Parkinson's Disease

Even though it was believed for a long time that parkinson Disease are caused by bad genes, it is now clear, that it is not genes alone.  It is environmenal factors with genes (1,2):

1.  Toxins like heavymetals, pesticides, solvents, alcohol (3,4).

2.  Too much oxidative stress and not enough antioxidants (5).

3.  Inability to detoxify ( 6,7).

Parkinosin's Disease Dietary recommendations:

1.  Increase cold water fish low in mercury, fruits and vegetables, especially garlic, onions, guar gum, oat bran, psyllium and pectin, sunflower seeds, couliflower, broccoli, olives, kale, papaya, almonds, chard etc..

2.  Red wine in moderation.

3.  Avoid red meat and other animal protein.  Instead go with vegetable protein and eggs.

Of course diet alone cannot fix the problem.  It cannot fix Neurotransmitter Imbalance, it may not be able to fix minerals and vitamins deficiency because of maldigestion or malabsorbtion. It cannot fix Hormonal Imbalances either. Diet alone cannot detoxify your body. To figure out what is going on you need to see Functional Medicine Doctor to go to the root cause of the problem and elimiate it.

References:

1.  Pedersen, Gats, Berg.  How heritable is Alzheimer disease late in life? Finding from Swedish twins.  Annals of Neurology 2004, 55: 180 -- 185.

2.  Spanaki, Plaitakis. Bilineal transmission of Parkinson disease on Crete suggests a complex inheritance. Neurology 2004, 62: 815 -- 817.

3.  Head.  Parkinson's: better living though chemicals?  Alternative Medicine Review 2000, 5: 501.

4.  Priyadarshi, Khuder, Schaub.  Environmental risk factors and Parkinosn disease: a metaanalysis.  Environmental research 2001, 86: 122 -- 127.

5.  Bharath, Hsu, Kaur.  Glutathione, iron and parkinson disease.  iochemical Pharmacology 2002, 64: 1037 -- 1048.

6.  Steventon, Heafield, Waring.  Xenobiotic metabolism in Parkinson disease.  Neurology 1989, 39: 883 -- 887.

7.  Heafield, Fearn, Steventon.  Plasma cysteine and sulfate levels in patients with motor neurone, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.  Neuroscience Letters 1990, 110: 216 -- 220.