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My dad started to drink a lot of green tea, actually 4 cups a day and these are actually large cups, so it's probably like 8 cups and he said he noticed he started to have issues with his blood pressure again, so he's scaling back.

So I googled for awhile and I can only find benefits of green tea and blood pressure. When I google the things that come up often are body weight, cholestrol and blood pressure as improvements.

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Any opinion on if it helps, hurts or does nothing for blood pressure?
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