Comments on: Brainy beverage: study reveals how green tea boosts brain cell production to aid memory

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:35:47 +0000

Correction: Jeffrey Blumberg is a PhD, not a MD.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:31:36 +0000

Jeffrey Blumberg MD of Tufts University, a tea and health expert, says that polyphenols (catechins) constitute 30% of the weight of green tea in grams. He was interviewed on the Ira Breite show on Doctor Radio (SiriusXM) last week.

By: tmber

tmber — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:28:02 +0000

10-15% of tea weight is EGCG????

what’a joke!

By: stephen p

stephen p — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:27:20 +0000

raw cacao in my black tea with milk is probably just as good

By: Bliss

Bliss — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:16:51 +0000

‘Transcend’ has excellent health advice, although much of the nutritional supplement advice was the best and most recent ( circa 2008/9 ).
The book claimed it would update with new research and findings on its rayandterry website, but this hasn’t happened.
I understand it is very difficult to document the ‘moving target’ that is nutrition += health benefits, without it dating rapidly.

By: Picard

Picard — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:09:59 +0000

How does it compare to Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

By: WhichWaldenPond

WhichWaldenPond — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:53:09 +0000

In animal studies, they use high doses because they want to try to see a measurable (ie, dramatic) effect in a short time. The study shows that green tea has a good effect on the brain. It does not mean human should inject purified green tea into their veins and then search their houses for hidden platforms.

By: Lord Penguin

Lord Penguin — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:52:07 +0000

Jay g: To answer your quetion, 20mg/kg is 1600mg for a 80kg (170 pound) person. At 35mg ECGC per cup, that’s 45 cups. And that’s if it all makes it into the bloodstream, so unless a special type of green tea is taken, it would take at least 50 cups to get the proportional amount injected into the rats.

By: srgg67

srgg67 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:57:27 +0000

Yes, there is an opinion that green tea contains more coffeine than coffee itself. But it impacts more delicate during tea session while you drink it.
Don’t drink it at bedtime!

By: srgg67

srgg67 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:38:44 +0000

…and LSD :)
by the way Albert Hofmann lived 102 years

By: srgg67

srgg67 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:36:11 +0000

…sorry, I wanted to say “And DON’T forget about oolong also!”

By: srgg67

srgg67 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:35:13 +0000

All green tea is good if it is not packed like lipton (it’s not tea at all, just disgusting) but sells on weight. Go to tea shop and buy it. Usually as price higher then quality is too.
And forget about oolong also!

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:54:50 +0000

Jay, I sent a note to Prof. Bai requesting that information.

By: james

james — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:19:07 +0000

I don’t know about brands but I always go to the local Chinese or Indian supermarket to buy mine. I live in New Zealand but I’m assuming you’ll have one near where you live, wherever you are in the world. I can by a big box of loose leaf green tea for about 6 bucks that lasts my wife and I for months, making it so cheap its effectively free. It doesn’t really taste like anything either, so there’s basically no drawbacks to it. It’s probably the single easiest, cheapest, most positive thing you can do for your health.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:47:02 +0000

Of course, the bit that is most interesting, is “Bridge One”…utilizing all means available in today’s day in order to best your chances of getting to the following bridge and so on.

No, I honestly have not read either health book at the moment.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:36:05 +0000

Being that they are health books and not books that focus on his the Singularity and the future, it’s no wonder that they don’t get as much attention as they should…even though they are arguably just as important — after all, they explain his regimen and how he believes people can strengthen their chances of making it into “Bridge Two and Three” – the genetic and nanotech revolutions that he believes will happen in this and the following decade.

By: Ondrej

Ondrej — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:18:07 +0000

When they say green tea, that means strewn green tea. I read an article that industrially processed green tea loses most of the desirable substances in the process. I suppose this would include ECGS I suppose.

By: omran al-kandari

omran al-kandari — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:31:49 +0000

I think now it’s a good time to replace my black tea with a green one :)

By: Cod

Cod — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:04:02 +0000

Don’t forget your fish oil

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:56:35 +0000

I’d love to see studies on coffee and green tea start looking at differences in results between people who are slow caffeine metabolizers and people who are not.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:39:45 +0000

I don’t know about ketchup but almonds are really good. The next be question is are you putting the ketchup on the almonds!

By: cpt.randall

cpt.randall — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:22:32 +0000

What is a good brand of Green Tea?
Thanks, R

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:42:54 +0000

Now that we’re all agreed over the green tea and red wine, what can you say about ketchup and almonds?

By: trakk

trakk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:53:38 +0000

A cup of coffee with breakfast, a cup of green tea with lunch, and a glass of wine with dinner is golden.

And lots of water in between :)

By: trakk

trakk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:50:02 +0000

those three are very helpful and healthy. But i have read somewhere recently that red wine is not suitable for people with allergies due to sulfites in them. Other wise its healthy along with white wine.

By: trakk

trakk — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:46:26 +0000

try the green tea in evenings…any tea at night, green or black will mess with sleep (in my experience).

As for coffee, i ‘think’ its effect is more short term than that of green tea.

By: jay g

jay g — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:31:56 +0000

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=146
“Most of the research showing the health benefits of green tea is based on the amount of green tea typically consumed in Asian countries—about 3 cups per day (which would provide 240-320 mg of polyphenols). Just one cup of green tea supplies 20-35 mg of EGCG, which has the highest antioxidant activity of all the green tea catechins.”

from wikipedia:
“Standardized green tea extract is 90 percent total polyphenols, and 1 capsule equals 5 cups of tea.[8][9]
For a green tea extract standardized for 80 percent polyphenols and 55 percent EGCG, a daily dose of 300 to 400 mg green tea extracts is recommended”

By: jay g

jay g — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:25:50 +0000

Found my answer in the PDF of the original study at Wiley – injected with EGCG (20 mg/kg) daily. Now how much green tea drinking would that be for a human?

By: jay g

jay g — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:23:21 +0000

the question is: How much?
Did the rats consume the EGCG equivalent of 50 cups of green tea a day or 1? If it’s 50 then drinking a cup a day isn’t the way to go and one would be better off supplementing. I wish they provided some detail about how much EGCG/body weight they consumed.

By: Dr.Pratt

Dr.Pratt — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:26:40 +0000

Just the fact that this stud is in a kurzweil presented forum, means I will try it. I’m a transhumanist by default, as I simply got old and hate it.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:36:55 +0000

Thanks Gabriel – will look out for those. Have you read them?

No doubt any future books will feature prominently on this site when published. I very much like the sound of the two you mention.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:26:51 +0000

He has published two health books with Terry Grossman alongside his Singularity books – I’d look into those :)

The next book is supposedly about human thought and is scheduled to be released in November…and he’s also mentioned, curiously, about a book called “Danielle” about a character who solves problems with intelligence…it sounds like fiction (though it’s probably filled with his ideas of course) and has my curiosity.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:17:04 +0000

Has Ray published what his daily regimen consists of? I do know the guy should rattle with the amount of pills he takes. :)

By: james

james — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:25:52 +0000

Well coffee also lowers your chance of getting cancer, so I have coffee in the mornings, then water all day and green tea with dinner, if I’m at home I have it with lunch too. The reason Ray doesn’t have coffee is because it’s acidic, which he believes is bad, the water he drinks is alkaline. However I’ve read that the jury is most definitely out on the alkaline thing, so I’m not bothering for now.

But yeah, I think every transhumanist who’d like to be immortal should be drinking green tea every day, articles like this are great for spreading the word.

By: MrFriendly

MrFriendly — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:23:54 +0000

I love green tea so much. White tea is also awesome, and has a slightly smoother taste, so I alternate between the two.

I still drink coffee, but I’ve recently traded a couple of cups (yes, i used to drink a LOT) for green or white tea.

Oh, and green tea is absolutely the best pre-workout energy drink. Amazing stuff.

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:17:16 +0000

I just switched from coffee.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:44:34 +0000

Green tea, water and a glass of wine a day are what mr.Kurzweil recommended. I’m -somehow- not at all surprised whenever there are health reports about these things; I’m sure Kurzweil studied them the best he could before deciding to recommend them in his health regimen.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:57:39 +0000

Love my green tea!!