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Until recently, conventional medicine swore on genetics as nearly the only cause of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\nUntil recently, conventional medicine swore on genetics as nearly the only cause of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n
More recent studies link it increasingly to environmental and lifestyle factors.<\/p>\n
A study in Cellular and Infection Microbiology<\/em> has concluded that specific strains of bacteria are behind most Parkinson\u2019s cases.<\/p>\n Remove this bacteria, and Parkinson\u2019s may be history.<\/p>\n The researchers at the University of Helsinki had previously discovered that Desulfovibrio<\/em> bacteria were more common and abundant in patients with Parkinson\u2019s, especially those with more severe symptoms, than in healthy individuals.<\/p>\n In this study, the researchers tried to discover whether the specific strains of Desulfovibrio<\/em> found in Parkinson\u2019s patients led to the development of the disease.<\/p>\n The easiest way to do this kind of study would be to feed healthy people large amounts of Desulfovibrio<\/em> bacteria from the intestines of Parkinson\u2019s patients.<\/p>\n However, no research ethics committee would approve a study to deliberately give people something suspected to be harmful.<\/p>\n The scientists therefore performed their study on a type of roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em>, which other studies have shown to have many biological processes similar to those in humans.<\/p>\n They examined fecal samples from ten Parkinson\u2019s patients and their healthy spouses to look for Desulfovibrio<\/em> bacteria. They then fed isolated Desulfovibrio<\/em> strains to some roundworms to see which roundworms would develop Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n What did they find?<\/p>\n 2.\tThe worms fed Desulfovibrio<\/em> strains from Parkinson\u2019s patients had a higher mortality rate than those fed E. coli<\/em> bacteria.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n The findings suggest that Desulfovibrio<\/em> bacteria may have a causal role in Parkinson\u2019s because of their ability to induce clumping of a protein called alpha-synuclein.<\/p>\n\n