Green tea may have a therapeutic and positive effect in reducing symptoms, risk, progression, and treatment of polymyalgia arthritis (rheumatism), some scientists suggested.
Green tea is a precious drink that processed a number of health benefits and is known to almost everyone in Asia and the Western world.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica is an inflammatory disease with muscle pain and stiffness, especially in the shoulders, affecting mostly older adults beyond the age of 65.
In an animal study of inflammatory diseases induced by injection of LPS, the application of green tea bioactive polyphenols EGCG improved the antioxidant status of the host and decreased the production of inflammatory factors, including PMR through its antioxidant properties.
Further analysis suggested that application of EGCG reduced symptoms of inflammation such as pain, tension, stiffness, and swelling of the infectious site without affecting the function of the immune system in protection against microorganisms invasion through inhibiting over-expression of tumor necrosis alpha(TNF-α) involved in the systematic inflammatory response to the acute phase of infection.
The bioactive compound also inhibited reactive oxygen species (ROS) in stimulated production of inflammatory cytokines through free radicals chain reactions in facilitated inflammation and precipitated skeletal muscle dysfunction and degradation by infiltrating immune cells to induce direct injury to muscle tissue or activating catabolic signaling.
In fact, the overproduction of ROS increased the continuous expression of mitochondria, NAD(P)H oxidases, xanthine oxidoreductases, and nitric oxide synthases causing an imbalance of the free radicals and antioxidant ratio, in orchestrated oxidative stress to muscle cells.
The further evaluation suggested that green tea EGCG reduced the expression of interleukin 6 (IL-6), with function in response to infections and tissue injuries.
Long-term overproduction of IL 6 due to the duo factors as a pro and anti-inflammatory protein may increase high-level concentrations of serum amyloid A (SAA), which has been found to induce serious complications of several chronic inflammatory diseases through generated and deposited amyloid A amyloidosis into the extracellular space in an abnormal, insoluble, fibrillar form,
Moreover, EGCG also attenuated levels of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) in regulated innate and adaptive immune functions and serves as a pivotal mediator of inflammatory responses through activation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) in promoted muscle wasting, leading to muscle atrophy in the induction of pain and stiffness and swelling.
Importantly, the application of green tea EGCG enhanced the natural antioxidant enzymes in the host such as glutathione, an antioxidant enzyme produced naturally found in every cell and tissue of the body.
These actions together with antioxidants initiated by injection of green tea EGCG stimulated cell regeneration, preserved the muscle cells and tissues, and prevented muscle tension to precipitate polymyalgia arthritis.
A deficiency of glutathione levels was found to associate with the early development of Polymyalgia Arthritis in facilitated symptoms of pain, stiffness, achiness, fatigue, and fever.
Differentiation of the above was supported by conventional medicine corticosteroids, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug with the function to target pro-inflammation cytokines in relieving stiffness and pain in patients with polymyalgia arthritis.
Taken together, Green tea and its bioactive polyphenols EGCG may be considered a functional food for alleviating symptoms, risk, progression, and treatment of polymyalgia arthritis (Rheumatica). However, ingestion of green tea supplements should be taken with extreme care as acute liver toxicity has been reported in several medical literature.
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