Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action Paperback – March 16, 2021

This book has me literally Shaken up! It's like l have been given the "Red pill" and have been awaken to the truth.This Book is a fantastic, history, Orgin, insights and call to action for the fight to beat, overcome, and finally end Parkinson's Disease. This book has activated the Superpowers within me, and should within all of us to take action and do our part in the battle to end Parkinson's Disease thus saving a part of humanity and thus saving ourselves.If we can have a COVID19 vaccine within a year! If we can Eradicate(Completely destroy) smallpox, polio, and other devastating diseases we can add Parkinson's to the list.The Book - Ending Parkinson's Disease A Prescription for Action.By Ray Dorsey, MD, Todd Sherer PhD, Mica Okun, MD, Bastian R. Bloemfontein, MD, PhD1817 Dr. James Parkinson published "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy". Fifteen years later Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot a famous French Neurologist called the disease Parkinson's disease.Parkinson's disease comes from environmental exposures.Pesticides and Chemicals that are linked to the cause of Parkinson's disease.1. Paraquat - a weed killer, pesticide,2. Maneb - a pesticide.3. Trichloroethylene TCE - used as a cleaning solution for rocket engines to cleaning carpets, to degreasing metal, to being used as a spot cleaning agent in dry cleaning.4. Perchoroethylene PCE - A solvent used by dry cleaners.5. Chlorpyrifos - a nerve toxin, that is the most widely used insecticide in the country. This pesticide is also use on broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cranberry, soybeans, almonds, cotton, grapes, oranges, walnuts, alfalfa, Washington State apples, and on golf courses, lawns, utility Poles, wood fences.Our assignment - is to form a PACT to end Parkinson's disease.P-Prevent the disease in the first place.A-Advocate for resources and policies.C-Care for Everyone affected.T-Treat the condition with new and more effective therapies.We need all pesticides linked to Parkinson's disease banned: the strongest of which is Paraquat. Also Maneb.We can no longer remain ignorant, we must fight the use of these pesticides that contributes to diseases such as parkinson's, autism, lung disease and various cancers.Just as these environmental contaminates can worsen our health and cause diseases including Parkinson's disease. Cleaning up the contaminates can have the reverse effect, preventing diseases and improving all of our lives. Let's get ready to fight!!!

By Gil ThelenAs a health and medical writer, I considered two books to be towering achievements in my lifetime. A third has joined them: “Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription For Action.”“The Emperor All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer” by Siddartha Mukherjee set the standard for depth of research and magnificent storytelling. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was an unmatched call to action about the dangers of pesticides, which spurred the Environmental Movement.“Ending Parkinson’s Disease” is a comprehensive and highly readable account of what’s known-- and suspected--about this astonishingly complex, relentless and mystifying neurological condition. The odds of a person developing Parkinson’s disease over a lifetime are 1 in 15. It is the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease and is overtaking Alzheimer’s for the top spot.That stunning growth curve foreshadows bankruptcy for many health-care systems, said Dr. Michael S. Okun, Executive Director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health, one of the book’s four authors, all PD experts. Dr. Ray Dorsey drove the project. He is joined by Drs. Todd Sherer and Bastiaan R. Bloem.That bleak future can be brightened if the Parkinson’s community organizes and forces changes like those in successful campaigns against polio, HIV and breast cancer. \The book’s “Prescription for Action” is this: “We must form a PACT to end Parkinson’s. This PACT will Prevent the disease, Advocate for policies and resources, Care for all affected and Treat the condition with new and more effective therapies.”“Ending Parkinson’s Disease” (Public Affairs, Hachette, 2020) is a stunning and important work deserving urgent attention from Parkinson’s fighters, their families and health-care policymakers.Gil Thelen, retired President and Publisher of The Tampa Tribune, is a medically trained journalist. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2014. He is author (with wife Struby Thelen) of “Counterpunch: Duking It Out With Parkinson’s.”

I don’t remember where I heard about this book, but it was recommended to me. It is full of great information about Parkinson’s, but it also has extra resources like websites, social media, and organizations that do research and fundraising for Parkinson’s.

One that needs to be read by a lot more people.Kind of a history of Parkinson's .…you'll learn a lot about it. I didn't know that it's really not an "old" problem, and it's getting worse, more common. Quite a bit of treatment discussion.I can believe that exposure to chemicals is a major cause, but I'd never seen that in print before, it's here. I recognized some of the medication names, and learned more about them. Big section of "Call to action" stuff, lots of footnotes and acknowledgements.Worth having if you or someone you know has Parkinson's.