In recent years, it has been reported that ketogenic diet has certain effect on improving clinical symptoms and neuroprotection of Parkinson's disease.

What is the ketogenic diet? Simply put, this is a high-fat, medium-protein and low-carbohydrate diet, which provides the energy needed by the human body by forcing the human body to burn fat instead of carbohydrates and produce ketone bodies instead of glucose.

This ketogenic diet with calorie restriction is a balanced diet with soybean oil as the main food, which has been evaluated by FDA as a medical diet to control intractable epilepsy in children. However, ketogenic diet has a low long-term adherence rate due to strict restrictions on intake and taste experience, and may have side effects such as high uric acid and urinary calculi.

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Recently, it has also been reported that the Mediterranean diet can help reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease. Although this conclusion is still controversial and there is little evidence, it is undeniable that the Mediterranean diet is a highly respected dietary pattern in recent years and is considered to effectively reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, dementia and cancer.

Mediterranean diet is a dietary pattern located in the Mediterranean coast (coastal areas of southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa): eat more fish, eat less red meat and milk (most dairy products are yogurt and cheese), use olive oil as daily cooking oil, and eat more nuts, coarse grains and fresh fruits and vegetables.

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-Flexible choice of diet-

After reading the scientific report, we went back to our daily life. In fact, there is no unified conclusion about how patients with Parkinson's disease should eat. The specific choice of diet needs to be flexibly mastered in combination with one's health status and one's own food preferences.

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For example, patients who can tolerate ketogenic diet can try to stick to ketogenic diet; Patients with severe constipation can eat more fruits and vegetables and increase dietary fiber; Diabetic patients eat low-sugar fruits; Patients who are allergic to milk or something should listen to their bodies and don't eat it.

Generally speaking, patients with Parkinson's disease can eat more vegetables, fruits and nuts, use olive oil, eat fish, chicken and eggs several times a week, eat red meat, coarse grains and other staple foods, and protein dairy products and food. Pay attention to the interval between taking levodopa.

-Pay more attention to your daily affairs-

In terms of lifestyle, the current research believes that the risk factors affecting cardiovascular diseases are: blood pressure, smoking, weight, blood sugar, cholesterol, uric acid and so on. It also plays an important role in the occurrence and development of Parkinson's disease.

However, related studies have published different conclusions. For example, it has been popular for many years, but it is still controversial that smoking is related to reducing the risk of Parkinson's disease, and the current research on smoking in patients with Parkinson's disease has not shown the progress of changing the disease.

In addition, Tai Ji Chuan, yoga and other sports are considered to help improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, especially the balance function.