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"SOYMILK SUPPRESSION?"
In 2007, we learned that milk blocks the absorption of the phytonutrients in chocolate.
In 2008, we learned that milk may completely block the beneficial effects of the phytonutrients in tea.
Might as well just be drinking water.
In 2009, soymilk was tested.
The reason cow milk blocks the benefits of tea, we think, is because the milk protein casein binding up all the phytonutrients.
Since soymilk doesn't have casein though, one would assume that adding soymilk to tea is fine, but you never know until you run the experiment.
What do you think?
Soymilk blocks the benefits of tea: fact or fiction?
Let's look at the data.
This is measuring the beneficial effects on arterial cells in a Petri dish.
Here's the control, plain water.
Then comes the plain black tea, no creamer,
and you can see the spike in beneficial effects that appear completely blocked by milk.
Then they tried three different types of soymilk: sweetened, calcium-enriched, and unsweetened.
All of which had the same effect as milk!
Fact: vascular effects of tea are suppressed by soymilk.
Now this was in vitro, in a Petri dish.
We don't know if this translates into actual people,
but until we do know more, I encourage folks to drink their tea straight.
And as I've noted in previous volumes, green tea is healthier than black.