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My mother's side of the family is teeming with neurological disorders & cancer. She had cancer, high BP, trigeminal neuralgia, her younger brother epilepsy, two younger sisters, one bi-polar, one Alzheimer's, father Parkinson's, mother ovarian and breast cancer, me ovarian cancer and Parkinson's. Her older brother, still living and working at 93 escaped all the bad genes. Isn't it through the mother's side that one inherits the bad stuff? The only thing is we are hard to kill. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Wu" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:18 PM Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc > 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 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > ----- 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) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn