Blog — green tea and Alzheimer's Disease

Can green tea really reduce the risk of Alzheimer's Disease? The results of a longitudinal study  of 957 Chinese seniors that began in 2003 were published in the peer reviewed scientific journal The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging in December of 2016. The study concluded that drinking tea regularly lowered the risk of cognitive impairment by 50% for the general population, and by as much as 86% for those seniors with a genetic predisposition to developing the disorder. That's huge news! The study did not identify specific components in tea that caused the effect. “Our understanding of the detailed...