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title: "I'd like to know why the people getting vagotomies did so, as it…"
date: 2017-04-30
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# I'd like to know why the people getting vagotomies did so, as it…

*April 30, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-another-sign-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-and-not-in-the-brain](http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-another-sign-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-and-not-in-the-brain){target="_blank"}
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I\'d like to know why the people getting vagotomies did so, as it might point to another explanation for their lower Parkinson\'s acquisition rate. But this is interesting.\
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\"Scientists have found more new evidence that Parkinson\'s could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy.\
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The operation removes sections of the vagus nerve - which links the digestive tract with the brain - and over the course of a five-year study, patients who had this link completely removed were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson\'s than those who hadn\'t.\"\
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[http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-another-sign-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-and-not-in-the-brain](http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-another-sign-that-parkinson-s-starts-in-the-gut-and-not-in-the-brain){target="_blank"}
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