Rick, Good point re your family history Mother with ET etc. I know so many families where while one or more has P.D. a parent or offspring has a neurological disorder like Alzheimers or Multiple Sclerosis.
Is it due to sharing DNA, exposure to a toxic substance?.... interesting.
Lee
Rick McGirr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I think both viewpoints below are correct. To think of my mom, who
still has her wits about her at 90, bounding across a savannah, well,
it would make a good cartoon. Modern life allows the survival of
folks, even when they have trouble getting around, like Mom. And I
think my mom's input and her example have kept the family alive and
thriving. These days natural selection favors those animals with
access to health care.
I think they might discover that PD comes from a bad gene, that the
bad gene was due to something in the parents' environment somewhere,
between the original chicken/egg and now, and that the disease is
triggered by unnatural things in the offspring's environment.
My mom has essential tremor, my son has Tourette's, and I'm sitting
pretty in the middle with PD. Is there a single gene that we share?
What could my mom or her parents have been exposed to? You never
know. Abraham Lincoln took mercury pills for his melancholia. I was
exposed to the residue of pesticide immediately after we flea-bombed
our band house long ago, multiple times. Three, I think.
Enjoy Fall!
Rick McGirr
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ann Ryan"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc
> .
> Joe wrote:
> I'm not discounting Natural Selection or the idea that the older you
> are the
> more likely you will be sick but I don't think Nature acts to
> deliberately
> weed out the old in order to make room for offspring, indeed one
> theory is
> that having older members of a tribe around, especially
> grandmothers, leads
> to higher survival rates for the children
> -------------
> On the contrary, the well understood process of aging in humans
> points to
> the actual breaking down of the body. Anyone who has watched a
> person reach
> their 80s (and beyond) will notice that weight is lost, the appetite
> decreases, movement slows, bones become brittle and the immune
> system fails.
> Slowly, nature insures that the elderly will be eliminated.
>
> While it is true that grandmothers were essential for the success of
> the
> human race (watched the kids while mom and dad sought food for the
> tribe),
> please keep in mind that those grandmothers were probably in their
> late
> thirties and forties. It was extremely rare for grandma to reach 80
> way
> back when moving quickly through the savanna was essential in order
> not to
> be eaten.
>
> PD is certainly another way that the body breaks down. The big
> question
> is....why and how does the disease occur?
> ---------
> God bless
> Mary Ann (CG Jamie 66/26 with PD)
>
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