GREEN TEA TO PROTECT YOUR HEART

 

Green Tea protect your heart

Five days a cup seems to be magic number for maximum benefits and heart protection. Alternatively (or in addition), take an EGCG supplement of 250 milligrams per day.

GREEN TEA: THE LONGEVITY DRINK

Japanese people live longer than people in any other country. One reason just might be the tea.

Japanese researchers’ analyzed data from a National Cohort Study that began in 1994 and included more than 40,000 participants aged 40 to 79. Everyone who started the study was free of stroke, heart disease, and cancer. For the next eleven years, researchers’ watched what happened. They found that people who drank five or more cups of a tea a day had a significantly lower risk of death compared to the folks who drank only one cup or less a day. The five-cup drinkers had an especially lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and stroke.

The more green tea people consume, the less likely they are to have coronary artery disease. Underlying mechanisms for the heart- beneficial effects of tea include vasculoprotective,  antioxidative, antithrombogenic, anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol lowering properties of tea flavonoids.

And if you do, god forbid, have a heart attack, you probably have a better chance of recovering well, if you’re a green tea drinker. During a heart attack, a ton of inflammation and inflammation- related compounds are released.

They promote even more (oxidative) damage, which in turns kill more heart cells. The primary catechin in green tea, EGCG, prevents heart muscle damage by blocking the activation of some of these inflammation- related compounds. EGCG also appears to speed the recovery of heart cells.

Another way green tea helps protect the heart is by lowering blood pressure and helping prevent hypertension. Tea increases the body’s production of nitric oxide, which dilates arteries and thereby reduces blood pressure. A study published in July 2004 Archives of Internal Medicine found that among persons consuming tea regularly for at least one year, the risk of developing high blood pressure was 46 percent lower among those who drank ½ cup to 2 ½ cups per day, and 65 percent lower among those consuming more than 2 ½ cups per day.

Green tea also shoes promise in the prevention of stroke.

Furthermore, the green tea polyphenols, particularly EGCG have been shown to protect brain cells from destructive processes following a stroke.

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