Comments for International Tea Sippers Society http://www.teasipperssociety.com An opportunity for tea lovers to discover fun, value and the latest trends in the World of Tea. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 Comment on Health Benefits of Tea by Fritz Fleischmann http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/health-benefits-of-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Fritz Fleischmann Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:42 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=251#comment-29 The “Hunstein Miracle”: German Professor Traces The Effects of Green Darjeeling Tea While Improving His Own Amyloidosis Illness Amyloidosis and Tea: the two seem an unlikely pair, until you read Werner Hunstein’s scientific letter in the September 15, 2007 issue of Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology. Hunstein, a renowned professor emeritus of hematology at the University of Heidelberg, is himself an amyloidosis sufferer. However, he began to map out the effects of green tea in drastically improving his own illness. Hunstein was diagnosed in 2001 with amyloidosis, a rare and potentially fatal disease that occurs when substances called amyloid proteins build up in organs. Once he began drinking large amounts of a specific green tea, his condition improved significantly and the deposits of toxic amyloid protein buildup stopped, presumably because of its contents of EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) and other phenols. (The tea he drank was Green Darjeeling from the German firm “Teekampagne,” represented in the United States by the Boston Tea Campaign [www.bostonteacampaign.com] – an organically grown tea subsequently tested for hundreds of chemical residues, and therefore an especially clean product.) According to Hunstein, “Recommendation of this tea ‘therapy’ came from former members of my staff on the basis of a lecture by Prof E. E. Wanker alerting them to in vitro experiments reporting the effects of EGCG on amyloid fibrils.” He explains, “As a hematologist rooted deeply in the natural sciences, I decided to follow the advice to drink green tea on a daily basis. The results are incredible. For 20 months, the green tea results are considered as successful as the effect of chemotherapy and since September 2006, it has improved month by month.” When Hunstein began to drink large amounts of green tea (usually about two quarts per day), his condition improved significantly; the deposition of amyloid proteins was stopped, and his heart resumed beating more strongly. The Professor Wanker referenced by Hunstein was also involved in a study published in the June 2008 issue of the medical journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, which discusses the effects of the polyphenol most abundant in green tea, (-) –epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Erich Wanker and colleagues at the Max Delbrück Institute for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany have looked at the effect this substance has on the formation of certain fibrils associated with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. According to the editorial that frames the June 2008 issue of the journal, these “new findings suggest that EGCG may prevent toxic fibril formation” (p. 537). Hunstein’s letter can be found at http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/full/bloodjournal;110/6/2216?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=hunstein&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT The “Hunstein Miracle”: German Professor Traces The Effects of Green Darjeeling Tea While Improving His Own Amyloidosis Illness
Amyloidosis and Tea: the two seem an unlikely pair, until you read Werner Hunstein’s scientific letter in the September 15, 2007 issue of Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology. Hunstein, a renowned professor emeritus of hematology at the University of Heidelberg, is himself an amyloidosis sufferer. However, he began to map out the effects of green tea in drastically improving his own illness. Hunstein was diagnosed in 2001 with amyloidosis, a rare and potentially fatal disease that occurs when substances called amyloid proteins build up in organs. Once he began drinking large amounts of a specific green tea, his condition improved significantly and the deposits of toxic amyloid protein buildup stopped, presumably because of its contents of EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) and other phenols. (The tea he drank was Green Darjeeling from the German firm “Teekampagne,” represented in the United States by the Boston Tea Campaign [www.bostonteacampaign.com] – an organically grown tea subsequently tested for hundreds of chemical residues, and therefore an especially clean product.)
According to Hunstein, “Recommendation of this tea ‘therapy’ came from former members of my staff on the basis of a lecture by Prof E. E. Wanker alerting them to in vitro experiments reporting the effects of EGCG on amyloid fibrils.” He explains, “As a hematologist rooted deeply in the natural sciences, I decided to follow the advice to drink green tea on a daily basis. The results are incredible. For 20 months, the green tea results are considered as successful as the effect of chemotherapy and since September 2006, it has improved month by month.” When Hunstein began to drink large amounts of green tea (usually about two quarts per day), his condition improved significantly; the deposition of amyloid proteins was stopped, and his heart resumed beating more strongly.
The Professor Wanker referenced by Hunstein was also involved in a study published in the June 2008 issue of the medical journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, which discusses the effects of the polyphenol most abundant in green tea, (-) –epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Erich Wanker and colleagues at the Max Delbrück Institute for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany have looked at the effect this substance has on the formation of certain fibrils associated with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. According to the editorial that frames the June 2008 issue of the journal, these “new findings suggest that EGCG may prevent toxic fibril formation” (p. 537).
Hunstein’s letter can be found at http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/full/bloodjournal;110/6/2216?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=hunstein&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

]]> Comment on Meet Dan Robertson by Colleen Shipler http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/meet-dan-robertson/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Colleen Shipler Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:06:30 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=783#comment-27 It is great to finally get a newsletter from ITSS!! Enjoyed your articles and am very excited to move forward with the info and activities. Also looking forward to using the discounts with tea businesses. Colleen Shipler El Cerrito, CA It is great to finally get a newsletter from ITSS!!
Enjoyed your articles and am very excited to move forward with the info and activities. Also looking forward to using the discounts with tea businesses.
Colleen Shipler
El Cerrito, CA

]]> Comment on Where in the heck is Amy? by Amy Lawrence http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/where-in-the-heck-is-amy/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Amy Lawrence Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:35:24 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=640#comment-24 Thanks Rose for your sweet comment! I hope you had a happy birthday but sorry you didn't get to go to tea. I totally understand. There are actually quite a few great places to go to tea in San Diego. They aren't all Tea Sipper vendors yet, but we're working on that. Thanks for joining our International Tea Sippers Society. Very soon you will be able to search through all of our Tea Sipper vendors on our database. Take care! -Amy Thanks Rose for your sweet comment! I hope you had a happy birthday but sorry you didn’t get to go to tea. I totally understand. There are actually quite a few great places to go to tea in San Diego. They aren’t all Tea Sipper vendors yet, but we’re working on that. Thanks for joining our International Tea Sippers Society. Very soon you will be able to search through all of our Tea Sipper vendors on our database. Take care!

-Amy

]]> Comment on Where in the heck is Amy? by Rosemarie Tullius http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/where-in-the-heck-is-amy/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Rosemarie Tullius Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:00:35 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=640#comment-23 Hi Amy, I didn't know that the tea room closed until my husband's cardiology appointment. We had given his cardiologist, Dr. Diane in Auburn, a gift certificate last Christmas. She wasn't able to go until June. When my husband went to his appointment in July, she told him that she went for tea, the week before you closed the tea room. I have to say I was shocked and sad too, but I totally understand. I'm just glad it wasn't the economy that made you close. My sons wanted to take me to tea in San Diego last weekend, but I told them I couldn't go yet. I knew no one could do it as nice as you. It was my birthday and I didn't want to be disappointed on my birthday. I'll have to go to the local ones you are suggesting first. Well I joined the society. It will be fun. Thank you for bringing culture to our foothills. I did a retirement tea for a friend. We had 15 ladies. It was a lot of work as you well know. If I have another tea at my house, I would love to have you come so you can see all that I learned from you. Take care. Rose Tullius Hi Amy,
I didn’t know that the tea room closed until my husband’s cardiology appointment. We had given his cardiologist, Dr. Diane in Auburn, a gift certificate last Christmas. She wasn’t able to go until June. When my husband went to his appointment in July, she told him that she went for tea, the week before you closed the tea room. I have to say I was shocked and sad too, but I totally understand. I’m just glad it wasn’t the economy that made you close. My sons wanted to take me to tea in San Diego last weekend, but I told them I couldn’t go yet. I knew no one could do it as nice as you. It was my birthday and I didn’t want to be disappointed on my birthday. I’ll have to go to the local ones you are suggesting first. Well I joined the society. It will be fun. Thank you for bringing culture to our foothills. I did a retirement tea for a friend. We had 15 ladies. It was a lot of work as you well know. If I have another tea at my house, I would love to have you come so you can see all that I learned from you. Take care.

Rose Tullius

]]> Comment on I’m Going To China by Katrina Munichiello http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/im-going-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Katrina Munichiello Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=624#comment-21 I'm so anxious to hear about your great adventure! I've been thinking of you. I’m so anxious to hear about your great adventure! I’ve been thinking of you.

]]> Comment on Who’s Who In Tea Land? by Renee Rubens-Muhammad http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/whos-who-in-tea-land/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Renee Rubens-Muhammad Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:38:24 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=538#comment-20 I have always been a tea drinker, and during the past 2 years I have started learning more about the various qualities of tea, their sources of origin etc. Increasingly I find studying about tea fascinating and captivating....so much so that I am actively looking for career opportunities...Hence, I am in search of a mentor....I have a media sales background, however I am keenly interested in the purchasing side of this business...I am open to guidance and suggestions....Looking forward to meeting other tea lovers.... I have always been a tea drinker, and during the past 2 years I have started learning more about the various qualities of tea, their sources of origin etc. Increasingly I find studying about tea fascinating and captivating….so much so that I am actively looking for career opportunities…Hence, I am in search of a mentor….I have a media sales background, however I am keenly interested in the purchasing side of this business…I am open to guidance and suggestions….Looking forward to meeting other tea lovers….

]]> Comment on Arriving in Bejiing by Amy Lawrence http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/arriving-in-bejiing/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Amy Lawrence Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:39:50 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=635#comment-19 Hi Babette! It looks wonderful! Wish I were there! Can't wait to see more photos and hear about your adventures! Talk to you soon! Amy Hi Babette!

It looks wonderful! Wish I were there! Can’t wait to see more photos and hear about your adventures! Talk to you soon!

Amy

]]> Comment on Tips for Hosting Children’s Tea Parties by Alice Baran http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/tips-for-hosting-childrens-tea-parties/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Alice Baran Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:35:27 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=284#comment-18 I just catered a child's tea and I cut out the sandwiches in the shape of teddy bear's and teapots. They were a big hit with the kids. I just catered a child’s tea and I cut out the sandwiches in the shape of teddy bear’s and teapots. They were a big hit with the kids.

]]> Comment on China’s Most Famous Teas by Kirsten Kristensen http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/chinas-most-famous-teas/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Kirsten Kristensen Wed, 13 May 2009 22:11:23 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=238#comment-16 Ooops, 1st tea is spelled: Longjing, 2nd is spelled: Biluochun. Sorry. Ooops, 1st tea is spelled: Longjing, 2nd is spelled: Biluochun. Sorry.

]]> Comment on China’s Most Famous Teas by Kirsten Kristensen http://www.teasipperssociety.com/resources/chinas-most-famous-teas/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Kirsten Kristensen Wed, 13 May 2009 22:08:40 +0000 http://www.teasipperssociety.com/?p=238#comment-15 Curious what the rest of China's most famous teas are? Here is the official list as it appears in the certification material from the Specialty Tea Institute of Tea USA, 2009: CHINA'S TEN FAMOUS TEAS 1. Lonjing (Dragon Well), produced in Lonjing village, West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 2. Bilouchun, produced in Wu County, Jiangsu 3. Huangshan Mao Feng, produced at Mt. Huangshan in Anhui 4. Junshan Silver Needle, produced on Qingluo Island on Dongting Lake in Hunan 5. Keemun (Qimen) Black Tea, produced in Keemun County in Anhui 6. Liuan Guapian, produced in Liuan County in Henan 7. Xinyang Mao Jian, produced in Xinyang, Henan 8. Duyun Mao Jian, produced at Duyun Mountain, Guizhou 9. Wuyi Rock Tea, produced at Wuyi Mountain, Fujian 10. Tieguanyin, produced at Anxi County, Fujian A majority of the teas are tasted and evaluated during the STI Certification classes, professional level 3, especially Oolong, White & Green teas, and Black teas. Fore more information about the certification check www.teausa.com. Yours in Tea, Kirsten Kristensen Tea Coach & STI Certified Tea Specialist Curious what the rest of China’s most famous teas are? Here is the official list as it appears in the certification material from the Specialty Tea Institute of Tea USA, 2009:

CHINA’S TEN FAMOUS TEAS
1. Lonjing (Dragon Well), produced in Lonjing village, West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
2. Bilouchun, produced in Wu County, Jiangsu
3. Huangshan Mao Feng, produced at Mt. Huangshan in Anhui
4. Junshan Silver Needle, produced on Qingluo Island on Dongting Lake in Hunan
5. Keemun (Qimen) Black Tea, produced in Keemun County in Anhui
6. Liuan Guapian, produced in Liuan County in Henan
7. Xinyang Mao Jian, produced in Xinyang, Henan
8. Duyun Mao Jian, produced at Duyun Mountain, Guizhou
9. Wuyi Rock Tea, produced at Wuyi Mountain, Fujian
10. Tieguanyin, produced at Anxi County, Fujian

A majority of the teas are tasted and evaluated during the STI Certification classes, professional level 3, especially Oolong, White & Green teas, and Black teas. Fore more information about the certification check http://www.teausa.com.

Yours in Tea,
Kirsten Kristensen
Tea Coach & STI Certified Tea Specialist

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