http://www.news-medical.net/news/201...s-disease.aspx

Great title but until human studies are started the closeness of a cure may not be so certain. Calcium lethality does seem to be part of the PD cause though! I sure hope this gets fast tracked to do human trials!

If I read this right, the adjustment of calcium is downstream of the main problem: aggregated alpha synuclein. Wouldn't it be more direct to go after the cause of too much calcium to begin with? Something is making alpha-synuclein mis-fold in the first place which is causing excessive intracellular calcium, if I understand the article. Seems like it would be most direct to find out what is causing that, and why.

If this helps people, that's great, but it does not sound like a "cure". Someone tell me I'm wrong

Is calcium the problem or the toxins/hormones that are in dairy products?

So far, the epidemiological evidence suggests that the dairy and Parkinson’s disease association is unlikely due to calcium, vitamin D, or fat. All three studies generally found that calcium and vitamin D were positively associated with Parkinson’s disease risk only when they were from dairy foods, and fat from either dairy foods or other sources were not related to increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. Further, neither calcium nor vitamin D from supplements was significantly related to increased risk of Parkinson’s disease.

The observation of similar findings in all three well-established prospective studies on dairy and Parkinson’s disease risk suggests that the association is unlikely to be fortuitous. One possibility is that dairy products are contaminated with neurotoxic chemicals. Substantial epidemiological and experimental evidence suggest that pesticides may increase Parkinson’s disease risk (17) and postmortem studies found higher levels of organochlorines, polychlorinated biphenyls, and dieldrin in the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients than in control brains.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2232901/

https://www.google.com/search?q=dair...ml%3B440%3B260

Like everyone else on this forum, I would love for this to be true. However, lets face the facts, this headline is absolutely ridiculous. This is just one of dozens of studies that we've all seen where a researcher has "slowed or cured" Parkinson's in rodents. When they transfer to human results, then I'll get excited. Until then, I think this headline is way overboard. Let them get some human results first.

I agree with your assessment. I thought I would post just because the title was
so "overboard". I also thought a little hope never hurts.

I could be wrong but I believe research is getting close to some real answers to how to stop and/or reverse PD! Competition is heating up to resolve this disease and perhaps Alzheimer's as well! Yep hope never hurts!

Fully agree with you, badboy! Hope is great! It's the reporters looking to sensationalize that bother me. With regard to the actual study, that was quite interesting.