Priya Alexander

Okay.

Scary stuff.

Just interestingly...

Norman, I'm not prescribing the unregulated ones which I don't know what the patient is getting.

The art of it in my kitchen, yeah.

Yeah, you've made it correct.

So I think it is the Wild West and I think if health professionals are putting hand on heart, writing a script for something which they don't know what the patient is getting, it lacks evidence, safety data and you're not doing the wraparound care that Tim just mentioned, I think that's dangerous territory.

Norman, Parkinson's disease, I think most people are aware of it.

I think it's a movement disorder mainly with tremor, rigidity, but it's actually quite complex.

It can impact sleep, mood.

Yes.

Yes.

I noticed, Miguel, that there's this pesticide exposure which excites Norman.

Well, you're quite interested in it, Norman, I should say.

But it appeared that men have higher rates or higher risk of Parkinson's disease and they also tend to have higher rates of pesticide exposure.

Yes.

Is that enough to say that exposure to pesticides is what is actually causing Parkinson's disease?

How reliable is the data, given that it's self-reported, people might be years down the track, their memory of their symptoms, the onset might have changed over time.

How much does that impact the story?

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