Coffee and Caffeine Intake and the Risk of Parkinson Disease In this study, it was the caffeine and not the coffee. If this research does get backed up by further studies, adding green tea may be a safer and healthier alternative to coffee. Read entire article here
Constipation and the future risk of Parkinson’s disease Isn’t this interesting? At this point no one is sure whether constipation is a sign of PD or whether constipation is a risk factor. Knowing what we know about the GI tract, however, would lead me to believe that the latter will turn out to be true. […]
With any chronic condition such as Alzheimer’s dementia, whether talking about prevention or treatment, I never advocate a one disease: one cure model. The natural approach necessitates a complete lifestyle change. This is where the power of lifestyle comes in–the benefits of hundreds of positive choices adding together to produce a massive improvement. I have […]
Coenzyme Q10 could slow functional decline in Parkinson’s disease A few interesting comments on this article. First, the highest therapeutic dose used in this study was 1200 mg…which is a pretty high dose as far as what I use in my office. Unfortunately, CoQ10 is not cheap and this would be prohibitive for many patients […]
As far as I’m concerned, the medical dementia research strongly points to an oxidative stress/mitochondrial dysfunction model of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease. The idea that we really don’t have any idea what causes it is just not true. The likely reason why mainstream medicine hasn’t accepted this model is because it puts much […]
