Lipton's™ Green Tea saved my life, I had cancer once and then when I drank Lipton's™ Green Tea, I didn't.
In addition to the link I gave in post 55 to a quite recent study showing green tea was of no use in prevent or curing cancer, here is link to an older, very large, and complete and careful controlled study showing the same thing for prostate cancer:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2360636/?tool=pubmed
Here is its brief abstract in full:
“In a prospective
study of 19 561 Japanese men, green-tea intake was NOT associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer (110 cases), the multivariate hazard ratio for men drinking ≥5 cups compared with <1 cup per day being 0.85 (95% confidence interval 0.50–1.43, trend P=0.81).”
Here is the title of the paper reporting the study:
“No association between green tea and prostate cancer risk in Japanese men: the Ohsaki Cohort Study”
Here is part of the introduction paragraph:
“…Green-tea consumption per capita in Japan is the highest in the world (International Tea Committee, 2004). One reason for the low incidence of prostate cancer in Japan may be the high consumption of green tea. We therefore examined the association between green-tea consumption and prostate cancer incidence among men in the Ohsaki Cohort Study conducted in rural Japan. …”
This low incidence of prostate cancer in Japan, is like the lower death by heart disease in France. Ignorant people and then the press, jump to the conclusion that it is due to green tea in Japan and red wine in France. Red wine does contain resveratrol, which in VITRO can be shown to have many desirable effects, including upon cancer cells. But it is destroyed in the human gut so essentially none gets into the blood (You can get it there by direct absorption under the tongue from resveratrol saturated wafers.):
“…oral bioavailability of resveratrol is low because it is rapidly metabolized in intestines and liver into conjugated forms: glucuronate and sulfonate.[102] Only trace amounts (below 5 ng/mL) of unchanged resveratrol could be detected in the blood after 25 mg oral dose.[102] Even when a very large dose (2.5 and 5 g) was given as an uncoated pill, the concentration of resveratrol in blood failed to reach the level claimed to be necessary for the systemic cancer prevention.[40] A formulation of resveratrol in a chewing gum form is now in production, and this would be expected to achieve much higher blood levels than oral formulations. …”
Quote from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol
I.e. even if you took 25mg by mouth only 5 ng/mL ends up in the blood and the liver rapidly destroys that tiny fraction.
It is sad commentary on general human progress from the days when we were burning witches to see how strongly still scientifically unfounded beliefs are accepted by the masses just because of coincidental associations. (A crazy girl in Salem, low rate of prostate cancer in Japan, or lower heart attack rates in France)
I have prostate cancer an operation removing prostate and associated tissue did not cure. Thus, when I learned it failed as a cure, I spent more than 100 hours at Pub Med looking for diet items that might help (had at least two pier-reviewed studies showing effectives) I found four and take them before every meal with some indications that they are helping. I keep PSA < o.1 ng/dL with low duty cycle use of Testosterone, T, lowering drug but after three years of use must report they are not a cure. Initially red grape juice and green tea were part of the "therapeutic diet" but later I learned more about them and dropped their use. At least five other items with popular press claims have been tested (in my carefully controlled one patient study) but then dropped. I pay nothing in Brazil to measure PSA and T so do both five times in each on drug/ off drug cycle. First measured pair is about 9 hours after last drug pill is take, 2nd is about 7 weeks later, then three more at decreasing intervals to watch PSA approach 0.1 and as it does start next cycle´s on drug phase.
I plot the ratio, PSA/T and so long as it remains essentially constant conclude that the cancer cells in my body still need T to be active. Normally with more continuous use of drugs to surpress T, the drugs become ineffective and PSA climbs even if T is held near castration levels. My hope, so far achieved, is that will low duty cycle use of drugs the drug will not lose control. I.e. not become an untreatable CRPC case. When (and if) I have gone four years keeping PSA <0.1 and ratio PSA/T constant, I will publish my "therapeutic diet" details.
I brew a pot of the good stuff twice a day when I'm at work. Try to get green tea that's long and unbroken (say 5mm in length, deep green color). If you're getting broken little bits then that's bottom of the barrel tea leaves (usually used in lipton tea bags or something like that). If it's kept sealed it'll last forever.
