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They are:

1. UV light/ sunlight

2. Poor diet

3. Lifestyle choices

4. Stress

Well, all of these items can lead to maculer degeneration, which is a loss of receptor cells in the center of your vision. But – we can resolve to counter each of these with the following:

1. UV-blocking sunglasses during peak solar hours
2 Healthy diet and supplementation
3. Exercise, quit smoking and soft drinks and moderate alcohol
4. Learn to breath and meditate in order to relax

Check how quickly you recover from car headlights. By taking Able-Eyes I can tell you that you will refurbish your retinal cells and recover within 3 – 5 seconds.

Also make sure you take Omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin D with meals to maintain memory and vision. Furthermore, the 5 steps to assist a longer life include heart health, exercise, good diet, problem solving and fine motor activities. You may have to take baby steps but they are worth it to reduce your risk or start recovering from macular degeneration (AMD). The Eye Care Revolution and eyeadvisory.com are here to help you in this quest.

Also Dr Abel has been invited to speak on Nutrition and the Eye at the Royal college of Surgeons in London march 16. At that time he will catch upon the latest approved treatments in the UK.

The $28 billion would cover the cost of training 65,000 optometrists and equipping clinics where they could prescribe eyeglasses, which can now be mass-produced for as little as $2 a pair. The study was done by scientists from Australia and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The authors assumed that 703 million people worldwide have uncorrected nearsightedness or farsightedness severe enough to impair their work, and that 80 percent of them could be helped with off-the-rack glasses, which would need to be replaced every five years.

The biggest productivity savings from better vision would not be in very poor regions like Africa but in moderately poor countries where more people have factory jobs or trades like driving or running a sewing machine.

Without the equivalent of reading glasses, “lots of skilled crafts become very difficult after age 40 or 45,” said Kevin Frick, a Johns Hopkins health policy economist and study co-author. “You don’t want to be swinging a hammer if you can’t see the nail.”

If millions of schoolchildren who need glasses got them, the return on investment could be even greater, he said, but that would be in the future and was not calculated in this study.

—-New York Times article, November 27th 2012

In a word, the OCT provides more information than photography and direct observation of certain eye diseases. It is painless, rapid and soon to be available in every doctor’s office.

Now dermatologists have incorporated this into their filed.

• Vitamin D3 drops appear to be successful in treating experimental Glaucoma in rabbits. They are not available in humans at this point, but all of us may benefit from oral Vitamin D supplementation.
• Ginkgo biloba and Salvia are two herbs that increase blood flow to the head and eyes. The research on ginkgo has been published ten years ago.
• The herbal combination iFolia contains multiple herbs including Pilocarpine and coleus, two items that have proven effective as eye drops in the past
• Mirtogenol has just come on the market as a supplement that may be helpful to lower intraocular pressure; it contains bilberry and pycnogenol
• Let’s not forget exercise, which repeatedly has been shown to be effective in so many ways.
• The Omega 3 DHA taken orally improves the outflow of fluid from the eye.

Now watch out – be aware that the preservatives BAK is in many eye drops and can cause chronic irritation with frequent usage. So, if you must take eye drops for glaucoma, choose one without BAK preservative.

Lastly, remember that even an eye drop is a medication that should be listed with your other medications for your doctor.

Below is an article about one of the several new retinal implants that can return vision to people with blinding eye disease. Research in ophthalmology is constantly blazing new frontiers. Stay tuned.