Drinking more green tea to prevent autoimmune diseases

New research results show that green tea ingredients can effectively inhibit the activity of immune substances in skin and saliva, and prevent the occurrence of autoimmune diseases Drinking more green tea to prevent autoimmune diseases, including lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and so on It is found that green tea has the effect of preventing autoimmune diseases in addition to its generally recognized anticancer effect Because green tea can prevent the body from producing immune antigens, it is fundamentally the cause of autoimmune diseases The tea polyphenols in green tea can regulate more than 130 kinds of autoantigens, and have immunomodulatory effect as well as anti-inflammatory effect Chinese people often drink green tea This habit has caused many differences in health between Chinese and American people, which has become a new way for him to explore this issue After research, he analyzed that one of the polyphenols in green tea, called EGCG, can inhibit the human body's autoimmune response, so he came to the conclusion that green tea has a good preventive effect on autoimmune diseases The research collected research data about green tea in various aspects, including various health care functions from oral cancer prevention to skin anti wrinkle The protective effect of green tea on human body comes from a compound called tea polyphenol, which can resist the harm of free radicals to human body In addition, green tea induces the human body to produce a special protein, which can protect healthy cells and destroy cancer cells at the same time Animal experiments have shown that green tea extract can effectively prevent primary Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease, a research group from Georgia Medical College reported in the new issue of autoimmune This disease will cause the immune system of patients to attack their own tissues, produce additional antibodies, and mistakenly target salivary and lacrimal glands The most common symptom is dry mouth There is no way to cure or prevent it at present The researchers gave the animals green tea extract in the experiment, and found that after three weeks of experiment, the damage of salivary glands and dry mouth symptoms were significantly relieved The researchers explained that medical research had known that a special ingredient in green tea, EGCG, could help suppress inflammation, so they designed experiments to test whether green tea extract could also alleviate Sjogren's syndrome The researchers speculate that EGCG in green tea may "activate" the body's defense system against TNF alpha attacks TNF alpha is a group of proteins and other molecules related to systemic inflammation, which are produced by leukocytes and can attack and kill cells The researchers said that the number of salivary gland cells killed by TNF alpha was significantly reduced in the animals that received the green tea extract About 30 percent of the elderly in the United States have dry mouth symptoms to varying degrees, the researchers said In China, where green tea is widely consumed, only about 5% of the elderly suffer from dry mouth symptoms The team said they would study in depth the specific mechanisms by which green tea extracts, especially EGCG, work Next, they will study whether green tea can help prevent other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.