Despite its immense chemical arsenal, conventional medicine seems ineffective in the face of the wave of neurodegenerative diseases that is sweeping through our populations at the beginning of the 21st century. The chemical molecules recommended for this type of pathology have the effect of dulling the people who take them, but without really improving either the condition or the disease.

Who doesn't have an acquaintance or family member with Parkinson's disease, dopamine deficiency or Alzheimer's disease? These diseases are very difficult to manage on a daily basis and nursing homes are full of them.

Their etiology is still poorly understood.

Some invoke a viral origin, others the toxicity of certain pesticides (based on the molecule Rotenone) for Parkinson's or the toxicity of aluminum particles that lodge in the brain and increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. 5% of Parkinson's diseases are thought to be genetic in origin.

In reality, these degenerative problems are multi-factorial since we know that lifestyle and diet themselves have an impact on their development. Parkinson's disease, which affects 2 out of 1000 people, consists of a degeneration of the substantia nigra (neurons responsible for the production of dopamine). Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that allows the control and coordination of movements. It is manifested by increasingly disturbed movements due to the decrease in dopamine. Progressive and currently still incurable, this disease can start between 55 and 65 years old. It has already been present for 5 to 10 years when the first clinical symptoms appear. At this point, about half of the dopamine neurons have already disappeared. The speed of evolution is unique to each individual and depends on many factors that are still unknown.

If the diagnosis of Parkinson's is made correctly, the results of the medication are spectacular at first. It is important to remember that the diagnosis is based exclusively on the clinical examination and therefore on the careful observation of the therapist, who will have previously excluded any possible drug-related cause. A proven Parkinson's disease is based on the specific triad: tremor (upper limbs and in particular hand mainly at rest) - hypertonia (rigidity, jerky movements, mechanical walking like a robot and with small steps) - akinesia (slowness and poverty of movements especially in front of the face with difficulties of speech and progressively illegible writing). People with the disease also experience a range of concomitant signs: spinal pain, postural instability, depression, sleep disorders, severe fatigue, etc.
Current chemical treatments consist of filling the dopamine deficiency, which restores the deficient dopaminergic transmission. As always in allopathy, the treatment is based on the substitution of the missing substance.

Although the initial results are often spectacular from a clinical point of view, the cause and progressive evolution of the degeneration are not affected. For this reason, as time goes by, the treatment becomes less and less effective and the signs manifested are more and more difficult to correct.

It is not well known, but there are very effective plant extracts that are therefore very useful for improving the daily life and the condition of these patients.

One of them, the extract of marsh bean (Vicia faba) in powder form contains an active principle called levodopa. Doesn't this remind you of the names of certain medications? Well, yes! This natural molecule has the same "therapeutic" effects as the chemical molecule that makes up L-Dopa, Modopar, Sinemet, Stalavo, etc.
Very serious clinical and scientific studies show that this plant molecule is really effective in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, but also in some cases of Alzheimer's, another type of neuronal degeneration.

• In the manner of chemical medication, this swamp bean extract induces an increase of dopamine levels in the blood, without any side effects.
• Levodopa has a specific neuroprotective effect on dopaminergic neurons. It therefore slows down (or even stabilizes) the evolution of the disease.

Warning: it is recommended to use the swamp bean extract as soon as possible before the neuronal degeneration is too advanced. In fact, this substance protects the neurons and slows down their degeneration, but it does not allow their reconstitution or regeneration.