Preventing Prostate Cancer with Green Tea
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-12-21

A third of men in their 30s may already have tiny cancerous tumors in their prostates. How much tea would one have to drink to build up cancer suppressing levels in one’s prostate tissue?

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CORRECTION: Thanks to Darryl’s eagle eyes, I realized my analysis of the in vitro data was off by three orders of magnitude. This suggests that the powerful clinical effect of green tea on prostate cancer isn’t a direct effect, since the concentrations of at least one green tea compound within the prostate tissue wouldn’t be high enough to suppress cancer growth, at least in a petri dish.
 
Green tea is actually put to the test in cancer patients in my next video, Treating Prostate Cancer with Green Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-prostate-cancer-with-green-tea).

More men’s health videos include:
• Prostate Cancer and Organic Milk vs. Almond Milk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-and-organic-milk-vs-almond-milk)
• Dairy Estrogen and Male Fertility (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dairy-estrogen-and-male-fertility)
• The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-diet-in-declining-sperm-counts)
• Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-survival-the-av-ratio)
• Survival of the Firmest: Erectile Dysfunction and Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/survival-of-the-firmest-erectile-dysfunction-and-death)
• Prostate Versus Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-versus-plants)
• Cancer Reversal through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-reversal-through-diet/)
• Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-mans-diet-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/)  
• Pomegranate vs. Placebo for Prostate Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pomegranate-vs-placebo-for-prostate-cancer/)

And for more on tea, check out, for example:
• Is Caffeinated Tea Dehydrating? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-caffeinated-tea-dehydrating/)
• Antimutagenic Activity of Green Versus White Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antimutagenic-activity-of-green-versus-white-tea/)
• Treating Gorlin Syndrome with Green Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-gorlin-syndrome-with-green-tea/)
• Treating Genital Warts with Green Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-genital-warts-with-green-tea/)
• Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-asian-women-have-less-breast-cancer/)
• Cancer Interrupted, Green Tea (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-interrupted-green-tea/)

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