http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news262889

here's the headline of the article, but be sure to read the whole thing for the very interesting details...

"The substance ECGC (Epigallocatechin-3-gallate) from green tea can redirect the deadly process which leads to the accumulation of protein aggregates in Parkinson`s and Alzheimer`s disease. EGCG modulates a cascade of protein misfolding in such a way that the formation of deadly plaques is interrupted, and harmless protein structures emerge instead. Researchers of the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, a national research laboratory of the Helmholtz Association in Germany have made this discovery in the test tube and in cell models. The research of Dr. Dagmar Ehrnhoefer and Dr. Jan Bieschke of Professor Erich Wanker`s laboratory in Berlin-Buch has now been published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology"

My understanding is that PD is really only definitively diagnosed by autopsy where they are able to determine whether there are Lewy Bodies (being the misfolded proteins, if I understand it correctly) in the brain-if so, then you did have PD. (If I'm wrong on any of this, please let me know).

So I think this is significant, and in my mind, may relate somehow to the success that Cogane has had in primate models in reversing the disease. Maybe Cogane is some type of tea elixir, since it is made by Phytopharm and they use botannicals.