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Ingesting green tea extract for four weeks can lower blood sugar levels and improve gut health by lowering inflammation and "leaky gut," says recent research on people with a cluster of heart disease risk factors. Researchers claim that this is the first study to look at whether green tea's anti-inflammatory characteristics may help guard against the health risks linked to metabolic syndrome, a condition that affects more than three million Americans each year. According to Richard Bruno, senior study author and professor of human nutrition at The Ohio State University, "there is a lot of evidence that higher consumption of green tea is associated with good levels of cholesterol, glucose, and triglycerides, but no studies have linked its benefits in the gut to those health factors." The clinical experiment, which involved 40 participants, was a follow-up to a 2019 study that found mice who took green tea supplements had improved gut health, which was associated ...