Green Tea Helps Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease
A compound found in green tea may help protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) according to findings of researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa published in the September 21 2005 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
After two months of injections of EGCG from green tea to mice bred to develop neurodegenerative disease, the team observed a decrease in beta-amyloid containing plaques of up to 54 percent.
Jun Tan, MD, PhD, director of the Neuroimmunology Laboratory at USF stated, "If beta-amyloid pathology in this Alzheimer's mouse model is representative of Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, EGCG dietary supplementation may be effective in preventing and treating the disease."
Read more information from the green tea Alzheimer's study here.
After two months of injections of EGCG from green tea to mice bred to develop neurodegenerative disease, the team observed a decrease in beta-amyloid containing plaques of up to 54 percent.
Jun Tan, MD, PhD, director of the Neuroimmunology Laboratory at USF stated, "If beta-amyloid pathology in this Alzheimer's mouse model is representative of Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans, EGCG dietary supplementation may be effective in preventing and treating the disease."
Read more information from the green tea Alzheimer's study here.
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