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Green tea extract
Green tea extract — lo que la monografía europea realmente respalda, para qué no es, la forma y cuánto tiempo está pensado usarse, efectos adversos y la 3 interacción medicamentosas documentada.
Esta es una página de referencia, no un diagnóstico ni una receta. Los productos herbales son farmacología real: tienen efectos, efectos adversos e interacciones. Diga a su médico y farmacéutico todo lo que toma, incluidos tés y suplementos, y nunca suspenda ni cambie un medicamento recetado por algo que lea aquí.
Qué es
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze — leaf; concentrated catechin extracts
Nombres locales en la región que sirve este sitio:roheline tee (ET) · vihreä tee (FI) · зелёный чай (RU).
Agrupado aquí bajo Kitchen spices with a safety story. Posición regulatoria:Drinking tea is a food; concentrated extracts are food supplements with an EFSA safety assessment.
Lo que respalda la evidencia
La indicación registrada:Marketed for weight loss and metabolism. Neither claim survives review.
The gap between the drink and the capsule is the entire story here. Drinking green tea is not associated with liver harm and is a perfectly ordinary part of a diet. Concentrated green-tea extracts, sold for weight loss and metabolism, are a different exposure altogether: EFSA assessed them and concluded that catechin doses at or above 800 mg of EGCG a day taken as a food supplement have been shown in trials to raise liver transaminases — a marker of liver stress — and that a safe level for supplements could not be established from the available data. Green-tea extract is among the more frequently implicated botanicals in registries of herb-induced liver injury, and taking it on an empty stomach appears to raise absorption and risk. On the weight-loss claim, the effect measured in trials is too small to matter to anyone.
D — Popular claim unsupported, or safety dominates The better trials are negative, or the substance appears in the literature mainly for the harm it has caused.
Para qué no es
Weight loss, and any liver purpose whatsoever — this is one of the botanicals most likely to injure a liver, not support one.
Forma, potencia y cuánto tiempo
Brewed leaf tea (a food), and concentrated catechin extracts in capsules, often combined with caffeine in "fat burner" products.
Duración.For extracts, the honest answer is that no safe long-term intake has been established.
Ninguna cifra en gramos aparece en esta página a propósito. La parte de la planta, el disolvente de extracción y la relación droga-extracto definen juntos una preparación, y un número tomado de una no describe otra. El razonamiento está en el hub; la cantidad que le aplica es la impresa en el envase que sostiene, y un farmacéutico la leerá con usted.
Efectos adversos
From tea, the effects of caffeine. From extracts, liver injury: dark urine, yellow eyes or skin, itching, unusual fatigue, pain under the right ribs. Stop immediately and seek medical care if those appear. Nausea and stomach upset are common, particularly fasted.
Quién debería evitarlo
Avoid extracts with any liver condition, in pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Anyone taking a supplement with an unexplained rise in liver enzymes should stop it and tell their doctor what they were taking.
Interacciones con medicamentos
| Medicamento o sustancia | Qué se describe |
|---|---|
| Anything else that stresses the liver | Stacking a green-tea extract with alcohol or with other substances that stress the liver is the pattern behind many of the reported cases. |
| Iron supplements and iron-rich meals | Tea polyphenols bind non-haem iron and measurably reduce how much iron is absorbed from a meal taken with tea. If you are being treated for iron deficiency, take iron and tea well apart. |
| Anticoagulants and antiplatelets (warfarin, DOACs, aspirin, clopidogrel) | Green tea leaf contains vitamin K, and large changes in intake have been reported to affect warfarin control. As with all the vitamin K foods, steady intake is what matters, not avoidance. |
La vista inversa — empezar por el medicamento en vez de la planta — está en la referencia de interacciones de medicamentos, alimentos y alcohol, y resumido para cada hierba de este sitio.
Como alimento
Este también está en la cocina, así que conviene tener las cifras nutricionales junto a la farmacología: véase la página de datos de alimentos para calorías y nutrientes por 100 g y por ración. Las cantidades culinarias y las preparaciones medicinales son exposiciones distintas, y la diferencia suele ser toda la historia de seguridad.
Fuentes:European Food Safety Authority — scientific opinions on coumarin, green tea catechins and hydroxyanthracene derivatives · LiverTox: Clinical and Research Information on Drug-Induced Liver Injury (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health) · NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health — herb fact sheets· comprobado2026-09-06
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Para qué se usa green tea extract?
Marketed for weight loss and metabolism. Neither claim survives review. The gap between the drink and the capsule is the entire story here. Drinking green tea is not associated with liver harm and is a perfectly ordinary part of a diet. Concentrated green-tea extracts, sold for weight loss and metabolism, are a different exposure altogether: EFSA assessed them and concluded that catechin doses at or above 800 mg of EGCG a day taken as a food supplement have been shown in trials to raise liver transaminases — a marker of liver stress — and that a safe level for supplements could not be established from the available data. Green-tea extract is among the more frequently implicated botanicals in registries of herb-induced liver injury, and taking it on an empty stomach appears to raise absorption and risk. On the weight-loss claim, the effect measured in trials is too small to matter to anyone.
¿Funciona green tea extract?
Valorado aquí D: The better trials are negative, or the substance appears in the literature mainly for the harm it has caused. Weight loss, and any liver purpose whatsoever — this is one of the botanicals most likely to injure a liver, not support one.
¿Cuánto green tea extract debo tomar?
Esta referencia no imprime cifras en gramos, porque no se transfieren entre preparaciones de distinta fuerza de extracto. Lo que se puede decir con honestidad es la forma y la duración:Brewed leaf tea (a food), and concentrated catechin extracts in capsules, often combined with caffeine in "fat burner" products. For extracts, the honest answer is that no safe long-term intake has been established.
¿Cuáles son los efectos adversos de green tea extract?
From tea, the effects of caffeine. From extracts, liver injury: dark urine, yellow eyes or skin, itching, unusual fatigue, pain under the right ribs. Stop immediately and seek medical care if those appear. Nausea and stomach upset are common, particularly fasted.
¿Interactúa green tea extract con medicamentos?
Sí — documentado paraLiver load, Iron, Anticoagulants, warfarin. Cada una se describe en esta página, con un enlace a la referencia del lado medicamento donde exista.
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