Lily asked:


i need to write a report, and the cover page is supposed to draw the reader in. For example, if my topic was “meth” i would say “the only shots you should get are from the docter”

Parkinson’s disease is where you loose control of your hands,loose part brain control and it causes shaking.

this is for health.

thanks

bruce b asked:


Are they now related diseases or is there Lyme induced Parkinson’s symptoms. This is serious because I am being analyzed.
“Rabble” actually means “vociferous crowd” and not derogatory.

DesertFrost asked:


my aunt and cousin was abusing me when i was 7 yrs old,after ten years my aunt was diagnosed with parkinsons disease,her son nearly drowned,another one separated from wife and their bussiness colapsed.my halfsister who oncetold me that i have 3 sons to a different father,made her ovaries removed,means she cannot bear child.is this coincidence?or karma?

If you are one of those who constantly experience unnatural tremors, muscle stiffness, slowed movements, loss of balance, impaired speech, and difficulty swallowing, the chances are, you are having Parkinsons disease symptoms.

This condition is actually brought about by the deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine, which then causes problems in your control of muscle movements. These early signs of Parkinson’s disease would only later on develop to more complicated episodes of tremors, muscle rigidity, impaired sense of balance, impaired speech and even difficulty in swallowing.

Parkinson’s disease symptoms result from your body’s lack of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which supposedly helps the brain in controlling muscle movements. However, most physicians cannot prescribe a direct cure for the root cause of the illness but may only give you drugs to control your symptoms.

Many believe that such diseases as Parkinson’s may be brought about by our generation’s unhealthy habits that often lead to chemical imbalances. Nevertheless, many experts these days consider that using too much of therapeutic drugs can only further contribute to the disease and even make your body unhealthier as these may promote toxicity and damage.

And so, many are pushing for a more natural approach to dealing with most of the Parkinsons disease symptoms, especially because if you are someone who has the illness, you can no longer afford to further add to the damage and even contribute to the malfunction of your systems.

Parkinsons disease symptoms [http://parkinsons-disease-treatment.blogspot.com/2007/09/parkinsons-alternative-treatment.html] are certainly tough to deal with, but what you can do is not to solely rely on the drugs prescribed to you by your physician and keep in mind that too much of these may contribute more harm. Adapt other natural methods that contribute to your body’s health and learn that there are ways for you to take control of your illness.

By: Charlene Nuble

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mini roo asked:


Every day my muscles get weaker, they are atrophying. I have absolutely no energy, i have really bad anxiety. It is a sense of impending dooms, even though i know nothing really bad is ever going to happen…my whole body hurts, i twitch and shake a whole lot, i cant sit still. nothing is interesting anymore, i cant hold a conversation, i cant find the words to say, my thoughts are all mixed up. i have terribble achy pain all over my body, made worse by anxiety in social situations. nothing is fun anymore, everything seems flat and meaningless, not even women look good anymore. i have no libido, i am so tired all the time, i feel like an empty dry gas tank. could i have parkinsons disease?

biosingh36 asked:

Parkinsons Disease

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ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS
TO GO VEGETARIAN
People Land Air Water Efficiency Animals Health

PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain – enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,000,000 people (the population of India)
Intensification in animal farming has displaced 1,000,000′s of people from their traditional lands – eg. indigenous people in south & central america, native americans in north america & crofters in Great Britain – this is continuing today
People displaced from their lands into cities succumb to dietary deficiency, diseases, parasites & opportunistic diseases
In third world countries 1 in 10 babies die before their first birthday
The UK imports £46,000,000 worth of grain from third world countries to feed our livestock
Due to overgrazing 850,000,000 people live on land threatened by desertification & over 230,000,000 already live on land so severely desertified that they are unable to sustain their existence & face imminent starvation
1,000,000,000 people in the west gorging on meat & dairy leave 1,000,000,000 to waste away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on the brink

LAND
If they continue to clear American forests to raise cattle at the present rate, in 50 years there will be none left
1 acre yields 165 lbs of beef or 20,000 lbs of potatoes
8/10 of cultivated land in the UK is used to grow food for animals (14,732,000 hectares)
It takes 16lbs of high protein soya to produce 1 lb of beef
Since 1945 in the UK we have lost 95% of flower meadows, 50% of ancient woodlands, 40% of heathlands, 50% of wet lands & 224,000 km of hedgerows all due to animal farming
Pressure on land due to meat farming leads to soil erosion 6billion tons/year in the USA
If everyone went vegetarian upto 90% of land used for animal farming could be taken out of production & used to replant woodlands, leisure activities etc.
25% of Central america’s forests have been destroyed for cattle grazing since 1960
Between 1966-1983 38% of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed for cattle grazing
90% of cattle ranches established on cleared forest land go bankrupt in less than 8 years as the land becomes barren due to nutrient loss & overgrazing
Overgrazing by cattle is destroying the land & increasing desertification, nearly 430 million acres in the USA alone has suffered a 25-50% reduction in yield since first grazed
An inch of topsoil takes 200-1000 years to develop – yet in the USA they have lost around 1/3 of their prime topsoil in 200 years (around 7 inches) due to animal farming
Land will be lost due to rises in sea level due to global warming due to animal farming

AIR
The destruction of the rainforest by cattle farmers is destroying the lungs of the planet & reducing the worlds capacity to replenish our oxygen supply
The 1,300,000,000 cattle in the world emit 60,000,000 tons of methane per year (methane is a greenhouse gas & leads to global warming)
Burning of forests, grasslands & agricultural waste associated with animal farming releases 50-100,000,000 tons of methane per year
Combining these figures, 25% of methane emissions are due to animal farming (not including the billions of sheep, pigs & poultry so the real figure is much higher)
Fertilizer used to grow crops to feed to animals releases nitrous oxide – thought to account for 6% of the greenhouse effect
Fertilizer, weedkiller & pesticides sprayed on crops enter the atmosphere creating a noxious carcinogenic cocktail
CFCs are released into the air from refrigeration units used to store decomposing flesh (meat), milk & butter – CFCs are destroy the ozone layer
Ammonia from animal urine also pollutes the atmosphere
CO2 is released by burning oil & petrol in lorries, ships, abattoirs, dairies, factories etc. associated with meat & dairy production
Emissions from large chemical plants which produce fertilizer, weedkiller & other agricultural chemicals are also poisoning our air

WATER
25 gallons of water to produce 1lb of wheat & 2500 gallons to produce 1lb of meat
UK farm animals produce 200,000,000 tonnes of slurry (liquid excrement) every year, the majority of which ends up in our rivers
Bloody waste water from abattoirs ends up in our rivers
In the USA every second humans produce 12,000 lbs of effluent while farmed animals produce 250,000 lbs
Nitrates & pesticides used on crops grown to feed livestock end up in our rivers
Meat & dairy farming uses 70 litres of water per day per animal in the UK or 159,250,000,000 litres per year in total
The water used to produce 10 lbs of steak is equivalent to the average consumption of water for an entire household for an entire year
Depletion of groundwater reserves to grow crops for animals & to supply abattoirs will lead to greater water shortages
Aquafers (stores of underground water) in the San Joaquin valley in the USA are being drained at the rate of 500,000,000,000 gallons/year to produce meat
18% of all agricultural land in the world is irrigated & as global warming increases (partly due to animal farming) it will cost $200,000,000 to keep these systems going
The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a Destroyer battleship
The liquid waste from the various parts of the meat & dairy industry flow into the rivers & from there into the seas polluting them & encouraging huge algal blooms to grow

EFFICIENCY
To produce 1calorie of energy from meat takes 60 calories of petrol, whereas growing grains & legumes to directly feed people produces 20 calories for each calorie of fuel used ( thats 1200 times more efficient)
Meat & dairy farming uses billions of gallons of oil to run tractors, fuel ships & lorries (to move animal feed & animals), pump billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields & run slaughterhouses, power refrigeration units to prevent the corpses from decomposing & to power sewage plants to clean up some of the pollution produced
Cattle convert only 6% of their energy intake (mainly grains & soya) into flesh, the remaining 94% is wasted as heat, movement (which is why they keep many animals in very close confinement), hair, bones, faeces etc
1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of petrol to produce
A family of four eating beef for a year uses enough petrol to run a car for 6 months (obviously depending on how far you drive!)
If the full ecological cost of meat was passed onto the consumer – the price would be quadrupled (at least)
The EC spends œ100,000,000′s to subsidise animal production resulting in lakes of unwanted milk & mountains of unwanted meat & butter. This money could be better spent encouraging organic fruit, vegetable & grain production
In the USA in 1979 145,000,000 tons of crops were fed to cattle resulting in only 21million tons of animal bodies – the cost of the wasted crops was $20,000,000,000
Between 1950 & 1985 grain production in Europe & the USA increased massively but 2/3 was fed to animals
70% of all grain is fed to animals
Eating vast quantities of animal flesh, eggs, milk & butter is a luxury that most of the planet can not afford

ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen’s nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000′s of dolphins caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
Unwanted male ****** (because they can’t lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in – this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors – they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square – fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water – resulting in stress, injuries & deaths – legal requirements are widely ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep – the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf – so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking – their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water – all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt – this is factory farming
“Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind” – John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves – under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day – resulting in swollen & inflamed udders – at this rate they are soon worn out
Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals – these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.

HEALTH
Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don’t get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre – exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels – high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh – most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine – the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians – some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)

AND I COULD GO ON !
If you’ve read this far, I hope that you are beginning to see that the Meat & Dairy industry is a major contributor to misery on this planet. It is destroying the health of people in rich countries, starving those in poor countries, it is torturing & killing billions of animals every year and in the meantime it is one of the major factors in the destruction of the environment – so what does the meat & dairy industry have to say in it’s defence?
Well their only real point is usually “Meat is tasty” – fair enough a lot of people enjoy the taste of meat – but there are plenty of delicious alternatives (just consider the huge range of vegetarian dishes in Indian cooking – one of the oldest & most sophisticated cuisines in the world) and if you really crave meat & dairy, nowadays there are plenty of healthy non animal alternatives – just look in the supermarket & health food shop. So I hope you will agree it’s pretty pathetic to consider all the evidence & then say “well I know you’re right about the environment & health & the animals – but I just love my meat”

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Most people who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s believe that their bodies do not produce enough dopamine. The implication of this belief of course is that their bodies are not working correctly.

I believe dopamine deficiency is not the real problem. Surprised? There clearly is a hormonal imbalance. But who is the real culprit here – dopamine or adrenaline?

In my opinion, the true cause of the hormonal imbalance in Parkinson’s lies with an overabundance of stress hormones: adrenaline, cortisol, aldosterone and testosterone. These are the hormones that are naturally secreted by the body when it is in a survival mode. What really happens to the body when it is flushed with stress hormones?

The immune system is jeopardized. The gastrointestinal track shuts down. Memory becomes problematic. Thinking becomes fuzzy. All senses are dulled – touch, feel and smell.

Overall energy is depleted. Blood pressure and respiration increase. Water and nutrients are sent to the lungs and heart.

The rest of the body is ignored. After all, the body is in a survival mode. Why bother nourishing the neurons? The connection between the effects of stress on the body and the symptoms of Parkinson’s is stark.

When the body is preoccupied with making the stress hormones, cells throughout the system become seriously dehydrated. When cells become dehydrated, how can they get rid of the toxins and waste products?

The answer is obvious. They don’t.

Recovery for persons with the symptoms of Parkinson’s involves helping the body remember the place of balance and helping the individual move out of a suspended state of stress. Most people are so stressed they do not even know they are stressed!

When the body is on continuous alert year after year there is less and less demand on the body to produce dopamine. The natural ability of the body to manufacture dopamine simply withers away. The body is doing precisely what it was designed to do.

It is not broken. It is working perfectly. There is no inherent demand to produce dopamine, so less and less dopamine is manufactured. The body is too preoccupied with producing the hormones that are needed when it is under stress.

Why again does the body stop producing dopamine? When we stop using any skill, proficiency declines little by little, day by day. Consider a physical example. If you stop working out and exercising, it does not take long for the muscles in the body to turn to flab.

“Use it or lose it” is the name of the game. When you do not use it you lose it!

If you do not use the body’s learned ability to manufacture dopamine, it will gradually lose the ability to produce dopamine in the quantities that are needed. The cells needed to produce the hormone die and are not replaced. The body says to itself:

“Why bother? There is no need for dopamine.”

Although increasingly a young person’s disease, the symptoms of Parkinson’s do not emerge in many people until the later years. This is because there needs to be a depletion of 80% in the body’s capacity to make dopamine before the symptoms of dopamine depletion actually surface.

It takes a long time for the body to give up its ability to produce any hormone it thinks it may need in the future. But it will give up, eventually. It obviously will take time to convince the body otherwise.

Many people have problems figuring out the best timing and dose of their Parkinsons medications which replace dopamine in one form or another. I am not a medical doctor, so I am not qualified or trained to be able to help you with this problem. Clearly, the best thing you can do is to consult with your doctor when problems emerge.

I do want to comment on the energy behind trying to figure out the right timing and dose of medications. The energy behind the challenge of figuring out the best timing is intentional (which is good), forceful (which can be good) and controlling (which is bad).

So you ask, what is so wrong with the energy behind control? After all, control is what makes things happen in the world, right?

Most people we work with who have Parkinsons have been very successful in their careers and work lives because they know how to use the energy of control effectively and efficiently. So again you are probably wondering why is control in this case bad?

Controlling behavior can be bad for people with the symptoms of Parkinsons because controlling behavior pumps out adrenaline which sustains hormonal imbalances in the body. If you are trying to control the timing of your medications every day, consulting with your doctor as needed, making decisions literally every hour there is an energy of control that is continuously present. The hormonal imbalance in the body is continuously present.

What do you do about the energy behind control? Make it conscious, so that you come to a place where evaluating your dose and timing become effortless(as opposed to forced)as you listen to the needs of your own body.

In summary, there is a curious tension between the energy of control(which involves doing something every day to your body)versus being able to relax and let go. When you try to force relaxation, it just doesn’t work. The body just becomes more alert and even more adrenaline is pumped out.



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Jesssicaa318 asked:


What are the complications for someone with the disease? My mom said the surgery is going to be very risky and she’ll have a hard time recovering all bc she is older and has parkinsons.
Thanks everybody…great detailed answers!

Adopted asked:


Reading up on the recent news that stated that a chemical known as Sodium Benzoate contained in soda causes Parkinsons Disease, I found that apples, prunes, pickles, some juices, all contain it as a perservative. Mainly because it is cheap, should people stop eating those? Are they bad?
FACT: Apples do contain Sodium Benzoate Naturally. These are not artificially added.