part 1 I can’t stand huge pills. You can’t just shatter them with a hammer? It turns into powder. You can’t just smash the pills up, because the process of transforming vitamins into powder isn’t that simple, and trying to do it at home would be like trying to manufacture any other medication. Bioavailability is … Continue reading VITAMINS: SCIENCE OR RELIGION? (part 2)
View More Some people worship vitamins and take them by the handful, while others reject them categorically, seeing them as a shady, billions-of-dollars scam. But the truth, as usual, isn’t at either extreme or even in the middle, but scattered all over the spectrum. After a lot of material came out on the demythologization of vitamins, on … Continue reading VITAMINS: SCIENCE OR RELIGION? (1)
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Dark chocolate is in our sights once again. According to one preliminary study (they’re being cautious), indulging in your weakness for chocolate is good for the eyes. The research is strange and almost surreal. So what does chocolate have to do with the eyes? Facts are facts – adult subjects who eat a bar of … Continue reading WAKE UP TO CHOCOLATE
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There are all kinds of folk tales about what to do and not do in extreme situations, and the BBC has published a great article on the topic. We recommend that you read it in full, but here’s a description: Myth #1: Treat a Burn with Butter Instead, you need to remove the clothes … Continue reading IMPORTANT
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Unlike flavors of ice cream in Italy, the eyes aren’t very diverse in color. From very dark to brown, green, hazel, and grey to blue – that’s about it. And the number of pigments in the eye is even less. There’s only two – brown and red. Those pigments, plus collagen fibers and the topography … Continue reading ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOUR EYE COLOR?
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PART 1 … The stents iStent and Cypass – it’s like comparing the Blackberry to an iPhone. And this “iPhone” is covered by insurance, as well, at the time of the removal of cataracts? I don’t know exactly, but it seems to me yes. So you have become a master of this new innovation? … Continue reading STENTS IN THE EYE, PART 2
View More Today we speak with Dr. Benjamin, not just about this surprising new product (although everyone may be immune to such excitement by now), but also about the rocky path to innovation. Have there been any recent breakthroughs in glaucoma treatment? I use the word “treatment” hypothetically, because glaucoma is considered to be incurable. The main … Continue reading It’s like Blackberry vs iPhone (part 1)
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Every tenth person on the planet suffers from dyslexia. That’s about 700 million people. Dyslexia usually means an inability to read, while other mental functions are preserve. This is often explained both by genetics and environment, and it turns out that it is inherited, associated with ADD, and/or brain trauma, as well as stroke and … Continue reading WHY DON’T THEY READ ANYTHING?
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Because life – if it really is life and not a Hollywood scheme – is full of surprises, you never know what you’ll get with your health. As one friend of mine says, “I never thought that I’d have that «literary disease» with the funny name!” I’m not going to tell you what he has, … Continue reading Science of Yellow Spots
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We’re going to start somewhere far off-topic, but then unexpectedly – and as always – make our way back to the eyes. A rather sensational study was carried out. It turns out that there’s a connection between what people have in their heads, and their overall health. In a sense, this is a study dedicated … Continue reading RISKY COMPARISONS
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