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Nov 23, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe, Lilian Sjøberg

Fascinating - all the many helpful approaches that exist - and people diagnosed with PD are not referred to them!!! It is a kind of murder. In fact, so many do die, and before dying, lose so much of the possibility of their lives.

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Nov 23, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

Thank you Gary. The issues are in our tissues, as they say! I hadn't come across the body braid and the way it is described does resonate with me. I look forward to hearing more about your experience. I know so many people with fibromyalgia. Perhaps body braid could offer an opportunity for a group to trial it.

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Nov 23, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

I'd be interested in trying it, also mucuna. Diagnoses of EDS & FMS... basically a world of pain!

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Definitely worth a try on both fronts. If you find mucuna helps, probably not a long term solution, as you end up needing more, but indicates that trauma healing and stress reduction may be a big help so you can keep more of your own dopamine and stop it being turned into adrenaline!

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Nov 23, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

Thanks Gary, I'll give it a go. I've tried everything else!

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If you can get the "mucuna dopa" brand by biovea, as quality varies with different mucuna products, and I can vouch for one capsule of this being identical in effect to one capsule of pharma grade l-dopa meds.

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Nov 23, 2023Liked by Gary Sharpe

That's very helpful Gary, thanks. The only other capsules I've seen are by British Supplements, which I had considered but hadn't done enough research first.

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They include a lot of ginger and black pepper in their products to enhance uptake which I couldn't tolerate. Also need to split their capsules as 400 mg is too much.

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They do. I looked yesterday and they make two strengths... having not tried it at all, I'd always go in lower at first, so thankyou for the Biovea recommend.

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Gary, I'm glad that you're getting some positive results from using the Body Braid. Thank you for sharing about this.

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I love this ❤ thank you.

It reminds me of my early research, 2 decades ago, after I learned my son has a large genetic deletion which includes almost every disease known to mankind if mutated. I wanted to understand what he was lacking and how to prevent disease. Once I learned how to ask good questions I found the one common denominator in most of them is glutathione deficiency. I connected as many common denominators as I could, had many tests done on his blood, feces and hair. This is how I planned my sons supplements and vegetables I cold press juiced for their enzymes and nutrients.

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Gluathione deficiency is also implicated in PD.

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