If you’re one of our regular readers, then you already know what glaucoma is, but if this is your first time here… Glaucoma is a problem where pressure inside of the eye becomes too high and causes the optic nerve to deteriorate. If nothing is done, the person slowly loses their vision. Medical services in … Continue reading GLAUCOMA – THE SINGAPORE VERSION
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This discovery was made by Brazilian scientists – intermittent fasting increases the risk for type-II diabetes. This is after all the articles on the benefits of intermittent fasting? Yes, in their opinion fasting throughout the day weakens the action of insulin. Scientists at the University of Sao Paulo subjected healthy rats to 3 months of … Continue reading INTERMITTENT FASTING
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A beautiful tattoo is pleasing to the eye, but now it has another function, and it’s the possible future of medicine. The Swiss have created a bio-tattoo that only becomes visible when you have elevated levels of calcium. So what does calcium have to do with it? When different types of tumors develop, calcium levels … Continue reading Smart Tattoos: Catching Cancer in its Early Stages
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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 STENTS IN THE EYE: It’s like Blackberry vs iPhone (part 1)
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