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Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.” Watch...
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Here is another healthy recipe featuring foods that health the eyes. This is a pasta dish with healthy vegetables in lieu of tomato sauce. (You can actually add some tomato sauce to it if you wish and the taste is good. I prefer it without tomatoes myself.) Vegetables (all organic): 2 large leaves of...
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Aggarwal BB, Harikumar KB: Potential therapeutic effects of curcumin, the anti-inflammatory agent, against neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2008; Cytokine Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutics,...
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I'm reading an article from 2007 on the New York Times Magazine website. It is a long article. I'm on page 3 of 12 right now. But I am finding it so interesting that I want to let everyone know about it. Here is the link to the easy to read version . I think you will really enjoy the article...
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Food truly is your best medicine. Therefore, I would like to introduce you to a tasty and super-powered healing recipe that is a lynchpin of my diet. Recipes like this one are a core part of my program for reversing my glaucoma. My goal is to maximize my intake of health-promoting foods, especially those...
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What's in the bottle on the right in the photo below? The bottle on the right contains ghee for topical ocular use. This is experimental.
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In 2006 I wrote about the news that Ocufors, a plant-based pharmaceutical product for glaucoma, had received regulatory approval from India's equivalent of the US FDA (the Drugs Controller General of India - DCGI). Ocufors is a natural, plant-derived product that has been found to be 30% more effective...
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On September 06, 2006 , some very interesting news for glaucoma patients was released. The business technology magazine Red Herring broke the news of a novel drug approval. The drug Ocufors is made from the ancient Ayurvedic herb Makandi. This is the first pharmaceutical product ever approved in India...
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Makandi ( Coleus forskholii ) is one of the most broadly useful herbs of Ayurveda, but until recently it was not well-known in the West. So wide-ranging are its therapeutic applications that it has been called a pharmacopaea in a single plant . Coleus forskohlii has been an important traditional Ayurvedic...
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If you allow yourself to see things through the eyes of another, you will be rewarded by better sight . Just in case that statement sounds a little too quixotic, let me frame this in terms of intraocular pressure and glaucoma and tell you what myself and others are finding by carefully measuring our...
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Experts in the Ayurvedic medical system tell us that the source of all disease and suffering is "the mistake of the intellect" ("pragyaparadh" in Sanskrit). What is "the mistake of the intellect" and how does it relate to health, vision and intraocular pressure? Dr. Ram Kant Mishra, an Ayurvedic physician...
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Eşref Armağan is a blind painter of Turkish origin according to Wikipedia. A person participating in our self-tonometry research sent me the follow YouTube link this morning. It is worth taking a few minutes to watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AgO6H0H98&eurl=http://widget- To quickly verify...
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To perform Ayurvedic self pulse diagnosis, feel your pulse with three fingers as shown in the images below. Men, use the fingers of your right hand to feel your left wrist. Women, switch hands and feel the pulse on your right wrist. In the image below, the man's left wrist is placed in his right palm...
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This exchange is part of an email conversation I have been having with a reader. [ Reader ] I am a yoga teacher and I recently came across your website, FitEyes.com . [ Dave ] How long have you been teaching yoga? What is your approach to inverted postures, given that you have glaucoma? Have you ever...
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Below is part of a very interesting email a reader sent me a little while ago. I asked for his permission to share some of it here. I hope this person eventually finds time to start a blog on FitEyes.com or share more of his experiences. I could learn a lot from him, and I suspect many other people would...