Deans' stroke musings: Effects of Black Tea on Blood Pressure: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Effects of Black Tea on Blood Pressure: A Randomized Controlled Trial

So would someone explain the benefits of green tea which is what I've been drinking?
I don't have high blood pressure.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/172/2/186
High blood pressure (BP) is a leading risk factor contributing to the global burden of disease. Small changes in BP due to dietary modification may have a significant impact on the prevalence of hypertension and risk of cardiovascular disease.¹

Tea is a popular beverage worldwide and is usually the major source of population flavonoid intake, often providing more than half of total intake.² There is mounting evidence that tea and its flavonoids can make an important contribution to vascular health.³ However, the effects of regular consumption of black tea on BP remain unclear.

Our objective was to assess the effects of regular black tea consumption (3 cups/d) for 6 months on 24-hour ambulatory BP. We found that black tea consumption resulted in significantly . . . [Full Text of this Article]