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Green Tea EGCG Health Benefit In Cardiovascular Disorder Controlling
As our community is getting richer, people are more health sensible today. In term of drink, green tea is treated as the healthiest drink as it is not only has the rehydrate ability, but it is also flavonoid rich that can guard our body from heart disorder.
Investigation on green tea drinkers indicate that they are somewhat less vulnerable to a wide range of illness, from bacteria infection to chronic degenerative illness like stroke, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Research 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 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 believed to act 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 works as the interface between the bloodstream and the wall of the artery where blood plaques could form, this is called arterial endothelium. When heart disease happens, a form of enzyme will spur the production of free radicals in the artery endothelium, thus escalates the level of free radicals in arteries sharply. Green tea EGCG will inhibit the enzymes required in the production of the free radicals and thus shields the endothelium from ruined by free radical. For this reason green tea is playing a crucial role in preventing cardiovascular disease.
EGCG also serves in halting the death of heart muscle cells after ischemia/reperfusion injury, by preventing the activation of inflammation compounds (STAT-1) that will induce oxidative injury which kills cardiovascular cell in reperfusion injury.
Moreover, cancer cells require enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) to fabricate DNA and multiply. EGCG will inhibit the DHFR and is effectively blocking the grow of cancer cells.
Furthermore, EGCG manage to also accelerate the recovery of injured heart cells, and accordingly allowing quick healing of tissues and reducing organs damage.
In conclusion, green tea EGCG has renowned benefit in helping heart disease prevention as well as in heart disease damage recovery. As such for those who are suffering from cardiovascular disease and those who are health sensitive, green tea is the best choice of beverage for them. Having few cups of green tea, primarily decaf green tea a day instead of decaffeinated coffee will absolutely assure our long term health.
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