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Could Creatine Treat Parkinson's?

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SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Kathleen Shannon, MD, Neurologist, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.

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Carol Harding was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about a year ago, but she's been getting stiffer and slower for awhile.

Carol Harding :

My left leg started trembling and after about a month of that, I decided it wasn't going to go away.

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In Parkinson's disease, brain cells die off little by little. There is no cure and no treatment to slow it down.

Carol Harding to doctor:

100, 99, 98…

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Doctor Kathleen Shannon is leading part of a large national study to test whether creatine (CREE-uh-TEEN), a food supplement athletes use to build muscles, can slow the loss of brain cells in Parkinson's patients.

Kathleen Shannon, M.D.:

Its effects in the brain have to do with… um improving the energy system within the brain cells and it's also got some kind of anti-oxidents, so oxidation, rust is something that happens in brain cells as well as on your garden tools. And uh it helps to prevent that as well.

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Study volunteers mix a packet of white powder in their food or drink twice a day. Half receive real creatine, half an inactive compound. More than 15-hundred volunteers will be tracked over five years.

Kathleen Shannon, M.D. :

What we're hoping is, that at the end of the five year period when we break the blind and analyze all the data, the research subjects who have been taking the Creatine, will have had a less severe progression than the people who are taking a placebo.

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Which could lead to new therapy for patients like Carol.

Carol Harding :

I'm hoping something's discovered that well, at least slows it way down.

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To help Parkinson's patients stay active longer. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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