Well, hello, hello guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

We are going to talk all about green tea.

Today I'm going to teach you why green tea is so great for you, drinking it in your matcha,

eating it and your diet, and putting it on your skin.

It's the week of St. Patrick's week and everything is green. Green tea is one of the best things

you can do for your overall health. Remember, green tea has a major polyphenol antioxidant called

EGCG, and it has a wide range of therapeutic properties. It's antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,

helps prevent atherosclerosis,

strokes, diabetes, heart attacks, and also cancer preventative. Green tea can help you with acne.

Oily skin definitely can help with anti-oxidation, meaning that it will help neutralize free radicals coursing through your

bloodstream and in your skin causing aging changes.

So one of the studies that I read in 2013 showed that polyphenols in green tea can be used

as pharmacologic agents for preventing solar UVB damage, both in humans and in animals,

including melanomas, photo aging, and non-melanoma skin cancers.

A 2012 review, a meta-analysis of 20 different studies, indicated that green tea extracts

are super beneficial when you apply them to the skin,

and even when you take them as supplement for acne, endogenic alopecia,

that's hair loss, thinning of the frontal scalp, especially in women,

atopic dermatitis, candidiasis, general wards, cheloids, and rosacea.

So if you're suffering from acne, consider this.

One study showed taking 1,500 milligrams of green tea extract

for four weeks showed significant improvement

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