PD due to eat intolerant food

[youcanwin]

Can Parkinson diseases happen due to eating intolerant food for long time. Any link of gut to brain can someone comment on it?

[bookish]

I'm sure that someone with far more PD knowledge will comment, but would say that there is an association between neurodegenerative diseases and sustained inflammation. PD is considered to be at least partly autoimmune. There is always a combination of causes - environmental factors, genetic predisposition, stress in its widest sense. But the chronic low level inflammation that results from undiagnosed food intolerances will add to your stress load and make your genetic vulnerability more likely to express and potentially lead to illness. Gut communicates more with brain than brain with gut - they are intimately connected. Have a look at vagus nerve function. Best wishes

[jrg54321]

For the longest time I had reflux, swallowing problems, and runny nose/congestion/dry cough. I thought it could be the H. Pylori in my digestive tract. Killed that with antibiotics. Still had the congestion/dry cough. Narrowed it down to milk products. I have been off dairy for about three months. The cough only returns briefly when we get take out and dairy is slipped into the food. I don't think it's lactose, because lactaid milk causes the same problem. Milk protein maybe? Whey protein powder sets me off too.

[jrg54321 in reply to jrg54321]

Oh and before my diagnosis I had been in the hospital a few times due to inflamed stomach lining. Gastritis.

[bookish in reply to jrg54321]

Hi, I'm glad you tracked down the source of the problem. I can't tolerate dairy either, but also grains and gluten. A gluten sensitivity can be triggered by dairy. Might be worth getting a coeliac check if you haven't had one (bearing in mind that a negative blood test isn't conclusive) just to rule that out, but you could still be non-coeliac gluten sensitive. Cheers