TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT · CHAPTER 10

The Gut Makes Its Own

Most of the dopamine machinery in your body sits below your diaphragm, and almost nobody gets told. I walk through what was actually measured in living people, why a Parkinson’s drug slows your stomach before the disease does, and the correction I had to make to my own teaching about the colon. Then the finding that changed how I think about levodopa: gut bacteria that eat the medication before the brain ever sees it.

17 pages · 21 references, every one verified · written by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP

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The receipts behind Chapter 10

The book makes the argument. This supplement shows the evidence, claim by claim: the study, who was in it, the number and where it sits in the paper, what it does not show — and the questions to bring to your own physician. It is written to be shared with your doctor.

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