CAFFEINE & PARKINSON'S DISEASE.Caffeine caf·fein (k  -f n , kf may lower the risk of Parkinson James 1755-1824. British physician who gave (1817) a comprehensive description of paralysis agitans, or Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, degenerative brain disorder first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson in 1817. When there is no known cause, the disease usually appears after age 40 and is referred to as Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism usually refers to similar symptoms resulting from head injury, encephalitis, syphilis, carbon monoxide poisoning, cerebral arteriosclerosis, or use of MPTP (a synthetic narcotic)., and was the first to recognize (1812) perforation of the appendix as a cause of death in appendicitis. Robert Abbott and colleagues studied more than 8,000 Hawaiian men of Japanese ancestry who were asked about their diets when they entered the Honolulu Heart Program in the mid-1960s and again in the early 1970s. Over the next 30 years, 102 of the men were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Those who drank no coffee had a two to three times greater risk of Parkinson's than coffee drinkers. Caffeine from other foods was also linked to a lower risk of the disease, but coffee was the largest source of caffeine among the men. "People who have a predisposition predisposition /pre·dis·po·si·tion/ (-dis-po-zish´un) a latent susceptibility to disease that may be activated under certain conditions. pre·dis·po·si·tion (pr to Parkinson's or early stages of the disease may have a dislike for coffee," says Abbott. "Or, caffeine may delay the degeneration of neurons in the brain." The loss of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter false neurotransmitter an amine that can be stored in and released from presynaptic vesicles but that has little effect on postsynaptic receptors. neu·ro·trans·mit·ter (n  r dopamine causes the tremors TREMORS - Tsunami Risk Evaluation through seismic Moment from Real-time System and other symptoms of Parkinson's.
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