Drink Cuts Alzheimer’s Risk Up To 86%

“While the study was conducted on Chinese elderly, the results could apply to other races as well.

Our findings have important implications for dementia prevention.

Despite high quality drug trials, effective pharmacological therapy for neurocognitive disorders such as dementia remains elusive and current prevention strategies are far from satisfactory.

Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world.

The data from our study suggests that a simple and inexpensive lifestyle measure such as daily tea drinking can reduce a person’s risk of developing neurocognitive disorders in late life.”

“Based on current knowledge, this long term benefit of tea consumption is due to the bioactive compounds in tea leaves, such as catechins, theaflavins, thearubigins and L-theanine.

These compounds exhibit anti-inflammatory and antioxidant potential and other bioactive properties that may protect the brain from vascular damage and neurodegeneration.

Our understanding of the detailed biological mechanisms is still very limited so we do need more research to find out definitive answers.”