Smoking Parkinson's - Euthenist.org
Those with the proper genetic makeup are less likely to develop Parkinson's Disease if they had smoked and drank coffee according to a University of Miami study published in April's Archives of Neurology. Doctors take a different look at coffee, cigarettes
9 April 2007 - By Fred Tasker - miamihearld.com
A new Parkinson's study co-written by a researcher at the University of Miami has found benefits to smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. But there are a lot of unknowns.
People who smoke cigarettes and drink coffee are less likely to have Parkinson's disease. The same can't be said of those who take aspirin.
Those are the conclusions of a new study coauthored by a researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
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One theory: Both caffeine and smoking increase the body's supply of the ''pleasure hormone'' dopamine. And typically, as people develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease, they begin to lose the neurons that produce dopamine.
''There's a connection among all these things,'' Scott says.
A next step is to further explore the interaction of caffeine and nicotine with an individual's genetic makeup to see who is and isn't protected from Parkinson's by the two substances, Scott says.
Those with the proper genetic makeup are less likely to develop Parkinson's Disease if they had smoked and drank coffee according to a University of Miami study published in April's Archives of Neurology. Doctors take a different look at coffee, cigarettes
9 April 2007 - By Fred Tasker - miamihearld.com
A new Parkinson's study co-written by a researcher at the University of Miami has found benefits to smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. But there are a lot of unknowns.
People who smoke cigarettes and drink coffee are less likely to have Parkinson's disease. The same can't be said of those who take aspirin.
Those are the conclusions of a new study coauthored by a researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
[...]
One theory: Both caffeine and smoking increase the body's supply of the ''pleasure hormone'' dopamine. And typically, as people develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease, they begin to lose the neurons that produce dopamine.
''There's a connection among all these things,'' Scott says.
A next step is to further explore the interaction of caffeine and nicotine with an individual's genetic makeup to see who is and isn't protected from Parkinson's by the two substances, Scott says.
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