"'e's getting better!"

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"'e's getting better!"

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64401274
A few months after his diagnosis, Scott decided he didn't want the disease to "dominate" his life, and sought advice online from other people with Parkinson's.

"The advice you get is to learn something new which stimulates the brain - like knitting, for example," he explained.

"This gets your brain functions up and running which is really important. Also, to get physically strong and fit."

Scott wanted to combine these two aspects and find something which was both physically and cognitively challenging at the same time.

So he took up CrossFit, a conditioning and strengthening programme encapsulating a range of workouts designed to improve mobility, strength and flexibility.

After years of battling the disease with physical activity, cognitive exercise and diet, Scott said he is now "symptom free".
Hmm well I genuinely don't know if that's possible.
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Pyrrho wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:59 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64401274
A few months after his diagnosis, Scott decided he didn't want the disease to "dominate" his life, and sought advice online from other people with Parkinson's.

"The advice you get is to learn something new which stimulates the brain - like knitting, for example," he explained.

"This gets your brain functions up and running which is really important. Also, to get physically strong and fit."

Scott wanted to combine these two aspects and find something which was both physically and cognitively challenging at the same time.

So he took up CrossFit, a conditioning and strengthening programme encapsulating a range of workouts designed to improve mobility, strength and flexibility.

After years of battling the disease with physical activity, cognitive exercise and diet, Scott said he is now "symptom free".
Hmm well I genuinely don't know if that's possible.
Well, even his Neurologist disagrees with him.
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https://www.crossfit.com/essentials/par ... holy-grail

“This case is hugely significant,” they said in response. “We’ve never seen anybody reverse Parkinson’s symptoms; to our knowledge, it’s never been reported in the Western world.”

Easing symptoms is not the same as reversing them. Exercise 'n' good livin' is documented as as being a help to sufferers. As it is with alot of other things. Nonetheless, regular exercise and a healthy diet may be affecting an underlying condition that was contributing to the Parkinson's symptoms. Also, the article kinda weasles around whether Hanley is on any other medication. Only that Levidopa did not work. Apparently.

Good luck to him.
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Also Parkinson's is not a singular entity in that everyone has the same signs and symptoms. The tremor is not actually as common as people assume and textbooks describe. I will spare the list, but some are more amenable to physical therapy and exercise than others.

He is not regrowing dopaminergic neurons in his Substantia nigra.







In the brain.

– J.D.
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Doctor X wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:02 pm
He is not regrowing dopaminergic neurons in his Substantia nigra.

– J.D.
There you go again, making up medical conditions and applying it to something that doesn't exist.