Regeneration of lost neurons - Another glimpse of hope ?

[Xenos]

Here it is :

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

[JohnPepper]

Hi Xenos. May I ask you why scientists go to all this trouble to find a pill to repair or replace damaged Glial cells?

We already have a natural protein in the brain called GDNF. I don't have to remind you that GDNF means Glial Derived Neuroltrophic Factor. Neurotrophic means nerve repair. That means that glial cells produce their own growth factor which repairs or replaces those Glial cells,

I think the problem is that scientists are not looking for ways of naturally producing GDNF, which dos not put money into the pockets of the drug companies, they have to look for something that has to be taken in pill form.

From personal experience, I have found that FAST WALKING obviously produces new GDNF, which has repaired my damaged Glial cells and I have reversed most of my Pd symptoms. If I stop doing the fast walking then my Pd gets worse.

Many Pd patients are either unable or unwilling to do fast walking. I am convinced that if the medical profession were to encourage their patients to do fast walking, many more patients would do it. After all, who really wants to become unable to move or talk?

[Moniek50 in reply to JohnPepper]

John how long , and fast, and how often we need to walk. For recovery ?

[JohnPepper in reply to Moniek50]

Hi Moniek. It is recommended that you walk every second day, as fast as you can but not at the speed where you are unable to talk. If you can talk normally then you are mot walking fast enough.

The distance is not important it is the speed at which you walk that causes the brain to produce the GDNF.

When you start the fast walking you must warm up first and then when ready to start, you walk as fast as you can for as long as you can. If it is only for five minutes then that is fine. Stay at that time for two weeks and then try to go for longer, but never more than five minutes longer. When you reach one hour you stick at that and continue to walk faster and faster. At 84 I can still walk at 7 kilometres an hour. (Only just)

[Moniek50 in reply to JohnPepper]

Net perfect John, thank you 👍

[Rhyothemis in reply to JohnPepper]

It's great that you've found a way to control your PD. However, the article is about a regenerative therapy that converts glial cells to neurons in order to replace neurons that have already been lost. The therapy could have the potential to treat many types of neurodegenerative conditions or brain injuries, even at more advanced stages. Surely this is a laudable goal.

[JohnPepper in reply to Rhyothemis]

Glial cells are neurons. They produce GDNF in the area of the brain that has been damaged by Pd. The 'Fight or Flight' condition causes the brain to do that.

[20fatcats in reply to JohnPepper]

I have freezing of legs and stalling . Is it ok to fast walk still or can it cause more falls initialy

[JohnPepper in reply to 20fatcats]

If you first learn how to use your conscious brain to control your walking you will no longer freeze or stall. Contact me on reverseparkinsons.net and I will GIVE you all the information about that and plenty more. Start the process of betting better!

[Xenos in reply to JohnPepper]

Hi John,

This could be quite a different way to replace lost (?) neurons.

In the meantime, your method is welcome. I often think of your interventions when fast walking (6 km/h) on my gym's treadmill...

I back Moniek questions in this thread though : how long, how fast, how many times a week do you think is necessary for recovery ?