Lindy,

You may want to look at Dr. Wahl's book "Minding My Mitochondria"- I have posted about this before so you can search the forum and read my prior post(s) about this. She has/had MS and is in remission. Call it a cure, whatever, but she is no longer wheelchair bound and rides her bike 5 miles each way to work every day. I'd call that a cure, or good enough for one.

If you have other auto-immune issues, how could trying to follow her diet not help? I say try, because it is hard. Lots of shopping for fresh veggies and fruits, peeling, chopping, etc. Her recommendation is 9 cups day and that is a lot! Not much room for anything else in the tummy, but that's her point.

But besides the excellent recipes and meal plan suggestion, she gives a really good explanation of what our mitochondria do and need in order to function optimally. Also what foods provide those micronutrients as well as some supplements, although she by far prefers food as sources for what the body needs. As more and more research points out the involvement of the mitochondria in diseases like PD, it only makes sense to try and help those little fellas out!

She has an excellent analogy towards the end of her book which is along the lines of: your body is on fire. You can take meds and such to help reduce the flames, but as long as you keep pouring gas on that fire by eating foods that cause or encourage inflammation (and I would add, IMHO, stress), you're never going to beat that fire down. Makes total sense to me.

Good luck with the flames.

The book is pricey, yes, at about $32.00 USD, but I keep going back to it and learning things even though I've now "read" it three times!