Green tea compound may halt molecular cause of often-fatal condition

Re:Green tea compound may halt molecular cause of often-fata... by emptybits on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:41PM (#13583122)

Any insight into whether matcha drinking causes a higher risk of kidney stones? (Drinking matcha is consumption of powdered tea leaves, unlike nearly all other teas where the goal is to steep and then remove the leaves.)

Your oxalate reasoning suggests matcha would be worthy of study with respect to kidney stones but I've never that. I'm genuinely curious because research suggests consuming leaf solids can be very health-supporting in other ways. e.g. including kidney support to slow progression of diabetes, reducing blood lipid & glucose levels, etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19735169

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448271

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Re:Green tea compound may halt molecular cause of often-fata... by baldfat on Monday February 06, 2017 @03:32PM (#13583570)

Well oxalate levels between Black and Green tea is pretty huge it appears.

> black tea in tea bags and loose tea leaves were 4.68 and 5.11 milligrams per gram of tea. Green teas and oolong tea had lower oxalate amounts, ranging from .23 to 1.15 milligrams per gram of tea. http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-recipe-doctor/2008/06/tea-and...

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