Episode 43: Parkinson's Disease, the Gut-Brain Connection & Nutritional Support
In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Kirstie Lawton PhD, a registered nutritional therapy practitioner and registered nutritionist with 25 years of experience, who now specialises in Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease.
We explore what's really happening in the brain and body with Parkinson's, the early non-motor symptoms that can appear decades before diagnosis, and the emerging research into misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins that suggests Parkinson's may begin in the gut long before it reaches the brain. Kirstie also shares her own personal health journey, and how nutrition — from…
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