start using white and rubus as you know how to watch out for issues.
For every I litre of tea you add 1/4 cup of sugar (I personally use organic cane sugar, but white sugar is fine. You have to use sugar though so no honey, maple syrup or agave) You let the tea sit for 12 hours or longer until the tea is room temperature. You can remove the tea bags after 5 mins if you wish but I just leave mine in until I deal with the scoby.
After your tea is at room temperature wash your hands with vinegar and place a scoby into your batch of tea as well as 1/2 cup of previous kombucha or if you don’t have enough you can use 1/2 cup of white or rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar. I have used only apple cider vinegar to date. Place a cover on the tea and let it sit in the warm place for a minimum of 7 days but it can sit upwards to 30 days. I let mine sit for 11 days.
After your kombucha has sat for as long as you want you pull out the scobies, you will have another scoby that forms on top so every new batch creates a new scoby. They multiply like gremlins lol The longer it sits the more sugar is removed from the batch as the scobies eat the sugar and that is how they are created.
Once you have a surplus of scobies you can either compost them or there is a way to dehydrate them if you want to use them in the future. I just use a large 2 litre mason jar to house them all and make them new tea every 30 days. Remember if you do this method they need new tea every 30 days as they eat all the sugar if you have lots of scobies they will eat it faster naturally.
I strain my kombucha through a fine mesh filter as the scobies creates these stringy things so you may also want to get a fine mesh filter but you can drink it as it but the kids complain lol
If you have any questions please just ask.
Simple directions
1 litre of tea
1/4 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of previous kombucha or vinegar
1 scoby sit for a minimum of 7 days to maximum of 30 days
Best of luck with your kombucha making
