Lately, there has been a surge of interest in the ancient beverage of green tea and it’s health benefits. Experiments, studies, and other scientific inquiries on The Ways Green Tea Can Support Health have become common.

As everyone knows, mice are used very often by the scientific community. They are tested, closely watched, measured, mutilated, poisoned to death, and all manner of things that Scientists cannot legally do to humans. Mice have, recently, become subject to experiments on the health benefits of green tea and the antioxidant EGCG (green tea contains high concentrations of this chemical).

In many of these experiments, the mice are given some sort of DNA adduct–an abnormal DNA bonded to a cancer-causing chemical. Some common compounds used as DNA-adducts are DMBA and NNK. After being injected with the DNA adduct for a period of time, usually a few weeks, the mice develop tumors.

While (in some cases afterwards) the tumors are being developed in the mice, the are given some sort of tea or antioxidant solution. Many different liquids have been used, green tea, black tea, decafinated green and black, solutions of different concentrations of EGCG, and flavonoid (the antioxidants contained in black tea) solutions.

The conclusions of these various experiments on mice all indicate that the teas and antioxidants significantly reduce the growth of carcinogenic cells. Sometimes the number of tumors in the mice who consumed the solutions were halved.

There have also been various studies on the affects of green tea on human health. Here, you can read more about the ways green tea can support health in humans.

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