That’s what research is suggesting, that drinking the antioxidant-filled green tea may actually help you to live longer (both men and women).  The lower death rate of green tea imbibers is looking like it is from the ability of green tea to protect heart health, or at least the ability to stave of death from the symptoms of heart disease. 

The benefits of drinking green tea do benefit both men and women in the heart protection category, but the benefits seem to be a little higher for women who drink green tea. 

Men who drink green tea every day have been estimated to cut their risk of heart disease by about 22%, which is fairly significant if you think about it.  The findings are not just your average “guesstimates” either, since the study has been carried on for more than ten years, with an average of about 40,000 participants, so not only was participation wide, but the time frame over which it was evaluated give significant merit to the findings that green tea helps protect the heart and prolong life when it is drank every day.

The reason that women may benefit a little more than men may relate to the fact that they have more estrogen circulating in their bodies than men do.  This can interact differently with the compounds in green tea, and also women are just genetically different from men, and may have a different “chemical reaction” with the green tea compounds.