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Old 06-02-2012, 08:45 AM
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Things continue to improve across the board. Quickly at first and a little slower now. Some deficit being corrected?

Speculation: Laura has mentioned that she and I have a problem with potassium refusing to stay where it should. When insulin goes up, potassium and glucose are independently moved from serum/blood into the cell. This potassium shift disrupts the electrical charges that allow our neurons to "fire" and results in a temporary paralysis. This is all powered by a system of tiny pumps moving electrically charged particles "uphill" across the cell wall to build the charge which can then be released or fired as needed.

Given that insulin plays such a role for many of us I can't help but wonder if Laura and I could be at one end of a spectrum where our cells have a strong "thirst" for something (potassium?) that they can't get, at least not until the creatine increases the ATP supply (the energy source for the pumps). The conventional wisdom is that it makes your muscles look bigger because it causes water to be moved into the cells which "plumps them up." Kind of a stupid reason from an evolutionary standpoint.

But what if something else is moving with that water and some hidden imbalance is being corrected?

Just thinking.....
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Born in 1953, 1st symptoms and misdiagnosed as essential tremor in 1992. Dx with PD in 2000.
Currently (2011) taking 200/50 Sinemet CR 8 times a day + 10/100 Sinemet 3 times a day. Functional 90% of waking day but fragile. Failure at exercise but still trying. Constantly experimenting. Beta blocker and ACE inhibitor at present. Currently (01/2013) taking ldopa/carbadopa 200/50 CR six times a day + 10/100 form 3 times daily. Functional 90% of day. Update 04/2013: L/C 200/50 8x; Beta Blocker; ACE Inhib; Ginger; Turmeric; Creatine; Magnesium; Potassium. Doing well.
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