Man recovers from Parkinson’s Disease and launches web site chronicling his story

March 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Fighting Parkinson’s Drug Free and Howard Shifke present a holistic approach to embracing the disease from a new perspective. Howard Shifke recovered from Parkinson’s Disease using a holistic approach to recovery that he designed. The approach is called his Recipe for Recovery. Howard fought Parkinson’s without medications, herbal supplements, herbal formulas or Ayurvedic remedies.

His recipe for recovery is a combination of Qigong, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupressure, Soul, Mind, Body Medicine, Chanting, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Yin Tui Na, a vegetarian diet, and many meditation/affirmation/prayer techniques. Through trial and error, he was able to discover what worked and what did not, and he explains it in great detail on his web site, http://www.fightingparkinsonsdrugfree.com/.

Howard’s Brief Chronology:
September 22, 2009, Howard’s internal tremors began.
November 5, 2009, Parkinson’s diagnosis by neurologist.
Parkinson’s symptoms Howard fought included: Internal tremors; Extremely poor balance; Bradykinesia (walking — hunched forward, shuffled feet, arms did not swing); Rigidity (arms, legs and upper back were tight and extremely painful); Constipation; Inability to stand up straight; Inability to get out of a chair without using arms; Inability to go up and down stairs without holding railing and using arms to pull self up; Inability to get a utensil to his mouth when trying to eat; Falling asleep in middle of the day sitting at the computer; Frozen face; Inability to write; Inability to type with two hands; Constantly worn out and tired.
June 12, 2010, Howard became symptom free.
August 5, 2010, Parkinson’s neurologist could not detect a single Parkinson’s symptom.
Today, Howard remains symptom free.

Howard believes that Parkinson’s is an electrical problem, not a chemical imbalance. Parkinson’s is defined loosely as a progressively degenerative disease. The medications help with the symptoms, but they do not help with recovery. It is not believed that one can recover. Therefore, since Parkinson’s is known as “incurable,” Howard decided to embrace the disease from a new perspective and fight Parkinson’s without medications.

As a result of fighting Parkinson’s without medications, he does not believe that the dopamine in the brain is depleted or gone. Howard believes that the body has been working in adrenaline mode and dopamine has taken a back seat, essentially, it has mostly closed the faucet and is not flowing at full capacity. It is why he believes the Parkinson’s medications cause Dyskinesia – the body is being given artificial dopamine replacements that are not able to fully assimilate into the system and thus cause uncontrollable movement as opposed to controlled movement.

By listening to his body, talking to his body and examining his electrical impulses, Howard was able to re-open the dopamine faucet. The result was full recovery with 100% pre-Parkinson’s controlled movement.

On his web site, you will find Howard’s Blog, which chronicles his story sharing his holistic approach to Parkinson’s, as well as the resources where he learned the information to build the recipe that resulted in his recovery. Also, you will find testimonials from some of the Parkinson’s sufferers who Howard is coaching, and a Parkinson’s coaching page explaining how you may enlist Howard’s Parkinson’s Coaching services, http://www.fightingparkinsonsdrugfree.com/.