For Sergey Brin: Vitamin D and good diet helps prevent Parkinson's disease
Paul D. Fernhout
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Virgle should be also about having everyone be healthy. And health starts
with the basics. I can doubt this information will get where it might help,
but I'll go through the motions anyway. :-) I was reading this article in
Wired about Sergey Brin's search for a cure for Parkinson's disease.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/1
Vitamin D is thought to help prevent Parkinson's. Most tech workers are
probably vitamin D deficient. It is an occupational hazard of working with
computers, same as hearing loss is an occupational hazard of working with
leaf blowers.
I see someone else previously posted a comment about that here as I Google
on that:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AV_XMghiN1MJ:webmonkey.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/+sergey+brin+parkinson%27s+wired+vitamin+D&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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Posted by: HenryLahore | 06/28/10 | 7:19 pm |
Taking a few grains of vitamin D per day (perhaps 10,000 IU) will most
likely substantially decrease the chance of of getting Parkinson Disease.
There are over 100 medical papers on vitamin D and Parkinson Disease. You
can see some of them at the largest vitamin D web site on the globe.
http://www.vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Parkinsons+Disease+and+Vitamin+D.
He certainly can afford the vitamin D � that much costs about 6 cents per day.
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So, they beat me to it. :-)
But to fill in that a bit more, here are links to research papers at another
source (Dr. Cannell's site):
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/science/research/vitamin-d-and-parkinsons-disease.shtml
Good nutrition probably helps with almost health issue too, and Dr. Joel
Fuhrman is my favorite for nutritional advice (although I like Dr. Andrew
Weil too for bigger picture stuff). But it can be hard to get anyone to take
seriously that simple things like sunlight and eating lots of vegetables,
fruits, beans (an a lesser amount of nuts, seeds, and whole grains) can work
so much health magic. A summary of Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live plan is here:
http://www.alternativeratreatments.com/eat-to-live.html
Unfortunately, a lot of money is to be made by treating people but not
curing them. Even by the non-profits that claim to be concerned about
specific diseases. Example:
"Dr. Fuhrman Cures Diabetes - But Drug Companies Object"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_GInjBeQU
One person I recently sent that link to got really upset and probably
thought I was trying to scam them or market them or something. I have no
connection to Dr. Fuhrman or Dr. Cannell other than having found valuable
information on them to help my family. But our society is so soaked in
scamming because our economy is built around scarcity assumptions, and all
too often useful conversations get drowned out by SPAM (or fear of SPAM).
But what can be a more important health issue for our society right now than
curing a deficiency diseases that, beyond contributing to causing
Parkinson's, is suggested to cost the USA trillions of dollars from other
health care burdens over a decade:
"A Decade Of Vitamin D Supplementation Would Save $4.4 Trillion Over A Decade"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi111.html
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to autism, too:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/new-harvard-paper-on-autism.shtml
How to ensure you get adequate vitamin D:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
Just think how we could spend those trillions instead -- like on hopeful
missions to build space habitats on the Moon, on Mars, and near the
Asteroids... And think about how much more energy we would all have to make
that stuff happen mostly as volunteers...
But the medical system has been objecting to cheap and effective cures for a
century, all the way back to attacks on Herbert Shelton, who almost a
century ago advocated sunlight, whole foods, and occasional fasting as a way
to prevent or cure most disease:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/shelton.bio.bidwell.htm
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm
Only now do we understand more of the science behind all that though, and
why Herbert Shelton was (mostly) right. Still, Herbert Shelton probably died
of Parkinson's, so he did not have all the answers then, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_M._Shelton
Thankfully, I've got Google as my health plan to help put gather the pieces
of the puzzle. :-)
http://www.ginside.com/2007/830/comics-dilbert-to-provide-google-health-plan/
Seems to do a better job than most doctors I've seen, sadly. :-) Even if
Google does not help me actually in putting the pieces of the puzzle
together, hint. :-)
But I think that Google being better than many doctors says more about the
medical system than most doctors (now that I've gone up the learning curve
on these issues, which took a couple of years). If doctors only saw patients
for four hours a day and spent the rest of their time learning, they would
know a lot more about health than non-professionals using Google. And if
vitamin D and whole foods had some sort of drug repn that went around to
doctor's offices pushing those instead of the fancy (and often deadly)
latest bioengineered pills of the moment. (Not to say fancy pills are not
useful -- sometimes.)
But some doctors are really with it. Something by Dr. Fuhrman on
Parkinson's, too:
"lack of DHA linked to Parkinsons"
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/lack_of_DHA_linked_to_Parkinsons.aspx
"Leaders of the Vegan Movement Develop Parkinson's: Case Studies ... Herbert
Shelton (1895 - 1985) ... When he was developing his Parkinsonian tremors, I
ordered blood tests and was shocked to see his blood results showing almost
a zero DHA level on his fatty acid test, in spite of adequate ALA
consumption from nuts and seeds eaten daily. I had never seen a DHA level
that low before. Since that time I have drawn DHA blood levels on other
patients with Parkinson's and also found very low DHA levels. ... Was it a
coincidence, that these leaders in the natural food, vegetarian movement,
who ate a very healthy vegan diet and no junk food would both develop
Parkinson's? I thought to myself -- could it be that deficiencies in DHA
predispose one to Parkinson's? Do men have worse ability to convert short
chain omega-3 into long chain DHA? Is that why Parkinson's affects more men
than women? Is there evidence to suggest that DHA deficiencies lead to later
life neurologic problems? Are there primate studies to show DHA deficiencies
in monkeys leads to Parkinson's? The answer to all of these questions is a
resounding, yes. ... Overall, this research provides evidence that DHA
deficiencies can leave us vulnerable to developing diseases like Parkinson's
and Alheizmer's. If you are a nutritarian, flexitarain, vegan, or vegetarian
and you are not taking DHA or confirming your levels are adequate with blood
work you are being negligent, and potentially increasing your risk of such a
disease in later life. All the good efforts on proper nutrition can be
undone with one deficiency such as Vitamin D, B12, or DHA. I see this every
week in my practice. ..."
Put adequate vitamin D and Dr. Fuhrman's eating plan together (especially
with adequate DHA etc.), and that is probably close to the best one can do
(short of fancy medicine) to prevent Parkinson's. Sure, there may be a magic
bullet someday, but why not do what you can with the best we know right now?
But, as with, say, the Broad Foundation and Crohn's disease which also may
be in part from vitamin D deficiency and poor eating patterns (a Broad
family member suffers from it), millions of dollars are going to go to the
fancy medicine, and probably nothing to studying and promoting the basics of
moderate sunlight and healthy food. :-( I wrote to the Broad Foundation and
did not get a response. I don't blame them with their volume of information
they deal in, but it is sad...
By the way, the correlation between exercise and reducing some diseases may
reflect vitamin D issues, by being outside more. For example, indoor
swimming may not be as helpful as outdoor in the vitamin D sense. Sunburn
being of course bad for anyone.
Anyway, I could not have discovered all that I have written related to
Virgle and steps toward a healthy open source planet without Google. So
thanks, Sergey. I hope you get this information so it may help you and your
family too. And then you can continue to help with making Virgle, the open
source planet, more and more of a reality, every day. :-)
Anyway, a deeper issue here, for Googleites to think about when this message
is noticed in the archives year from now is, why is it people can have
important information but it does not get where it needs to go? And that is
a question about our social systems, the nature of our economy and filtering
and scarcity-assumptions that encourage SPAM, and so on, as well as an issue
about search engine design. Too bad it is likely Sergey will not get this
news on vitamin D and DHA etc. anytime soon from this message. I hope he
finds it for himself by searching.
Now if my G1 Android Developer phone bought through Google hadn't stopped
being chargeable the other day and so is now dead. :-( Luckily it is still
under warranty, but what a hassle to think about contacting Brightstar to
replace it... Searching with Google tells me it seems to be a problem
several others have had. :-( Google giveth, and Google taketh away. :-)
--Paul "Twirlip of the Mists" Fernhout :-)
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