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hi everyone welcome to another edition
of our eat to beat disease webinars
where we partner with other individuals
and brands and talk about the latest
research and actually how do you use
food in practical
sense of food as medicine so today i'm
really happy to be talking about one of
my favorite beverages which is tea i
actually drink three to five cups of tea
a day and it's different kinds of tea i
and you enjoy
i love taste i love the experience i
like how i feel um after i have tea and
of course there's a lot of health
benefits with it and i've actually been
a researcher looking at the health
benefits of tea so
today we're going to talk all about tea
with the founder of sami tea
kiyomi kyoke hello kiyomi it's great to
see you again
hi dre great to see you again too
i'm very glad that we can meet to talk
about tea in even more detail
yeah no i i love your story
about tea and and the passion that you
actually have about it can you um kind
of share a little bit more about uh how
you uh came to
uh commit your your your your life in
your business to to tea and and how this
has become a journey for you
well thank you dr lee
my green tea johnny started 21 years ago
when my husband and my father were
diagnosed with cancer
my father had just a few months of life
left and my husband had a 50 50 chance
of survival rate with stage 3 colon
cancer as the native japanese i knew
green tea is good for combating cancer
so i bought many boxes of tifa green
teas at our local grocery store
and told my husband to drink 10 tea bags
every day
and then on the third day he refused it
i wanted him to keep drinking green tea
so i started to research about green tea
intensively and i learned the exposure
to the sun creates catechins in the tea
leaf
catechins
c-a-t-e-c-h-i-n-s
catechins are the key contributor of
health benefits of green tea
the benefits include boosting immunity
neutralizing free radicals that attack
healthy cells
and even starving cancer cells to death
and also i found when you brutally leave
you get only 30 of the nutrition
available in the tea leaves because not
all the nutrition is not water soluble
green tea leaf offers vitamins minerals
and fiber along with the powerful
cardigans
so
i
served the green tea with two conditions
green tea grown in fusan and green tea
in powder foam and i found it with help
from my family and my friends
that is the sencha powder edible green
it was also naturally though in caffeine
and certified organic
my husband said this is delicious and
it's easy to make just mix the powder
with water hot or cold no brewing time
no waste to deal with
and he drank five cups a day
all day he just you know drank one after
another and he said it helped him with
side effects from his chemotherapy and
also it helped him to get a sense of
control in his own life his own health
as he drunk it and he scared me later
later on he said you know he was always
mumbling whispering
to himself his mantra died bastard died
as he drank the tea
so
um his uncouraged was surprised he beat
us and we thought it's our moral duty to
share our discovery that's how we
studied samiti
thank you free my husband is still
cancer free for 20 years 21 years
wow what a what a what an amazing story
and i'm sure
this story your story resonates with a
lot of people who are affected by cancer
i mean we all know somebody
who has been touched by cancer whether
it's a
ourselves or a family member or a friend
or a neighbor or a co-worker now um i i
like the fact that you um
dove into the research on tea and cancer
that's part of the work that i've
actually done as well and um we actually
took tea
that had been brewed and
we studied in cancer research labs in
fact i studied i did some tea research
with the national cancer institute and a
lot of people don't know uh how you do
this but basically you brew tea okay and
then it's too hot to really do anything
which you then you cool it
and then you refrigerate it and so some
people ask well is it only hot tea
that's good for you or iced tea is iced
tea any good for you well i can tell you
in the research lab when we actually
study tea
the tea actually gets uh refrigerated so
it's actually cold and of course then
you have to warm it back up to room
temperature before you can
put expose it to cells
or give it to animals to drink or what
have you
so the idea that you know brewing tea
and
changing the temperature does not affect
its beneficial effects is really
important because that means that hot
tea or iced tea
is actually good now we actually studied
it in uh in systems that were used for
drug development in other words the same
experimental models that are used to
test cancer drugs and what we found was
quite remarkable
that
not just any tea but multiple teas not
single t's but multiple t's could
actually have this uh cancer starving
effect by cutting off the blood supply
and that's really good news
and
it's kind of a new discovery uh in a way
but it builds on all the other uh
reasons that tea could be beneficial to
somebody with um
suffering from cancer
or frankly if you're if you don't have
cancer it could be a number of other uh
conditions in which you want a beverage
that can calm inflammation in your body
that can
help you
have better immunity that can feed your
gut microbiome which are the healthy gut
bacteria that can communicate to your
immune system so i think there's many
reasons
why tea
is such a beneficial beverage in
addition to it being delicious
right yep exactly yeah i get to ask you
know so many times like you know i read
um the hot water is gonna kill the
antioxidants of the green tea so you
know what is the right temperature and
actually i read this a study showing um
you know this research cooked the
cardigan antioxidants catechins in a 350
degrees fahrenheit oven
for 60 minutes and you know the first 20
minutes nothing happens you know the
cardigans are is still intact and
perfect shape and after that
you know gradually degraded but after 60
minutes still 80 percent of those are
still intact so if you
you know if you don't have time to
measure that the temperature of the
water no problem just go ahead and use
it and then just let it cool and the the
specific temperature is to make that
perfect tasting tea right it's so
delicate flavor and it's so enjoyable if
you are making it for the right
temperature which is like in 175 185
fahrenheit degrees degrees fahrenheit so
um yeah it's a very simple
casual nice nourishing nutritious
you talk about temperature is there is
there is there a
simple way of thinking about it i mean
most people don't walk around with a
thermometer so you boil water and you
and you pour it into the tea how many
how many minutes does it take from
boiling to get to the right temperature
okay so that is a great question and i
believe you know every step is different
so probably it's a little different but
you know if you open that up that you
know the tea kettle and you know when
you see that the bubbles are starting
out it's about like 140 you know it's
still a little too low so wait until
like you know the more the bubbles are
coming out
and by then probably you hear the noise
you know that the kettle noise too but
you know still at a little low
so and wait like in 30 seconds to one
more minute and then you can use that
water
and if you forget to watch it and then
if the water gets boiled already and
then you can still use that water just
pour that water boiling hot water into a
clean mud cup and each time you pour
that water the temperature decreases by
about 15 degrees fahrenheit so you know
like 200 212 you know degrees 200 let's
say 200 and then minus 15 185 and one
more time and then 160 you know about
that range you know you have the right
temperature
so you're saying taking three mugs
transfer into three regular mugs we'll
actually take it to the right yeah just
the cream mugs you know and the one
you're using that mag for is just to
pour the clean water so you don't have
to wash that mug just you know put it
back into the cover or you know the rack
and you know they are still clean
okay that's a good that's a good tip now
um uh
the other thing that i think would be uh
helpful to think about for most people
because we know there's catechins in it
we know there's polyphenols we know
there's a lot of health effects but some
of the people actually who um are not so
certain about tea or maybe even shy away
from drinking tea is because of the
caffeine can you talk a little bit about
what we all need to know about caffeine
and tea and how do you
which one which teas have less caffeine
and how do you how do you manage to get
around that problem
okay so i have to focus on the green tea
at this point and you know green tea
naturally offers caffeine as you as you
said dr lee so um
how to choose the the less caffeine
green tea is well
let's focus on
the you know the growing environment so
um the sun exposure actually increases
the uh the chirokine antioxidants and
also one more thing it does is um
it decreases the caffeine amount
so if you're choosing the tea
grown in full sun that tea is naturally
lower in caffeine
and if you are consuming the
leaf
in the powder form that means you are
ingesting hearty leaf of course you are
at this point you are already in
ingesting 100 of the caffeine along with
other you know wonderful healthful
components catechins minerals vitamins
and fiber however if you compare the
powder and regular brewed green tea
steel
that caffeine is lower
than that brew tea and also
excuse me and also um
actually the curriculums and you know
other nutrition is higher as i said just
now you know because water soluble
component is only 30 of the tea leaf
nutrition
so
for somebody who's trying to buy tea and
wants a low
caffeine tea what are their options
if they're sensitive to caffeine let's
say that they
they just want to have a little bit less
caffeine but they all want to have the
good healthy stuff what do they do
that's a great question okay so the best
option for them would be sencha green
tea powder
and
we offer both regular and the
decaffeinated and the center powder
regular is called the edible green
regular and the decaffeinate is edible
green decaffeinated
and it is from the beginning
lower in caffeine
than matcha so
um you have the great option to enjoy
the cardigan
polyphenols called cardigan antioxidants
from green tea
with minimum amount of
caffeine
and
if you are really sensitive and you'd
like to avoid
the caffeine at all our decaffeinated
provides close to zero caffeine less
than three milligrams in one serving
however
um
our decaffeinated process is
very special
actually it removes 95 of the caffeine
however it remains 95 percent of the
cardigans so that means you are not
getting caffeine but you are getting
most of the
cardigan peripherals
how does that work what's the secret of
moving removing caffeine but keeping the
polyphenols
right so you know the researchers
scientists discovered you know caffeine
actually is
very water-soluble and also located on
the
surface of the tea leaf
so with the right temperature
of the right
right amount of water with right amount
of pressure
ninety-five percent of the caffeine gets
removed
but you know still ninety-five percent
of that good stuff
in that tea leaf and you know
i'm sorry and the patent goes along with
that and how they dry the tea leaves and
that that quick even drying process
um prevent the damaging the tea leaf um
no no is that now is that that process
true for every kind of decaffeinated tea
so if you went to the grocery store to
get decaf tea would would that also be
the case
no unfortunately that's not the case
because yep um the decaffeination
process could use most of the cases
actually that the caffeine process use
harsh chemicals and that is
very toxic and you don't want to consume
it if you are consuming green tea like
dr lee suggests for the health benefits
you don't want to have that toxin in
your body
right so basically the tea the
caffeinated tea that semi
tea actually offers is made with the
process that removes the caffeine
with water and it leaves the good
polyphenols that's something that you
know about
because it's your product and you've
actually uh studied it so
that's that's really um uh that's really
uh helpful uh to know
um what are some other uh alternatives
to uh
drinking tea what are some other ways of
enjoying tea
well um another unique product about
ours is called unforgettable brown rice
coffee
and some people say you know well this
is not the coffee this is dark chocolate
and some people say even oh this is the
tea you know brown rice
so anyways it is a caffeine free
beverage made from
roasted whole brown rice
and after roasted without oxygen that
whole brown rice is ground into a fine
powder so you make
that coffee or drink with just the
powder and water and once again you can
use you know hot or you know cold one if
you like you know cold drink
and
you get
a lot of polyphenols from brown rice and
also
fiber water soluble fiber and somehow
you know they studied the amount of the
polyphenols and the fiber and before and
after the roasted ground rice and then
roasting process increases the amount of
polyphenols and
fiber too
so that's something that a lot of people
don't realize is that you can actually
um first of all take brown rice which is
a whole grain
um powderize it dissolve it in water now
you're talking about kind of a rice
porridge except it's very dilute it's
not a porridge it's actually just a tea
it's got a
roasted flavor so it actually gives you
a different way to appreciate a warm
soothing beverage but also because
there's soluble fiber and polyphenols in
it you know most people think about
getting fiber in their diet by eating
kale or eating broccoli
but here's another way of actually
getting fiber is actually by
sipping on a cup of tea
of
brown rice coffee tea that's not coffee
it's just because it's it reminds people
more of coffee than tea that's why you
thought right no no coffee in it no
coffee in it totally 100 caffeine free
and also gluten free because it's made
from brown rice
wonderful wonderful tip
now what about cooking with tea uh is
that something that you can share i mean
look if you put in a mug you can you can
sip it all day long that's how i usually
have my tea
but i i know i've seen
uh
on cooking shows and i've also seen
cookbooks where people actually cook
with tea
what's an example of that
yeah so it's easy to use green tea in
the cooking especially in the powder
form
because it's powder you know very easy
so you can add the powder in your
favorite dip for example hummus it's a
great combo
and and you can you know top that soup
with that powder and also you know start
dressing you know you can use lime juice
and mix up with uh the green tea powder
and if you if you uh um if you can use
olive oil and mixed up that that's a
wonderful style dressing too
and another favorite one of mine is
spice mix
yeah so um you mix the powder with
garlic powder paprika and black pepper
and i use it all the time instead of
salt because i am watching my salt
intake in my diet and it helps me a lot
so one of the things you could do if you
are trying to make your own snacks you
want to make your roast some of your own
tree nuts
a cashew a walnut almond you could
actually
mix some of this either essentia powder
or matcha powder along with other spices
and now not only are you getting the
polyphenols from the spices but it's a
different way of actually getting uh the
the healthful benefits of green tea in a
way that most people wouldn't have
thought about so
that's so fantastic uh
i i love um how practical uh uh the
things that you've suggested are well
look great these are all great ideas and
there are so many more ways to
use tea
the most important thing i want people
to know is that tea green tea brown rice
tea other types of tea even black teas
they actually um activate your body's
health defense systems and these are the
hard-wired systems that we were born
with that tea will
activate
when our health defenses are activated
our health is protected
it it kind of lowers our risk for
multiple diseases
and for something that tastes as good as
tea
it's enjoyable as well and tea is also
quite relaxing which i think is really
important to for all you to know about
so if you want to learn more about sammy
t you can visit their website at
www.groundgreen tea
g-r-o-u-n-d green tea.com
groundgreentea.com or their social media
pages and there's a special discount
link available uh in the webinar show
notes as well and for those of you who
want to learn more about my work in food
as medicine and how to eat the beet
disease and how to put this information
into practice um i want to personally
invite you to my next master class which
is taking place on monday january 31st
at 8 00 pm eastern standard time next
master class this coming monday january
31st 31st at 8 pm eastern standard time
the link is in the description and you
can also go to my website at
drdrwilliamli.comwilliamlead.com
in order to register
great well thank you so much dr lee and
um i hope
more people will enjoy delicious food to
become healthy yeah thank you so much
for your work
thank you