REVERSING PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Dr George Ackerman, founder of Together For Sharon, a Parkinson’s awareness organisation, was gracious enough to interview me for his...
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pdfree
- May 7
- 3 min
SEMI RETIREMENT
As my 81st birthday approaches in June 2024, I have spent time considering plans for my remaining years. It has become clear that I can...
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pdfree
- Apr 16
- 2 min
WORLD PARKINSON'S RECOVERY DAY
On this first World Parkinson’s RECOVERY Day, we can begin a broad and open discussion of the real needs of those diagnosed, moving...
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pdfree
- Apr 8
- 3 min
PARKINSON'S RECOVERY AWARENESS MONTH
PARKINSON’S RECOVERY AWARENESS MONTH April is nominated as Parkinson’s Awareness Month, and media is inundated with posts, blogs,...
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pdfree
- Nov 27, 2023
- 1 min
PODCAST
Here is a link to a podcast I recently recorded. This may be of interest for those diagnosed with Parkinson’s and/or those practitioners...
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pdfree
- Sep 7, 2023
- 8 min
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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