He is a HERO: GREEN TEA can be your hero too!

Don’t be Green just because he is a HERO: GREEN TEA can be your hero too!

Green tea has pretty much won the Superhero of Drinks title. It’s already credited with defending you from cancer, protecting your brain and blood pressure from abnormalities and shielding your skin from wrinkles and arteries due to aging’s destructive plaques. 

Now guarding your eyes may be added to the list. Tokyo researchers report that components of the brew stop a leading cause of blindness in babies: abnormal retinal blood vessels. This time, tea’s hailed inflammation blockers (called catechins) were not the only action heroes. Theanine (an amino acid) appears to have played War Machine to catechins’ Iron Man. 

A high-theanine green tea formula prevented the condition (retinopathy of prematurity) in lab rats. Yes, lab rats and newborn babies may be far apart on both the evolutionary and cute scales, but if the eyes of either are exposed to too much oxygen shortly after birth, blindness results. Which makes green tea promising. 

So add sharp sight to your own list of reasons to keep drinking green tea. We already know that one Iron Man-like catechin (called epigallocatechin gallate, which is even harder to type than it is to say) halts changes linked to glaucoma and macular degeneration. Now that theanine appears to be a potent sidekick, there may be more help than suspected for grownup vision. 

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