More and more people are developing Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that causes nerve cells in the brain to slowly die. Although we mostly know
as a disease of old age – the risk of the disease increases with age – it often affects younger people under the age of fifty.
There are still a lot of questions about the disease. For example, there is not yet a conclusive answer to the question of the cause. Scientists are now increasingly thinking of combinations of genetic risk factors and environmental factors, such as diet. One discovery that points in that direction is that the gut microbiome of PwPs is different from that of non-patients. Is there the key to answers? Professors Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke and Patrick Santens are investigating.
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