Conventional Medicine for Parkinson's Disease. Symptoms of Parkinsonâs disease can often be effectively controlled for years with medication. Levodopa -- also called L-dopa -- is the drug most often prescribed. The body metabolizes it to produce dopamine.
Giraffes sleep between ten minutes and two hours in a 24-hour period, averaging about 2 hours per day. Since an adult giraffe would make a good supper for a lion on the African plain, theyâve evolved some very interesting sleep patterns.
Not necessarily. Some lions sleep less, like the lions in Addo National Park in South Africa that sleep about 14 hours a day. This may be because they donât have established social groups, so they need to spend more time protecting themselves from other lions and elephants that could trample them.