Hi Max,
I too clocked this one on several different sites, and was in two minds over it.
On the one hand I am sure there is an inflammatory component to PD, and my personal experience is that following taking an anti inflammatory drugs on occasion for things other than PD my pd symptoms have felt improved in the subsequent one or two days. However this is not specific to ibuprofen. But as a preventative........ I too was dubious about the motivation behind this article which seems to be all over the web. I am interested to hear what others think about it...... as an over the counter drug it is freely available, many people will have it in their homes, have their sales been falling - OR, is it a genuine thing. Many older people are prescribed mild anti-inflammatory drugs for a range of conditions, that they take on a regular basis, but surely this is not what they were originally licensed for........

Tena, I too do not understand the staving off stuff, how do they measure these things, I can neither find a logic to it, or see it in any other terms than the way they use words like healthy on food labelling, playing on hopes and fears.........


Lindy