According a research from China, the anti oxidant effects of green tea ingredients namely polyphenols may help protect neurons against damaging effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO)and therefore offering some potential benefits for Parkinson’s Disease.
Parkinson’s disease is one of the degenerative disorders and it usually affect the movement and cause symptoms like rigidity, tremor and it affect around more than one million Americans each year currently.
The results of the research were published in the journal Biological Psychiatry. The study was conducted in rats and it looked at the effects of polyphenols on inhibiting the death of neurons induced by neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA).Polyphenols are main beneficial constituents of green tea. It needs more research through different stages before we are confident enought to say it protects against Parkinson’s disease.
Posted on December 25th, 2007 by EGCG
Filed under: Cancer, Parkinson's Disease
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