Green Tea Extract (Ray & Terry's)
Get your daily dose of ECGC the easy way - Green Tea Extract caps!
Don't feel like drinking those 8-10 cups of expensive green tea or Matcha every day? Many don't, so thankfully there's a great Green Tea Extract cap from Ray & Terry's!
Green Tea has numerous beneficial effects on immune system function. As compared to black tea, green tea contains a high level of catechins, a type of polyphenol, anantioxidant. The catechins in black tea are lost during processing.Green Tea Extract (GTE) contains the concentrated beneficial agents of green tea. Green Tea Extract contains ECGC (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), a powerful antioxidant with neuroprotective activity, and contains other protective polyphenol catechins.
GTE increases antioxidant capacity in the body. The oxidation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is the first step of dangerous "vulnerable" plaque formation on blood vessel walls. GTE reduces LDL oxidation. In addition, high levels of iron in the blood, particularly in combination with elevated levels of LDL, promote the oxidation of LDL. Green tea extract reduces iron levels in the blood. GTE may also reduce fibrinogen, a protein in the blood that contributes to coagulation.