Vital Green Tea EGCG Health Advantage

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As the public is getting richer, people are more health awake today. 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 guard our body from heart disorder.

Experimentation on green tea drinkers indicate that they are somewhat little vulnerable to a wide range of ailment, from bacteria infection to chronic degenerative ailment like stroke, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.

Study indicates that green tea has very high level of flavonoids (antioxidant) which consist of catechins and their derivatives. Antioxidant is the biological process that inhibits the oxidation which will produce highly reactive free radicals. Flavonoids substance consists of more than 1/3 of the green tea dry weight. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is the largest prolific catechin in all green tea. It has the greatest antioxidant activity of all green tea's catechins and therefore is believed to act the most significant role in the green tea's anticancer and antioxidant effect. Green tea EGCG is so abundant that a cup of green tea could have 20-35mg of it.

In our arteries, there is a one cell thick lining that behaves as the boundary layer between the bloodstream and the wall of the artery where blood plaques could form, this is known as arterial endothelium. When heart disease occurs, a form of enzyme will spur the production of free radicals in the artery endothelium, thus boosts the level of free radicals in arteries quickly. Green tea EGCG will inhibit the enzymes required in the fabrication of the free radicals and thus shields the endothelium from spoilt by free radical. For this reason green tea is acting a central role in preventing cardiovascular disease.

EGCG also assists in preventing the death of heart muscle cells following ischemia/reperfusion injury, by blocking the onset of inflammation compounds (STAT-1) that will induce oxidative damage which kills cardiovascular cell in reperfusion injury.

Moreover, cancer cells require enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) to compose DNA and grow. EGCG will interfere with the DHFR and is effectively stopping the development of cancer cells.

Furthermore, EGCG could also accelerate the recovery of injured heart cells, and as a result allowing quick healing of tissues and alleviating organs damage.

In conclusion, green tea EGCG has vast benefit in helping heart disease controlling as well as in heart disease damage healing. So for those who are suffering from heart disease and those who are health sensitive, green tea is the most suitable choice of beverage for them. Drinking few cups of green tea, particularly decaf green tea a day instead of decaffeinated coffee will doubtlessly guarantee our long term health.