In recent weeks the world has learned the news media creates fake news and/or completely shuns significant news stories to match its own politically correct agendas.  So an unequivocal cure for a major brain disease goes unreported.  Shame on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC, Reuters, Associated Press and the New York Times.

For a disease considered incurable, a physician in Italy has begun to provide a common B vitamin to successfully treat a debilitating motor-nerve disease commonly known as Parkinson's disease.  The importance of this startling discovery has escaped major news outlets. It should be heralded on television and in newspapers worldwide.  But it has only been reported by an obscure European news source.  [Ultima Edizione.eu]  (Be sure to click the before-and-after video tabs.)

History of vitamin B1 and Parkinson's

Physician James Parkinson first described a "shaking palsy" in 1817.  [Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine 2011]  Today, 200 years later Parkinson's disease is still considered an incurable disease.

Parkinson's disease emanates from the loss of dopamine-producing cells in the brain.  Approximately 60-80% of dopamine-producing cells are damaged before symptoms arise.  Dopamine is a nerve-transmitting chemical in the brain.  

It has taken two centuries for a vitamin-phobic medical profession to hesitantly begin to treat Parkinson's disease with vitamin B1 (thiamin).

Historically the link between Parkinson's disease and thiamin deficiency has been agonizingly slow.

Thiamin, vitamin B1, was the first vitamin to be discovered. Vitamin B1 was first synthesized in 1936. [Annals New York Academy Sciences April 1962]  So dietary supplementation was possible from that point forward.

It took till 1967 for the first published report that a decline in brain dopamine levels of pigeons was due to experimentally induced thiamin deficiency. [International Journal Neuropharmacology July 1967]

A link between thiamin deficiency and low dopamine levels was discussed in 1987 in an experiment that attempted to determine why rats tend to eat mice (muricide).  Low dopamine levels induced by a shortage of thiamin in the diet were linked to this abnormal animal behavior. [Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 1987]

In 1988 researchers noted a thiamin-deficient diet decreased dopamine concentration and synthesis in the brain (striatum).  The provision of alcohol to lab animals also decreased dopamine levels.  The brain region most susceptible to damage (the hypothalamus) in thiamin deficient animals is the very same region of the brain that produces dopamine. [Drug Alcohol Dependency 1988]

In 1999 it was observed that low levels of thiamin in the cerebrospinal fluid were related to Parkinson's disease. [Neuroscience Letters 1999]

In 2013 researchers reviewed all prior published scientific reports and concluded that thiamin plays a role in Parkinson's disease. [CNS Neuroscience Therapy2013]