{"id":200680,"date":"2024-12-03T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-an-unexpected-simple-treatment"},"modified":"2024-12-03T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:23:05","slug":"parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-an-unexpected-simple-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-suggests-an-unexpected-simple-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests an Unexpected, Simple Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9wuwZbPf0Vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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 recent study 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9wuwZbPf0Vs\">simple treatment that may help<\/a>: 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 paper published in May.<\/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 recent study 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 may [\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-200680","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\/200680","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=200680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}