Could prostate drugs reduce Parkinson's disease risk?

[JayPwP]

medicalnewstoday.com/amp/ar...

A new study suggests that repurposing glycolysis-enhancing drugs such as terazosin, which is typically used to treat an enlarged prostate, may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease in men.

[jimcaster]

This isn't limited to terazosin, but I wonder if drugs which purportedly prevent Parkinson’s are also effective at slowing or stopping progression in those of us who already have it.

[redhawk1 in reply to jimcaster]

Switched my hypertension medication from atenolol to terazosin (8mg/day). Terazosin is doing an adequate job of keeping BP down. Hard to tell if it is slowing PD progression.

[MarionP in reply to redhawk1]

Don't get up too fast

[MarionP]

It may be very helpful for women, there's not one prostate problem reported in the entire literature.

[DaveRochester in reply to MarionP]

Perhaps that's because they don't have a prostate!

[MarionP in reply to DaveRochester]

Naw, really? Boy you can't trust anybody these days.