On Friday, March 21, 2025, the California Attorney General issued an urgent customer alert to those who have a 23andMe account. In its alert, the AG’s office provides instructions for how to delete your genetic data; request 23andMe destroy your test sample; and revoke permission for your genetic data to be used for research. There are still concerns about what data will be retained by 23andMe.
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It affects your mood, your sleep, even your motivation to exercise. There’s convincing evidence that it’s the starting point for Parkinson’s disease and could be responsible for long COVID’s cognitive effects. And it sits about 2 feet below your brain.
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Did you know that March is Women’s History Month? Check out this American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) blog post from 2024 about the differences of PD in women.
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For more than two decades, innovative program has focused on ‘what people with Parkinson’s can do, not what they can’t do.’
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Soania Mathur was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 27. Excerpts from this Washington Post article about her and young-onset Parkinson’s: “Mathur and health-care experts said that more awareness of early-onset Parkinson’s is needed, since some studies suggest that its incidence is increasing, going against the common belief that the rise in Parkinson’s cases is due to an aging population. … One study found that patients under 45 had a much longer latency from disease onset to diagnosis — over two years compared with nine months for late-onset patients. … Dystonia, a movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions, is more often seen in early-onset Parkinson’s disease, particularly after exercise. However, dementia, gait disturbances, gastrointestinal issues and loss of sense of smell are less frequent, less severe or delayed in younger individuals. Perhaps most intriguing is that the progression of the disease is much slower in early-onset patients.”
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