Recent Research Indicates Major Antimutagenic Activity in Green Tea

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Recent Research Indicates Major Antimutagenic Activity in Green Tea

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On any day around the globe, nearly two thirds of the population

drinks tea, of one kind or another. 20% of daily global tea

consumption is green tea. Used for various purposes in Asian

countries for centuries; green tea is now a very popular North

American beverage also. New research is emerging that suggests

that green tea plays a significant role in prohibiting and in

some cases, reversing common mutations that are considered

carcinogens (cancer causing agents). Furthermore, the studies

are also uncovering facts that indicate that green tea holds

healing properties that slow the aging process and other age

related illness and ailments..

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Recent Research Indicates Major Antimutagenic Activity in Green Tea

Copyright © 2006 Jon M. Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

On any day around the globe, nearly two thirds of the population

drinks tea, of one kind or another. 20% of daily global tea

consumption is green tea. Used for various purposes in Asian

countries for centuries; green tea is now a very popular North

American beverage also. New research is emerging that suggests

that green tea plays a significant role in prohibiting and in

some cases, reversing common mutations that are considered

carcinogens (cancer causing agents). Furthermore, the studies are

also uncovering facts that indicate that green tea holds healing

properties that slow the aging process and other age related

illness and ailments.

Western culture has adopted a love for green tea in recent

history, and as such, its pharmacological active compounds

benefits have fallen under intense scrutiny as researchers seek

to identify what, if any, benefit this beverage possesses in

eradicating or avoiding cancers and other diseases usually

associated with the promotion of free radicals. Recently, a

research team from the Department of Dermatology at Case Western

University in Cleveland, Ohio, conducted a study to see if green

tea possessed antimutagenic qualities.

The results, while hardly conclusive and more study is likely

needed, indicate that green tea does, in fact, possess some

qualities that seem to thwart the creation or spread of certain

mutations that are thought to contribute to the creation and

spread of cancer, contribute to aging, and lead to other diseases

associated with aging.

Interestingly, this research carefully studied water extracts

from green tea, known also as WEGT, and their significant

attributes, including green tea polyphenols (GTP). The study

attempted to identify antimutagenic activity that was a direct

result of interaction with WEGT, and subsequently, GTP. The

results of the study found that WEGT and GTP significantly

inhibited the reverse mutation induced by benzo [alpha] pyrene

(BP), 2-aminofluorene, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), as well as methanol

extracted from coal tar in Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and/or

TA98 in the presence of a rat-liver microsomal activation

system.

GTP was also found to inhibit gene forward mutation in V79 cells

treated with AFB1 and BP. Another benefit that was identified was

that the WEGT appeared to decrease the frequency of

sister-chromatid interactions and chromosomal abnormalities in

V79 cells when treated with AFB1. When GTP was added, during and

after nitrosation of methylurea, the results in a dose dependent

fashion were the inhibition of mutagenicity.

The study also found that the antimutagenic activity of GTP

implies that it may affect carcinogen metabolism, DNA adduct

structure, the interaction of ultimate carcinogen, or the

scavenging of free radicals. Free radical inhibition is

terrifically difficult and the results of this study could be an

indication that green tea is a very effective natural source of

accomplishing this restriction. This perhaps could hold

significance as new studies are formulated to ascertain the

healthful benefits of GTP.

Green tea has fallen under much scrutiny as its alleged benefits

have been touted for centuries, but it popularity in regions of

the West have increased dramatically in recent years. Many

ancient cultures believed it possessed healing powers and even

the ability to ward off disease and mutations, but this is still

relatively new to countries in Europe, Canada, and the United

States.

The study noted as 223(3):273-85 is yet one more confirmation

that green tea in solid or beverage form possesses restorative

and healthful powers that are just now being discovered. Green

tea likely holds a potential that is relatively untapped.

With further study, researchers are becoming increasingly

confident that consumption of green tea in any form might be an

easy and inexpensive method of giving the body another weapon in

its life long fight against diseases such as cancer. Additional

studies also are beginning to examine whether or not green tea

possess other qualities that can inhibit the mutation of certain

compounds that contribute to disease and aging. The benefits of

green tea are beginning to be unlocked and additional discoveries

seem to be on the horizon.

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