Green Tea and LED Treatments

There has been a lot of talk that applying Green Tea prior to an LED treatment makes a huge difference in your results.  So, I’ve brewed up a serum with Green Tea in it.  It’s based on a study from Germany.  What scientists discovered is that the addition of green tea showed improvement in skin’s appearance ten times faster than LED therapy alone. A one month study showed drastic reduction in the appearance of wrinkles on human skin.

It just got added to the website (it’s the first item under Anti-Aging Products).  For the month of December, I’m sending a free bottle of it with every LED purchase.

Here’s the article about it from Science Daily:
LED Light And Green Tea Cream Smooth Facial Wrinkles

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2009) — Scientists in Germany are reporting a major improvement in their potential new treatment for facial wrinkles that could emerge as an alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery. The non-invasive technique combines high-intensity light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a lotion made of green tea extract. It works ten times faster than a similar anti-wrinkle treatment that uses LEDs alone, the researchers say.

Andrei P. Sommer and Dan Zhu point out that researchers have used light-therapy, or phototherapy, for more than 40 years to help heal wounds. Recently the scientists showed that use of high-intensity LEDs, similar to those used in automotive tail lights and computers, could help reduce skin wrinkles when applied daily for several months. But exposure to intense LED light is also involved in generating high levels of reactive oxygen species as byproducts that can potentially damage cells. To combat that effect, the researchers combined the LED with a potent antioxidant in green tea extract called epigallocatechin gallate.

They applied a daily combination of LED light and green tea extract to the facial wrinkles of a human volunteer one month. The combination treatment resulted in smoother skin, including “less pronounced wrinkle levels, shorter wrinkle valleys, and juvenile complexion,” the scientists say. The treatment showed promising results in only one-tenth of the time it took for LED therapy alone to reduce wrinkles. The study could form the basis of “an effective facial rejuvenation program,” and lead to a new understanding of the effect reactive oxygen species on cellular aging, they note.

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