Friday, January 1, 2016

Green Tea and Heart? Is this a Joke?

No.

Others tend towards comedy by saying things like "Seaweed - A Substitute For Ascorbic Acid" (it is not and cannot be) while showing all sorts of convincing looking artifacts of the ascorbic acid provided by seaweed (and that vitamin C bound to fucoidan).  Next they will claim that oranges are a substitute for vitamin C in their ultimate brilliance.

Green Tea is no joke.  It is ridiculously ubiquitous yet also ridiculously powerful medicine.  God's gift to mankind indeed.

Coordinated regulation of murine cardiomyocyte contractility by nanomolar (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate, the major green tea catechin. 

 

What?!?  10 nanomolar EGCG ( 0.01uM or 0.00001mM) that which can be achieved orally through tea or  capsules helps strengthen heart muscle contraction - a great thing for heart failure patients.

Polyphenols are notorious for their low bioavailability, underneath that needed for therapeutic thresholds, but not for increasing heart pumping strength.






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