What Marijuana Isn’t
Although the jury is still out on whether medical marijuana offers real benefits for Parkies (mostly because the U.S. government classifies it as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug, alongside heroin […]
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Medications
Guest Post: Free App to Keep Track of Your PD
A company called My Therapy offers a free app to help you keep track of when you should take your pills, when you have doctor appointments, and how often you’re getting
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New Year? New Drug Regimen!
I visited my neurologist yesterday. In general, she’s pleased as punch that the disease is not progressing, and she adjusted my meds as follows. As before, I’ve included medications prescribed
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Review: “A Man Walks Off His Parkinsonian Symptoms”
A psychiatrist recently suggested I read Chapter 2 of The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontier of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge, MD. Chapter 2 is
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Link: “Senior Wellness Guide – Healthy Aging”
The folks at the online, for-profit Drugwatch (“Our Mission: Keep people safe from potentially harmful drugs, medical devices and procedures by informing them of medical conditions, severe side effects and ways
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Simon Stott: “Where Are We Now With Parkinson’s Research?”
Here’s a great, recent video that addresses the question, “Where are we now with Parkinson’s research?” The author/speaker, Simon Stott, is a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge University, where he focuses
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Daily Marijuana Use *May* Help Parkies
Three articles (click! click! click!) recently reported that people with Parkinson’s disease who smoked medical marijuana daily claimed mostly positive outcomes. In a nutshell: Researchers at Tel Aviv University in
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Review: The Parkinson’s Playbook, by Robert Smith
Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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Coffee – Not the Parkinson’s Panacea Anymore…
In many of my earlier Parking Suns posts (e.g., click!) I reported on research that lauded coffee as a means of slowing Parkinson’s progression. For example, the University of Maryland
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Swimming Q & A
The above picture, showing me swimming laps in the 2nd lane on the left, appeared in the NY Times in March, 2016, in the real estate section’s article and photo spread