Our Most Hydrating Teas

It's super important to stay hydrated.

The suggested water intake is around 15.5 cups for men and approximately 11.5 cups for women. While this might seem daunting, this includes all your liquid consumption during the day. So, you might realistically find that consuming 6-8 cups of water suffices.

Nonetheless, even that amount can feel substantial, especially if you don't find the taste of water appealing. This is where hydrating teas come into play... Not only do they infuse extra flavor into your daily regimen, but they also introduce valuable antioxidants to your diet.

While you should still try to get water in your system daily, the rest of your water intake is up to you.

Skip the drink packets, soda, and energy drinks loaded with sugars and additives and instead, enjoy a cup of tea! Hot or iced, tea is a great way to elevate a cup of water into a drink full of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that can help with things like boosting your immune system, aiding weight loss, and improving digestion.

Caffeine Content

When you're choosing teas specifically to help you stay hydrated, try to keep an eye on your caffeine intake throughout the day. Caffeine can have a diuretic effect on your kidneys, which can cause your body to produce more urine. It does this by increasing the blood flow to your kidneys, encouraging them to flush out more water. Rather than helping you stay hydrated, this frequent urination can cause you to become dehydrated instead. So, when you're choosing teas, pay attention to the caffeine levels if you plan on consuming large amounts.

Tea is a great alternative to water as an everyday source of hydration. It's just as effective in maintaining hydration levels, and naturally contains no sugar or calories. It's an all-natural substitute to other artificial pre workout drinks that often contain other dyes and additives. Whether you're playing sports, doing a vigorous workout, going for a hike, or even just going for a walk, tea is a great way to make sure you're staying hydrated. Besides the hydrating factor, tea also provides other benefits to boost your workout like:

An All-Natural Energy Boost

The first step to working out is finding the energy and motivation to get it started. Drinking an energizing tea like Trugrit Energy Tea that has just the right amount of caffeine in it or even a caffeine-free blend that has natural energy like Stimulating Tea can give you just the right push to conquer your workout. You can even use tea as a base for an easy, all-natural sports drink.

Increased Metabolism (Healthy Weight Loss)

Many teas, especially green tea, contain antioxidants called catechins, which can aid in weight loss when combined with healthy diet and exercise. Many studies have been conducted and have found that “Decreases in body weight, body mass index, and subcutaneous fat area were found to be greater in the catechin group than in the control group”. If you're looking for a way to speed up your metabolism, try adding tea into your routine.

Aiding Muscle Aches/Damage

Making it through your workout is just one part of the process, dealing with aching muscles afterwards while your body recovers is another. Drinking tea as a pre workout drink as well as a post workout drink can help alleviate that soreness. Tea has been used for thousands of years to help reduce the results of inflammation and soreness.

Tea is a great choice for hydration because - with the exception of any added sugars or fruit - it's almost entirely water.

However, if we take into account the above factors, caffeine-free teas make the best choices if you're specially looking for all-day hydrating teas. Thankfully, there's a large variety of caffeine-free and decaffeinated blends that offer a large range of flavor profiles.

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