Originally Posted by soccertese

if i remember correctly, prosavin is made by a french company? or british?
and has 3 enzymes which either make l-dopa or dopamine from tyrosine and does not require as much l-dopa taken orally whereas this "new" gene therapy requires l-dopa but less since more of it gets converted to dopamine in the brain, with the theory being you get l-dopa into the brain but since in advanced pd'ers very little gets stored anymore and you make very little of your own it gets broken down as fast as it enters the brain?

do by adding genes to convert l-dopa to dopamine where needed, restores ability to used l-dopa and gets you maybe back to that good old "honeymoon" phase. sounds good, not sure if i'm right, too lazy to doublecheck.