Parkinson’s Pandemic

‘Parkinson’s isn’t just rising – it’s doubling.’ A scary thought about a very scary disease. ‘But it doesn’t have to’ is the next sentence, which brings hope to so many. Here’s Dr Ray Dorsey, co-author of the NY Times bestseller that’s just been released. And a 2022 video of 12 people with real, lived, experience of this disease. More from Dr Dorsey on our Dementia Resource.

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Lots of familiar faces here. Sign up for this free summit on all things cancer here. We know it started today, but worry ye not, there’s always a catch up weekend after the final day!

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Here’s an x-ray of one of the speaker’s shoulder. Random, we know, but we were catching up with Mark Lintern, who had a similar issue to Denise with his shoulder. Here’s his healing story, hers is on the mend too. Nutrition really does matter…

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‘I was vegan for 7 years up until December last year. Over a period of 2 years I slowly developed worsening pain in my left shoulder until in June last year I severely ruptured my tendons in my left shoulder. It took me two months to recover 50% use of my arm and wasn’t much better 5 months later. A visit to A&E shortly after the rupture (due to the severe pain) I was diagnosed with calcific tendonitus. The doc said its one of the worst cases he’d seen – typical. In March 2025 I was due a barbotage operation to break down the calcium deposits, but the ultrasound scan couldn’t find the calcium to target, so they sent me for an x-ray: the X-ray revealed that the entire calcium deposit had disappeared. 3 months prior, in December, I made the decision to change my diet, adding back in some red meat, fish and eggs providing more bio-available nutrients. I removed the plant-based alternatives to milk including any synthetic fortified vitamins, such as vit D2 – which I’d considered was a major part of the issue, that, and potentially a lack of vitamin K. So I also increased my Vit D3 supplementation with high strength Vit K too, a number of other good bioavailable supplements + omega 3. I had physio on the shoulder, exercised and improved my sleep, with shoulder massages and hot and cold presses. The change in diet clearly reversed an incurable disease within 3 months, that had slowly and progressively been getting worse over several years. I have a very nice photograph of the before and after X-ray that I took in hospital. It’s a lovely example of how providing the body with what it needs allows it to heal.’ Mark Lintern.

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An in-depth discussion of inflammation on UK Health Radio here from Amanda King and Nick Walton-Cole. Another pandemic we’re currently experiencing.

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We’re in the middle of a Plastic Pandemic too. Scary research from 2023 shows how keeping food in plastic containers releases plastic particles into it. Microwaving them is the worst, but refrigerating and even keeping at room temperature enables the transfer.

Bon appétit…

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No plastic here; a glass bowl to keep these beauties fresh in our fridge. Not that these garden figs from a friend lasted very long anyway…

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These green figs are from Denise’s garden. Not as nice to eat on their own, but fab in a juice: Figs, Carrots, Ginger, Turmeric, Lemon and Filtered Water.

Santé!

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‘La rentrée’ (Back to School) this week. The beginning of a new school year. Lots of reflection, hopes, fears being experienced. But what if it went even better than you expected? Positive mental attitudes matter. More on our Healthy Mind resource.

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A real positive here: Big C Cancer Charity cover Norfolk in the UK. More about Lilac’s important work on the Big C website.

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Supporting local families.

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Important work here too: Dr Connealy has just released an updated edition of her book, which we feature front and centre on our cancer book resource.

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Another new release here from a fellow breast cancer thriver. We got in touch with Julia after watching her BBC documentary Breast Cancer and Me a few years ago. We’d spotted Dr William Li’s Eat to Beat Disease on the top of a book pile next to her and encouraged her to find others on our cancer resource. She did, began following our work and contacted us recently to share that Dr Li features in her new book, released in the UK this week.

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As Julia discovered our resource is:

Thank you UK Health Radio for your kind words.

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