The Common Cause of Parkinson’s
By William Wong ND, PhD, Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame
By William Wong ND, PhD, Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame
The road to discovery
is long and winding. Some of its paths lead to dead ends, some of its
paths curve round and round until they lead to truth. The paths trod by
those seeking the cause and then a cure for the ills that effect the
brain are no different.
In the search for the
root cause of Alzheimer's many degenerative changes in the brain of its
victims have come to light: protein cross linking short circuiting
nerve transmission, aluminum shards in DNA strands, decrease in
neurotransmitters, the shrinking of the brain due to loss of its fat
content (the brain is 70% cholesterol), but all of these factors are the
results of the condition and not its direct cause. It is now known that
moderate inflammation, not enough to be called Enchaphilitis, but
enough to have been medically detected, is the root cause of the
condition.
With Parkinson’s
patients a part of the brain called the Substancia Nigra dies off. This
vital part of the brain makes a substance called Dopamine. It is
dopamine that connects the brain to the body. As dopamine levels
decrease while the Substancia Nigra dies off, slowly the control the
brain exerts over the body diminishes. So essential is dopamine that
doctors can tell a “pre morbid” (just before death) condition by
monitoring blood levels of dopamine. Three days after the last drop of
dopamine is made by the brain the person dies! A link between sub
clinical brain inflammation and Parkinson’s has just been found!
