Caffeine Intake May Help Parkinson’s Patients to Control Movement

Drinking caffeine every day may not help improve sleepiness among those suffering from Parkinson’s disease, but it could have a benefit in controlling movement, says new research that appears in the Aug. 1, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

“Studies have shown that people who use caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, but this is one of the first studies in humans to show that caffeine can help with movement symptoms for people who already have the disease,” says study author Ronald Postuma, MD, MSc, of McGill University in Montreal and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center. For more information, click here to read the full release.