Drinking Green Tea May Help To Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

There are ongoing discussions and researches that drinking green tea has advantages for brain cells. Furthermore, some studies indicate it can reduce the probability of having Alzheimer’s disease. Among the many active compounds in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and catechin stand out as the most prominent antioxidants that protect the brain cells from oxidative stress and inflammation, Moreover.

Research has also shown that green tea has the potential to improve memory and other cognitive strengths by increasing blood flow to the brain, which in turn establishes more connections in the neural pathways. Some studies stress that it may also have a role in inhibiting the deposition of beta-amyloid plaques, which are markers of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease has a widely diverse set of determinants; nevertheless, the current findings still point towards an excessively intricate problem. Healthy eating, regular exercising and other aspects of one’s lifestyle are also very helpful in delaying or preventing Alzheimer’s disease.

Prof. XiaolingPeng from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, believes that the consumption of green tea might be effective in reducing the risk of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The increasing morbidity of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease as a result of aging is alarming considering that the world’s population is getting older.

Alzheimer's disease is considered to be a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to permanent shrinking of the brain structural cells rather than an increased size of the brain cells. Changes that occur in Alzheimer's disease affect the areas of the brain that control thinking, remembering, and using language.

Researchers from Anhui Agricultural University and the University of Science and Technology of China suggest that gree tea could be effective for amelioration of learning and memory while also assisting with military damage. 

Considered one of the most healthy beverages to ever exist, Green Tea is said to contain certain antioxidants that can lower the chances for contraction of either caner or heart disease while in addition to this, it can assist with diabetes management. 

Moving onwards, research on EGCG was also carried out in a scientist case study at Ucla, after acquiring post-mortem brain tissue from Alzheimer’s patients, isolated tau tangles were formed, these tangles were then subjected to flash freezing after being treated with EGCG, these images were then formed using the freezing electron microscope technique and cryogenic tau fiber complexes. 

Finally, these EGCG-tau fiber images proved effective in assisting to demolish the tau fibers as well as bind to them, per the team’s model, clefts are sections that are slightly opened up across the fiber layers, these regions are where EGCG acts out.

The researchers employed molecular models of EGCG and tau tangles, and then passively directed the formation of tau tangles from post-mortem Alzheimer’s patients' brains provided through donations. They focused on computer simulations enabling to ease molecules to cross the blood-brain barrier similar to EGCG. These alternate compounds were evaluated in two different setups as well.

 In both setups, several of the molecules untangled tau fibers. Although researchers caution that more work is needed, the experiments indicated that certain molecules also prevented the untangled tau from spreading and forming new tangles.

Overall, the findings suggest that these newly discovered molecules that can penetrate the brain and dismantle tau tangles may be a promising strategy for treating Alzheimer’s. Future research into these molecules may help uncover more about their therapeutic potential.