What Are the Medicinal Differences Between Caffeinated and Decaffeinated Green Tea?
Caffeine is the most widely used drug in the world. In the United States alone, 90 percent of the population consumes caffeine daily. The downside of habitual use of caffeine is that it causes physical dependence that can result in withdrawal symptoms when use is discontinued. As the Smith College Sophian notes, caffeine increases dopamine levels in the brain, and increased dopamine has been attributed with causing the addictive effects of drugs such as heroin and cocaine. If you drink a lot of caffeinated green tea, you may find that any abrupt cessation of your green tea habit causes headaches and increases fatigue levels above and beyond what you’d feel if you’d never consumed caffeine on a regular basis.
