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so today we’re going to talk about black tea  okay so black tea has some pretty serious health  

benefits it helps you with your blood sugars it  can decrease cholesterol not that cholesterol is  

bad for you but it can help you regulate your  cholesterol antiviral properties antibacterial  

properties it can help decrease your cavities and  it can also help decrease the risk of osteoporosis  

and there’s a lot of research that can help  decrease the risk of the metabolic syndrome which  

involves the blood pressure the cholesterol the  belly fat etc from high insulin so black tea  

can help lower insulin it can help decrease blood  sugar decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease  

as well as decrease the risk from stroke now of  course it’s obvious that none of these benefits  

are going to curve if someone’s eating very poorly  but if you’re eating healthily and you add this  

to your normal diet i think it can actually give  you some additional benefits but i think the  

biggest benefit of black tea is its anti-cancer  properties now black tea is a fermented green tea  

but it’s not really fermented it’s oxidized giving  you a new compound called theaflavin so theaflavin  

is higher in black tea than it is in green tea and  that phytonutrient is really the red pigment in  

black tea now what’s so unique about this pigment  or this phytonutrient fas stands for fatty acid  

synthase now what well what does that mean well  it’s an enzyme that helps you make lipids in your  

body and cancer cells need a lipid membrane to  exist and it just so happens that this enzyme that  

makes this fatty acid is overexpressed in cancer  in other words cancer cells require more of this  

so if you can inhibit this enzyme you can inhibit  cancer and the studies that i’m going to link down  

below which you can check out demonstrate that  the power of egcg in green tea can inhibit fas  

by 76 percent but the phytonutrient in  black tea theaflavin can decrease fas by  

87 so in other words both green tea and black tea  have potent anti-cancer properties but black tea  

is a more potent inhibitor of this fatty  acid enzyme all right thanks for watching