In this episode, we discuss:
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Eight underlying factors of Parkinson’s disease, including gut dysfunction, gluten, autoimmunity, blood sugar, iron overload, circadian disruption, stress, and environmental toxins
Thirteen diet and lifestyle changes you can adopt to help prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease, including eating a nutrient-dense, whole foods diet, giving up gluten, getting enough vitamin D and omega-3s, considering a ketogenic diet, attending to your gut health, reducing your exposure to toxins, adopting a regular sleep rhythm, taking botanicals and supplements, reducing stress, getting more exercise, and using phototherapy, low-dose naltrexone, and medical cannabis.
Show notes:
Hey, everybody, Chris Kresser here. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. This week, I’m going to answer a question that was sent in, which is, “What help can you give someone [who] has early-stage Parkinson’s [disease]?” The number of people who are diagnosed with Parkinson’s [disease] is on the rise, with researchers estimating that over a million Americans have this devastating condition as of 2020. [And] we’re in 2022 now, [so] that number is almost certainly a little bit higher. Unfortunately, the conventional treatments for Parkinson’s [disease] are limited to surgery and medications that come with a lot of nasty side effects.
The good news is that a growing body of research suggests that there are many modifiable risk factors that are associated with Parkinson’s [disease], which gives us some clues as to the actions we can take to prevent the onset of the disease. We also know that there are steps that you can take to slow the progression [of], or even, in some cases, reverse, the condition in its earlier stages. I’ve been working with patients with Parkinson’s [disease] in my clinic for many years and have had some significant successes when approaching this from a Functional Medicine perspective. In this podcast, I’m going to tell you about some of the underlying causes that contribute to Parkinson’s [disease] from the latest research, and then we’re going to talk about some steps you…