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HI ERNIE, I think you have acetylcholine and cholecystokinin mixed up. I forget exactly what the later is but mI think its associated with the gall bladder and not a neurotransmitter. I am stating this off the top of my head and med school was 26 years ago so I welcome correction or clarification if I am wrong. Charlie Ernie Peters wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I have seen little, if anything, on the subject of tomatoes and PD. > However, having come across some information a couple of days ago about > tomatoes, I would like to raise the subject hoping that we might flush out > some useful information. > > Personally, I love tomatoes and have been in the habit of having some form > of tomato or tomato based soup as part of my lunch in winter on most days > when we have not been going out. However, in checking the detailed daily > diary that we keep, I was trying to see reasons for differences in my > condition on different days. The results were far from conclusive, but it > appeared as if I had done better in periods when I had not had tomato soup. > > I decided to avoid tomato soup for a while, whilst continuing to eat > tomatoes if they were in food generally, and did not think much more about > it. However, this week, I read an article in a newspaper (UK Daily > Telegraph 31/10/97) which said that, it had been found in a study conducted > by Dr Harry Kissileff of St. Luke's Hospital, New York, that tomato soup > boosted levels of CHOLECYSTOKININ in the body. The article was not concerned > with PD, but was pointing out that the Cholecystokinin contributed to a > feeling of "fullness" and therefore was good as a slimming aid. > > Putting it simply, we know that Cholecystokinin and Dopamine must be kept in > balance in the brain and that to this end some treatments for PD, are to > take anticholenergic drugs to restore this balance. Therefore, it would > appear that tomatoes, leastways a largish quantity of them which I would > presume there would be in a tomato soup, may be detrimental to PD symptoms. > > Other than a nutritional source on the web which says PDers should avoid > "night shade vegetables" and a list member who follows the same advice, I > have seen very little on the subject. > > Has anyone seen the full Kissileff report? I would be interested in > comments from the group and any past or future observations they come up with. > > Ernie. 54/4.0 > > Ernie Peters <[log in to unmask]> -- CHARLES T. MEYER, M.D. Middleton, WI [log in to unmask]