Green Tea Dose-Dependently Sheds 7%-20% Body Weight in Mouse Model, But Higher Doses Turn Out to Be Pro- not Anti-Inflammatory In Recent Tufts Study
Image 1: A cup of freshly brewed green tea (photo by Wikimol ) Green tea is healthy, it gets you going, will make you lose fat and calm down inflammation ... wait ! Is it possible that all that was just another marketing scam? Scientists from the Tufts University in Boston (Pae. 2011) have now found that at least in case of the capped green tea extracts, health (over-)conscious GNC-consumers are popping like candy, these days, the latter, i.e. the anti-inflammatory effect is absent. And, it even gets worse, higher doses of a standardized EGCG extract (TEAVIGO; 95% EGCG content) even increased inflammation (measured via proinflammatory cytokines in the blood of the animals) in a group of 6-9 months old pathogen-free male mice who had been fed a diet enriched with 1% of the extract for 6 weeks: Contrary to the assumption that EGCG would reduce inflammatory response, mice fed 0.15% and 0.3% EGCG diet exhibited no change while th...
