Herbal Therapy: Green Tea and Its Bioactive Polyphenols in Reduced Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) Deficiency in Induction of Fibromyalgia

Kyle J. Norton 

Green tea may have a therapeutic and positive effect in reduced onset. progression and treatment of Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency in induced fibromyalgia, some scientists suggested.

Green tea is a precious drink processed numbers of health benefit and known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world.

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by muscle and soft tissue pain, affecting over 10 million (3.6% of the population) people in US alone.

Serum of alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) impregnated in most body tissues circulates in our body in high concentrations with function as a broad anti-inflammatory spectrum in inhibition of enzymes of inflammatory cells, especially neutrophil elastase.

In the study of the effect of serum of alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) and risk of fibromyalgia (FM), researchers at the Hospital Valle del Nalón found that deficiency of AAT has been found in numbers of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) with severe hereditary.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of these patients revealed a significant greater activity in pain sensitive areas of the brain in response to cutaneous stimuli, which may be another evidence for a physiological explanation for FM pain.

Furthermore, patients with FM also were found to consist an abnormal profiles of inflammation markers in biopsies analysis.

The results suggested that these patients may have an imbalance levels of pro inflammatory and anti-inflammatory substances, in the soft body tissues caused by alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency.

Due to surprising findings, Dr. Blanco LE, the lead author, after taking into account of other confounders, said, "identification of genetic, familial, and environmental risk factors suspected to participate in the FM syndrome development (may be necessary) to determine the gene frequency of AAT deficiency alleles in FM patients".

Green tea, bioactive polyphenols EGCG, according to the Dr Helieh S in animal model induced by alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) (α1-antitrypsin) deficiency exerted a significant anti inflammatory effect in inhibited the PI3K/Akt signalling pathway with function in activated proinflammaory factors through the innate immune response involved in pathogen killing, antigen processing and immune cell survival.

Moreover, green tea EGCG application also enhanced antioxidant activity not only through its antioxidant profiles, but also stimulated production of the body natural antioxidants in reduced inflammatory response through nitric oxide (NO) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression, observed by Griess reagent and western blotting.

These results indicated that green tea EGCG may have a profound effect in reduced serum alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT)  deficiency in initiated the onset of fibromyalgia 

The above differentiations were supported by the review of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Green Tea Polyphenol, by Dr. Helieh S. Oz at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

According to the authors, green tea polyphenols are potent antioxidants with important roles in regulating vital signaling pathways in activated inflammatory responses by attenuated nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB IKK, NF-κB in facilitated innate- and adaptive-immune responses, cell death and inflammation and cytokines like TNFα, inflammatory markers and cyclooxygenase-2 in elevated symptoms of inflammation and pain.

Dr. Helieh S. in summary said, "green tea polyphenols (GrTPs) are potent antioxidants with important roles in regulating vital signaling pathways" and "these comprise transcription nuclear factor-kappa B mediated I kappa B kinase complex pathways, programmed cell death pathways like caspases and B-cell lymphoma-2 (through regulating the cytochrome c release from the mitochondria) and intervention with the surge of inflammatory markers like cytokines and production of cyclooxygenase-2"".

Taken together, green tea and its bioactive polyphenols may be considered as a function food in ameliorated serum alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency effect in initiated the onset of fibromyalgia.  However, intake of green tea supplement should be taken with extreme care due to recent medical reports of acute liver toxicity.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) alpha1-Antitrypsin and fibromyalgia: new data in favour of the inflammatory hypothesis of fibromyalgia by Blanco LE1, de Serres FJ, Fernańdez-Bustillo E, Kassam DA, Arbesú D, Rodríguez C, Torre JC.(PubMed)
(3)  Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Green Tea Polyphenols by Helieh S. Oz(PubMed Central Canada)