The DIRT connection to PD. Too funny.

[sunvox]

I was researching magnesium and neurological disease when I came across this recently published study. There's nothing here to improve our lot, BUT I just thought it slightly funny to think the dirt in my back yard may be helping or hurting my condition. The study I linked below found a correlation between soil content of selenium, strontium, and magnesium and PD:

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Association of soil selenium, strontium, and magnesium concentrations with Parkinson's disease mortality rates in the USA.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/281...

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Funny And interesting!

[johntPM]

Thanks for posting this.

See Willis et al. (2010) on geographical variations in the prevalence of PD

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

For some time now I've thought that a possible etiology for PD was via fungal infection from the droppings of ground feeding birds, see:

parkinsonsmeasurement.org/P...

Perhaps you can link soil type with fungal growth.

John