I had a case of macular degeneration 7 years ago. For about three months I couldn't make out any features on a person's face from across a room with my right eye. My eye doc told me there was no cure. I contacted a person who worked at a holistic health college and she told me it sounded like I was dangerously deficient in zinc and selenium. She also sent me a chinese herbal formula called Celosia 10, some died red berries and told me to pick up bilberry supplement. I started taking these five supplements and in a week to ten days my eyesight was back to normal. On the next visit to the eye doc he was reading my file as he came in and asked if there were any changes since my last visit. I said 'as a matter of fact, yes'. He wrote down all the supplements I'd taken and I later printed out all the info off the containers and dropped it off at his office. He called to tell me that I was taking too much zinc and it could do liver damage, but I'd stopped taking it by then. Three times since, I've started to get the symptoms back and took at least some of these things with the same results. There are two types of MD, and I think only one responds to this approach.
how much zinc did you take per day in milligrams, and in what form, i.e.,
zinc gluconate, zinc sulphate, chelated etc?
also, how much selenium per day in micrograms were you taking?
what were the dried red berries?
Popeye's right eye is MSSING. It's not a squint. I think he ate all that spinach to keep his remaining left eye in good working order.
All of you that have submitted an opinion on that article about eyes and spinach are a bunch of clowns. Dr. Mecola does a lot of checking out things so that we will know the truth about things. You should be appreciative that someone like him cares enough to research drugs and foods and vitamins, etc. for us. Thank you Dr. Mecola.
Aww, lighten up, Nana. Everybody got the message, but there's nothing wrong with having a little fun with it on the side. We all appreciate what Dr. Mercola does or we wouldn't be here, leaving our comments!
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Spinach, schminach. Want to know 'Clark Kent's" diet.
Clark Kent's primary nutrient is sunshine. his powers are activated by exposure to our 'yellow' sun.
Clark eats and drinks, but he can survive long periods of time without food or beverage - he is a Superman, and his requirements are different than ours, except he needs sunshine!
Spinach truly is a wonderful vegetable, full of healthy properties. There's a website at
http://www.spinachwords.com
that shows how spinach is a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral, multi-amino, multi-phytonutrient powerhouse.
There's alot more to spinach than just lutein and zexanthin and it is beneficial for much more than just your vision. It is great for your heart, for cancer prevention, for maternal & fetal health & development, it boosts your natural SPF levels in your skin, it wards of memory loss, dementia and other signs of ageing, and it is good for strong bones, too.
Popeye was right - except maybe about eating a highly processed, canned product instead of fresh spinach.
Caucasian billberry is very effective on improving visual acuity and night vision, it was used by British fighter and bomber pilots in WWII for that purpose and has centuries of historic use.
I recommend a supplement that has the extracted active ingredients of caucasian billberry and most people get great results in a short period of time (2 to 8 weeks).
Part of the benefit comes from the powerful functional anti-oxidants and more from the many ways it promotes the entire health of the eye including the micro blood vessels in the retina.
As with many herbals, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get enough of the active ingredients to do the job from extracts of the herbs or teas. Properly extracted active ingredients yield the full power of the plant's chemicals and when they are extracted as a full spectrum active ingredient they can yield excellent results.
Sorry, that should have read 'dried red berries'. I'm non violent, really.
Take it easy NanaHannah. Nobody was picking on Dr. Mercola. They wouldn't be reading the newsletter and commenting if they didn't listen to his advice. Most people who read this site are probably already eating most of the foods on the list, but it is nice to be reassured that all the effort it takes to eat a healthy diet does pay off. These people aren't a "bunch of clowns" -they are just people who are taking Dr. Mercola's advice. Read back through past newsletters and you'll see that Dr. Mercola recommends laughter as one of the best "drugs" out there.
Yet again, more proof, as if it were needed, to the doctors..and everyone else...who thinks that diet is 'not that important' in preventing disease.What do many people think that good food is for...just 'filling a gap'?!!
If everybody only ate real, fresh, natural foods, we wouldn't have many of the health problems currently ripping through the population.
... It isn't rocket science!....wakey wakey!!
It constantly amazes me how so many people think that they can stay well, be fit and perform optimally ...on man-made junk devoid of the nutrients required.
It certainly is another exmple of how the 'person in a gorrilla suit ' can take our eye off the wider picture.
....Watch out for 'the gorrilla'....