Dietary Regulation of Dopamine, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified

Steve Blake - He has authored Parkinson’s Disease: Dietary Regulation of Dopamine, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified .

Diet can have an impact on our ability to make dopamine. Find out how to adjust diet to improve dopamine production. We will explore how to avoid the foods and toxins that may deplete the brain cells that make dopamine. We will learn about certain foods that help protect brain cells and slow degeneration. Since symptoms do not often show up before half of the dopamine-producing brain cells are gone, all of us can benefit from proactive risk reduction.

Steve Blake, ScD, is part of the clinical and research faculty at Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience, and is finishing a clinical study at Hawaii Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He has presented grand rounds at John A. Burns School of Medicine at U.H. and at Boston University Medical Center. He has authored Parkinson’s Disease: Dietary Regulation of Dopamine, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (McGraw Hill), A Nutritional Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease, Alternative Remedies (Mosby), co-authored Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses, 4th edition, and created the Diet Doctor software to analyze dietary nutrients. He earned his ScD from the International Center for NaturoBioHolistic Health and Medicine. He lives on an organic farm on Maui with his wife Catherine. .

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[jombi]

Invaluable information. Thank you Roy Pop!

[NewHope1961]

Thanks! I can’t find his book re Parkinson’s on the Internet , do you know where I can get the book?

[Hidden in reply to NewHope1961]

drsteveblake.com/ParkinsonB... Link to His 2017 book!

n this book I outline a four-step plan for Parkinson's disease.

1) The first step is to relieve the symptoms and allow

levodopa (and tyrosine) to work more effectively.

Lowering protein intake to just what we need,

rather than the usual excess, allows our bodies to

transport both levodopa and tyrosine to the brain.

I document studies where this one change has cut symptoms in half.

2) A second step is to eat certain foods that increase

the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase to allow

more dopamine to be made inside our bodies.

Sesame tahini is one example. Have you ever

wondered how all those dopamine-producing

neurons in the brain were killed off?

3) The third approach is to identify the specific

environmental pollutants to avoid in order to

preserve the remaining dopamine-producing cells.

4) Finally, we must protect our brain cells from

further damage to ensure that there is

no further progression of Parkinson's disease.

Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods are the key here.

[interpreters in reply to Hidden]

So what is the dietary link of vitamin B1?

[AmyLindy in reply to Hidden]

Nice summary- I ordered: downloaded his book too!

[AmyLindy in reply to AmyLindy]

I asked him to address B1 in next edition- he replied : yes!

[marcet]

Very interesting thanks

[LindaP50]

Yes!!! I have

wondered how all those dopamine-producing

neurons in the brain were killed off!

[Despe in reply to LindaP50]

Not killed, they hibernate.

[LindaP50 in reply to Despe]

lyme hibernates. but don't believe neurons which produce dopamine hibernate.

[danfitz in reply to LindaP50]

Some neurologists believe that dopamine neurons go dormant but the majority believe they die. I can’t recall the percentage split between the competing views.