Dr. David Sinclair

It's not just because it's green tea, which is not naturally healthy, but the growers of those plants in Japan typically, they shade the plants before they harvest.

Shading the plants stresses them out.

Plants need light.

So they don't just make more chlorophyll, which produces the deep green color in the tea, but the polyphenols are super high.

And through trial and error over thousands of years, the Japanese figured out that by shading the plants, giving them this mild hormetic stress, it makes them not just extra tasty, but extra healthy.

Same with red wine, by the way, but the alcohol can be an issue.

But absent alcohol, red wine is very good for you.

It's unfortunate.

One of my papers in 1996 caused red wine cells to go up 30% and stayed up.

I apologize for saying that red wine every day was healthy.

Doctors were recommending it, remember?

But I now change my mind.

I have to say that I no longer believe having one glass of red wine every day is healthy, in my opinion.

And I've stopped drinking red wine every day.

Instead, I take polyphenols from red wine and from vegetables, either in a pill or in my food as a substitute, because the evidence for alcohol is rather damning.

There's a UK biobank study, and the UK looked at thousands of people's MRI scan of their brain who were drinking one glass of alcohol a day, and there was a statistical difference between people that were drinking one glass a day and were not in terms of brain size and grey matter.

Of course, the grey matter tended to be smaller in those that drank, even slightly.

Yeah, I love that company.

And the CEO, Michael, good guy.

I do it.