Green tea and sleep
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- May
- 15
Chemicals found in green tea may be able to stop the cognitive deficits that occur with obstructive sleep apnea , according to a new study published in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Researchers examined the effects that green tea polyphenols put in drinking water had on rats who were intermittently deprived of oxygen during 12-hour night cycles.
In the study, researchers divided 106 male rats into two groups that underwent intermittent oxygen depletion during the 12-hour night†cycle for 14 days. One group received drinking water treated with green tea, the other received plain drinking water.Â
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They were then tested for markers of inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as for performance in spatial learning and memory tasks—namely a water “maze†in which the rat had to memorize the location of a hidden platform.Â
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The rats that received the green tea-treated water performed significantly better in a water maze than the rats that drank plain water, researchers reported.
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