Dr. David Perlmutter
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Well, do they target metabolism as something I should be paying attention to as a neurologist and as a voice as it relates to protecting the brain by shifting metabolism?
The answer is you bet.
You bet we should at least be paying attention to it.
Let's go back to April of 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A fascinating study appeared looking at 151 individuals with Parkinson's disease.
That's a disease in which people get worse year after year.
They decline.
Do we have drugs to treat it?
We absolutely do.
I'm in great favor of the drugs to treat Parkinson's.
These are drugs that manage the tremor and manage the rigidity of
and allow these patients to get on with their lives and do things, be mobile, because they target basically the pathway that's becoming deficient in the Parkinson's brain, and that is the dopamine motor pathway.
So while the brain's losing its dopamine from this particular area, we give exogenous dopamine, and the patients seem to improve.
It's been
how that was discovered.
Actually, I put it in the book.
It's an interesting story about IV drug abusers back in the early 1980s.
It's an incredible story how that was discovered.
But that said, we understand that
What happens in Parkinson's is a metabolic change in the region of the brain that produces the dopamine called the substantia nigra.
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