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The Same Green Leaf I May Use for Thermogenesis Can Tell a Completely DifferentStory in a Sensitive Gut
Green Tea is one of those herbs that makes me smile when somebody says:
“But isn’t that just tea?”
Because Camellia sinensis can be a cup of green tea enjoyed with food, a concentrated catechin extract,a liquid herbal preparation, or a carefully standardised EGCG product — and I do not consider thoseinterchangeable. I use Green Tea in very different ways in my clinic.
There are times when I am deliberately interested in EGCG and metabolic physiology — energyexpenditure, fat oxidation and thermogenesis may be part of the strategy.
But there are other times when weight loss is nowhere near the top of my list. A client may instead be sitting in front of me with a sensitive gut, altered metabolic markers,inflammatory digestive patterns or a system that simply feels increasingly reactive. And suddenly this familiar green leaf becomes interesting for an entirely different reason.
I’m Charmaine D, Naturopathic Herbalist, and through my Herbal Remedy Bar I am not prescribing thename of a plant.
I am deciding:
which constituents I want, what physiological effect I am seeking, which preparation delivers it, and whether that preparation suits the person in front of me. Green Tea may be gentle. It may also be quite pharmacologically active. Both can be true.
