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Ray, thanks for this.....it is great and a 'keeper.'
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Mary Ann (CG Jamie 68/28 with PD, died 11/20/07)
www.bentwillowfarm.org

> STRANGE FACTS ABOUT PARKINSON'S DISEASE
>
> Many people in the Pacific island of Guam have developed Parkinson's 
> Disease, due to feasting on flying foxes, a species of bat that can be as 
> big as six feet across. This is because the bats eat cycad seeds which 
> contain a potent neurotoxin.
>
> In 1875, Henri Huchard had a patient that had all of the symptoms of 
> Parkinson's Disease who was only three years old.
>
> In the seventeenth century, Nicholas Culppepper claimed a variety of 
> substances to be useful in the treatment of symptoms of Parkinson's 
> Disease that included "oil of winged ants" and earthworms.
>
> Although it is claimed that Parkinson's Disease becomes more likely with 
> age, amongst the very oldest of people, those between 110 and 120 years 
> old, Parkinson's Disease is virtually unknown.
>
> The Parsi, a Zoroastrian community in Bombay, India have almost the 
> world's highest prevalence of Parkinson's Disease due to the poisoning 
> effects of a ritual in which they burn Aspand seeds in order to rid their 
> children of the Evil Eye - a sickness transmitted by someone who is 
> envious, jealous, or covetous.
>
> Although L-dopa is commonly used to raise L-dopa levels, no other common 
> substance reduces the body's own ability to produce L-dopa more than 
> L-dopa itself.
>
> Anti-cholinergics, used to treat Parkinson's Disease, are found in nature 
> as Deadly Nightshade, a plant that is so poisonous that just one leaf 
> could kill an adult.
>
> Yahya Ibn Sarafyun, a physician in medieval Damascus devised a formulation 
> for treating symptoms of Parkinson's Disease that included frankincense, 
> myrrh and frogs.
>
> People are  much less  likely to  get  Parkinson's Disease  if  they smoke 
> cigarettes,  drink alcohol,  have high cholesterol, and drink too much 
> coffee.
>
> Japan is the only country in the world where there are definitely more 
> women than men with Parkinson's Disease. In Japan, the women with 
> Parkinson's Disease far outnumber the men.
>
> L-dopa, in seed form, was being used in India to treat the symptoms of 
> Parkinson's Disease over 6000 years ago.
>
> Although it is very widely claimed that there is a massive loss of  the 
> brain cells involved  in  Parkinson's Disease, not a single piece of 
> research has ever shown this.
>
> For reasons unknown, Bulgarian Gypsies appear to be almost immune to 
> developing Parkinson's Disease. All other Bulgarians are ten times more 
> likely to get Parkinson's Disease.
>
> James Parkinson, who Parkinson's Disease was named after, never knew that 
> Parkinson's Disease was called Parkinson's Disease.
> There are two films of Adolf Hitler's last public appearance, one that was 
> shown in which he displayed no symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, and 
> another that was purposefully not shown in which he was displaying the 
> symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.
>
> Source: Viartis
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Director AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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