Fasting & Dietary Strategies as Parkinson's Therapies

[Propertytyphoon]

For those of you that missed yesterday's No Silver Bullet speaker session by Dr. Matthew Phillips on "Fasting & Dietary Strategies as Parkinson's Therapies", it is now available on both YouTube and Spotify (and other podcast providers)

YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=iBNNIID...(Not working as expected?)

Spotify open.spotify.com/show/6WIgO...

Please share within your PD communities so that as many PwP can learn more about what may help them

Thank you

[Fed1000]

Thank you very much Propertytyphoon and Michel.

[LagLag37]

Very good! Thank you for posting.

[Fed1000]

Perhaps I missed a passage of Dr Phillips' beautiful exposition and it seems to me thet there have been no questions in that regard, namely: we know that pwps are not advised to take foods rich in protein because they reduce the effectiveness of Levodopa, how then can we adopt a keto diet? Please if you have followed Dr Phillips' exposition, could you tell me what he said about it? There were probably some translation problems. Thank you very much.

[Stillstandingstill in reply to Fed1000]

Possible I've missed something too but he did mention that the fasting/limited eating window allowed for times when food didn't clash with meds.

[Stillstandingstill]

Very interesting topic thank you. At this stage I have no interest in trying a keto diet, but I'm on board with reducing the eating window.

[SAGoodman]

I absolutely loved this information! Everything he talked about, I was very close in doing with diet and exercise, will just need to do a few tweeks. I am confused about fasting, as I was doing 18hrs daily, but then read every other day was better, but then he said daily? Unsure now which is better?

[bassofspades]

I was kind of surprised to learn that genetics is such a minor factor in parkinsons. 1%! I've been a cheerleader for the keto diet and fasting / intermittent fasting for quite a while. Can't say that it has cured me but I can say that it makes me feel better than when I eat like a regular American. Might also explain how I have managed to keep the progression down to a crawl. When I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I really thought I'd be wheelchair bound in 5 years. I'm still walking, here! And I can still play the bass guitar like a crazy demon!

I've tried a lot of things, too many to list. Cant say these will help everyone, but I would say the four things that have help[ed me the most in dealing with Parkinsons are

1. Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting (autophagy)

2. Thiamine therapy

3. Getting sleep apnea under control

4. Lithium Orotate therapy