143: Understanding How to End Parkinson’s: A Discussion

Today Claire and Erin discuss the work and teachings of Ray Dorsey, M.D. a professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Dorsey came to speak at Rogue recently to share his research. Parkinson’s is now the fastest growing neurologic disease in the world. There are 3 main reasons a person may be more predisposed to getting PD that are modifiable. He wrote a book titled “Ending Parkinson’s” and shares the evidence for what causes PD and his views for how to end it.

Incidence of Parkinson disease in North America (open access article): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-022-00410-y

Preventing Parkinson’s with Ray Dorsey webcast: https://youtu.be/mqYpE5wEPJE

Ending Parkinson’s the book by Ray Dorsey: https://endingpd.org