Green Tea Extract Reduces Health Risks To Live Longer
Green tea extract delivers catechins and theaflavins to help maintain healthy cholesterol levels that are already within the normal range.
Scientific research suggests that the unique combination of catechins and theaflavins in Green Tea Extract prevents the cholesterol in the foods that we eat from being absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. Research also suggests that it encourages the liver to extract more cholesterol from the bloodstream to make bile.
It just makes sense to protect your health today and tomorrow. You eat right. Exercise. Check in with your doctor every year. And take Green Tea Extract, the natural way to help keep your cholesterol at normal levels.
Green Tea Extract and Smoking
Green Tea may also cut smokers lung cancer risk. A study shows a decrease in lung cancer risk for smokers who take Green Tea Extract.
Drinking a cup or more a day of green tea or a Green Tea Extract tablet may counteract the effect of smoking on lung cancer, especially in smokers who may not be genetically susceptible to the cancer, according to a Taiwanese researcher.
"The antioxidants may inhibit tumor growth," I-Hsin Lin, a master's degree student at Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan. She presented her findings at the American Association of Cancer Research, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer meeting in Coronado, Calif.
Lin found the protective effect especially evident in a group of smokers she studied who have specific genotypes that have not been linked to cancer risk in some studies.
Lin's team evaluated 170 patients with lung cancer and 340 healthy patients. They asked the participants to describe their cigarette smoking habits, taking green tea products, and other lifestyle factors.
They asked participants to describe habits for the previous five years, Lin says.
The researchers performed genotyping in the participants to see if they had any of the genotypes found in some studies to be associated with cancer risk. These include IGF1 ( insulin-like growth factor 1), IGF2, and IGFBP3.
Overall, the smokers and nonsmokers who didn't take green tea products had a more than five times greater risk of lung cancer compared to those who had at least a cup or one tablet of green tea extract, Lin found.
Among the smokers, the non-green-tea drinkers had a nearly 13 times increased risk of lung cancer compared to the smokers who drank one cup or one tablet or more of green tea extract per day.
Even more dramatic was the protective effect of the green tea extract in those who did not have the susceptible genotypes for lung cancer, the researchers found.
The green tea extract people who didn't have a genotype termed by the researchers as susceptible had a 66% reduced risk in lung cancer compared to the people who were susceptible.
Those who smoked heavily and had the susceptible genotype had an even higher risk.
While Lin says the best way to avoid lung cancer is to stop smoking, green tea extract appears to reduce risk. "Green tea extract can protect them from lung cancer risk, a cup or tablet or more a day," she says.
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