Excess Green Tea Consumption Could Affect Fertility

This cup packed with anti-oxidants and other health benefits may adversely affect your fertility and development.

Are you a green tea lover? Read this carefully as the cup packed with anti-oxidants and other health benefits may adversely affect your fertility and development in case of frequent use, warn researchers.

In experiments over fruit flies, the team from University of California-Irvine discovered that excessive consumption adversely affected development and reproduction in fruit fly populations.

According to them, one should avoid high dose of green tea or any natural product as nutraceuticals such as green tea, while growing in popularity, are largely unregulated.

While green tea could have health benefits at low doses, our study and others have shown that at high doses, it may have adverse effects. Further work is needed to make any definite recommendations but we suggest that green tea should be consumed in moderation.

Mahtab Jafari, Associate Professor - Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California-Irvine