And since I was only mobile in a wheelchair you would need to make sure your wheelchair has cup holders for transporting it back to your room from the cafeteria.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/98/6/1631S.abstract?sid=3a949d69-2700-4665-a8fe-c4f1bb2c9554
- John van Duynhoven,
- Elaine E Vaughan,
- Ferdi van Dorsten,
- Victoria Gomez-Roldan,
- Ric de Vos,
- Jacques Vervoort,
- Justin JJ van der Hooft,
- Laure Roger,
- Richard Draijer, and
- Doris M Jacobs
+ Author Affiliations
Abstract
Epidemiologic studies have convincingly associated consumption of black tea with reduced cardiovascular risk. Research on the bioactive molecules has traditionally been focused on polyphenols, such
as catechins. Black tea
polyphenols (BTPs), however, mainly consist of high-molecular-weight
species that predominantly persist in the colon. There,
they can undergo a wide range of bioconversions by
the resident colonic microbiota but can in turn also modulate gut
microbial
diversity. The impact of BTPs on colon microbial
composition can now be assessed by microbiomics technologies. Novel
metabolomics
platforms coupled to de novo identification are
currently available to cover the large diversity of BTP bioconversions
by
the gut microbiota. Nutrikinetic modeling has been
proven to be critical for defining nutritional phenotypes related to gut
microbial bioconversion capacity. The bioactivity
of circulating metabolites has been studied only to a certain extent.
Bioassays
dedicated to specific aspects of gut and
cardiovascular health have been used, although often at physiologically
irrelevant
concentrations and with limited coverage of
relevant metabolite classes and their conjugated forms. Evidence for
cardiovascular
benefits of BTPs points toward antiinflammatory and
blood pressure–lowering properties and improvement in platelet and
endothelial
function for specific microbial bioconversion
products. Clearly, more work is needed to fill in existing knowledge
gaps and
to assess the in vitro and in vivo bioactivity of
known and newly identified BTP metabolites. It is also of interest to
assess
how phenotypic variation in gut microbial BTP
bioconversion capacity relates to gut and cardiovascular health
predisposition.
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