Signs of motor neurone disease (MND) were seen up to 14 years before patients experience symptoms, according to a new Scottish study.
MND is an illness in which signals from the brain are stopped from reaching the body. The devastating illness is terminal and, sadly, there is no cure. It is the same disease English physicist Stephen Hawking suffered from.
University of Aberdeen researchers found that the same proteins thought to contribute to MND can be found in the gut many years before brain symptoms crop up. Although commonly misunderstood to only affect the brain, the disease affects other parts of the body - particularly occur in the gut, with changed bowel habits and weight loss.
