The Alternative Health Gazette

Tea and Your Circulatory System/Blood Vessels

Another critical area of your body that needs health care and attention is the circulatory system and blood vessels. Major health problems have become prevalent in today’s society, with high blood pressure, blocked arteries, and poor blood flow due to blood vessels loosing their natural and healthy elasticity.

Tea is showing great promise as a solution in this area of medicine too though. Green tea particularly, because of it’s high concentration in the catechin polyphenol known as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), not only helps kill cancer cells and prevent new ones from forming on healthy cells, but this powerful antioxidant is also quite effective in lowering the LDL “bad” cholesterol in the body, and it helps prevent development of abnormal blood clots too. These abnormal blood clots in the veins and arteries are the leading cause of strokes and heart attacks.

One clinical study on Black tea consumed over a long period of time actually showed that participants who had coronary artery disease experienced restored health and vitality to their blood vessels and functions. In fact, they experienced improvements which made their blood vessels similar to those of people who are healthy.

The ability of the inner lining of the blood vessels to dialate properly in response to increased blood flow is called Endothelial function. Endothelial functions decrease and degrade with age and various diseases and conditions. One study showed that people who drank at least five cups of black tea each day for four weeks experienced significant and consistent improvements to the Endothelial dialation functions compared to the study participants who drank just water for those four weeks.

Other studies have shown the the flavonoids in tea actually protect low-density lipoproteins from oxidizing, plus they prevent the formation of platelets and thromboxane in the blood vessels and arteries. All of these things are very important to maintaining a healthy and robust circulatory system in the body.

Many of the circulatory system research results are still considered preliminary and some are thought to be inconclusive as well. These results show such promise already though, that many new research studies are being started so that new discoveries and details can be achieved.

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Note: Some statements in this article may not be approved by the FDA. This article is for informational purposes only and should not be taken as professional medical advice.

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