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Vital Green Tea EGCG Privilege In Heart Disease Controlling
As our society is getting richer, people are more health understanding today. In term of beverage, green tea is thought as the healthiest drink as it is not only has the rehydrate function, but it is also flavonoid rich that can protect our body against heart disease.
Experimentation on green tea drinkers show that they are significantly little vulnerable to a wide range of ailment, from bacteria infection to chronic degenerative condition like stroke, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Research indicates that green tea has substantially high level of flavonoids (antioxidant) which consist of catechins and their derivatives. Antioxidant is the biological process that prevents 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 highest antioxidant activity of all green tea's catechins and therefore is believed to act the most important role in the green tea's anticancer and antioxidant effect. Green tea EGCG is so abundant that a cup of green tea may 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 may form, this is known as arterial endothelium. When cardiovascular disease happens, a kind of enzyme will quicken the production of free radicals in the artery endothelium, thus amplifies the level of free radicals in arteries sharply. Green tea EGCG will inhibit the enzymes needed in the production of the free radicals and thus protects the endothelium from damaged by free radical. Therefore green tea is playing a pivotal role in preventing cardiovascular disease.
EGCG also assists in halting the death of heart muscle cells after ischemia/reperfusion injury, by stopping the stimulation of inflammation compounds (STAT-1) that will induce oxidative damage which kills cardiovascular cell in reperfusion injury.
Besides, cancer cells require enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) to compose DNA and spread. EGCG will interfere with the DHFR and is effectively blocking the spread of cancer cells.
Furthermore, EGCG could also hasten the salvage of injured heart cells, and hence allowing speedy healing of tissues and reducing organs injury.
In conclusion, green tea EGCG has great benefit in helping heart disease curbing as well as in heart attack damage healing. So for those who are suffering from cardiovascular disease and those who are health sensitive, green tea is the most suitable choice of beverage for them. Drinking few cups of green tea, especially decaf green tea a day instead of decaffeinated coffee will absolutely assure our long term health.
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