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If so, what are you supposed to do about it?

Almost no sugar, a bit less carbs generally (but complex ones), good protein, unsaturated fat.

Or a lot of fruit & vegetables, mainly vegetables. Dinner should be smallest meal. Also limit alcohol, thats sugar in different form.

Do sports, sleep well. That's it. If it can't be tackled by decades of such approach, no point worrying but doing so will improve every aspect of your life tremendously, including happiness and life satisfaction, thats 100% guaranteed.

> Almost no sugar

I believe you meant, "Almost no added sugar," as almost all foods (vegetables and grains have some; meats/legumes generally do not) have natural sugars.

e: oops, I used an errant ' instead of "; please forgive me.

You can definitely get fatty liver by binging on fruit alone, and given that fruit juices exist and are still widely seen as a health food it's good to be specific.

It always the dosage not the source.

At least the mix from eating uncooked fruit makes it harder.

If the cause is not the diet but e.g. a virus that could be useless against Parkinson's.

But it would still make anyone's life massively better compared to not doing these, and help with tons of other potential health issues.

But OP specifically asked about Parkinson's.

Eat real food instead of the slop "food" megacorps are trying to sell you

To be honest even if there is no link that's not a bad rule to follow.

For me, I have a "nothing in a box or a bag" rule. Or more succinctly: "shop sparingly from the grocery store center." The idea is to avoid processed foods as much as possible and stick to staples, which are usually more nutritive for the dollar. Yes, rice and potatoes also come in bags, but you get the gist.

It's unfortunate so many people "fight" or argue the importance of this. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who's taken a week to eat clean, locally sourced, minimally processed food will notice a marked difference in behavior, energy level, and whole host of other benefits. It's unfortunate that access to this type of food is often limited, however, and cost or time prevents many from taking advantage of this kind of diet.

Food is such an amazing aspect to human life and I thoroughly enjoy taking full advantage of what good food can provide for my body.

Exactly.

What really gets me down is that our shopping options are often steered towards processed foods.

Take a basic cost-benefit analysis of processed foods, for example. These are an obscenely good value in terms of calories per dollar. The alternative, raw foods, take time and energy (heat/fuel) to cook before you can eat them. This puts highly processed and nutritionally poor food on the table a lot of the time if you're lacking in time, money, or both; it's the only option that makes sense in that situation. Granted, we're discounting future costs of health from a diet like this, but that's not an immediate concern when you're hungry.

It isn't always the food, we learned that from Barry Marshall

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall

As long we don't know the reason that causes the gut problems that are possibly linked to Parkinson's you can do nothing special in particular.

Could be PFAS, could be the diet, could be a virus or bacteria.

Alcohol is also pretty bad for the gut

preach. the feilds about to chase another aβ*56 dead end for a few decades.

Eat a balanced and varied diet with lots of vegetables/grains/fruits and make sure you get the recommended daily amount of fiber.

Depending on where you live, that comes with an assortment of chemicals, and a dearth of nutriments.

What should you eat instead in those places?

That's a good diet but maybe not protect you from Parkinson's if it really starts in the gut and is caused by e.g a virus

Everything they mentioned will benefit gut health and the immune system's ability to fight viruses.

Not true, eating more fiber can cause a bacterial overgrowth. If a particular bacteria causes PD then this would actually raise your risk of PD.

Yes, health and medicine is actually more complex than "don't eat McDonalds!"

The immune system already fight pretty well against Epstein-Barr viruses but still the infection is a a reason for developing Multiple Sclerosis.

This does nothing if the cause ends up being a bacteria, for example.

This advice is good. The broader idea that eating "healthy" solves everything is delusional.

Probiotics can help with gastrointestinal problems and are easy to use (they come in pills!)

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