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"Try 100 mg twice daily in combination with alpha-lipoic acid. • eye disease. Diabetes increases the risk of developing virtually all serious eye diseases. Inadequate intake of vitamin A, which is characterized by night blindness (i.e., difficulty seeing in the dark or adjusting to bright lights), is also associated with serious eye diseases. Take 25,000 IU of vitamin A (not beta-carotene) daily for thirty days, then reduce the dosage to 10,000 IU daily. If, however, you are a woman of childbearing age and there is any chance that you might get pregnant, do not take more than 5,000 IU daily." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Design of Physicians' Health Study Il-a randomized trial of beta-carotene, vitamins E and C, and multivitamins, in prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and eye disease, and review of results of completed trials. Ann. Epidemiol. 10, 125-134. 87. Liu, S., Manson, J. E., Lee, I. M., Cole, S. R., Hennekens, C. H., Willett, W. C, and Buring, J. E. (2000). Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Study. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 72, 922-928. 88. Mennen, L. I., Sapinho, D., de Bree, A., Arnault, N., Bertrais, S., Galan, P., and Hercberg, S. (2004)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In 2001, the National Eye Institute conducted the Age-Related eye disease Study (AREDS), which involved more than 3,600 Natural Prescription for Preventing Macular Degeneration and Preserving Vision Multivitamin: Containing at least 500 mg vitamin C, 400 IU vitamin E, and 15 mg beta-carotene Zinc: 30-80 mg Omega-3 fatty acids: 1,000 mg (1 g) Lutein (and zeaxanthin): 10 mg for general prevention, 20-40 mg for someone who already has macular degeneration Note: All dosages are daily dosages and in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted. people." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"If you have any of the symptoms of eye disease described in this book, please see your eye doctor immediately. The earlier you detect and diagnose eye disease, the easier it is to halt its progression and even reverse it. We recommend yearly eye exams, and if you have any progressive eye disease such as cataracts, macular degeneration, or glaucoma, we recommend checkups every six months. Ten Steps to Restoring Vision and Vitality_ It follows that if you take the necessary steps to prevent eye disease or keep it from worsening, your whole body will enjoy the benefits." - Marc R. Rose, Michael R. Rose, Save Your Sight! Natural Ways to Prevent and Reverse Macular Degeneration (Get the book.)

"All forms of diabetes increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, eye disease, and kidney failure. Symptoms of elevated blood sugar include lightheadedness, confusion, weakness, and, if untreated, seizures, coma, and death. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that stimulates uptake of glucose or sugar, the body's food, into cells. Unregulated glucose in the blood can lead to a hospital-room emergency. Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes is a genetic disease that usually occurs in childhood but can also occur in adults, normally those under age forty." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"As a result, they tend to be at greater risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration, a progressive eye disease that is one of the leading causes of blindness. No matter what the color of your eyes, wearing dark glasses can help protect eyes from these and other eye disorders. Eye Color Changes Just as our genes program the color of our eyes, they appear to play a role in age-related eye-color changes. About 10 to 15% of Caucasians experience eye color changes during adolescence or adulthood." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Broccoli does indeed contain two phytochemicals thought to help eye health, lutein and zeaxanthin, and fend off macular degeneration (an age-related eye disease). Broccoli may help reduce inflammation and joint pain. Laboratory studies show that sulforaphane may also block an enzyme that triggers inflammation and joint pain. This is great news for those who suffer from arthritis or give their bones and joints a beating by running on hard surfaces or playing contact sports." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Age-Related eye disease Study Research Group. (2007). The relationship of dietary lipid intake and age-related macular degeneration in a case-control study: AREDS Report No. 20. Arch. Ophthalmol. 125, 671-679. 199. Parekh, N, Chappell, R, Millen, A., Albert, D. M, and Mares, J. A. (2007). Association between vitamin D and age-related macular degeneration in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988-94. Arch. Ophthalmol. 125, 661-669. 200. Seddon, J. M., George, S., and Rosner, B. (2006)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Antioxidant vitamins and age-related eye disease. Proc. Assoc. Am. Physicians 111, 16-21. 60. Chiu, C.-J., and Taylor, A. (2007). Nutritional antioxidants and age-related cataract and maculopathy. Exp. Eye Res. 84, 229-245. 61. Taylor, A., Jacques, P. F., Nowell, T., et al. (1997). Vitamin C in human and guinea pig aqueous, lens and plasma in relation to intake. Curr. Eye Res. 16, 857-864. 62. Yeum, K. J., Shang, F. M., Schalch, W. M., Russell, R. M., and Taylor, A. (1999). Fat-soluble nutrient concentrations in different layers of human cataractous lens. Curr. Eye Res. 19, 502-505. 63." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"There was a good chance that any churchgoer found to have signs of the eye disease would be prescribed Xalatan, Pfizer's high-priced prescription eyedrops. The pharmaceutical companies had also become among the biggest advertisers in the spiritual magazine called Guideposts, which was founded in 1945 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The magazine attracted millions of readers with stories of hope and divine guidance like one entitled "What Prayer Can Do." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The high insulin levels of type 2 diabetes contribute to diabetes complications, including cholesterol abnormalities, diabetic eye disease, diabetic kidney disease, and vascular disease. Type 2 diabetes is like a car trying to pull a trailer that's too large. The car overheats, isn't fuel efficient, and wears out faster. You'd trade your car in for a truck that has towing capacity, but the problem is, you can't just go out and buy a larger pancreas to handle your diabetes. In animal studies, Dr." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"An operation to remove the blood that sometimes collects at the back of the eyes when a person has eye disease. yeast infection—A vaginal, blood, sinus, or colon infection that is usually caused by a fungus. Women who have this infection may feel itching, burning when urinating, and pain, and some women have a vaginal discharge. Yeast infections occur more frequently in women with diabetes because of the high blood glucose." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Dietary carotenoids, vitamins A, C, and E, and advanced age-related macular degeneration. eye disease case-control study group. JAMA. 1994 Nov 9; 272(18):1413-1420. Wang Y, Chang C, Chou J, Chen H, Deng X, Harvey B, Cadet JL, Bickford PC. Dietary supplementation with blueberries, spinach, or spirulina reduces ischemic brain damage. Experimental Neurology. 2005 May;193(l):75-84. Strawberries www.calstrawberry.com; www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/strawberries/ Hannum SM. Potential impact of strawberries on human health: a review of the science. Cn't Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2004;44( 1): 1-17." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Center part of the back lining of the eye that senses light, retinopathy—See diabetic eye disease. risk factors—Traits that make it more likely that a person will get an illness. For example, a risk factor for developing Type-2 diabetes is having a family history of diabetes. saturated fat—Fat that comes from animals. secondary diabetes—Diabetes that develops because of another disease or because of taking certain drugs of chemicals. self-monitoring blood glucose—A way for people with diabetes to find out how much glucose is in their blood." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"One of the drugs is aminoguanidine, a compound that blocks glycation-induced damage in experimental models of diabetic kidney disease (nephropathy) and diabetic eye disease (retinopathy). Aminoguanidine has also been shown to block glycation-induced diabetic vascular damage. However, there are side effects associated with the use of aminoguanidine, including the fact that it inhibits the synthesis of an important blood vessel-dilating molecule, nitric oxide, which makes taking it a cardiovascular risk. A more familiar drug with antiglycation properties is aspirin." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "You should also have your eyes checked at least once a year (including having your pupils dilated) by an eye doctor who has expertise in diabetes-induced eye disease. DENTAL DISEASE Making regular dental appointments if you have prediabetes or diabetes is very important, as your chances of having dental problems increase in the presence of elevated blood glucose." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"People with thyroid eye disease also have difficulty blinking, making them look like they're staring. Eyes that don't blink enough SIGN OF THE TIMES President George H. W. Bush was diagnosed with Graves' disease eighteen months after his wife, Barbara, was found to have the disorder.The chances of Graves'occurring so soon in 2 unrelated people living in the same household—a phenomenon known as conjugal Graves'disease—is about 1 in 3 million." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "This can be a very early warning sign of diabetic eye disease. If things start looking yellow, however, you could have a type of chro-matopsia called xanthopsia. Xanthopsia can be a warning sign that you have jaundice from a serious liver disease. If you're seeing yellow and/or halos around objects and are taking digitalis (a drug commonly used to treat certain kinds of heart disease), it may be a red flag that you have digitalis toxicity." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "But if you're not into drugs, seeing abnormally colored objects—medically known as chromatopsia—can be an early warning sign of diabetic eye disease. Even slight fluctuations in blood sugar levels can very quickly produce these vision changes. If you do have diabetes, these color vision distortions can make it very difficult for you to monitor your blood sugar levels using color-coded urine test strips. So this is yet another reason to say no to cake." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"An eye disease characterized by increased pressure in the eye. glomeruli—Tiny blood vessels in the kidneys where the blood is filtered and waste products are eliminated. glucagon—A hormone that raises the blood glucose level. When someone with diabetes has a very low blood glucose level, a glucagon injection can help raise the blood glucose quickly. glucose—A sugar in our blood and a source of energy for our bodies. glucose tolerance test—A test that shows how well the body deals with glucose in the blood over time; used to see if a person has diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Risk factors associated with age-related nuclear and cortical cataract: a case-control study in the Age-Related eye disease Study, AREDS Report No. 5. Ophthalmology 108, 1400-1408. 24. Smith, W., Mitchell, P., and Leeder, S. R. (1996). Smoking and age-related maculopathy: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. Arch. Ophthalmol. 114, 1518-1523. 25. Tsai, S. Y., Hsu, W. M., Cheng, C. Y., Liu, J. H, and Chou, P. (2003). Epidemiologic study of age-related cataracts among an elderly Chinese population in Shih-Pai, Taiwan. Ophthalmology 110(6), 1089-1095. 26. Mukesh, B. N., Le, A., Dimitrov, P. N." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"For a more impartial view, get a second opinion from an optometrist (a health-care provider licensed to provide a broad range of eye-care services), rather than a surgical ophthalmologist (a medical doctor who specializes in eye disease). •Gallbladder removal. Since the late 1980s, the number of gallbladder surgeries has increased by 40%. The reason is the advent of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. This procedure can be done in an outpatient setting —conventional surgery typically requires three days in the hospital—is more convenient and more profitable for doctors." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Indian Medicine: Black Nightshade is used for rheumatic pain, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, wounds, swellings, ulcers, flatulence, dyspeptic complaints, vomiting, dysuria, earache, hiccups, eye disease, leprosy, and skin diseases. Homeopathic Uses: Black Nightshade is used for cerebral and meningeal irritation. precautions and adverse reactions No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) "Seddon JM, Ajani UA, Sperduto RD et al: Dietary carotenoids, vitamins A, C, and E, and advanced age-related macular degeneration. eye disease Case-Control Study Group. JAMA; 272(18):1413-1420. 1994 Sommerburg O, Keunen JEE, Bird AC et al: Fruits and vegetables that are sources for lutein and zeaxanthin: the macular pigment in human eyes. Br J Ophthalmol; 82(8):907-910. 1998 van het Hof KH, West CE, Weststrate JA et al: Dietary factors that affect the bioavailability of carotenoids. J Nutr; 130(3):503-506." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"For active retinal eye disease, try 15 to 30 mg daily of either lutein esters or unbound lutein. In addition, Pyc-nogenol, 100 to 150 mg twice daily, may be helpful in treating diabetes-related retinopathy. • Kidney disease. High blood-sugar levels are toxic to the kidneys. N-acetylcysteine can often restore normal kidney function, if the damage is not too severe. Take 500 mg three times daily. Poor circulation. Reduced circulation and fragile blood vessels are commonly associated with prediabetes and diabetes." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) "One, inflammation aggravates many of the complications of diabetes, including kidney and eye disease. Two, inflammation is involved in every disease process, either causing or exacerbating symptoms and promoting the spread of the disease. Three Must-Have Medical Tests Three simple medical tests can clarify your risk of developing prediabetes, and several other tests may be helpful. Fasting Glucose Fasting glucose is part of nearly all conventional blood tests that patients undergo in the doctor's office and the hospital." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"The Age-Related eye disease Study report 8 (AREDS) was an 11-center, double-blind, prospective trial designed to evaluate the effect of high-dose vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and zinc supplementation on ARMD progression and visual acuity. Three thousand six hundred forty (3,640) participants aged 55 to 80 years were enrolled. All subjects had extensive small drusen, intermediate drusen, large drusen, noncentral geographic atrophy, or pigment abnormalities in one or both eyes, or advanced ARMD or vision loss due to ARMD in one eye." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Maintaining a healthy nervous system will help support eyesight and prevent eye disease. Adaptogens for Improved Eyesight By providing antioxidant support, adaptogens support both the nervous system and eyesight. 50. The following adaptogens promote healthy vision: amla, eleuthero, lycium, and schisandra. Adaptogen Notes • Lycium is extremely rich in two carotenoids (antioxidant compounds that produce the orange or yellow color in vegetables and fruits): lutein and zeaxanthin. They are pigments used by the retina of the eye and are critical for eye health." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Indian Medicine: Black catnip is used for stomach conditions, ascites, jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, intermittent fever, conditions of the urogenital tract, eye disease, scabies, ulcers, and wounds. precautions and adverse reactions No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. dosage Mode of Administration: Whole herb preparations for internal and external use. Preparation: Decoction: 10 plants to 1 liter of water Daily Dosage: No exact doses are known." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Overindulgence in concentrated sweet foods also is not good for the eye and can cause eye disease, especially diabetic eye problems. Any eye disease that is not properly treated can be the direct cause of another eye problem. Neglect of conjunctivitis especially can weaken the natural functions of the eye and cause other eye diseases. This factor is very important for the doctor to understand when managing the health care of the eye." - Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay., The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments (Get the book.)

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