Category Archives: Living With PD

2 – The gritty reality of living with PD. Patient’s observations.

Involvement of innate immunity in the development of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

July 28, 2010 – 12:44 pm

<Note: The nature of wheat changed greatly with the Industrial Revolution as local varieties were replaced by standardized ones.> 1: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Jun;1051:787-98. Involvement of innate immunity in the development of inflammatory and autoimmune  diseases. Tlaskalová-Hogenová H, Tucková L, Stepánková R, Hudcovic T, Palová-Jelínková L, Kozáková H, Rossmann P, Sanchez D, [...]

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Neuroinflammation and the Flu Shot

October 18, 2009 – 12:26 pm

In light of the work showing a link between the flu and PD, everyone should run out and get a flu shot, right? Wrong! And maybe a very big wrong at that. As outlined elsewhere on this site, the microglia are part of the innate, hardwired defense of your brain. They hold the line while [...]

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PD as a Sum of Processes

September 5, 2009 – 1:51 pm

Parkinson’s Disease is characterized by a number of ongoing processes: Neuroinflammation and Inflammation, Mitochondrial Failure, Oxidation, Microglial Activation, Altered Stress Response, Endothelial Failure,  Autoimmunity, Misfolding Proteins, Excitotoxicity,   – all play a role to one extent or another in the course of Parkinson’s Disease. There are almost certainly others. We really can’t understand PD without understanding, at [...]

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An Experience with Wheat Gluten

August 23, 2009 – 1:31 am

The following is reproduced from my posting on a forum for PWP beginning three days ago. The experience has been interesting, to say the least: _____________________________________ “Over the last four weeks I seem to have improved considerably. Some particular changes: 1) I was routinely being forced to call it quits by mid-day. I would make [...]

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