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Yet another idea holds that that intestinal inflammation, possibly from gut microbes, could give rise to Parkinson’s disease. The latest evidence supporting this idea comes from a large epidemiological study, in which Inga Peter, a genetic epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and her colleagues scanned through two large U.S. medical databases to investigate the overlap between inflammatory bowel diseases and Parkinson’s.

Their analysis compared 144,018 individuals with Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis and 720,090 healthy controls. It revealed that the prevalence of Parkinson’s was 28 percent higher in individuals with the inflammatory bowel diseases than in those in the control group, supporting prior findings from the same researchers that the two disorders share genetic links. In addition, the research team discovered that in people who received drugs used to reduce inflammation—tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors—the incidence of the neurodegenerative disease dropped 78 percent.

This study further validates the theory that gut inflammation could drive Parkinson’s pathogenesis, says Madelyn Houser, a graduate student in neuroscientist Malú Tansey’s lab at Emory University. The anti-TNF finding in particular, she adds, suggests that the “overlap between the two diseases might be primarily mediated by inflammation.”

78% reduction in The incidence of disease is too great to ignore I hope more research will be done into the use of

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Not only for Parkinson's but for other inflammatory illnesses when one considers that a majority of our immunity originates in the gut

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