Hey BreezyRacer
Thanks for resurrecting this thread - I would never have found have found it otherwise - I don't have PD so don't generally go into the PD forum but I do have Addison's disease. I'm trying to get diagnosis on why despite my Addison's being managed I still feel like crap and have started getting PN (the Vit B12 connection maybe?) So to read on reverett123 post on 6/6/11 that pernicious Anemia is also known as Addison's anemia blew me away. In spite of being diagnosed AD for 5yrs I had never heard of Addison's anemia (PA yes - but was told it's not common). I get annual serum B12 testing but it's always in the so called normal range. Now thanks to this thread and others on Neurotalk I'm going to get all my B's checked. Keep up the good work.

If you read the actual study they make a good argument for excluding red meat (they include pork into that too .. damn!). I found it quite interesting and doubt I'll be eating red meat anytime soon.

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?scri...rm=iso&tlng=en

Also another interesting thing .. Brazil has a very high ratio of 1. big time meat eaters, and 2. Parkinson's patients.

I have to say that I'm a little disturbed that this study wasn't emulated elsewhere. I trust these foreign studies more than US studies. They test stuff that would never get even considered here because there's no money in it. Here in the states there doesn't seem to be much interest in Parkinson's testing because the drug companies already have lifelong products to sell into that market.