Loneliness is associated with increased risk of Parkinson's disease.

[SilentEchoes]

"The most probable mechanism is 'through metabolic, inflammatory, and neuroendocrine pathways.' Mental, metabolic, and neurological health are interconnected. Chris Palmer, MD" jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...?

It's equally important to address mental health, along with physical illness. Depression isn't a personal failure. It is a physical illness with roots in metabolic disorders and part of the metabolic disease is mitochondrial dysfunction. It has been proven that depression is a result of chronic neuroinflammation.

"Mitochondrial dysfunction plays a vital role in the etiology of depression... and represents a potential target for pharmacological intervention of depression." sciencedirect.com/science/a...

You cannot heal the body until you heal the mind. This means addressing trauma - which is also a cause of chronic neuroinflammation.

Give Dr. Palmer a follow, he has much more information on the topic than I can share here.

chrispalmermd.com/

@ChrisPalmerMD

SE

[Bolt_Upright]

Interesting doctor. Thank you for sharing.

[HugoRipanykhazov]

From the evidence I can see here, isn't that a bit like saying that you can catch a broken leg on a ski slope by going too fast too near sometime we had just fallen and broken their leg?