hi all
At 02:32 1999/05/08 -0400, ivan the curious wrote, in part:
>Jennifer and the million other PWP's who crave sweets--
>not to mention ICE CREAM - did I say that? --:
>
>Could a single GENE, if mutated, shut down the dopamine to
>adrenaline pathway, and cause a variety of different diseases,
>including PD or diabetes? Could this explain why there seem to
>be many more diabetics within the families of PWP's than usual?...
i may have missed something
but is that last comment based on any formal studies?
i noticed a 'thread' of messages about stomach upset and tagamet recently
which seemed to tie in with my posts about nausea and sinemet
which sort of dragged in the sugar connection
with a small side-step into hormone-land
do we know if any studies have been done in re:
sugar and sinemet absorption?
sinemet and gastric upset?
sugar and pd?
gastric upset and pd?
gastric upset and sugar?
gastric upset and pregnancy?
or
how about
male/female sex steroids and diabetes?
or? ....
it seems to me
that the sugar/pd connection is a definite phenomenon
if only based on anecdotal evidence so far
i remember understanding that
levodopa and insulin 'use the same bus stop'
in their travels from the duodenum to the bloodstream
it seems to me
that the pd/female sex steroids connection is a definite phenomenon
if only partially based on anecdotal evidence so far
[a few clinical studies have popped up recently]
it seems to me
that the pd/stress connection is a definite phenomenon
if only based on anecdotal evidence to far
[dopamine? adrenalin? insulin? estrogen? progesterone?]
[i just can't wait to hear an "aha!!!"]
yours in quizzicality
janet
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