Top Tips for the Nutritional Support of Parkinson's disease. –
Contributed by Beatrice Rabkin. Bsc. Nutritional Medicine; Dip Pharmacy
This document is just a guideline for food intake, contact a nutritional expert for good advice.
1. Optimise digestion – encourage digestive juices to flow.
· Hot water and lemon/lemon juice
· Begin each meal with raw foods preferably bitter herbs – rocket, watercress, beet greens and small beetroot
· good smelling foods
· Apple-cider vinegar
· Sauerkraut http://nourishedkitchen.com/homemade-sauerkraut/ and other fermented foods.
2. Remove inflammatory foods:
· Reduce and aim to remove Sugar and all refined carbohydrates
· NO Deep fried foods
· No highly processed foods which contain item which you do not recognise.
· No soft margarine or any products made with margarine.
3. Eat non-inflammatory foods
· Eat as much free-range or organic as possible.
· Eat 5-7 vegetables – especially green leafy, colourful, low sugar vegetables. (Use small portions of high sugar
vegetables: pumpkin, potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots)
· Eat cruciferous vegetables EVERY DAY– cabbages (esp sauerkraut), broccoli (broccoli sprouts) cauliflower etc
· Eat members of the onion family every day: garlic, leeks and onions
· Eat to 2-3 portions of fruit – especially low GI/GL fruits – berries, apples, plums and melons. Always eat with a little
protein-rich foods: nuts or seeds.
· Oily fish, try for 3 portions/week – sardines, tuna, mackerel, herring, trout and salmon, 2-3 small handfuls of nuts and/or
Seeds – walnuts, almonds, ground flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and Brazil nuts.
* Lentils and beans – well soaked (3days), preferably fermented or sprouted.
· Fermented foods – e.g. sauerkraut and yoghurt
· Vegetable oils – olive, avocado, nut and seed + 1-2 T coconut oil
· Broths – lamb, chicken and fish, with added vegetables.
· Low fat meats, preferably chicken, ostrich and wild game (venison).
· Whole grains, preferably not gluten grains. Use brown rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, sorghum, oats and amaranth.
· Use plenty of herbs and spices especially ginger, turmeric (borrie)
· Drink herbal teas with ginger root, fennel seeds, cinnamon, mint, rooibos, honey bush, green tea – preferably no added
milk and definitely no sugar.
4. Reduce Stress levels – see document under, ‘Reducing stress levels’
Supplements:
· Use the best Multivitamin/mineral you can afford; with high doses of B vitamin.
· Use a good quality omega 3 fatty acid from reputable manufacturers with good quality control in place. Read the small
print, many supplements advertise high concentrations of fish oils – what you want is the DHA and EPA to add up to at
least 1000mg.
· Optimise vitamin D levels – get levels checked by a health practitioner. Make sure you are supplementing with the active
vitamin D3 and not the inactive ergocalciferol – D2.
· Other supplements should be prescribed by a healthcare practitioner who understand nutrition. Nutritional therapists,
Clinical Nutritionists etc.
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