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Val Archer wrote: > The bottom line of healing with living foods (that is, foods that > are still growing when we eat them, e.g. sprouted beans and baby > greens) is to try it ourselves - Please will you try the recipe > for a month? What happens in one month will be deceptive. I am sure that many people with Parkinson's disease will "feel" better in even less than one month after changing to this diet. But this would not be due to the "healing" effect of the diet, but for two other reasons. First, there is the placebo effect. Are you familiar with this? Second, changes in diet which involve a reduction in protein can produce noticible changes in PD symptoms because dietary protein competes with levodopa, the principle PD medication, getting to the brain. The symptoms are not the disease. One can experience a reduction in symptoms of Parkinson's disease due to a change in diet or a reduction in stress, but this does not mean that the underlying disease mechanism has been influenced. Parkinson's disease is the result of the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons over a long time period. You have to lose 70-80% of them before symptoms are noticible. Differences in symptoms due to a loss of these neurons are not noticible in one month, nor, were this process to be delayed or even reversed by diet, would this difference be noticible in one month. > Dr. Wigmore devoted her life to healing very sick people, using > living foods - she specialized in cancer... Her methods work. I > am a living testimony to that. She saved my life. If you were cured of cancer by this diet, wonderful. But you do not demonstrate any knowledge of Parkinson's disease, which has quite a different pathology. Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 61/dx 1990