Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Protect your DNA.


We would all like to be able to protect our DNA. New research may show us an easy way to do that.

In a recent study, green tea was compared to a placebo of water where DNA damage and resistance to an oxidative challenge was measured (Han KC, et al. 2010). This was a cross-over study using the same participants, but having a wash-out period of six weeks between the green tea and the placebo. The participants drank green tea for four weeks comparing the tea to a placebo of water.

The interesting results showed that the green tea provided a 20% decrease in DNA damage.

Even if you don’t like to drink green tea there is an easy way to get the benefits anyway.

You can take one capsule daily of the formula "Better Green Tea," that is all you need.

Research has also documented other benefits of green tea. To read about that, click here.

To read the original abstract, click on the reference below.


Reference:

Genoprotective effects of green tea ( Camellia sinensis) in human subjects: results of a controlled supplementation trial. Han KC, Wong WC, Benzie IF. Br J Nutr. 2010 Sep 1:1-8.

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