Shaun
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We are using Amino Acid Therapy through a naturopathic Dr. It is amazing! It is so sad to read what all of you are going through. We were there 2 1/2 years ago until I did research and found our Dr. Almost all symptoms have been reversed! Drooling, left leg shuffling, blank stares and of course the most common, trembling arm and hand. I’ve written about it many times on this board. We were skeptical, but took the chance. So glad we did. My husband is back to normal, except for a slight tremor now and then when he’s excited about something…working on his car, or crazy traffic. His mind is clear, he’s focused. We exercise regularly, ride e-bikes and motorcycles. His neurologist is amazed. This treatment is 20+ years in the making and participants are all doing well. When people say there is no cure or no remission, I am here to tell you otherwise. Do your homework!! Be your own advocate. Research. There are ways beyond taking the normal medications.
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Amino Acid Therapy. I have written about it several times on this site. We use a naturopathic Dr out of Madison Wisconsin and do all our ‘work’ with him over the phone. Miraculous results. Long story short…my husband has been on this therapy over two years now and all of his symptoms are gone, except a slight wiggle here and there during ‘excitable’ moments or if it’s very cold. I got my husband back! It takes lifestyle changes and dedication, but it can be done!! Look me up to get the full story on this site! Good luck in your journey!!
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What good is the money if you can’t enjoy life? We’re retired and planned well. To us, it is well worth the money. There’s no price for your health.
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Update: My husband started his amino acid therapy on 05/10/23. So far, a year and 8 months later, we are still doing the amino acid therapy and all symptoms have gone, other than a slight hand wiggle now and then. And only if he gets really excited about something he’s doing. Which our nutritionist said was totally normal. Neurologist is amazed. Told us to continue since it is working so well. He’s not on any other PD meds. Everyone that sees him is amazed and would not even know he has Parkinson’s. Keep in mind, he has made a total commitment to this, because he knows how important achieving the results are. He quit drinking when he started this journey, which only consisted of giving up his light beer. He exercises at least 3 days a week in our gym. He is back to working on his old car and still rides motorcycles, although not for as long of a time period. He was an airplane mechanic by trade, now retired, but he still works on everything and anything. We started with him having his left arm wiggle constantly. He drooled. He had blank stares. And his left foot/leg was a shuffle. All that is gone! We have had many tweaks along the way, but as of 11/27/24, we have found our ‘happy place’ and he has been on that same dose since then and has settled in nicely. There were times of nausea, and even throwing up. But we have found by taking the supplements more spread out within 30 min of each other, along with crackers and a meal all worked in, he has settled in. He does this three times a day with the Mucuna, NeuroReplete, and CysReplete, all as directed by our nutritionist. If you can’t totally commit to this process, it can be hard. It’s hard anyway, but the results are what keeps him going. This is our journey, and it has been a miracle in our eyes.
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I have posted on ‘Mucuna Pruriens’ section on this website. We are on an Amino Acid Therapy. We have had extreme success using Mucuna, along with Tyrosine, NeuroReplete, CysReplete, Methyl Support and Vitamin B6, all under the supervision of a naturopathic Dr. We are over a year into the process, and have gotten into a great daily routine. I could write it all again here, but it would be a lot. Long story short, all of the symptoms that my husband had a year ago, are 90% gone. Everyone has noticed the change. We will do it for life now, as it has been a great benefit to us. As far as the nausea goes, we dealt with that in the beginning too, however that’s why you work with a qualified Dr that understands this. We found ways to alleviate that, by tweaking different things here and there. I was skeptical at first as well, but figured we may as well try it, because we didn’t want to take medications with so many side effects that did nothing to ‘cure’ the disease. We are basically optimizing the remaining neurotransmitters left. Kind of like filling a cup enough to where once you get the right dosage, then you’re just maintaining it. Again, it has worked for my husband, but you have to be able to make lifestyle changes to some degree, but it is well worth the effort to have your normal life back!
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I’ve posted in another discussion group; Mucuna pruriens. Check it out. We have been working with Dr Chad Oler out of Madison Wisconsin, a natural path Dr that has helped us tremendously! Total reverse of symptoms. I cannot emphasize enough how the last 8-9 months have been. Please see if he can help you!!
http://Www.naturalpathcenter.com. It won’t hurt to talk to him and get his perspective. A few other readers here have contacted him already, as we spoke to Dr Chad during one of more recent phone calls and he has confirmed some have called. I pray all of you find some relief, as we lived it too and I know it can be overwhelming. This has worked for us and if you’re a good candidate to do this amino acid treatment, he’ll tell you. You have to be committed and make changes in your life more than likely, but it has been the best decision we ever made. You are basically preserving and protecting the remaining neurons, so they do not die off as well. Dr Chad is a chemical engineer and it all made so much more sense to me instead of pharmaceuticals that continue to wear off and have to keep adding meds and still not getting the results of a normal life. You are basically adding back in what your body is low on, naturally, to work at its optimum level. He can explain so much more on an individual level. Good luck in your journey!
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I hope you find what works for you. Having Dr Chad explain so much to us was so great! We are so pleased with the results we got. We’re still ‘tweaking’ with minute changes, but overall it has been very effective.
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We have been working with a natural path Dr treating my husbands Parkinsons. We started an amino acid treatment, developed by Dr.Marty Hinz, who treated John Gray, the author of Men are from Venus, Women from Mars and other nutritional type books. Our Dr. is Dr. Chad Oler out of Madison Wisconsin. We started working with Dr. Chad in May of 2023. We did not like the ‘treatment’ options by our neurologist, so we chose this path. It is the best decision we ever made with phenomenal results. To go back, my husband had a left arm/hand uncontrollable tremor that was getting worse as time went on. He had started a lip tremble and even drooling. Was having swallowing issues. He shuffled his left foot. He sometimes had a blank stare like he wasn’t thinking clearly. Jump to today, after working with different dosing, and finally reaching the proper amount of Mucuna, Tyrosine, NeuroReplete, CysReplete, Methyl Support, and vitamin B3, we have nearly come full circle. It has taken about 8 months, so far, and we’re still doing little tweaks, to find the exact best dosing. We have done all this via telephone with Dr. Chad based on our conversations regarding symptoms, changes, and my husbands overall reaction to the therapy. He no longer has the crazy wiggle/tremor in his left hand. We are down to minor twitches he can control at any time. His lip tremble is gone. His drooling is gone. Swallowing is not near the issue it was. No shuffling of the left foot. And he is more cognitive, and back to his usual self before the diagnosis. It is not cheap, however, if you can’t buy your health, what else matters. I figure my husband has worked his entire life, and if this is what we spend our money on, then it is well worth it. We took our annual visit to the Neurologist that we were seeing, and he was in awe of the reverse in symptoms. He had not heard of what we are doing, although I am not surprised, as many Dr.’s have told us that they are only trained in pharmaceuticals, not natural treatments. I watched the Neurologist’s face as he asked my husband to walk, balance exercises, strength tests, etc. He was speechless. I don’t know why this treatment isn’t being suggested to the many Parkinson’s patients out there. I wanted to wait to see how our results were before I posted here. We bought e-bikes last year (since my hubby was riding less of his motorcycles) and we go everywhere. His balance is great. He’s strong. We exercise regularly in our home gym, and eat a good diet. All of those things made him a good candidate to pursue this therapy. He was a light beer drinker, but gave that up to give this therapy his full attention. He’s lost 10 lbs (that he didn’t need to), and has even dropped off one of his blood pressure medicines. All in all, I cannot imagine where he would be if we didn’t do this therapy. He has to take these supplements the rest of his life, but there is no doubt that is it well worth the extra steps each day, to have him back to normal. My only wish is that the insurance companies would recognize this as an acceptable therapy that works, and would help cover the cost of the supplements, instead of the pharmaceutical drugs they push instead.
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Hi Geo! My husband has been doing the therapy since May 2023. He started with a very shaky hand and arm, left leg was shuffling and he was drooling and had blank stare moments. Once we did an assessment with Dr Chad Oler, we began the program. The only side effect he has experienced is some nausea, but with trial and error, spreading out the timing of taking the pills and powder, he has settled in to a routine and has managed it by eating snacks when he takes the supplements. You have to be committed to this and follow it religiously for the rest of your life, but it is so worth having your quality of life back. He stopped drinking all alcohol (which wasn’t much to begin with), exercises regularly, and eats a good healthy diet. Dr Chad is very committed and worked with us starting with a couple of times a week, checking on dosages and symptoms as we went. We noticed results in the first month and things progressively got better as he tweaked the dosage and listened to all the symptoms and how my husband was responding. By 9 months, we were pretty much symptom free and just kept tweaking the dosage in minute ways til we got to a steady place. It’s described as kind of like filling a cup, and finding how much it takes to keep that cup full to where the symptoms are tamed. It was the best decision we ever made to try this. He has treated many people and this therapy has been around for awhile, but most people aren’t aware of it. It is also not cheap to do, but once you get settled in your ‘happy place’ things settle down and instead of weekly assessments, you go to monthly, then every 3 months, then 6 months, staying checked in to make sure all is still going well. Dr Chad always answers our emails if we have questions, and he takes your whole health into account as he works with you. I hope he can help you as well! I am happy to answer any other questions you may have. If you go to his website, you can read more about the amino acid therapy for Parkinson’s.
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Yes George! His name is Dr. Chad Oler at The Natural Path Health Center
http://Www.naturalpathhealthcenter.com
Best wishes on your journey! Hope he can help you as he has us!!
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The dosing is based on each person differently. We work directly with our naturopathic Dr. and check in every two months now since we are so close to where we need to be. Just fine tuning at this point. If interested, we are working with Dr. Chad Oler out of Madison Wisconsin.
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Not taking any prescription drugs at all. Just our amino acid therapy supplements.
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We went through a lot to get here. We tried a few different meds for about 6 weeks each, but nothing seemed to work, and just made symptoms worse, so we stopped altogether. A friend of mine told me to look into this, so I did my research and found our natural path Dr. He is a chemical engineer as well, as has had his own issues that he has overcome. If you understand science, and how chemicals work, you can pretty much understand how different things can affect the body. All in all, it made so much sense to me, that I figured we had nothing to lose by trying. My husband was a lite beer drinker, but has given that up and any other alcohol. He already was pretty fit, but we exercise faithfully three times a week, plus do other active things. He’s a motorcycle rider, and was going to give up his motorcycles last year. This year, he is back to riding. We are on a schedule with the Amino Acid therapy, and he takes his supplements three times a day: 8 am, 1 pm and 6 pm. Sometimes, he would get nauseous, which is the only side effect he experienced, but we found different ways to combat that by taking the pills with some food, then doing the mucuna powder a few minutes later. It’s been trial and error, but he found what works for him at this point. It wasn’t easy at first, but the results are so profound that it’s worth whatever he has had to do to have is life back, as he does now. Prior to starting this, he had started drooling, that’s gone. He shuffled his left foot and had balance issues, that’s gone. Sometimes he had the blank stare, that’s gone. His arm shook ALL THE TIME, now we’re just down to a hand wiggle, mostly when he’s excited about something he’s working on. He was an aircraft mechanic by trade, and was having trouble holding tools, and now he has rebuilt an old car, works on his motorcycles, and rides them. I bought us some electric bikes last year, which our neurologist raised his eyebrows at, but he’s as steady as can be. Our neurologist has seen the results and has encouraged us to continue what we are doing. I wrote a lot more in above comments, but all I can tell you is that it’s worth trying, as it has worked for us tremendously.
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As much as you want to knock this down, unless you have tried it and experienced the results, you have no leg to stand on in my book. Whatever your quotes are or whatever you think is ‘debunked,’ I encourage you not to dismiss it without having the benefit of living and experiencing it. We have been faithful to this process for over a year now, and AS A FACT, have personally seen the results. I waited a year before I posted our journey, as I too was skeptical, but we had nothing to lose but worsening symptoms, which was not our case. All I have done was share our experience, in an effort to hopefully help others in this horrible disease. No matter what treatment you choose to try, everyone is different and can and will have different results, just like any other therapy. So as a caregiver, who has monitored this whole process, I hope you would not discourage this or any other therapy that people have found to work for them. Who are you to tell people it doesn’t work, unless you yourself have tried it?? I searched for an answer after my husbands diagnosis, and did the research on Amino Acid Therapy, and it made a lot more sense to me than pushing prescription drugs that did nothing to help (actually made things worse!). This has been the most amazing miracle in our lives, and its a shame that you have nothing more to share than post quotes from whatever source you have. I’m not here to dissect John Grey’s life or his books. I’m here to share our story and encourage others to try other methods that could possible work for them. Good luck in your journey.
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Dosing is different based on where you are in your progression. Our dosing changed over the course of the year based on our results. We increased Mucuna, decreased Tyrosine, decreased Mucuna, as well as NeuroReplete and CysReplete, Methyl Support and B6. You get to a point where you are basically tweeking and fine tuning the dosages based on your results/reactions. I could not give you a dosing, as it is all very personal and needs to be monitored by someone who understands how this works. In our case, a naturopathic Dr. If you research Amino Acid Therapy for Parkinson’s, the info is out there. It’s not cheap buying the supplements, but it has worked for us, and we will continue to do this for the rest of his life.
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Just a follow up for those following our Amino Acid Therapy. It’s been over a year since we started the amino acid therapy with Dr Chad Oler out of Wisconsin (we live in Atlanta). Couldn’t be happier with the results. My husband is about 90% better, with a few hand wiggles here and there during ‘exciting’ times during the day. Which we were told were normal. My husband rides motorcycles, and last spring of 2023, he was realizing it was time to let them go due to his shaky arm, balance issues, etc. Fast forward today, he is back to riding. He’s been a mechanic most of his life, and tools were getting unsteady, yet as of today, he has rebuilt a 240Z car we’ve had for over 30 years. He works on his motorcycles, we ride e-bikes at the beach, he builds, constructs, does all kinds of yard work, home repairs, and helps our kids with anything they need. No drooling or dazed looks from 3-4 months in to the therapy. His strength has returned in his left arm. He’s more cognitive. I even rode on the back of his motorcycle the other day which I never thought I’d do again. But he’s steady, he’s strong…you wouldn’t know he had Parkinson’s except for the slight wiggle he has here and there. His sense of taste and smell have been gone for awhile. Don’t think that’s ever coming back. But he eats sweet, sour and spicy things throughout the day to enjoy something, and just eats whatever I make him, trying to remember what it’s supposed to taste like. But all in all, it’s been a miracle taking this journey and watch him return to his old self! I’m curious if anyone else has tried it and what your experience has been. It takes about 9 months to get there, but now we are on a regular dosing that keeps him in check, and will continue for life. His supplements consist of Mucuna, NeuroReplete, CysReplete, vitamin B6 and Methyl Support. He used to take Tyrosine, but we’ve been able to eliminate that. I wish more people were aware of this therapy, as it has been nothing short of a miracle for us! If you are the least bit curious, do some research on this. It makes so much sense to replenish your body with nutrients it is missing.
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I believe my husbands PD came about due to head trauma from a motorcycle accident that happened in 09/2017. Broke both arms. Noticed the shaking in 2019. Kind of knew what it was, but Dr confirmed with an abnormal dopamine test. It progressed slowly, so we weighed our options. Tried a couple prescriptions for about 6 weeks each in 2020 with no noticeable difference and decided that since it was only treating the symptoms, not the disease, what was the point? So we just did nothing until a friend told me to check out John Grey’s journey through the same. That brought me to Dr. Chad Oler. We started this amino acid therapy in May of 2023.
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Read down through the comments. I posted more there. 😀
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I listed all of the things my husband takes in my post. He does not take any other PD meds. He takes one blood pressure med and we do just regular supplements, like zinc, vit E, magnesium, probiotic, turmeric, etc. The best way to get more info is to contact Dr. Chad Oler. We have done all of this over the phone (not even a ZOOM call) and have never even met him in person. We have gotten to know Dr. Chad over the last 8 months and put our full trust in him. If you go to his website, at http://www.naturalpathcenter.com, you will find links with all kinds of information. This is the route I went. You will fill out a questionnaire to see if you are even a good candidate for the treatment. It is called Amino Acid Therapy. The basis of it is, in PD your neurons start dying. They stop transmitting information like they used to. With this therapy, you are basically feeding your remaining neurons the necessary supplements to help boost the existing neurons and the neurotransmitters. We take a specific DBS test every few months to check how his neurotransmitters are receiving information. All this is done under the guidance of Dr. Chad Oler. I’m sure there are other Dr.’s out there that are trained to do this. If they studied under Dr. Marty Hinz, they also know the treatment plan. We live in Georgia, and Dr. Chad is in Wisconsin. I am going to plan a trip soon to go meet him in person to thank him for all his guidance and getting my husband to where he is today. If you have any other questions I can answer, Id be happy to. Do your research. Read all that is involved and/or call them and ask questions. Dr. Chad is a wealth of information.