What's good everybody now I've always maintained at that when it comes to something nutrition-related don't listen to a single dietitian or a trainer don't listen to a single individual instead listen to science and when it comes to green tea and weight loss there's only one way to find out the truth lets science the out of it, okay the first thing you need to know is that there's very little difference between green tea and black tea is got by fermenting tea leaves by letting them oxidize green tea, on the other hand, is a more natural form of tea now if you compare the two kinds of teas that properties and effects on the human body are almost the same with a few differences but unfortunately black tea isn't sold to you as a weight-loss drink green tea is thanks to the media and marketing agencies people believe that green tea some sort of magical weight-loss drink, but unfortunately that's not entirely true if you want to understand this better let get into the science of it first okay firstly green tea is full of antioxidants and antioxidants are great for your health but the one antioxidant that helps a lot with weight loss is something called EGC or Gallo catch galas yeah you heard that right now ingesting EGC is linked to an increase in the function of catecholamines in the body catecholamines are the type of hormone that's linked to stress-related situations or situations that involve muscle contraction but most importantly catecholamines are linked to fat loss and that's where this whole green tea makes you lose weight thing comes into play okay now there's good news and there's bad news the good news is that there were studies conducted on EGC and fat loss and there was a link that was found between the two okay and as for the bad news, unfortunately, there are two points to be noted the first that in these studies green tea was not used instead they were using EGC extracts that are pure EGC secondly to get any kind of weight loss-related benefit from EGC you need to consume anywhere between 300 and 400 milligrams a day one cup of green tea has about 30 to 60 milligrams per day depending on its strength, so effectively you need to be consuming 10 cups of green tea to see any form of weight loss, so green tea contains a substantial amount of caffeine which will help in your fat loss to some extent, but it's not gonna make up for all those desserts that you eat if you go and eat unhealthy food and then just drink a glass of green tea that's not going to make up for, if you've got to remember caffeine is an addictive substance it works just like cigarettes if you want that kick from caffeine continuously you constantly need to up your dosage and that's why I'm kind of against caffeine consumption though even I have my cup of chai every single day it's not a good habit to have no caffeine will give you some amount of fat loss in the short term and will get you alert after that cup of tea or coffee but real fitness and real health comes from the long-term game and the three pillars of the long-term game are a good diet and an active lifestyle with exercise and most importantly in my opinion for long-term happiness is good sleep now here's the thing about caffeine most people who are addicted to it is more than three cups of coffee or green tea per day don't even realize that they're addicted to it so anyone who consumes caffeine in this amount they don't even realize that affects the quality of their sleep that's what caffeine stopping you from it's preventing you from getting good quality sleep which in the long term will give you much more fat loss than those two or three cups of green tea that you have every single day so when you want to lose weight, and you want to be healthy to remember give preference to sleep not something you ingest.
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