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why Green Tea Fights Cancer
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of body cells. As teh cells multiply and grow wildly, they "forget" how they're supposed to act and begin to take on dangerous new roles. Like selfish bullies, cancer cells gobble up nearby territory and resources, damaging and destroying healthy tissue. The cancer process unfolds in three stages: initiation, promotion and progression. And both test-tube and animal studies have shown that green tea can fight cancer at all three.
Fighting cancer before it starts
During the initiation stage, a healthy cell is exposed to free radicals and other cancer-causing substances which break into the cell, "hijack" its DNA, and change that cell into a cancer cell. You can think of the cell as a computer that someone has hacked into and reprogrammed. Green tea's catechins can help prevent or minimize this "reprogramming by stabilizing free radicals and making certain carcinogens less toxic. The catechins may also help to prevent cancer-causing substances from binding to the DNA of healthy cells in the first place.

Keeping cancer from "getting into gear"
After a cell is initiated by cancer-causing substances, it might lie quietly for weeks, months, or even years, causing no real damage. But during the promotion stage, something "trips a switch" and the initiated cell starts to multiply uncontrollably, forming a mass of tissue called a tumor. It's as if someone has just logged on to that newly "reprogrammed computer," the initiated cell. Studies have found that green tea catechins can inhibit or even prevent this "promotion" step.

The catechins can also fight cancer at the next step in the cancer process. If the promotion stage is successful and a tumor does begin to grow, it will need a blood supply in order to feed itself. It establishes a blood supply by creating its own blood vessels and plugging them into those found in nearby healthy tissue, a process called angiogenesis. The catechins help to slow or even call a halt to angiogenesis, effectively starving the tumor.

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