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Hi guys. When my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD) I began doing a lot of research. I knew from the offset that the traditional mainstream view of the pathology of PD would most likely be wrong or have major holes in it. As I did my research this became abundantly clear. There was the genetic view, which seems to be the mainstream's default solution to any disease. However, the overwhelming evidence has led to a major pullback of this view. It used to be believed that PD was a genetic disease but now the mainstream view says that about 20% of PD is down to genetics.
Over the past couple of months I have put together a paper of what I believe would be the best treatment options for PD if one is to treat it as a metabolic disorder rather than a genetic disorder. I wrote this because my mother's doctor is a very open minded man who does not follow the mainstream and is very open to new thoughts and ideas. However, instead of just simply recommending certain supplements without evidence and research to back it up, I decided to write this paper to present to him with as much evidence as possible to back up my recommendations. Unfortunately I think that even a doctor as open minded as he is would be reluctant to follow the advice of an untrained individual.
Virtually every single thought, supplement, dietary or lifestyle recommendation that I put into this paper I arrived at from reading these forums. The studies people post and the thoughts they write about, everything in this paper is essentially a compilation of knowledge and data that I either directly or indirectly got from Ray Peat and these forums. I in particular would like to thank @haidut who was unknowingly instrumental in this paper. His prolific posting of studies as well as his own thoughts and discussions has been invaluable. Many of the thoughts conclusions and studies I reach in this paper are directly as a result of things he has posted so THANK YOU. For example, the section in the paper on PUFA is almost lifted verbatim from a posting by haidut. I would also like to thank Danny Roddy, whose Bioenergetic podcasts have also been hugely helpful in expanding my knowledge and helping to write this paper.
My reason for posting this paper is three-fold:
1) First, as a thank you to everyone on these forums who helped make this paper possible, without you I would have never got very far .
2) Second, I want to help anyone else who is interested in the topic of PD. Hopefully this paper will act as a good resource.
3) I want to start a discussion about PD and hopefully improve on what I have written. I am very open to any critiques, criticisms or additions to what I have written.
Formatting
I am not sure how the format of the paper will appear in this forum so I might just post a link to it in a google doc form. There are about 50-60 references throughout the paper in the form of footnotes that are also hyperlinks to the studies that they are referencing. I wrote this paper not with the intention of publishing it, it was written with convenience in mind for whomever was reading it, not to be critically reviewed, so apologies for any sloppiness because of this.
The paper has an index at the beginning that is numbered and color coded. Hopefully this will make it easy for people to navigate.
Any title that is underlined and in blue has a hyperlink to the study
I am going to post the paper in its entirety as well as a link to the paper in google docs format. I'd recommend reading it in the google docs link as it will be easier to navigate and for some reason when I post in the forum the forum does not include the footnotes which is where most of the references are.
Google Docs Link: Parkinson's Disease Paper
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to have a read and thank you to everyone on this forum who made this paper possible.
PDF is attached below:
Over the past couple of months I have put together a paper of what I believe would be the best treatment options for PD if one is to treat it as a metabolic disorder rather than a genetic disorder. I wrote this because my mother's doctor is a very open minded man who does not follow the mainstream and is very open to new thoughts and ideas. However, instead of just simply recommending certain supplements without evidence and research to back it up, I decided to write this paper to present to him with as much evidence as possible to back up my recommendations. Unfortunately I think that even a doctor as open minded as he is would be reluctant to follow the advice of an untrained individual.
Virtually every single thought, supplement, dietary or lifestyle recommendation that I put into this paper I arrived at from reading these forums. The studies people post and the thoughts they write about, everything in this paper is essentially a compilation of knowledge and data that I either directly or indirectly got from Ray Peat and these forums. I in particular would like to thank @haidut who was unknowingly instrumental in this paper. His prolific posting of studies as well as his own thoughts and discussions has been invaluable. Many of the thoughts conclusions and studies I reach in this paper are directly as a result of things he has posted so THANK YOU. For example, the section in the paper on PUFA is almost lifted verbatim from a posting by haidut. I would also like to thank Danny Roddy, whose Bioenergetic podcasts have also been hugely helpful in expanding my knowledge and helping to write this paper.
My reason for posting this paper is three-fold:
1) First, as a thank you to everyone on these forums who helped make this paper possible, without you I would have never got very far .
2) Second, I want to help anyone else who is interested in the topic of PD. Hopefully this paper will act as a good resource.
3) I want to start a discussion about PD and hopefully improve on what I have written. I am very open to any critiques, criticisms or additions to what I have written.
Formatting
I am not sure how the format of the paper will appear in this forum so I might just post a link to it in a google doc form. There are about 50-60 references throughout the paper in the form of footnotes that are also hyperlinks to the studies that they are referencing. I wrote this paper not with the intention of publishing it, it was written with convenience in mind for whomever was reading it, not to be critically reviewed, so apologies for any sloppiness because of this.
The paper has an index at the beginning that is numbered and color coded. Hopefully this will make it easy for people to navigate.
Any title that is underlined and in blue has a hyperlink to the study
I am going to post the paper in its entirety as well as a link to the paper in google docs format. I'd recommend reading it in the google docs link as it will be easier to navigate and for some reason when I post in the forum the forum does not include the footnotes which is where most of the references are.
Google Docs Link: Parkinson's Disease Paper
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to have a read and thank you to everyone on this forum who made this paper possible.
PDF is attached below:
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