Maryse- Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to see that the Dobbs' paper made it to the List. It, along with two others by the same group, is what started me along my current track. On the seemingly defunct BrainTalk forum, a friend (Ron Hutton) and I went through the subject pretty thoroughly which eventually led to Ron, who lives in England, enrolling in the Dobbs study and myself, during a visit last month, adding to their database. They are who confirmed my HP status. It all goes much further than simply H pylori though. The true problem seems to stem from endotoxin exposure in the womb setting off a chain of events that culminate in PD. I'll elaborate on that once I'm up to speed on the List. Meanwhile, my own anti-HP efforts seem to be helping considerably and it has just been a week. Encouraging! Rick Everett M.Schild wrote: > Hi Rick, > since you are a newbie to the list, you may have missed this which I posted > some time ago: > > Maryse > > >> Role of inflammation in gastrointestinal tract in aetiology and pathogenesis >> of idiopathic parkinsonism. >> >> Weller C, Oxlade N, Dobbs SM, Dobbs RJ, Charlett A, Bjarnason IT. >> >> Section of Clinical Neuropharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's >> College, London SE5 8AF, UK. >> >> Idiopathic parkinsonism (IP) is a common disorder, conventionally regarded >> > as ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn