Natural Therapies for Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease: Alternative Treatments for Specific Symptoms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496025814)

Robert Rodgers, Ph.D., has a passion for helping persons with Parkinson's feel better using natural methods. His mother, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, elected to take a variety of prescription drugs to treat her Parkinson's symptoms, her depression and other medical problems. She eventually died from a coma that was aggravated by the deadly combination of medications she had been taking. After graduating from Vanderbilt University with his undergraduate degree and Cornell University with his master's degree, Robert earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1981. He served as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1980's and was a professor and Director of the Ph.D. and MHA programs at the University of Kentucky during the 1990's. Robert left his comfortable university lifestyle in 2003 to found Zero Point Healers with Deborah Russell. He now pursues his passion for discovering natural remedies and therapies that heal chronic illness. Since 2005 Robert has focused on helping persons with Parkinson's disease find relief from their symptoms using natural methods and approaches. He is also a foreclosure mediator for the state of Washington and a senior mediator with the Dispute Resolution Center in Olympia, Washington.