My late wife was experiencing macular degeneration based on a common genetic disorder based in the Ohio river region. There is some commonality for Native American people although her people are from the Louisiana area.
I wonder if this horseshit scattergun treatment could’ve alleviated some of her issues?
Their term for it was that it “significantly” helped.
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?