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PD - is it due to virus after all?

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Interesting info: Virus-like particles and enterovirus antigen found in the brainstem neurons of Parkinson’s disease

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

Every sample of the brain tissue taken from PwP had virus infection. Only one of the samples in the control group (presumably from healthy people) had virus infection the rest of them did not. The authors actually assumed that this one could be pre-clinical PD case. One would wonder why it took researchers this long to find it and why the virus theory of PD origin is not considered substantiated.

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parkie13

I strongly believe it is caused by some kind of an infectious agent. It does not happen spontaneously.

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Blackfeather

This is a very interesting and important study, though I can't claim to understand all of the science presented here. If PD is caused by a viral infection, how can it be treated? Hopefully there is some antiviral that can at least stop the progressio of PD. Thanks for posting this study.

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felixned in reply to Blackfeather

Blackfeather, This is just the beginning of the investigation from what I can see. They will have to identify the virus (or viruses) involved. I am sure others will try to duplicate this and try to may be expand the scope (more samples, various mutations included etc). As far as I know there is no known broad antiviral remedy that is effective against enteroviruses (the class of viruses presumably involved as this article implies. Nevertheless if proven true this would make finding the cure by far more plausible. There might be even a vaccine some day. The disease is going to progress as long as the virus is replicating. Any new or old treatment could be evaluated in its efficacy against stopping/killing the virus thus making the development by far more targeted.

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JANVAN

Here's a link to a video, who deals in a very interesting way with that topic............

Unfortunately only in french......>>>>>>> Bruno Donatini is one of the few gastroenterologists and osteopath at the same time......who is then, what can I say, a bit like a functional-medizin-hands-on doctor in the States------

pcb7a185529.eu.racontr.com/...

Greets to everybody !!

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Xenos in reply to JANVAN

I just looked at the video - I am French - and it is indeed very interesting. The role of the microbiome is underlined.

The best protection is uric acid i.e. do not go vegetarian, drink coffee, have a healthy consumption of fruits and veggies, and treat aggressively the herpes virus among some others.

In a nutshell :

- keep your mouth clean

- fight/avoid herpes

- have a proper level of nitrogen monoxide (NO)

- uric acid should be between 40 and 50 mg/l (drink coffee, eat meat)

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jrg54321 in reply to Xenos

Coffee decreases uric acid levels and meat increases them right. So the combination of the two keeps your levels just right?

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Xenos in reply to jrg54321

You are right. I checked : serum uric acid level decreases with increasing coffee intake. I think the guy was simply wrong...

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6780

isn't some parkinsons inherited? and some from trauma like boxing?

this is interesting. thank you for posting.

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felixned in reply to 6780

6780, Yes, there is a genetic link, also trauma link, also pesticides and other toxins link to PD. These don't necessarily exclude the common pathogenic cause for PD (like virus for example as this article suggests). The conducted study concentrated on the late onset PD as the way to limit the effect of the extraneous factors.

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JANVAN

Thanks felixned !!

Some specifications : coffee, moderate, bio, not out of "capsules" (N...), and not with sugar and milk......:-)

Meat : so much as possible bio and grass-feed, and preferably poeltry....

Of course remembering my onset (two weeks of night sweating, exhaustion and after returning of a course, where they did some neck~manipulation),

and noticing my condition the last weeks......

I think there was some overload who has done already some damage....

Therefore I hope people will made some progression in stem cell therapie........

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KERRINGTON

Thank you, totally fascinating. Now I'm seeking more info.

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