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Green Tea (Cold Brewed)

About Green Tea

Green Tea originated in China for than 4,000 year ago – which makes it the oldest herbal tea there is.  In America, 15% of the tea consumed is Green Tea (most is black tea).  Black Tea and Green Tea actually come from the same plant, they are just processed differently.  Green Tea is not oxidized during processing – which helps keep the antioxidants.

Nutrition Benefits of Green Tea

Green Tea is loaded with antioxidants – in particular an antioxidant called Catechins (catechins are a type of flavonoid -> which is a type of polyphenols -> which is a type of antioxidant).  One type of Catechins is called, “EGCG” which is one of the primary reasons why you hear such great things about green tea.  Green tea also contains an amino acid called Theanine – which has been linked to various benefits to the brain.  Other health benefits that green tea has been linked to is inflammation, type 2 diabetes prevention, weight loss, heart health, lower blood pressure, anti-cancer, vision, anti-bacterial, cholesterol, skin, and others.

Green Tea is a great superfood and we recommend it within smoothies and outside of smoothies as well!

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Green Tea (Cold Brewed) scores well for 36 health goals

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Erectile Dysfunction

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Skin Health (Psoriasis, Eczema, etc.)

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Look Younger

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Cholesterol

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular)

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Immune System

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Fat Loss

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Prostate

Recipe Score:98

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Breast Cancer

Recipe Score:98

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Cancer

Recipe Score:98

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Recipe Score:98

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Liver

Recipe Score:96

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Lung Cancer

Recipe Score:96

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Memory

Recipe Score:96

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Detoxification

Recipe Score:96

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Leukemia

Recipe Score:94

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Multiple Sclerosis

Recipe Score:94

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Colon Health

Recipe Score:94

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Brain

Recipe Score:94

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Stroke

Recipe Score:92

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Women's Health Issues

Recipe Score:92

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Skin Cancer

Recipe Score:90

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Gastrointestinal

Recipe Score:90

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Endometrial

Recipe Score:90

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GallBladder

Recipe Score:90

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Recipe Score:90

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Asthma

Recipe Score:90

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HIV

Recipe Score:88

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Depression

Recipe Score:88

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Recipe Score:88

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Athletic Performance

Recipe Score:88

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Heart Attack

Recipe Score:86

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Arthritis (Osteo)

Recipe Score:86

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Alzheimers

Recipe Score:86

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Inflammation

Recipe Score:84

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Herpes

Recipe Score:84

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The Research

Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile Dysfunction: Score 100

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Tea reverses endothelial dysfunction in people with coronary artery disease. It may lower the risk of mortality. Tea halts the progression of cardiac amyloidosis. It has an anti-plaque effect. Tea improves endothelial dysfunction and has an anti-atherosclerotic effect in smokers. It is associated with reduced death due to all causes and cardiovascular disease. Tea is associated with reduced risk of stroke. It reduces the risk of cerebral aneurysm. Green tea may be a benefit to the therapy of atrial fibrillation

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Skin Health (Psoriasis, Eczema, etc.)

Skin Health (Psoriasis, Eczema, etc.): Score 100

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Human: Green Tea reduces DNA damage in heavy smokers. It is associated with lower DNA damage and increased DNA repair activity. Green Tea results in cell change improvements in elastic tissue content in photo aged skin. It effectively improved skin conditions and the improvement of skin elasticity. Animal: Green Tea has a protective effect on aging rats. It may beneficially modify the life span of animals. Green tea polyphenols potentiate dietary restriction induced lifespan extension. In Vitro: It contributes to skin rejuvenation.

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Look Younger

Look Younger: Score 100

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Human: Green Tea reduces DNA damage in heavy smokers. It is associated with lower DNA damage and increased DNA repair activity. Green Tea results in cell change improvements in elastic tissue content in photo aged skin. It effectively improved skin conditions and the improvement of skin elasticity. Animal: Green Tea has a protective effect on aging rats. It may beneficially modify the life span of animals. Green tea polyphenols potentiate dietary restriction induced lifespan extension. In Vitro: It contributes to skin rejuvenation.

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol: Score 100

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Green Tea reduces total and LDL cholesterol levels. Green Tea results in weight loss, reduced waist circumference, a decrease in total cholesterol and LDL levels. It may act as an anti-atherogenic agent blocking oxidized LDL cholesterol.

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular)

Circulatory System (Cardiovascular): Score 100

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Tea reverses endothelial dysfunction in people with coronary artery disease. It may lower the risk of mortality. Tea halts the progression of cardiac amyloidosis. It has an anti-plaque effect. Tea improves endothelial dysfunction and has an anti-atherosclerotic effect in smokers. It is associated with reduced death due to all causes and cardiovascular disease. Tea is associated with reduced risk of stroke. It reduces the risk of cerebral aneurysm. Green tea may be a benefit to the therapy of atrial fibrillation

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Immune System

Immune System: Score 100

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Human: Green Tea may be effective prophylaxis for influenza. Green tea consumption is inversely associated with the incidence of influenza. Green tea consumption is associated with a lower risk of death from pneumonia. It is safe and effective in preventing cold and flu symptoms and for enhancing T cell function. Animal: Green tea help to reduce influenza virus. Green tea polyphenols reduce autoimmune symptoms. It exhibits anti-Clostridium activity. In Vitro: It inhibits influenza A virus. It exhibits anti-MRSA activity. It has antibacterial effects against foodborne pathogens. It has anti-infective properties. It has enhanced microbial activity against multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. It inhibitis Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It has an inhibitory effect on Clostridium growth. It inhibits Epstein-Barr virus. It inhibits influenza A (H1N1) activity. It inhibits the infectivity of influenza virus. It has an effect against Staphylococcus. Review: Green tea polyphenols are able to modify epigenetic mechanisms promoting immune modulation.

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Fat Loss

Fat Loss: Score 100

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Human: Green Tea significantly lowered fasting glucose and Hb A1c concentrations, and may also reduce fasting insulin concentrations. It contributes to significant weight loss, decreased body mass index and improvements in various biochemical parameters. Green Tea contains EGCG, which enhances fat oxidation and may contribute to the anti-obesity effects of green tea. It may have a therapeutic role in the treatment of metabolic syndrome. High dose Green Tea resulted in significant weight loss, reduced waist circumference, and a consistent decrease in total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) levels. A mix containing green tea modulates inflammation, oxidative and metabolic stress. It is safe and minimally effective in reducing body weight in obese subjects. It leads to improvements in body composition and reduces abdominal fatness in moderately overweight subjects. Animal: Green Tea ameliorates adipose insulin resistance by improving oxidative stress. It reduces body weight with regulation of multiple genes expression in fat tissue of diet induced obese mice.

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Prostate

Prostate: Score 98

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Human: It significantly effected the rate of PSA progression among men with prostate cancer. It significantly reduces PSA growth factor in men with prostate cancer. It induces changes in systemic oxidation and may have a role in prostate cancer prevention and treatment. Animal: Green Tea polyphenol (EGCG) significantly interfers with androgen independent prostate cancer. In Vitro: It inhibits prostate cancer growth. It encourages programmed cell death in prostate cancer cells. It has a multitude of therapeutic benefits in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. It is associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer.

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Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer: Score 98

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Human: Green Tea has potential to be a therapeutic adjuvant against human metastatic breast cancer. Green Teat combined with mushrooms reduce the risk of breast cancer. It can protect against breast cancer. Animal: Green Tea inhibits breast cancer in an experimental model. It has growth inhibitory and anti-metastatic effect on metastasis specific breast cancer. It demonstrated significant anti-tumor, anti-metastatic and anti-osteolytic effects against breast cancer. It sensitizes breast cancer to paclitaxel in a mouse model of breast cancer. In Vitro: Green Tea has a preventative value in breast cancer. It changes the phenotype of invasive breast cancer cells, repressing malignancy. It exhibits anti-cancer activity. It may act as a chemo sensitizing agent in tamoxifen resistant breast cancer cells.

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Cancer

Cancer: Score 98

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Human: It has a multitude of therapeutic benefits in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. Green Tea may be related to a reduction of endometrial cancer risk. It has potential to be a therapeutic adjuvant against human metastatic breast cancer. It may be associated with a lower risk of kidney cancer. It is associated with a lower risk of hematologic malignancies. Green Tea significantly reduced the risk of lung cancer. It suppresses proliferation of HTLV-1 infected lymphocytes. It reduces the size and incidence of recurrence of colorectal cancer. It is associated with lower risk of ovarian cancer. It is inversely related to the risk of developing endometrial cancer. Green Tea along with other foods, protects against the risk of multiple myeloma. It is significantly associated with a reduced lung cancer risk. It has an apoptotic effect on human colorectal cancer cells. It exerts chemoprotective effects in liver cancer and metabolic syndrome associated liver cancer. Animal: It can inhibit the proliferation and invasiveness and induce apoptosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. It induces profile changes in the mouse lung tumor. It inhibits fibroid tumors. It inhibits growth, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis of pancreatic cancer. It prevents photocarcinogenesis by enhancing DNA repair. It significantly interferes with androgen independent prostate cancer. It induces cell death in gastrointestinal stromal tumor. It inhibits proliferation of uterine leiomyoma cells. It partly reduces chemotherapy side effects in the small intestine. Green tea polyphenols inhibit lung cancer caused by metastatic melanoma. It inhibits colon cancer progression. It inhibits lung cancer cell growth. In Vitro: It inhibits pancreatic and prostate cancer cell growth. It suppresses colon cancer cell growth. It changes the phenotype of invasive breast cancer cells, repressing malignancy. It fights cancer by modulating telomerase activity. It has a direct effect on growth inhibition in human esophageal cancer. It has anti-cancer effects against ovarian cancer cell lines. It induces apoptosis in melanoma cells. It induces programmed cell death in kidney cancer cells. It inhibits the proliferation of malignant lymphoma cells. It possesses novel anti-metastatic therapeutic potential for the treatment of salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma. It inhibits malignant brain tumor cell lines. It demonstrates potent and specific anti-myeloma activity. It suppresses the growth of human cancer cells. It exhibits inhibitory activity against colorectal cancer cells. It induces apoptosis in drug resistant small cell lung carcinoma. It induces programmed cell death in human cancer cells.

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Diabetes (Type 2)

Diabetes (Type 2): Score 98

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Human: Green Tea significantly lowered fasting glucose and A1C concentrations and may also reduce fasting insulin concentrations. It has beneficial effects on post meal glucose. Animal: Green Tea contains EGCG, which could prevent abnormal vascular problems in diabetic rats. It prevents progression to glucose intolerance in mice. It inhibits gluconeogenesis in rats. It reduces the progression of liver and kidney damage in diabetic rats. It inhibits liver enzymes associated with forming glucose. It reduces adipose (fat) insulin resistance by improving oxidative stress.

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Liver

Liver: Score 96

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Human: Green Tea reduces the risk of liver disease. It significantly reduces PSA, liver cell growth factor in men with prostate cancer. It has chemoprotective effects in liver cancer and metabolic associated liver cancer. Animal: Green Tea has a beneficial effect on non-alcoholic fatty liver. It reduces experimental liver injury. It reduces alcoholic liver damage. It has anti-fibrotic activity in models of liver fibrosis. It inhibits mobile phone radiation induced free radical damage in the liver. In Vitro: It helps to prevent liver fibrosis.

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Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer: Score 96

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Human: Green tea drinkers with susceptible cancer genotypes had a significant reduced risk of lung cancer. Animal: Green tea contains polyphenols, which inhibit lung cancer caused by metastatic melanoma. In Vitro: Green tea contains EGCG, which inhibits lung cancer cell growth. It induces apoptosis in drug resistant small cell lung carcinoma. Green tea inhibits lung carcinogenesis. It inhibits growth and survival of lung cancer cells.

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Memory

Memory: Score 96

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Human: Green Tea is associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment. It is associated with better cognitive performance in the elderly. Animal: Green tea improved learning and memory. It has a protective effect in treating reserpine induced impairment of memory. Daily consumption of green tea delays memory regression. It prevents age related spatial learning and memory decline. Green tea combined with exercise suppresses the aging associated decline in physical performance.

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Detoxification

Detoxification: Score 96

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Human: Green tea attenuates benzene induced toxicity in pump workers. Animal: Green Tea rescues mice from lethal endotoxemia and sepsis. It prevents copper gluconate toxicity. It was able to lower gastrointestinal tract absorption of PCB, PCDF and PCDD. Commentary/ Review: It may chelate out iron from Alzheimers brain. It has anti-oxidant, iron chelating and neuritogenic properties that are neuroprotective.

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Leukemia

Leukemia: Score 94

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Human: Green Tea suppresses proliferation of HTLV-1 infected lymphocytes. In Vitro: It has anti-leukemia activity and enhances imatinib induced cell death. It induced cell death via the cGMP/ASM pathway in chronic myeloid leukemia cells. It inhibits human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells. It induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in leukemia cells. It exhibits significant therapeutic activity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis: Score 94

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Human: Green tea contains ECGC, which improved muscle metabolism in multiple sclerosis. Review: Green Tea showed the most consistent benefit for MS in preclinical studies.

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Colon Health

Colon Health: Score 94

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Human: Green tea reduces the size and incidence of recurrence of colorectal cancer. It has an apoptotic effect on colorectal cancer cells. Animal: Tea inhibits colon cancer progression. In Vitro: It has a suppressive effect on colon cancer cell growth. It exhibits inhibitory activity against colorectal cancer cells.

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Brain

Brain: Score 94

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Green Tea is associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment. It reduces the risk for cerebral aneurysm. Green Tea reduces oxidative responses to intermittent hypoxia. It is neuroprotective against ischemia-reperfusion brain injury. It may have a protective effect for memory.

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Stroke

Stroke: Score 92

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Human: Long term tea consumption is associated with reduced risk of ischemic stroke.

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Women's Health Issues

Women's Health Issues: Score 92

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Human: It was associated with a 30% reduction in the risk of hip fractures in women. It is associated with the preservation of hip structure in elderly women. It could be used to treat endometriosis by reducing oxidative stress. Animal: It decreases ovariectomy induced bone loss via inhibition of osteoclasts. In Vitro: It may inhibit angiogenesis in endometrial tumors.

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Skin Cancer

Skin Cancer: Score 90

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Animal: Green Tea prevents photocarcinogenesis by enhancing DNA repair. In Vitro: It induces apoptosis in melanoma cells. It suppresses melanoma growth.

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Gastrointestinal

Gastrointestinal: Score 90

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Human: Green/Black tea intake is associated with a reduced prevalence of H. pylori infections. Animal: It induces cell death in gastrointestinal stromal tumor including imatinib resistant cells. It has anti-ulcer activity in gastritis. In Vitro: Catechins found in green tea act as proton pump inhibitors. Various flavonoids may protect against intestinal permeability.

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Endometrial

Endometrial: Score 90

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Human: It is inversely related to the risk of developing endometrial cancer. It may be related to a reduction of endometrial cancer risk. It could be used to treat endometriosis by reducing oxidative stress. In Vitro: It may inhibit angiogenesis in endometrial tumors.

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GallBladder

GallBladder: Score 90

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Human: Tea consumption reduces the risk of biliary tract and gallbladder diseases. Animal: It reduces the susceptibility to cholesterol gallstone formation through the regulation of inflammation.

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Score 90

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Animal: Green Tea contains EGCG, which reduces chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Asthma

Asthma: Score 90

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It may help asthma.

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HIV

HIV: Score 88

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Animal: Green Tea reduces neuronal loss in HIV-1. In Vitro: Green Tea significantly inhibits HIV-1 infectivity on human T-cells and macrophages. It inhibits HIV-1 entry.

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Depression

Depression: Score 88

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Human: It is associated with a lower probability of having depressive symptoms.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Score 88

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Animal: Green Tea is possibly beneficial for the liver and brain of patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. In Vitro: It induces programmed cell death in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblast cells.

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Athletic Performance

Athletic Performance: Score 88

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Green Tea has been shown to boost exercise endurance.

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Heart Attack

Heart Attack: Score 86

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Review: Green tea may be benefit to the therapy of atrial fibrillation.

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Arthritis (Osteo)

Arthritis (Osteo): Score 86

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Green Tea has anti-inflammatory activity.

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Alzheimers

Alzheimers: Score 86

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EGCG suppress beta amyloid production.

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Inflammation

Inflammation: Score 84

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In Vitro: It reduces inflammation in chondrocytes. It inhibits inflammation. It suppresses inflammation in osteomyelitis treatment.

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Herpes

Herpes: Score 84

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In Vitro: Green tea contains EGCG, which inactivates both herpes virus simplex type 1 and 2.

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