Green Tea Review Study On Medscape UK

[RoyMacDonald]

I started taking green tea after reading the study on Medscape. This is a site for Dr's but if you state you are not one on your application, you can still join, It seems to have cured my IBS which in turn seems to have cured my SVT which was low anyway due to my changes in diet. Also my power output on the bike is almost back to my pre-stroke levels.

medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/...

All the best.

Roy

[mjames1]

That's great and thanks for posting. Curious how much green tea are you drinking a day? And what about coffee or do you just drink tea? I noticed the article said that green tea has far less caffeine than coffee, however I once purchased some green tea at a Japanese market and I got the same jolt as from a double expresso Lol

Jim

[RoyMacDonald in reply to mjames1]

3 x 200 ml water with 2.5 mg of green tea powder in each one, which I buy from Bulk in 500 g. bags for £17.19 + postage. They include a 2.5 mg scoop in each packet. I take the last cup about 7:00 pm so that the caffeine does not keep me awake as I'm very sensitive to the caffeine in coffee which I never drink as I can never go to sleep until about 5 am if I have coffee. bulk.com/uk/matcha-green-te...

All the best.

Roy

[RoyMacDonald in reply to mjames1]

Sorry Jim, I made a typo in the post, it should read 2.5 mg, not 150 mg's! I'd probably be bouncing off the walls if I was taking 450 mg a day😂 instead of 7.5 mg's.

All the best.

Roy

[RoyMacDonald in reply to mjames1]

I had a thought about the Japanese stuff you bought and I wondered if you bought the double strength stuff? Were the instructions in Japanese? My contents label says it is 29 % protein, which is higher than prime beef. 🍖

All the best.

Roy

[mjames1 in reply to RoyMacDonald]

Thanks Roy. It was over ten years ago, so don't remember much, but it's very possible the instructions were in Japanese, in which case I didn't read them.

LOL on the protein. Looking around for Matcha here -- I'm in the US -- I see online listings for various grades at various prices. The "ceremonial" grade seems the highest. Any benefit to that?

Jim

[RoyMacDonald in reply to mjames1]

I think the "ceremonial" were stone ground for the ones I looked at on-line so they were most expensive here as well. I didn't see any advantage personally. I just wanted a cheap genuine Matcha as that was mentioned positively in one of the studies, as yielding concentration and improvement in mathematical calculations in young adults. (don't laugh because I'm 78)

"For example, young adults given 2 g of macha (green tea) daily for 2 weeks were better able to maintain attention in a stressful mental arithmetic task. In another study with older adults aged 50-69, just a single dose of macha improved attention, and repeated dosing over 12 weeks improved work capacity. Another study showed that macha combined with caffeine improved both attention and work capacity when under stress better than caffeine alone. Black tea has been also proven to improve attention."

Stress is a factor in my AF events. Especially after a bad nights sleep. I've had no bad nights since I've been drinking the green tea.

"The mental and psychological effects of tea have been attributed to its unique combination of caffeine and L-theanine, with the latter shown to attenuate cardiovascular as well as cortisol responses to acute stress. Studies also consistently show beneficial effects of the high dose of L-theanine, together with a lower dose of caffeine in tea (compared with coffee), on attention task performance, and the combination may exert different effects from those obtained with caffeine alone.

"Most of these positive effects could be attributed to either the L-theonine in the tea, or the L-theonine and the caffeine," Prof Dye said"

All the best.

Roy

[mjames1 in reply to RoyMacDonald]

Thanks again!

[SingingT]

Green tea sets my AF off big time. I can only take decaf green tea.

[mjames1 in reply to SingingT]

Thanks for the heads up. I use to drink coffee and found it neutral or beneficial with my ectopics and aflutter, but recently I've found that coffee may be triggering the ectopics, which can lead to afib. So it I try any green tea, I will definitely start at half strength or less.

Jim

[RoyMacDonald]

Unfortunately they did not test decaf, but they did test black and white tea as well, but I think the caffeine content was lowest in the green if I'm remembering correctly. At least compared to coffee.

All the best.

Roy