Reflections of a Scientist with Parkinson’s Disease

This is the story of the first 4 years of a scientist’s journey with Parkinson’s disease. It begins with the diagnosis and the neurologist’s affirmation: “The cause of Parkinson’s Disease is unknown… “, “that’s why there are no drugs to slow or stop Parkinson’s disease”. That was a terrible blow for the patient, but a challenge for the researcher: to discover what the leading researchers believed drives the progression of Parkinson’s disease, even if that information had not yet trickled down to practising neurologists. It didn’t take long to learn that these experts know quite enough about the causes of Parkinson’s disease to identify targets for drugs to slow Parkinson’s disease. People with Parkinson’s are not being told the truth about their disease.

Join me on this journey. You will meet some of the experts who helped me build a model describing the events occurring in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease and develop a method based on a plant-based molecule to combat these events. I have been using and improving this method since the beginning of 2020 with good results and sharing progress with a small group of People with Parkinson’s.

You will also learn how the Pharmaceutical Industry fails to address the most important steps driving the progression of Parkinson’s Disease and concentrates uniquely on symptomatic therapies. People with Parkinson’s will understand why no disease-modifying therapies will be developed by the Pharmaceutical Industry in their lifetime.

This research was made possible by a community of People with Parkinson’s committed to pursuing their own research on sulforaphane with the aim of slowing the progression of Parkinson’s disease. After 3 years, this initial project imagined by Dr Wright has attained its initial objectives. The target mechanisms (the Keap1/Nrf2/ARE pathway) and their impact on Parkinson’s disease are now well understood and validated. Research towards maximizing the yield of sulforaphane in Broccoli Seed Tea from a standard seed source is now complete.

Reflections … takes the form of a presentation. It is a PDF File which you can download. Use the CTRL-L command to open and close the full-screen presentation.