Are There Vitamins or Natural Supplements That Help With Parkinson’s Disease?
A question asked by Hopeful girl: Are there vitamins or natural supplements that help with Parkinson’s disease?
I’m 46 and have had Parkinson’s for about a year. My main symptom is a tremor in my left hand and arm. I have found medication that helps alot but I would still prefer a vitamin or something natural if there’s anything out there that might help.
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Answer by redstorm
There is a great book on improving mental health through the use of vitamins and minerals and yoga. I recommend you read the book and contact the Dr who wrote it for advice specifically for your situation.
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Longevity-Breakthrough-Medical-Improves/dp/0446673730
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The website below might help you. It’s 100% natural herbs- no fillers…..they have just about everything and online help as well.
I think if vitamin supplements helped, you would see Michael Fox giving commercials for them.
go to http://www.safemedsforless.com they have a wonderful selection of natural/native remedies and vitamins as well a pharmacy if you need a script. If you want to talk to a physician there they can help and give you and online perscription for meds.
I personally would be taking every kind of antioxidant out there. I would be drinking pomagranate juice, and blueberry juice, and taking E, C, Alpha lipoic acid, and coq-10 for starters. Do this to slow the destruction of the substantia nigra of the brain that produces doamine. You are quite young to get this, I do wish you the best, you may have a milder form and in the future who knows with stem cell research there are hopes of future cures.
The research community is currently answering that. They suspect that antioxidants may help, and there is some hopeful evidence of that, but nothing concrete yet. There are a couple of studies that show that Coenzyme Q10 (aka CoQ10) helps people living with Parkinson’s disease. The most well-known study appeared in the Archives of Neurology in 2002. It was compelling enough to get the National Institues of Health to fund research that is still going on about CoQ10.
The current dose that people are speculating is beneficial is 1200 mgs per day – a pretty large dose. It can also get a little pricey, because it is popular right now thanks to its benefits to the heart too.
Exercise also appears to have some very positive effects, if you call that natural.
Other than that, there are not a lot of other good natural options – that we know about yet. I hope that we learn something miraculous soon.
There may be something of use here.