Medical Food to Stop the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease ()
Abstract
No progress has been made in the development of drugs to stop the progression of Parkinson’s Disease. Here the author has presented a novel approach to stopping the disease using a dietary supplement primarily composed of Mannitol. In vivo animal studies have shown that Mannitol was able to break up alpha-synuclein clusters and restore functioning in transgenic drosophila and mice. The author, who has Parkinson’s, used himself as a subject and was able to achieve similar results.
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McCammon, D. (2014) Medical Food to Stop the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease.
Advances in Parkinson's Disease,
3, 10-13. doi:
10.4236/apd.2014.32003.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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