Re: Herbert Shelton had "Parkinson disease" why ?

Hello David,

Herbert Macgolfin Shelton was a man who gave everything he had to his cause.
He singlehandedly retrieved and sorted the Hygienic writings from the Medical pioneers dating from the early 1800's; this included the writings of Jennings, Page, Oswald, Trall, Graham, Dewey and many more and who were medical Doctors of their day but gave up the drugging practice as being ineffectual and decidedly harmful.

Shelton basically was a workaholic for his cause, and although being a powerful man with a good athletic physique, the decades of overwork finally took their toll.
He didn't practice what he preached in terms of rest and sleep and where this destroyed his myelin sheath surrounding his nerves.
Towards the end of Sheltons life, Dr Joel Fuhrman MD, (a close friend) discovered that Shelton had a severe deficiency of DHA (an essential fatty acid) derived from oily fish and either flax-seeds or Hemp-seeds.
A combination of prolonged, physical and nervous exhaustion with sleep and rest deprivation, and a probable deficiency in the latter two seeds within his diet, would account for the Parkinson's disease from which he suffered.
***************************************************

"By 1972 Dr. Shelton is bedridden for the rest of his life. The symptoms of what the medical world term "Parkinson's disease" have claimed the strong motor skills of Dr. Shelton's once muscular and vibrant body. The workaholism of his lifetime finally takes its toll. The myelin sheath that surrounds and protects the nerves of the body can wear out. The subjective experience is lack of motor control. Muscles atrophy, waste away. Strength is lost. Movement is difficult. Uncontrollable shakes appear, especially in the hands. Dr. Shelton's drive to help The People with every ounce of Nerve Energy he had, his love for Hygiene and his contempt for The Disease Industrialists combined, worked for you and me and The People and against him. What must he have been thinking? Surely, he knew where all that lack of "Energy Enhancers #4: Rest & Sleep" over the decades was going to take him! Why would he drive himself like that when he knew, better than all The Health Seekers in the world, where it would take him?!?!? Only if you have a compulsive/addictive personality yourself, can you begin to understand a drive like this! Like T.C. Fry, Dr. Shelton certainly was not practicing "Proverbial Wisdom." Sweet sleep, in big doses, could have saved Dr. Shelton from riding out his life from his bed another 13 years. Back in his 30s and 40s and 50s and 60s, Dr. Shelton would have had to take another 4 to 6 hours a day for rest and sleep. How many books would not have been written? How many lectures not given? How many phone calls not made? How many Hygienic Reviews not published? How many patients not supervised? The tangled web he weaved for himself when he deceived himself all those years ended up making him a deathbed cocoon from which he could not rise. Dr. Shelton was left with legs that could not walk, left with hands that could not write, and left with vocal cords that could not speak. All for the sake of The Cause. Where, pray tell, Dear GetWell Friends, is the wisdom in that?"..............

Victoria Bidwell Lifelong Natural Hygienist.

Chrisb1.