Vitamin C and Reduced Motor Fluctuations

• Dietary Approaches to Improve Efficacy and Control Side Effects of Levodopa Therapy in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.

  • 2021-11
  • Systematic Review · n = 10
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 12(6)
  • • Jikke T Boelens Keun
    • Ilse Ac Arnoldussen
    • Chris Vriend
    • Ondine van de Rest

  • PubMed: 34113965
  • DOI: 10.1093/advances/nmab060

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Motor Fluctuations

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Interventions with protein redistribution diets (PRDs), dietary fiber, vitamin C, and caffeine improved levodopa absorption, thereby enhancing clinical response and reducing motor fluctuations.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes