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🧠🔍1/12 Michael J Fox has it, the late Muhammad Ali had it, Billy Connolly has it and 60,000 new cases of Parkinson's disease are being diagnosed every year in the US. If you want to avoid adding your name to that list, there's one thing you should do: don't eat seed oils. 
📜2/12 James Parkinson first described this condition in his 1817 paper on shaking palsy. Born on April 11, 1755, that's why April 11 is now World Parkinson's Day. Dr. Parkinson outlined a disease causing involuntary tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and more.
🧠3/12 Parkinson's is caused by the death of cells in our pars compacta, which controls motor function. When working well, it uses dopamine to control our movement, attention, learning, and reward-seeking. Damage to dopamine-producing neurons results in Parkinson's disease.
