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Old 01-31-2013, 12:14 PM
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Banana, especially the skin, contains dopamine, see:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread152993.html

The problem from the PD point of view is that in normal circumstances dopamine doesn't go through the BBB.

I'm surprised that more work hasn't been done to get around this problem.

John
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