let's talk about green tea green tea is a powerhouse for so many things
but especially cancer now there's a lot of phytonutrients in green tea that give you
all sorts of benefits but the one that i want to focus on in this video is cancer there's a very
specific phytonutrient it's called a catechin and there's out of all six the egcg is the most
potent and most abundant and when i say most potent i'm talking about
directed towards cancer but this phytonutrient has a lot of benefits it's anti-obesity
anti-lipid chemoprotective so let's say you were on chemotherapy because you had cancer
you'd want to be drinking green tea because it's going to lower the toxicity
it also has anti-proliferative properties which means it has a potential to decrease the spread
of cancer it also helps you increase your own antioxidants like sod and glutathione and catalase
it's anti-cavity it supports your blood sugars it's antimicrobial and the list goes on and on
and on but as far as cancer goes there's two different mechanisms that green tea can help
you one which i just did a video on which i'll put a link down below fas stands for fatty acid
synthase now anytime something has an ace that means it's an enzyme so it helps make fatty
acids so it just so happens that this enzyme is overexpressed in certain types of cancer
which means that your cancer needs this enzyme and requires this enzyme for making part of its
structure so the phytonutrient in green tea can help inhibit the cancer from getting this enzyme
and egcg is cytotoxic to cancer cells so that's one mechanism but there's another mechanism a type
of fuel that cancer can live on is glutamine now glutamine is in pretty much every food that you
eat and it's not that i'm telling you to avoid glutamine if you're healthy but if you have cancer
cancer cells can potentially live on glutamine and it just so happens that the phytonutrient
in green tea can inhibit glutamine as a potential fuel source for cancer and the very cool thing
about green tea is it's non-toxic so green tea is a really good thing to add to your current plan
now i know this is going to come up as a question so i'm going to bring it up right now
since green tea can inhibit glutamine and we need glutamine is that going to create a problem
and the answer is no because glutamine as an amino acid is non-essential and so if there's
some type of biochemical reaction that your body needs to make glutamine it can make it from other
amino acids if you have cancer and you're trying to block glutamine as a potential source of fuel
this compound might be a very good non-toxic alternative to certain drugs that might
block glutamine all right guys thanks for watching i will see you in the next video
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