Green tea has long been thought to have a healing effect on the human body. Now a study by an Israeli scientist has found proof in the laboratory of the Technion Institute of Science in Haifa.
A research team led by Dr. Silvia Mandel of the Technion?s Eve Topf Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases found that green tea extract fed to mice with Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s disease protected the brain cells from dying. It also stopped the process of degeneration in cells that were already affected.
?I looked up some more articles and decided that maybe I could study this compound ? in any event, it is natural so it can?t do any harm and it would be nice to tell people that they can drink something pleasant like tea and get beneficial effects from it,? she explained.
Mandel also said a ?neurorescue? study by one of her PhD students, Lydia Reznichenko, showed EGCG not only prevented further deterioration of brain cells in mice affected with Parkinson?s disease, but also helped regenerate the neurons that were already damaged.
?We?re the first to show that green tea is effective in doing this,? said Mandel. ?In the past, it was thought that once brain cells were damaged, there was no way to repair them. The major question is whether these promising results are reproducible in humans.?
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A research team led by Dr. Silvia Mandel of the Technion?s Eve Topf Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases found that green tea extract fed to mice with Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s disease protected the brain cells from dying. It also stopped the process of degeneration in cells that were already affected.
?I looked up some more articles and decided that maybe I could study this compound ? in any event, it is natural so it can?t do any harm and it would be nice to tell people that they can drink something pleasant like tea and get beneficial effects from it,? she explained.
Mandel also said a ?neurorescue? study by one of her PhD students, Lydia Reznichenko, showed EGCG not only prevented further deterioration of brain cells in mice affected with Parkinson?s disease, but also helped regenerate the neurons that were already damaged.
?We?re the first to show that green tea is effective in doing this,? said Mandel. ?In the past, it was thought that once brain cells were damaged, there was no way to repair them. The major question is whether these promising results are reproducible in humans.?
For more read here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123968
And here: http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles^l1805&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Health&