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You’re in luck if you like steeping a huge pot of green tea to drink on throughout the morning. In a recent study, a group of scientists from Penn State and Ohio State University investigated the relationship between the health of the gut and the catechin content of green tea extract to see if green tea may have any impact on leaky gut.
The clinical study’s results, imply that green tea’s anti-inflammatory characteristics may benefit your stomach by easing the symptoms of leaky gut. Green tea extract was able to mitigate leaky gut and lower blood sugar levels, which may eventually minimize the risk of developing other chronic health disorders.
This information is crucial for people with metabolic syndrome in particular: A dangerous medical diagnostic that often occurs when a person exhibits three or more metabolic risk factors like high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and low HDL cholesterol, which are frequently linked to cardiovascular disease.
Here are several ways that drinking green tea may be able to relieve your leaky gut and enhance your overall gut health.
Leaky gut: What is it?
Leaky gut syndrome is a “hypothetical condition” associated with the degree of one’s intestinal permeability, but not being an official medical diagnosis. Gas, bloating, cramps, and food intolerance are just a few symptoms.
Your gut, which is thought of as the biggest immune system organ, effectively serves as a gatekeeper to your general health by regulating your tendency for inflammation and other metabolic syndrome symptoms. Because it is naturally semipermeable, your body can take in water and nutrients from all the food you eat each day and transfer them to your bloodstream. Higher levels of intestinal permeability, or hyperpermeability, might, however, indicate a leaky gut.
When small intestine lining, which normally prevents bacteria and some other infectious agents from getting into your bloodstream, is unable to effectively distinguish between the toxins and the nutrients your body needs, this condition is known as increased intestinal permeability, also known as “leaky gut.” Larger, possibly hazardous chemicals entering your circulation via your gut lining may cause an inflammatory response that may result in a number of disorders.
According to Richard Bruno, senior study author and professor of human nutrition at Ohio State University, “if we can improve gut integrity and decrease leaky gut, the thought is we will be able to not only help alleviate low-grade inflammation that can cause cardiometabolic issues, but potentially reverse them.”
What took place throughout the study?
40 people took part in the research; 19 were regarded as “healthy individuals,” while the other 21 were apparently given a metabolic syndrome diagnosis. All study participants received green tea extract-rich gummy supplements for the first 28 days of the clinical trial. Catechins are the primary polyphenols present in this caffeinated leaf and have been associated with a variety of health benefits, including anti-cancer properties. Participants were also given dosing guidelines for the supplement, which corresponded to around five cups of green tea per day.
Participants also maintained a diet low in polyphenols, which are antioxidants commonly present in fruits, vegetables, spices, and teas, to assure trial data integrity and prevent possibly biased findings. This assisted researchers in determining if the polyphenols included in green tea had an actual impact on subjects.
What impact does green tea have on leaky gut then?
Researchers found that eating green tea extract may help decrease blood sugar levels and minimize gastrointestinal inflammation after analyzing pro-inflammatory substances in participant feces samples. In their cohort of healthy research subjects, they even saw a decrease in blood glucose levels, intestinal inflammation, and permeability.
It indicates that lowering blood glucose is associated to reducing leaky gut and reducing gut inflammation—regardless of health status—in both groups with metabolic syndrome and healthy people within a month, according to Bruno.
Bruno told ScienceDaily that while the one-month trial wasn’t intended to treat metabolic syndrome, the findings show further potential for using green tea to support a healthy gut.
According to what is known about the causes of metabolic syndrome, there is a possibility that green tea may work, at least in part, at the gut level to reduce the chance of either acquiring it or, if you already have it, reversing it.
