Polyphenols are antioxidant compounds found in plant foods that have myriad benefits for human health.  As powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, they’re protective against just about every disease imaginable through a variety of mechanisms. We suggest supplementing with one of our quercetin formulas, Quercetin Pro or Cell Repair, to boost your polyphenol intake. Another way to get more polyphenols into your life is to make a habit of drinking green or white tea.  Both of these teas are made from the same Camellia sinensis leaves, but white tea has gone through less processing and retains more polyphenols.  It also has less caffeine and more soothing theanine.  Camellia sinensis leaves contain four kinds of polyphenols called catechins, the most potent of which, where health benefits are concerned, is epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG).  EGCG and quercetin possess many of the same abilities, including one that’s relevant to the COVID epidemi…

Green tea has been praised for its health-giving properties for more than 4,000 years. Whether you want to support your mind, bones, heart, probiotics in your intestines, glucose metabolism, immunity, detoxification, a healthy weight—or all of the above, green tea can help. But sometimes green tea can be toxic! We’ve told you before about a woman whose fluoride levels skyrocketed after habitually drinking a pitcher of tea daily. She developed severe bone pain that was reversed by a fluoride-free diet, but all her teeth had become so brittle they had to be extracted. Tea leaves accumulate more of the toxin fluoride than any other edible plant, and the fluoride content in tea has increased dramatically over the last couple of decades due primarily to fluoride-containing pesticides. The problem is compounded when fluoridated water is used to brew the tea. To minimize fluoride, buy organically grown tea and brew it in purified water. Tea plants also absorb lead more readily than o…

Consumers are finally beginning to bypass sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and their equally toxic artificially-sweetened alternatives. Some people are nixing coffee to avoid excess caffeine’s stressful effect on their adrenal glands. So what’s left to help you get started in the morning or to provide a rewarding pick-me-up when you begin to flag in the afternoon? Purified water is an option. It can be surprisingly energizing, and even delicious, especially with a squeeze of lemon or lime. Of course most tap water is neither energizing nor delicious because it’s full of chemicals and other stuff we’d rather not even think about. But a Beyond Health Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System can provide you with pure, great tasting water at pennies per gallon. But what about something a little stronger? Here we come to green tea, a beverage that’s not only very satisfying but a superfood that’s been documented to help prevent just about every disease known to mankind, including…