Alzheimer’s Disease: Green Tea Extract Found To Interfere With The Formation Of Amyloid Plaques
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain. The aggregation of these proteins, called metal-associated amyloids, is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions…
March 8, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer, alzheimer's / dementia, brain, green-tea, michigan, misfolding, neurodegenerative, new-potential, nutritional counseling, other-neurodegenerative, specific-proteins, these-proteins, university
Brain Energy Metabolism Improved By Decaffeinated Coffee
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk factor for dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. The research is published online in Nutritional Neuroscience…
February 2, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain, coffee-may, diabetes, diet, energy-metabolism, improve-brain, known-risk, medicine, mount, mount-sinai, neurodegenerative, oncalldietitian.com, other-neurodegenerative
