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Green Tea makes cancer cells self-destruct!

People who drink about 4 cups of green tea per day seem to get less types of cancer.
Now we may know why…in recent test-tube studies a compound called EGCG ( a powerful antioxidant found in tea) inhibited an enzyme that cancer cells need in order to grow.
Without this enzyme the cancer cells couldn’t grow big enough to divide/multiply and self-destructed.
It would take about 4 cups of green tea a day to get the blood levels of EGCG that inhibited cancer in the study.

Black Teas contain EGCG but much lower concentrations.

Cheers!

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