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A recent study has shown a link to diet [link below].
Eating ultra-processed foods for more than 20% of your daily calorie intake every day could set you on the road to cognitive decline including the areas of the brain involved in executive functioning — the ability to process information and make decisions.
In fact, people who ate the most ultra-processed foods had a 28% faster rate of global cognitive decline and a 25% faster rate of executive function decline compared with people who ate the least amount of overly processed food, the study found.
I have worked with many people who have a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis so it is a subject of particular interest. I came across a surprising but of research looking into trying to establish where this disease originates since only a small minority of cases are genetic, and run in families, but 85 to 90 percent of cases are sporadic, meaning they just seemingly pop up out of nowhere. <
It’s still not completely clear, but the abnormal clumping of a protein called (alpha) α-synuclein in the brain is thought to be involved. But how does this protein, found in the meat of vertebrae (cows, chickens, pigs, and fish) end up in the brain?
Diet seems a likely source. There is strong evidence suggesting that the protein, leaks out of the gut and makes its way up the vagal nerves into the brain.
Leaky Gut in a nutshell: Dietary fibre deprivation has been shown to degrade the intestinal barrier and enhance pathogen [in this case protein] entry.
So, it seems to suggest that a diet with lots of fibre [plants] and no meat could reduce risk for Parkinson’s disease.
It’s been shown that Parkinson’s does appear to be rare in populations that eat more plant passed diets; with rates about five times lower in rural sub-Saharan Africa, for instance.
It was thought was this could be because plant-based diets are high in antioxidants as well as the anti-inflammatory nature of the animal-free diets. Now it seems there may be a link to the increased intestinal exposure to fibre [creating a healthier non leaky gut] and decreased intestinal exposure to ingested nerves, muscles and blood from animal products.
For more on this, please check out these links:|
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/01/health/ultraprocessed-food-dementia-study-wellness/index.html
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-meat-may-play-in-triggering-parkinsons-disease/
https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/features/leaky-gut-syndrome
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