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Comment by stevebmark

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics (like cipro, levaquin) wreak havoc on your mitochondria, including on mtDNA [1]. I doubt there's a link between FQs and Parkinsons. At least it would be easy to falsify that hypothesis. But FQs can cause permanent damage in humans, and it's interesting to see that mtDNA damage (which FQs cause) can have effects like the linked article show.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182158/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6648947/

parent stevebmark 3 years ago

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