Green Tea’s polyphenols can help you reduce your risk of disease and help slow the effects of aging, some studies suggest.

Green Tea’s polyphenols are the naturally-occurring antioxidents that give green tea it’s flavor and provide disease prevention and treatment benefits. The major polyphenols are epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin and epigallocatechine gallate (EGCG).

EGCG contains 200 times the amount of antioxident level of Vitamin E, studies suggest.

How about that! Scientists have long-purported that Vitamin E is one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal against aging. And who doesn’t want to look younger longer?

It makes sense why Asian cultures tend to exhibit a more youthful appearance into later life because green tea’s anti-aging ingredient EGCG.

When your immune system is stronger, often attributed to healthy habits, your body is more prepared to Green tea’s polyphenols also provide nutrition needed to boost your immune system, which protects your body against bacteria, diease, fungi and other nasty critters. Your immune system helps you fight off infection and keep your organs and tissues safe and sound.

With the help of EGCG, your immune system is more equipped to fight against the decaying of your body’s cells, including your skin. Drinking green tea and taking in it’s anti-aging polyphenols thus help you maintain more youthful-appearing skin longer because your body is able to protect itself against damage

So can a green tea diet stop aging altogether? Of course not! But drinking green tea regularly, which some suggest drinking at least five cups a day, can keep you strong and energized.

If drinking that many cups of green tea per day sounds like more hassle than its worth, consider taking green tea extract supplements.

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A lot of people suffer from mild acne – that’s why its a multi-billion dollar business throughout the world.

If you’re like a lot of us, you’ve dealt with a few acne battles. And if you’re like a huge chunk of us, you’ve tried a number of over-the-counter and even prescription anti-acne products.

The problem that many of us find is the stinging chemicals and rubs can sometimes leave our face more red than we started with.

This is one reason why people with mild acne issues should consider using green tea extract to reduce acne flare ups. Applying green tea extract to your skin can help draw out toxins in your skin.

Once you’ve done so, be sure to wash your face to clean off the surfaced toxins. Next, apply an oil-free moisturizer.

The key to healthy acne-less skin is to avoid drying out your skin, because your face will produce excess oil when your skin senses your face is oil-less.

Green tea has been known to have soothing affects. Another way to combat a breakout is to soak a cold compress in green tea and apply it to your face. Just be sure to wash your face gently after using the compress and reapply the moisturizer.

Drinking two cups of green tea daily will also help reduce acne because green tea contains many anti-oxidants that help eliminate toxin build-up in your body.

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Can you guess what it is?

If you guess Green Tea, you are correct!

Skin-products guru Lina Tanaka told the Journal that she brews fresh Green Tea daily – using either green tea bags or loose leaves – and applies cooled green tea directly to her face throughout the day.

Each morning, Tanaka splashes her face with green tea and then uses facial creams to prevent her skin from drying. She loads the rest of the cooled tea into a spritzer bottle and she sprays herself with green tea throughout the day to cool her skin and protect against damaging sun rays.

She has even been known to place cooled green tea bags on her eyeslids during the evenings to help replenish them, the Journal reports.

While green tea can be an incredibly nutritional drink, it’s awesome to see that using cooled green tea as a skin product can produce results that get the approval of skin-product experts like Tanaka.

The great thing about Tanaka’s Green Tea Skim Care regime is it’s incredibly inexpensive. Green Tea bags cost only pennies per bag.

A great value Green Tea I’ve found Yogi’s Green Tea Super Anti-Oxidant bags.

If you’ve tried Ms. Tanaka’s Green Tea skin care solution, let us know how it went. I’d love to hear your experience.

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