Green Tea and EGCG fights cancer and protects your memory

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good article on green tea and EGCG. S.J.

This common beverage fights cancer and protects your memory

I've said for years that the only beverage you should drink in place of water

is green tea. Now two new studies show doing so can fight cancer and preserve

your memory.

In the first study, researchers found that EGCG, a polyphenols rich in green

tea, induces apoptosis (cell death) in liver cancer cells. The good news is that

the researchers found that EGCG doesn't just induce cancer-killing effects in

the lab dish. It also killed the cells in experimental animals that had cancers

implanted in them. That strongly suggests that you can get enough EGCG by mouth

to effectively fight cancer.

At a medical conference a few years back, one of my esteemed European

colleagues, Ionescu, PhD, of Germany presented fascinating information on

EGCG. He pointed out how EGCG can act as a protective antioxidant in certain

conditions and as an oxidant in others. In the degenerated state of cancer

cells, it acts as an oxidant. And, as you know, cancer cells are sensitive to

oxidation.

In the second study, researchers studied the Japanese to determine why they have

such a low rate of Alzheimer's and dementia. They found that their high

green-tea consumption might be an explanation.

This was a larger study on 1,002 Japanese of both sexes. Those in the top third

of consumption (two or more cups per day) developed less than half the incidence

of memory loss compared to those in the lowest third (less than three or less

cups per week). That reduction even included severe impairment. Those in the

middle third had a 38% reduction in impairment. No protection was noted from

black tea or coffee drinking.

This article on green tea supports the oxidative stress theory. Green tea is

loaded with specific flavonoids that protect your neurons from the neurotoxic

free radical peroxynitrate.

Here you have two more reasons to drink green tea as water. I don't recommend

any other beverage in lieu of water. Please don't hesitate to make green tea

(organic) a part of your daily regimen. I don't have enough information to tell

you that green tea is as effective as its constituent EGCG. However, I am always

partial to the whole product, and will remain so in this case until I see

evidence to tell you otherwise.

You can find high-quality green tea in any health food store and now in many

grocery stores. Just make sure it's organic.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,

Jay Rowen, MD

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[Guest guest]

Certain nitrogen fixing plants are also great for making teas. Red clover tea

has long been recomended to fight off cancer.

Dennis

<samjon11@...> wrote:

good article on green tea and EGCG. S.J.

This common beverage fights cancer and protects your memory

I've said for years that the only beverage you should drink in place of water is

green tea. Now two new studies show doing so can fight cancer and preserve your

memory.

In the first study, researchers found that EGCG, a polyphenols rich in green

tea, induces apoptosis (cell death) in liver cancer cells. The good news is that

the researchers found that EGCG doesn't just induce cancer-killing effects in

the lab dish. It also killed the cells in experimental animals that had cancers

implanted in them. That strongly suggests that you can get enough EGCG by mouth

to effectively fight cancer.

At a medical conference a few years back, one of my esteemed European

colleagues, Ionescu, PhD, of Germany presented fascinating information on

EGCG. He pointed out how EGCG can act as a protective antioxidant in certain

conditions and as an oxidant in others. In the degenerated state of cancer

cells, it acts as an oxidant. And, as you know, cancer cells are sensitive to

oxidation.

In the second study, researchers studied the Japanese to determine why they have

such a low rate of Alzheimer's and dementia. They found that their high

green-tea consumption might be an explanation.

This was a larger study on 1,002 Japanese of both sexes. Those in the top third

of consumption (two or more cups per day) developed less than half the incidence

of memory loss compared to those in the lowest third (less than three or less

cups per week). That reduction even included severe impairment. Those in the

middle third had a 38% reduction in impairment. No protection was noted from

black tea or coffee drinking.

This article on green tea supports the oxidative stress theory. Green tea is

loaded with specific flavonoids that protect your neurons from the neurotoxic

free radical peroxynitrate.

Here you have two more reasons to drink green tea as water. I don't recommend

any other beverage in lieu of water. Please don't hesitate to make green tea

(organic) a part of your daily regimen. I don't have enough information to tell

you that green tea is as effective as its constituent EGCG. However, I am always

partial to the whole product, and will remain so in this case until I see

evidence to tell you otherwise.

You can find high-quality green tea in any health food store and now in many

grocery stores. Just make sure it's organic.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,

Jay Rowen, MD

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