Thursday, April 1, 2010

Cycling & Parkinson's disease

NYTImes

The man had had Parkinson’s disease for 10 years, and it had progressed until he was severely affected. Parkinson’s, a neurological disorder in which some of the brain cells that control movement die, had made him unable to walk. He trembled and could walk only a few steps before falling. He froze in place, his feet feeling as if they were bolted to the floor.

But the man told Dr. Bloem something amazing: he said he was a regular exerciser — a cyclist, in fact — something that should not be possible for patients at his stage of the disease, Dr. Bloem thought.

“He said, ‘Just yesterday I rode my bicycle for 10 kilometers’ — six miles,” Dr. Bloem said. “He said he rides his bicycle for miles and miles every day.” [...]


6 comments :

  1. Incredible.

    Even the 'machine' side of the human being in nowhere near understood.

    I suspect changes in body chemistry will be looked at in the future.

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  2. This was published on April 1.

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  3. This was published on April 1.

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  4. A response was published to Rabbi Hoffman's article about Jonathan Pollard. Perhaps Rabbi E would like to make a post out of it.

    It's called: "Refuting ‘Re-Examining The Pollard Case’ – A Blood Libel Against Jonathan Pollard" by Pesach Lerner

    and it appears here:
    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=50541

    chag sameach everyone.

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  5. this sounds a little like Oliver Sacks' "An Anthropologist on Mars" where someone with Tourette's was able to control his tics during surgery

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  6. http://www.nutritionhorizon.com/news/New-Study-Indicate-that-a-Daily-Intake-of-Vitamin-K2-Significantly-Reduce-the-Risk-of-Developing-or-Die-of-Cancer.html

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