You may not have been aware but I have been recently publishing a podcast that focuses on research and topics surrounding our broad interests in acupuncture, East Asian Medicine, public health, movement therapies/martial arts/qigong, and Chinese fate calculation.
I published a new episode today focusing on research around traditional views of tea as medicine or modern perspectives of tea as 'functional food' - we look at two studies around tea and its potential impacts on health; one through the lens of gut microbiota in rats and the other through a population-based study of over 100,000 Chinese adults and the impacts of tea on incidence of atherosclerotic heart disease and all-cause mortality.
How are these two studies, which vary greatly, connected and how can we look at them in the larger context of tea research, public health, and tradition?
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