IGNORED, REJECTED, RIDICULED.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being...
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pdfree
- Sep 4
- 1 min
A TV STORY FROM 2015
This is a typical TV Current Affairs story from 2015. Much of the story is inadequate or inaccurate, but it does give some glimpses of my...
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pdfree
- Jun 14
- 1 min
PODCAST - A PATIENT STORY
Here is a podcast presented by the wonderful Daniel Baden in his series “A Patient Story”. This is a discussion of my story of recovery...
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pdfree
- Jun 12
- 2 min
BUCKET LIST
Now that I am about to celebrate my 80th birthday (in six days), I figure it’s time to develop a bucket list. Number one is always the...
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pdfree
- Jun 6
- 3 min
JOHN'S RECOVERY FROM PARKINSON'S
JOHN COLEMAN Recovery from stage 4 Parkinson’s and early stage MSA Many people on many forums have asked what I did to recover from stage...
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pdfree
- May 10
- 3 min
14 THINGS I HAVE LEARNT ON MY JOURNEY
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Parkinson’s (UPDRS 127) and Early-Stage Multisystem Atrophy in 1995 at 52 years of age. I pursued many...
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pdfree
- Apr 7
- 5 min
PARKINSON'S AWARENESS MONTH
Parkinson’s disease is considered, in conservative medical circles, to be a disease of dopamine deficiency. To date, there has been...
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pdfree
- Feb 6
- 4 min
SUPPRESS, CONTROL OR RECOVER
Abbreviations: WAM = Western Allopathic Medicine; CAM = Complementary/Alternative Medicine. Whenever we are faced with any sort of...
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pdfree
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min
SO YOU'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Diagnosis (from the Oxford Dictionary online): 1. the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of...
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pdfree
- Sep 7, 2022
- 7 min
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Why Do We Do Research? Why do we do or support medical and health research? What is the objective of spending large amounts of money,...
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pdfree
- Jul 26, 2022
- 8 min
FOUR PILLARS
Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence In today’s Western societies, it is assumed that all medical strategies, treatment and...
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pdfree
- Jun 17, 2022
- 4 min
POLYPHARMACY. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Polypharmacy may not be a word you use or hear every day, but everybody who regularly takes more than one pharmaceutical medicine is a...
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pdfree
- Jun 3, 2022
- 4 min
IF STRESS IS THE PROBLEM, WHAT CAUSES STRESS?
There is no doubt that stress responses in our body can cause or exacerbate symptoms of illness. There is also little doubt that over...
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pdfree
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
A DISAPPOINTING APRIL
April was Parkinson’s Awareness Month (PAM) across the world. As I interact with many Parkinson’s groups, I waited, with baited breathe,...
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pdfree
- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
PATHWAYS TO PARKINSON’S & WORLD PARKINSON’S DAY
April 2022 is Parkinson’s Awareness Month and Monday April 11th has been selected as World Parkinson’s Day. Once again, I have received a...
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pdfree
- Mar 10, 2022
- 3 min
START WITH THE CAUSES
Parkinson’s disease is considered by most medical practitioners to be “idiopathic” – that is of no known cause. Despite well over a...
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pdfree
- Jan 12, 2022
- 3 min
PINK1
Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI) have been able to show the function of protein, PINK1, in...
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pdfree
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
THE TREE
We had a wonderful Eucalyptus nicholii tree in our front garden. It was over 20 metres high (60 feet), spread its boughs nearly as wide,...
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pdfree
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT “RETHINKING PARKINSON’S DISEASE”.
I’ve been recommending the book to others too. I really think it’s such a significant piece of work with the potential to help so many...
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