A new study has found that "...Helicobacter-infected mice make less dopamine in parts of the brain that control movement, possibly indicating that dopamine-making cells are dying just as they do in Parkinson’s disease patients.
The bacteria didn’t have to be alive to cause the problem. Feeding mice killed H. pylori produced the same effect, suggesting that some biochemical component of the bacterium is responsible."
Interesting stuff. No history of ulcers in my family, so perhaps I'm safe from this one.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/parkinsons-bacteria/
Unfortunately it won't be as easy as eliminating H. Pylori from your body as it is useful for fighting things such as asthma and esophageal cancer.
(I've decided to post about other interesting medical developments in addition to CVID)
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