CHAPTER 2. WE ARE LIVING A PARKINSON'S "PANDEMIC" BECAUSE OF A SICK AND UNHEALTHY SOCIETY...

[parkinsonshereandnow]

"It is not healthy to be well adapted to a profoundly sick society."

Krishnamurti

"And I believe that a multiplicity of hospitals is not proof of civilisation but rather a symptom of decadence".

Mohandas Gandhi

"Sooner or later, Nature is sure to take revenge for all that men do against her"

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

We are optimistic in looking for and seeing solutions, but we are also realistic in showing the catastrophe we live in. Sticking our heads in a hole like an ostrich does not solve anything. There is a gulf between the official world and the daily reality of millions of sick people. How could it be that we don't get sick in this society? But it is still possible to find many weapons against Parkinson's disease. The first step to regain a realistic, certain hope is to get the transformative information to wake up from this Matrix.

1. What is happening without embellishment.

"The worst mistake is to always do the same thing and expect different results."

Albert Einstein

In the last decades the number of Parkinson's patients has doubled (Dorsey 2007, 2018). We are optimistic in looking for and seeing solutions, but we are also realistic in showing the catastrophe we are living through. In no chapter as in this one have I felt the vertigo of looking into the abyss. And never have I had to make such an effort not to fall into the Maesltrom of despair, thus preventing me from finding the reasons for hope, which are many and more powerful than Parkinson's itself and everything that feeds it. It is not only the numbers of sufferers that are terrifying and will become more so if we continue to do the same, but the society that makes it possible. And it seems asleep... or worse, anaesthetised. So I think it is necessary to expose what is happening but to warn first that we have within our reach very powerful antidotes, even capable of preventing, slowing down, significantly alleviating and reversing, healing or curing all that we know as Parkinson's disease.

Copy from my book "The Cure for Parkinson's: Do We Already Know What It Takes to Checkmate the Disease?" (2022).

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2. Genes or toxins?

Can everything be explained by inherited genes or can much of what we call Parkinson's be explained by aluminium, heavy metals, pesticides and herbicides, junk additives in our food, vitamin deficiencies affecting DNA, etc.? The use of rotenone by Pan-Montojo and his team in 2010 to produce experimental parkinsonism in mice came as a shock to many, as rotenone was a permitted pesticide for organic crops. Autopsies of Parkinson's patients show significant accumulations of aluminium in key regions of the brain. Aluminium, cadmium, mercury, produce many of the disorders seen in Parkinson's and dementia (including Alzheimer's), both in the mitochondria of neurons and in regions of the brain.Aluminium and heavy metals. Manganese prevents or hinders the hydroxylation of tyrosine into dopa (precursor, basis of dopamine). One of the first sources of study were the Parkinsonisms of manganese miners in Chile in 1810. Even the so-called "manganic insanity". Aluminium is a neurotoxic mineral and related to Parkinson's disease. It has been found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients up to 30 times more than in healthy people and impairs more than 30 essential brain functions. Not only is there an excess of aluminium in today's world, but also a lack of magnesium (impoverished fertilisers, food refining, etc.). It is present in drinking water, in tablets against stomach acidity, in kitchen utensils, etc. There is an aluminium encephalopathy in dialysis which is reversed with deferoxamine (Arze 1981). Magnesium and turmeric are chelators, scavengers of aluminium (Laabdar 2016).Pesticides and herbicides.Detoxification of heavy metals, pesticides and other toxics (analysis, sauna, chelators, etc.) is given more importance in the most advanced countries in terms of health. Paraquat, maneb, rotenone, produce damage very similar to that seen in autopsies of the brains of Parkinsonians. They are used for animal studies. And some in combination are even more dangerous.This crisis we are experiencing is not the product of chance or of an explanation as simplistic and reductionist as the ageing of the population that Parkinson's was already present in ancient Egypt or in India and China millennia ago. Leaving aside the fact that the elderly population is not given vitamins as is done in some countries such as the Nordic countries... Vitamin D3, C, an adequate multivitamin, magnesium...The deterioration of natural ageing is confused with a deterioration aggravated by multiple deficiencies (vitamin C, D, zinc, selenium, magnesium...) and an unnatural lifestyle, which leads to the development of diseases when the levels of melatonin, coenzyme Q10 or glutathione are very low. Aggressions are successful when neuroprotective defences are very low (fifth and sixth decades of human life). However, when the aggressive factor is very strong and/or the defences are weakened by genes or deficiencies, Parkinson's disease manifests itself much earlier.

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3. Professor Dorsey's call to action.

Professor Dorsey, from the Division of Neurology at the Rochester School of Medicine in the United States, warned us in 2007: in the coming decades the number of Parkinson's cases will increase twofold (by 2030) and threefold (2050) if we don't do something. And now it warns us twice more in 2018. It publishes two studies, supported by two well-known neurologists, Dr. Michael Okun and Dr. Bastiaan Bloem.From 1990 to 2015, the number of Parkinson's cases has doubled. In 25 years we have twice as many cases. No matter how much the data is "tortured" on the rack of Statistical Science applied to scientific studies, we all realise that what was rare in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, is becoming more frequent: cases of juvenile and early onset Parkinson's are already almost 20%. These figures are not due to ageing and the genes remain the same. Without going into conspiratorial explanations about the profits of the big pharmaceutical and chemical companies (the biggest taboo), I like better the explanation that the colossal size of the machinery generated by the world of Parkinson's (thousands of researchers, medical specialists, funds, human and material means like no other disease ever had, except perhaps Alzheimer's, cancer and AIDS), makes decisions and changes almost impossible to make or so slow that they take generations of sufferers. Today the decision to introduce levodopa as it was done in 1970 would be a thousand times more difficult. Let's leave it there.Now the famous alpha-synuclein is back on the table. Tomorrow it will be homocysteine caused by genes and the design of drugs to change the functioning of those genes. What about vitamins B6, B9 and B12, recommended by famous neurologists and supported by dozens of studies?I don't care whether the statistical deviations support something or not, or whether the causal relationship can be proven and it is not just an association. Or reverse causality. All I care about is that there is a chance that it is beneficial and does no harm to the sick, or less harm than current drugs. If it does no harm, let's try it: green tea polyphenols (Levites, Mandel), vitamin B2 (Coimbra, McCormick), coenzyme Q10 (Beal, Shults), alpha-lipoic (Araujo)....We must not let the same thing happen to us as with cholesterol and saturated fats in relation to cardiovascular disease. 60 years of "certainties" without any scientific basis, as they have recently dared to acknowledge at a European Congress of Cardiological Societies (2017).Professor Dorsey says that we are living a real "PANDEMIA", although it is not an infectious disease, AND he is right. He warns of the drama in which we live and in the face of which we seem inactive.While the public and AIDS patients woke up and fought back (I will not go into that terrible story), the world of Parkinson's seems to be asleep. Many of us call on all actors in the Parkinson's drama to wake up before we are forced to do so. History will judge us with immense harshness for what we are doing... and not doing.

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4. Not an elephant but a herd in the Parkinson's room.

Many researchers started with questions that filled me with hope (magnesium, homocysteine, oxidation, neuroinflammation, pesticides, EGCG from green tea) and then moved on to genes, alpha-synuclein, etc. Often very interesting studies that were underfunded were terminated, bucking the trend and shifting to studies where there was no lack of funding. If the world of Parkinson's continues to depend on what can be published (under the current draconian requirements) and patented, what needs to change will never change. Professor Dorsey and Dr Bloem have stepped forward and warned us. And they have published a "call to action". What I am saying is not akin to overturning the board on which the game of chess has been played for 60 years, but to rethinking whether it is necessary to follow the established rules so strictly. If it would not be convenient to open the world of Parkinson's disease to vitamins, phytochemicals, probiotics, amino acids, etc. And to nutritionists, internists and gastroenterologists. Right now I think we need more "History of Parkinson's" and its treatments (something like a meta-analysis of where we are going and who benefits), more synthesis work, more simplification of the irreducible complexity into which the world of Parkinson's has entered - in my opinion, of course. And make decisions now: on homocysteine control, on the use of neuroprotectants, on correcting deficiencies in vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, etc.

Where are we going? Where are they taking us?

[7springshollow]

I was and still am very healthy aside from my Parkinson's. I got lots of fresh air and exercise. Are all home made foods, organic when possible and when I started feeling bad I went to the Dr I had had for the last 9 years and he thought I was a new patient because I had never been to see him .

[Smittybear7]

where can I get the book?