Deans' stroke musings: Green Tea Molecule Could Prevent Stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Green Tea Molecule Could Prevent Stroke

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Green Tea Molecule Could Prevent Stroke

Posted by Lynn Bronikowski

Jul 11 2018

Sipping a cup of green tea is not only relaxing but scientists are now discovering it could hold the key to preventing strokes and heart attacks.

Green tea, say the scientists from Lancaster University and the University of Leeds, contains a compound that breaks up and dissolves potentially dangerous protein plaques found in the blood vessels that could cause stroke.

Researchers found that antioxidants—most commonly associated with green tea—bind to the amyloid fibers of a protein called apoA-1. This converts the fibers to smaller soluble molecules that are less likely to be damaging to blood vessels.

Now, the team is working on finding ways of introducing effective amounts of antioxidants into the bloodstream without it being necessary to drink large and potentially harmful quantities of green tea.

"The health benefits of green tea have been widely promoted,” said David Middleton, professor in chemistry at Lancaster University. "Our results show that this intriguing compound might also be effective against the types of plaques which can cause heart attacks and strokes."

Added professor Sheena Radford, director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds and co-author of the research, "The findings of this round of studies are very encouraging. We now need to apply the best scientific techniques to find how we can take the molecular EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) element from green tea, and turn it into a functioning tool to combat life-limiting health issues."

The research was funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.