Man Who Recovered Using Meditation was on Terazosin?

[Bolt_Upright]

Corrected (thanks park_bear), this guy was meditating, not using QiGong.

So no sooner than I post about Meditation Guy (again), I'm re-reading the article (was surprised he was in Massachusetts) and see he was diagnosed with PD in 2000 and was on all the medications and and was recovered by 2013. In 2014 they did a bunch of scans to see if the initial diagnosis was wrong.

This is what just caught my eye:

The patient underwent a SPECT DaT scan in 2014 to clarify the accuracy of the initial PD diagnosis, which was assessed clinically by a radiologist as abnormal.

His only medications at this time were alendronate, terazosin, ASA, and calcium; these medications do not interfere with SPECT DaT results.

No, "terazosin" does not interfere with scans. Yes "terazosin" is being bandied about as a possible PD cure. What a small world!

A potential case of remission of Parkinson’s disease mindandculture.org/wordpres...

[Xenos]

Very good point ! ,,,

[park_bear]

Terazosin may have helped but I would not credit it with full remission.

Not Qigong - centering prayer:

"The patient meditates for at least 30 minutes daily using a practice called “centering prayer”, which he learned during his brief time as a postulate in a Franciscan monastery, 37 years ago. In this technique, he focuses his mind on a single religious word to reach a meditative state. He states that he feels less “PD-like” when he meditates so he began to reinvest energy in his meditation practice after his PD onset....

"Recently, Pickut et al. found that, using MPRAGE scans, PD patients who participated in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program exhibited significantly increased striatal grey matter density [20]. The authors pointed out that, as the striatum is a target for dopaminergic therapy in PD, this increase in striatal grey matter density could manifest physically as symptomatic relief [20]. One fMRI study found that cerebral blood flow was higher in the putamen of long-term meditators than in non-meditators [21] "