Alpha-Synuclein and It's DIRECT Link To Parkinson's Disease Parkinson's Disease Education Podcast

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In this episode I do my best to break down and to simplify the cellular processes that result in abnormal aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclein in the nerve cells that produce #dopamine and how this leads to most of, if not all of, the problems caused by PD. In this video I reference this paper regarding the endo-lysosomal (E-L) pathway in cells, genetic links to PD, and how alpha-synuclein aggregates and what issues this causes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707858/
Please please consider reading this amazing book by Dr. Christopher Palmer, MD on the role of mitochondria in neurological diseases like PD! It is a MUST read: https://amzn.to/49eNbZs
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