... research has identified that the culprit may be due to neurotoxins, genetics, or cell death caused by abnormalities in the brain. A recent study by Lorene Nelson, PhD., a neuroepidemiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, discovered that pesticide use and exposure in the home and garden increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Conducted with almost five hundred people who had newly ... significant improvements in younger patients, but showed no significant results in older patients, according to Dr. Curt R. Freed, professor and head of the division of clinical ph...

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