TEA FOR COLON CLEANSING
Fiber-rich foods and juices have long been proven to clean and detoxify the digestive tract. Amazingly these food groups help decrease flatulence, promotes healthy-looking skin and overall good physical shape. Since it promotes excretion of your waste products, naturally your skin will have its natural glow thus you will feel good.
Your eating habits determine your well-being. Facilitation of excretion of your body wastes does not only help you feel good but also can help you to reduce weight. But how about tea? Can tea help you in cleansing your colon? Various types of teas are available in the market and equally capable of cleaning your whole body system. It is also known to be a good source of antioxidant. Being an anti-oxidant, it does not necessarily mean it treats you of your digestive tract disease. It just helps and promote excretion thereby promoting and increasing your risk against benign polyps that form in your colon which later on leads to colon cancer.
Have you ever wondered where does tea comes from, how it came to the grocery store for you to enjoy in your precious chinaware? Tea came from the leaves of camellia sinensis. The leaves are green when they are harvested. Processing tea is a step by step process. The quality of the tea you will get is determined from how it was picked to the length of time it was given for proper oxidation as well as panning it. It goes through a complicated process which makes it more reasonable to enjoy each cup.
How does tea help your digestive system? Your body constantly produces oxidants which has bad molecules that when they lost an electron during a biochemical process are highly unstable and chemically reactive. To revive cell stability, oxidants steal electrons from other molecules in the cell. In doing so, it damages cell proteins and genetic material. To protect yourself, the body makes and uses antioxidants which fights oxidants by engulfing them. This process is similar to someone who stole something from you, and you go call the police to apprehend the perpetrator. But if unsuccessful like when it was your mobile phone that was snatched from you and there was no other means to call, you feel that you cannot do anything except report it. Similarly, when this happens to your body, it is in a state of imbalance wherein, cells may mutate and contribute to disease processes, including cancer.
This is why, intake of tea is encouraged. Tea contains polyphenols and tannins. These are chemicals innate in tea leaves and when biochemically breakdown by your body, is excreted in your urine. Evidence of the benefits of these chemicals were published in the Elsevier journal Research in Microbiology. Extracts from Chinese tea were introduce to cell culture that has different bacterial strains like e. coli, salmonella, listeria, bacteroides and clostridium. These pathogens are responsible for the many ailments that assault the digestive tract including colon cancer. The phenolic compounds exhibited general inhibitory effects on the intestinal bacteria.
Tea also contains tannins. Tannins are defensive compounds that antagonize bacteria and fungi by interfering with their surface proteins. How would you know that tea has tannins? It is that sensation of dry, puckery, constriction after sipping your tea or when you bite into less than ripe fruit. This is caused by the interaction of the compounds in the fruit or tea and the proteins in the saliva and mucous membranes of your mouth. Tannins are also responsible in large part for the tea’s color.
There are various types of tea, but they are generally classified into four: black, white, green and oolong tea. Each have different levels of polyphenols thus different degree of effects on the colon in terms of cleansing benefits. It is important that you find time to find out the difference to maximize on their cleansing effects depending on your need.
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