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Gut feelings about smoking and coffee in Parkinson's disease
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Strong epidemiologic evidence suggests that smokers and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of Parkinson's disease (PD). The explanation for this finding is still unknown, and the discussion has focused on two main hypotheses. The first suggests that PD patients have premorbid personality traits associated with dislike for coffee-drinking and smoking. The second posits that caffeine and nicotine are neuroprotective. We propose an alternative third hypothesis, in which both cigarette and coffee consumption change the composition of the microbiota in the gut in a way that mitigates intestinal inflammation. This, in turn, would lead to less misfolding of the protein alpha-synuclein in enteric nerves, reducing the risk of PD by minimizing propagation of the protein aggregates to the central nervous system, where they otherwise can induce neurodegeneration.
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“Paradoxically, due to altered gut microbiota coffee drinkers and smokers are at a lower risk of development of this condition [432].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Derkinderen, P., Shannon, K. M., & Brundin, P.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Van Andel Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brundin, Patrik
- Venue
- Movement Disorders
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-04-21
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 976-979
- ISSN
- 0885-3185 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-8257
- PMC
- PMC4107006
- OpenAlex
- W1897759802
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 8.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Movement Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U10NS044475)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Keywords
- Parkinson's disease, smoking, coffee consumption, gut microbiota, intestinal inflammation, enteric nerves, caffeine, nicotine, neuroprotection, premorbid personality traits, neurodegeneration
- MeSH terms
- Coffee, Humans, Parkinson Disease, Risk Factors, Smoking, Gastrointestinal Tract, Microbiota
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