Tea is the most widely consumed beverage aside from water. Tea is manufactured in three basic forms. Green tea is prepared in such a way as to preclude the oxidation of green leaf polyphenols. During black tea production oxidation is promoted so that most of these substances are oxidized. Oolong tea is a partially oxidized product. Of the approximately 2.5 million metric tons of dried tea manufactured, only 20% is green tea and less than 2% is oolong tea. Green tea is consumed primarily in China, Japan, and a few countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Fresh tea leaf is unusually rich in the flavanol group of polyphenols known as catechins which may constitute up to 30% of the dry leaf weight. Other polyphenols include flavanols and their glycosides, and depsides such as chlorogenic acid, coumarylquinic acid, and one unique to tea, theogallin (3-galloylquinic acid). Caffeine is present at an average level of 3% along with very small amounts of the other common methylxanthines, theobromine and theophylline. The amino acid theanine (5-N-ethylglutamine) is also unique to tea. Tea accumulates aluminum and manganese. A compound found in green tea, known as EGCG, has become very popular as a supplement. You can sweeten green tea with stevia. If you wish to buy Hoodia-Extract and the supplement Glucomannan.

Green Tea Extract, 100 mg, yielding 35 mg EGCG - Source Naturals
Green Tea Extract offers a convenient way to get the benefits of green tea in a highly concentrated green tea pill form.  This green tea extract is standardized for bioflavonoid-like antioxidants known as polyphenols, particularly (-)-Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG).  EGCG has been found in scientific studies to be a potent antioxidant. Green tea antioxidants are likely to become more popular with time.

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Green Tea Potential benefits:
Green tea extract is commonly sold in weight loss formulas as a thermogenic and as a natural appetite suppressant. The following are some green tea benefits.

Antiplatelet activity of green tea catechins is mediated by inhibition of cytoplasmic calcium increase.

Consumption of green tea is associated with lower serum concentration of total cholesterol in Japanese healthy workers age 40-69 years; however, green tea consumption was unrelated to serum HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides.

Some green tea catechins are chondroprotective and that consumption of green tea may be prophylactic for arthritis and may benefit the arthritis patient by reducing inflammation and slowing cartilage breakdown. Further studies will be required to determine whether these compounds access the joint space in sufficient concentration and in a form capable of providing efficacy in vivo.

Green tea and Leukemia
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota found that of four patients who started drinking green tea or taking green tea extracts, three showed clear improvements in their condition. The patients all had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, a form of leukemia that usually arises during or after middle-age and typically progresses slowly. CLL is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, in which abnormal white blood cells replace healthy blood cells. The patients all started using green tea on their own after hearing media reports about a lab study that study showed that a compound found in green tea, known as EGCG, was able to kill cancer cells that were taken from CLL patients and put in a test tube with the tea compound. In interviewing the patients and reviewing their records, the doctors found that three showed signs of a regression in their cancer after they started to drink green tea or take green tea capsules. See leukemia.

Green tea and prostate cancer
A component of green tea combined with a low dose of a COX-2 inhibitor may act in concert to slow the spread of human prostate cancer. In the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers report that low doses of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (sold as Celebrex), given along with a green tea polyphenol slowed the growth of prostate cancer in cell cultures and in a mouse model of the disease. Dr. Hasan Mukhtar from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, previously found that COX-2 inhibitors like Celebrex suppress prostate cancer in animals. COX-2 inhibitors also have been shown to have adverse effects on the heart when taken at high doses for long periods of time. Mukhtar's team also previously found that the green tea polyphenol called EGCG has cancer-fighting abilities of its own; EGCG, they found, modulates key chemical pathways that fuel the death of human prostate cancer cells. In their current studies, treatment of cultured human prostate cancer cells with either a COX-2 inhibitor or green tea extract significantly inhibited prostate cancer cell growth, but the combination was most effective, increasing cancer inhibition 15 percent to 28 percent more than the additive effects of the two therapies alone. Clinical Cancer Research March 1, 2007.

Green tea products - Source Naturals - Green Tea Extract
Source Naturals Green Tea Extract offers a convenient way to get the benefits of green tea in a highly concentrated form.  The extract is standardized for bioflavonoid-like antioxidants known as polyphenols, particularly (-)-Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG).  EGCG has been found in scientific studies to be a potent antioxidant.

Green Tea Leaf Extract
    Yielding  70 mg  Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG)

Green Tea Side effects
Green tea has caffeine, so avoid drinking or taking the capsules in the evening so you don't get side effects of insomnia or shallow sleep.

Green Tea Research Update
Tea beverage in chemoprevention of prostate cancer: a mini-review.
Saleem M. Nutr Cancer. 2003;47(1):13-23.
Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin, 1300 Medical Science Center, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Because prostate cancer has a long latency period and is typically diagnosed in elderly men, it represents an ideal candidate disease for chemoprevention. Therefore, even a modest delay achieved through intervention could have a significant impact on the outcome of this disease. Epidemiological and laboratory studies have provided convincing evidence that diet, genetic factors, and lifestyle are major causes of prostate cancer. Although surgery, radiotherapy, and hormone therapy are the most widely accepted curative options for a selected group of patients suffering from prostate cancer, the side effects of these treatments are many. In recent years, many dietary agents have been being described that show a wide range of chemopreventive effects in cell culture and selected animal model systems of prostate carcinogenesis. One such agent is the beverage tea, which, next to water, is the most popularly consumed beverage in the world. The epidemiological studies and recent data, amassed from various laboratories around the world, provide evidence that tea polyphenols such as epigallocatechin-3-gallate, epigallocatechin, and epicatechin-3-gallate may have the potential to lower the risk of prostate cancer in the human population. Recently, it has been shown that green tea polyphenols, when given to a transgenic mouse model that mimics progressive forms of human prostate cancer, exert remarkable preventive effects against prostate cancer development. Chemoprevention of prostate cancer by green tea polyphenols appears to occur through the modulation of various molecular targets. This article attempts to address the issue of the possible use of tea, especially green tea, for the chemoprevention of prostate cancer.

Green tea linked to reduced breast cancer risk
Compounds in green tea may help protect women against breast cancer. Rats who drank water containing green tea had reductions in the size and malignancy of breast tumors compared with rats that drank only water. Additionally, the tumors of tea-drinking rats developed later and were less invasive.
     While more research needs to be conducted, the findings, coupled with observations of lower rates of breast cancer in countries where green tea is consumed daily, suggest that green tea may benefit women as part of an overall healthy diet.
     According to the report in the July issue of the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, polyphenols, compounds that are abundant in green tea, red wine and olive oil, may protect against various types of cancer. Polyphenols are potent antioxidants, compounds that help neutralize disease-causing free radicals. These cell-damaging molecules occur naturally in the body and are linked with heart disease, aging and a number of other disorders.
     Dry green tea leaves, which are about 40% polyphenols by weight, may also reduce the risk of cancer of the stomach, lung, colon, rectum, liver and pancreas, study findings have suggested.

Green tea emails
Q. Could you please tell me if Lipton Naturally Decaffeinated Green Tea has the same good properties as regular green tea? Can a person use the green tea bag more than once and still get the same results? Is drinking 8 cups of green tea a day too much?
   A. We have no way of knowing the green tea quality of Lipton tea products since we are not in a position to test each of their teas. Yes, one can still get residual substances from the tea bag the second time hot water is added to the cup. We suggest limiting green tea use to 2 or 3 cups a day and substituting other herbal teas since different herbs have different benefits. Oranges are healthy, but one would not eat 8 a day, but rather mix a number of fruits in their diet.

Q. A recent German study suggests that milk added to green tea nullifies the benefits of green tea. Is there any implication as to how long before or after drinking green tea one should avoid milk products entirely. For example, should one avoid yogurt 30 minutes before or after having green tea?
   A. Yes, we read the same study regarding the benefit of green tea to be reduced if milk is added. It's hard to say how far to distance dairy and green tea drinking, but perhaps the green tea would be absorbed within 10 to 15 minutes so waiting a few minutes after drinking green tea would be one option.

Q. i have just bought a Source Naturals green tea product, what it mean by yielding 35mg egcg? i thought this green tea is egcg by itself?
   A. EGCG is extracted from green tea, but it is difficult to do a complete extraction and much easier to concentrate the EGCG from green tea but still have other beneficial green tea substances within the product. Therefore, 100 mg of Souce Naturals green tea extract has 35 mg of EGCG, plus other beneficial polyphenols that are related to EGCG.

Q. Does Your Green Tea Extract contain any Caffeine?
   A. titself has a small amount of caffeine and also other substances that have a mild stimulant effect similar to caffeine.

Q. Is decaffeinated green tea extract as effective as that with caffeine in it--given that all the other elements are the same and in the same amounts?
   A. We have no reason to believe that caffeine removed from green tea would make the green tea less beneficial. However, this simple answer needs to be taken in the context that there are dozens of green tea manufacturers and each one of them may have a different method of decaffeination which could make the final product different for each company.  One option is to sometimes drink green tea as is, and other times use the decaffeinated product.

Q. Do you know of any experience of using green tee extract for essential tremor?
   A. We are not familiar with the used of green tea for essential tremor.

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Q. My husband is seeing a Hematology oncologist and has been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This physician is very leery of supplements but was familiar with the green tea supplement (EGCG) study at Mayo clinic. I asked him if it would be worthwhile for my husband to take green tea supplement and he cautioned me that it is not regulated and may not be pure. He told me to contact Dr. Shanafelt at Mayo clinic and ask what extract they used in the trial. Do you know what purified green tea supplement EGCG extract Dr. Shanafelt is using in the NIH sponsored trial. How can I judge if other green tea extracts are pure?
   A. We are not familiar with the exact green tea supplement used by Dr. Shanafelt at Mayo Clinic. Green tea supplements come in a variety of forms. Since green tea is an inexpensive product, we have no reason to believe that the supplements on the market are not good products.

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