Manual Transmission
Learning to regulate your medication is not that different than learning to drive a stick shift.
Part logical, part intuitive, and part of it depends on the car.
Some of you have cars that are relatively easy to drive, others have classics that require a special touch or ritual.
Love-Hate Relationship
Most people would be completely incapacitated if not for this cheap, easy, convenient, accessible amino acid. Because of our ready access to l-dopa, people with Parkinson can not only move, they have less anxiety, muscle pain, and apathy.
Still, when it wears out -- which it does every few hours for most people -- people's physical, emotional, and cognitive lives come to a screeching halt.
It's annoying to live with it. But because of it, you are able to live fully.
How Wide is Your Road?
For some people with Parkinson's, learning how to optimize your medication is like learning to drive on a narrow road. Learn how to detect the curbs before you go off the road.
Dose is a Small Part
Too often people only use dose adjustments to adjust their medication. Learn how other variables contribute and what other options you have.
Villi Flattening
You might take the correct dose of medication on the correct schedule, but are your intestines in good enough shape to appropriately absorb the medication?
Dr. Laurie K Mischley
Laurie Mischley, ND PhD MPH studied naturopathic medicine (ND) at Bastyr University and epidemiology (MPH) and nutritional sciences (PhD) at the University of Washington and she maintains appointments at both Universities. Her work is focused on identifying the nutritional requirements unique to individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and has published on coenzyme Q10, lithium, NAD+, and glutathione deficiency (www.lauriemischley.com). She is Principal Investigator of the Modifiable Variables in Parkinsonism (MVP) Study (MVP-study.com), which is attempting to describe why some people with PD progress slower than others. She is working on ways to study, package and deliver evidence-based lifestyle modification as a therapeutic strategy. She founded the Parkinson Center for Pragmatic Research (www.parkinson-cpr.com) and the canine scent-based PD screening tool, ParK-9 (www.Park-9.com), developed a patient-reported outcome measure to assess PD severity (www.PD-symptoms.com), built the Parkinson Symptom Tracking (PRO-PD) App, and is instructor of the online series, Parkinson School.ed on nutrition and neurological health of patients with Parkinsonism.
Seminar Series Highlights
These are some of the most commonly watched courses in the Seminar Series.
