02/13/2026
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L-Theanine is an amino acid found in tea leaves, particularly green tea. Other dietary sources are in some types of mushrooms, however it is more potent in tea and even more so in an isolated supplement form, bringing the most benefit. L-theanine works promoting relaxation and sleep, and alert and focus. It may also stimulate metabolism, boost fullness and help curb hunger. These benefits are often seen mildly from drinking a cup of green tea, you may have noticed.
L-theanine works to promote relaxation by creating some adjustment changes in the brain. It boosts GABA and other calming brain chemicals, serotonin and dopamine. These regulate emotions, mood, sleep, appetite, energy, and heighten concentration, alertness, and other cognitive skills. Increasing calming chemicals in the brain promotes relaxation and helps you get to sleep, yet helps you be focused and concentrate during the daytime when you need to. By calming and quelling anxiety, and lowering excitatory brain chemicals, this greatly helps with daytime stress, but also helps go to sleep and stay asleep, as anxiety is often a reason we wake up and can't get back to sleep. This also protects the brain cells against stress and age-related damage. L-theanine enhances alpha waves which are cause for relaxation, alertness, and focus. This helps your mind with meditation and creativity when awake, and during sleep these brain waves are present during REM sleep.
So one of the greatest things about L-theanine is that you can take it in the AM for a relaxed and focused day ahead with an un-anxious mind, and taken before bed for a restful sleep. An over-processing or stressed-out mind is often cause for lack of sleep.
A list of the many benefits:
- improving sleep
- helps hyperactivity in children
- reduces stress and anxiety
- useful for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
- enhances attention, focus, clarity, memory, and, learning
- help maintain a healthy weight, through its metabolism aiding, appetite-regulating mechanisms, as well as its anti-anxiety and sleep aiding mechanisms, as this ties in with hormones and such.
It is a very safe supplement, though it can lower blood pressure, so check with your doctor if you're are on medication for this, as with any other circumstance that you are taking prescriptions.
A peaceful and tranquil mind to you!
Be well,
Tina Foster, RHN
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