Drinking mate enhances memory, increases alertness, and promotes happiness.

Recent studies have revealed that the components of yerba mate have a neuroprotective effect on the human brain. These studies corroborate the scientific research conducted by Bernardo Houssay, the Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine, in the 1940s. Drinking mate is a widespread tradition among the inhabitants of Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, as well as among a growing number of people worldwide. This practice has numerous health and wellness benefits. Back in the 1940s, Bernardo Houssay, the first Argentine to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947, had already studied how this infusion affects the brain. The results of both past and recent research were presented at the "VII Yerba Mate and Health Conference," which took place on September 19 at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEN) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). At the event, coordinated by the Central Library of the university and by the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM), Irene Taravini, PhD in Neuroscience from the UBA and professor at the National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), and Ferrario, researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), presented the neuroprotective effects that yerba mate has according to various scientific studies.