Diane Stanley

In previous posts, we looked at how dopamine is made, and what goes awry in Parkinson's Disease (PD), commonly considered a dopamine illness. This post uses that same scaffolding to ask a different question: what does the research actually support nutritionally at each stage? Starting Material vs Support One rule carries over from previous discussions: the I Love Lucy principle. If an enzyme is the bottleneck, more raw material doesn't help unless you were deficient. Even then, it will be...

Ever seen the I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene? Turns out it's a surprisingly good model for how dopamine gets made, and where the whole system can go sideways in Parkinson's. Tyrosine, trafficking, storage, Lewy bodies, all of it, explained.

"Neuroinflammation plays a role" sounds like an explanation, but it functions more like a shrug. Here's what's actually driving Parkinson's, ranked by how confident we should be, not by how satisfying the explanation sounds, plus an honest look at which supplements the evidence actually supports.