Green Tea Stymies Cancer, Olive Leaf Improves Blood Pressure

Green Tea Stymies Cancer, Olive Leaf Improves Blood Pressure

VISTA, Calif.--Green tea extract may enhancecellular viability by improving antioxidant defenses, as well as interfere withearly phases of tumor growth, according to research announced by ExtractsPlus.The in vitro study, published by researchers at theJohannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany (Int J Oncol, 21:1307-15,2002), investigated the effects of green tea extract--as EFLA942, distributedin the United States by ExtractsPlus--on human colon cancer cells. Resultsindicated constituents of the green tea extract interfered with early phases oftumor growth at a cellular level.

ExtractsPlus also announced its olive leaf extract EFLA943 mayreduce hypertension induced by L-NAME (NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester). Swissresearchers induced hypertension in rats with daily oral doses of L-NAME (ArzneimittelForschung, 52, 11:797-802, 2002). Some of the animals were givensimultaneous doses of olive leaf extract and L-NAME, and others were given oliveleaf extract after hypertension had been induced by six weeks of L-NAMEtreatment. Researchers noted the olive leaf extract protected against risingblood pressure in the animals given L-NAME and the supplement concurrently, andthey also noted a normalization of blood pressure when olive leaf extract wasgiven after six weeks of L-NAME treatment.

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