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Animal study presents best evidence to date that Parkinson's begins in the gut
• arcleinFor several decades scientists have known these Lewy bodies could be found in the gastrointestinal tracts of Parkinson's disease patients, but it wasn't until a series of influential papers were published in the early 2000s that a strong gut-brain hypothesis was put forward. German scientist Heiko Braak and his team hypothesized the disease or