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"Inhibition of tumor invasion and metastasis in transplanted and spontaneous metastasis models by orally administered green tea infusion of EGCG also was reported (Liu et al, 2001; Sazuka et al, 1995). Most of the studies were conducted with chemical- or ultraviolet light-induced tumorigenesis models. For example, administration of 1% or 2% freshly brewed green or black tea significantly inhibited the spontaneous development of lung adenoma and rhabdomyosarcoma in A/J mice (Landau et al, 1998)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "In black tea, all the theaflavins showed the same capacity to inhibit the production of superoxide. green tea, black tea, and EGCG were shown to block the production of oxygen free radicals derived from the cooked meat mutagen 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-fJquinoline (IQ) in the presence of a NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase (Hasaniya et al., 1997). These results support an antioxidant role of catechins in their direct interaction with DNA radicals." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "In the 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced oral carcinogenesis hamster model, treatment with 0.6% green tea as the sole source of drinking fluid reduced the number of visible tumors by 35% and reduced tumor volume by 57%. In addition, immunohistochemical analyses showed that tea increased the apoptotic index of the tumors while decreasing the proliferation index and microvessel density (Li et al, 2002). Purified tea constituents, EGCG and theaflavins, also have been reported to inhibit tumorigenesis." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Multiple vitamin/mineral: follow label directions green tea capsules: 1 capsule daily Vegetarian diet or practicing safer sex if the partner has known genital warts may be advisable. It is considered very low risk for the virus alone to be transmitted between women, although it is theoretically possible. Both heterosexual and homosexual women ask about the risk of transmitting or contracting the virus through oral sex. Again, this is theoretically possible, and there are conditions when the HPV virus may lodge in the larynx and oral cavity." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Flaxseed, nettles, and green tea stimulate sex-hormone-binding globulin, which can lower the elevated estrogens and androgens. Saw palmetto can inhibit 5-alpha reductase, which then inhibits the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestos-terone, and smilax and sanguinaria may be able to produce a progesterone effect. All of these mechanisms—plus modifying insulin resistance and/or lowering a hypersecretion of insulin, treating the underlying endocrine problem, and inducing ovulation—are the keys to treating PCOS." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Both green tea and oolong tea intake of 120 mL /day or more can significantly reduce hypertension.294 In the large population-based Rotterdam Study of Dutch men and women, the risk of heart attacks was lower in those who drank more than 375 ml (one and a half cups) per day.295 Garlic {Allium Sativum). Garlic is popular as a lipid-lowering agent, but it has a modest effect. While analyses have demonstrated that garlic can reduce total cholesterol levels by 5 to 12 percent, recent reports suggest these studies may have been too brief to draw conclusions." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Another study, the Ohsaki study,292 found that green tea consumption was inversely associated with mortality due to all causes and inversely associated with cardiovascular disease." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Green Tea A study from Japan showed that intake of 9 cups of green tea in men was associated with lower cholesterol than in persons consuming only 2 cups daily. Artichoke Leaf An extract of artichoke leaves has also shown cholesterol and triglyceride lowering by about 12% . The dosage suggested is 300 mg, three times daily. Flaxseed Flaxseed contains large quantities of fiber. This fiber binds with bile acids in the intestine, which interferes with the re-absorption of cholesterol from the gut causing considerable cholesterol to pass out with the stools." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"These include tangerine, papaya, Mediterranean olives, olive oil, wine, grape seeds, potato juice, white and green tea, soy milk, fermented soybeans and rice bran. Less common ingredients include high quality, expensive, natural, certified organic essential oils, based on non-allergenic ingredients such as clove, lavender, vanilla and ylang-ylang (note that non-allergenic does not mean non-toxic or non-irritating). Rice, rice bran, and the lees left over from brewing are also becoming an important source for organic cosmetics in Japan." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Indeed, heavy smokers who drink green tea have about half the lung cancer rate of smokers who don't drink green tea. Black tea is made from the same leaves, but after harvest, the leaves go through a fermentation process. This imparts both the dark color and the distinctively rich flavor. It also explains why the tea is black. This process also makes the caffeine more readily available. A cup of black tea contains from 35 to 50 milligrams of caffeine; however, it's usually closer to 35 milligrams." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"He's found that compounds in green tea inhibit the placement of methyl markers on genes that help to fight colon, prostate, and esophageal cancer. Methylation of those genes would take them out of the cancer suppression business—by inhibiting their methylation, green tea keeps them in the anticancer fight. The same Duke team responsible for the original study of vitamin-triggered methylation in agouti mice has demonstrated a similar methylating effect from genistein, the estrogenlike compound found in soy." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Green tea contains even less caffeine, so you could probably take four cups. green tea is also available decaffeinated if you wish to avoid caffeine's effects. Although scientific studies indicate that tea drinkers have less cancer, the research doesn't identify what's at work. It could be the tannins found in tea. These materials are really part of a large class of materials scientifically called lignins. Studies have shown that lignins are effective antioxidants and they do reduce cancer risk." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) Most of the Eastern world has been drinking green tea for centuries, but only recently has it become the darling of medical research. Scientists now know that green tea—from the same plant as black tea, but processed in a different way—contains compounds called polyphenols that may help the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. A study from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland showed that mice given polyphenols isolated from green tea were protected from developing a disease similar to rheumatoid arthritis." - Linda B. White, M.D., The Herbal Drugstore (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, the equivalent amount of grape juice, apple juice, green tea, or chocolate—all rich sources of proanthocyanidins or related compounds—did not produce the same result. "The cranberry's proanthocyanidins are structurally different than the proanthocyanidins found in the other plant foods tested, which may explain why cranberry has unique bacterial anti-adhesion activity and helps to maintain urinary tract health," Howell says. Best of all, new research seems to point to the use of cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections in the first place." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Drink purified water, spring water, filtered water and green tea. ix. Choose lean protein such as chicken turkey, fish, egg whites, tofu and legumes. x. Drink eight to 10 glasses of filtered water per day. xi. Vegetables and their juices are beneficial such as ginger, kale, carrots, dandelion greens, celery, wheat grass, garlic, cabbage, broccoli and beets. xii. Sprouts are used as a garnish or a nice addition to salads. 2. Emotional Detoxification Every thought and emotion has a direct impact on your physical body. Stress can affect your hormones." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The concept of orthomolecular medicine has served us well over the years, and while it's been expanded to include many things that we don't necessarily "make" on our own (for example, saw palmetto or green tea), the spirit of the term informs everything that's in these pages—substances that are highly unlikely to hurt us, that our body recognizes for the most part, that are non-toxic, and that come from herbs and plants together with treatments that don't involve drugs." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Of interest in this connection is evidence that a skin lotion spiked with caffeine or green tea extract, containing the antioxidant EGCG (epigallo-catechin-3-gallate), reduced the risk of skin cancer in hairless mice following repeated exposure to high levels of UVB radiation. (19) The protective effects of caffeine, however, were shown to be a result of its ability to induce cell suicide among sunburn-damaged cells, technically known as "apoptosis," rather than its effectiveness as a sunscreen." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Multifunctional activities of green tea catechins in neuroprotection. Modulation of cell survival genes, iron-dependent oxidative stress and PKC signaling pathway. Neurosignals 14, 46-60. 188. Dajas, F., Rivera, F., Blasina, F., Arredondo, F., Echeverry, C, Lafon, L., et al. (2003). Cell culture protection and in vivo neuroprotective capacity of flavonoids. Neurotox. Res. 5, 425^432. 189. Rivera, F., Urbanavicius, J., Gervaz, E., Morquio, A., and Dajas, F. (2004). Some aspects of the in vivo neuroprotective capacity of flavonoids: bioavailability and structure-activity relationship. Neurotox." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"END BOX] PRODUCTS FOR YOUTH SEEKERS> Safe Products and Ingredients For Youth Seekers ANTI-WRINKLE PRODUCTS Numerous medical studies have found several natural botanicals to be safe and effective, particularly date palm oil for eyelid wrinkles and topical green tea cream for sun damage to skin. The anti-wrinkling agent restylane, or Perlane, used in products made by Sweden's Q-Med, incorporates a natural biodegradable ingredient called hyaluronic acid that has been shown to be both safe and effective." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"If you drink coffee or black tea and also suffer from high blood pressure, consider switching to green tea. The Japanese neurologist Yoshikazu Sato, M.D., has found that green tea lowers high blood pressure. He believes that this may be why Japanese women who drink green tea experience only half as many deaths from stroke as those who don't, even though their diet contains large quantities of salt. The popularity of green tea in Japan may be one reason why the Japanese have less incidence of high blood pressure and heart disease than North Americans do." - Kathi Keville, Herbs for Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"He poured us green tea. He laughed good-heartedly at my questions about his life and that of his mother. "Our life was very difficult before the war," he began. "Like most people here, we had to live off of what we produced. We ate sweet potatoes three meals a day, and maybe some fish. Once a year, during the lunar New Year, we'd slaughter the family pig and eat pork. Mostly we were hungry, though." He chuckled. "Then the war came. There was no food. We ate miso and drank rainwater." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"I found major healing benefits for my patients using B vitamins, fish oil, green tea, and exciting natural substances with strange names like nat-tokinase and phospholipids. They transformed sick lives into revived and energized lives. They gave patients the optimism and encouragement to become more involved in their own healing process. They unclogged and defused arteries, revolutionizing my practice from crisis management to crisis prevention and from illness to health. I saw patients reach levels of healing I could never imagine possible with conventional care alone." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Realizing people were reversing illness using various supplements, I began to drink green tea, and to use garlic and onions and a few vitamins. Still I felt sunken within myself. My higher energy level was not actualized. At that point I started listening to Gary on his radio show. I was determined to give my body the elements it badly required. I took Gary's advice and studied his products. My diet and vitality improved 75 percent. I started to feel energetic. My power zoomed. Now I sleep less. I have increased endurance and have keener mental cognition." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Then you start to rebuild the brain and the center of the brain with phosphatidyl serine, acetyl-l-carnitine, phosphatidyl choline, and herbs that are known to have an impact, like feverfew and green tea. You flood the body with flavonoids. And don't forget the juice—four to six juices a day from fresh organic vegetables. After six months to a year of this regimen, I've seen about 80 percent of addicts cleared up, staying off it, and not coming back. I would add that if you have a problem drinker in your family, one of the things you can do is just try to see that they take some vitamins." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "So we have green tea, ginger, radish, and something sour, like lemon. This helps balance and strengthen the digestion. "The link between digestion and depression is very clear. When our digestion is weak, we can't process our foods, but neither can we process our emotions and our sadness. We feel overcome; everything is too heavy for us to deal with and we give in to an addiction, like ice cream—milk and cheese and cream—which makes it all worse, which makes our digestion weaker and sets us up for major problems. Barley soup helps clear away the kind of congestion that makes us feel heavy." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"A test-tube experiment showed that flavonoids from green tea protected artificial fat bilayer membranes from fat oxidation. In the case of alcoholic extracts, green tea is much more potent than black tea [224]. Therefore, some other unknown antioxidant compounds must be present in green tea that are soluble in alcohol but not in water. Watery solutions of green tea and black tea (which both contain quercetin, myrecetin, and kaempferol) are equally effective in preventing fat oxidation in test tube experiments. These compounds also have anticancer effects in a number of tests. GARLIC." - John R. Smythies, Every_Persons_Guide_To_Antioxidants (Get the book.)

"One option is to step down from regular coffee to green tea. Virtually all of these recommended supplements can be found at your local health food store. They typically are located in the same place where you find your herbal cleansing formulas, so you can take care of all your detoxification product needs at once. For more leads on where you can buy high-quality supplements, see the Resource Directory." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "LIQUID GREENS AND WHOLE-FOOD MULTINUTRIENTS "Green formulas" offer combined extracts from various nutrient-rich sources such as dark green leafy vegetables, sprouts, sulfur-containing vegetables, and green tea. Liquid formulas are best. They can also include such ingredients as organic raw, uncooked aloe, which is readily absorbed by the body and is a nutritious whole-food method of delivering the nutrient-rich greens best. Whole-food multinutrient supplements are also excellent ways of getting great nutrition on the spot without the fuss (usually sold as a powder to which you add water)." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "I recommend switching to green tea if you must have your daily cup. Avoid or significandy minimize alcoholic beverages. Time Management and Meal Planning Meal planning and time management are key components in creating a healthy eating plan, for food selection is of paramount importance in achieving vibrant health. The first step is reviewing your lifestyle and determining how healthy foods can be integrated into it. Plan your meals for one week before visiting the market. When possible, plan lunches for you and your children ahead of time." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In 1990 I actually began to develop my own vitamin and mineral formulas using coenzyme Qi0; B vitamins; vitamins C, E, and D; carotenoids; flavonoids; calcium; fish oil; green tea; and so on, and I believe that they all have merit in the treatment and prevention of heart disease. I read reams of research, and even authored several books and journal articles to share the success stories I was observing with my own patients, many of whom were transcending the kind of improvements I had only hoped and prayed for." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

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