Green Tea Extract (EGCG) and Body weight: what the evidence supports
Each entry’s own grades, side by side. A grade says how strong the evidence is for one outcome — it does not rank one entry over the other.
Compound or practice
Green Tea Extract (EGCG)
Modest metabolic and cardiovascular benefits from catechins — and a real, if uncommon, liver-toxicity signal at high concentrated doses.
Grade C2 graded outcomesrevised Jul 10, 2026
A structured monograph in Prometheus's bundled library. Its grades are the monograph's own reading of the evidence, not a peer-reviewed review.
Outcome map
Body weight: what the evidence supports
2 graded interventions for body weight, ranked by strength of evidence.
Grade C2 graded outcomesrevised Jul 10, 2026
Assembled by the app from other entries in this library. It adds no evidence of its own — follow the links to the entries it draws on.
Graded in both
Outcomes are matched by name. Two entries can describe the same outcome in different words, so one listed further down may still be graded in the other.
No outcome has the same name in both entries. They may still overlap under different wording — read the two lists below.
Graded only in Green Tea Extract (EGCG)
- Body weight Small effectEvidence grade C
- Liver injury (high-dose extract) Small effectEvidence grade C
Graded only in Body weight: what the evidence supports
- Green Tea Extract (EGCG) Small effectEvidence grade C
- Chromium Trivial effectEvidence grade D
What each entry says about the other
- Body weight: what the evidence supports’s entry · Goes with: Grade C
Both columns are read from the entries as they stand in this library. A comparison is not advice to take either one, and it is no substitute for a clinician who knows the person.