Can Jello Improve Your Dopamine?

Following on to my last post regarding homeostasis and the tendency of serotonin to distract dopamine from motor control, I've set about identifying foods and dietary strategies that throttle seratonin without throttling dopamine.

I'm finding articles like this:
http://raypeat.com/articles/aging/tryptophan-serotonin-aging.shtml

Key items:
- low tryptophan
- collagen
- saturated fat
- salt
- gelatin ( yes like Jello...🤗)
Gelatin it seems is rich in the amino acid glycine, which inhibits seratonin.

I'm trying this, more soon.

Glen

Homeostasis and Parkinson's: Initial Observations

As a mechanical engineer, one of the most exquisite qualities I find about the human body is its ability to maintain constant temperature at 98.6F - Homeostasis.

I've been studying this and it turns out that this is regulated by the same neurotransmitters that control mood, thought, and motion:

Seratonin - Activates metabolic heating, impacts PD:
- Competes with priority against dopamine for enzymes.
- Too much causes hyperthermia, fever, tremor (dopamine is preoccupied to cool you).
- PD is 30 to 50% worse in late spring and summer.
- too much mao inhibitor can cause Seratonin to build up.

Dopamine - Activates cooling
- causes vasodilation, sweating.
- If preoccupied by its role in cooling, the shortage causes tremors.
- Too much causes hypothermia.
- when too cold, gets converted to norepinephrine.

Norepinephrine - Activates heating when hypothermic.
- Converted to adrenaline.
- causes shivering,  increased heart rate, vasoconstriction.

So since dopamine get drawn into the fight for both heating and cooling,  it's super important to stay warm but not hot and cool but not cold.

So where is the thermostat?
What prevents the Seratonin switch from being left on?
What foods and supplements help?

I am looking in to this.

Glen

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God Bless

Glen

Greatest Hits: Links to All My Webcasts to Date

It has been very rewarding to help others with Parkinson's by sharing my story.  Here are links to the webcasts I've done so far:

Interview With Dr. Robert Rodgers, March 11, 2014
Here's the link to my original March 11, 2014 radio interview with Robert Rodgers.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/parkinsons-recovery/2014/03/11/parkinsons-relief-was-in-the-supermarket-for-glen-pettibone 

Sunday Connections, September 28, 2014
Not long after the release of my book.

Event Page: http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=59357811

Sunday Connections, December 7, 2014
I covered status and topics from my book.

Event Page: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=62264190

Sunday Connections, May 17, 2015

Aunt Bean and Glen Pettibone discussed foods that help minimize and heal PD. 

Event Page: http://iteleseminar.com/68356731

Additionally, checkout Aunt Bean's page at:

http://www.favabeans.parkinsonsrecovery.com/contact-aunt-bean

Sunday Connections, October 18, 2015
I spoke about my progress with my anti-PD diet and my latest addition, Rock Steady Boxing.

Event Page: http://iTeleseminar.com/73856946

Sunday Connections, March 20, 2016
A team effort with Holly Hughes.  It was an information-packed program, don't miss!

NOTE:  Due to technical difficulties, our program began about 9 minutes 20 seconds into the recording.  Please fast forward to that point.  Click to the Event Page below.

Event Page: http://iTeleseminar.com/81201171

An Introduction And Open Letter To My New Friends On Facebook

Warm greetings and thank you for accepting my friend request.

 

Most of you don't know me from Adam.  My name is Glen and I am an engineer, scientist, and consultant.

 

In 2008, at the age of 39, my left index finger began shaking.  By 2011 I was diagnosed with "Parkinson's Disease" (PD), an idiopathic bucket diagnosis, really just a classification of symptoms stemming from a myriad of causes.  The symptoms generally consist of tremors, rigidity, and slowness of movement.  The symptoms are for awhile responsive to medications that replace the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain, as it is thought that an area in the midbrain called the substantia nigra is no longer producing adequate dopamine to properly control movements.

 

By 2013, I was taking massive doses of drugs and they were recommending brain surgery.  The surgery would not stop the disease, and I viewed it as dangerous and unpredictable.

 

With the thought of two 6mm holes being drilled through my brain in order to facilitate more years of drugs, I decided it was time to get exceedingly clever.  As Matt Damon's character in "The Martian" exclaims upon being marooned on Mars - "Well I guess I'll have to science the s--t out of this!"

 

I did so.  I made some really important observations about diet, exercise, and sunlight that were just being overlooked, but yet were as simple as a walk in the sun to the supermarket.  This raised the question in my mind as to whether my observations, focusing on nervous system health and performance, would just help everyone.

 

As a result I've reduced my medications by 95% and avoided brain surgery for almost 3-1/2 years now.  I also got rid of acid reflux, digestive disorders, allergies, asthma, and problematic cholesterol.  I have better energy and lost over 40 pounds.  I've been in the top 5 out of 500 employees in my firm for going on 4 years now.

 

And my first thought was to begin helping people by getting the word out.  So I wrote a book entitled "Powerful Food And A Walk In The Sun", which is available on Amazon Kindle.  I also post important observations on this blog, and I do regular blog-radio shows through www.parkinsonsrecovery.com .  I know I've helped hundreds, perhaps thousands.  Nothing negative.

 

The book has been selected by the World Parkinson's Congress for the 2016 convention in Portland Oregon.

 

I asked to be your friend because since 1 in 200 people develop it, you all know someone who has it.  I selected many of you because you have PD, clearly knew someone with PD, or were a part of a PD advocacy organization.  Many of you just appeared interesting-at-first-sight, and there's room in the lifeboat (LOL).

Thank you again, and God bless you all,

Glen Pettibone

Looking Forward To Starting Over

Lately I've been feeling well enough that I forget about all this sometimes.  I start cherishing thoughts of rebeginning my life. And I've done some creative things these days that taste like starting over.  Even loved in ways I'd forgotten.

If I could crack the problem of my dystonias left over after most of the PD is gone, I might just walk away from this mess.  Then I could tell everyone about that.

There's precious little data about dystonias.  It appears an even more shadowed bucket "diagnosis" than PD.

Anyone know anything?

God Bless All Of You,
Glen

World Parkinson's Congress Puts Powerful Food In The Book Nook

The World Parkinson's Congress has select my book for the Book Nook at the WPCs conference this September in Portland, Oregon.  I will be attending but not presenting.

For more about the conference, go here: http://www.wpc2016.org/?page=BookNook

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God Bless
Glen