It is completely free. The PDQ-39 is the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire, the licensed quality-of-life questionnaire developed at the University of Oxford and used with people who have Parkinson's around the world. In about ten minutes it shows you how Parkinson's is affecting your daily life right now. When you finish, you pick a time to review your results with a Brain Regen coordinator, also at no cost.
By the time Parkinson's has a name, the process has usually been building for 10, 20, even 30 years. The tremor, the stiffness, the fatigue, the freezing, those outward symptoms are the surface. They are the late signs of something that has been moving quietly underneath for a very long time. And here is the part almost no one is told. Parkinson's is not one condition. What is driving it, and how it shows up, is different from one person to the next. It is why two people with the very same diagnosis can need almost opposite things. Over years of clinical pattern recognition across thousands of people, Dr. Greg came to recognize five distinct Parkinson's Types.
Parkinson's does not just live in your hands. The PDQ-39 measures where it is really reaching, across the parts of daily life that matter most. For a lot of people, it is the first real baseline they have ever had.
Walking, balance, and staying steady on your feet.
Dressing, eating, and the tasks that fill a day.
Mood, worry, and how you are really coping.
Stigma, and whether the people around you get it.
The help and backing you have in your corner.
Concentration, recall, and thinking clearly.
Speaking, being heard, and staying connected.
Pain, cramps, restlessness, and rest.
A nervous system that has been running hot for too long. Symptoms often worse later in the day and at night, with poor sleep and a tension you cannot shake.
Poor flow, in the body and the emotions. Fixed pain, rigidity, a sense of slowing down and locking up, often in people carrying long-running stress.
A constitutional low battery. Weak drive, poor stamina, slow to recover from anything, a tank that never quite holds a charge.
Physical and metabolic congestion. Sluggish digestion, heaviness, brain fog, a system whose clearance has backed up.
A deep depletion of the body's reserves. Thin, dry, worse at night, low resilience, the well drawn down over years.
The PDQ-39 gives you the picture. The review is where a Brain Regen coordinator sits with you, reads it in plain language, connects it to the five-types framework, and helps you see your best next step.
It is a real conversation about your results, and what they may mean for you. It is complimentary, and you are welcome to bring your spouse or the person who is in this with you.
Dr. Greg did not start in neurology. He started as a preschool teacher in Portland, watching a four-year-old sit dulled and flat on medication prescribed to make the classroom easier, certain there had to be a better way. That thought pushed him into medicine.
In 2018 it became personal. His wife, Sarieah, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive neurodegenerative disease, and for the first time he sat on the other side of the table, the side you may be sitting on now, asking whether anything could be done. The system had no real answers, and it took his hope to zero.
So he stopped asking what could be prescribed, and started asking something deeper: why this was happening, in this body, at this time, and what was driving it. That question became his life's work. It became The Eckel Protocol® and Brain Regen.
He is a naturopathic physician trained in both naturopathic and Chinese medicine, a past president of the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine, and the author of the best-selling Defying Parkinson's. The coordinators you meet are the team he trained himself.
This is the first step to knowing your Parkinson's Type. Answer honestly, one question at a time, and you will see how Parkinson's is reaching into your daily life right now.
It is the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire, a validated, licensed quality-of-life questionnaire developed at the University of Oxford for people with Parkinson's. It looks at how you are doing across eight areas of daily life and shows where things are affecting you most right now. It is not a diagnosis. It is a clear picture of where you stand, and the first step toward understanding your type.
Yes. Both the PDQ-39 assessment and the results review with a Brain Regen coordinator are complimentary. There is no cost to see your results and talk them through.
Not on its own. Your type comes from a deeper look at your constitution, history, and labs. The PDQ-39 and your results review are where that journey starts.
The assessment takes about ten minutes, one question at a time. The results review afterward is about 45 minutes.
Please bring them. This lands differently when the people who are in it with you are on the call too.
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