| Coffee and cigarettes protect from Parkinsonism
According to the data of American scientists, people who suffer from Parkinson's disease are less inclined to smoking and high coffee consumption, than their healthy brothers and sisters. It’s a researchers’ opinion that coffee and nicotine really can protect our brain from severe neurodegenerative disease.
The connection between smoking and law risk of Parkinsonism development has been known by the scientists for a long period of time. At the same time many experts consider Parkinsonism to be genetically conditioned disease, and the absence of smoking addiction among parkinsonian patients may be explained by the same genetic peculiarities.
In order to check this hypothesis, the researchers from Miami University decided to estimate the connection between parkinsonism and smoking, and with high coffee consumption, by the example of parkinsonian patients and their nearest relations, who posses the same genotype.
356 parkinsonian patients and 317 brothers and sisters, who have age when the first signs of disease appeared among their relatives, took part at the experiment.
As a result, it was established that smokers who suffer from Parkinsonism were 40% fewer than among healthy participants, and inveterate smokers among them were 50% fewer.
Among participants were also 40% fewer coffee lovers, who drank more than three cups per day. The authors of the experiment note that the reasons are unknown. At this time, this regularity may be related to the influence of these products on dopamine exchange. It’s known that Parkinsonism is caused by the loss of neurons which produce this neurotransmitter. Coffee and nicotine can increase this level in brain. Besides, some data testify the fact that nicotine can block the production of neurotoxins, which destroy dopamine producing nerve cells.
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