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Tea and Red Wine for Alzheimers?

Could natural chemicals in Green Tea and Red Wine be solutions to slowing or even preventing the Alzheimer's disease pathway? See what early studies from the Journal of Biological Chemistry show.

Dr. Andy Vantreese, Neighbor

Posted Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:29 pm ET|Updated Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:07 am ET

Natural chemicals found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer's disease pathway. In early-stage experiments, researchers identified the process which allows harmful clumps of protein to latch on to brain cells, causing them to die. They were able to interrupt this pathway using the purified extracts of EGCG from green tea and resveratrol from red wine.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, February 2013

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