Query on low calorific diet
 

Hello Reverett123, I always enjoy your informative posts.I noticed that you advised a low calorie diet to help with PD. I would love to know what the findings are on this, and why you so advise. Thankyou, Ladybird.

This will get you started-
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...9/?tool=pubmed

Wonder what this data all means in terms of people who have lived a chunk of their lives with high sunshine levels, and then move to low ones. Last year met someone from my part of the world, not just with PD but with a variant that looks exactly like mine......... she had also been in the gloomy regions of europe for around the same time as me.....

Lindy

Confounding variables
 

I have been trying to think of confounding variables that might influence the data.I cannot really, except to ask whether certain immigrants settled in different latitudes. I know that they settled .for example,in different areas in say NY, but was there a signifigant difference over much larger areas?

Any hope
 

Is there any hope of getting data from an area, such as China,with a relative static population. Combined with the US data you would really be on to something, Rick.We already know Vitamin D levels are lower in PwP That is one of our excuses for going on holiday,somewhere sunny away from the gloom of England in the winter. We also take a 1000iu of Vitamin D throughout the winter.

I vote circadian cycle
 

Hmmm...missed this thread and it is a good one. This researcher thinks that PD begins in our retina and that indeed the pineal gland and circadian cycle are key to PD etiology. His theory does make sense, and it ties in some odd epidemiological findings. It also mirrors the (possible) etiology of animal prion disease.

See the citations by Willis, et al. His abstracts are quite detailed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?t...illis%20pineal

Laura