Painkillers protect against Parkinson's

Painkillers ibuprofen can battle with Parkinson's disease, as established scientists. Ibuprofen two or three times a week reduces the risk of developing severe neurological disease by a third.

Researchers at Harvard University led by Professor Alberto Asher found that regular intake anesthetics tablets ibuprofen   significantly reduces the risk of severe, destructive neurological disease. They believe this discovery can be used as the basis to create new treatments for the disease, which is now, unfortunately, can not be cured.

From Parkinson's disease   suffer from stars such as actor Michael J. Fox and boxer Muhammad Ali, but medicine can not offer them any means other than through drug levodopa, which is only slightly hinder the development of the disease.

"The treatment of this disease have not, so that the very assumption that sold at any drugstore Ibuprofen Relatively non-toxic, can protect against Parkinson's disease Undoubtedly encouraging, "- said Professor Asheriro.

The researchers studied data on 99 000 women and 37 000 men who took part in the research related to health. After six years, 291 of them developed Parkinson's disease. Experts from Harvard compared, all study participants used ibuprofen, aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs.

To take into account factors such as smoking, age, diet, caffeine intake. The results showed that taking ibuprofen two or three times a week reduces the chances of developing Parkinson's disease   38%.

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