Green Tea May Help Prevent AutoImmune Disease

Hello,

Our dr. just told us last week to give our 3 year old green tea. Have you ever tried to give a 3 year old green tea? Unless it’s mixed with chocolate, he is not going to take it. lol

He must have read that article.

Lori

Lori:
Hi, after reading your post about giving your 3 year old green tea, I fell off my chair, I laughed so loud.

Years ago, when my son was 7, all he would eat were bologna sandwiches. For one year. Every day for lunch. Bologna sandwiches. Nothing else.
Was healthy as a horse. HIs teacher one day called me and said “Listen, you are not doing him any favor by letting him have his way and giving him bologna sandwiches every day”. You need to get him to eat other stuff.

She was right, I never should have done it. But it was easier than fighting with him.

Oh the stuff we look back on.
Melody

I saw that in the news too. It gave me great hope that one day there may be a cure for cidp. My brother is a diabetic too.

Lori

[QUOTE=Dells mom]Hello,

Our dr. just told us last week to give our 3 year old green tea. Have you ever tried to give a 3 year old green tea? Unless it’s mixed with chocolate, he is not going to take it. lol

He must have read that article.

Lori[/QUOTE]

Well, there’s always green tea ice cream. Not as good as chocolate ice cream, but it is still ice cream.

There’s even green tea flavoured Pocky sticks, but I think that you would probably have to eat dozens of those to equal one small cup of tea. Try the ice cream if you can find it (best bet is in a Japanese store if you have one).

Neat idea about the ice cream. He loves ice cream but got suspicous when we started putting pills in it. We switched off with pudding and ice cream.

Thanks,
Lori

I wouldn’t pin much hopes of Green Tea helping in CIDP. I average 96 tea bags a week (for years) of Green Tea and haven’t noticed anything as far as it helping this disease i’ve had for almost 11 years now.

I will say that i believe Green Tea is great for oxidation and anti aging as i even rub the used Tea bags all over my face and arms to protect from the sun. Most say that i look 33 instead of 43 so maybe that has helped along with genetics??

The only thing that helps for me is low carbs and fish oil and tumeric but i’m not cured. Anyway our genes are different so maybe what works for one will not for another and visaversa.

Good Luck !! Ericc…..

Please be aware that green tea does contain a caffeine-like substance. I personally get a buzz just like drinking a cup of coffee.

Wow, Ericc, if I could look 10 years younger by drinking all that tea, I’ll put it in the bathwater, lol. I am 40 and have been using moisturizer for many, many years and wonder if I would look different if I had not started it so long ago.

I see friends that I went to school with and I think I look pretty good, compared to some, but I have never smoked and I think that is one of the major keys.

I would love to buy everything organic but my husband would have to get a 2nd job. I can’t believe how much organic food costs but I do understand why it’s so expensive. Keeping all the bugs off naturally must be very expensive.

When I have a cup of tea in the evening, I am wide awake at 10:00 p.m.

Lori

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I see friends that I went to school with and I think I look pretty good, compared to some, but I have never smoked and I think that is one of the major keys.

I would love to buy everything organic but my husband would have to get a 2nd job. I can’t believe how much organic food costs but I do understand why it’s so expensive. Keeping all the bugs off naturally must be very expensive.

When I have a cup of tea in the evening, I am wide awake at 10:00 p.m.

Lori[/QUOTE]Lori…..Yeap i’ve never smoked and rarely drank when i was young as i always played competitive sports. I also was bodybuilder in my twenties back in the 1980’s.

I never purchase organic although i’m sure its healthier. There are lots of Centenarians (100 year old) that have not eaten that way (organic) their entire lives….but if you can afford it then go for it.

I hear ya about tea at nite as if i drink any past 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. at nite i’ll wake up at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. and urinate at nite and that tires me the next day (not healthy).

I always have TWO tea bags per glass and drink it from morning to nite so thats why i drink so much. I usually get the generic Kroger brand at 48 tea bags per box at about $2.80 a box. I just purchased Tumeric this morning so i’ll experiment with this and see what happens. I read alot of the ALS sites and they were mentioning studies with mice with Kennedy’s disease and how Tumeric vastly improved their motor neurons….. but again i take everything with a grain of salt.

What ever happened to those pushing Mannatech as the cure-all several years back??

Good luck !! Ericc……

Here’s me!!!! I’ll be 60 on November 4th.

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And here’s a picture of me and my hubby. He’s the one undergoing IVIG and who they think MIGHT have CIDP. Looks pretty good. He lost over 75 lbs. Bless him

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Melody,

I think you look great. I was laughing with a guy at the store the other day. He’s my dad’s age. We were talking about getting older and I told him, “well, if you stop getting older, it’s because you’re DEAD.”

I guess I would be alot more vain if I didn’t have a sick child to worry about. I need to dye my hair right now but keep putting that off. My husband loves me just the way I am so I am very lucky.

Lori

Green tea …..

marge is better than butter, then back to butter again, margerine, butter, margerine, butter. :confused:

Dont drink coffee, bad for skin, too much caffine etc etc, then researches found that drinking abot 2 cups a day warded off cancer – exactly how did they come to that conclusion?

Same with alcohol, dont drink period, especially when preggie. But red wine – 1 or 2 glasses a day is good for your heart. And whisky, I heard that having some whisky every evening is good for something or other.
In some countries many mothers and preggie ladies drink Guiness to help their milk …… isnt that alcohol? a glass of sherry while pregnant is supposed to fortify something in the fetus according to some research somewhere a couple of years ago (not in the USA though). Still alcohol is dangerous for the baby, so dont drink ANY.

Dont get me wrong, its good to have people doing research, but every few years it changes again …… O woe is me, what to believe?

[I]*Disclaimer : some statements above have been pulled from the far recesses of my mind, so may not be entirely factual. 😀 [/I]

[I]Everything in moderation? or no?[/I]

Doesn’t wine, or any kind of alcohol make neuropathy worse???

I’m afraid to even have a glass of wine. I’m going to a wedding in June and they’ll have champagne toasts and wine on the table.

I’ll have water. I DO NOT WANT TO AGGRAVATE MY diabetic neuropathy!!!

Melody

Right on Melody…………You look terrific at 60 and i can only hope to look as well as you at the same age…..When i was a kid back in the 70’s my 60 y/o Granny (and Gramps) back then had gray hair and was always sick and ill with every infirmary known to mankind …LOL…

Infact i’m having my two-bag Green Tea drink right now with all the Green Polyphenols in it.

The day you see me with gray hair is the day I give up. I still put on make-up every day. Today I got out my summer wardrobe. All pretty gauze skirts with nice blouses.

I didnt lose over 75 lbs to start wearing black again. Oh no, I may be pushing 60 but in my disco loving heart, I’m 20.

Anybody for a HUSTLE!!!!!! Oh, I just put a photo of my husband and me taken last summer at a reunion of all my cousins. God, I can’t believe we are all in our 60s and 70’s.

We are getting OLD……. Blah!!!
Do you even remember the Hustle??? I watch Dancing with the Stars every week and I am so jealous. Those gals are great.

melody

Melody,

I think it is recommended that you dont drink with a neuropathy, and doubly so if you are on meds. I was just being silly, because I laugh so often when watching the news about the ‘latest’ studies, contradicting the one before the one before the one before that one.
Having said that, I do drink wine, G&T and others on occasion, however It often doesnt make me feel very well. I know of quite a few others 😉 on the forum who enjoy the ‘odd’ drink here and there.

Hi Alison:

I have had only one BAD BOUT OF NEUROPATHY!!! Recently I went to my podiatrist to have my feet done. He was doing his thing and then he took out this vibrating tool and did my nails. I nearly jumped out of the chair. Now I had no problems before I went in that chair. Then he took the vibrating tool (kind of like a sanding tool) and he did the bottom of my feet.

Well, when I got home, I wanted to kill someone. My feet were on fire, they were pins and needles, they were buzzing. I could not believe it. I also had a sample of what my husband has been going through for 18 years. I now knew his horrible experience.

Thankfully the next day all that buzzing and burning quieted down.

I will never, and I mean never, have a vibrating ANYTHING on my feet, ever again. Horrible!!!

melody

Wow, you are 33 but look 24 or younger.

What do you eat?? Or drink? or wash your face with????? lol

melody

[QUOTE=grawplyr]

Time for me to drink some beer and watch the playoffs 🙂

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Maybe i should give up Green Tea and start drinking some cold one’s….LOL….

Grawplyr…..i was reading that story on Science Daily and although I drink a ton of Green Tea and it hasn’t helped improve my CIDP i didn’t think that it may have kept it from spreading as i had this going on 11 years and while it bothers my feet and ankles bad as i can still work and not have to go on disability and it does not affect anywhere else in my body.

So just wanted to say thanks for posting news about possible nutrients to help. I just stay away from the Mannatech spammers….

later !