8. In 2012, 94 mergers or acquisitions took place in the hospital industry worth a total of $1.88 billion, the highest value of M&A activity within the industry over the last decade, according to Irving Levin Associates.
If you really want tea (and you want it now!) then shoot for bottled versions with an acid like lemon juice or citric acid, which help stabilize EGCg levels. 10. Squeeze on the Citrus Adding lemon increases teaâs antioxidant potential. Vitamin C provides an acidic condition for catechins inside our bodies, making them more available for absorption. Normally teaâs catechins become super-unstable in the high acidity of our intestines.
Having said this, it has been shown that ingestion of lemon juice (citric acid, a 'weak' organic acid) undergoes a metabolism that results in a slight increase in the pH in the urinary bladder (from 6.7 +/- 0.1 to 6.9 +/- 0.1). In other words, the pH of the urine becomes a little closer to neutral.