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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 110
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 110
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At least get the facts right !
The suggestion that the dopaminergic neurons is not the primary fault in Parkinson's Disease is the primary fault in the theory. There are a number of causes of Parkinson's Disease and a number of ways it can manifest itself, but insufficient dopaminergic activity is common to all of them.
I certainly don't have, as you have claimed, a simplistic knowledge of the brain. Over a period of more than ten years I wrote up twenty volumes of human biochemistry. This included the structure, reproduction and function of every single cell type in the nervous system, all of which I have detailed in what I have written.
You claim that I have argued that the starting point is after the neurons have been destroyed amd insist that they cannot be reproduced. This is plainly false. I have never suggested this. The cells involved in Parkinson's Disease do not reproduce in adults. However, despite it being widely assumed, there is no published research at all demonstrating that there is massive cell loss in Parkinson's Disease. f-Dopa pet scans don't show loss of cells. They demonstrate a reduction in cell activity.
I have never suggested using a synthetic form of dopamine as you have claimed.
It has not taken forty years and billions of dollars to prove "my" theory, as you have claimed.
Firstly I am nowhere near old enough to have been researching Parkinson's Disease (or anything else) for forty years. Secondly I have never applied for or received any funding, let alone billions of dollars worth. Thirdly, I have not addressed anything on this Thread apart from the theory put forward concerning stress and Parkinson's Disease.
In correction of what you have claimed, I did not recently make an offer to you or other people on this site by giving my e-mail address. My offer was only to Rick as part of a challenge I made to him.
Rick has not listed scientific sources at my request as you have claimed. He has not provided any scientific evidence at all that proves his theory. Scientific fact plainly contradicts it. MY criticisms (apart from whether or not Gypsys are stressed !) have gone completely unanswered. He writes of "neurogenesis" when there is no "neurogenesis" in the dopaminergic neurons.
I have not quoted "Seed Magazine" in support of what I have written as you have claimed.
I have not attempted to prove "my" theory here. I have solely addressed, with scientific evdience, Rick's theory that stress causes Parkinson's Disease. If you carefully read what he has written, you will see that he gave up that claim in response to what I had written.
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