Parkinson's Breakthrough?

[HeyLeroy]

I'm cautiously optimistic:

WINDSOR, Ont. -- Each time University of Windsor graduate student Katie Facecchia sees actor Michael J. Fox on television talking about his life-and-death battle with Parkinson’s disease she “can’t help but think — just hang on, there’ll be something soon.”

Facecchia is part of a team of researchers from the school’s biochemistry and psychology departments, led by Prof. Siyaram Pandey, who believe they have made a research breakthrough that has proven in laboratory tests to halt the advance of Parkinson’s.
http://tinyurl.com/ydgt9p3

[Amapola]

Hey - that's very cool! It's a start at least, I hope they are able to continue research.

[jasonpatterson]

I hope it's real, but it seems odd that a simple vitamin supplement would do the job (CoQ-10 and vitamin E.) That's what the newspaper article suggests anyway. I suppose that if I had Parkinson's, I might try this though.

It would seem that a great many people must already do so:
http://parkinsons-disease.emedtv.com/coenzyme-q10/coenzyme-q10.html

[HeyLeroy]

Interesting, JP.

Maybe it's because of this (from the link in the OP):

Pandey said the compound is not new. Research has been done by other labs using Co-Q10 and has shown similarly promising results. But, in those experiments, the compound was oil based and not water-soluble, necessitating much larger doses to achieve the same result. He said the amount needed was so high that to administer it to humans in effective doses “was just not possible.”

ETA: Coenzyme_Q10