Green Tea the first line of
defense against Cancer
In a
recent international conference, new findings regarding the
fighting power of green tea against cancer were
unveiled.
At this time, several
important laboratories around the world are studying the
fighting effects against cancer of the green tea at cellular
level.
While Asian people is used
to drink green tea regularly in their diets, western people is
still not so convinced about the power against cancer that
green tea can provide them and lack of knowledge of the benefit
of green tea is mainly the cause for such behavior.
Dr. Gasiewicz, from
Rochester Medical Center, has been studying a particular
chemical found in green tea with great success, finding
throughout his research that Green Tea can actually interrupt
cancer process at the very begining of the illness.
As he found in his
research, green tea protects cells as it has an active
substance that seem to target one protein at a precision that
cancer drugs are not able to match. This protein is common in
our bodies and is widely found in several kinds of
cancer.
As this protein is present
in most cancer cells, scientists believe that sometimes such
protein helps to trigger the series of changes in cells that
lately will cause cancer.
If this happen to be true,
green tea directly prevent cancer at an unprecedented level
which not even current drugs can, especially because we are
talking about prevention, because this component of green tea
will make potentially harmful genes less likely to get turned
on.
Anti-Cancer Diet
If this is confirmed, it
would explain the results obtained in several studies conducted
in Asia, where green tea consumption is common and it is known
that cause a lower risk for cancers that are very different one
from the other.
Such studies conducted in
Asia, which link green tea to reduced risk for breast,
prostate, bladder, colon, stomach, pancreatic and esophageal
cancer can be explained because as found in this study, it
fights a common denominator found in all these kinds of
cancer.
Even more, green tea’s
capabilities has an impressive targeted precision which drugs
still can’t, working flawlessly to fight the initial stages of
cancer, even before that the protein described above sends the
biochemical signals that trigger cancer in our
bodies.
To have a clue about how
much green tea is needed to drink daily, Asian people drink an
average 3-4 cups of green tea.
According to surveys,
western people is far from that, having less than 1% drinking
2-3 cups and nearly 70% is saying that they do not drink green
tea or have only drank it rarely or never.
Drinking green tea every
day is a great way to protect your cells against cancer, which
is something that we all should do.
If you do not find green
tea appealing, try different kinds of teas and add sugar, honey
or lemon to make it tastier for you and start your fight
against cancer much before eventually you have
to.
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