Are you skeptical or do you believe every health food thing you hear? What happens when there is conflicting information?
One study says green tea prevents cancer. Another says it does not. Yet another says it could promote cancer. Which do you believe? How can we know?
There is a mindless middle that we fail to think about. That middle is called balance.
Modern medicine is not good nor bad. Holistic and Natural are not good or bad. However, anything taken to an extreme can be bad. What if there was a middle in between the two extremes. A middle between modern medicine and all natural.
When looking at the natural cures, there needs to be balance. I have seen the extremes of natural health care, usually at 10 PM in the Emergency Room of one of the hospitals where I am a nurse. Using natural cures to an extreme can cause extreme health problems. This frustrates the doctors who have to try to rescue these folks.
Have you ever wondered why doctors don’t jump on the natural cures band wagon? When you see lives destroyed and you have to try to save them, wouldn’t you also think the natural to be a dangerous form of health care.
I have also seen patients be admitted with 27 different medications. The medical management doc will remove them from all but two or three. The patients feel better within a day or two. And I never see them for at least 6 months to a year when they are back on 27 medications.
What if there was a mindless middle that we are all missing?
Mindless because it is sometimes so simple we just do not think about it. Mindless because sometimes we are like the five blind scientist doing a clinical study of an elephant Read about them here. Each has their own definition of what an elephant is.
They fail to see the whole picture.
What is the green tea whole picture?
Consider one review of all the studies on Green Tea and cancer prevention. You can read the abstract online. It is called….Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer.
Based on this overview, there are some things we need to know. Apparently, too much of a good thing is not a good thing. Limit green tea intake to three to five cups a day.
Which is the best green tea we cannot say at this time. However, we are trying to research this further.
Does green tea prevent cancer?
The studies are conflicting. We do know that green tea is a powerful antioxidant. Science has also shown that the antioxidant system only works as good as our current glutathione levels are. Glutathione is the key that helps antioxidants work. Decreased glutathione means decreased effectiveness of antioxidants.
The studies were geographically local. So, if you consider that a diet in one part of the world is rich in glutathione co-factors and in another part it is not, then we could have another clue as to the differences in the studies.
Does green tea help? Most likely it does if you do not overdose and if it is part of an immune boosting diet or you use supplements that help build glutathione.
So, drink up and enjoy. Boost your glutathione and not only enjoy the tea, enjoy good health.
Good health to you and yours.
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