{"id":219685,"date":"2025-08-08T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-hints-at-an-unexpected-simple-treatment"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:21:45","slug":"parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-hints-at-an-unexpected-simple-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/parkinsons-link-to-gut-bacteria-hints-at-an-unexpected-simple-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s Link to Gut Bacteria Hints at 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 onset of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IYl\" 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\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">vitamin<\/a> B2) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biotin\">biotin<\/a> (vitamin B7), suggesting 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\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">vitamins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupplementation therapy targeting riboflavin and biotin holds promise as a potential therapeutic avenue for alleviating PD symptoms and slowing disease progression,\u201d Nagoya University medical researcher Hiroshi Nishiwaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/researchinfo\/result-en\/2024\/06\/20240618-01.html\">said<\/a> when the study was published in May 2024.<\/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 onset 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), suggesting an unexpectedly simple treatment that may help: B vitamins. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219685","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\/219685","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}