Updated Guide: Diet and Parkinson's

[Farooqji]

While there is no one specific diet for Parkinson's, what you eat and when can affect your medications and symptoms. Our updated guide on Diet and Parkinson's explores these topics as well as research on popular regimens (such as the ketogenic and Mediterranean diets) and Parkinson's. Get answers to your questions and diet and disease, and then talk to your care team about the best diet for you and your symptoms.

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[MarionP]

Very interested in this topic as absorbable precursors that can (or their downstream derivatives) cross the blood-brain barrier for CNS effects supplementing whatever healthy neural functions in the substanta nigra remain. Hopefully ripe for good discussion, especially anything that can slow neural degradation arising from countering alpha-synuclein and tau collection OR clearance. Will watch with some interest.

[Buckholt]

A bit wishy washy and still after all these years no firm advise just general points, which would be good for the general population anyway. Nothing about fasting as far as I could see.

[MBAnderson]

I agree with Buckholt. Pretty pedestrian.

In one place it recommends to drink 5, 8 ounce glasses of (water, V-8 juice or) Gatorade in half a day. 9 teaspoons of sugar in a 20 ounce bottle. (Doing the math, that would be 20 teaspoons of sugar per 8 hours or 40 teaspoons of sugar in one waking day which is 1 teaspoon of sugar every 25 minutes.) If you hired a committee of civil servants or morons, they couldn't come up with worse advice. That'll turn you into a diabetic in short order and you have enough problems as it is, but before you drink Gatorade, "best to check with your doctor" -- the MJFF mantra.

If I were to say, do not ever drink Gatorade, is that practicing medicine without a license?

[Farooqji in reply to MBAnderson]

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[Farooqji]

We Are What We Eat — Role of Diet

in Parkinson’s Disease

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