Fecal microbiota transplant, a procedure that works to replace a person’s gut bacteria with gut bacteria from a healthy donor, may help ease motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, a small clinical trial found. Transplant “offers the advantages of being considered safe based on experience in other indications, and being…
BiomeBank is launching a trial in Australia to test whether its fecal microbiota transplantation therapy, which works to replenish gut bacteria, is a safe, tolerable and effective treatment of Parkinson’s disease symptoms, such as constipation. The trial is being conducted in collaboration with the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth hospitals…
There currently is not enough data to support the use of fecal transplants as a treatment in Parkinson’s disease, a new review suggests. Published in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, the review is titled “Faecal Transplantation, Pro- and Prebiotics in Parkinson’s Disease; Hope or Hype?”…
Studies on gut bacteria in Parkinson’s disease differ in their findings and important methodological details, according to a new review that highlights these differences and proposes strategies to mitigate them in the future. The study, titled “Increasing Comparability and Utility of Gut Microbiome Studies in Parkinson’s Disease:…
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