Stomach, intestines, exercise and Parkinson's disease
Mrs. Prof. Dr. Brit Mollenhauer on the current state of research:
The research focuses on alpha-synuclein, whose pathological aggregation in the nerve cells due to protein misfolding has been identified as the main cause of Parkinson's. Three strategies are being examined here: inhibiting the build-up, promoting the breakdown and preventing the transfer to the neighboring cells, so to speak their contagion.