Green tea supplements ruined my liver

Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:30AM (#18299838)

If I recall correctly, the tea plant is great at taking up certain heavy metals from the soil.

Quick search turned up something https://www.scribd.com/doc/24451227/Analysis-of-Heavy-Metals...

Lead, Mercury, arsenic, aluminium, copper.

Could be a concern?

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Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver by nabla9 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:57AM (#18300209)

Monitoring of essential and heavy metals in green tea from different geographical origins https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762913/

Same for many edible seeds. For example pumpkin seed and sunflower seed have high hyperaccumulation capacity.

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Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver by illiac_1962 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @07:01AM (#18299968)

Yep. If you research green tea throughly this comes up as a major concern leading one to learn that it is very difficult to obtain any green tea that is free of toxins. Supposedly one of the best was regular Lipton tea bags.

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Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver by scns on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:13AM (#18300277)

Another concern should be the Fukushima disaster, close to japans biggest teacultivation areas.

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