Dietary fibre
Soluble and insoluble fibre — constipation, SCFA production and microbiome composition.
State of the art
No update yet for Dietary fibre. An update is a standalone state-of-the-art for the topic — what someone with Parkinson's needs to know about where this approach stands today.
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Prebiotics balance gut bacteria and show results in Parkinson’s blood
A proof-of-concept clinical study (NCT04512599, 20 Parkinson's patients) found that 10 days of a fibre-rich prebiotic supplement shifted gut-bacteria composition and reduced inflammatory protein markers toward levels seen in healthy adults — the first study to track this response using extracellular vesicle proteomics from a blood draw rather than stool samples alone.