Green tea may be more than just a tasty, warm drink. It may help you protect yourself from dementia
and Alzheimer’s according to a study from the researchers at the Medicinal Plant Research Group from
Newcastle University in collaboration with the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Originally published in the journal Phytomedicine, the study reveals that polyphenols in green tea
may improve cognitive skills. Two compounds, hydrogen peroxide and beta-amyloid, have important
roles in how Alzheimer’s develops and the green tea metabolites can reduce the cell deaths created
by those compounds.

Mimicking digestion by treating green tea extracts in the lab, researchers found that the
polyphenols, even after being “digested”, remained active. Also encouraging was that the study
showed that the digested green tea showed even more effective against the triggers of Alzheimer’s
development than undigested green tea.

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