Medscape November 21, 2024
Interest is growing in the role of nutrition as means of slowing, or even preventing, neurodegeneration in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
For 15 years, John Duda, MD, national director of the VA Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers, has urged his patients to “keep waiting” for effective treatments to manage both motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
However, Duda, who also serves as director of the Brain Wellness Clinic at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, recognized the persistent lack of effective drugs to address these symptoms. This prompted him to consider what other evidence-based strategies he could use to support his patients.
“I recognized that nutritional approaches within a broader program...
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