Green Tea Extract Helps to fight HPV

April 3rd, 2009

There is new research that is indicating that there might be a link between green tea extract and the human papillomavirus. Researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center are looking at the use of green tea extract and its possibility of preventing cervical cancer.

The research is looking specifically at a green tea extract, Polyphenon E, and how it affects women who have tested positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV).

Green tea extract is a very powerful product as it is rich in catechins which is considered to be an effective and powerful antioxidant. It is said that catechins may also be able to assist in the prevention of cancer.

Millions of women are infected with HPV and there is a possibility that it could develop into cancer of the cervic. The virus is very common; however it can be treated before it turns into cervical cancer.

The study that uses Green tea extract was done to see its effect on cervical cancer. Green tea has long been used in trials on certain cancers such as lung. The study looked at the ways to improve the immune system based of the antioxidants found in the green tea. This in-turn could possibly help women who suffer from HPV.

The study had women taking capsules that contained Polyphenon E every morning for four months. This amount of Polyphenol E was equal to about 16 glasses of green tea daily.

During the trial, the volunteers will have a monthly checkup; this is to determine if the virus still exists in the body. Once the trial is finished, then a biopsy of the cervix was done to determine the results.

The results showed that the women who participated in the trial had a 90% success rate in clearing up the HPV.  This is a good option for women whose immune system is not capable of clearing up the clearing up the virus on their own. The extract is able to speed up the process of clearing up the system and preventing it from getting to the cancer stage.

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Green Tea Diet and Weight Loss

February 2nd, 2009

green-teaPeople who are interested in losing weight often consider going on a green tea diet. The diet is not all about consuming green tea. It is more focused on supplementing the diet with his tea sold that you can receive the weight loss benefits that are associated with

people often refer to it as a weight loss tea as it has many different benefits somewhat include, increase the metabolic rates, raising fat burning ability and providing antioxidants that is able to decrease the free radicals that are inside your body.

Among the ways  to effectively increase your green tea diet are brewing hot teas, enjoying cold green tea beverages, or using green tea diet supplements. The supplements could include green tea extract, green tea diet patch or green tea diet pills.

Green Tea

One of the most common ways to start a green tea diet is to make a hot cup of green tea.

Some people opt to leaves instead of tea bags. There aren’t many different ways to use fresh tea leaves, without them having them float around in the tea. The way to get these would include mesh infuser is, tea socks, tea balls and basket filters.

For people who do not like the taste of green tea, they can often add sugar, honey or artificial sweeteners to give their tea bit of sweetness.

Green tea recipes - Cold Tea Drinks

Cold green tea is another product that can be added to the diet. All it takes is pouring some of the tea over ice cubes. This will result in a light and refreshing drink that is not only healthy, but also delicious.

Aside from that, there are many different types of green tea tricks of available at convenience stores, supermarkets and gas stations.

Green Tea Diet Supplements

For people who are looking to get the health benefits of green tea, they can purchase different supplements. Green tea extract can be found in different multivitamins, tablets and capsules.

These can all assist with the overall weight loss diet plan.

Finally, green tea can be a great addition to your diet to help with weight loss and overall health.

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For Effective Weight Loss Green Tea Extract and Hoodia

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extract-hoodiaHoodia has established itself as an effective product to help people lose weight. Its effectiveness is increased when the Hoodia extract is combined with the beneficial properties of green tea.

This combination of Hoodia and Green tea extract was born from the ineffectiveness of products that only contained the hoodia whole plant. The combination of the two products is making it very effective at reducing a person’s appetite. Combining these two products together is like increasing the effectiveness of weight loss.

There have been studies on the EGCG polyphenol content of the Green Tea Extract. It’s effectiveness has been examined as the reduction of leptin levels that control appetite was looked at. Even though green tea is able to affect leptin levels, it is also increases the overall levels of noradrenaline. The activation of brown fat tissue in the body is a result of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline. When brown fat is activated in the body, the levels of noradrenaline are increased significantly. With this increase in noradrenaline, more calories are burned and this comes from areas that fat is usually stored, the stomach, thighs, arms and hips.

Supplements that contain Hoodia and green tea extract also combines  other  weight loss ingredients like and L-Phenylalanine  and 5 HTP  that have been shown by research to be effective at reducing hunger signals that reach the brain and telling the individual that they have become satisfied more quickly.

The results of these two products together have been phenomenal. Tests conducted with these two products showed that it was able to drastically reduce appetite. Hoodia extract works well for the treatment of weight loss. When combined with green tea, there is this added power that makes it much easier to lose weight.

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Green Tea Extract And Huntington’s Disease

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extract-huntingtonsAccording to scientists, the green tea extract, may slow the accumulation of proteins that cause Huntington’s disease.

This indication goes along with the other health benefits associated with the green tea. Green tea is known to be linked with increased weight loss, lowering the risk of certain cancers and protection against Alzheimer’s disease.

Huntington’s disease, along with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, belong to the family of neurodegenerative diseases which are all caused by protein misfolding. Huntington’s disease is incurable and it is also hereditary. It is estimated that 1 in every 15,000 people will become afflicted with this condition.

Huntington’s disease is characterized by out of control, jerky movements, an unsteady gait and grimaces leading to its original common name of Huntington’s chorea.

In 1993, scientists discovered the gene that encodes the mutant protein, the so-called huntingtin protein. A mutation in this protein results in elongation of parts of the protein called polyglutamine chains, which cause the overall huntingtin protein to lose its normal structure. These mutant proteins cannot be disposed of by the body and accumulate in the brain of sufferers, eventually being toxic to the nerve cells in the brain.

Research has shown that green tea extracts could affect the aggregation of these mutant proteins and stopped them in the early stages of their process. Green tea extract is able to inhibit the growth the muntant huntingtin protein.

Despite the results, further research is needed to find out if the doses needed could be gained from taking supplements or from drinking green tea.

Green tea is said to contain over four times the concentration of antioxidant catechins than black tea (green tea leaves that have been oxidized by fermentation), about 70 mg catechins per 100 mL compared to 15 mg per 100 mL for black tea.

Awareness of the consumer on the health benefits of green tea extract continues to rise throughout the years. This is mainly attributed to the different studies that report the benefits of the catechins in the extract. As a result of this, there has been a steady increase in demand yearly.

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Green Tea Extract Can Give The Metabolism A Boost

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extract-weight-lossThe green tea extract is known for its many health benefits; however it may also assist in weight loss.

There have been clinical trials that have been done where the green tea extract appears to raise metabolic rates and speed up fat oxidization. Researchers were able to explain that in addition to caffeine, green tea contains catechin polyphenols that raise the speed at which calories are being burned (thermogenesis) and overall energy expenditure. This boost to the metabolism was different from the effects of the supplemental caffeine the study’s subjects consumed.

The subjects used in the study were 10 healthy young males and they were not of obese. Their weights rich from lean to mildly overweight and none of them was dieting during the study. The subjects were given a typical that that consisted of 40% fat. The subjects were then randomly assigned three meals that contain one of the three treatments. These would begreen tea extract containing 50 mg of caffeine; 50 mg capsule of caffeine by itself; or a placebo capsule. On three separate occasions each subject spent 24 hours in a specially designed respiratory chamber in which thermogenesis and energy expenditure were carefully measured. When gauged by these relatively sedentary circumstances the subjects’ thermogenesis showed a 4% increase, and overall energy expenditure increased by 4.5%.

On a daily basis millions of people consume coffee and tea. It is well noted that caffeine has an effect on metabolism. However, caffeine only increases metabolic rates went there are doses higher than 150 mg/daily of this study, which is barely the amount in one cup of brewed coffee. It is also known that caffeine is able to increase heart rates and as a result of this green tea somewhat safer alternative for people who are obese. It is also a good option for people who have other cardiovascular problems and hypertension.

The results of the study indicated that the people who consumed caffeine showed no change in their metabolic rates. Researchers are able to determine that subjects who took green tea extract had a higher rate of fat burning.  This was mainly due to the interaction between caffeine and other bioactive ingredients in the green tea extract.

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Green Tea Extract Can Possibly Treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extract-cancerA study conducted by the Mayo Clinic has shown that green tea extract may help patients with a form of leukemia.

Green tea has been used for centuries as it is known to have many different health benefits. Researchers who were studying this tea have realized that it was able to improve the condition of four patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Despite the success of the trial, experts stated that the Leukemia Research journal study proved to be very interesting but there needed to be more research done.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a blood and bone marrow cancer which affects white blood cells and is the commonest type of leukemia. In the United Kingdom there are over 3,000 new cases of this condition, mainly in people over their 60s.

The condition is called chronic leukemia because it acts more slowly than acute leukemia, as there are some patients who live for decades with the disease.

Because there is no known cure, doctors have traditionally not intervened in the early stages of the disease to see how it develops, before moving on to traditional forms of cancer treatment such as chemotherapy.

The researchers who participated in the study decided to try green tea after a test tube study that was conducted in 2004 showed it killed leukemia cells.

Four chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients were being treated at the clinic took green tea extract tablets which contained epigallocatechin gallate, an antioxidant thought to fight cancer cells.

After a couple of months, doctors noticed that 3 out of the 4 patients should significant signs of the cancer regressing.

The fourth patient also showed improvements, but the researchers determined that the improvement was deemed to not be clinically relevant.

Green tea has long been thought to have cancer-prevention capabilities.  The findings of the study may prove to be good news for patients were suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The researchers hope that the results may be translated into effects for patients with this disease. The researchers lay claim to caution as they indicated that more research needed to be done on a larger scale to determine if there were any side effects. It also needed to be tested to find out if the findings were true.

But he warned more research was needed to prove the findings on a larger scaled and whether there were any side effects.

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Green Tea Extract Is Able To Lower Cholesterol

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extract-cholesterolThe first human study of green tea extract’s effect on lowering cholesterol was a success, especially for doctors who started the study.

The researchers first surprised at the cholesterol-lowering effects that the green tea extract had. Researchers were expecting a small decrease in overall cholesterol, but their findings showed a 16% reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

The results that were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was based on a randomized, controlled study of 240 Chinese men and women who suffered from high cholesterol.

The part also the study were already on a low-fat diet and they were randomly chosen to receive daily for 12 weeks either a placebo or a 375-milligram soft gel capsule containing green and black tea extracts, enriched with the antioxidant theaflavin.

During the course of the study, the test subjects nor the researchers knew which patients were getting the active capsules.

There had been several studies conducted in the past that highlighted the possibility of drinking tea and lowering cholesterol. Experiments conducted on animals with extracts showed good results. The study that was conducted was the first test conducted on humans that actually showed the lowering of bad cholesterol.

The capsules that were given to the subjects in the study was made up of 75 mg of theaflavins (flavonoids from black tea), 150 mg of catechins (flavonoids from green tea) and 150 mg of other tea antioxidants called polyphenols. That amount equaled around 35 cups of black tea and 7 cups of green tea.

Despite researchers stressing that reducing cholesterol is dependent on a low-fat, low cholesterol diets, they admit that there needs to be more non-drug options to lower low-density cholesterol in people who do not have heart disease.

Researchers were pleased with the initial outcomes, but they state that more testing needs to be done to determine the long-term safety of the extract. They need to examine what an effective range of doses are and what impact the extract may have when it is combined with cholesterol medications, especially statins, a common class of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

The researchers also want to test to see if the extract will work well in other patients and ethnic groups.

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Green Tea Extract May Aid In Fighting HIV

February 2nd, 2009

green-tea-extractGreen tea extract has many different beneficial properties; however it could be the base for a whole new generation of HIV drugs.

New research has been done in Japan that has located a component of green tea that is effective at stopping HIV from binding to healthy immune cells, which is how the virus spreads.

Laboratory tests conducted by them indicate that a certain chemical called Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) protects cells. This proves to be very important as it can lead to new treatments to fight the disease.

Green tea extract contents opposed of chemicals called catechins, the most abundant ones are EGCG.

It is widely believed that EGCG is the main chemical that is responsible for the green tea extract health benefits. Studies that were done in the past, indicate that EGCG can protect against a host of diseases and that would include heart disease and cancer.

Researchers carried out tests to see if the chemical could truly fight HIV. The results from their tests indicate that EGCG was able to stop the virus from binding to human T cells and CD4 molecules. Those two are vital parts of the body’s immune system. How HIV works is that it sneaks inside these cells and destroys them.

The scientists who conducted the study stated that more research is needed to see if EGCG could be used in new anti-HIV drugs. They stated that simply taking green tea extract would not provide people with protection from the virus.

The concentration of EGCG used in the laboratory tests are many times over the blood concentration that could be achieved by taking the green tea extract.

Researchers’ state that molecular modeling of a drug form of EGCG for HIV infection might be possible based on these findings. This all along with information from previous studies indicate that this chemical may be pivotal in fighting HIV.

However, there needs to be more research done and more results before a drug for patients with HIV up is developed.

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