Parkinson's & The Appendix - Does Your Appendix Put Your Brain At Risk?

As I'm sure you're aware, we spend a lot of time in this forum discussing how the health of the brain is impacted by the health of the gut, the gut-brain connection. Made clear by the latest science, this is a powerful relationship that has ramifications on our risk for myriad number of diseases, including Alzheimer's, a disease for which there is no cure.

Today I want to look a study recently appearing in Science Translational Medicine. Researchers were investigating a really interesting question: could the appendix be involved in increasing the risk you develop Parkinson's disease?

Let's take a deeper look, and pay close attention to the take-home message at the end.

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[tedteddy]

By the way the appendix is the store house for a good bacteria if the body needs it to fight off infections diseases or anything of the sort. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT AND IS PART OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM !

[sammas]

There must be another protein ( protein A) that counters the culprit protein (protein B) which stops protein B from inflicting it's damages. I'm theorizing this concept to maybe this be a reasonable answer to the fact that people die of Alzheimer even though they have had their appendix removed years before the diagnosis of Alzheimer. The culprit virus must have migrated years before and becomes active after the shelf-life end of protein A.

[IvorMektin]

My father died of Parkinson's and he had his appendix removed forty years before

[davidbarrett]

Your theory does not correlate with my situation. The appendix was removed at age 16; PD was diagnosed at 63.

[gamielesley]

Can this way of eating help or even heal the neuro muscular disease myasthenia gravis?

[sammas]

EVIDENCE that Parkinson's diseasemay be an autoimmune disorder could lead to new ways to treat the illness.Parkinson's begins with abnormal clumping of a protein called synuclein in the brain. Neighbouring dopamine-producing neurons then die, causing tremors and difficulty moving.Jun 21, 2017

[jioettop]

I'm wondering if the progression of Parkinson's disease in people already effected could be slowed by removing the appendix.