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Removing a section of digestive tract nerve lowers your risk by 40%, study claims
Interesting study to say the least. I think the reason that removal of the vagus nerve reduces PD is because the vagus nerve as far as I understand can drastically increase the amount and activity of serotonin.
Can't find a link to the exact study but here are some quotes from the press release;
"Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve"
"The preliminary study examined people who had resection surgery, removing the main trunk or branches of the vagus nerve..."
"A total of 19 people who had truncal vagotomy at least five years earlier developed the disease, or 0.78 percent, compared to 3,932 people who had no surgery and had been followed for at least five years, at 1.15 percent."
"researchers found that people who had a truncal vagotomy at least five years before were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who had not had the surgery and had been followed for at least five years."
"Researchers used national registers in Sweden to compare 9,430 people who had a vagotomy over a 40-year period to 377,200 people from the general population. During that time, 101 people who had a vagotomy developed Parkinson's disease, or 1.07 percent, compared to 4,829 people in the control group, or 1.28 percent. This difference was not significant."
"But when researchers analyzed the results for the two different types of vagotomy surgery, they found that people who had a truncal vagotomy at least five years earlier were less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who had not had the surgery and had been followed for at least five years."
Interesting study to say the least. I think the reason that removal of the vagus nerve reduces PD is because the vagus nerve as far as I understand can drastically increase the amount and activity of serotonin.
Can't find a link to the exact study but here are some quotes from the press release;
"Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve"
"The preliminary study examined people who had resection surgery, removing the main trunk or branches of the vagus nerve..."
"A total of 19 people who had truncal vagotomy at least five years earlier developed the disease, or 0.78 percent, compared to 3,932 people who had no surgery and had been followed for at least five years, at 1.15 percent."
"researchers found that people who had a truncal vagotomy at least five years before were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who had not had the surgery and had been followed for at least five years."
"Researchers used national registers in Sweden to compare 9,430 people who had a vagotomy over a 40-year period to 377,200 people from the general population. During that time, 101 people who had a vagotomy developed Parkinson's disease, or 1.07 percent, compared to 4,829 people in the control group, or 1.28 percent. This difference was not significant."
"But when researchers analyzed the results for the two different types of vagotomy surgery, they found that people who had a truncal vagotomy at least five years earlier were less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who had not had the surgery and had been followed for at least five years."
