At the author's website (janicehadlock.com), I learned this: "A nearly finished edition of this book is available for free download at pdrecovery.org, where you may download the first 22 chapters." It's not the hard copy of Hadlock's book (Recovery From Parkinson's), but it could be of help to you.
She actually has 3 books that are of particular interest.
1) Recovery From Parkinson's
2) Stuck On Pause
3) Once Upon a Pill
The new edition of Recovery From Parkinson's was released yesterday. It has been heavily revised to incorporate her evolving understanding and to align with the framework of Stuck On Pause.
Stuck On Pause is the one with 22 chapters available. It's addressing the main group of her patients, who have experienced partial but not complete recovery. She realised she needed a different approach and framework with these people.
Once Upon a Pill is a book about her group's experiences with medicated patients. It is fascinating and an important warning. People who are on Parkinson's medication who begin recovering from Parkinson's face a serious risk. Levodopa can be addictive to people who don't have the full illness anymore, and people have had really rough experiences--bad side effects, being over-medicated, but being unable to reduce their dosage. Some people tried to come off levodopa too quickly and they also suffered or failed.
I think Janice Walton-Hadlock is a treasure. Yes, keep your critical thinking cap on, but don't dismiss her stuff out of hand. She knows her stuff, and on a number of things she's ahead of the curve. For example, she'd been saying that some dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra are not dead, but merely turned off. The research from South Korea 8 months ago supports this.
Do you actually know anyone that had 'recovered' in the fashion she claims possible? And I mean personally. Is there anyone who has been dx using the full contemporary suite of criteria who has made any kind of lasting 'recovery'?
What the do the before and after DAT scans look like for these people?
I have spoken to Emmy. She was diagnosed, and her neurologist says she is now symptom free. As I understand it, they were going to do a brain scan in the spring, but this was interrupted by Covid-19.
Hadlock sets red flags off for me all over the place. She attributes a major cause of Parkinson's to foot injuries. Is there anyone who has never stubbed a toe or sprained an ankle? She will not treat anyone who has ever taken Parkinson's meds for more than three weeks. That guarantees she is treating a low symptomatic population where placebo effect can look like a cure and some may have been misdiagnosed.
A doctor that did a workup for me on Parkinsons asked me if I ever had a foot or ankle injury. I never understood why until I read Janice's book. It inspired me to try acupuncture, and psychotherapy, but it did not cure me or actually help in any way. (well, the psychotherapy was valuable anyway because im a bit of a nut!) I must say it is at the very least a wild and interesting theory and a great read. Apparently she has led hundreds of people to a recovery, but where are these people? Im still stuck on pause myself! And I can see that the time in my life and events leading up to my symptoms first appearing coincide with disassociation and fight flight freeze mode activation, but unfortunately, I have not been able to unfreeze as of yet.
Anyone who has a cure or PD would not be flogging books on line, they would be in Stockholm, getting the Nobel prize in Medicine, worth over a million dollars
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