Re: Green tea absorbs better with acid added

[Guest guest]

Studies show that four cups per day are needed to actually impact existing

disease.

 

Also, just to put this out there,....olive leaf extract has polyphenols 2x times

more potent than green tea.

 

The Trouble with Green Tea

More from RealAge.com

Lower Your Risk for Chronic Diseases

By RealAge

Did you know that most of the free-radical fighters in green tea never make it

to your bloodstream? But there's a solution.

To get a better grasp on the healthy catechins in your green tea, flavor your

cup with a squeeze of citrus juice.

Green Tea Booster

Catechins -- the antioxidants in green tea famous for lowering your risk of

chronic disease -- quickly lose their power in your intestine. In fact, as much

as 80% of the catechins in green tea are never absorbed. The solution to

boosting absorption, researchers recently found, is as simple as flavoring your

tea with freshly squeezed and strained lemon, orange, lime, or grapefruit juice.

Taking Tea with C

The vitamin C in citrus may help with absorption by increasing the acidity in

your small intestine. Other unidentified substances in the juice probably lend a

hand, too. Researchers found a 50-50 mix had the greatest catechin-preserving

effect, and lemon did it best, closely followed by orange, lime, and, in last

place, grapefruit.

It's Not All Bad News

If you do take steps to boost the power of your green tea, you may even get a

few added benefits.

It may help you lose weight. At least one study shows green tea can stimulate

moderate weight loss.

It may help keep your knees young and strong -- catechins fight inflammation and

arthritis.

It can help your skin look great if used in conjunction with an antioxidant

cream. Dab it on.

It can help you stay sharp -- try 2 cups a day to see benefits.

RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or

supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.

[Guest guest]

Good info on green tea. Keep in mind that one cup of the green tea I gave

you probably equals 4 cups of regular green tea from a teabag since it's

much stronger.

-- Re: [ ] Green tea absorbs better with acid added

Studies show that four cups per day are needed to actually impact existing

disease.

Also, just to put this out there,....olive leaf extract has polyphenols 2x

times more potent than green tea.

The Trouble with Green Tea

More from RealAge.com

Lower Your Risk for Chronic Diseases

By RealAge

Did you know that most of the free-radical fighters in green tea never make

it to your bloodstream? But there's a solution.

To get a better grasp on the healthy catechins in your green tea, flavor

your cup with a squeeze of citrus juice.

Green Tea Booster

Catechins -- the antioxidants in green tea famous for lowering your risk of

chronic disease -- quickly lose their power in your intestine. In fact, as

much as 80% of the catechins in green tea are never absorbed. The solution

to boosting absorption, researchers recently found, is as simple as

flavoring your tea with freshly squeezed and strained lemon, orange, lime,

or grapefruit juice.

Taking Tea with C

The vitamin C in citrus may help with absorption by increasing the acidity

in your small intestine. Other unidentified substances in the juice probably

lend a hand, too. Researchers found a 50-50 mix had the greatest

catechin-preserving effect, and lemon did it best, closely followed by

orange, lime, and, in last place, grapefruit.

It's Not All Bad News

If you do take steps to boost the power of your green tea, you may even get

a few added benefits.

It may help you lose weight. At least one study shows green tea can

stimulate moderate weight loss.

It may help keep your knees young and strong -- catechins fight inflammation

and arthritis.

It can help your skin look great if used in conjunction with an antioxidant

cream. Dab it on.

It can help you stay sharp -- try 2 cups a day to see benefits.

RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or

supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.

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[Guest guest]

Antioxidant structures typically defined as an acid as they donate  hydrogen.

Once the hydrogen is donated, what is left, (attached to carbon ring,) is double

bonded oxygen.

 

The polyphenols and catechins in olive leaf/green tea can have as many as 64

oxygen molecules mostly showing as  -OH, group! After they carry out their

classic antioxidant reaction and give up the H+, then that means there is

a whole lot of doulbe bonded oxygen hanging off carbon rings. 

 

Measuring the strength of antioxidants is related to how many hydroxide free

radicals can they neutralize,...or,....how many hydrogens can the donate?

 

So, there is no question that complex polyphenols and tannis/catechins, donate

alot of hydrongen, leaving a lot of naked, exposed oxygen.

 

The question I have.

 

Could it be that antioxidants are really oxygen therapies and would this explain

why we are seeing them used in other disease protocols that treat viruses

(anaerobes.)

 

[Guest guest]

Hi , Great news about the green tea absorption. Do you have any

clinical or academic y references?

Thanks

ND

Classicaledmom@... wrote:

> The Trouble with Green Tea

>

> More from RealAge.com

> Lower Your Risk for Chronic Diseases

>

>

>

> By RealAge

> Did you know that most of the free-radical fighters in green tea never make it

to your bloodstream? But there's a solution.

> To get a better grasp on the healthy catechins in your green tea, flavor your

cup with a squeeze of citrus juice.

>

> Green Tea Booster

> Catechins -- the antioxidants in green tea famous for lowering your risk of

chronic disease -- quickly lose their power in your intestine. In fact, as much

as 80% of the catechins in green tea are never absorbed. The solution to

boosting absorption, researchers recently found, is as simple as flavoring your

tea with freshly squeezed and strained lemon, orange, lime, or grapefruit juice.

>

> Taking Tea with C

> The vitamin C in citrus may help with absorption by increasing the acidity in

your small intestine. Other unidentified substances in the juice probably lend a

hand, too. Researchers found a 50-50 mix had the greatest catechin-preserving

effect, and lemon did it best, closely followed by orange, lime, and, in last

place, grapefruit.

>

> It's Not All Bad News

> If you do take steps to boost the power of your green tea, you may even get a

few added benefits.

>

> It may help you lose weight. At least one study shows green tea can stimulate

moderate weight loss.

> It may help keep your knees young and strong -- catechins fight inflammation

and arthritis.

> It can help your skin look great if used in conjunction with an antioxidant

cream. Dab it on.

> It can help you stay sharp -- try 2 cups a day to see benefits.

> RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or

supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.

>

>

>

>

>

> ------------------------------------

>

>

[Guest guest]

To enjoy more of the benefits of tea willbe to grind it to powder and take them

whole.

Most of tea beverages,green tea or woolong tea sold in Japan are Vit C added

after extraction. Then bottled.

Here is a tech and experiment to make kombucha scoby tea from those bottles.

Woolong tea works best.

Just open the bottle and drink some to make air space,then shake well.

Repeat several times a day for 7-10 days. Oxegen will use up its vitC and the

scoby shows up in the bottle.

I discovered this and told everybody but none responded...Ghhhh

isao

[Guest guest]

Shake well several times a day? Or taste it?

Psalms 103 & 127

Short and sweet, because it was sent from my phone!

On Jul 27, 2009, at 9:47 PM, " Isao Haraguchi " <dw1@...> wrote:

> To enjoy more of the benefits of tea willbe to grind it to powder

> and take them whole.

>

> Most of tea beverages,green tea or woolong tea sold in Japan are Vit

> C added after extraction. Then bottled.

>

> Here is a tech and experiment to make kombucha scoby tea from those

> bottles. Woolong tea works best.

> Just open the bottle and drink some to make air space,then shake well.

> Repeat several times a day for 7-10 days. Oxegen will use up its

> vitC and the scoby shows up in the bottle.

>

> I discovered this and told everybody but none responded...Ghhhh

> isao

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hm. I wonder if this was the origin of a Kombucha scoby?

I've noticed that it's pretty easy to start a vinegar scoby ... just

take a bottle of red wine, and put a piece of cloth over the top

to keep flies out. The wine will turn to vinegar.

I can't drink tea though .. it gives me an upset stomach, and

kombucha starts migraine symptoms. I don't know why.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Isao Haraguchi<dw1@...> wrote:

> To enjoy more of the benefits of tea willbe to grind it to powder and take

them whole.

>

> Most of tea beverages,green tea or woolong tea sold in Japan are Vit C added

after extraction. Then bottled.

>

> Here is a tech and experiment to make kombucha scoby tea from those bottles.

Woolong tea works best.

> Just open the bottle and drink some to make air space,then shake well.

> Repeat several times a day for 7-10 days. Oxegen will use up its vitC and the

scoby shows up in the bottle.

>

> I discovered this and told everybody but none responded...Ghhhh

> isao

>

>

>

> ------------------------------------

>

>