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Rick, What product did you use when you flea bombed your band house? I can trace my PD onset back to incidents when I flea bombed my house 2X. I believe I used D-Con. David >From: Rick McGirr <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc >Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:00:06 -0400 > >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 >Email: [log in to unmask] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mary Ann Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >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) >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >>mailto:[log in to unmask] >>In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn