Green Tea Extract Supplements

On February 3, 2017, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) Marketplace program described some cases of serious harm associated with green tea extract supplements that included hepatotoxicity, liver transplants and even death. In their feature story they point out that labelling a product as 'natural' does not assure that it works or that it is safe.

Since 2011, the evidence synthesis on green tea extract within the PEN^® System is that any potential weight loss effect of...