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New research indicates that Parkinson's disease may begin in the gastrointestinal tract and spread through the vagus nerve to the brain."
"We have conducted a registry study of almost 15,000 patients who have had the vagus nerve in their stomach severed.
If it really is correct that Parkinson's starts in the gut and spreads through the vagus nerve,
"Our study shows that patients who have had the the entire vagus nerve severed were protected against Parkinson's disease.
However, patients who had had only a small part of the vagus nerve severed where not protected. This also fits the hypothesis that the disease process is strongly dependent on a fully
or partially intact vagus nerve to be able to reach and affect the brain, "she says.
The first clinical examination The research has presented strong evidence that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract and spreads via the vagus nerve to the brain.
and gastroenterologic pathology related to the vagus nerve,"says Elisabeth Svensson. Previous hypotheses about the relationship between Parkinson's and the vagus nerve have led to animal studies
and cell studies in the field. However, the current study is the first and largest epidemiological study in humans.
"Now that we have found an association between the vagus nerve and the development of Parkinson's disease, it is important to carry out research into the factors that may trigger this neurological degeneration,
A gastric pacemaker is an implant that is surgically placed in the stomach and wired to the vagus nerve.
It then fires low-level electrical pulses into the vagus nerve to fool the brain into thinking the stomach has no more room.
A powerful magnetic patch is applied then to the skin to draw the pill into position over the site where the vagus nerve runs through the abdomen-near the top of the stomach just under the breastbone.
where the vagus nerve quickly becomes used to the extra stimulation and ignores it. Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, says:'
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