Who Are We?

Dr Gary Sharpe, Phd, is a scientist and engineer by background, diagnosed with Early Onset Parkinson's Disease in 2009. After six years of dying inside, he started "Out-Thinking Parkinson's" in January 2016 in order to pursue pragmatic and practical solutions towards progressive symptom reduction for people with Parkinson's Disease. Today, Out-Thinking Parkinson's has become a major resource, where Gary and colleagues from around the world, who also have an insider's perspective of PD, share their knowledge, philosophies and experience of living well with PD, and, also, record their stories of recovery.

Along the way, Gary developed a keen interest in, and began to write about, wider aspects of health and wellness, via a substack “Gary Sharpe’s Articles”. The current focus of the substack include: living a better life; the impacts of trauma on society; the traumatizing aspects of modern culture on human flourishing and the human condition. Gary continues to publish Parkinson’s specific articles on the Out-Thinking Parkinson’s website.

Also in 2022, Gary partnered with therapist Lilian Sjoeberg to help develop paid online health and wellness professional services and courses, via Lilian’s HOPE shortcut website.

What Do We Do?

Although strongly science backed, Out-Thinking Parkinson’s focuses on pragmatic, practical and applicable research, with the lived experiences of people with PD around the world given equal weight to clinical and academic findings. We are not seeking to understand the microscopic details of the disease nor are we looking to develop the science over time scales of years, but instead we are engineering the simplest and most effective solutions that we can find and then freely sharing and documenting our empirical results for anyone else to evaluate for themselves.

Why Do We Do It?

Simply to help stop the suffering of People with Parkinson's and their families as quickly as possible.

Who Is It For?

We are focused on providing information and knowledge for everyone, including People affected by Parkinson's and those involved in their care, therapy and treatment, as well as education for the general public, students and the media.

What's In It for People with Parkinson's?

Trying the suggestions, and on-boarding the research and lessons learned posted on the Out-Thinking Parkinson’s, can help with significant reductions in both symptoms and drug-induced side effects, significant reduction in health and care costs, and improved quality of life.

What Does It Cost

The Out-Thinking Parkinson’s website is free and open access. For those seeking more personal support, or looking for more structured and directed plans, we have developed paid online services and courses via the HOPE shortcut programme, working with therapist Lilian Sjoeberg.

How Do I Stay Informed?

You can subscribe to our social media channels or sign up to our website notifications, but the best way is to join our Facebook Group and ensure Group Notifications are switched on. You can also subscribe for free to Gary’s substack, in order to get email notifications whenever he publishes a post there. Also, you can subscribe to the HOPE shortcut Newsletter for free.

How can i support?

The best way to financially supporting all this work is by buying one of the courses on the HOPE shortcut website, or becoming a member of the Community Area we are building there.