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Such good stuff for all of us! So important. I have another suggestion for stress reduction: music that brings us to a state of peace and pleasure. It changes things inside us, the stress (for some of us anyway) is gone. Here's a piece I did on my vision of the world as I envision it: Come to the Garden: http://elsasemporium.com/come-to-the-garden.html

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Lovely lyrics! Yes I strongly agree - the ears are definitely a "portal" into our nervous system. I listed some resources for this I found here https://garysharpe.substack.com/p/the-ears-as-a-portal-into-the-nervous

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Thank you. Just listening to the sounds you found helpful. And I can see how these may differ enormously, depending on perhaps "where we're at" and our personal built-in "beneficial sounds" - because the first, Gregorian chants, are sounds I was completely allergic to in my 20s. I can listen now. Much celtic music, however, does work for me.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

i did a post about listening to frequencies, i find some of them great de-stressors

theres more links in the comments

https://open.substack.com/pub/20thcenturyray/p/the-power-of-frequency?r=14o3q9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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I listen to the "Brain Tap" app daily - it includes binaural beats and isotonic frequencies - I find it very helpful;

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Apr 15Liked by Gary Sharpe

This is very fascinating through the lens of people with misophonia. My child’s nervous system is assaulted daily by how his brain perceives sound. It sounds like there are some similarities with PD and the stress cycle.

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My husband is a board certified music therapist. When done properly, music therapy is an amazing source of healing, or at least, helps to set the stage for healing!

I couldn't get the music track to play for some reason, but I watched the politically incorrect skit!

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Since finding your writing, I have done my best (with a small measure of success) to do what I can to focus on reducing stress and I can already report to making significant progress on some of my personal problems. Of course it's a long road, but I feel like I've hit a bit of a speedup thanks to your perspective. You've done an excellent job putting into words things that I've struggled to conceptualize, for my own lack of biological knowledge.

I really appreciate your perspective on the physiological side of the mass oppression. I knew when I started writing that I could only conceive of a small fraction of humanity's "mass control system". I think this is something critical for people to understand for reasons far beyond "just" the covid crisis.

I sincerely hope you join the ranks of "the big ones" on this platform.

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Wow! This is so heart-warming and lovely to hear! So glad it is has had tangible benefits.

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wow! I'm rendered speechless by this.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

Important points made.

Thank you for another wonderful read.

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

Stressed out music!

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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Thanks for this Gary. It is a timely reminder of the need to keep ones calm and also the impact that our own actions can have on the health of others. Once again yesterday, I lost my shit with my teenage daughter, who is a ninja level wind up assasin when it comes to knowing where my butons are. Anyway, lets just say that I raised my voice and regretted it almost instantly. My worry is what effect this is actually having on her, at the very least it doesn't seem to change her occasional bouts of lazy gittishness. She is actually a lovely girl with a great big heart, so when she does what all teenagers are programmed to do, I thoroughly regret the way I occasionally respond. Interestingly I bumped in to a distant relative this week and we got on to discussing Gabor Mate and how truama effects us eternally until it is resolved. This relatives family have a long history traumaitc childhoods that have just been passed on to the next generation due the truama never being resolved, meaning the same trauma is dished out to the next generation and the cycle continues. Having been diagnosed with ADHD recently they went looking for alternative solutions, and being aware of, and a victim of the history of phyiscal and mental abuse in her family she is now working to resolve her own trauma. Whats interesting is that her family (i have had a little contact with her extended family) have always painted her as the black sheep of the family and see her as strange, but having spoken to her for the first time years this week, I can safetly say she is, by a country mile, the sanest person in her whole family tree.

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can you relate this back to your daughter, or would she "weaponize" it ;-) ? Yes Gabor Mate had a huge impact on understanding myself and others too.

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Mar 24, 2023·edited Mar 24, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

She is smarter than she lets on. I try not to lecture the kids too much as they already moan at me for doing it, about everything. Gladly though, the messages have got in regarding all things Covid, vax, trans, blm, just all the marxist tropes generally. I do always apologise to her as soon as i've calmed down and tell her calmly that I should not have lost my cool but that the point I was making was valid. She's a hothead too, which is why we clash all the time, but we always make up before bedtime. I never go to sleep on argument, so hopefully she's aware of how loved and cherished she is.

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Thank you.

Why supplementing with phenylalanine and l-tyrosine may actually not be the appropriate pathway for many folks with PD?

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Mar 24, 2023·edited Mar 24, 2023Author

In looking into this, I found that there are several reasons, beyond just the slowness of the conversion step from l-tyrosine into l-dopa, why getting to dopamine from phenylaninline and l-tyrosine may be hard for people with pd. This can include not having the enzymes to do the conversion [ Tetrahydrobiopterin is the big one], not having the transporter proteins to get them out of the gut into the blood stream, to bacteria in the gut which converts l-tyrosine into something else [tyramine], to fungal infections which may feed on them!!! https://www.outthinkingparkinsons.com/articles/dopamine-biochemistry?rq=tyro

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Sep 12, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

I have been taking L-Tyrosine for over 30 years, first thing on an empty stomach. A vitamin rep from Jarrow told me tyrosine is slow to the receptors so if any other protein is taken at the same time, those aminos will get to the receptors first.

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Yes, tyrosine and l-dopa seem to be low priority for getting transported to receptors when other protiens are present. My l-dopa based meds get blocked for hours even with a little protein to compete with.

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I appreciate the videos you made, both the one you posted and the one you emailed. I wonder if making them helped reduce your anxiety and stress. Does writing on a substack also help? Since that which we pay attention to, amplifies, I wonder if healing can be achieved multilaterally. I sometimes try to do healing meditations. Sometimes it’s just remote chanting. But sometimes it can involve energy healing with hands or with sound... these are all tools that can be employed based on what resonates with the individual. I imagine doing the research you have done required a lot of dot connection and understanding of terminology. Discerning it for others and making it understood, can only ameliorate your own condition. Like a garden you water that bears healing fruit.

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Yes! I totally agree with this. [apart from making the videos at the time was too time consuming and frustrating, so I only made a couple of them like this]. But creative writing has definitely helped me enormously. it has benefits of "journaling" or writing down thoughts and feelings; being on the recieving end of gratitude through feedback and comments; being authentic and being heard, and an ability to speak out and not consent to authority.

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Beautifully said. 😊

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Modern medicine is Rockefeller petroleum-based pharmakeia. Doctors are taught to treat symptoms rather than root causes because otherwise they wouldn't have careers. And the more people believe in the pharmakeia, for which millions upon millions of prescriptions are written in the US alone each year, see

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/state-indicator/total-retail-rx-drugs/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D)

the more they stop trusting their Creator-given senses so that they can truly heal.

Great work, Gary!

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