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Qigong and Parkinson’s

Qigong and Parkinson’s

I am committed to a wellness model…I especially am exploring qigong at least 2 hrs/day for the past 10 mo.

I would like to titrate off of my daily 5 to 6 Sinemets (25/100mg) as well as my 1 mg of Azilect. I have limited myself to 4 Sinemets/day the last three. So far, OK.
Also it seems to me that there are stores of dopamine in the body as I take my last sinemet at 6:30, sleep from 11 pm ’til about 4 am. I do about 90 min of Qigong and feel the most normal. What’s perplexing is that I can feel so good after about ten hours of last sinemet???? Are you aware of why this occurs? …when the 1/2 life, I believe is abou 90 minutes.???? I am grateful for your sharing of what has worked for others.

Blessings, John

Hi John:

Congratulations on your incredible wellness program! Hooray I say!

The thinking about the medication in your question focuses on the effects of medications independent of any other interventions or therapies the person is doing. Your body naturally makes dopamine when you practice  Qigong. This is why  our ancestors practiced Qigong  for thousands of years! It is a tried and true therapy to be sure. I suspect that you are able to take less medication because your body is able to manufacture more of it naturally.

My suggestion for you is to watch my discussion below on the causes of Parkinson’s disease symptoms. As a researcher I have concluded that the causes are many and multi-faceted. If the intent is to suppress symptoms, flooding the body with more dopamine is the standard,tried and true  approach that works more often than not. If you are interested in healing from the inside out, the focus turns on a very different journey to discover and treat the causes.

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Do I Go Another Route?

My husband has had Parkinsons for 9 years. We first went with the medicine route. It slowly got to the point where every new symptom was given one or two more medicines. He was talking so many medicines that at one point all he was doing was sleeping and wanting to end it all.

Let me know if you need to know all the meds he was on.

I consulted a naturopath who helped us begin supplements and a doctor who helped us wean my husband off the meds very slowly. He has been off the meds for about 5 months now.

The naturopath assured me that getting off the meds would be the answer, but that has not been the case.

He has been going a gradual decline and has taken a turn for the worse.

He cannot walk or bathe without help, his arms become extremely rigid and stiff, where I can hardly move them, and his whole body shakes (like a seizure). He is also having problems swallowing. His mind, however, remains sharp and clear.

He is becoming emotional and said today that he just couldn’t take much more of this.

I don’t know what to do now nor do I know where or to whom I need to go. He cannot live this way.

Do I put him back on the meds? Do I go another route? There are so many wonderful treatments I have read up on, but money is a key issue.

Please help.

Debbie

Hi Debbie:

The recovery process involves difficult choices day in and day out. The road to recovery entails ups and downs. It is never a smooth ride. Healing from the inside out does usually involves letting deep emotions release. From you question above it sounds like this is what is happening and is actually a good thing to surface. When the focus of treatment is on suppressing the symptoms with medications and supplements, emotions are suppressed too. For the body to heal, the trapped trauma and emotions have to be felt and best of all released.

A wild guess on my part is that he has accumulated toxins in the tissues and lymph that are obstructing his mobility and creating restrictions in the body. Toxins in gall bladder and liver can be problematic in this regard. If he is not moving his  body, the toxins will have no way of moving through the lymph that is designed to carry the bad stuff out of the body. One of my Seven Secrets to Healing is to get the bad stuff out of the body first. Talk with your naturopath about this possibility.

From your question “Do I put him back on the meds” it sounds like you are in control of his recovery process.   My suggestion for you will probably be a surprise. Let him be in complete charge of decisions regarding his recovery. He is obviously a competent, smart man. He can and will figure it out. Watch my youtube video on the critical importance of taking control over the recovery process:

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Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

Should I Get a Datscan?

Dear Dr. Rodgers, I have just listened to your radio programs like 5 of them. Got your large book…halfway through.

You are my hero. I am totally alternative…never really do meds. pills, drugs unless I am very sick, which is rarely.

Have in the last year developed symptoms like right hand tremor…lower jaw tremor…stiffness in knees…balance issues and the odd thing called ‘frozen’. So went to a neurologist and said it was essential tremors. Then for a 2nd opinion, I went to the head of the Movement Disorder Dept at Cedars Sinai here in Los Angeles. He said he suspected PD however, to make sure, he wants me to take the DaTscan test with radioactive iodine iv…

So…my question…after listening to you…do I take the test, or just continue learning about the symptoms, and work with all these modalities, including a consult with you… to become symptom free? The test is in 2 weeks. I have to cancel like in a day or two. I’m sure the doc will want me to go on those dopa meds. I’d be a dopa to take them honestly, which to me are a nightmare. What you say resonates with me as the TRUTH!! So do I need the test?

Thank you, and blessings…Marsha 

Hi Marsha:

Thanks for the kind words about the work I do through Parkinsons Recovery. They certainly made my day!

I have two reactions for you to consider. First, when it comes to making decisions like having medical diagnostic tests or taking prescription medications, I believe you and only you can make this determination. It doesn’t matter what I or anyone else thinks or might advise. Why do I say this? The most important factor in the recovery process is to take full control over every decision you make. What does your own intuition tell you?

Second, I suggest you may have asked the wrong question. I believe the issue sorts on a choice. Do you want to suppress the symptoms through medications (whether they are prescription medications or herbs), do you want to find the cause of the symptoms and treat the cause, or do you want to pursue both strategies? If you decide to take the prescription medications, you will have to tie up with a neurologist or other medical doctor who will need to do a diagnosis. That is the reason for the test that is suggested. Doctors cannot prescribe medications until they have a diagnosis. Some prefer to require a number of tests to confirm the diagnosis. Keep in mind that in the end, any diagnosis is the opinion of one person, so many people like to get second and third opinions – which has been your strategy too!

Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

 

How to Reduce Medication Dosage

“how do I wean myself off medications with out a doctor?”

The question for how to reduce medication dosage was submitted through My Q&A system available on the main blog at www.parkinsonsrecovery.com. Your doctor prescribed the medications for you in the first place, so you will have to involve them in the process of weaning yourself off of them. The weaning process can take some time, so you will more than likely need your doctor to continue prescribing the medications even though you have made a conscious choice to reduce the dosage.

Many people find reducing the dose very difficult, especially when the reduction that is attempted is to aggressive. Serious side effects can result under such circumstances. The best practice is to reduce the dose gradually and slowly. Give your body plenty of time to adjust to the change.

I think it is always a wise move to involve a compounding pharmacist in helping reduce the dose. They can make medicines that have slightly less in them and monitor how your are doing with the reduction, They will also correspond with your doctor to advise them of the status of your plan to reduce the dosage.

I think it is a smart move to take control of your own recovery plan. Hopefully, your doctor will be supportive of your decision. The people who succeed in their recovery have a full appreciation of the importance of taking full control over their recovery.

Robert Rodgers PhD
Founder 2004
Parkinsons Recovery
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

 

Causes of Parkinsons Disease

There are many factors that can potentially be the causes of Parkinsons disease. Once you discover the root causes, you are in a position to focus attention on healing the problems that cause the symptoms.

The is a good probability that the causes are toxins or infections or trauma or entanglements in family systems (or some combination of these possibilities). What follows is an email I received from Chris who succeeded in identifying a Lyme infection as the cause of his symptoms. His story is a victory we can all celebrate. Chris is truly a pioneer of recovery.

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Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

Robert,

I wanted to give you and update. I am now a little over a month in treatment of my Lyme disease. My tremors have decreased a great deal but have not stopped. However the tremors are the only symptoms that still exist. I am no longer stiff and arm swing has returned. Simple tests like tapping my fingers shows that my right side has the same speed as the left. This was not true before, the right side was significantly slower.

I FEEL BETTER.

Last week I stopped feeling tired after the Bicilin shots. We believe the spirilia die off has stopped, meaning we have decimated the bacteria that causes the Lyme.

I start Clear Mind Neurofeedback therapy next week to start rebuilding the lost neurons from the attack of the disease.

I am going to continue the bicilin shots for another three weeks along with vitamin IV’s once a week. I am also detoxing heavy metals.

The bottom line is that it will take some time and patience to recover fully but I am making strong headway.

Chris

What is the Difference between Bioenergetic Testing and a Standard Medical Test?

Click on the purple arrow to hear Naturopathic doctor  Ivy Faber, ND, answer my question to her on the Parkinsons Recovery Radio show:

What is the Difference between Bioenergetic Testing and a Standard Medical Test?

what is the difference between bioenergetic testing and a standard medical test

Jumpstart

“I have just listened to “Jumpstart”. May I first encourage you to run that “2015 Jumpstart for Australia”; I’ll be the first to sign up.

More important still, I believe you touched on the dominant reason people do not have faith in their ability to recover and take control of their well being.

It is that first, damning “trauma” that accompanies every diagnosis of any form of Parkinson-ism; the inevitable statement in one form or another;

“It is degenerative and incurable, you won’t die of it but you will die with it”

I was diagnosed 5 years ago and have had definite success “following my instinct” in a number of ways; including visiting Dr Walton-Hadlock in Santa Cruz, “medical” QiGong, acupuncture and, not-so-simple-with-tremors, meditation.

It is my certain experience that each advance is reversed by the perpetual “echo” of that statement that I have now heard from three eminent neurologists and read in almost every book and website …”degenerative and incurable”.

You probably know there is a hospital in Putney, UK, that was established in the 19th century to treat neurological diseases. It was called “The Hospital for Incurables” until 1995 when enlightenment struck. The detrimental and counter-productiveness of that name was acknowledged and the name was changed.

Imagine being admitted under the archway emblazoned with with the original name – your “inevitable” fate.

Yet 20 years later no such enlightenment has struck amongst “Parkinson’s Specialists”, the very professionals whose hospital was re-named in recognition of the self-fulfilling damnation of the categorization “Incurable”.

I write in hope that you, a man of influence in the realms of this horrible, life denying disease, be inspired to arouse your multitude of followers, the “patient advocate and support organizations and those medical professionals aware of the values of “alternative” cures and self-motivation, in a campaign to cease and revoke the terms “degenerative and incurable”.

It is 20 years since UK’s “Hospital for Incurables” was renamed “Hospital for Neurological Dis-abilities” . Surely time to bring enlightenment to the neurological establishment by a campaign presenting the facts and recognizing the dreadful harm and hopelessness these terms impose on their patients.

In gratitude for your work.”

Sincerely,

Ian

Intoxication with Heavy Metals as a Possible Cause of Parkinsons

I have been blogging for years about the role intoxication with heavy metals plays in causing symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. One of the Seven Secrets to Healing is to get the “bad stuff” out of your body before pouring any “good stuff” in. Veterinarian Hanne Koplev’s story posted below is a compelling confirmation of how intoxication with heavy metals crashes the neurological system. Better yet, purging the heavy metals has a profound impact on reverse the symptoms.

Dr. Koplev sent me a picture of her to post which says everything about her own recovery from symptoms associated with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

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Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

 

Unorthodox Approach

Hi Robert,

I like your approach. I have had success with an unorthodox approach using reiki, qigong, painting and a lot of intuition and research found out that I have massive amounts of copper and an excess of mercury. Although I am still registered as having PD I am on a 5 month detox with intravenous vitamin C and glutiathone 2 hours every second week and taking metalcaptase. I’ve had a brain scan and at least five experts confirm that I have PD. Then how can it be that I end up taking medicine for Wilson’s Disease? (Rhetorical question).

Warm regards

Rick

TMJ treatment for Parkinsons Disease

On a Parkinsons Recovery radio show I aired four years ago Cheryl heralded a TMJ treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that offered her welcome relief from her Parkinson’s symptoms. For a little background on where this story starts – listen to this radio show by click on the link below:

John, a listener of the Parkinsons Recovery Radio Show, recently asked Cheryl for an update on her current situation. I have her permission to post her email response to John which follows:

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Seven Secrets to Healing

I guess you want to know if I am living Parkinson’s free, (among other things). Let me address this question first.. The short answer is : No, I’m not, unfortunately…Which is what I was hoping for – aren’t we all?

That being said.. There is a success story attached to that NO answer….

Sorry to be so confusing John. It’s kind of strange John.. But I would highly recommend getting an appliance especially if you were diagnosed within the last 5 years!!.. I am still better then anyone else I know who is living with Parkinsons.. My Neurologist at
UCLA can’t believe how little meds I take, how well I move, etc.. He says people living with Parkinson’s for 15 years , like I have, are all doing so much worse..

That being said: I have had lasting improvements, that I attribute to the TMJ treatment for Parkinsons Disease. For example: I can brush my teeth manually. I can put a sandwich in a baggie and have improved penmanship to name a few things off the top of my head.

That being said. I fall down – a lot- and I have tremors in my legs, that I never had 6 months ago. So I can tell the disease is marching on….

The bottom line is: it’s worth it!!! I still advocate for everyone in the Parkinsons community to get an appliance.. It’s not a cure but it definitely, definitely helps And it helps with out side effects. It also heals you today!! There is no waiting for clinical trials. And it’s immediate.. google Dr Brendon Stacks DDS in Virginia. Watch the videos… The appliance is real and it does work… I guess I was just hoping for more…but if the way I am is all I can get, well as I said.. I am still better of then if I had never used it.

Your friend in the trenches,

Cheryl

PS: I still wear my appliance, albeit not as often as what I should.

Amino Acid Therapy

What you will see below is an email about amino acid therapy I received yesterday that I have permission to post here. It is always exciting to hear news of people who are have good success on the road to recovery.

Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

 I found a holistic neurologist in NYC – Christian Enescu. He put me on a program called targeted amino acid therapy. I am using prescription supplements by a company called CHK. There is a Hinz protocol which I think is similar and is one of the original amino acid therapy treatments. It required going cold turkey off all meds.

This is day 23 and I see a big light at the end of the tunnel. In the beginning I crashed. It was a VERY DIFFICULT time. Slowly started to feel better. I am almost at the point where I was before I started the program- which was mild symptoms (because they were being controlled by meds). This is working for me. This is HUGE! I fully expect to feel completely normal again soon.

Kathie

How to Transform the Energy Field Around a Person

Speaking practically, how can the energy field around a person be cleansed of obstructions and distortions? When the energy field is transformed, less force is required to transport it.

Think of transformation as a cleansing of the field of energy that encapsulates the
object. In its natural state, the field of energy around any entity is contaminated with distortions in the form of blockages or discordant frequencies. When distortions of any form are removed and cleared, the energy field is purified. This paves the way for less physical resistance.

Put simply, when you purify the field of energy it is easy to move a heavy object long distances.  And, when the field of energy around a person is purified, it is much easier for them to move as well.

All humans have energy fields that are distorted to one degree or another unless a conscious effort is made to cleanse them.  Traumas and toxins are the usual culprits. They will always distort an energy field to one extent or another. It is helpful to adopt a practice of purifying our own energy fields as we are continually exposed to toxins and traumas that distort them. If there are too many distortions field, a person will inevitably get sick.

The focus of my step by step guide for how to transform the energy field of a person applies to a person. The same principle can be applied to transforming the weight of a heavy boulder. Once you experience the energy field transformation yourself, it is easy to see how the Egyptians built those amazing pyramids so many thousands of years ago.

Step by Step Instructions on How to Transform the Energy Field Around a Person

Mechanisms for transforming the energy field of living entities will differ from innate objects. This demonstration focuses on the transformation of the energy field around a person.

Five participants are needed for this demonstration. Follow the steps below.

  1. Recruit four volunteers in addition to yourself.
  2. Ask one of the volunteers to sit in a chair placed in an open space.
  3. Have the four other volunteers (including yourself) stand around the person sitting in the chair. They will form a square facing one another. One person faces the back of the person sitting in the chair. The second person faces the front of the person in the chair. The other two persons face each side of the person sitting in the chair, respectively.
  4. The initial challenge to the persons standing around the person sitting in the chair is to lift them using only two fingers. Now this is a challenge which for all practical purposes is impossible even for people with large muscles.  Have the four persons standing around the person who is seated clasp their hands together with their two pointing fingers from each hand outstretched and pointing forward. Have the four volunteers attempt to lift the person sitting in the chair using only their two pointing fingers by placing their point fingers as follows.

Ask the persons standing in the back and front of the seated person to place their pointing fingers under one of the arm pits of the seated person. Ask persons standing at their side to place their pointing fingers under a knee. That is, the person standing on the left side places their pointing fingers under the left knee. The person standing on their right side places their pointing fingers under the right knee.

On a count of three, ask all four persons to see if they can lift the seated person off of their chair. Of course, they will be unable to accomplish this challenge using their two pointing fingers only. Be sure no one strains to lift the person off the chair as this challenge will be impossible. The idea here is to experience the force that is required for four persons to lift a seated person with their pointing fingers within a field of energy that has not been transformed.

5. Now it is time to transform the energy field which will make lifting the person easy.

One of the four persons standing – it does not matter which one – starts by placing their right hand on the head of the person who is seated. The person standing to their left places their right hand on top of the hand already positioned. There are now two hands on top of the head of the seated person. The third person standing places their right hand on the hand of the second person. The fourth person then places their hand on top of the third hand already in position. In other words, go around the circle of the people who are standing from one person to the next as they place their right hands on top of each other. There should now be four hands on the head of the seated person which are at right angles.

Continue the process by placing the left hands of the persons who are standing on top of the head of the person who is seated. Proceed placing left hands (going around the circle) on top of the hands already placed on the head of the person who is sitting. There are now eight hands on the top of the head of the seated person that form right angles to one another. Leave the eight hands in position for 30 seconds or longer.

6. Without pausing and on the count of three, ask the four volunteers who are standing around the person who is seated to quickly remove their hands off the head, clasp their hands with their pointing finger extended and place their pointing fingers under an arm pit or knee just as they did before.

The field of energy has only been transformed for a short period, so it is critical to act quickly. With as little pause as possible, ask everyone to lift the person again just as they did before the field was transformed. If done quickly enough the seated person can now be lifted off the chair into the air, unlike before. It sometimes takes a little practice so that no one is delaying too long to place their fingers in position for lifting. With a little practice the ease with which the seated person can be lifted off the chair in an energy field that has been transformed will be obvious to everyone.

When you transform the energy field, objects (and in our demonstration people) become lighter and much easier to move (or lift). Less power and effort is needed to send an object in motion or, as in the example above, lift a person off of a chair. When transformation of the energy field is complete, less force and power is required. And, of course, this means that less energy is required.

Most people with mobility challenges view the problem as one that has been created by physical limitations. The challenges with mobility that are imposed by an energy field that has not been cleansed and cleared are, in my opinion, formidable and overlooked by most people.  When the energy field around a person is purified, mobility becomes less problematic. It is far easier to move a human body that has been cleansed of contaminants whether they be toxins or trauma.

Permanent transformations of the energy field require ongoing interventions. Temporary transformations are possible with the demonstration I have outlined above. I will discuss the architecture needed for permanent transformations of energy fields in a description soon to be posted.

Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease
Seven Secrets of Healing

 

How did the Egyptians Build the Pyramids?

Various theories have been proposed about how did the Egyptians built the pyramids. Similar theories can be found for how the Romans moved boulders weighing one thousand tons. The word in the previous sentence is correct: tons, not pounds! Theories
in both cases suggest that the heavy objects were moved by a clever configuration of ramps, slides and elevated pathways that were lubricated to reduce friction and facilitate movement.

It is logical to conclude that heavy boulders could have been dragged on level ground on top of sleds connected to long ropes pulled by hundreds of laborers and animals. It would have been easier to pull sleds over long distances on flat surfaces which were lubricated. Such a technology would have been slow ad laborious but it would eventually have succeeded in transporting the heavy boulders to the pyramid sites.

It is also logical to conclude that ramps or sleds could have been constructed to lift the heavy boulders to the lower levels of the pyramid. As I see it, is not not logical or practical to believe that the boulders could have been moved to the top of the pyramids by human strength using mechanical assists of any configuration however clever. No theorist has ever suggested that humans living thousands of years ago had one hundred times the strength of humans living today.

I have no doubt but that the evidence scholars have unearthed regarding ramps and other configurations were used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans to construct their monuments. But a transformation of the heavy weights involved would have been necessary to move the heavy objects to the highest levels of the pyramids. The weight of the boulders had to be reduced at least temporarily for the force of human muscle power to succeed in lifting them to the top or pyramids. You can only fit so many human bodies near the top of a tall pyramid. At the top of the pyramids heavy lifting would have to have often been exerted from below the boulders as they were pushed up rather than pulled up. There was no place to stand above the highest point.

What do I theorize the Egyptians did to move those heavy boulders to the tops of the pyramids? They temporarily transformed the energy fields of each boulder before they moved them. A heavy object such as a boulder can become much lighter temporarily when its energy field is cleansed. Once transformed, an energy cocoon of sorts engulfs the heavy object, making it 50 times lighter to lift. The capacity of human muscle power becomes sufficient to elevate the heavy objects even against the force of gravity. The field of gravity is not altered. Rather, the immediate field connected to the heavy object is cleared of distortions and energetic blockages.

I admit it – this all sounds rather wild and theoretically implausible. You are probably thinking that the Egyptians did not have the sophisticated technology we have today. Of course they did not have computers or cranes but they did not need them. I believe they
succeeded in transforming the energy fields of the boulders using as few as four laborers.

Instead of reading about how an energy field can be transformed I will introduce a step by step explanation for how this can be accomplished in my next post. You are invited to experience the transformation yourself. To do so you will need to recruit four friends to assist with the experiment. The demonstration involves lifting a person by once their energy field is cleared.

My line of reasoning has a direct and profound connection to what is needed to reverse the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Stick with me on this one. You will not be disappointed.

Robert Rodgers PhD
Road to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

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