Is Parkinsons disease caused by a bacteria?
A German scientist named Braak has published a very interesting series of papers over the last five years or so that may have a bacterial involvement. One of PD’s key features is the Lewy body – sort of a cyst in a neuron. Like it was walling something off. They show up in the part of the brain callen the substantia nigra and are always found there in dead Parkies. If no Lewy bodies are found then you didn’t have PD and if found then you did. What Braak has found is that the LBs actually show up in other areas of the nervous system first and then show up in additional areas in a predictable pattern every time. These areas fall along a route that begins in the nose and another route that begins in the stomach wall. Then they show uo in certain predictable areas one by one following along paths formed by the nervous system. The two paths finally converge after several years at the substantia nigra and you have PD. Something finds a way through the defences of the brain’s olfactory bulb i
