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Understanding Lewy Body Dementia

Lewy body dementia is a type of progressive dementia that is characterized by abnormal protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, in the brain. These protein deposits can lead to a decline…

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Do Mucuna Pruriens work for Parkinson’s?

As the author of the Parkinson’s Warrior series of books, I have been asked countless times as to whether the mucuna pruriens plant is useful for treating Parkinson’s. Let’s take…

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Fighting Through the Isolation

As we all know, times have recently gotten tough… for everyone. No matter if you’re a person with Parkinson’s living in the UK, the US, or anywhere else in the…

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Work is extra stressful with Parkinson's

Is Revealing My Parkinson’s Diagnosis Career Suicide?

When I was diagnosed with Young-Onset Parkinson’s Disease in 2011 at age 33, I was full-swing into my career as a media studies professor in California. Up until that point,…

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Does CBD Really Work for Parkinson’s?

There has been a lot of excitement around the possibility of using CBD – the non-high-inducing other half of marijuana – as a natural treatment for Parkinson’s. People with Parkinson’s…

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