What amount of green tea is cited as a medical dose for EGCG's stem cell impact?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | Why Are We Still Twiddling Our Fingers_ A Look at Proactive Health Measures

6 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Aaron Hartman and Maegan Hodge discuss why American medicine waits for disease instead of preventing it. They compare the U.S. approach to cultures that use turmeric tea and other interventions earlier. Getting a medical dose of EGCG from green tea would require 46 cups a day, which shows why food-based prevention often doesn't work at scale.

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About 46 cups a day.

The fact that they were already doing that and was in hospitals while we were still feeling our fingers over here is kind of intriguing to me.
We handcuff ourselves a lot here. Oh, you know, we don't want to do anything too crazy like give them turmeric tea.
What's funny, because, like, a medical dose of green tea for the EGCG to get some of its stem cell impact is like 46 cups a day. So if you're not in a culture that that's part of drinking it, then you're not going to get, you know, four to six cups a day of, you know, green tea to get that, quote, unquote, medicinal impact.