date:Sep 18, 2012
xplained that many previous studies have suggested polyphenols to be increasingly useful as anti-cancer compounds, and may also offer beneficial effects to healthy, non-cancer cells due to their antioxidant properties that can quench free radical species.
However Anderson reveals that the results of DNA damage tests revealed conflicting findings for the bulk and nano- forms of the polyphenols.
These observations support the notion that theaflavins and EGCG act as both antioxidants and pro-oxid