The power of tea

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How do you take your tea? I personally like an Earl Grey with milk first thing in the morning. I then have coffee after breakfast, and more Earl Grey around 11ish, with green tea in the afternoon. In the evening, I usually have a peppermint tea after dinner and a chamomile tea before bed.

Until I wrote all of that down, I didn’t realise quite how much drinking tea shapes my day, and how important the ritual of it is. The first Earl Grey is accompanied by Wordle in bed, the coffee marks the start of the working day, and the others are well-earned breaks, with mint and chamomile to digest and relax in the evening.

It’s also only recently that I’ve come to realise the really quite extraordinary health benefits of tea. ‘Tea has many health attributes, including its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiangiogenic properties,’ wrote Dr William Li on Instagram las…