Ten’s of millions of people are diagnosed or suffer from Parkinson’s every year and the number keeps growing. Early detection has helped some mitigate the symptoms, but a cure is yet to be found. However, we’re getting closer to understanding it’s causes.
Recent research suggest’s it’s not the brain that’s the source of the illness, but the gut. In the last few years, science has realised just how important our gut and it’s micro-flora are to our overall wellbeing and function (Caltech: Mouse Studies led by Sarkis Mazmanian).
There has also long be held the idea that the vegus nerve is a possible pathway through the blood-brain barrier.
Now to reinforce that fact, Duke University researcher Rodger Liddle and his team have uncovered that nerve cells in the gut wall, produce a certain protein when under stress. This same protein is seen in the nerve cells of Parkinson’s suffers.
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