Tea and Skin Health Part I

This is an Article About Tea and Skin Health by John Pickrell in England for National Geographic News April 29, 2003




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Next to water, tea may be the most commonly consumed drink on the planet. The British alone consume around 165 million cups of Earl Grey, Assam, Darjeeling, Oolong and numerous other varieties of tea each day. Now, new research adds to increasing evidence that tea is not only a much-loved beverage, but may offer a host of health benefits as well.

A study, published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how substances found in tea may help prime the body's immune system to fight off infection. Another report shows how substances in green tea may be linked to skin-cell rejuvenation.

The findings "add to the enormous body of evidence that tea can make a contribution to a healthy lifestyle," commented Bill Gorman executive director of The Tea Council, an independent tea-promotion body based in London, England.  (Article continues below.)

 


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Other studies have shown that antioxidant chemicals in tea-produced from the aromatic plant Camellia sinensis which can help minimize the risk of developing stomach and other types of cancer. One study showed that drinking one cup of tea a day could also reduce heart attack risk by up to 50 percent.  And whatever tea can do for the body, it will certainly show in the skin.

Brewing Up a Defense Force

This latest study shows how chemicals, known as alkylamines, which are commonly present in tea (as well as wine, apples, mushrooms, and other sources), are also present in some bacteria, cancerous cells, parasites, fungi, and other disease-causing agents.

Drinking tea may be able to prime the body's immune system against these agents, by teaching disease-fighter immune cells to recognize and remember alkylamines.

"We found that alkylamines made by bacteria were recognized by the immune system, and wondered where else in nature they occurred," said study co-author Jack F. Bukowski, immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. A quick scan of the literature confirmed that the chemicals were commonly present in tea.

Bukowski and his colleagues carried out experiments which revealed that exposing blood to these chemicals in the test tube could increase the size of one type of defensive response to simulated infection by up to five times. In contrast, human blood cells not exposed to alkylamines showed a much less significant response to simulated bacterial infection. 

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