{"id":192251,"date":"2024-07-03T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-unexpected-simple-treatment"},"modified":"2024-07-03T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:23:20","slug":"parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-unexpected-simple-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-unexpected-simple-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-unexpected-simple-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have suspected for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-evidence-suggests-parkinson-s-might-start-in-the-gut-before-spreading-to-the-brain\"> some time<\/a> that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> disease.<\/p>\n<p>A new study just identified gut microbes likely to be involved and linked them with decreased <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riboflavin\">riboflavin<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-are-vitamins-and-do-we-really-need-to-take-them\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">vitamin<\/a> B2) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biotin\">biotin<\/a> (vitamin B7), pointing the way to an unexpectedly simple treatment that may help: B <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-are-vitamins-and-do-we-really-need-to-take-them\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">vitamins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupplementation of riboflavin and\/or biotin is likely to be beneficial in a subset of Parkinson\u2019s disease patients, in which gut dysbiosis plays pivotal roles,\u201d Nagoya University medical researcher Hiroshi Nishiwaki and colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41531-024-00724-z\">write<\/a> in their published paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of Parkinson\u2019s disease. A new study just identified gut microbes likely to be involved and linked them with decreased riboflavin (vitamin B2) and biotin (vitamin B7), pointing the way to an unexpectedly simple treatment that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}