February 12, 2010 – 3:53 pm
This is intended to be a regularly updated listing of therapeutics holding unusual promise and demanding further research. For the most part, they address either inflammation, oxidation, mitochondrial impairment, or stress response and show signs of crossing the blood brain barrier. Another pair of categories are less accepted at present but must be included- neural [...]
January 10, 2010 – 1:06 pm
Three- Eat consciously with your health in mind. Be aware of your eating habits and their effect upon both neural destruction and neurogenesis. What you eat and how much is important, but so is when you eat. Throughout the ages, fasting, or “caloric restriction,” has been considered a promoter of health. Modern research has shown [...]
January 8, 2010 – 1:56 am
Two – Maintain at least a minimal level of activity. With PD, the matter of exercise is not just for building muscle. The added importance of exercise in this context is that a certain level of activity is required for a healthy nervous system. Imagining taking a walk does have some benefit, but actually taking [...]
November 23, 2009 – 1:40 pm
With that intentionally provocative subject line, allow me to launch into a somewhat complicated discussion of something that seems to be doing me a world of good and part of which seems to be unknown in the research community. The usual caveats apply. I am not a doctor. I am taking risks. If you are [...]
November 6, 2009 – 12:55 am
(Like everything else on this site and regardless of the language used, this is not to be taken as medical advice. Take the information to your own doctor for advice. Also, be aware that DXM should not be taken with MAOIs, SSRIs, or similar drugs. Do your homework.) So, what happens to a drug that: [...]
October 22, 2009 – 12:36 pm
A report in today’s Science Daily discusses the loss of smell as the result of viral infections. And, while seemingly not realized by the authors, it leads to a posssible avenue for PD treatment using a very old drug. According to the research of the German scientist Braak, one of the first places that Lewy [...]
September 7, 2009 – 5:20 pm
(Preface- My own experience and that of one other included an increase in dyskinesia at higher doses. I also experienced an alarming increase in my existing hypertension, which was quite a surprise and probably due to my overly zealous dosing. I will return to it one day. So much potential.) Ginger is one of those [...]
September 4, 2009 – 8:49 pm
Oxidation is a central process in neurodegeneration and antioxidant strategies must play a role. . “Oxidative stress, in which production of highly reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) overwhelms antioxidant defenses, is a feature of many neurological diseases and neurodegeneration….ROS and RNS can directly oxidize and damage macromolecules such as DNA, proteins, [...]
August 31, 2009 – 12:59 am
“White Rats” is the name that I choose for discussion of alternative treatments for Parkinson’s Disease. It is an explicit and ever-present reminder that those of us who decide to experiment with these substances are taking part in a giant, unregulated clinical trial. It is a reminder that there are risks and even dangers. It [...]
Prescription for a Cure – Part One
I am not a doctor. What I am, however, is a student of Parkinson’s Disease – a disorder that I share with over a million people in the US alone. There is admittedly a great deal of speculation in what follows, but that is true of PD regardless of the writer. The harsh truth is [...]