Theaflavins: One more natural bullet in your preventive health pistol.

The health benefits of Green Tea have grabbed all the publicity over the last couple of years, even though many alternative and complimentry medicine practitioners utilized Green Tea for many years prior to its popularity swing. Hopefully it will not face another farce of a study like the one conducted years ago on Ginkgo Bilboa - six weeks, 100 people - and if it hadn't been such a travesty to a good medicinal herb - we'd all be laughing that any reputable institution would have even thought to publish it. Granted Ginkgo's tremendous popularity as a mind powder/clarity enhancer made it a big target of every Pharma funded institution in the U.S.. It still is as good a vaso-dialator (one of the few that provide blood to the brain - thus the reputation.) and should be a apart of any preventive health program.

But hold on, it appears Green Tea's traditional cousin Black Tea has revealed compounds known as Theaflavins that possess a unique ability to regulate the genes that produce inflammatory cytokines and other toxic factors related to degenerative disease and aging.

Theaflavin's are unlike the flavanoid epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which is found in Green Tea and its ability to prevent disease. Theaflavin works in a process known as nutrigenomics, which is the science of dietary control of genetic expression. These Theaflavin extracts work to active genes which reduce the damage of inflammation-based diseases such as cancer, cariovascular disease, diabetes, and others.

As more is explored, let me just say this, drink a variety of Teas - The more we learn the more promising they look.