Originally Posted by California Carolyn

My partner had textbook PD-precursor symptoms for five years and none of his five doctors figured it out until the giveaway tremor symptoms began. Your symptoms are not "typical" PD, but you could have "parkinsonism", which doesn't mean much more than saying you have PD (or any other mystery disease like Epstein-Barr, MS, HIV). Western medicine says it "doesn't know" what causes PD (and most of the other neurological diseases), but they now consider it "an autoimmune response" to environmental toxins and other stressors. It would make sense, then, that the medical establishment would address treatment by figuring out how to boost the immune system, right? Wrong-- the MDeities are only interested in treating symptoms and keeping you ill so you are locked into the Big Pharma Drug$ merry-go-round. Integrative medicine practitioners address the causes of disease and attempt to heal the patient using his own immune system, which is under attack by the invading organism (virus, bacteria, cancer, fungus, etc.). If you are looking to take an easy route out, you will not like my answer. You must embrace a lifestyle change that requires education, focus, and dedication. Start with adopting a ketogenic diet (no sugar, dairy, alcohol, or carbs/gluten), take probiotics, and read Dr. Perlmutter's books on healing your gut to heal your body. Get a series of colonics, and a liver/gallblader flush to remove blockages that prevent those powerhouse organs from doing their jobs. Get a book called The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush to see why the liver is critical to immune function. Exercise vigorously 20 minutes or more per day (stationary bike, hula-hooping, ashtanga yoga or qigong-- it doesn't have to be pumping iron or jogging). Meditate, get massages, or learn to reduce stress another way. Stress cripples the immune system. Google GcMAF therapy and read everything you can about it. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter what name they give your malady-- all illness boils down to a failure of our own internal healing mechanism, and any true and lasting remedy will be in support of returning the immune system to peak performance. Good luck to you.