Medicine is only beginning to recognize the role of stress in life. Yet it is probably the primary force in PD. So many of us have gone through hell that we should have our own gate. It is a factor in our lives; it kicked off our symptoms and can hasten our decline; it played a big role in our pre-PD years all the way back to the womb; maternal stress formed us; and if that weren't enough, the suffering of our maternal ancestors at the hands of our paternal against the backdrop of societal indifference still echoes in our ears.

The physical component of all this is a complex structure like some fantastic tinker toy construct except that the wooden hubs of our childhood are not fixed but instead are free to slide in response to our environment. But they slide only one way and are devilishly hard to move back to where they were. It makes perfect sense from a survival standpoint - If the danger was great enough to shift things around then prudence dictates that we err on the side of caution.

Unfortunately this multi-dimensional time cube evolved in a jungle where terror erupted quickly and was over before you knew it. Acute stress. Shove one of these sliding tinker toys and quickly release it and it slides back. Just fifty years before Dr. P's infamous pamphlet, the Industrial Revolution brought chronic stress - the tinker toy was shoved and held in place until the warpage took old.

We were not allowed to reset even between generations. Insult was passed down through epigenetic and social memories - preserved in the complex structures that we are. We are the canaries in the mine.