Green Tea Prevents Deathly Plaque Formation In Parkinson's And Alzheimer's - First Results In The Test Tube And With Cell Models

02 Jun 2008
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/109358.php

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* (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1437).

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The researcher who discovered azilect has had high hopes for green tea and it seems he's right. This is very exciting!

EGCG also prevents prostate cancer in men with a condition that usually changes to cancer, at least in the first year. I posted the research a few years ago.

It works in a similar way as a cancer drug but without the down side to benign cells. NOW foods makes a supplement high in EGCG.

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"EGCG Stops Prostate Cancer

Taking green tea capsules virtually wiped out the development of prostate cancer in men at high risk, says Italian researcher Dr. Saverio Bettuzzi, University of Parma.

He gave men 600 mg a day of concentrated green tea catechins, containing 300 mg EGCG, or a placebo for a year. All the men had premalignant lesions, putting them at risk of progression to full blown advanced and potentially fatal prostate cancer.

After a year, only one man (3%) in the group on green tea capsules developed prostate cancer compared with 9 men (28%) on placebo. Thus, the green tea was nearly 90% effective in preventing prostate cancer, said researchers.

They attribute the anti-cancer activity to the daily 300 mg of antioxidant EGCG. (the amount in 3 cups of brewed green tea or 1 capsule of Stop Aging Now! High-Antioxidant Green Tea Extract.)

As to whether green tea's EGCG can prevent prostate cancer, "the answer is clearly yes," says Dr. Bettuzzi. (Betuzzi S. Cancer Res 2006 Jan15;66(2): 1234-40) "