Pu Erh tea | Asian Health Secrets

15 Oct

Foods to Prevent Cancer and Heart Trouble

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Take steps daily to help eliminate impurities, pollution, and stress that damage your health. Here are simple foods and herbs that can help. The photo above is Pu Erh tea sold in Chinese herb and food markets as a large round dried tea disc. Take a pinch of the dried tea, rinse it with boiling water in your tea pot. That awakens the flavor and warms your teapot. Then add water to steep the tea for 5 – 10 minutes.

20 Jan

Pu Erh Tea, Statins, and Cancer – 普洱茶的茶，他汀类药物与癌症

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New research points to the possibility that statin drugs used to reduce harmful cholesterol may also help inhibit certain cancers notably breast cancer. See the chart to the left. That is the pathway indicating how statins can disrupt the mevalonate pathway. USA Today reports: The p53 tumor suppressor gene stops the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells, but some women with breast cancer have mutant forms of this gene. In the new study, when the mutant p53 cells were treated in the laboratory with statins, the cells stopped their erratic growth, and even died in some cases. It seems that the mutated p53 genes may activate the same pathway that the statins inhibit — the mevalonate pathway, the study suggests. The mevalonate pathway is important in the body’s production of cholesterol. In the study, the effects of the statin drugs were erased when the mevalonate pathway was reactivated, supporting the potential mechanism. The new research is published in the Jan. 20 issue of the journal Cell. How can you safely use natural statins without taking medical statin drugs that may have many potentially harmful side-effects, including energy loss, hormonal and behavior problems?