# Making the Invisible Visible | Parkinson’s, Family Memory, Michael J. Fox, and Ozzy Osbourne

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Podcast: [The Liat Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-liat-show-7088025)
Published: 2026-05-10T12:55:00+00:00
Episode link: https://liatportal.substack.com/p/making-the-invisible-visible-parkinsons
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## Resource

Current Time. In Parkinson’s, visibility carries meaning beyond emotion. It reaches into science, culture, and the structures that guide care and research. What becomes visible can shape diagnosis, funding, patient participation, research direction, and the way families understand what they are witnessing. In this podcast installment, the hosts connect the dots between my uncle, Henry Portal, Michael J. Fox, Ozzy Osbourne, Dr. Minna Schmidt ’s research at The Buck Institute for Research on Aging , and the long road toward earlier detection and better treatments. This first podcast episode moves from family memory into science, visibility, and the question of what may be happening inside the body long before Parkinson’s becomes visible. It begins with my uncle, Henry Portal, whose symptoms were present before the family knew how to understand what they were seeing, and expands into aging research, the microbiome, the gut-brain axis, Michael J. Fox, Ozzy Osbourne, and the public visibility of Parkinson’s. Read the full Parkinson’s series on The Liat Show on Substack, where the story continues across all eight episodes. You can also explore more of my work across platforms by searching for Liat Portal and The Liat Show. This is the first podcast episode based on my Parkinson’s series, written with Dr. Minna Schmidt. It begins with how this story found me, how my uncle Henry Portal entered it, and why Parkinson’s must be understood before it becomes fully visible. Read the complete series: * The Portal Into Parkinson’s: The Symptoms My Family Did Not Know How to Read * The Visible Layer of Parkinson’s: What We See Is Only the Surface * Back to the Future of Parkinson’s: Michael J. Fox, Ozzy Osbourne, and the Shock of Seeing It Young * Forward to the Past: Michael J. Fox an…

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