[Vowel Lady]

Any vitamins really help?
What about a low protein diet?

[mrsD]

of vitamins now made specially for macular degeneration.
All of them have zinc in them.

The formulas change with time as more data comes out, and studies are done.

Baush and Lomb makes one called Preservision.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum

This article is the newest on the topic.
I think prevention is best. Once the process starts it seems to
be self sustaining.

And eat those veggies! Esp the orange/red ones!

[Marlene]

I just read an article where a doc is trying to restore DHEA levels in patients with Macular Degeneration. The premise being when blood level DHEA levels are low in the patients, the macula will make it's own hormones and it does it from cholesterol. The pathology of MD show that cholesterol is present in the lesions. The theory...restore the hormone thus prevent the build up of cholestol. The article is in the Dec issue of Life Extension.

The doc is Dr. Rozakis and is running clinical trials to test his theory.

[soxmom]

My mom has macular degeneration. and my db shows signs of it. The
doc said carrots carrots and more carrots and that about it.