These Foods Treat Parkinson’s Disease

If you have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, your brain is starving for one specific ingredient.

This is according to a new study in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

The best part about this is that there are ton of delicious foods that can load your brain with this ingredient, treat, even reverse your disease.

Many previous studies, performed on the brains of people who died of Parkinson’s, found a depletion of a powerful antioxidant called glutathione in Parkinson’s-affected brains.

Because it is in short supply, there aren’t enough antioxidants to fix the harmful oxidation of tissue.

Researchers from India’s National Brain Research Centre wanted to explain why this occurs, but did not have cadavers whose brains they could work with.

But since some key parts of the brain are shallow enough to do neuroimaging scans, including a section responsible for motor activity called the substantia nigra, they decided to go ahead with the study.

They recruited 38 Parkinson’s patients and 38 healthy people with whom to compare them. They then scanned their brains to record their responses to the introduction of certain substances.

As they expected, they found a shortage of the antioxidant glutathione in the substantia nigra region of the Parkinson’s patients’ brains, which almost definitely explains why people afflicted with this disease struggle to control their movements. The neurons become too damaged by oxidative stress to function.

This can also explain why Parkinson’s patients lose their ability to learn, recall, and navigate their environments. The brain region responsible for these operations, called the hippocampus, is linked to the substantia nigra via direct neural pathways. As such, the glutathione deficiency spreads, leading to cell damage from oxidation there too.

But in addition to these findings, they noticed an alarming increase in iron in the substantia nigra of the Parkinson’s patients too.

This makes sense, as scientists already know that iron accumulation promotes the production of reactive oxygen species that, in turn, cause the oxitive damage to cells.

In healthy brains, glutathione and iron are balanced and vital for normal function. But if this study is right, this balance is obviously disrupted in those suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

The easiest solution is to increase the amount of glutathione in our brains so that they can fight off the oxitive species that cause the damage.

While our bodies naturally produce glutathione, certain foods can support its production and boost its levels.

1. Sulfur-rich vegetables like garlic, onions, leeks, shallots, broccoli, kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts.

2. The amino acid cysteine, as found in fish, lean meats, poultry, eggs, and milk.

3. Selenium-rich foods like Brazil nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and chia seeds.

4. Avocado and spinach both contain some glutathione.

Therefore, consume some of these to boost your brain’s ability to fight off oxitive damage and Parkinson’s disease.

Most importantly, this proves what thousands of readers have already demonstrated: Parkinson’s is a lifestyle disease that can be treated, even reversed using the lifestyle changes explained here…