Ambroxol

But now researchers are looking at one ingredient found in some cough medicines and are taking a very different look at it and asking a very different question.

Could this thing do more than help just with mucus? Could it somehow help the brain's cleanup system? What? Who knew? Cough syrup? The ingredient in cough syrup is called Ambroxol, and depending on where you live, you may know it as something used in cough syrup or mucus medication.

Now let's keep the, this into plain English.

Inside the brain, cells have cleanup systems.

And that is the protein that can clump up in Parkinson's.

I'm sure you've heard of it before.

And this Ambroxol is being studied because researchers think it may help boost part of the cell's cleanup system.

Now, that doesn't mean that, that Parkinson's has a proven treatment yet.