June 23rd, 2010 by Stand Team

A chemical found in the green tea helps inhibit sexual transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study recommends the use of the compounds in vaginal creams to complement antiretroviral.

Medical experts at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, discovered that the compound could have a low-cost and represent a weapon to fight the spread of HIV, above all in poor countries.

The study found that the polyphenols, tannins and the so-called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) that contains the green tea, is capable of neutralizing a protein in the semen, which serves as a vector viral during sex.

EGCG diminishes what is known as a derivative of the semen enhancer of infection used by the virus, described in the study as “an important factor of ineffectiveness of HIV”.

Writing in the online edition of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers said that “a fraction of peptide recently identified in the human sperm constantly improving the spread of infectious HIV-1″.

The study’s authors said “EGCG seems to be a promising complement of microbiology antiretroviral therapy to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV-1″.

Throughout the world, there are 33 million people infected with HIV, infected through heterosexual relations and the 96 percent of new infections occur in poor nations and in development, the researchers asserted that the use of EGCG, content in the green tea added to topical creams “provides a simple and affordable as a method of prevention, avoiding the transmission of HIV”. Read the rest of this entry »

June 8th, 2010 by Stand Team

An aerosol done on the basis of green tea may protect against skin cancer, so have shown the experiments in which reduced the harmful effects of ultraviolet light sun.

The scientists tested the solution in hospitals in the University Of Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, said that the dew of tea in the skin increases in the construction of the immune system and help to combat the harmful effects of the sun.

So an aerosol done on the basis of Green Tea, would represent a powerful made to combat diseases, thanks to its high content in chemicals called polyphenols, which would have the ability to these salutary effects, explaining that the beneficial effects of the tea on the skin.

The number of British diagnosed with malignant melanoma or skin cancer that is the most deadly form of this type of cancer, has already reached the figure of 10,000 patients per year, according to recent data of the Cancer Research UK.

Although the solar filters can protect the skin, scientists now believe that the tea can help prevent more effectively the cell damage, which leads to cancer. Read the rest of this entry »