Powerful benefits of Green Tea
Green Tea has been promoted as the healthiest tea for thousands of years. Modern science has started to play catch up.
Researches showed that green tea contained compound of polyphenols, called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and catechins. The substance is both an antioxidant (that protect you against free radicals) as well as anti-cancer.
In one clinical study trial that was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (August 2008), researchers gave a standardized form of EGCG to patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a type of blood cancer that has excess of lymphocytes (a kind of white blood cell) . Ralph W Moss, PhD did a study involving 33 patients who were treated with EGCG with dosages from 400 mg to 2,000 mg, twice a day. The trial proved positive as one third of the patients experienced more than a 20 percent decrease in the number of lymphocytes in their blood. 11 out of 12 patients that previously had visibly swollen lymph nodes experienced a reduction of at least 50 percent in the size of these nodes within one month of treatment.
Green Tea has also been proven to protect against prostrate cancer as in two recent studies in Italy had shown. Out of the 62 men with a pre-cancerous prostate condition, half were given an extract of green tea daily. The other half was given a placebo. In the placebo group, 9 out of 30 men developed cancer. In the green tea group, however, only one out of 32 developed the disease. Another study found that those who consumed the most green tea were two-thirds less likely to develop prostate cancer. It has the effect of slowing the progression of prostate cancer according to US journal Cancer Prevention Research study.
Green tea has been linked to a positive effect on a wide range of conditions, including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
Taking your green tea or an EGCG supplement is a good idea whether you have a health issue or not.
