Michael posts earlier that he is not aware of any therapy to slow or halt PD progression. I believe there is a therapy, it is an off-label drug, naltrexone LDN, taken at a low dose. I have been taking LDN for 31 months now and do not appear to have progressed. Granted I do take low levels of Sinemet and Mirapex so I can't say for certain LDN works as claimed. Besides the many anecdotal claims from the MS community on LDN, there are studies from the NIH showing how naloxone and other opioid receptor antagonists like naltrexone and dextromethorphan can protect the brain from disease causing neuro-inflamation. LDN is a relatively cheap drug with low side effects, the drug companies can't make any money from it. For MS, they would much rather sell the very expensive CRAB drugs that have serious side effects and not do the expensive clinical trials to show if LDN is effective or not. I won't know for years maybe if LDN works for my PD, but it's worth doing if only for my peace of mind. LDN is worth a look, I can post more info if anyone is interested. Regards, Ashley

Michael post:
"This seems to be such an individualized disease that it will be practically impossible to cure unless each of us is involved in the process of determining what caused its onset in us. The very fact that this disease is a PROGRESIVE DEGENERATIVE disease indicates to me that whatever caused it to begin with is still there creeping its way through our brains. So far, I have not read any proposed therapies that address this possibility. If this is the case, then time is NOT on our side, and the future does not look pretty. If I am ultimately responsible for my own health, then I must be actively engaged in the attempt to restore that health."

http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/index.htm
http://skipspharmacy.com/ldn.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
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