Hi friends, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD) six years ago, and on the day of the diagnosis I thought: tomorrow I will move to a wheelchair, and a day later I will die.   Well, I'm still alive. My name is Atan Gross, I'm 59, living in a relationship with a woman I love, have two amazing boys Gil (23) and Eyal (21), and I' m a Professor of Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. And - I'm in love with my research on the Biology of Mitochondria, the power plants  of our cells, that generate energy from the food we eat and the oxygen we breath. And in the past few years, I also started to research on how mitochondria malfunction may contribute to the initiation/progression of PD.     I believe that PD "hit me" because I was handling myself in a chronically "too-challenging" manner. This behavior jeopardized my well-being to a point that my body decided to change its life-long strategy of stillness and switch to shaking/t...