Supreme Green Tea EGCG Health Advantage


As our community is becoming richer, people are more health sensible nowadays. In term of beverage, green tea is treated as the healthiest drink as it is not only has the rehydrate effect, but it is also flavonoid rich that could protect our body from heart attack.

Research on green tea drinkers confirm that they are somewhat little vulnerable to a lot of sickness, from virus infection to chronic degenerative illness like stroke, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.

Study indicates that green tea has very high concentration of flavonoids (antioxidant) which consist of catechins and their derivatives. Antioxidant is the biological event that curbs the oxidation which will produce highly reactive free radicals. Flavonoids substance comprises of more than 30% of the green tea dry weight. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is the largest abundant catechin in all green tea. It has the greatest antioxidant activity of all green tea's catechins and thus is thought to play the most paramount role in the green tea's anticancer and antioxidant effect. Green tea EGCG is so rich that a cup of green tea can have 20-35mg of it.

In our arteries, there is a one cell thick lining that behaves as the interface between the bloodstream and the wall of the artery where blood plaques may form, this is known as arterial endothelium. When heart disease happens, a type of enzyme will speed up the production of free radicals in the artery endothelium, thus escalates the level of free radicals in arteries abruptly. Green tea EGCG will inhibit the enzymes required in the production of the free radicals and thus shields the endothelium from damaged by free radical. For this reason green tea is acting a critical role in preventing cardiovascular disease.

EGCG also helps in preventing the death of heart muscle cells after ischemia/reperfusion injury, by blocking the activation of inflammation compounds (STAT-1) that will cause oxidative damage which kills heart cell in reperfusion injury.

Besides, cancer cells need enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) to fabricate DNA and grow. EGCG will interfere with the DHFR and is practically obstructing the spread of cancer cells.

Furthermore, EGCG can also speed up the salvage of damaged heart cells, and in this way allowing fast healing of tissues and attenuating organs injury.

In conclusion, green tea EGCG has wonderful benefit in helping heart disease controlling as well as in heart disease damage healing. As such for those who are suffering from heart disease and those who are health conscious, green tea is the excellent option of beverage for them. Having few cups of green tea, especially decaf green tea a day rather than decaffeinated coffee will certainly assure our long term health.

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