Lots of studies have proven this tea lowers blood glucose.
But people suffering type 2 diabetes have another problem. Their intestinal walls tend to be inflamed and perforated, which spreads inflammation around their bodies and compromises their health even further.
So, a new study in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition attempted to find out if this tea could also tackle this intestinal inflammation.
And their results were a solid YES! This means this tea an extremely powerful treatment method for type 2 diabetes.
Instead of giving their subjects cups of green tea, each of which contain only 50–100 milligrams of catechins (the most powerful ingredient in green tea), they used an extract with 890 milligrams of these chemicals inside a sweet confection.
They recruited 40 people, 21 of whom had the metabolic syndrome and 19 of whom were healthy. The metabolic syndrome is the precursor to type 2 diabetes.
The diabetic subjects were obese with an average age of 40, whereas the healthy subjects maintained a healthy weight with an average age of 34.
They split their participants into two groups: Group 1 received the confection with a green tea extract for 28 days while group 2 received a confection without any green tea. After the 28 days, the two groups swapped.
The scientists measured their subjects’ parameters on day zero, day 14, and day 28 of each intervention period.
This is what they found.
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1. Fasting glucose dropped during the green tea extract period in both those with and without the metabolic syndrome.
2. Intestinal inflammation decreased during the green tea extract period in both those with and without the metabolic syndrome.
All this means that a green tea extract packed with catechins can lower blood sugar and lower intestinal inflammation in both diabetics and healthy people.
Some of these extracts do list the amount of catechins on their labels, so make sure that you consume around 890 milligrams per day.