Green Tea Can Help Protect Your Bones

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Biologic_Dentistry — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:45:25 GMT

yerba mate has some fluoride, but not near as much as green or black teas.
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=1184&i=26

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Cynthiak23 — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:06:08 GMT

"The trick about green tea: Be very careful which brand you choose,"

The best solution is to buy certified organic. The teas that I highly recomend is "Organic Bancha Japanese Green tea" by Traditional Medicinals or "Organic Bancha Green Tea" by Eden. Traditional Medicinals also puts out other organic green teas that you may want to try.

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Pebbles — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:55:57 GMT

For me I enjoy drinking green tea but now I get the decaffinated green tea. I read on a tea website somewhere that green tea has 20 grams of caffiene and even decaffinated still has caffiene oh well what can we do.

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ThomasT — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:58:44 GMT

I have a different take on green tea. My wife is Japanese. Every single one of her relatves and friends that have died, in say the last 15 years have died of cancer. The Japanese drink green tea like I drink mineral water. I theorise that because the tea leaf has the highest fluoride content of any leaf eaten or drunk by humans, that negates the beneficial effects of the polyphenols. Fluoride we know is connected to many disease states including bone loss... When my wife offers me a cup, its no thanks, I`ll stay with kefir, or raw milk, or mineral water with a shot of apple cider vinegar in it, or whatever else... Protection of cancer... no I dont believe it. Look to parasites, heavy metals, bacterial overgrowth from loose teath etc. for cancer solutions.

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Shasha — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:26:35 GMT

Hi, Green tea destroys Vit B1 and theophylline in tea is a Vit B6 antagonist. I drank alot of tea and I went to the bathroom alot. B vitamins are water soluble. When I stopped drinking tea, I started to laugh again. I wanted to drink tea, since it helps for cancer, antioxidant, lose weight, heals gut lining. IBS and diabetes are celiac things. Not eating dairy and grains help celiac. It is hard to keep healing the damage that these cause by tea . I still drink tea, but less of it.

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Erik D. Schmid — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:24:27 GMT

A good article, but the comments about the amount of fluoride in green tea always make me cautious about how much I consume. The page he links to showing the amounts in various brands really does me no good as I only by loose leaf gunpowder green. How does one go about finding out how much fluoride it actually contains?

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minnie-me — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:14:45 GMT

Does anyone have any comments on this? My friend, who is Catholic, is also a member of the Buddhist Community. She does advanced Tai Chi daily and attends services at a Buddhist Temple at least 2x/ week. She was an avid Green Tea drinker and also ate only brown rice as opposed to white. She is mostly vegetarian, but stops short of veganism.
According to the Asian people at the temple, Oolong tea is considered a better antioxidant than Green tea, and they believe that white rice has a higher nutritious value than brown. Of course, this goes against what she has been taught from American nutrition experts. She continues to eat and drink both, simply because she likes all of them.
Opinions anyone????

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jeremyroos — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:16:12 GMT

The problem with green tea is that it retains high fluoride levels. It absorbs fluoride pollution from the earth.

*See Sources of Fluoride exposure - Tea is down the list...

http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-sources.htm

What about the acidity of the Green Tea, should it be used in moderation?

I know it gives me a stomach ache on an empty stomach like coffee.

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vince_203 — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:15:25 GMT

Every day more and more information comes in about the amazing and widespread heath benefits of 3 thing . Green Tea, omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin d. What do they have in common. Powerful anti- inflammatory action. I wonder if together they have a synergistic effect.

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Austin_203 — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:33:38 GMT

Dr. Mercola,
You are doing an excellent job of focusing us on healthy lifestyles. However I think you perspective is too narrow. You need to watch TV and get a more learned perspective of things. I think you are missing things. For example your viewpoint on smoking. Totally false in my opinion. Just because your sister had problems with it doesn't mean people should smoke.

If you had a sister with leukemia due to smoking and stress you would think differently. One would stop immediately.
Regards,
Meredith Entin

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:49:09 GMT

Two additional efficacious, botanically based, from a DARK GREEN leafy sources, with excellent anti-inflammatory benefits (and no adverse side effects) are quercitin and zeatin.

The single best source in any plant known is one called: 'moringa olifera'.

Pub Med has lots of cross references on this plant.

The product that delivers an efficacious dosage level of these anti-inflammatories, for convenience, since the plant itself is pretty foul tasting, is branded ZIJA, at: www.drinklifein.com (and it's delicious).

I have personally seen remarkable results in arthritic benefit for many people taking this dietary supplement beverage, versus drug brands, or OTC products (and no ill side effects from the ZIJA).

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Josh Rubin — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:26:00 GMT

Something to think about, we have osteoclasts (break down bone matrix) and osteoblasts (build bone matrix). Estrogen inhibits osteoblasts and allows osteoclasts to break down bone..hint, hint. Progesterone facilitates osteoblasts. So if you are estrogen dominant, getting your hormones balanced is very important to prevent bone loss. Yes calcium does help, but having a balance between these 2 hormones is what is going to really help.