Ivan, I have read all that so many of your true friends have said to you today. I wondered if anyone as I am had any right to make a comment as I do not really know you, nor do I have pd, nor am I connected directly with anyone who does have parkinsons. I read what your friend said about his beliefs and what you responded to your pwp friends' concerns. I know you are a scientist and I would hope that now above all times that you could fall back on your training and think about what he claims. I can not speak for some of his claims to help your medical condition, but to cure this specific illnesses my response is disbelief. I know that he can not do what he claims if it includes neurological illnesses as pd or ms or als or any of the myraid similar other ones. He does not have the ability to prevent them either unless he is the next Christ. I have family members who have ms and one who has died from als. If it is about belief in oneself and in an inate goodness my cousin Ronda has both that and is in advanced ms too. I would give her any or all of my jewelery stones to put in her bath to do anything with if it helped and it would do nothing except give her wrinkles and a rash from the various types of bath prepartations. I have a KUNZITE stone set in a ring Ivan it is lovely and I am fond of it too. I have most of the stones he mentions, but I know they have no medical value, they are only ornaments to be worn or admired. I respect your right to have hope for a cure or relief, but I think that false hope fills us some times. All one needs to do is to look at old copper mines filled with the faithful who want to believe arthritis is cured by paying to sit there. I wonder if we aren't all wishing so hard for some magic that we miss the process of living. No one was ever promised a good life only that we would live how ever long it is. I do not profess to believe in a here after either, but if there is one, I know that all of you must qualify. Who else has the pain that you face : who else has the will to survive? I know there will be a prevention for pd and I know there will be a cure, this I can promise you all . This is the reality that we all can accept can't we? *seattle* audrey friend of pwp aussie John 49/42/38?