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Another day of heat and humidity! No respite in sight! Have a C&M class tomorrow--the next to last one before the move. It was cool this morning but heated up as the day went by. Triple digits for most of the inner areas--the heat goes on! Still muggy even now!

Ran across a blog by a man in Florida regarding his bout with PD. He states that over a three-month period in the Spring of 2010, he managed to get rid of his symptoms and issues associated with the illness. He did so without medication using a holistic approach that involved Qigong and other TCM techniques, vegetarian diet, some exercise, and adoption of a few other complementary regimens. He mentions the people over in Santa Cruz (PD Recovery) and their use of FSR (forceless spontaneous release). These are the people I worked with for the first two years of being diagnosed.

It's incredible that he was able to disappear his symptoms in so short a time. He has been doing seminars around the country that focus on what he terms his "recipe" for working with the diagnosis and the effects. Much of what he suggest makes a lot of sense. For example, he says he treated his symptoms as electrical imbalances and not chemical imbalances. That makes sense when looking at DBS implants that are successful--they either work or they don't irrespective of the medications being taken. In fact, many DBS subjects reduce their medication levels once the DBS device is in place. I can see parallels with his ideas and what I've experienced by doing a lot of physical activity. My symptoms and their progression seem to be a lot less than others in my classes.

Perhaps, once I am in my new location I can look into altering my regimen so that it aligns more closely to his recipe. Have nothing to lose--and much to gain. And he mentions that he ingests caffeine every day to help him with stiffness and soreness--he is a regular SB customer (as I have become to get my daily green tea latte or Frappuccino). Today was a great Frap day--to counteract the heat!

Also got a link to a report about using sleep too heal. It's like what they do to keep people with brain injuries stable by putting them in a coma. Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care.