Green tea combined with exercise can help relieve fatty liver

a new mouse experiment by U.S. researchers, green tea extract combined with exercise can significantly reduce the severity of obesity-related fatty liver disease. The study was recently published in the American Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the United States asked mice fed high-fat foods to eat a certain amount of caffeinate-free green tea extract for 16 weeks and run regularly on treadmills. The results showed that their livers had only a quarter of the lipid deposits in the control group (who did not eat green tea extract and exercised irregularly), and about half of the lipid deposits in the control group in mice that ate only green tea extract or exercised only regularly.
In addition to looking at liver tissue in mice, the researchers analyzed protein and fat levels in mouse feces and found higher levels of lipids and protein in mice that ate green tea extract and exercised regularly.
That's because polyphenols in green tea interact with digestive enzymes secreted by the small intestine, partially inhibiting the breakdown of carbohydrates, fats and proteins in food, while some undigested fats are excreted through feces, said Joshua Lambert, co-author of the paper and an associate professor of food science at Pennsylvania State University.
study also found that green tea extract combined with exercise increased gene expression associated with new mitochondrial formation in mice, which helped to explore specific mechanisms for the combination of green tea extract and exercise to relieve fatty liver. (Source: Xinhua News Agency Zhou zhou)
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