Published September 18, 2008
Preventing Parkinson's disease may be easier than you think
Most people, including many doctors, think that Parkinson's disease is genetic. “You are programmed to get it,” they say, “and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. But that theory just doesn't fit the facts.
For one, if a disease is genetic, then the rate of the disease will stay static over time, because genetics don't change. However, the rate of Parkinson's disease has been steadily increasing over the past 50 years. So something other than genetics must be at play.
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