From Ralph Moss(www.cancerdecisions.com)email newsletter: Green Tea Protects Against Prostate Cancer I have written so many articles in favor of tea (both green and black) that you might think that I am secretly in the employ of the Tea Board! No such luck...but I will continue to preach the value of tea in improving one's health and warding off various diseases. (To clear up a question I received from one reader, I am talking about "regular" tea here, Camellia sinensis, and not herbal.) Tea is so commonly available and inexpensive that it is often overlooked by those who are trying to sell high-priced supplements. It is truly ""that Excellent and by All Physicians approved China drink," as a text from 1658 once put it. The latest tea discovery comes from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Scientists there gave an extract of green tea to mice that are prone to develop metastatic prostate cancer. The amount of green tea was the equivalent of six cups of green tea per day for humans. The results were striking. As expected, 100 percent of the mice that received just plain water to drink developed metastatic prostate cancer. But among the mice that got tea to drink there was a significant delay in primary tumor incidence, a decrease in the weight of the prostate, an inhibition of harmful cancer growth factors, and a reduction in some of the markers of proliferating prostate cells. The most striking observation, said Dr. Sanjay Gupta and his Case Western colleagues, was that green tea resulted in "almost complete inhibition of distant site metastases." Furthermore, green tea consumption caused programmed death (apoptosis) of prostate cancer cells, "thereby causing the inhibition of prostate cancer development, progression, and metastasis...to distant organ sites" {Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 18, 10350-10355, August 28, 2001} Mayo Clinic, phase II Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.