175: would you like some tea with that antibiotic, sir?

This story from Newsweek leapt out at me after yesterday's good news about coffee. Now, some hope for tea drinkers - green tea drinkers, to be exact. Green tea has long been known to be high in antioxidants, which help protect against cancer. But recent research conducted in Egypt suggests it may help enhance the effectiveness of certain medicines too. The researchers, from the University of Alexandria, tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease-causing microbes and found that the tea enhanced the antibiotics' potency in every case. This was true even for drug resistant microbes - i.e. the green tea appeared to render those microbes susceptible to antibiotics once again! Pretty amazing stuff. So coffee in the morning, then tea for the rest of the day - that should see you straight... (Photo from Newsweek.)