Rock Climbing for Parkinson's with Molly Cupka

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Molly Cupka is a climber and founder of the organization Up Ending Parkinson's, a nonprofit that teaches people with Parkinson's disease to rock climb. Parkinson's is the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer's and rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits including balance, grip strength, and mental acuity. For the climbers who Molly trains, there's another benefit that is harder to quantify, community and connection.

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Shelby! My book Will to Wild, Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life,
0:07.0	is now available in paperback, so it's light enough to take on the trail and on your summer travels.
0:12.0	You can get the book wherever books are sold. to take on the trail and on your summer travels.
0:13.0	You can get the book wherever books are sold,
0:15.3	and if you'd rather listen to it,
0:16.8	you can also get it on audible.
0:18.7	Yours truly as narrator, so it should be a good time.
0:21.8	Again, the title is Will to Wild. Adventures great and small to change
0:26.2	your life. He couldn't even talk and articulate, but the person blame was like he's just happy.
0:41.0	Afterwards he calmed down and he was like telling me through tears still.
0:44.2	He's like, I just never thought I would be able to do something like this and I can't believe I just
0:48.4	did that.
0:49.4	And it makes me appreciate climbing as a sport so much because it really gives people just like a confidence and the feeling that they can do anything.
1:00.0	Molly Kupka is a climber and founder of the organization upending Parkinson's, a nonprofit that teaches people with Parkinson's disease to rock climb.
1:10.0	Parkinson's is the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer's.
1:16.0	The cause is unknown, but scientists believe it stems from a combination of genetic and environmental
1:21.4	factors.
1:22.4	Rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits. genetic and environmental factors.
1:23.0	Rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits for people living with Parkinson's.
1:27.6	It helps them with balance, grip strength, and mental acuity.
1:31.8	For the climbers who Molly trains trains there's another benefit that is
1:34.8	harder to quantify, community and connection. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas
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