Posted by desolationrower on March 4, 2009, at 12:23:27
In reply to Re: Survey: Does green tea lessen your symptoms? » myco, posted by garnet71 on March 3, 2009, at 22:39:27
> I had the worst panic attacks of my life while taking a multi-vitamin that had green tea extract in it. It was years ago--CVS vitamins; I would had never checked the back of the box on that one until I had been taking them for months. There was nothing on the front of the box about green tea--it appeared to be a regular multivitamin. Just a few times per week I drink loose green tea-straight from a tea plantation in the hills of rural China (even picked some myself) in the evenings with no noticable effects--good or bad.
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> There are studies floating around that claim coffee has a higher antioxidant content (or something like that) than green tea. I drink 2 cups every morning out of habit. Can't seem to find the desire to quit that one.It depends on which kind of free radical they are measured against. However the imporant thing about antidoxidants isn't actually ability to neutralize radicals (except for some cases, like alcohol damange to GI track i think is one example). but the antioxidant chemicals tend to have various beneficial actions. which is why its good to get a variety in the diet of them, but also why some such as green tea as expecially encouraged.
the other thing green tea does is inhibit the COMT enzyme, which metabolizes NA amoung other things (similar to MAO). this is how green tea raises metabolism, but theoretically could increase anxieyt.
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