text:  is reported as the most common cause of death in Parkinson's and is actually estimated to account for as much as 70% of the mortality rate. Both speech and swallowing are automatic. So again, like Kevin and Glenn spoke earlier, talking about that automatic part of the brain that's affected with Parkinson's, these are automatic acts that we start to do less and less. So like I said, speech and swallowing is highly automatic. We don't really concentrate or think too much about it.