Immune System and Parkinson's ... Bacterium Nocardia?

Continuing my research...

How the Immune System and Gut Health play a important role in maintaining my health.

I started reading a new book today... Perfect Health Diet... don't let the name fool you into thinking that this is another "Diet book".

This book is well documented with over one thousand citations to scientific literature written clearly and simply for the layman (me) to understand.

I came across some interesting information that correlates with what I have previously blogged about..."How the Immune system and Gut health" play an important role in health... and possibly how the Bacteria known as "Nocardia"- Nocardia/Parkinson's may be related to Parkinson's Disease Symptoms.


Parkinson's - Another look

Parkinson's- Pesticides

Parkinson's - Glyphosate Trichlorethylene

Neurotoxicity 


 Parkinson's disease and exposure to infectious agents and pesticides


I could go on and on with more documentation... but I think you get the idea... The Environment seems to play a big part in overall health problems.

My question is "What can I do about it to help myself?"

I don't have any  answers for you ... That is why I keep researching and reading about every possible link that could have caused my illness.

You may ask Why?  The reason is simple.... having Parkinson's Disease can  be and is exhausting!

I keep thinking and hoping that maybe someone will come up with a non drug approach to curing this devastating illness called Parkinson's.

In the meantime ...
I can try to do my best to reduce inflammation in my body through alkaline anti-inflamdomatory diet, exercise and supplements.

Breakfast Smoothie today- blend in high speed blender

1/2 Avocado
1 T cacao powder
1 T honey
6 500 mg chlorella tablets
Handful of Spinach
1 T chia seeds
1 C Almond milk
ice

Lunch

flax crackers
guacamole dip

Keep the faith, keep moving

Ketogenic diet... not working for me!

After only 3 days I have given up on the Ketogenic diet.... It seems to interfere with the effectiveness of the supplements and herbs that I use to control my Parkinson's symptoms.


I was going to blog everyday and give you updates on symptoms... but my tremors have been almost uncontrollable... making it almost impossible to do much of anything.

Remember we are all individual and you could have a more or less positive experience with this diet.
This is just me sharing my personal experience!

So back to Alkaline recipes... hopeful  to get tremors under reasonable control soon!



Breakfast today

Green Smoothie - Blend all in high speed blender

1 C Almond Milk  (homemade)
1/2 avocado
Spinach,,, Handful
1 T raw honey
1 T chia seeds
1 T cacao powder
6  500mg Chlorella tablets
ice

Ketogenic Diet and Parkinson's ... taking a closer look

Ketogenic Diet and Parkinson's

Seems to deserve a closer look ... researching this week about the how the Ketogenic Diet may have beneficial positive affect on symptom relief of Parkinson's symptoms.

Lots of  really interesting information on this topic... well worth reading and researching for yourself.

Dr. Perlmutter - Neurologist  

Neuroprotective and disease-modifying effects of the ketogenic diet

ketogenic-diet-for-epilepsy-and-other-neurological-disorders/ 

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles 

Neuroprotective and disease-modifying effects of the ketogenic diet

Clinicaltrials and Ketogenic Diet 

perfecthealthdiet.com/category/disease/parkinsons/ 

www.eat2think.com/2013/03/the-coconut-oil-dementia-diet.html 

coconutketones.com/pdfs/VanItallie_Parkinsons_Ketogenicdiet

Day 1 Coconut Ketogenic Diet... I started this yesterday and am going to try and do my best to document my journey.  It takes a lot of thought and preperation.  All meals are homemade and prepared by me based on the ketogenic diet and using coconut oil and coconut flour and flax seed meal... along with other  non traditional items.

Difficulties that I see are going to be cutting out sugar and addition of Protein at each meal.

Sugar, hopefully I will experience some good things after the initial withdrawal symptoms... this could be tough!

Protein, this has proven to conflict with my supplements in the past... but willing to give it a chance... I will let you know how this goes.

Coconut Oil - adding coconut oil, taking by the spoonful prior to my meal and use in cooking

Apple Cider Vinegar (Bragg's) 2 T 3 x per day to help aid in digestion

Breakfast Day 1

1 slice homemade pizza (Coconut flour and flax meal crust)

1/2 avocado

1 poached egg

Lunch

1/3 c coconut milk

2/3 c almond milk (homemade)

1 scoop Chocolate Whey Protein powder(purchased from The  People's Chemist)
ice

Dinner

Roasted Chicken
Yellow squash -olive oil and butter

Salad- greens, cucumber, radish, red pepper


Day 2

Breakfast

2 slices Bacon  (grass fed)
2 eggs (free range)
1/2 avocado

Lunch

1/3 c coconut milk

2/3 c almond milk (homemade)

1 scoop Chocolate Whey Protein powder(purchased from The  People's Chemist)
ice

Dinner

Pulled Barbecue Pork ( homemade from scratch)
steamed yellow squash with olive oil and butter

Recipe for Pulled Barbecue Pork (no sugar added)
1 pkg boneless pork ribs (not grass fed)
1 box organic vegetable broth

Cook ribs in large pot with vegetable broth for several hours until pork is tender.

Cook the sauce in separate sauce pan for at least 1 hour, then blend smooth in blender, add to large pot with cooked pork and cook for several more hours.

1  20 oz can organic crushed tomatoes
1  small can organic tomato paste
1 20 oz can pineapple chunks with juice
1 T raw honey
1 yellow onion diced
4 cloves garlic smashed
1 T organic Worcester sauce

Seasoning to taste:  Turmeric powder, garlic powder, cayenne powder, cumin powder, crushed red pepper, paprika