10 Ways Your Body could be Telling You Something’s Wrong

When you think of Parkinson’s, you probably think of tremors, but a more telling early Parkinson’s warning sign is handwriting that gets much smaller. “I have patients write a sentence such as ‘Today is a nice day’ 10 times,” says Michael S. Okun, MD, national medical director for the Parkinson’s Foundation. “As they write, each sentence gets smaller and smaller, and the words become more crowded together.”