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© By Lena Sanchez
If you had lived during the early 1900s, you probably wouldn't
have known what a heart attack was. Virtually no one ever
experienced one back then. Although doctors knew about
cancer, a doctor rarely saw a case of cancer. Thanks to diet
and lifestyle changes that have occurred just since World
War II, these two diseases have quickly become the killers
of our day and everyone knows about them.
Then more recent changes in our diets (better known as
lack of decent diets), we are seeing the early signs of another
huge health problem. That problem is vision loss and
blindness. The general public has no clue that this is
happening. More alarming is the fact that no one seems
to have an answer to stopping it. There is a very small
handful of ophthalmologists who were alarmed at the rising
disease set about to do something about it.
Coming from growing up expecting to be blind in my later
years, due to an inherited gene, as most of my father's family
were and are, I prepared for that fate. So I can understand
the true gift of sight. I am fortunate in that I had an
ophthalmologists who would not touch my eyes until he was
fairly sure he could do something about it and did. In
January 2000, I under went one surgery and then another
followed in February 2000 and I now see better than I ever
have my whole life. Amazing!!! So no greater gift could be
had than the gift of vision. By that same token losing your
sight can be totally devastating. The inability to cope with
it have driven many into a life of loneliness and unhappiness.
The problem is, that most of you are sitting here reading
this saying it can never happen to me. WRONG, it is
happening at an alarming rate and the epidemic is not
curable with surgery or our pharmaceutical companies
magic pills! The epidemic I am speaking of is "Macular
Degeneration (AMD)" and "Glaucoma." Already AMD is
leading cause of blindness with Glaucoma in a close
second in the U.S. The situation is far worse in the
U.K. I am told. By the year 2025 it is expected that more
than 30 million people will have AMD.
AMD is a deterioration of the macula, a very sensitive
area on the back inner portion of your eye. Light passes
through the lens of the eye and is focused on the macula.
Then the optic nerve sends visual signals from there
directly to the brain. If your macula becomes damaged,
you lose the central portion of your vision. You will not be
able to read fine print or focus on small details, which
enable you to see a familiar face among the throngs.
Without realizing it you will not see true colors as they are
and many more inconsistencies. The loss of vision in the
middle can slowly become more increased or swiftly
almost overnight become increased until your vision will
be as a donut with the hole missing.
There are two forms of Macular Degeneration. The most
common is the dry form. Small blobs of fatty proteins are
deposited in the macular region. These blobs block the small
blood vessels feeding the macula, and choke off the oxygen
and nutrients that supply this portion of the eye causing
blindness. First may appear small middle area blindness
and become worse with time.
The wet form of Macular Degeneration involves the invasion
of new blood vessels into the macula. The new vessels leak
fluid, which has no place to go. It remains in the eye and
permanently damages the macula again causing blindness.
This form usually seems to occur overnight when in reality it
did not. To get there takes a history of nutritional imbalance!
Conventional medicine has no treatment or cure of Macula
Degeneration. They only think they know what causes it!
What they do seem to know is that smokers are at the top
of the list. Next comes the inclusion of fatty diet as well as
lack of proper nutrition. Free radical formation from our diet
and environmental toxins. But they really like to blame it on
aging, which really doesn't have to be a consideration at all.
Regular Aspirin usage. Regular Prescription usage.
Artificial sweeteners carry a lot of damage by creating a lot
of free-radical damage and one very strong reason is lack
of hydration (not drinking sufficient water).
Alternative medicine has come to the rescue again as found
by a handful of ophthalmologist in Japan and Italy along with
Drs. Leland Michael, Ralph Zehner and Merill Allen of the
Indiana University School of Optometry. They have all found
that everywhere that the traditional diets are still practiced a
very low incidence to no incidence of Macular Degeneration
occur. But the rest of the world where the modern diets are
popular it is raging out of control in epidemic proportions.
What To Do?
Besides watching your diet and avoiding drugs, fake fats,
refined carbohydrates and aspirin, there is a nutritional
regimen found to work with Macular Degeneration.
Nutritional supplements used in a study of several hundred
patients. Each patient involved in the studies received the
following daily supplements. Half in the morning an half in
the evening.
Beta-carotene 40,000 units Vitamin E (natural) 400 IU
Vitamin C 1,500 mg Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex 250mg
Quercetin 100 mg Bilberry extract 10 mg
Rutin 100 mg Zinc 25 mg
Selenium 100 mcg Taurine 200 mg
N-acetylcysteine 200 mg L-glutathione 10 mg
Vitamin B2 50 mg
In 1996 My friend Gil found that his middle vision was distorted
and for several days lived with the confusion caused by it until
he saw his Ophthalmologist who sent him to a retinal specialist.
The specialist diagnosed AMD and told him there wasn't much
that could be done about it and sometime in the future he would
become blind. He did not take this diagnosis lying down and went
home and started taking an herbal formula he had obtained a
short time before. At the end of the week his vision had
returned to normal and when he saw the Retinologist the next
visit, the doctor confirmed that Macular Degeneration had
subsided. Today his vision has continues to be normal with
no relapse. He even has had to decrease the strength of his
bifocals twice. Check out his story at
http://www.envirodocs.com/gils_story.htm
Don't wait for the problem to strike you act now and correct the
habits that make you a target for AMD or Glaucoma!
Lena
***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of
her life 8 years ago and is committed to helping
others do the same in all areas of life. Editor of
'Natural Environmental Health Facts & Your Home
Business Coach Ezine" Newsletter subscribe at
http://www.envirodocs.com/newsletter.htm Author of
Three health building books.
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