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^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) Ivan Suzman 49/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 64 deg. F :-) ******************************************************************** Hello again, folks, Here's a thought, ESPECIALLY if you have discovered that you need extra SUGAR at times: PD is caused by lowered dopamine. Dopamine breaks down to adrenaline; so I wonder if dopamine deficiency in PWP's means lowered adrenaline in those PWP's, too. Adrenaline, meanwhile, inhibits insulin. So, I also wonder if lowered adrenaline could leave insulin production less regulated, resulting in excessive insulin in PWP's. Raised insulin lowers blood sugar. Could this explain a PWP's need for sugary foods and sweets, which we often talk about here on this list, to compensate? "Hypoglycemia" is low blood sugar. A neurologist I talked to says that lowered blood sugar symptoms--shaking muscles, cold sweat, exhaustion, tremor -- are very similar to lowered dopamine symptoms that appear either before dose, or with end of dose off-periods of PWP's . One last thought for now --does lowered adrenaline give you that BLAH feeling (no motiviation to do anything because you just DON'T have the energy? Ivan Suzman