Green tea extract may help battle the dreaded neurodegenerative disease. So might taking up new hobbies.<\/p>\n
Researchers in Michigan have discovered that green tea extract interferes with the formation of damaging plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n
The new study, out of the University of Michigan, seems to indicate that an extract from green tea can battle Alzheimer’s disease. There is a molecule researchers identified in the tea which they found can prevent the damage to proteins in the brain commonly associated with the development of Alzheimer’s. <\/p>\n
The growth of damaging proteins, metal-associated amyloids, was controlled in lab settings, as reported in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was part of a multidisciplinary effort which involved biophysicist, chemists, and biologists. The teams used epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a flavinoid and widely-accepted antioxidant that can be extracted from the tea. The EGCG broke the amyloid protein structures.<\/p>\n