How might the condition of your sinuses correlate to Parkinson’s Disease?

How might the condition of your sinuses correlate to Parkinson’s Disease?

If you have Parkinson’s, please take a quick (like 30 seconds) survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YNLKHBN

Over 5-1/2 Years of Powerful Food, Exercise, and Sunshine Success Against Parkinson's!

At the age of 38, in about 2007 - 2008, I began experiencing Parkinson's symptoms. I began taking levodopa drugs a year or two later. In 2011, I was formally diagnosed by a team of prominent motion disorders specialists. Since then I have been re-diagnosed by 6 more doctors and a Parkinson's sniffing dog!

That set me on course for massive doses of drugs.

By 2013, I was being prescribed a medication escalation to over 2000 mg/day levodopa, Comtan, Azilect, anti-depressants, propranolol, and other drugs.  These were at that time not controlling my condition well and when I was off medication such as during illness, I couldn't even walk. The tremors in my arms and leg were severe.

Surgery was suggested.

I had seen very mixed results with that, and I respected the gravity of brain surgery. So I placed DBS and/or other surgical interventions in the last resort spot.

Then in February of 2013, I began what has now been a 5-1/2 year journey of epiphanies contributing to recovery.

In August of 2014 I released my book "Powerful Food And A Walk In The Sun", detailing my journey to a drug-free, surgery-free vitality regained. Since then there have been many more successes and many new challenges.

A few examples:

Challenge - Twice in the last 5-1/2 years, motorists, both of them unprovoked complete strangers have deliberately hit my vehicle (one deliberately ran a red light, dodged oncoming traffic, and slammed into my car, another put his car into reverse and slammed into me as I was stopped several car lengths behind him at a light) Both times my neck was injured. These encounters escalated my Parkinson's symptoms.

Success - Three years ago I started Rock Stock Steady Boxing in addition to my walking.  Every bit of added exercise and the connections with new friends have been essential.

Challenge - In 2016 I developed vitamin D poisoning, which caused elevated symptoms of Parkinson's, and many other symptoms.   

 Success - My more recent discoveries such as magnesium, choline, lactic acid, probiotics, red meat elimination, treatment for SIBO, and dairy elimination have lead to significant recovery.

And the list just goes on.

I'm considering another book.

And I think the message is:  Don't ever let them make you think your life is over! Keep your calm wits about you, use your head, it's NOT dead.

So anyway on this 5-1/2 year anniversary of my Powerful Food And A Walk In The Sun Journey, I am looking and feeling great, still on less than 30% of the medication prescribed almost 6 years ago, still have been able to avoid surgery, and still here to help all of you suffering from Parkinson's Disease!

Click the cover for a link to my book on Amazon.

Friend me on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005011636168

Find me hanging out in the group Parkinson's Disease Fighters United at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pd.fighters.united/

or email me, or whatever.

God Bless all of you!  We're getting close to ending Parkinson's.


Glen

Peripheral Levodopa - For The Brain

YOUR BODY, NOT JUST YOUR BRAIN, PRODUCES LEVODOPA!

I am starting a project I'm calling "The Peripheral Levodopa Project".

Anyone with a brain is invited to help.

Find the project blog at:

www.peripherallevodopa.blogspot.com

Amaranth, Amaranth Soda Bread

Amaranth is so nutritious that the Aztecs worshipped it and it comprised 80% of their diet. It is nutritionally complete, almost 30% protein, and gluten free. The conquistadors preferred the Aztecs worship Christ so sadly, amaranth was replaced with corn.

Because I am allergic to eggs and yeast I developed this recipe for amaranth soda bread:

Ingredients:

Dry ingredients:
- 1, 22 oz bag Bob’s Red Mill Organic Amaranth flour
- 2 Tbsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp cream of tartar
- 1 Tbsp aluminum free double acting baking powder

Optional dry ingredients ( medicinal):
- 1-2 Tbsp organic turmeric
- 1/2-1 Tbsp organic black pepper
- 1-2 Tbsp Ceylon cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp allspice

Optional dry yummies:
- 2-4 handfuls raisins, dried berries, goji berries

Wet ingredients:
- About 18-22 oz plain whole milk Greek yogurt, or whole milk probiotic Greek yogurt, or Kefir

Optional yummy wet ingredients adding very little sugar overall:
- 2-3 Tbsp organic local honey
Or
- 2-3 Tbsp organic maple syrup
Or
- 4 Tbsp fig spread (lightly sweetened fig preserves, this also softens the bread)

 Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F.

Select a 9”x4” non stick bread baking pan and cut a piece of parchment baking paper to slip into the pan and protect your bread from being contaminated by the aluminum of the pan.

Select a large plastic mixing bowl.

Mix together dry ingredients thoroughly using a metal whisk.

Add in optional wet ingredients, then add about 18oz yogurt. Use a sturdy wooden spoon to mix, pressing the spoon into the mixture to force the dry flour into the wet ingredients. Once the flour is mostly wetted and the mixture is mostly clumps of dough, use your hands to gather the dough into a ball, then repeatedly smash the ball, shearing the dough and folding it over reforming the ball. Do this over and over until the outer surface of the ball becomes wetted to point of being tacky to slightly sticky but mostly doesn’t stick to your fingers. If the dough is too dry add yogurt. If it is too wet add flour.

When the texture is right roll the dough into a smooth ball using the bowl, pressing  together cracks, making the surface very smooth. Then shape it into a cylinder about the length and diameter of the baking pan.

Set the dough onto the parchment paper in the pan.  Take a sharp knife and slit two lines 1/8” deep from end to end near the left and right sides of the top surface lengthwise.

Place on middle oven rack and bake it for 1 hour at 350F.  Outer surface will sound hollow when tapped. Inside will be moist.  Allow to cool an hour or even overnight.  Sliche, enjoy.

Here is some. Nutritional information on amaranth:

Packed with antioxidants:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Ebert2/publication/272356648_Amaranth_sprouts_and_microgreens_-_a_homestead_vegetable_production_option_to_enhance_food_and_nutrition_security_in_the_rural-urban_continuum/links/54e30ed20cf2c3e7d2d54ea0.pdf

Excellent source of superoxide dismutase (SOD)!:
https://www.ripublication.com/irph/ijgeb-spl/ijgebv5n1_05.pdf

So important some have tried to patent it!:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5186963

Levodopa and Dopamine Circulation Throughout The Body

Levodopa and Dopamine Circulation Throughout The Body

In reading about the kidneys’ production of dopamine, I came to realize that they produce dopamine from circulating levodopa; they do not produce their own levodopa. Where does all that levodopa come from I thought? It turns out that the mesenteric organs produce a large net amount of circulating  levodopa.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/82/11/3864/2866142

Just like with your sinemet, or mucuna, or fava, some of that levodopa is throttled before it would reaches the brain.

I thought I’d try to make a diagram of all this.

In the diagram below I put a throttle symbol to represent that some levodopa is removed before it reaches the brain by B6 which is converted to AADC.  AADC converts the levodopa to dopamine, which mostly cannot make it through the blood brain barrier. Conversely B6 is removed from the system by the drug carbidopa.  So in a mechanical representation, Since this is done in circulation and there’s no single organ that does it, this is like a throttle, like the accelerator pedal on your car. You step on the throttle and B6 dispatches to the muscles, and out of circulation so it’s no longer converting levodopa to dopamine, And the levodopa makes it into your brain. Synthetically, if you take the drug carbidopa it destroys the B6 temporarily until you eat again, but during that window there is no B6 and the levodopa makes it to the brain. However note that in this case the B6 doesn’t go to your muscles to do it’s job there. It’s just gone in this case. 

Let off the accelerator and some of the B6 returns to circulation trimming back the levodopa that makes it to your brain.

 

So my thinking is that if we can improve the performance of the mesenteric organs and determine strategies to minimize circulating B6, we may be able to reduce or eliminate the need for medication.

 

Here’s my first attempt, comments appreciated:

This Could Be The Most Important Ongoing Study Regarding Parkinson's Disease - And You're Invited!

Dr. Laurie Mischley and Bastyr University Need Help With Their Groundbreak Parkinson's Research - Please Participate!

Participation requires each contributor to devote only one hour to completing a survey, but I can tell you Dr. Mischley and her group are learning the most comprehensive, insightful, and readily applicable information regarding what factors influence and/or mitigate the progression of Parkinson's Disease and the social health of people coping with Parkinson's.

I can also tell you that research results reported to date are helping me and many others make food, supplement, exercise, and lifestyle choices that are having tangible and immediate positive impacts on the quality of our lives.

So if you're a Person With Parkinson's please participate, especially in the next few days!:

http://bastyr.edu/research/studies/complementary-alternative-medicine-care-parkinsons-disease-cam-care-pd

Green Tomato Juice!

Green Tomato Juice!

Green tomatoes have about 1/2 the nicotine per serving as eggplant; eggplant has about 1/20th the nicotine per serving as tobacco.

As tomatoes ripen, they lose nicotine. A fully red ripe tomato has almost no nicotine.

Green tomatoes are less common, harder to find, more expensive, and more variable in character than eggplants.  Further, green tomatoes lack some of the unique nutrients of eggplant, like nasunin which chelates excess copper and iron from the brain. On balance, green tomatoes have their own unique arsenal of nutrients, like lithium, vitamin C, and lycopene to name a few.

Until now because of this mixture of factors, I have elected to juice eggplants for daily treatment of my Parkinson's.

But then it happened - a neighbor, Jae, decided to plant a massive crop of green heirlooms.

So I was generously provided a shopping bag full of gemstone grade specimens, and maybe more as nature provides.

So here was the experience of juicing green tomatoes:

1) Tomatoes washed and cut to fit down the juicer throat (Breville Juice Fountain Elite):

 2) The first 1.5 liter pitcher.

 3) Total juice from tomatoes in photo 1) about 2 liters,

 4) A plastic bottle allows 1 liter to be frozen.

 5) Hmm - I wonder if you could make sauce from this soft, wet pulp?....

Result: Taste was excellent, notes of lemon,  Symptom relief was tangible with 8 oz glass full.