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Green tea improves quality of life in the elderly
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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No other beverage has received as much attention from scientists in recent years as green tea. It seems that green tea is a unique healing elixir that can help cure a variety of diseases. A new study claims that green tea can help you stay active and healthy even in old age.
The universal healing properties of green tea help to combat a large number of diseases. Whatever it is: skin rash in children or autoimmune diseases, heart disease and cancer in adults.
It is well known that the inhabitants of the island of Okinawa (Japan) have one of the highest life expectancies on Earth. Initially, this was attributed to heredity. But later it turned out that this was not the case. The relocation of Japanese from Okinawa to other parts of the world, such as Brazil and the United States, significantly reduced their life expectancy and increased the risk of developing other diseases.
Unlike most other Asian nations, Okinawans traditionally drink large quantities of green tea along with jasmine. Properly grown at high altitudes, green tea must be harvested and consumed in a timely manner. This helps preserve the high quality of green tea and its beneficial components.
This also ensures that the tea does not contain large amounts of fluoride and allows you to get the necessary dose of antioxidants. As many cancer studies have confirmed, polyphenols from green tea extract help destroy cancer cells without damaging normal cells.
It has also recently become known that green tea may impact quality of life in old age.
A study conducted in Japan by specialists from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine examined the health of nearly 14,000 elderly people over 65. Scientists compared the health and functional activity of people who drank five cups of green tea a day with those who drank one or less.
Considering that a traditional Japanese cup holds about 100 ml of liquid, the total volume of green tea drunk per day should have been at least half a liter. In the process of comparing the two groups, the scientists took into account common factors that affect health, such as lifestyle, quality of nutrition, place of residence and the state of the environment.
The results showed that about 13% of people who drank less than one cup of green tea suffered from diseases that led to functional disability. At the same time, only 7% of elderly people who drank about 5 cups of green tea daily had such disorders.
Although the difference between the groups is not dramatic, the scientists plan to conduct further studies on the relationship between green tea consumption and aging.
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