In a message dated 12/4/98 11:05:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << With all the talk of Michael J Fox and Parkinsons, I am wondering what causes it ? Could it be leaky gut from antibiotics and then the gluten /casein peptides interfering with brain function? Does anyone know? Wouldnt' he benefit from a paleo diet? I have a friend in her 30s with advanced Parkinsons and she told me she had been on a lot of antibiotics in her youth for ear infections. -My sister has advanced parkinson's and was in her 40's when it began. She did not have a lot of antibiotics in youth or adulthood. BUt a few weeks before the symptoms became came on, she had received a bunch of vaccines, because she was starting her internship for in a nurses training program. Also, she had a ton of mothballs in her attic for years. I heard of a case of parkinsons like sypmtom having been caused by mothball toxicity. Also of course her diet has always been a poor SAD diet. Love, Sandy