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Farnesol is a form of alcohol found naturally in berries and other fruit.  In its synthetic form, farnisol is often used for food flavoring.  Neurologists at John’s Hopkins announce that this compound may prevent the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease.

 

For their mouse experiments, the researchers selected farnisol from a herd of other drugs known to inhibit a protein called PARIS that kills off dopamine-producing cells and leads to the neurological decline of Parkinson’s disease.  The farnisol-fed mice were better able to maintain normal neurologic function when subjected to a biochemical agent that triggers a Parkinson’s-like disease, and they maintained twice as many healthy dopamine neurons.

 

Human trials remain in the future.

 

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/604/eaax8891

 

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