Intense exercise increases risk?

[b-erec]

We all ask ask ourselves where my PD came from. There are a few theories and the most popular is exposure to pesticides. It explains my case, but doesn’t answer the question why others who were (are) exposed too didn’t get PD.

In today’s news I heard about this study for the first time. Motor neurone disease: Intense exercise increases risk, say scientists bbc.co.uk/news/health-57431412

I always suspected that my symptoms began after very exhausting exercises, but I could not justify this thought as in public opinion physical exercise == good for health. So I took appeared slowness and jittering for simple tiredness until it turned into chronic disease with the name.

Just wanted to ask if anybody here fills the same, that their PD was preceded by long term exhausting exercises or labor?

[Hidden]

TY for this handy excuse. My current exercise routine is very mild.

[b-erec in reply to Hidden]

Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, I didn’t mean to make an excuse to avoid current exercise routine. I theorized about what preceded my first PD symptoms.

[Kia17 in reply to b-erec]

It perfectly makes sense.Thank you for sharing.

[Nitro53]

I’ve read the report but honestly think it sounds like 🐎💩 to me. With all the thousands of athletes out there and the strenuous exercise they perform day in and day out I would expect more diagnoses.

[Enidah]

Due to high exposure to pesticides\insecticides I am pretty much sure that's where my PD came from. Having said that there does seem to be a lot of people who have talked about very stressful events that have happened right before they started getting noticeable symptoms. Since it has been said over and over that we don't start getting the symptoms until we have lost up to 80% of the dopamine in our cells I can't say that that's the cause but I do think it's possible that the stressful events cause the PD to kick in and perhaps exacerbate it enough that it becomes noticeable.At this point if it was caused only by stress I think almost everybody would have it.😬

[MBAnderson]

Ignore it. It's an article. The study included football players -- who get head injuries?? HELLO??

[Gigi216]

Exhaustive exercise increases ceramides

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

Ceramides can increase risk of Parkinson’s disease

frontiersin.org/article/10....

Perhaps this is why intense exercise can increase risk of Parkinson’s

[jeffmayer]

No

[LAJ12345]

I think anything that over stresses your body without giving it long enough to recover might cause it. Like excessive exercise, excessive pesticides, drugs, solvents, harmful foods, etc.

Hormesis is applying a stressor to the body to make it stronger but all these stressor in excess can be harmful including exercise I imagine.

[gginto]

Don't believe it for one minute... Put this article up against the all the evidence where exercise is one of the top activities for the human body. Total hogwash...

[ion_ion]

Mine was the exposure to too much work and stress and no recreation.

[b-erec in reply to ion_ion]

Was it physical work?

[ion_ion in reply to b-erec]

No. Programming work. In 2016 I had only 5 weekends off, otherwise 7x12h per week.

[b-erec in reply to ion_ion]

Have you been exposed to any pesticides before that? Do you live mostly in a city area? Do you smoke?

[ion_ion in reply to b-erec]

Maybe when I was a child as I grew up in a farming area. But from where I was 14 I lived in a city. I don't smoke.

[b-erec in reply to ion_ion]

Have you thought that maybe smokers are less at risk ‘cause they “learned” to take breaks regularly and relax no matter what they are doing.

[AmyLindy in reply to b-erec]

Clever!

[Raphaekg]

The evidence is that sedentary behavior is a risk factor for PD, NOT regular exercise.

[Bondslave]

Just a thought, the more active we are the dopamine we use, so intense exercise will consume a large amount of dopamine . So which is better the benefits if the intense exercise or having more dopamine in revere so to speak, I think this all depends on your personality and what you dem important... Sorry for the typos and grammar, I'm low on dopamine.")

[ddmagee1]

I used to do heavy exercise, in my 40’s and 50’s! I was a gym rat, and had to remain relatively fit, because of my job! Besides, I enjoyed lifting weights, and challenging myself, to add weight, and size! I started having Parkinson’s symptom’s in my 50’s, but wasn’t diagnosed until I was in my late 60’s. I don’t blame excessive exercise, for a cause for my Parkinson’s symptom’s. Rather, I blame head injuries (concussions). I had several serious head injuries in my 30’s and 40’s, where I lost consciousness. My DNA does not show any inherited DNA. Because there are so many symptoms, it sometimes seems like Parkinson’s is actually, several disease processes - the variability of symptoms in PWP, is well documented. Just my opinion, for what it’s worth!