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Natural Therapies for Parkinson's Disease

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Dr. Laurie Mischley's new book, Natural Therapies for Parkinson's Disease, will provide both information and solace for those with Parkinson's Disease and their families. It's a book for anyone who is not content to treat Parkinson's passively with drugs but who wants a diet and a nutritional regimen that will help slow or even reverse the progression of the disease. It's also an important read if you have someone with Parkinson's in your family, as Mischley's book is as much about prevention as about treatment.

Natural Therapies for Parkinson's Disease is research- and science-based. It contains a long list of references to medical studies that support its claims. Perhaps most important, Dr. Mischley's book is a book to take to your doctor. It's written as a bridge between the medical and naturopathic worlds--to educate both patients and neurologists about a holistic, science-based alternative to purly symptomatic treatment.

Dr. Mischley is the best-known Naturopathic Parkinson's expert in the country. She has given me encouragement that can add years to my life. Her book captures the basics.
She respects the medications prescribed by Movement Disorder Specialists and adds her knowledge of diet, mineral and vitamin supplementation to help slow the progression of Parkinson's Disease. The book is well organized. If you have a problem, such as constipation, nutrition, sleep, or some other symptom of the disease, within seconds you can find her recommendations. Her knowledge is based on solid research and concentrated first-hand work with Parkinson's patients for more than ten years. This is a Must Read.
by Hal Newsom, author of H.O.P.E.

I found this book very informative and easy to understand. Plus,(even though I am a trained herbalist) I found the section on constipation of excellent value with info I hav'nt read before. Also the dietary and supplementary considerations are well thought out and easy to undertake. All in all an excellent book.

Dr. Mischley presents an integrative approach to Parkinson's Disease, a hopeful stew of information about how one might address the disease from perspectives beyond that of conventional medicine. The book is written for people who have relatives with Parkinson's (or as Dr. Mischley calls them, those looking to discourage the disease), for sufferers of Parkinson's who might benefit from additional therapies, and for medical doctors who want to know the scientific rationale for her recommendations. It provides practical suggestions based on more than 80 research papers and Dr. Mischley's many years of work with Parkinson's patients.

Natural Therapies for Parkinson's Disease is an excellent guidebook and an educational reference text. This easy-to-read paperback belongs in the toolkit of anyone associated with this debilitating disease.

This book is a fine reference on supplements and diet factors relating to PD. It basically adds more pills (supplements) to the pills (drugs) your neurologist might prescribe.

It completely ignores non-chemical therapies, such as acupuncture, acupressure, massage, neurofeedback, tai chi, qi gong, yoga, forced-rate bicycling, dancing, LSVT BIG, LSVT LOUD, kayaking, and boxing. Exercise therapies, in particular, are the only suggestions consistently made by neurologists other than drugs, so it is particularly surprising that Mischley doesn't even mention exercise, which is certainly "natural."

She does mention art therapy, which is strange, as it is far less known and studied than many of the other therapies that I have just listed.

At worst, this book is a disservice to PD patients, because it suggests that the only way to deal with PD effectively is to take more pills than your neurologist might prescribe.

This book is full of information about how to use natural remedies to improve your management of parkinson's disease. It includes everthing from vitamins to diet to how to talk to your doctor.

This book is is simplistic and preachy with an anti-Western-medicine bent. The book is not useless; it does provide a decent summary of many of the alternative PD therapies but one can get 90% of the same information free from better public sources and without the "woo-woo". The author should have read Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World". If you are so lazy and so stupid that you cannot do your own reasearch on the internet and you also enjoy being reinforced in your "doctors don't know" beliefs then you will enjoy the book. Otherwise save your money.