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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:09 am Post subject:
searching for old jpop songs on google... gah why are all the links disabled?!
aka... procrastinating on my ginormous pset due tomorrow...
which is why im back here on jdorama! for a few mins. man. i need to come back more often T_T _________________
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:22 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Sipping green tea and reading about wireless networks.
good stuff. just bought some oi~oicha 2 liter green tea from Mitsuwa the other day....two weeks ago i just started taking an EGCG supplement..3 capsules daily is equivalent to 10 cups of green tea... EGCG is supposed to be the most powerful antioxidant in green tea. read on if you're interested.
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Research of EGCG MAX
While herbal �gteas�h can be brewed from the leaves, flowers, or even roots of almost anything that grows out of the Earth, true tea – both green and black – comes from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. The difference in taste and in health benefits comes from the way the tea leaves are processed: to make black tea, the leaves are fermented, which oxidizes many of the antioxidants present in the leaves, while green tea is produced by lightly steaming the fresh-cut leaf.
Green tea was brought to Japan by Buddhist monks from China, and the Japanese people quickly embraced the soothing, grassy brew. Today, the citizens of Japan boast the longest average lifespan in the world, and there�fs reams of research to suggest that green tea is a major factor in their robust health.
Research in experimental animals has found green tea or its extracts to be effective against chemically-induced cancers of the lung, breast, colon, liver, and skin, as well as a variety of gastrointestinal organs, cancers induced by chemical carcinogens; more excitingly, green tea extracts have been found to protect animals from existing, spontaneous prostate cancer. More important to us is the human evidence for the health benefits of green tea consumption. Extensive epidemiological evidence shows that people consuming high amounts of Japanese sencha green tea live longer, develop less cancer, have healthier cholesterol levels, suffer less cardiovascular and liver disease, and may be less susceptible to heart attacks.
The evidence for the cancer-fighting powers of green tea is so strong that human clinical trials of green tea powders and extracts are now under way at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and at other clinical centers in the United States.
How Much Tea?
But other studies have found no difference in cancer incidence among higher and lower drinkers of green tea. In the most infamous example, a study published in 2001 in the New England Journal of Medicine found no protective effect of green tea consumption against gastric cancer, despite the fact that numerous previous studies had found that drinking green tea does provide a shield against this killer. As with so many other things, the key appears to lie in the amount of green tea being consumed. In the New England Journal of Medicine study, drinking five or more cups of green tea a day put people into the highest consumption group. By contrast, the most consistent epidemiological evidence for a protective effect of green tea comes from the consumption of ten cups or more of Japanese sencha per day.
How Do You Get that in Pills?
Few Westerners drink this much green tea. So to get green tea�fs benefits, many health-conscious people have turned to standardized extracts of the green tea leaf itself. That seems to be an especially attractive option when many companies advertise small green tea pills which allegedly contain the equivalent of five to ten cups of green tea apiece. Unfortunately, nearly all green tea extract capsules contain only a fraction of the green tea �gcup-equivalents�h than their manufacturers claim.
These companies aren�ft flat-out lying, but they�fre using the wrong yardstick – or, to be more precise, the wrong cup. The problem is that the amount of EgCG (the main cancer-fighting component) and other goodies in a cup of green tea can vary over a wide range, depending on the kind of green tea, the region where it�fs grown, the brewing time, tea leaf, kind of teabag – and, of course, the size of the cup! By choosing to compare a supplement to the poorest-quality green tea infusions, supplement companies use �gcreative accounting�h to evaluate the potency of their pills. can inflate the comparison, asserting that their products�f 100 to 200 milligrams of EgCG is equivalent to five to ten cups of green tea.
But this is just misleading. When all of these factors are taken into account, and when you consider that the most consistent research on green tea�fs health-enhancing effects in humans comes from drinkers of Japanese sencha, the �ggold standard�h cup of green tea can contains 150 milligrams of EgCG. This means, unfortunately, that few green tea capsules even deliver the equivalent of even one full cup of Japanese green tea a day – let alone the ten cups that is most consistently associated with good health and long life.
If you�fre looking to use green tea for longevity and to guard against age-related disease, it only makes sense to get the best-backed dose of the best-backed molecule. Indeed, it�fs these kinds of doses – 800 to 1600 milligrams of EgCG per day that are being used in the human clinical trials that have begun in the last few years.
The Caffeine Conundrum
Green tea contains very little caffeine compared to coffee – but of course, it can still add up if you start drinking ten cups of the steaming brew a day. And indeed, one clinical trial which has been using ground tea solids as its �edrug�f has reported significant side-effects – including insomnia, fatigue, confusion, nausea, diarrhea, stomach pain, and in even vomiting – linked to the substance�fs caffeine content.
Some green tea supplements are fully decaffeinated to avoid any such problems. While this approach is better than adding as much as 500 milligrams of extra caffeine to your day, these supplements are inherently less effective than real tea, because several studies have found that caffeine itself plays a significant role in the cancer-fighting powers of green tea.
And there are other benefits to moderate intake of caffeine, despite the clear negative impacts of being a full-fledged caffeine junkie. For instance, large body of research now suggests that modest caffeine consumption reduces your risk of developing Parkinson�fs disease – probably as a result of caffeine�fs ability to modulate adenosine A2A receptors in the brain. Another example: green tea polyphenols and caffeine synergize to increase the body�fs thermogenic fat-burning activity – effects with important implications for the Battle of the Bulge, which is an engagement important for health and vanity alike.
Thus, rigorously eliminating the caffeine content from green tea – whether you get it in cup or capsule – is not the best strategy for your long-term health. While a zero-tolerance approach may be the only way for a few extremely caffeine-sensitive individuals to get the benefits of EgCG, most people will be better off getting at least a little caffeine in with their green tea. Lightly-caffeinated green tea extracts provide a happy medium between caffeine-induced side effects and the loss of significant health benefits.
Putting it All in a Capsule
So getting the full benefits of green tea – an icon of Zen simplicity – turns out to involve taking a lot of factors into consideration. Green tea extracts should be HPLC standardized to their content of EgCG. They should make it convenient to get 1500 milligrams of EgCG a day, to match the strong epidemiological evidence of health benefits in Japanese sencha drinkers. And they should contain at least a little caffeine, so that the often-synergistic interactions between EgCG and caffeine can be unleashed. Put it all together, and you�fll have squeezed a remarkable amount of health benefit into a few small capsules.
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This information is copyright the Editor of Advances magazine and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any medium without the express permission of Advanced Orthomolecular Research. Used with permission
good stuff. just bought some oi~oicha 2 liter green tea from Mitsuwa the other day....two weeks ago i just started taking an EGCG supplement..3 capsules daily is equivalent to 10 cups of green tea... EGCG is supposed to be the most powerful antioxidant in green tea. read on if you're interested.
Interesting article.
Wow, ten cups? That's quite a bit.
Been popping the omega-3 gelcaps for about a month now... Bought 'em at Costco.
I was thinking whether or not taking glucosine/chondroitin tablets would help my disc situation...
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:47 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Interesting article.
Wow, ten cups? That's quite a bit.
Been popping the omega-3 gelcaps for about a month now... Bought 'em at Costco.
hey 'racer....word of advice regarding omega-3...when you purchase omega-3 it's important that you check to see if the omega-3 oil is "molecularly distilled" to remove toxins such as PCBs, toxins and heavy metals such as mercury. you don't want to do more harm than good.
having said that if you are taking a good quality Omega-3, kudos to you, after dramatically adjusting your cholesterol level in successful fashion...these supplements will help keep your triglycerides and cholesterol in check. moreover omega 3 fatty acids have an anti-inflammatory property to them.
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I was thinking whether or not taking glucosine/chondroitin tablets would help my disc situation...
it might....i recommend taking something to help improve your collagen synthesis (which is the "ground substance") for all biological tissue...muscles, bone, ligaments, tendons, blood vessels, teeth etc....for this vitamin C is the best...i recently spent hours upon hours reading some toxicology books and books written by vitamin C experts.....i recently started megadosing on vitamin C.....vitamin C is critical to wound healing and has anti-inflammatory properities as well.
moreover there is clinical research that Vitamin C lowers trigylcerides and cholosterol by affecting metabolism and the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids.
hey 'racer....word of advice regarding omega-3...when you purchase omega-3 it's important that you check to see if the omega-3 oil is "molecularly distilled" to remove toxins such as PCBs, toxins and heavy metals such as mercury. you don't want to do more harm than good.
Yeah, I remember you mentioned it in a previous article... The label on the bottle reads:
Kirkland Signature fish supply comes from deep ocean waters. Our fish oil is not supplied from farm-raised fish. State-of-the-art molecular distillation process is used to remove mercury, PCBs and dioxins, which guarantees purity and potency with reduced fish odor, on all Kirkland Signature fish oil products. The fish oil is derived from a variety of fish species, to maximize omega-3 fatty acid concentration.
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having said that if you are taking a good quality Omega-3, kudos to you, after dramatically adjusting your cholesterol level in successful fashion...these supplements will help keep your triglycerides and cholesterol in check. moreover omega 3 fatty acids have an anti-inflammatory property to them.
Yeah, I'm hoping the supplements will help raise my rather low (39) HDL levels... We'll see when I take my next blood test in 2007.
Hmm, you mention anti-inflammatories... Are you familiar with Dr. Nicholas(?) Perricone's studies? I've seen him on PBS talking about this stuff.
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it might....i recommend taking something to help improve your collagen synthesis (which is the "ground substance") for all biological tissue...muscles, bone, ligaments, tendons, blood vessels, teeth etc....for this vitamin C is the best...i recently spent hours upon hours reading some toxicology books and books written by vitamin C experts.....i recently started megadosing on vitamin C.....vitamin C is critical to wound healing and has anti-inflammatory properities as well.
moreover there is clinical research that Vitamin C lowers trigylcerides and cholosterol by affecting metabolism and the conversion of cholesterol to bile acids.
I'll have to read up on that glucosamine/chondroitin stuff... There was a recent article in Consumer Reports about it...
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:01 am Post subject:
sawadasmile wrote:
searching for old jpop songs on google... gah why are all the links disabled?!
aka... procrastinating on my ginormous pset due tomorrow...
which is why im back here on jdorama! for a few mins. man. i need to come back more often T_T
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:10 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, I'm hoping the supplements will help raise my rather low (39) HDL levels... We'll see when I take my next blood test in 2007.
good news on the Kirkland supplement you're taking....omega-3's and vitamin C help lower LDL and raise HDL.....
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Hmm, you mention anti-inflammatories... Are you familiar with Dr. Nicholas(?) Perricone's studies? I've seen him on PBS talking about this stuff.
yes i am aware of his body of work. it is impressive and insightful...filled with much goood info...but his personal line of health supplements is GROSSLY overpriced....in fact it's rape. one of the antioxidants which he praises, which i mentioned to you in the past, is Asthaxanthin....500 times more powerful than E and can cross the blood/brain barrier so it can protect your nervous system....i went to Nordstrom in Cerritos over the weekend and they had his ish there....his bottle of 2mg Asthaxanthin pills was about 60 dollars I can get 4mg pills at less than HALF that price...bottled at the source in Hawaii by Mera Pharmaceuticals
www.astafactor.com (use online coupon code "well1" for 50%)...this nutrient also has strong anti-inflammatory properties....Perricone's work is valid but if you're ever interested in something he recommends...don't buy his sheit...it's overpriced....get his recs but buy elsewhere
bmwracer wrote:
I'll have to read up on that glucosamine/chondroitin stuff... There was a recent article in Consumer Reports about it...
yeah well a loooong time ago when i was hiking often my knees started hurting me....after supplementing with Glucosamine...after a few weeks the pain went away....it takes weeks to build up effective levels in the bloodstream
yeah well a loooong time ago when i was hiking often my knees started hurting me....after supplementing with Glucosamine...after a few weeks the pain went away....it takes weeks to build up effective levels in the bloodstream
I guess it's worth a try then... The epidurals have had minimal effectiveness.
Yeah, I saw Perricone pushing his elixirs: pricey, Rodeo Drive stuff.
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Damn I.B. kids.
I can get 4mg pills at less than HALF that price...bottled at the source in Hawaii by Mera Pharmaceuticals
