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GUT INSTINCT perhaps its time to change the focus

We’re all familiar with the term “gut feeling”. As it turns out, the term may be more apt than we realize. In recent years, research has increasingly identified the role the gut can have on mood and behavior, leading many scientists to refer to the gut as the “second brain”. Now, for the first time, researchers have found conclusive evidence that conditions such as anxiety can originate in the gut instead of the brain.

http://www.tbyil.com/Anxiety_in_the_Gut.htm

Wait for it…Oh dear its pooh well thats what the guts about I guess,I like the humour interjection in this snippet  read on and smile.

I’m not making this up.

A few years ago, John Gillies had trouble picking up his grandchild. He would stand frozen, waiting for his Parkinson’s disease to relinquish its hold and allow him to move. Then in May 2008, Gillies was given antibiotics to treat constipation, and astonishingly his Parkinson’s symptoms abated. What on earth was going on?

Thomas Borody , a gastroenterologist at the Centre for Digestive Diseases < http://www.cdd.com.au/ > in New South Wales, Australia, put Gillies on antibiotics because he had found that constipation can be caused by an infection of the colon. “He has now been seen by two neurologists, who cannot detect classic Parkinson’s disease symptoms any more,” says Borody.

Borody’s observations, together with others, suggest that many conditions, from Parkinson’s to metabolic disorders such as obesity,might be caused by undesirable changes in the microbes of the gut. If that is true, it might be possible to alleviate symptoms withantibiotics, or even faecal transplants < http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827911.100-taboo-transplant-how
-new-poo-defeats-superbugs.html > using donor faeces to restore the bowel flora to a healthy state.

Yes.  Poop transplants.

To test a possible link between the gut and Parkinson’s disease, Borody and neurologist David Rosen of the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Sydney are embarking on a pilot study, hoping to recruit people with both constipation and Parkinson’s. The plan is first to treat them with antibiotics and eventually with faecal transplants. They hope both faecal transplants and antibiotics will treat gut infection and hence Parkinson’s.

Rosen is cautious: “I wouldn’t for one minute be suggesting that this is the next cure,” he says. But the idea that Parkinson’s could be caused by bacteria dovetails with work by neuroanatomists Heiko Braak and Kelly Del Tredici at the University of Ulm in Germany.

There is no one more devoted to finding a cure for Parkinson’s that yours truly.  I’ve undergone experimental brain surgery as part of a clinical trial looking for new and better ways to treat, reverse, and perhaps cure Parkinson’s.

But no.  No.  No.

No poopyplants for Billy!

Slate magazine takes a look at this phenomenon from a non-parky poop POV.

The donor takes a stool softener the night before and then gives a full morning bowel movement to the recipient, who takes it to a doctor for screening. It’s important to make sure that the sample doesn’t contain any parasites or other pathogens, such as hepatitis, salmonella, or HIV. Once the transplant material has been cleared, the doctor mixes it with saline to make about a pint of liquid with the consistency of a milkshake. This is pumped into the patient’s colon using a colonoscope or endoscope, or siphoned into the stomach via a nasogastric tube. (The latter method is considered more dangerous, since there’s a chance feces will end up in the lungs. Colonoscopies carry their own risk of bowel perforation.)

Eeew.  I will never look at a chocolate malt the same way again!

The Slate article continues…

And then there’s the do-it-yourself crowd. All you need is a bottle of saline, a 2-quart enema bag, and one standard kitchen blender. Mike Silverman, a University of Toronto physician who wrote up a guide to homespun fecal transplants for the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, says it’s entirely safe to do the procedure this way, provided that a doctor gets involved at some point to screen the donor sample. He felt he needed to draw up the instructions because administrators at his hospital wouldn’t allow their doctors to perform a procedure that hasn’t been validated in a large, peer-reviewed study.

My recommendation?  Don’t try this at home.

Am I saying this won’t work?  Nope.  Not saying that.  Just saying that if you come after me with the idea of putting someone else’s poop in my colon, you’d better bring some ropes, some sedatives, and a lot of strong friends to hold me down.

See, fact of the matter is, I’m already irritable — even WITHOUT the Parkinson’s disease.

I take shit from NO ONE!

written by parky pundit link below

http://www.wellsphere.com/parkinson-s-disease-article/fecal-transplants-might-cure-pd-no-sh-t-and-i-mean-that/1343322

January 23, 2012 Posted by | Parkinsons Disease | , | Leave a Comment

Educate to Medicate

Dont be afraid of medication,it just one tool to use,more powerful

Educate yourself and others,cure or not a quality life can be had.

Western society, science and medicine have a very long tradition of discrediting and wrongly looking down at the others science and natural approaches to healing the entirbody instead of treating symptoms.

Chinese medicine has a history of over 6,000 years and it treats the patient by focusing on preventing disease in the first place by keeping the entire body healthy in every way, mind, vitality, energy, immune system, etc. Modern medicine still treats chinese medicine as second class rather than a potential partner.

Perhaps after reading the story below thern and chinese medicine at the time they met the Chinese and how it attempted to treat King Charles II in 1685:

“The king was bled to the extent of a pint from a vein in his right arm. Next, his shoulder was cut into and the incised area was sucked of an additional 8 oz of blood. An emetic and a purgative were administered, followed by a second purgative, followed by an enema containing antimone, sacred bitters, rock salt, mallow leaves, violets, beetroot, camomile flowers, fennel seeds, linseed, cinnamon, cardamom seed, saffron, cochineal and aloes. The king’s scalp was shaved and a blister raised. A sneezing powder of hellebore was administered. A plaster of burgundy pitch and pigeon dung was applied to the feet. Medicaments included melon seeds, manna, slippery elm, black cherry water, lime flowers, lily of the valley, peony, lavender and dissolved pearls.

As he grew worse, forty drops of extract of human skull were administered, followed by a rallying dose of Raleigh’s antidote. Finally, bezoar stone was given.

“Curiously, his Majesty’s strength seemed to wane after all these interventions and, as the end of his life seemed imminent, his doctors tried a last-ditch attempt by forcing more Raleigh’s mixture, pearl julep and ammonia down the dying king’s throat. Further treatment was rendered more difficult by the king’s death.”

We can be sure that the physicians gathered around the king’s bed were all leaders in their particular field–royalty and presidents do not settle for anything less.

To be continued

January 15, 2012 Posted by | Parkinsons Disease | | Leave a Comment

Gut pathology in Parkinsons Disease

The function of the gut and pathology of evidence is gaining credibility.

Braak’s staging scheme is that the areas of the nervous system littered with Lewy bodies at the earliest stages of disease could account for the non-motor symptoms. The staging system, , “has drawn attention to the damage in other transmitter systems—in other words, apart from and before the nigrostriatal system. In addition, it can serve as a framework for relating the pathology in other parts of the nervous system (gastrointestinal tract, spinal cord, and so on) to that in the brain.”

The focus on the substantia nigra faces challenge, most PD patients have additional, non-motor symptoms, and PD is coming to be understood as a much broader disease.

Chronic constipation, loss of smell, and REM sleep disorders often occur before the motor

problems (O’Sullivan et al., 2008 and ARF related news story). A large epidemiological

study, the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, showed that men who reported less frequent

bowel movements had a significantly higher risk of developing PD within the next 24

years (Abbott et al., 2001; Abbott et al., 2003).

One of the attractive features of Braak’s staging scheme is that the areas of the nervous system littered with Lewy bodies at the earliest stages of disease could account for these non-motor symptoms. The staging system, wrote Braak in an e-mail “has drawn attention to the damage in other transmitter systems—in other words, apart from and before the nigrostriatal system. In addition, it can serve as a framework for relating the pathology in other parts of the nervous system (gastrointestinal tract, spinal cord, and so on) to that in the brain.”

Read on————–

http://www.alzforum.org/new/pdf/ParkinsonsSeries.pdf

January 13, 2012 Posted by | Anatomy-gut | | Leave a Comment