Vitamin C 250 mg
Vitamin E 90 mg
Zn++ 40 mg
Cu++ 1 mg
Lutein 5 mg
Zeaxanthin 1 mg
Dosage: take 2 pills twice a day with food
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Well, this composition, of the very kind of compounding as described by this article, is meant not to "cure" or reverse, but to stall the macular degenerative process for us older people. But there was a real problem with that doctor's advice. Although this specialist had in her hand a list of my prescribed and self-administered substances, she was suggesting that I ADD to that which I was already regularly taking, which apparently she just ignored!!
To me as a PhD in physical chemistry, that not only did not make sense, but verged on poisonong me with extra zinc; and furthermore, a month's supply would have cost about $35, or $370 a year!
Now, since I was already taking 500 mg of vitamin C and 50 mg zinc as gluconate (the limit on daily zinc recommended by other experts), I decided to look up the cost of adding vitamin E and the lutein (which is simply the powdered dried petals of marigold flowers, with the exact amount of zeaxanthin naturally occurrng proportionately in the petals) to what I was already taking. I already had some bottles of vitamin E waxing old in my medicine cabinet, not so far being taken; and I found that a month's supply of 6 mg lutein softgels was only $4.88 a bottle at Walmarts; so that's what I did. Just added the E and lutein/zeaxanthin pills to my regular stuff.
What happened in the eye examinations of the next two years, the result was that the macular degeneration had been halted, to the amazement of the opthalmologist, but what I was expecting.
So you see, one needs to make sure that these odd-ball non-intended use of these substances need to be carefully reviewed as applied to any individual, to make sure that any unintended unexpected negative results do not occur in other dimensions of one's health, eh?
Diagnosed with dry at first then deteriorating to wet over a year ago. On AREDS2 the whole time. Can’t say one way or the other whether it helps, but it certainly didn’t prevent going to wet! Ever since have been getting periodic needle injections into both eyes. These apparently have arrested and actually improved the condition, but not my idea of fun!
Whew, a PhD in P-Chem...impressive! Based on its reputation among Chem majors I knew, I (successfully) avoided P-Chem like the plague en route to a BS in Zoology (w/a minor in chemistry).
. . . I was already taking 500 mg of vitamin C . . .
I misspoke there. It was 1,400 mg of vitamin C that I was taking daily in the self-administered Vitamin Shoppe "Quercetin Plus" capsules, each of which contained 500 mg quercetin plus 1,400 mg vitamin C, a hefty dose of both in the protocol for suppressing the C-19 virus.
And that worked, also, which coupled with the zinc gluconate to potentiate the resistance to the virus. in the four years since the sprong of 2020, I had one confirmed bush with COVID-19, which lasted two days and then was over with. I never permitted anyone to inject my body with that rotten substance mis-identified as "vaccine." Nor in the decades before that did I EVER permit administration of the "flu shot" to damage my immunity system.