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Can drinking too much green tea make you less fertile?

2013, Green tea fields in Wolchul Mountain, South Korea.
2013, Green tea fields in Wolchul Mountain, South Korea.
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Can drinking too much green tea make you less fertile?

According to recent study out of UC Irvine too much green tea can hurt development and reproduction... at least in fruit flies. 

Mahtab Jafari  is an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UC Irvine and she joins A Martinez to talk about why this result matters for people who drink green tea and just how much green tea could be too much.

To hear the entire interview click on the full audio embedded at the top of the post.