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I’m sooo busy recently…

Busy reading the references and articles!!! and find out the anatoxins are really interesting~

Wanna learn more about these…

1. How the anatoxin works to result the most likely underlying cause of death?
2. The primary chemical target of anatoxins?
3. What will happen(symptoms) if the anatoxin-a bind to nicotinic receptors or acetylcholinesterase?
4. Why FHAB toxins including anatoxin results in damage?

Waiting me to write something about anatoxins, maybe FHAB…

Tea drinking was weakly associated with Parkinson’s disease among Chinese. Increasing number of researchers has claimed that the potential risk brought by cigarette smoking, drinking coffee and tea. However, Dose-dependent protective effect of coffee, tea, and smoking in Parkinson’s disease: a study in ethnic Chinese demonstrated that smoking and coffee-drinking reduce the risk of suffering form Parkinson’s disease by 60% and 30% (although there is few prevalence studies on coffee drinking in Chinese PD population because there are much less caffeine takers in China). 

The possible conclusion is that “A recent meta-analysis of eight case control studies and five cohort studies revealed a 30% risk reduction of PD in coffee drinkers”.

The most Surprising point is that researchers found significant reduction of PD risk in coffee and tea drinkers and cigarette smokers in our Chinese population. 

However, the effect is dose-dependent, so maybe “one unit of cigarette smoke (3 packs/day for 10 years) reduced the risk of PD by 62% (OR 0.38)” and “one unit of coffee and tea (3 cups/day for 10 years) would lead to a 22% (OR 0.78) and 28% (0.72) risk reduction of PD. ”

Hope u all enjoy this short passage~ Waiting for ur comments(´･ω･`)