OK.. then what about making it legal for PWP to have their own bottle of laughing gas, or developing a sedative that lessens PD symptoms without putting a PWP to sleep?


DEfinitely would say that laughing gas should not be used by PwP. not recreationally or medicinally unless absolutely neccessary.

My reason for saying this. There is news that Folate could be implicated in the mechanisms of PD. Folate and B12 in the body have a sort of binary relationship in something called the methylation process, they are to a large degree dependent on each other, and there are several other substances in the body that also interact to get activity in the mitochondria. Most of this work starts in the stomach, and becomes part of a continual process the body is engaged with.

So why no laughing gas? Because it can catastrophically interrupt the B12 cycle, and thus interfere with these complex processes. Damage a part of the process and things unravel. NONE of this is really well understood, and its hard to know what is most important, but with studies implying folate could be a facto, I would not take a risk.

People can have genetic methylation defects that are fairly common. All in all not something to play around with, especially if you have PD.