Here is a good article about the Hinz amino acid therapy for PD. I am just starting it myself with high hopes. BTW, the website mentioned is not as good as www.neurosciencemyths.com

http://www.brainandbodywellnesscente...ns-article.pdf

Thank you for the info. Good lead.

I emailed them. Lynn

Hi GerryW - Thanks for sharing the info. Are Dr. Stein and Dr. Hinz related? Which one's therapy you are attending? I will ask my movement disorder specialist about the therapy at the end of this month when I have a scheduled appointment. Meanwhile I wish this works for you, and brings hope for many of us...

The two doctors collaborate and publish papers together. I see Dr. Kalish
www.drkalish.com in Sonoma, California, but we do everything by phone and mail which is very convenient.

Thanks for the kind wishes. I have tried many approaches and this appears to be my last stop before turning myself over to conventional therapy.

Hi Gerry,

I was wondering if you could update us on how the amino acid therapy fared for you? I recently talked with a person who has PD for 17 years and is doing remarkably well on the therapy. However, I have some doubts about it working for everyone, and I still suspect that over time a person would still develop ons/offs and dyskinesia if they were on any conventional drugs prior to starting this more natural approach.

If you could share your experience with us, that would be great!

Thanks,

Laura

Hi Laura

I continue to do well on it. I used to have tremors, dystonias and fasciculations but now I don't. On the other hand, walking is a little worse, I think. Some things come and go like orthostatic hypotension.

I don't have off times or dyskinesias or other side effects. It's only been four years since diagnosis, though. Eating definitely hinders the effect, however, which is not supposed to happen. I am consulting about that.

Dr. HInz has put all his PD patients on 300 mg per day of vitamin B6. That makes me a bit concerned. We'll see how it goes. http://new.neurosciencemyths.com/?page_id=1208

Also on the negative side, they have raised the price of the supplements that were not cheap before!

Take care,
Gerry

Gerry.... are you using the P5P form? or the inactive pyridoxine?

People on other high dose B6 now a days use the P5P form, so the dose can be lowered quite a bit if you do.

Yes, I am using the P5P form but they didn't tell me to lower the dose. I will ask them again. Thanks!

Here is an interesting case study from practitioners who use the Hinz protocol.


http://www.bbwca.com/parkinsons-case-study/

Gerry, I looked at the site and it's very interesting; however, when I click on the link posted in the website that is supposed to take me to the paper about the carbidopa/PD death rate which was peer-reviewed and published Sept. 2014, I get a "file not found" page.

Do you have a link you can share so we can access and read that paper? Thanks