Brain-First or Gut-First? Rethinking Parkinson’s Disease w/ Drs. Ray Dorsey & Michael Okun

Adjusted for age, the rise of Parkinson's disease is going up 60% far faster than Alzheimer's disease. It turns out by 2035, we should have 12 million people with Parkinson's. There's a big myth about Parkinson, and the myth is that it's just a brain disease. This is a whole body disease. We have to start thinking about Parkinson in a different way.

Ray Dorsey, MDE, MBA, is a leading neurologist and Parkinson's expert. He's the director of the Center for the Brain and the Environment at HRA Health and Research Institute, and he's a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester. Michael Oaken, MD, is a distinguished professor of neurology at the University of Florida, and he's co-founder of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurologic Diseases and medical advisor for the Parkinson's Foundation. Both have been recognized by the White House as champions for change for their dedication to advancing research care and advocacy for people living with Parkinson's. disease.

There are all these symptoms that are non-movement that actually appear early and they call them prodromal features. Constipation, acting out your dreams, loss of smell in your nose, those olfactory nerves, gut dysfunction and changes, and even some of the neuropsychiatric things. For all those golfers out there, is it a risk for people? Should they be worried? Should they stop golfing?

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