Can Parkinson's Patients Drink Milk Or Not?

Milk is a very common food in our daily life, from a one-year-old toddler to a centenarian, who may be very familiar with it. Drinking milk as an essential daily food has also been recognized as a good habit to live by. However, there is a group of people who are in a state of not know whether to love or hate milk and are torn every day. They are Parkinson's patients.

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So cistanche extract powder, which can be poured into milk, stirred well, and consumed, can effectively prevent Parkinson's disease after a period of moderate consumption.

Milk provides quality protein for Parkinson's patients

Patients with Parkinson's disease need high-quality protein. Patients with Parkinson's disease will commonly show signs of wasting in the middle and late stages, and it is common for patients to have sleep disturbances and often report self-conscious weakness in their legs. These Parkinson's disease symptoms all suggest that Parkinson's disease patients in urgent need of quality protein.

Milk is rich in calcium and phosphorus, which is very helpful for patients with Parkinson's disease. Milk can also promote sleep, and patients with Parkinson's disease must eat more soy-based foods and dairy-based foods in their daily lives.

Milk may affect Parkinson's patients taking medication

Parkinson's disease is a group of disorders characterized by tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and balance disturbances caused by the degeneration and apoptosis of dopaminergic neurons and the associated hypo dopamine function in the striatal somatic pathway. Relapsed levodopa drugs are the most basic and effective drugs for Parkinson's disease treatment, and are often taken by patients with Parkinson's disease. However, when taking such drugs, specialists will repeatedly emphasize that it is advisable to take relapsed levodopa one hour before or one and a half hours after a meal because taking the drug on an empty stomach can significantly improve the efficacy, and taking the drug after a meal will reduce the efficacy, especially the mixture of levodopa drugs and protein food significantly reduces the efficacy of the drug.

It is also clearly stated in the medication instructions for Methadopa that eating a high-protein meal at the same time will reduce the effectiveness of the drug. Patients with Parkinson's disease who require three to four doses of compounded levodopa per day therefore passively or actively use milk as a prohibited food.

Studies have suggested that milk may increase the risk of Parkinson's disease. Drinking milk may lower uric acid and lose urea protection, making regular milk drinkers more likely to develop Parkinson's disease; drinking milk may lower dopamine concentrations in neonatal rats, reducing the use of dopamine receptors in the striatum and other areas, thus making it possible to develop Parkinson's disease; and consuming milk from cows containing herbicides may indirectly increase the risk of Parkinson's disease in people who drink milk.

Therefore, some scientific literature states that people with Parkinson's disease should use the dietary principles of drinking less milk, eating more meat and seafood, and drinking moderate amounts of tea and coffee.

Parkinson's disease patients should take milk on an individual basis

A large retrospective systematic meta-analysis published in Nutrition and Metabolism in 2021 found that the benefits of milk consumption outweigh the harms, with 200 ml or about one glass of milk per day reducing the risk of vascular disease, stroke, hypertension, colorectal cancer, metabolic disease, obesity and osteoporosis, and even the risk of type II diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Even the risk of type II diabetes and Alzheimer's disease has been shown to be beneficial. However, it is important to note that high milk consumption may increase the risk of prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.

Therefore, patients with Parkinson's disease may choose to consume milk in small amounts (half a glass to one glass a day) between medications, depending on their health status.

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