Doctors Offer New Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease

Doctors Offer New Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease.
A routine nutritional complement called inosine safely boosts levels of an antioxidant thought to ease people with Parkinson's disease, a small new study says. Inosine is a forerunner of the antioxidant known as urate. Inosine is simply converted by the body into urate, but urate taken by mouth breaks down in the digestive system. "Higher urate levels are associated with a lop off risk of developing Parkinson's disease, and in Parkinson's patients, may discuss a slower rate of disease worsening," explained Dr Andrew Feigin, a neurologist at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute's Movement Disorders Center in Manhasset, NY He was not connected to the supplementary study.

The swotting included 75 people who were newly diagnosed with Parkinson's and had crestfallen levels of urate. Those who received doses of inosine meant to push up urate levels showed a rise in levels of the antioxidant without suffering serious side effects, according to the lessons published Dec 23, 2013 in the journal JAMA Neurology. "This enquiry provided clear evidence that, in people with early Parkinson disease, inosine care can safely elevate urate levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid for months or years," swatting principal investigator Dr Michael Schwarzschild, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a sanitarium news release.