{"id":23526,"date":"2019-06-14T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23526"},"modified":"2019-06-14T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T05:56:47","slug":"theres-mounting-evidence-that-parkinsons-starts-in-the-gut-not-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23526","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Mounting Evidence That Parkinson&#8217;s Starts in The Gut &#8211; Not The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parkinsons-disease-drawing-1024x415.jpg\" alt=\"parkinsons disease drawing\" class=\"wp-image-23527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parkinsons-disease-drawing.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parkinsons-disease-drawing-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parkinsons-disease-drawing-768x311.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have found mounting evidence that Parkinson&#8217;s could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, with one study in 2017 observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation removes sections of the vagus nerve &#8211; which links the digestive tract with the brain &#8211; and over the course of a five-year study, patients who had this link completely removed were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson&#8217;s than those who hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the team led by Bojing Liu from the Karolinska Instituet in Sweden, that&#8217;s a significant difference, and it backs up earlier work linking the development of the brain disease to something happening inside our bellies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we can understand more about how this link operates, we might be better able to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These results provide preliminary evidence that Parkinson&#8217;s disease may start in the gut,&#8221; said Liu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Other evidence for this hypothesis is that people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease often have gastrointestinal problems such as constipation, that can start decades before they develop the disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-mounting-evidence-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-not-the-brain\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-mounting-evidence-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-not-the-brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found mounting evidence that Parkinson&#8217;s could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, with one study in 2017 observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy. The operation removes sections of the vagus nerve &#8211; which links the digestive tract with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#8217;s Mounting Evidence That Parkinson&#8217;s Starts in The Gut &#8211; Not The Brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23528,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526\/revisions\/23528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}