The tea plant concentrates aluminum from the soil into tea leaves, but phytonutrients in tea bind to the metal and limit its absorption.
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What about the levels and absorbability of the aluminum in my other favorite type of tea? Find out in my next video, How Much Hibiscus Tea is Too Much? (
The tea plant also sucks up fluoride. So much so that heavy tea drinking can stain the teeth of children. See my video Childhood Tea Drinking May Increase Fluorosis Risk (
Why should we go out of our way to drink tea? See:
• Treating Gorlin Syndrome with Green Tea (
• Treating Genital Warts with Green Tea (
• Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer? (
• Cancer Interrupted, Green Tea (
Is Caffeinated Tea Dehydrating? ( Find out by watching the video!
For more on metals in our food supply, see:
• Aluminum in Vaccines vs. Food (
• Get the Lead Out (
• Nerves of Mercury (
• California Children are Contaminated (
• Cadmium and Cancer: Plant vs. Animal Foods (
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