The macula is located in the center of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. The retina instantly converts light, or an image, into electrical impulses. The retina then sends these impulses, or nerve signals, to the brain.

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Your eye care professional may suspect AMD if you are over age 60 and have had recent changes in your central vision. To look for signs of the disease, he or she will use eye drops to dilate, or enlarge, your pupils. Dilating the pupils allows your e

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Dry AMD. If you have dry AMD, you should have a comprehensive dilated eye exam at least once a year. Your eye care professional can monitor your condition and check for other eye diseases. Also, if you have intermediate AMD in one or both eyes, or ad

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What is the dosage of the AREDS formulation? The specific daily amounts of antioxidants and zinc used by the study researchers were 500 milligrams of vitamin C, 400 International Units of vitamin E, 15 milligrams of beta-carotene (often labeled as e

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Wet AMD can be treated with laser surgery, photodynamic therapy, and injections into the eye. None of these treatments is a cure for wet AMD. The disease and loss of vision may progress despite treatment. Laser surgery. This procedure us

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When trying to determine whether or not a product is what it says it is, one of the elements you may want to look at is how the product is promoted. Be cautious of products promoted through: Telemarketers Direct mailings Infomerci

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The following foods are high in isoflavone: Isoflavone Amount (Mg) In Food (100g) Soybeans, green, raw 151.17 Soy flour (textured) 148.61 Soybeans, dry roasted 128.35 Instant beverage soy, powder, not reconstituted 109.51 Miso soup mix,

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Complementary and alternative therapies are medical treatments that are considered nontraditional. They include dietary and herbal supplements, acupuncture, chiropractic and massage therapy, biofeedback, homeopathy and eating certain foods that are t

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This listing is provided for your reference and is not a complete list of available resources. The information and opinions provided by these organizations are not necessarily those of The Cleveland Clinic Health System or WebMD. Alliance for Agi

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To learn if you are at risk for developing osteoporosis, take this simple quiz. Keep track of your points to determine your risk. My health is good to excellent 0 My heal

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To some extent the answer to this question is a subjective one reflecting belief system as much as fact. Here we shall briefly consider some ideas about the nature of biological aging. The more extreme proponents of the 'immortality' movement sugges

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Why and how should this knowledge be incorporated into a life extension prograrnme/calorie restriction diet? First, the why. Benefits of fasting Fasting provides the body with the opportunity for a 'physiological rest' which allows the sp

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A one year study of people with rheumatoid arthritis was carried out in Norway. The researchers stated that while fasting is proven as an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, many patients relapse when they start eating again. In this study

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The body's basic metabolic rate (BMR), which is an index of the rate at which the body burns fuel to create energy, is seen to slowly reduce, by around one per cent daily until it stabilizes at 75 per cent of its normal rate.4 In animal studies a num

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Later in this book, after evaluating the life extension effects of animal studies, I suggest strategies which mimic these experiments and which you can put into daily practice. For now, the purpose of this chapter is to highlight a different aspect o

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Dr Ralph Bircher also outlines the application of a raw diet, restricted in calories, to people with chronic disease, citing the dozen classic cases documented on film, in which the dietary approach developed by his father Dr Max Bircher-Benner was u

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Interesting results emerged when Professor Masanore Kuratsune, former Head of the Medical Department of the University of Kyushu in Japan, decided to see what would happen if he followed a restricted dietary intake similar to that provided to concent

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Just as and longevity research is based on animals because human experiments are impossible, having made his observations amongst humans, set out to prove his thesis by applying to laboratory rats - all of which started from the same level of well-be

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In northern India at that time grains such as wheat were eaten, usually as whole grains. Whole wheat has a high protein content, McCarrison observed, especially when eaten freshly ground, with the grain retaining much of its high levels of minerals

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From strains of rats and mice specially bred for experimental it is possible to select types which are more than commonly prone to particular diseases. These may involve different types of tumour (lung, breast, leukaemia etc.) or a variety of other c

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The ways in which animals are induced to achieve a restricted diet varies. In some instances they are allowed to eat whatever they wish of a fully balanced diet for a restricted amount of time; often this is for 12 hours every other day. In other ins

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Life can be extended by dietary restriction, a process which can also lead to a dramatic reduction in the chances of developing chronic disease in old age. This powerful statement is among the most important findings made by research doctors Weindru

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The main antioxidant nutrients include: vitamins A (or its precursor beta carotene), C, E, B', B3, B5, B6, B12 the mineral selenium and the amino acid compound glutathione. To go into detail on why each of these is needed would take a great deal of s

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The recent experimental treatment of ageing in the US using artificial growth hormone (see Chapter 7) has revived interest in the methods first strongly promoted by Pearson and Shaw in the early 1980s. These approaches certainly slowed, and indeed se

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I said early in this chapter that supplementation of artificial antioxidants seems to offer cell protection and some life extension potential. I also mentioned that when some nutrients are supplemented, such as pro-vitamin A (beta carotene) the tissu

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When animals are placed on dietary restriction programmes there seems to be a 'selective' improvement in levels of certain antioxidants and not of others. For example, no change is seen in levels of production of superoxide dismutase or glutathione p

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Insects have a short life expectancy, and experiments can be conducted which do not have to be spread over many months or years (even mice experiments on life extension take years). They do have implications for humans since, as has been demonstrated

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What about ageing? Now, since we know that antioxidants can slow down or switch off free radical activity, should it not be the case that ageing automatically slowed down when these are supplied in increased quantities? Weindruch and Walford are not

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Our bodies have evolved defensive substances such as the enzyme catalyst which can deactivate hydrogen peroxide (bleach), one of the substances our immune system uses in its own attacks on unwelcome, invading, micro-organisms. Catalase and other anti

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Professor Hipkiss is not sure. He says:   Ageing may be inevitable in complex organisms; indeed it is surprising that we live so long given the multiplicity of insults to which our cells are continuously subjected. Only homoeostatic mechanism

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