The neuro degenerative disorder of Parkinson’s disease has always been in the limelight because of celebrities like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali, who were diagnosed with this severely debilitating disease.



Compared to other brain related diseases, awareness about Parkinson’s disease is rather high but unfortunately, what many people don’t know is that Parkinson’s disease cannot yet be cured in the medical sense of the term.


Of course there are palliative measures which when taken can retard the process of degeneration of brain cells or neurons. Although it can not be cured, patients can take recourse to physical therapy which will prevent muscular atrophy. To keep up the immunity levels of the body, the patients should also consume vitamins.


Medical research is going on at full pace and scientists are bending themselves backward to come out with a good cure for Parkinson’s disease. Gene therapy is one area which is receiving particular attention from scientists because there is hope in this line. Parkinson’s may be treated if new genes can substitute faulty genes.


Other types of Parkinson’s disease cure that is popular is alternative healing. The ancient Indian practice of Ayurveda can be of much help to Parkinson’s sufferers. Under this system you have to consume herbal concoctions, meditate everyday, surrender yourself to special types of massages, and exercise the different limbs and parts and muscles of your body to prevent them from getting atrophied and switch over to a new diet. The herbs have been found to trigger off production of dopamine.


Several medical researches and studies have found a concrete link between Parkinson’s disease and deficiency of vitamin D. Of course, doctors and researchers are not yet sure whether low vitamin D intake causes Parkinson’s disease or whether Parkinson’s disease itself depletes the stock of vitamin D in the substantia nigra!


But there is no harm, if you sun yourself at times, to get your daily quota of vitamin D in abundance and who knows, it might prevent or reduce the risk of Parkinson’s Disease at old age, though there is no medical evidence to support this piece of hypothesis!

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