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Posted by: Dr. Chris Meletis, ND	2/2/2010 11:55 AM
Experts are predicting that in the USA alone, an estimated 400,000 men and women will die this year from heart disease. Now there is news of a very powerful and naturally occurring substance found in green tea that I believe everyone needs to know about. It is called epigallocatechin gallate or more commonly and simply referred to as ‘EGCG’. The evidence is clear that uncontrolled inflammation is associated with accelerated hardening of the arteries, known as atherosclerosis, that describes the process of how cholesterol, fats, calcium and other products become deposited on the inner lining of inflamed arteries. In a recent study, laboratory animals that were fed a heart damaging diet along with concentrated EGCG. Those fed the atherogenic diet plus EGCG administration showed significantly lower levels of the inflammatory markers than the rats fed the atherogenic diet alone. The researchers concluded, “These results suggest that EGCG, a major component of green tea catechins, may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease by reducing inflammatory markers in rats fed an atherogenic diet.” The vast majority of us have less than optimal diets and as a result we are much more susceptible to heart disease. Drinking green tea can help, yet to get the full impact of optimal doses of EGCG, I recommend for my patients to augment their green tea drinking with supplements of concentrated green tea standardized to EGCG.

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