This is all very nice, but now I am going to enter the broken record realm. I am having increasing disbelief that something like mucuna exists, its 'medication' form is approved by the FDA (Zandopa), and has been clearly shown by clinical studies - albeit not explicitly yet in the U.S. -but elsewhere clearly that it seems to ammeliorate the neurotoxicity of current levodopa therapy, and no doctor seems to know about it or mention it??? If they came up with a new dopamine agonist from Merck that accomplished that, we would be all celebrating the new breakthrough.

It makes me not trust the research that is being done. What the heck is going on in this crazy world??? I already know the answer, and I know I'm getting real boring on this one. But it has really made me very cynical about the medical status quo - I'm thinking of dropping it altogether - I can't rely on them for full or accurate info at all....