Green Tea - A Dietary Supplement Against Aging

Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which prevent our bodies' cells from damage due to oxidation. The process is not very different from preventing your car from being rusted.
The knowledge of public about the many health benefits of antioxidants is increasing by the day as the benefits are being published. To meet the growing demand for such products the manufacturers of cold drinks have come up with green tea drinks flavored with fruit juices. Apple, lemon, strawberry, peach, and pomegranate, you name it and it's out there on the shelf.
Green Tea is often consumed as a dietary supplement. A dietary supplement refers to vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements and other substances (e.g weight loss supplement) meant to improve your diet. Green tea comprises EGCG or the epigallocatechin gallate that makes the tea power packed with the advantages of antioxidants.

As far as aging is concerned, many studies blame free radicals within our bodies as the ones responsible of it. Consequently, the higher the quantity of free radicals in your body, the faster you would age. Since the main job of antioxidants is to neutralize the free radicals their presence is supposed to slow down the rate of aging. Apart from green tea some common sources of antioxidants are apricots, broccoli, pumpkin, cantaloupes, spinach, sweet potatoes and tomatoes. So it makes good sense to supplement your diet with these as well.
However there's a problem, and that is, once you drink the tea, 80 percent of its antioxidant catechins are lost during digestion, making the mechanism highly inefficient. At the same time a tasty solution...