Cold water steeping is a new and popular way to make tea in Taiwan, especially during the summer months. In this post we’ll explore the antioxidant and health properties of cold water steeped tea and how they compare to traditionally prepared tea. We’ll also go over studies comparing green and white teas, the results of … Read more
Drinking green tea is one of the easiest and the most effective ways to hack acne out of your life. Getting over acne comes down to managing inflammatory damage in the skin. Inflammatory damage to the fatty acids in sebum triggers the acne formation process, as explained here. Consequently, reducing inflammatory damage to the skin … Read more
If you want to clear your skin naturally – and to make sure it stays clear, then you absolutely must learn about topical antioxidants. I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that they will be the next breakthrough acne treatment, and in this post I’m going to show you why. In … Read more
Benzoyl peroxide has become somewhat of a boogieman in the natural acne treatment movement. And there’s no shortage of myths like ‘my skin gets addicted to BP’ and ‘when you quit your acne comes back with a vengeance’. As with all myths, there’s grain of truth in those, but they are ultimately based on misconceptions. … Read more
Just a quick post today about yet another study that shows green tea and its catechins may help with acne. I have had hardly any time on blogging over the past two weeks since I’ve been busy updating my book. I swear that reading all the hundreds and hundreds of studies in the process will … Read more
There’s really no such thing as free lunch when it comes to health. For a long time I thought there are no downsides to drinking green tea. Until I learned that tea has a lot of fluoride, which of course can be toxic in high amounts. So should you be concerned about fluoride in green … Read more
I’ve been writing about green tea quite a bit here. And one of the questions I keep getting is where to get it and how to use it. Since I at times write about bleeding edge research, no commercial solutions are available and people resort to DIY solutions. In the case of green tea people … Read more
Tea drinkers are big losers. With that I of course mean that 80% or more of the antioxidants in tea are wasted. That’s nothing short of a disaster, if you drink green tea for acne or other health reasons. Because antioxidants are where all the health action is. We have two problems at our hands. … Read more
Are you using green tea to treat acne? Hot off the press from South Korea comes another study. And what this study shows just might prompt you to add some green tea goodness into your skin care routine. Before I tell you about the study and what it means to you, we need to briefly … Read more
In the previous post I talked about the health and acne-fighting benefits of green tea. In this article I’m going to show you how to hack your tea so that you can get 5 times more antioxidants from the same cup of tea. This article we are going to get a little geeky. That is how … Read more