Reversing Parkinson’s Disease With Fast Walking and What the Heck is GDNF??

I have had Parkinson’s for 8 years. When I was diagnosed I had a severe gait, couldn’t sign my name, couldn’t move and double click a mouse. I got into the short of pickleball, a very aerobic exercise. As a result of this exercise my walking has improved, my balance is pretty much normal again, I can sign my name and use a mouse. My worst symptoms of hand and leg tremors have improved significantly and I actually have moments where I have no Parkinson’s symptoms at all. So, for me exercise certainly does improve Parkinson’s symptoms to the point where they are momentarily gone. But here is the kicker,it has to be sustained aerobic exercise with elevated heart rate for at least 20 minutes 3 times a week. Simply walking has shown NO visible change in symptoms for me. I’m 58 and now I play pickleball 6 times per week for 2 hours at a time. What I have found is that I get longer and longer periods of symptom relief. I don’t know how it works but there is no doubt in my mind that intense exercise is the best way to manage Parkinson’s symptoms.

I was 66 years old when a fentanyl impaired driver crashed headon into us. I had catastrophic injuries- - compound fractures of left and right knee, left humerus, left trochanter and smashed pelvis sticking out of my body. I had 5 burst thoracic vertebrae. Most ribs broken and jaw ripped off my face. All in all 18 broken bones, collapsed lungs, and traumatic brain injury. I died several times but they kept resuscitating me. After 30+ units of blood, many surgeries, and several weeks in a coma and having 3 strokes I awoke and was paralyzed. This is not the worst of it; the perp killed my beautiful wife of 39 years. I was in a nursing home for seven months and eventually learned to walk again. Then there was a criminal trial where the perp dragged out proceedings for three years only to be given a slap on the wrist. This was 3 years of torture. Finally I started getting tremors and numbness issues. I was finally diagnosed with PD 3 years ago and put on sintemet. Doctors say the injuries triggered the PD, but I think it was more the trial torture for 3 years. Today I can slow walk with a cane up to mile. And I can workout on a rowing machine, stationary bike, and an exercise machine. I do my own yardwork and mowing but if I fall I can't get up. I take alot various supplements and avoid refined carbs and bad oils. I have bad pain episodes, but make sure to workout in my home gym every other day which is key to fighting off PD. I wish I could do more rigorous activities but just can't. At 74 I'm holding my own. 🌞

Thank you. John Pepper has been advocating walking as an effective treatment for PD a very long time

Im now fast walking three miles every morning, and it's made a huge difference for me. I'm 65, and was diagnosed with PD four years ago.

Hi - I'm 59 and was diagnosed 3 years ago. Upon diagnosis I immediately realized that i had been fighting the symptoms for at least 25 years. As a elite triathlete my training for sure delayed my diagnosis. 3 years post diagnosis I'm not on any drugs and still train at a high level but I have clearly slowed down by 10% or more. A combination of zone 5 and zone 1 training plus resistance. All totaled 10 hours + of performance exercise. Parkinsons will win but hopefully i can avoid drugs and preserve my lifestyle for years to come.

You forgot to mention that one should be prudent and have a walking partner especially one that understands what is going on. My wife had Parkinson’s for 24 years. She started the symptoms when she was 42. She walked a lot , did exercises for the vocal chords , legs, balance, with music, with percussion instruments. We did games that I invented. We did everything together. Alas, the end had come for her in 2010,October ! Thank you for your work . From my heart to yours, Michael ❤️🎶

I have always been a fast walker. I am now 70 and was diagnosed with PD about three years ago. Since that time I've increased my walking, taken up resistance training and begun supplementing with creatine monohydrate. There have been measurable benefits to all of these and progression of the disease has been far slower than I was warned it might be. I attribute that slow progression to the amount of work I'm putting in to fight the inevitable.

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My husband and I have bn dx’d with Parkinsons for 10 years. We started lumbar trike riding 2-3 hours per day plus large amt of B vitamins. We have had remarkable success. We are independent and symptoms largely reduced. Continue your research. 👍😉❤️ 5:14

Thank you so much for helping us learn. I think John Pepper is terrific!

YouTube has a video of a frail 82-year-old man with Parkinson's who could not walk but only sit and had the many other issues associated with it. His son as I recall convinced his mother to put him on a carnivore diet and after one month he was walking at a fast pace around the kitchen over and over again with his son in tow just in case he might lose balance which he didn't in the video. He also laughed as his wife teased him. Another man (he has his own YouTube channel as a result of his success) much younger and afflicted with Parkinson's for about 20 years to date (began in his 40's as I recall) who went on a carnivore diet (or keto diet) about eight years into his PD as I recall. He has reversed it to a great degree as you would not know he has it - no shaking, stiff facial issues, etc.). He had to quit his job when he was diagnosed with PD as it was that bad. He and three others are putting together the science behind his recovery. My point: take it upon yourself to get better and do not rely on conventional medicine and the drug companies as they are inept and ridiculously expensive. People are successfully rescuing themselves and there is hope for you - you are no different. Something is out there that will help you improve greatly if not conquer it completely.

Thank you

Im going to help my wife with walking from UK thank you.

I started FW a week ago, with my dog along for company. I'm up to a mile and a half, given my age and lack of any exercise I'm doing good.

My understanding is that John Pepper says the research he read stated that high intensity exercise, for at least 1 hour at a time, every other day, gives the body what it needs to create enough GDNF to support and enable his conscious movements. Any activity will work if intense enough and for an hour at a time. More than 1 hour, he says, does not help and the rest days are important. This is what I’ve gathered by watching his videos. And he says to work your way up to an hour by walking fast as long as you can, if that’s 2 minutes then do every other day for 2 min the first week, then the first day of the next week go longer, say 4 minutes, do 4 min that week and so on.

I have a friend who has been involved in rigorous exercise since he was diagnosed in 2017. He runs a 3K every year as well. His condition hasn't reversed but it has helped sustain his lifestyle and dampened the progression.

I think walking in short increments at regular intervals is far more beneficial than doing straight 3 mile walks initially. For example: Walking anywhere between 5-15 minutes first thing in the morning, then after breakfast, lunch, dinner and before bed is much more beneficial than doing a 3 mile walk or 5km in one go. - Tip: 15 minutes of walking, 4 times a day will is equivalent to 60 minutes in total which is more than enough to complete your daily 10k steps.

A close friends father was diagnosed cancer riddled 12 lbs in his lymphnodes etc. Given 30 days to live. He decided to stop wearing his bee protective wear, when tending to his hives. Allowed to get stung because of research he did on cures. Lived for 18 years more, cancer free. During those years he treated others for free with different ailments. Parkinson's being one. People with extreme shakes would settle dramatically minutes after receiving treatments. Bee defensive -1 is one attribute the Bees have. As well as honey will kill the mold cells, because of basically starving it of water etc.

Surfing has helped me tremendously

In my YouTube channel, I work with the Microbiome. In humans, Walking circulates the lymph system carrying nutrients from the gut to lymph nodes (including the brain.) The lymph has no pump, such as the heart, which circulates the blood. We're finding the Microbiome produces neurotransmitters. Anything you can do to circulate remaining neurotransmitters seems beneficial.