Will:
Errrrrr.... what flavor do the strings come in? <giggling> (and ducking &
running)
Barb Mallut
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From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf
of will johnston
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 1996 10:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
Subject: Re: Two ideas:
At 12:22 AM 12/19/96 -0500, you wrote:
>While reading some of the posts here, two ideas came to me, please feel
>free to discuss, amplify or tell me they are worthless, but MAYBE one or
>the other could help with PD.
>Idea one: why can't sinemet be put into extra thick capsules, and be
>taken at one time during the day, some capsules could be twice as thick,
>some three times, to ensure they melt hours later and distribute the
>contents..
>
To no. 1.
Your stomach & other innards process contents too rapidly. Ldopa is
absorbed almost entirely in the first few feet of the small intestine. If
one tied a string on it and pulled it up part way every hour, it might
work. Sounded good but, alas..
2 If radiation can be beamed into the brain without incisions, to treat
>cancer, why not do the same, to perform a non-invasive palidotomy?? I am
>willing to take any criticism, but if thee is merit to either idea,
>please someone, get it into the right place to become useful!
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>[OO] LOOKING FOR RADIOS!
>Ken Becker
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