Green tea and cancer are two words quite strongly related to each other in the respect of prevention. To understand why you first need to know what the disease is and how it comes about.
Cancer is a name given to a group of over 200 different diseases which affect cells in the body. They all affect different parts of the body and are all treatable in different ways. There is no cure for it because there are so many different types.
Most of the diseases are named after the organ they start in, for example, colon cancer before it spreads anywhere else in the body starts in the colon. All of the different diseases can be grouped into five main categories.
1. Sarcoma begins in the cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels or other supportive tissues.
2. Leukaemia begins in blood forming tissue and can cause large numbers of abnormal blood cells to enter the blood.
3. Carcinoma generally forms in the skin
4. Central nervous system, these usually start in the brain and spinal cord
5. Myeloma and lymphoma affect cells in the immune system.
Normally cells in the body are only produced when needed such as when they become old or damaged. In this case the old or damaged cells die and are replaced by new ones.
A cell is made up of DNA, when it becomes damaged it can mutate. One of the causes of these mutations is an excess of free radicals in the body. They can affect the normal growth and division of the cells, it's at this point that they may become cancerous. The cells do not die yet more are produced, these extra cells produce a mass of tissue that can form a tumour.
There are two types of tumour;
1. Benign tumours aren't cancerous because they don't travel to other parts of the body. They can often be removed and many don't come back.
2. Malignant tumours are cancerous because they do travel to other part of the body. This spread is called metastasis.
Green tea has high concentrations of antioxidants. They have the ability to bind free radicals in the body keeping them under control. Free radicals are essential for life; however; an over abundance can cause them to damage and alter DNA which can result in mutation. Keeping this excess of free radicals under control is an important step towards prevention of this devastating disease.
Adding Green tea on its own to your diet will help improve your health but for best results, to really supercharge your body you need to balance the nutrients you add to your system. Unless you go on a strict diet of fruit and vegetables avoiding all else there's no better way of getting the nutrients you need than taking a high quality supplement.
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