Tea Aids Weight Loss through Microbiome Alteration

For decades, new age health gurus and tea aficionados have expounded the benefits of drinking the brewed elixir. In recent years, scientific evidence has backed some of the health claims—especially in relation to modest weight loss—although specific molecular mechanisms for how tea exerted its influence on cells of the body has remained elusive. Now, investigators at UCLA have demonstrated that tea, and in particular black tea, may promote weight loss and other health benefits by cha