Best Quotes About Parkinson's

"Now in Parkinson's disease, there is destruction of the neurons within the substantia which causes a decrease in dopamine."

"I'm a caretaker to my father who has Parkinson's."

"Nutrition is critical to managing Parkinson's symptoms and trying to slow down progression of our condition."

"...a deeper metabolic view of Parkinson's...as a disorder of widespread mitochondria dysfunction throughout the whole body."

"Parkinson's is not just a movement disorder. It's a multi system thing affecting lots and lots of different systems in the body."

"Non-motor symptoms are often poorly recognized by healthcare professionals as being part of Parkinson's."

"Levodopa helps with bradykinesia, rigidity, and stiffness."

"Carbidopa prevents the breakdown of levodopa before it reaches the brain."

"The best evidence for slowing the progression of Parkinson's is really exercise."

"This was the worst possible card I could have been dealt," is what Jim said. "I could already see my future crumble, see myself being pushed around in a wheelchair by my wife, drooling."

"...and generally, it produced an ability to forget that you had Parkinson's, which I think is a lovely one to finish with."

"...exercise can slow progression of Parkinson's. So do it, do it, do it."

"It's very possible to live well with Parkinson's for many years."

"Our job as providers, in a world where we currently do not have a cure for Parkinson's, is not to help you be rid of the Parkinson's, but make sure it's manageable for you, make sure that you recognize that there are ways in which we can actually improve your quality of life."

"Exercise is a critical tool for people with Parkinson's to manage their symptoms."

"That's the best thing we can do with Parkinson's."

"Research published in My Page Today found that marijuana ease tremors and improved fine motor skills in patients with Parkinson's disease, I am not lying, it says it right there."

"So anyway that I wrote a whole book on add adhd and so forth after I cured my Parkinson's."

"The reason clinical trials have failed is because we assume that a therapy we have with marvellously wonderful data on safety and efficacy in mice models of Parkinson's will apply to everyone with Parkinson's."

"Boxers leave their Parkinson's at the door."

"The earlier recognition of Parkinson's could help us treat people at a symptomatic level early and that's always important."

"I came out on Facebook because I'm doing Parkinson's advocacy."

"If anyone was going to get Parkinson's, I'm glad it was you."

"...this has so far shown sensational reliability in detecting Parkinson's."

"Parkinson's does require individual care day-to-day so that we can provide the best intervention for yourselves."

"Parkinson's is limited movement, arrhythmic, frozen expression, low energy."

"The more coffee one drinks, the less chance of getting Parkinson's or Alzheimer's."

"Exercise... they feel so much stronger and they feel in better control with their Parkinson's symptoms."

"PD is the poster child for the mind-body connection."

"Parkinson's progression is also partly dictated by the age at which the motor symptoms started."

"In early Parkinson's, when people only have mild symptoms, generally the Parkinson's medication can be taken just two or three times a day."

"Exercise is the very best thing that you could possibly be doing for your Parkinson's symptoms."

"Parkinson's generally makes you smaller and slower... we want to retrain your brain to be big and fast."

"If you understand this graph, then you understand how Parkinson's works."

"Parkinson's disease, for some reason cells deep in the brain start to die off."

"Exercise is the best thing we can do with Parkinson's."

"Deep brain stimulation... replaces the job of the dopamine transmitter to give a more level control of symptoms throughout the day."

"There's actually a thing called pedaling for Parkinson's where if you move your legs very, very fast... it's showing a significant improvement on Parkinson's symptoms."

"Intent is the key to managing Parkinson's; it's what makes Parkinson's livable."

"So intent is so powerful for people with Parkinson's because we already know how to do it; we've been doing it all our lives."

"We have a comprehensive movement disorder center here which takes a more holistic approach to treating Parkinson's."

"By the time you have Parkinson's symptoms, sixty to eighty percent of your brain cells that produce dopamine have been damaged."

"Psychosis in a patient with Parkinson's is our diagnosis."

"Clozapine is the best drug for patients with Parkinson's that have psychosis."

"It helps people who have Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's."

"I'm running for Parkinson's UK, so if you want to support me."

"There are days that I don't even think about having Parkinson's."

"You don't have to look at Parkinson's as the end."

"Parkinson's should have a rating for each one of the areas of your body that's affected, not just 30."

"Parkinson's may have affected my body, but it hasn't affected my mind."

"Think of Parkinson as a lifetime disease... over the life you have different symptoms and different windows."

"Sleep is a very important problem for people with Parkinson's."

"The lemon peel contains compounds proven to be effective relief for some types of brain disorders such as Parkinson's."

"We see people improving things like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to a degree because now they flood their brain with beta-Hydroxybutyrate instead of glucose."

Parkinson's Quotes