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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / March 2005Parkinson's and Dairy
From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...> Date: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:24 am Subject: West Wing, Ice Cream, & Parkinson's Disease West Wing, Ice Cream, & Parkinson's Disease PREDICTION: Last night's episode (March 23, 2005) of "West Wing" will earn Alan Alda an Emmy Award. Life in the White House is magnificently portrayed each Wednesday night during prime time. Last evening President Jed Bartlett, portrayed by Martin Sheen, shared a scene with Alda that will forever remain a NotMilk moment. There they were, late in the show, two political adversaries finding common ground in the White House kitchen, pigging out by dipping teaspoons into four 5-gallon tubs of various ice creams. Sheen to Alda: "Here, try the pistachio." Two actors portrayed the most powerful men in America sharing a snack that represented a dangerously unhealthful irony. In the story line, President Bartlett's second term is coming to an end, as the symptoms of our TV president's Parkinson Disease accelerate...which brings us to the March, 2005 issue of the Journal Neurology. (2005 Mar 22;64(6):1047-51) CONSIDER: Twelve pounds of milk are required to produce one pound of ice cream. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY STUDY TITLE: Consumption of milk and calcium in midlife and the future risk of Parkinson disease. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the relation between milk and calcium intake in midlife and the risk of Parkinson disease. METHODS: From 1965 to 1968, 7,504 men (ages 45 to 68) were studied for 30 years (1995-1998) in the Honolulu Heart Program. RESULTS: During the follow-up phase of the study, 128 subjects developed Parkinson's Disease. Incidences of Parkinson's Disease were compared to milk intake. Researchers found no relationship between calcium intake and Parkinson's Disease (from milk or non-milk sources). However, researchers did find a 2.3-fold increase of Parkinson's Disease in the high-milk intake group when compared to the group of men who consumed no milk. SCIENTISTS CONCLUDE: "Findings suggest that milk intake is associated with an increased risk of Parkinson disease." ADDITIONAL SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT: Research suggests that cow's milk lactoferrins are responsible for the onset of Parkinson's Disease: "These data suggest that lactoferrin receptors on vulnerable neurons may increase intraneuronal iron levels and contribute to the degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson disease." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October, 1995, 10;92(21):9603-7. "These results suggest that lactotransferrin may participate actively in the mechanism of neuronal degeneration in Parkinson's disease." Acta Neuropathology, 1996;91(6):566-72. "According to these findings, disruption in the expression of these proteins in the brain is probably one of the important causes of the altered brain iron metabolism in age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's Disease..." Brain Research Review, 1998 Aug;27(3):257-67. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com What about colostrum which is claimed to possess many health benefit but contains much more lactoferrins than milk? colostrum is milk. It is the first milk produced after birth. True, but it still differs substantially from conventional cow's milk. Anyone with anything further on the possible hazards of colostrum, please comment. I need to know whether to discontinue the colostrum that I am currently taking. Thanks. <gehayw@hotmail.com> > True, but it still differs substantially from conventional cow's milk. > Anyone with anything further on the possible hazards of colostrum, > please comment. I need to know whether to discontinue the colostrum > that I am currently taking. Thanks. Question: Does colostrum from cows still have a heavy, thick casein protein content as with regular cow's milk? > Question: Does colostrum from cows still have a heavy, thick >casein protein content as with regular cow's milk? Thicker :-) Protein amount declines with time from the time the calf was born. And human colostrum is very rich. By the way, casein is not a problem unless you have a digestive problem. In case, get that fixed because otherwise you will experience other problems too. Lack of HCl may be one reason, lack of proteolytic enzymes, like peptidases and proteinases, may also be a problem. Have a pancreas checkup. Maybe pancreas outlet is blocked? > True, but it still differs substantially from conventional cow's milk. > Anyone with anything further on the possible hazards of colostrum, > please comment. I need to know whether to discontinue the colostrum > that I am currently taking. Thanks. I have read that colostrum molecules are so large you can only absorb them if you have leaky gut syndrome and so may be a waste of money. Ren? >I have read that colostrum molecules are so large you can only absorb them >if you have leaky gut syndrome and so may be a waste of money. If your stomach is ok, it all ends up as free amino acids anyway. But some are deficient in some specific peptidases, leaving some few oligopeptides intact, and thus get problems since that will lead to leakage from stomach of certain peptides with signal function. But the usual reason is problem with pancreas or not low enough pH to activate the sour protein degradation enzymes.. Not sure about what specific enzymes are lacking in people having coelics or other casein oligopeptide challenged diseases. Having a normal army of enzymes, no peptides will never pass into intestines. What may be a problem with milk is not protein, but fat composition. But that is a matter of how the animal is fed. Free range fed cows having plenty of normal hay/grass, usually have a high portion of monounsaturated fat in 2-position of fats, while barn-fed usually have mostly omega-6 there, depending how much of it pass through by bacterial flora. Feeding cow with nerve tissue may let DHA pass intact and give an increased amount of DHA in nerve cells and increased rate of neuroketal formation in brain, modifying proteins and possibly inactivation of enzymes that are important for nerves. (Could in fact,theoretically be the "infectious" agent of prion diseases, if the observed prions are combined neuroketal and fructosylated products of amino acid decarboxylases. Amino acid decarboxylases are different decarboxylases that convert excitotoxic amino acids like glutamate into excitoinhibitory molecules like GABA, taurine (from cysteinyl sulfinate), beta-alanine (from aspartate), polyamine monomer from SAM etc. The excitotoxic effect of certain amino acid could also be enhanced by activated cells in brain producing HOCl (a kind of analogue to myeloperoxidase of neutrophil granylocytes or eosinophil peroxidase from eosinophils. When HOCl attacks an ordinary amino acid, it is quickly degraded to an aldehyde, HCl, CO2 and water. Reaction with taurine or other non-carboxylcontaining amines gives more stable chloramines that has feedback function on immune system. Glycine eg. produce HCHO and is probably responsible for the HCHO formation when aspartame is used in too high doses since the freed aspartate may be decarboxylated to beta-alanine which is a strong taurine transport inhibitor and is used experimentally to induce taurine deficiency in animals normally producing lot of taurine. By removing taurine, HOCl is then reacting with amino acids which produce in turn the aldehydes responsible for the observed damages. (By the way, theoretically this may be the way homocysteinemia may do harm,by function as an HOCl or HOBr scavanger instead of taurine or spermidine/polyamines) If everybody's stomache were OK we wouldn't have 99% of the disease in the world. That point is totally moot. > >I have read that colostrum molecules are so large you can only absorb them > >if you have leaky gut syndrome and so may be a waste of money. [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > may be the way homocysteinemia may do harm,by function as an HOCl or > HOBr scavanger instead of taurine or spermidine/polyamines) > From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...> > Date: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:24 am [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > CONSIDER: Twelve pounds of milk are required to produce > one pound of ice cream. Hmmm. I make my own ice cream and it seems that I get the same amount of ice cream out, as the milk and cream I put in. Go figure. Ren? > JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY STUDY TITLE: Consumption of milk and > calcium in midlife and the future risk of Parkinson disease. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > Robert Cohen > http://www.notmilk.com You must not make it the "economical" way like the dairies though. All powdered product from last product overflow. This is necessary because they sold the fat to the Atkin's factories...LOL This is how the competition stays out of the free enterprise and ruins the market. > > CONSIDER: Twelve pounds of milk are required to produce > > one pound of ice cream. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Reni If they are including ice cream in their measurement of milk, the subject would have been ingesting a lot of sugar with their milk product. > From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...> > Date: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:24 am [quoted text clipped - 75 lines] > Robert Cohen > http://www.notmilk.com |
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