science

"Supplementation of riboflavin and/or biotin is likely to be beneficial in a subset of Parkinson's disease patients, in which gut dysbiosis plays pivotal roles,"

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This is going to sound like a joke, but I'm serious: I hope Michael J Fox tries this out and reports back some positive results.

This is a very simple treatment that is universally available, can be done at home, and at the very least is preventative. He is a huge public figure in the Parkinson's world, and any potential upside to him for this would be enough to get a lot of people to also get the same if they have a risk, or are early-stage.

The article doesn't go into if this can still help late-stage Patients, but it would track that it could at least stop symptom progression, being a simple vitamin deficiency and all. A more fully formed treatment could also include fecal transplants to replace aged or missing colonies of these gut bacteria if a late-stage progression means these colonies have just died off.

Sadly, since Parkinson's ultimately is about neuron damage or death, I don't think any of this is expected to repair any damage already done.

If there's one thing I've come to realize, it's that my body is rarely simple, and everything seems to be interdependent in various ways. Hopefully this research helps people suffering from Parkinson's.

For a second, I thought the image was of sweet and sour chicken with chives xD

Mmh, strawberry with sugar sprinkles.