Thread: Faecal transplant eases symptoms of Parkinson's
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Old 12-31-2013, 11:36 AM
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If C.diff bacteria are a culprit in PD as the following quote suggests,

"He recently received funding to carry out a clinical trial using anti-C. difficile antibiotics to treat 18 cases of Parkinson's — an idea that occurred to him after observing that patients with chronic constipation and Parkinson's who received fecal transplants experienced a marked decrease in their neurological symptoms"

Read more: Same poop, different gut - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/news/di...#ixzz1ypbc3900

then some lab rat out there might try Florastor or another brand of saccharomyces boulardii yeast, known to combat C.difficile.

http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=15293

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_boulardii
I took Saccharomyces for a month. I am not sure what, if anything, it did for the PD but the constipation greatly improved. I will try it again and maybe throw in some soil based organisms.
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