Nutriments
Individual nutrients, vitamins and bioactive compounds — typically measurable in blood, sold as supplements, or named as the active fraction of a food. Use these to relate specific compounds to disease pathways; whole foods sit under foods.
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State of the art
No update yet for Nutriments. An update is a standalone state-of-the-art for the topic — what someone with Parkinson's needs to know about where this approach stands today.
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Exercise and smoking: health rivals revealing shared protective mechanisms in Parkinson’s? Caffeine
The paper's framework of identifying shared neuroprotective mechanisms from lifestyle exposures (exercise, tobacco) parallels and contextualises prior work on caffeine's A2A-receptor-mediated protection, reinforcing the concept that multiple modifiable factors may converge on common disease-relevant pathways. -
Superior dorsal nigral hyperintensity depiction at 7 T MRI using CLEAR-DESS improves diagnosis performance of Parkinson’s disease Iron
SWI — an iron-sensitive MRI sequence widely used for nigral iron mapping in PD — was directly compared against the iron-suppressing CLEAR-DESS sequence in 7T MRI. CLEAR-DESS, which attenuates both fluid and blood-vessel signal rather than exploiting iron contrast, significantly outperformed SWI on every diagnostic metric, suggesting that free-water and vessel suppression adds more diagnostic value than iron weighting alone for visualising the dorsal substantia nigra. -
Genome-wide association and population-tailored polygenic risk for Parkinson’s disease in Taiwan Caffeine
The study's discussion notes published evidence that caffeine intake modifies PD risk specifically among LRRK2 variant carriers in Asian populations, flagging genotype-stratified pharmacoepidemiology of caffeine as a future research direction for this high-risk subgroup. -
Café pode ajudar cognição em pacientes com Parkinson; entenda - diariodopara.com.br Caffeine
An observational study of 149 early-diagnosed Parkinson's patients (published April 2026, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders) found that regular coffee drinkers outperformed non-drinkers on executive-function tests — most notably the Go-No-Go Test, which measures attention and impulse inhibition. The result is an association only; no causal claim can be made, and the authors do not recommend increasing caffeine intake. -
Prebiotics balance gut bacteria and show results in Parkinson’s blood Dietary fibre
A proof-of-concept clinical study (NCT04512599, 20 Parkinson's patients) found that 10 days of a fibre-rich prebiotic supplement shifted gut-bacteria composition and reduced inflammatory protein markers toward levels seen in healthy adults — the first study to track this response using extracellular vesicle proteomics from a blood draw rather than stool samples alone.