You are what you eat and I like to eat whatever is placed before me.
Wrong strategy my friend. Sometimes my rear end sounds like an intermittent fog horn, while other times it is so blocked up, I swear the air turns blue with my groans of dissatisfaction .
You too, right? And you want to know how to stop this misery. Me too. So I looked it up and here are my findings*.
These are good for PWP:
- Diet rich in antioxidants which apparently helps to reduce the negative effect of free radicals in the brain, including dopamine producing cells
- Foods that reduce constipation include vegtables, high fibre foods, fruit
- Vitamin E foods like olive oil, some nuts, asparagus, mangoes
- Foods rich in vitamin C such as citrus fruits, coconuts, figs, spinach and melons
These should be avoided as they tend to produce flatulence:
- legumes such as peas and beans
- cabbage, Brussels sprouts, etc
- carbonated drinks
- coffee or tea
- too much protein which inhibit the effectiveness of L-dopa (note that some portions of protein may benefit PD, but that is a discussion with your neurologist)
That's a short summary. You should take notice and plan a diet; and I will do so also..... when it has been reliably ascertained that hell has frozen over. I like my cokes and Brussels sprouts, etc and I can put up with a little constipation and I simply try to avoid people when flatulence is in play. I mean, What's it matter to me anyway? PD has robbed me of my sense of smell and I am learning to control the volume of the flatus (Low E).
In the words of Hemingway:
Come let us fart in the home.
There is no art in a fart.
Still a fart may not be artless.
Let us fart and artless fart in the home.”
― Ernest Hemingway
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