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nervous system
Parkinson's disease
Nutrition
dietary guidelines
therapeutic foods:
foods that rid Wind, soothe the Liver
increase foods rich in Calcium, Phosphorus, Manganese, Sulfur, Iodine, tryptophan (Jensen, p. 63)
egg yolk, kale, celery, fish, raw goat's milk, veal joint broth, cod roe, rice polishings, brewer's yeast, nutritional yeast (Jensen, p. 63)
fresh juices:
celery, carrot, prune (Jensen, p. 63)
prune and rice polishings (Jensen, p. 63)
raw goat's milk and 1 tsp. sesame, sunflower or almond butter, 1 tsp. honey and sliver of avocado (Jensen, p. 63)
black cherry and egg yolk (Jensen, p. 63)
carrot, celery, spinach, and parsley (Walker, p. 149)
carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 149)
carrot, celery, and parsley (Walker, p. 149)
carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 149)
avoid:
cooking in aluminum pots, meat, alcohol, hot sauces, spicy foods, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods
supplements
Magnesium 200-500 mg per day
Vitamin B6: patients on levodopa can safely avoid a deficiency by supplementing with 5-10 mg or less (Long, 1991); however, larger doses allow metabolism of L-dopa to dopamine and thus inactivate the drug. (Trovato, 1991; 44: p. 1651-1658) Patients using Sinement will not experience any adverse interaction from supplementing with Viatmin B6.
Vitamin C 3 g per day
leucine 10 g per day (Duvoisin, 1983)
L-methionine 1-5 g per day (Smythies, 1984)
octacosanol 300 mcg three times daily (Snider, 1984)
omega-6 fatty acids (Critchley, 1982)
D-phenylalanine 1-250 mg per day (Heller, 1976)
L-tryptophan (if receiving levodopa) (Lancet,1976)
L-tyrosine 100 mg/kg per day (Growdon, 1982)
» drug interactions:
Vitamin B6 and levodopa (Dopar, Larodopa, Sinemet): levodopa is a B6 antagonist Supplementation of Vitamin B6 at different levels can produce significantly different effects.
Vitamin B6 deficiency can be avoided by supplementing at low levels of 5-10 mg per day or less. While larger doses of B6 should be avoided as they allow L-dopa to be metabolized to dopamine and can inactivate the drug. Note, however, that this contraindication does not hold for patients using Sinemet as the carbidopa component inhibits the effect of Vitamin B6 on the dopa pathway. Thus, patients using Sinement will not experience any adverse interaction from supplementing with Viatmin B6.
footnotes
Long, JW. The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 1992. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991.
Trovato, A, et al. Drug-nutrient interactions. Am Family Phys 1991;44:1651-1658.