Do you have the right doctor?

[bepo]

The bottom line for all those with chronic diseases, including Parkinson's, is that we have to be our own doctors. No one knows our bodies better than we do. It is up to us to educate the doctors. I recently did that with our doctor by telling him the positive results we have already seen with B1. He needed to be aware of this so he could help other PD patients. I sent him the abstracts and other information. He's very interested. If your doctor doesn't listen to you, find another doctor!

[pvw2]

My Neurologist encourages this. He emphasized the importance of exercise. He educated me that antioxidants were important, not just dopamine; the glutathione produced in exercise, not just endorphins. He encouraged supplements, but also mention a patient who controlled her PD completely by nature means through fava beans. He encouraged me to continue to study about PD.

One of the main things I've seen is different PD patients responded differently to treatment probably because the cause of their PD is different. This has confounded trials for possible cures and show the weakness of inducing PD in rats (the same cause), getting a positive response with the rats, then getting no correlation with human PD patients. Apparently, analysts are now conscious of this in trials for PD cures (plural because there likely isn't a single cure for all PD).