Maybe people go to non conventional therapies, as aminoacid therapy, (which is not so novel, because it uses Levadopa anyway), because traditional PD treatments give patients no hope. My husband was diagnosed when he was 46, he is now 53, and he stopped Levadopa+carbidopa after taking it for 3,5 years. After a time with no Levadopa, nearly a year, he is now close to start Hinz protocol, we are simply trying to find a doctor here in Spain (or in UK) who can treat him.

I think it is not to difficult to understand that getting a relieve on your simptoms for 5-7 years and after having a life sentence of feeling worse each day, on-off effect, dyskinesia, bradikynesia, or even tachyphylaxis(to which he would get for sure due to his age), plus depression and several more problems is not a bright future. If conventional treatments were solving the problem this forum wouldn's exist, in the same way there is not a forum for people who broke their leg, you get a plaster, your bones patch up and you forget about it because traditional medicine has the perfect solution for it.

You constantly speak as if traditional treatments had the solution for the problem, but actually they don't. Whay they offer as a "solution" is really a patch, a blotch, something which will only work for few years. If you are 85 when you are diagnosed PD it may be OK, you don't need to think too much about it, but if you are 46, obviously you don't want to have 7 good years and after 30 terrible years. Therefore following a theraphy which has been developed by a doctor, not by a healer or a quack seems quite reasonable.