Chloe Hadjimotheou

A couple of days later, Raina Wynne responded by publishing a long blog post on her website.

And she published three doctor's letters.

The first letters dated 2015.

That's two years after Rainer and Mothsay Moth was diagnosed.

One letter runs through his medical history, suggesting that all his previous tests have come back negative.

Interestingly, there's mention of Moth's horticulture degree, but no mention of any long-distance walking, something I imagine might be medically relevant to a patient with severe symptoms.

But that letter does mention corticobasal degeneration.

It also talks about paroxysmal symptoms, abnormal posturing on the left of the hemibody and bradykinesia.

I needed to get a translation.

He's not giving him a diagnosis of corticobasal syndrome?

And were they quite disabled by the end of that period?

Would it be possible to do a medical trial where you could get patients to exert themselves physically in the way that moth did in the salt path to see if it could have a potential positive effect on the condition?

Do medical miracles happen?

Over the last six months, lots of people have written to me to tell me about their experiences with CBD.

One woman told me that as she read my article in The Observer questioning Moth's condition, relief washed over her.

Because for years after reading The Salt Path, she wondered whether she could have kept her sick mother alive longer if she'd forced her to walk the coastal path, even though she knew deep down that her mother who had CBD could never have done it.

Chris Pleasby was diagnosed with CBD in 2022.

He's gone from being an avid hiker to struggling to get to the end of his garden.

I mean, I guess for you, it was so obvious that it couldn't be true.

Oh gosh, yeah.