I saw my neighbor with Parkinson's last night and he is slow but functions o.k. in public. He doesn't communicate much, but then it was not his social group, just his wife's. She said he is supposed to exercise a lot. I learned in my Physiology class that the doctors wait until you have a real disease and then they try to treat you. My doctor has changed to Pediatrics and he is salaried to the big Hospital company, so I get checked, offered pills, and that's it. At my age, I dismiss surgery unless it is cancer, and I believe surgery is a good approach for cancer, as well as diet and exercise, if possible. I read that the brain can regrow new cells. It's a start. Dorisena