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Hi not only is there schizophrina in my family but my mother has,and her father befor her had diabetes!! Sandie Roberts -----Original Message----- From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 08 May 1999 15:36 Subject: Re: On the trail of the cure: the PWP sugar puzzle + more ??? >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 > >janet paterson - 52 now /41 dx /37 onset - [log in to unmask] >613/256/8340 - PO Box 171/Almonte/Ontario/K0A 1A0/Canada > >Scan some of My Past Posts at: > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/ >Mine the PD List Archives at: > http://james.parkinsons.org.uk/ >Cull Nine Million Pub-Med Medical Studies at: > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ >Comb the 'People With Parkinson's' PWP WebRing at: > http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=parkie;list >