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A gut microbe shields mice from Parkinson's-like brain damage
- Parkinson's disease is usually thought of as a brain disease, but many patients notice gut trouble—constipation above all—years or even decades before their hands begin to tremble.
- That timing has led researchers to ask whether the illness sometimes begins in the intestine, and whether treating the gut early could change what later happens in the brain.
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