Author(s)

Yichen Bai, Xinwei He and Yiting Han

Corresponding Author

Yichen Bai

ABSTRACT

Tea polyphenols are believed to have multiple health benefits to humans. Tea polyphenols have the function to inhibit cancer, which mainly depends on three different pathways. Cancer can be inhibited by tea polyphenols through inhibiting the formation of cancer cells, blocking the spreading of cancer, and inducing the cancer cells to destroy themselves. Tea also has beneficial effects on inhibiting Alzheimer’s disease through the anti-beta-amyloid effect and other mechanisms like preventing tau phosphorylation and aggregation. The last two parts discussed tea polyphenols play a role in antibiosis and anti-inflammatory by some detailed mechanisms. Though tea polyphenols have many beneficial effects, some of the mechanisms of these effects have remained unclear. Further studies need to be carried out to figure them out.

KEYWORDS

Tea polyphenols, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiosis’ anti-inflammatory