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Light and Our Eyes
How UV, the visible spectrum and infrared wavelengths may help or harm vision. Light is fundamental not only to vision but also to human physiology. Yet different wavelengths of light can have profoundly different effects on the eyes—some healing, some harmful and some simply misunderstood. As an integrative neuro-ophthalmologist, I frequently encounter patients and also ...
Obesity Linked to Macular Degeneration
A Canadian study published in the journal Science elucidates a new molecular mechanism that may cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The research at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosement, in Montreal, shows how life stressors such as obesity reprogram immune system cells and make them destructive to the eye as it ages. “We wanted to know why some people with ...
The Eyes Have It
Vision annoyances affect everyone at one time or another. You can help your patients/clients see the light of good eye health and vision. Seeing, it is often said, is believing. But it is indeed so much more than that. Those with healthy vision and eye function can often take it for granted, until annoyances that ...
Envision Eye Health
Digital devices may cause damage to the eyes, but the latest natural products and supplements can help practitioners ease their patients’ worries. As one of the five senses, the gift of sight is often chosen in polls as the sense that people would least likely want to give up. Unfortunately for some, they aren’t given ...
Eye Spy
More people are dealing with irritating eye issues, such as dry eye. Lifestyle modifications and appropriate supplementation can help clarif-eye. Of all the five senses, sight is the one that most people are truly fearful of losing. Sight is so … visceral. When we see something we like or love or are attracted to, our ...
An Orange a Day Keeps Macular Degeneration Away
A new study has shown that people who regularly eat oranges are less likely to develop macular degeneration than people who do not eat oranges. Researchers at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research interviewed more than 2,000 Australian adults aged over 50 and followed them over a 15-year period. The research showed that people who ...
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