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BONUS REPORT!
Advanced Q & A Session
Learn about traditional healing for Macular Degeneration, cataracts and other eye problems from one of the very few acupuncturists who specializes in the field, Dr. Andy Rosenfarb.Find out why leading research institutions are studying his methods - and what you can do to stop failing vision.
ACUPUNCTURE COULD SAVEYOUR SIGHT!
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There just wasn’t enough time in the original teleseminar, Acupuncture Healing for Macular Degeneration, Cataracts and other Eye Problems. to cover everything you need to know for your vision!
So Martin Sussman and Dr. Rosenfarb got together for a follow-up session during which they also answered the essential questions remaining from attendees of the original teleseminar.
This Bonus Report is the transcript of that follow-up session.
Dr. Rosenfarb integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and cutting-edge approaches of Naturopathic Medicine to maximize results for patients with degenerative eye conditions. He is the author of Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine and Ophthalmology in Chinese Medicine.Visit www.acupuncturehealth.net/ for more details.
Martin Sussman, a natural vision care expert, founded the Cambridge Institute in 1976. He is author of The Program for Better Vision book and audio series, co-author with Dr. Ernest Loewenstein, O.D., Ph.D., of Total Health at the Computer, and co-developer with Dr. Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D., of The Read Without Glasses Method. Visit www.BetterVision.com for more about your eyes.
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INTRODUCTION
Dr. Kondrot: Welcome to Healthy Vision. This is your host Dr. Edward Kondrot. This
evening we have Martin Sussman as my guest, and he’s the founder
and president of the Cambridge Institute for Better Vision. And he has
Martin Sussman: As you know, we had many. many questions from teleclass listeners that
we couldn’t get to. That’s why we’re talking today: to answer those
questions and also to give people a fuller, more well-rounded and
deeper understanding of what we’ve already addressed.
First of all, Macular Degeneration. Is there hope to stop it from getting
any worse? Is there hope to slow it down, and is there hope to reverse
it? And what role does acupuncture play in that?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Well, great question. It depends on who you ask. If you ask a
conventional ophthalmologist they’re going to say, no, there’s nothing
that can be done for Macular Degeneration. Yet, there is ample research
that has shown that if you take certain nutrients that may be beneficial,
but there’s no conventional, medically-oriented treatment.
However, in terms of alternative or holistic approaches, yes, there’s
absolutely hope. It doesn’t mean it’ll help in every single case, but the
majority of the cases do respond very well to acupuncture, particularly
Micro Acupuncture™.
Martin Sussman: What’s the difference between Micro Acupuncture and acupuncture?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Traditional acupuncture is based on the 12 or 14 main meridians in the
body. It’s the primary system taught in most acupuncture schools
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ACUPUNCTURE for Macular Degeneration, Cataracts, and Other Eye Problems
Q & A
L I V E A U D I O E V E N T T R A N S C R I P T I O N
Martin Sussman and Dr. Andy Rosenfarb, ND, L.Ac., CA
around the world. Very effective for hundreds of different health
conditions. Micro Acupuncture is just that. It’s a micro system that uses
a small map of the body, like reflexology does. The small map of the
body is reflected in the hands and feet.
There are 48 points in this specific acupuncture system. Again, only in
the hands and feet. We use certain points, but not all, of these 48 points
to help stimulate blood flow and
nerve conduction up to the eyes
and to stimulate the visual cortex.
Martin Sussman: Talk about the difference between
acupuncture and acupressure
massage. One of the questions
was, Where are the acupuncture
points for Macular Degeneration,
and what are the best hand and
foot points to treat Macular
Degeneration?
Also, if there’s some reference to
whether or not you can tell people what the points are, and should they
start rubbing them and massaging themselves?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Well, acupuncture is the use of needles. We use really thin needles, and
we insert them into acupuncture points in order to stimulate the point
to get a response.
Acupressure is the use of massage techniques, or you can use essential
oils on acupuncture points, or light, colors, and these types of things.
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“There are 48
points in the
acupuncture
system.
We don’t use them
all... we help
stimulate blood
flow and nerve
conduction.”
You’re not really breaking the skin, or the surface of the skin, in
acupressure.
They’re both effective. Acupuncture we find to be a little bit more
effective for neurological conditions, but you can also use acupressure
to great benefit if you do it daily over time.
The points for the Micro Acupuncture
in the hands and feet, those are not
diagrammed. There are no books or
anything like that. But there are a lot
of other points. There are traditional
points that can be very useful for
different eye conditions, including
Macular Degeneration. In my books –
I have two: one is for clinicians, one is
more for laypeople. (See Introduction
page for titles.) Both have listings and
diagrams of the points.
If you go online, you can see the points around the eyes and forehead
that are effective that you can massage with your hands and fingers.
Put some pressure on there on a daily basis. We usually recommend 30
to 60 seconds of pressure on each point daily. That can be pretty
beneficial.
Martin Sussman: We talked a little about slowing down or reversing Macular
Degeneration. A lot of questions have to do with what kind of a cure is
there for Macular Degeneration? What’s the latest research on stem cell
therapy? Things like that. I think it’d be worth addressing the difference
between the cure concept and the healing concept once again.
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“You can also use
acupressure
to great benefit
if you do it daily
over time.”
Dr. Rosenfarb: Well, cure, legally we can’t ever use that term and, conceptually, we
don’t like it. Cure means you have a complete remission of a condition.
When you’re dealing with a nerve degenerative condition like Retinitis
Pigmentosa or Macular Degeneration or something like that, what we
strive for is management.
The condition is going in a certain direction. In very, very, very early
stages we’ve had situations where we’ve been able to completely
reverse it. That’s not common, but we have seen it happen. Most
people who come to see me or seek acupuncture are pretty developed,
moderate-to-severe cases. There’s been some nerve cell damage. At
this point what we want to try is to recover whatever we can. There are
definitely some nerve cells that are dormant; meaning, they’re weak and
not functioning. They’re functional, but not functioning. Then you have
abnormal cells.
Both of those aren’t going to be functioning; meaning, they’re going to
impair your vision. But through acupuncture, through the right
supplementation, nutrition, and diet and exercise, and all these other
lifestyle changes, what we can do is recover those sick cells and weak
cells. You can’t bring back dead tissue or scar tissue or anything like
that, so we optimize whatever we can. We bring back whatever vision
we can. Then the goal is to hold it there.
Most people with these degenerative vision conditions are losing
anywhere from 3% to 10% of their vision per year. If you can slow that
down to 1%, or 2%, or 3%, or stop it entirely, which has happened in
some cases, I mean, that’s tremendous.
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Martin Sussman: That fits in with one of the other questions. Which is, How long does it
take for eyesight to degenerate so much a person can’t drive, and how
fast do things get bad? You said, generally speaking, it’s 3% to 10%
without any positive intervention.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes, and that doesn’t include wet Macular Degeneration, where
somebody may have a spontaneous bleed or something like that. We’re
talking about dry Macular Degeneration or Retinitis Pigmentosa and not
really looking at any bleeding, or
any trauma, or anything that really
accelerates something.
Martin Sussman: Did you say that once there’s
scarring, you can’t regenerate scar
tissue at all?
Dr. Rosenfarb: I don’t think so. Maybe there are a
lot of people who suggest that, but
I don’t think so.
Martin Sussman: And that, generally, the scarring
comes either through the nature of
the effect of the condition and/or
through the laser treatment?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Laser treatment. Injections. Just inflammation and the body’s attempt
to try to recover. You know, if you scratch yourself or you cut yourself,
you get scar tissue. That’s how the body heals it. It’s due to a lack of
collagen. It’s a substitute for collagen. As we age we have less access to
that. This is the secondary spackle that it has, and scar tissue is pretty
tough stuff. It’s hard to break down and break through.
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“Most people
with these
degenerative
vision conditions are
losing anywhere
from 3% to 10% of
their vision per
year.”
Martin Sussman: Drugs and surgery. When do you think, or do you think at all, that it’s
ever appropriate for things like Avastin®, or Lucentis®, or laser surgery,
and what role do all of the conventional medical drugs play in your
holistic approach?
Dr. Rosenfarb: I think people who have uncontrollable eye pressure in cases like
glaucoma, mid-to-late stage, and they either can’t or they’re not willing
to do things to take care of it or manage it, certainly need medication. If
the medication won’t do it, then you can have things like surgical
procedures or laser procedures to help improve the eye pressure. With
wet Macular Degeneration, or Diabetic Retinopathy, or retinal
detachments, sometimes you need it. Sometimes the bleeding is just so
bad it’s an emergency situation, and the blood coagulating in the eye
can cause damage.
So, if you don’t have access and if it’s a severe bleed, yes, Avastin® or
Lucentis® may be appropriate. If you have Diabetic Retinopathy and
you have a severe bleed, yes. If you have a retinal detachment, yes. Go
get it put back and reattached. But, in the meantime, use integrative
ophthalmology, which means use things like acupuncture to
understand what caused it and help the healing process along at a real
effective rate to maximize your improvement and prevent any future
occurrences of happening.
On stem cells, my take is that gene therapy is probably going to end up
being a little bit more of an effective treatment. Stem cells, I like the
sound of it. I know they’re good for trauma; if you have a head trauma
or injuries. They work fantastically because they seem to migrate
towards trauma sites.
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When you’re dealing with things like Macular Degeneration and an
aging population, there are a lot of issues. One is they can’t control the
stem cells, which can be a problem. Especially if there’s undiagnosed or
low-grade cancer cells in the body. They know that stem cells will cause
cancer proliferation at a pretty rapid rate. So that risk factor is almost
enough to put the whole operation down, which is why there has been
so many issues with it.
Even doctors who do stem cells, they
know that if there’s any family
history or there’s anything going on
that suggests cancer, they won’t
even use it. So I think that stem cells
may someday be effective, but they
really, really have to get a lot more of
a handle on it; to really harness them
to – even if you inject them right
into the eye – it’s not necessarily
going to stay there and grow. Stem
cells are wild. They can go anywhere
and do whatever they want.
The second part with stem cells is that you’re not identifying the
environment. You’re not considering the whole system. So it’s similar if
you were to take a rose. You grow a rosebush and you take that and
plant it in the Sahara Desert. Now you have a perfectly healthy
rosebush, which would be synonymous with the stem cells, but the
environment is not hospitable in the Sahara to maintain a healthy life
for a rosebush, so it’s going to die. So that’s my other issue with stem
cells.
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“Sometimes the
bleeding is just so
bad it’s an
emergency
situation, and the
blood coagulating in
the eye can cause
damage.”
If you have an environment that’s low oxygen, low blood flow, and toxic
accumulation, the stem cells aren’t going to live that long.
Martin Sussman: So that’s the future. What’s more common now are things like Avastin®
and Lucentis®, the injections that people get. Some people say, they
haven’t really helped me, I’ve been getting them for a year. Other
people say, it sort of helped a little, but not really and I’ve got a
detached retina. Can we do acupuncture and other holistic healing
while we’re getting the injections, or the series of injections?
Speak to the injections and the drugs and what to expect from that:
when to do it, when not to, and holistic healing things along the way.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Again, injections. If you have an emergency situation where you have a
retinal bleed, you’ve got to go to your ophthalmologist and get it taken
care of. It’s an emergency situation that needs medical attention, or
emergency medical attention. Once the emergency has been
controlled, you can absolutely use integrative therapies. That means
using Western Medicine and Alternative Medicine, things like
acupuncture to help control it and help improve the overall structure of
the blood vessels and improve the integrity of the blood vessels so they
don’t break anymore, so you don’t have any more risk of bleeding.
To the people who have had injections for a year without any
improvement, I find that interesting, to say the least. If they’re not
working, I can’t really see why an ophthalmologist would continue to
recommend them. I just don’t understand. That doesn’t make sense to
me, other than just being protocol.
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If they’re not working, there’s no reason to continue. A lot of doctors are
now just doing it routine. If there’s no bleeding and there’s no fluid
accumulation, there’s no need for them. That’s my position.
Martin Sussman: I mean, in the face of them not being able to do anything, I guess they
grab for whatever, something that they can do just so it looks like
they’re doing something if it’s at all possible, right?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes. Which is reasonable. But if it’s not working, then why continue?
Martin Sussman: Let’s switch gears for a second. How can acupuncture help glaucoma?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Again, like Macular Degeneration, if you catch glaucoma in very early
stages – I have a couple of family members with early stage who were
diagnosed with glaucoma, and a couple of patients – in my experience,
you can completely reverse it. In the early stages you start to see some
cupping as the pressure starts to increase. You can reverse it. Not in all
cases, but you can in some cases completely reverse that, and I’ve seen
it. It’s pretty wild.
Unfortunately, most patients that I see with glaucoma come after
they’ve been on drops for a while, or they’ve had some surgeries, and
there is some progressive vision loss. Once people are on meds, it’s very
difficult to get people off meds using acupuncture to lower the eye
pressure. It can be done about 50% of the time, but the body becomes
so dependent on the meds that you can’t reduce them. Get people to
take maybe eye drops a couple of times a week as opposed to a couple
of times a day. But completely getting off the eye drops to regulate the
pressure, it’s pretty difficult to do that.
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On the other hand, the eye drops won’t necessarily do anything to
protect the integrity of the optic nerve. Things like oxidative stress, low
oxygen and inflammation, and all these other neurodegenerative
factors, can contribute to the optic nerve losing function and
degenerating, and acupuncture is probably one of the best things we
can do – in addition to the right nutrition – just to help activate and to
stimulate the optic nerve and to keep it healthy and functioning.
I have a lot of glaucoma patients
and we’ve been able to recover
some vision. We’ve gotten people
to reduce their medications. In early
stages we’ve kept people off
medications, from needing
medications, from needing
surgeries.
There is a lot that is being done, or
can be done, conventionally. That’s
definitely more of an integrative
approach where you’re going to see
a combination of alternative
therapies with conventional
therapies as opposed to like dry Macular Degeneration where there’s
nothing conventional medicine can offer. So it’s going to be more
nutrition and holistic therapies.
Martin Sussman: Along that line, there are a lot of people with individual difficulties.
Myopic degeneration, which is different than Macular Degeneration.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Right.
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“Again, like Macular
Degeneration,
if you catch
glaucoma in very
early stages....
You can completely
reverse it....
I’ve seen it.”
Martin Sussman: People want to know, Can it help with nearsightedness? Can it help
with hemorrhaging in the eyes? Can it help with a detachment? A
whole range of things like that. So, without getting into too much
detail, because these are special cases, including like the macular pucker
and things like that, could you speak to all the other conditions kind of
as one group. And, by the way, include floaters in that.
Dr. Rosenfarb: To answer that, let’s step back for a minute. Again, just recalling in
Chinese Medicine – and actually Naturopathic Medicine and functional
medicine as well – that we’re really looking at two situations here.
You’re looking at the symptoms, which are the glaucoma, the Macular
Degeneration, the macular holes, the macular puckers, cataracts,
whatever eye condition you have, as being the branch, or the
symptoms. Then you have the other side, which is the underlying cause,
or the causative factors, or the root of the problem.
What we do with Chinese Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine and
functional medicine, what we do is really try to look at the underlying
causes. So it almost doesn’t matter what the condition is as long as
there’s some function left. What I tell my patients is as long as you have
light perception, there is some hope. That’s not a guarantee. It just
means that the nerve fibers are still firing, so there’s some
photoreceptors working in picking up light. As long as that’s going on,
there’s hope.
What we do is use some acupuncture points and acupressure and other
techniques to help directly increase the blood flow to the eyes, which is
the branch treatment, or dealing with the symptoms.
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You’re dealing with high myopia, or floaters. But we also want to find
out what is causing the floaters? Is there too much protein in the body?
Are you dehydrated? Are medications causing the floaters? Are you
straining your eyes and overusing them? Does the body have a
problem breaking protein down? Is there protein that’s coagulating
that’s causing the floaters? Again, we really need to look at the
underlying factors that are causing these conditions in addition to the
symptoms of the diseases themselves.
It’s really a combination of dealing with both of those at the same time.
That’s where Western Medicine really falls short. They really just deal
with the symptoms and they’re putting on a Band-Aid. You can get
things like LASIK, which is fantastic to correct your vision in some cases,
or drop your eye pressure. Or get an Avastin® injection to stop your
bleeding. But we really, really, really need practitioners who are going
to do this integrative part and really step back and look systemically at
what’s going on with your body and your system, and what’s causing
this stuff. As a result of that you get a really good understanding of
what’s going on. So, yes, most conditions will respond if the underlying
situation, or conditions, are understood and managed.
Martin Sussman: You need that kind of individual attention, but then it gets back to the
same thing we’ve been talking about, which is the difference between
curing a problem and promoting the health of the body in the best,
deepest and complete way possible, which also includes the health of
the eyes.
Increasing blood flow, increasing the detoxification process, nourishing
with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that are necessary, getting the
energy flow, the Chi flow, moving through all parts of the body the way
it’s supposed to. I mean, these will promote health and then the
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different symptoms of different kinds of disease and dysfunction will
lessen, stabilize and, hopefully, and disappear.
But no matter how many times we say that, no matter how many times
we make that differentiation, people come to me and say, I have this
problem, can you fix it? So, even though they’re looking for a holistic
approach to fix the problem, they’re not looking for a holistic approach
to promote their health. Conventional medicine is a way of thinking as
well as a line of products on the drugstore shelf and we’re trying to
counter that way of thinking.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes, I totally agree with you, and I think that’s really just a consequence
of over the past 50 to 100 years that we’ve been sold this concept,
especially in our culture, of the magic bullet – that you can take a pill
and cure disease. Or you can do something. It really boils down to
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HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT VISION PROBLEMS
ALL degenerative eye conditions (like Macular Degeneration & cataracts) are SYSTEMIC CONDITIONS.
Although there is no conventional treatment for many eye conditions (no drugs or surgery), there are alternative treatment options.
Each case is unique where the “whole” - the whole body and the whole person - must be considered in relationship to the eye condition.
accountability and making lifestyle changes. Gosh, you mention diet to
somebody. You know, change your diet. People will take all the
supplements in the world and they’ll get acupuncture, get massage and
do yoga, but, boy, you tell them to change their diet.... That’s real
important, especially to eye conditions.
Martin Sussman: A lot of people contacted both of us about where they can find an
acupuncturist in their area? Do they have to be specifically trained in
this vision specialty? Do they accept health insurance? How do we find
out what the resources are? We even had some comments and
questions from acupuncturists themselves who asked, Can you teach us
this stuff?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes. Well, with the acupuncture, let me go back to my story. When I
started treating eye stuff, the problem was, I had two pages of notes
from four years of acupuncture school. I think we had one one-hour
lecture on treating eye disease. There wasn’t much in the textbooks.
There wasn’t much taught to me. So how I started learning it was just
trying to find anybody I could, any acupuncturist. I went to China. I
went to Denmark. I went to Mexico. I went to Canada. Just to find
anybody who had any experience in treating eye stuff. And I was pretty
successful. And then I built my own clinical observations and came up
with pattern differentiations and Chinese Medicine.
As a result of that, I wrote my two books. So we do have these ideas and
protocols available for acupuncturists now, and the books are being
used in school, so there’s something for students and practitioners. The
books are a resource.
For acupuncturists, I also have online courses through a company called
Rootdown. That’s www.rootdown.us. We have courses in Traditional
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Chinese Medicine Ophthalmology taught by myself and Mark
Grossman, who’s an acupuncturist and optometrist. He’s a holistic
optometrist. We go around and teach a lot together. So those are
available online to practitioners. I get questions constantly. Always
happy to help practitioners out.
I haven’t been teaching live recently because I have young kids at home
and I’ve taken a little hiatus, but I will be going back on the road soon.
Usually we try to get out two to three times a year at least.
But I have acupuncturists call, ask
questions. For patients looking for
acupuncturists, there are very few
people learned in Micro
Acupuncture. Again, there’s just not
as big an interest for acupuncturists
to specialize in treating eyes. I’m not
really sure why. Probably because it
wasn’t taught very much and it’s not
in really high demand as opposed to
things like infertility and pain, but there’s a growing demand for it. What
I’d recommend is you ask your acupuncturist, Have you had any
experience with this condition? Talk to them about your condition.
You don’t have to like throw them up against the wall and drill them
hardcore, but they should have some familiarity with glaucoma. What is
high eye pressure? What happens? What’s the pathology? What kind of
clinical results have they had? Same with Macular Degeneration, or any
other condition. It’s always good to go to somebody who’s at least had
a little experience.
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“What we do
is really try
to look
at the underlying
causes.”
Again, back to the Micro Acupuncture. There are a few of us. I do it.
There’s Gail Brent and Dave Russell in California. Southern, northern
California. There’s Ida Scharf in Israel. There’s Alan Jansen in Australia.
And a few others who are doing it as well.
Martin Sussman: In regards to that, a couple of things. Number one, so there’s a handful
of acupuncturists around the world. What does somebody do if they’re
not close enough to one of them? Or can’t afford it because their health
insurance doesn’t pay for it and they can’t go through the number of
treatments that are normally recommended?
In that case, in addition to the nutrient stuff and the other things we’ve
talked about, is the next best thing to get one of your books and do the
acupressure on themselves every day?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Or have an acupuncturist do one of the online courses. I’ve taught
hundreds of acupuncturists over the years, so there are many familiar
with my stuff.
Now we have the book. All you have to have is an acupuncturist who
knows how to do acupuncture. They’ve got to get my book, and then
have them email me or call me with a couple of questions about the
case.
Martin Sussman: So rather than trying to understand it all themselves, if the
acupuncturist is already skilled and knowledgeable, looks at your book,
they’ll understand what to do and, if not, they can always get hold of
you.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Right. And, like you said, acupressure also is fantastic.
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Martin Sussman: Okay. Let’s go to cataracts. There are lots of questions on cataracts.
People want to know if they can be stopped, if they can be reversed, if
they can avoid surgery. What have you seen in terms of controlling
cataracts?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Cataracts usually come along with other conditions. A lot of patients I
see don’t have just Macular Degeneration, or just glaucoma, or just
cataracts. It’s usually a combination of eye issues.
Early cataracts, or baby cataracts as
doctors call them, are potentially
reversible, and you can rehydrate the
lens and stop the oxidative stress and
the cross-linking. You can definitely
recover that. I’ve seen it done often.
Once you get to pretty serious vision
loss, or later stage cataracts, unless you
have a risk factor like wet Macular
Degeneration, or you have Diabetic
Retinopathy where you have a risk of
bleeding or exacerbating your
condition, cataract surgery is not
necessarily a bad idea. I’m not really
too big on surgeries, but cataract surgery they have down pretty good.
It’s like they’re going to replace your lens and you have dirty windows.
Basically replacing your dirty windows with clean windows.
Again, if it’s late stage and really impacting your life and you can’t see,
and you’re getting the glare and the fogginess and the blurriness, it
might be something to consider. But earlier stages, you can definitely
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“But earlier stages,
you can definitely
take
supplementation,
do acupuncture,
do things
like microcurrent,
which is fantastic for
early stage
cataracts.“
take supplementation, do acupuncture, do things like microcurrent,
which is fantastic for early stage cataracts. Things like the EYEMAX-plus
formula.
Martin Sussman: That’s one of the unfortunate things and, again, it has to do with the
holistic approach versus the conventional approach. So many people
wait so long. Unfortunately, when they wait so long you end up with
bigger problems and then the problems are much more difficult to
respond to the holistic approach. So we certainly recommend that
people get regular examinations with their doctor because the sooner
you find out that something’s out of whack, the much more success you
can have in dealing with it on a holistic level.
And, as you say, most times you can’t separate one eye problem from
another so you see lots of people with cataracts who may be at risk for
Macular Degeneration, who may be at risk for a high degree of
nearsightedness and detached retina, and so on and so forth. They all
kind of go together because they’re all coming out of the same root –
an imbalanced and starving visual system.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Absolutely.
Martin Sussman: You mentioned drops of castor oil. Be more specific if you could on the
exact instructions on how to do that. How often? How many drops, so
on and so forth.
Dr. Rosenfarb: There are lots of different drops. I find that castor oil works pretty well.
It’s cheap and it works and people who are having financial issues don’t
have to spend a lot of money.
Martin Sussman: How many drops?
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Dr. Rosenfarb: You go to the health food store, or CVS, or any of the drugstores, you get
castor oil, you get an eye dropper. And the reason we do it before bed is
because castor oil is very thick. You’ll actually have blurry vision for up
to an hour after you do it. That’s why you want to do it before you go to
bed, because your vision is going to be blurry.
You take one drop, hold your eye open, and you drop it in. Do the other
eye. Even if you only have dry eyes in one eye, it’s a good idea to do
both. Or you have a cataract in one eye, it’s a good idea to do both.
Martin Sussman: This is good for dry eyes, too?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Castor oil is great for dry eyes. Not
only can you put a drop on the
inside, but you can take the castor
oil and just massage it around the
eyes. Of course, we want to look at
the underlying causes, but in terms
of dealing with the symptoms, I’ve
had people within a week – after
years and years and years of dry
eyes – just by doing that, they
totally reverse it.
Martin Sussman: There probably isn’t any traditional, conventional research study on this,
but where does this come from?
Dr. Rosenfarb: It’s more naturopathic trial-and-error. I haven’t been able to locate the
exact source. I do know that in Japan they’re using sesame oil. I had
some problems with sesame oil and some patients were stinging. Then
we tried olive oil and wheat germ oil. Those were stinging, too. Castor
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“Castor oil is great
for dry eyes.... I’ve
had people within a
week – after years
and years and years
of dry eyes – just by
doing that, they
totally reverse it.“
oil seems to have a lot of healing properties to it and doesn’t burn or
sting the eye. That’s why I like it a little bit better.
Martin Sussman: Some more questions from people. I heard about white onion juice, or I
heard about raw organic honey and lemon juice mixture. Somebody
says, I heard that drinking coconut water is good for balancing the
electrolyte loss that’s connected to cataracts. Then there’s homeopathic
eye drops. And other things that people talk about dropping in their
eyes. What do you have to say about all those other things?
Dr. Rosenfarb: I’ve probably heard of just about everything. I’ve had people put
everything from your basic saline to apple cider vinegar, to onion, to
ozonated water, to hydrogen peroxide, to cayenne pepper. There are
some great things. It’s your eyes, so I want to go with something that’s
not as dramatic. I tell people if they want to play around, go with milder
things. Go with the homeopathics. Anything that has some amino
acids is really going to irritate your eyes or anything that’s home
brewed. At least get something you know. If you’re going to try
colloidal silver, or you’re going to try MSM (methylsulfonylmethane)
don’t brew it at home. Find a company that makes it.
If you want, you can try, but with a lot of these things you don’t know
the proportion, and it’s hard to control that stuff. We’re not all that good
with chemistry and titrating and stuff like that. So I’d be careful with
anything that’s really out there, unless you’re real confident that you’ve
had some experience with it, or you know somebody who’s had a really
good experience with it.
But putting lemon juice in your eyes, something that is that acidic, it
seems too irritating for me. We don’t want to irritate the eyes too much.
They’re very sensitive.
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Martin Sussman: Right. So you feel good about the castor oil, making that
recommendation and having people follow that.
Dr. Rosenfarb: It’s safe.
Martin Sussman: Yes.
Dr. Rosenfarb: I like safe.
Martin Sussman: Safe and effective is a good combination.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Safe and effective. Yes. Do no harm first, and then if you know it’s going
to help. But you really have to follow that do no harm first, and proceed
with caution.
Martin Sussman: So, basically, what we’re having here is a list of things to do for cataracts
and dry eyes. One is hydrate. The other is castor oil. The third is
nutritional supplementation. The fourth has something to do with diet.
Can you just give three keys in terms of diet.
Dr. Rosenfarb: You have to identify food allergies. That’s really important. The reason is
that food allergies cause inflammation in the sinus cavities. They cause
neuroinflammation. So any environmental, chemical, food allergy,
you’ve got to figure that out. Because any chronic inflammation
anywhere in the body, especially in the head area, is going to dry the
eyes out.
Obviously, you’ve got to watch your medicines. Steroids. We all know
whether you take them orally or for a cold, or you have a bronchial
infection, or you have joint pain. Steroids will cause cataracts. We
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talked about hydration. Coconut water – somebody made that
suggestion – is fantastic for balancing the electrolytes.
But the other important thing I was getting to is there are always
inflammatory components – almost always – when you’re dealing with
cataracts. So you need to have somebody help you identify those.
Whether it’s a practitioner, or if you’re intuitive enough, or you have
enough time to research and look at your own system. But you have to
look at these hydration factors and these inflammatory factors and
what’s causing them.
Go to a health practitioner. Read a
couple books. Try to educate
yourself about what’s going on with
your body.
Martin Sussman: In that regard, as inflammation is so
important, there are lots of books
and what not on the anti-
inflammatory diet. People should
lean towards that?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Absolutely. There’s an anti-inflammatory diet, but there are also
specifics. That means you need to be accountable. You need to watch
your diet. If there’s something that gives you a burning stomach, it’s
causing inflammation in your body. If you’ve got food allergies, if you
start to get a runny nose after you eat something, any of those. Again,
watch your meds. A lot of people are taking a lot of medication. You
have to look at the meds and what the side effects are.
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“You have to identify
food allergies. That’s
really important.
The reason is that
food allergies
cause inflammation
in the sinus cavities.”
Martin Sussman: Let’s talk a little bit more about the nutritional supplementation end of
things. Anti-inflammatory. Diet. Everything we just mentioned for
cataracts. Is there anything that you would add or change for Macular
Degeneration, or glaucoma, or any of the other kinds of problems?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes. With Macular Degeneration, I remember somebody said, Do you
see a common cause? Is there a common diagnosis? Underlying
diagnosis? And the answer to that is yes. With Macular Degeneration, I
definitely see what we call in conventional medicine cardiovascular
disease. I see that. It’s just astronomical the amount of people that have
Macular Degeneration and have either some form of heart disease, or
cardiovascular disease, or a family history of it. So, things like cutting
out red meat, eggs, dairy, anything that’s going to cause an increase of
cholesterol – because that’s going to increase drusen production, that’s
where drusen comes from, and cause inflammation – should be taken
out of the diet in addition to any known food allergies or suspected
food allergies or sensitivities.
The same thing goes for glaucoma, because anything that causes
inflammation may increase the eye pressure. Any food allergies, or
anything that’s going to congest the body. Watch sugar, caffeine, any
stimulants. Those are really important, too. Refined sugars. The biggest
for me is really trans fats. Trans fats are plastic fats that clog up the liver.
Just don’t eat them.
Martin Sussman: You and I know what trans fats are, but put it into everyday language.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes. Trans fats are your cakes, your cupcakes, your donuts. Any of your
pastries. Your brownies. Salad dressings, most of your condiments,
have trans fats.
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Martin Sussman: They don’t say trans fats on the label. What they say is hydrogenated
oils.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Hydrogenated oils, or vegetable oil, is a trans fat. Margarine. Anything
that melts at room temperature has a trans fat.
Martin Sussman: Those are the things to look for on the label?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes.
Martin Sussman: Okay. People say, well, I’m already
taking this supplement, or that
supplement, should I change what
I’m doing? Or, what are the top two
or three supplements that I should
be taking for my eyes?
I know that my approach isn’t just
about the top two or three, it’s
about a full complement not only of
the different vitamins and essential
minerals, but also of the
antioxidants that make up what the
eyes and the body need for
maximum health.
But most doctors, they’ve been bombarded with advertising, so really
all they know is PreserVision®, or Macu-Vision®, or OcuGuard®, or
Centrum®, or something like that.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes, Centrum Silver.
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“It’s just
astronomical the
amount of people
that have Macular
Degeneration and
have either some
form of heart
disease, or
cardiovascular
disease, or a family
history of it.“
Martin Sussman: Can you speak to those kinds of things in comparison to something like
EYEMAX-plus?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Honestly, your formula is one of the most complete formulas I’ve seen.
For anybody with eye diseases, that definitely should be your
multivitamin.
Optimally, you should go to somebody who does holistic medicine to
find out the underlying causes, which supplements for you would be
better. Because again, we have our nutrients that are good for the eyes,
but we also want to add to the nutrition and supplementation to
address the underlying causes. For example, if you have cardiovascular
disease. Do you have neuroinflammation? Do you have food allergies?
Do you have liver toxicity? Do you have weak kidneys? If you have low
blood pressure, then you’re not getting enough blood up to your head
and eyes that goes along with adrenal fatigue and hypoglycemia.
You really want to look at some of these underlying causes. Generally,
for eye health, though, something like the EYEMAX-plus. There’s a lot of
talk of fish oils. I actually like krill oil a little bit better because it’s really
high in something called astaxanthin, which is a carotenoid. Zeaxanthin
and lutein are specific nutrients that have been researched and shown
to be beneficial for the macula. Krill oil has astaxanthin in it, which
currently seems to be the highest potency of that nutrient. So that’s a
definite with that.
Martin Sussman: We also have a product called Ocu-Omega, which is not only the fish
oils, but they’re made from krill oil and also have lutein and zeaxanthin.
We also sell Bilberry and Ginkgo because I think those are important.
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How many antioxidants do you need in your body? In other words, we
know that lutein, there’s a high concentration of lutein in the eyes more
so than anywhere else in the body. But if you’re getting lutein, do you
also need to get some of the other antioxidants, the older ones – not
just the latest new kid on the block?
Some of this stuff can get very, very confusing for people. You know, do
I just add this because it’s been in the news? Do I take this just because
my doctor told me? Do I take that because it has more things in it?
Some people don’t know how to make that decision.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Well, you can actually overdo it on antioxidants, and a lot of people
aren’t clear about this. Oxidation is the key to healthy living. Oxidation
is how our cells produce, how our body produces energy. We basically
burn glucose in a process called oxidation. That’s how we actually can
function. If there was no oxidation, we wouldn’t be alive. So it’s really
about having a balance and not letting the oxidative stress and the free
radicals get out of control. They’ve been out of control because of our
poor diets, high stress, and the environmental pollution. Again, the lack
of nutrition. A lot of our lifestyle habits – the computers and the
electromagnetic frequencies.
We do want antioxidants, but from a Chinese medical standpoint and in
naturopathic, we don’t necessarily look at all antioxidants as the same.
For example, you have something like green tea, which we all know was
one of the first big things – the antioxidants in green tea. Everybody
should be drinking green tea. No. Green tea will drop your blood sugar.
It’ll drop your cholesterol. It’ll dehydrate you. If you’re overweight with
high cholesterol and pre-diabetic, green tea is fantastic. If you’re thin,
run dehydrated, have low blood sugar and on the lean side, green tea is
not good for you. It’s going to drop your blood sugar. It’s going to
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dehydrate you more than you probably already are. There’s so much
caffeine you’re going to feel like you’re on speed. So it’s not necessarily
good for you.
In addition to the fact that there are antioxidants, we need to look at the
quality of antioxidants. For somebody like that, maybe fish oils or
something else that has a different type of oil, or a sugar, those
antioxidants may be more beneficial.
Another example is vitamin A. There was a big research study that
showed that if you’re a smoker and
you take vitamin A, there’s actually
an increased risk of developing lung
cancer. So even though you’ve got
people who are taking vitamin A, if
you’re a smoker... It’s just some
research. It’s not definite. But that’s
something you want to think about.
In addition to taking antioxidants,
we need to look at what each
nutrient is doing to the body and
how it works. Does it work on the liver? Does it work on the kidneys?
Does it work on your metabolism? That’s important, too.
What I like about your formula, Marty, is it really covers a broad
spectrum. So if there are any effects of any antioxidants, they’re going
to be neutralized with all the minerals and everything like that. If you
have an antioxidant that’s going to be a little bit dehydrating, you have
a lot of magnesium and potassium, and these minerals will help the
body to maintain the electrolyte balance.
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“Oxidation is the key
to healthy living.
Oxidation is how our
cells produce,
how our body
produces energy.”
But I have patients, and I’m sure you’ve heard of people too, who are just
loading up on certain nutrients because they read an article that it was
good for them. And that may not be the case.
Martin Sussman: In the original teleclass you mentioned ox bile, and a traditional TCM
approach to eye problems. Can you talk about not only that, but are
there other herbs – ox bile, I’m not sure. It’s not an herb, obviously – but
other approaches of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Yes. This is actually really an interesting little bit. Thousands of years
ago in Chinese Medicine, black bear gallbladder was actually used to
treat eye conditions, ocular inflammatory conditions, and others.
Obviously, they outlawed poaching. There are laws against it, which
there should be.
What they did is they found that – okay, well we can’t poach anymore –
but let’s take the gallbladder and look at what’s going on. What are the
constituents in here? Maybe we could isolate them and identify them,
and create them synthetically, or get them from a plant source or
something like that.
So they did. They isolated the components from the bile and they
found that there was specific bile salts that were very, very high in bears
and oxen and cows that were not present in humans, just basically
because of diet and stuff like that.
They knew that the stuff worked really well for eye diseases, and also for
other central nervous system and brain conditions. So they derived this
product called UDCA. I’m not even going to try to go through the Latin
right now. The problem with that, it’s basically a conjugated bile salt
that they extracted. They found that it worked well, but it was very
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tough to digest. So what they did is they added a taurine molecule to it,
or part of a supplement of taurine, which is an amino acid. That made it
a lot easier to digest and it helped. So they started using TUDCA and
UDCA to treat gallbladder disease. Very, very effective. People didn’t
need to get their gallbladders taken out.
It’s probably the most widely researched supplement right now for
conditions like glaucoma and Retinitis Pigmentosa. Also dementia,
Alzheimer’s. It’s amazing. I mean, the research on this stuff is really
compelling.
Now, interestingly, you can’t get it anywhere in the world. I mean, there
was one company in the world that was selling it to help liver detox.
The company is not selling it anymore. I called at least 20
manufacturers. They’re not distributing it. Can’t get it anymore. They’re
doing tons of research. A lot of underground research on it and,
eventually, I think there’s going to be a lot of promise with that.
We know that there are a lot of the similarities in the TUDCA and the bile
salts in ox bile. Bile is an enormously huge antioxidant. As we age, the
body’s bile production decreases, and that means an inability to break
down fat, that’s what bile does. It does a lot of other things, but
primarily breaks fat down in the body.
So, by increasing your bile, or thinning the bile out, you’re going to have
this antioxidant, you’re going to start to break down the fat and increase
your lean body mass. You’re also going to be able to use the ox bile to
break down drusen, which we talked about, which is one of the major
causes of Macular Degeneration. So you have a substance in your body
that’s actually going to help break the fat down. It emulsifies fats.
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This is something that’s very useful. What I do is I usually have people
take one or two a day with a meal, and that’s it. Adding that bile to the
body will help.
The thing you have to watch out for is it can give you some diarrhea and
loose stool, some burning stool bowel movements. If you have a
problem, don’t take it. Just don’t tough through it or anything like that,
it’s not going to help you. People who do take it, within months, see a
difference just taking it.
I had a lot of patients on it for a while, then, again, the company went
upside down and we can’t get it
anymore. But I saw some really
amazing stuff. But, again, the ox bile
you can get online. You can get it
anywhere. So that I do recommend.
Especially if you have any type of
ocular inflammatory conditions, or
Macular Degeneration, or glaucoma.
A lot of people, especially as we age,
as I said, have decreased production
of bile and a decreased ability to break fats down. Indicators of that is
your cholesterol going up, your triglycerides are going up. Your body fat
going up. You tend towards constipation. You eat fatty foods. You can’t
digest them. You get indigestion. Greasy foods. These are all indicators
that you may benefit from taking ox bile supplement.
Martin Sussman: The other thing that’s been in the news lately has been the acid/alkaline
pH balance dichotomy as being another factor, like the inflammatory
issue, in terms of health. Do you have anything to say about that?
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“Coconut water is
fantastic for
balancing the
electrolytes.“
Dr. Rosenfarb: Absolutely. Generally, we run acidic. We’re more stressed out than we
used to be. Our diets are pretty poor. High in sugar. High in caffeine.
High in refined foods. So most of us are running pretty acidic – unless
we’re really watching it and juicing and having green drinks and salads.
We can check our acid levels – and, again, I don’t want to get too into
this – you can find tons of research online. If you go to Amazon or
Google, there’s tons of books that tell you. But, basically, what you want
to do is check your saliva pH and your urine pH on a daily basis for a
week or two, chart it, and then compare it to the optimal ranges for your
saliva and your urine acid.
You’re either going to be acidic, alkaline, or normal. If you’re alkaline,
then you need to acidify a little bit. Which happens, and people get
diseases as a result of that. Most of us are going to be hyper acidic and,
again, we want to find the cause of it. You can change your diet all you
want. If you’re a high-stress person, stress causes acid production in the
body. So you can change your diet, you can eat healthy and meditate
and do all the exercises you want, but if you stress out all the time, you
will be acidic. Because, again, stress causes acid production. You really
want to monitor that and get a hold on it.
Acid breaks down structure. Just think of the hydrochloric acid in the
stomach. We use that to break food down. If our blood becomes too
acidic and our tissues and the intercellular fluids between our cells
become too acidic, we’re going to start to break down. That’s what
happens when cells die. We become acidic and break down.
Decompose.
If you do find that you’re acidic, one of my favorite things to deal with
acid conditions is just having a green drink every day, in addition to
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reducing caffeine, sugar, alcohol. Anything like that. Smoking obviously
causes acidity. A green drink in the morning every day is fantastic. Like
chlorella or spirulina – that’s your blue green algae. Any health food
store has a green powder drink. The greens are high in calcium and
calcium is very alkalizing to the body.
Martin Sussman: A couple of other things. There are eye drops for cataracts. Ones that
were developed by a Russian scientist. Are you familiar with those?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Are you talking about the Can-C?
Martin Sussman: Yes, the Can-C.
Dr. Rosenfarb: I have had some patients report
spectacular results with them. And
I’ve had other patients who’ve had no
results with them. I know there may
be some issues with the carnosine
clogging up some of the protein
receptor sites in the body, and it can
have some interactions with that. I
don’t know too much about it.
My experience is just that I’ve had some patients who’ve used it. I’ve
had patients get really, really good results. In theory, it makes sense.
But a lot of things in theory make a lot of sense.
I’m kind of on the fence. I don’t tell people not to try it if they ask me
about it because I have seen some cases benefit from it. I’ve never really
seen any harm come from it personally. But I have seen both sides. I’ve
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“If you stress out
all the time,
you will be acidic.
Because, again,
stress causes acid
production.“
seen it not work at all and I’ve seen it do great things for some people.
How about you?
Martin Sussman: Well, I stopped recommending them years ago when I read that they
actually interfere with the body’s absorption of antioxidants, particularly
lutein – actually – any antioxidant. Now they seem to be backing off
that statement. So I’m not sure what the reality is in terms of how it
affects the body, and maybe it does it differently for different people. I
don’t know for sure, but if I look at the research they’ve done, and the
kinds of results that people get, they’re pretty comparable if even less
than what Dr. Gary Price Todd – the ophthalmologist who became an
expert on nutritional healing and developed the EYEMAX-plus formula –
talked about in his approach of what to do for cataracts.
Again, it’s the kind of thing where it looks like it’s pretty neat because it’s
a “drug,” even though it’s not literally a drug. It’s a particular treatment
for a particular problem. But I don’t know if it really helps holistically in
terms of the whole body’s health.
One more thing. Microcurrent treatment or the use of the microcurrent
device. Have you had experience with that and, if so, when do you
recommend it?
Dr. Rosenfarb: I’ll tell you my experience with it. I think microcurrent is fantastic. As
some people know, the use of microcurrent started, I believe, in the ’80s
with a woman named Grace Halloran, who was having Macular
Degeneration issues, and she started using microcurrent and was able
to recover a lot of her vision.
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Microcurrent is an electrical impulse. She was using this electrical
impulse on specific acupuncture points around her eyes, which, again,
those are diagrammed in my book.
What happened is she got great results and started teaching. I actually
had a couple of patients who had gone to her seminars years and years
ago and they had tremendous benefits.
So down the line what happened is
people said, let’s try to simplify it,
and let’s try to create something
that covers all the points at once.
So they had the microcurrent with
the water, and then there were
other types of microcurrent that
came out.
But the whole idea was you’re still
going over the eyes and covering
these acupuncture points and
trying to deliver an electro microcurrent to stimulate the ATP
[Adenosine-5-triphosphate] production in the eyes to help with the
inflammation, to help with the nerve conduction, and to help get the
drusen membrane to break the drusen down in the eyes. The research
has been pretty good.
Personally, I saw clinically that when people do point-by-point, they
isolate the acupuncture points with the microcurrent and the results are
typically much better than if you do the whole eye at once with all the
points. I actually got to a point where I would stop it. I hadn’t
recommended microcurrent anymore just because I didn’t have enough
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“Microcurrent is not
a treatment for
Macular
Degeneration.
It’s management.
It helps the blood
flow to the eyes.”
people seeing such a dramatic result. Then I went back to Grace’s
original protocol where you’re doing point-by-point stimulation around
the eyes with microcurrent and the results were much better.
There’s a lot about frequency specific microcurrent and stuff like that,
but I just don’t know that much about it, if it is that much better or not. I
don’t really have an opinion because I haven’t really seen clinical results
with frequency specific and nonspecific – you know, different
frequencies for different eye conditions. Could be better, could be
worse. But, based on my experience, I do think that doing point-by-
point around the eyes does seem to work better, at least for my patients,
what they’ve told me.
Generally, you want to spend about 20 minutes a day doing these
treatments and you don’t want to feel the microcurrent, and this goes
with any of them, people just have this innate thing where they feel like
they have to feel it. And the thing with microcurrent is you’re not
supposed to feel it. It’s not like a TENS unit [trans electrical nerve
stimulation] where you’re trying to get rid of back pain or something
like that and you’re supposed to turn up the microcurrent until you feel
it, and then back it down a notch so you don’t feel it. You’re not
supposed to perceive the current. That’s why it’s called microcurrent.
That’s a really important thing that I’ve seen with a lot of people, even
though they’ve been instructed to just leave it on microcurrent, they’ll
nudge it up to a millicurrent where they’re actually feeling it. That’s just
something I find a lot of people do, and it’s really important – less is
more in this type of situation.
Martin Sussman: Many of these devices are FDA okayed, but they’re not okayed for eye
problems. What do you call that?
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Dr. Rosenfarb: Off label.
Martin Sussman: Right. Off label use. Could you comment on that aspect of it, because
I’m sure that people who hear us talking are going to go out on the
Internet and search around and they’re going to discover that the
creators of some of these machines, specifically say, that you may have
heard that you can use it for eye problems, but that’s not what the FDA
has approved it for.
Dr. Rosenfarb: The intended use.
Martin Sussman: Right. Could you speak to that?
Dr. Rosenfarb: Again, go online, you’ll see you can get a microcurrent device from $30
to $3,000. I don’t think getting the cheapest thing out there is
necessarily the best idea, but I would definitely go with somebody who
either talked to me or somebody else who’s had experience. I know
there are a few other doctors around the country who do use
microcurrent a lot, and we definitely suggest people talk to them.
It is an off label use, but I’ve had enough patients that have come back
to me to say that they’ve had a benefit. This is not a treatment for
Macular Degeneration. It’s management. It helps the blood flow to the
eyes. And when you keep up the blood flow and the oxygen, the
circulation, the detoxification, it’s going to help.
If you’re doing it – and I’ve had one or two patients, it didn’t work for
them, they actually thought their vision was getting worse after using
that – and anybody ever experiences that, stop using it right away. I
don’t know why or how, but there are definitely some cases that I’ve
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seen personally and I’ve heard of that will respond. And I know that
there’s a lot of literature out there that says it can’t do any harm, and it
doesn’t harm. I don’t think it could harm the eyes, but I think if you have
a lot of inflammation, or you’re sensitive to electricity, it can actually
make things worse and, if you use it
over time, you may do some damage.
I tell people, the second they see
anything that really dramatically
makes it worse, I usually don’t
recommend that they continue using
it. And I wouldn’t recommend that
anybody do anything that makes you
worse or inflamed.
I see that a lot, too. A lot of people
who have chronic ocular
inflammatory conditions need to be
particularly sensitive. Because when
you have inflammation, you already
have a pretty strong electrical charge
in that area of the body, in this case,
the eyes. Say you have uveitis or iritis and you use microcurrent, you
really could exacerbate it. So I’d be careful in those types of conditions.
Martin Sussman: That’s great detailed information. I think we’ve essentially gone through
the major themes of all the questions. You know, there were 287
questions and I tried to group them as much as possible. I’m sure that
there’ll be some people who feel like they didn’t get their question
answered, but, by in large, I think we’ve addressed pretty much
everything.
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“When the doctor
says, Look, you have
Macular
Degeneration and
there’s nothing
conventionally that
anybody else can do
for you. It’s not true.
Not necessarily true.
There are options.
There are things you
can do.“
Again, I want to thank you for your time. Thank you for your knowledge,
particularly, and thank you for your willingness to share that with
people and to help them see better.
Dr. Rosenfarb: Oh, it’s my pleasure, Marty. This is such valuable information. It’s my life
passion. I know it’s your life passion. My duty, I feel, is just – we just –
have to bring this information to people so they know that there’s
something that they can do.
That when the doctor says to them, Look, you have Macular
Degeneration, or you have Retinitis Pigmentosa, and there’s nothing
conventionally that anybody else can do for you. It’s not true. Not
necessarily true. There are options. There are things you can do. And
we can’t rely on conventional doctors to get that information out there.
So I just love the work that you’re doing as well.
Martin Sussman: Thanks.
For More Information, Visit These Websites:
Martin Sussman
Cambridge Institute for Better Vision
www.BetterVision.com
Dr. Andy Rosenfarb
Acupuncture Health Associates
www.AcupunctureHealth.net
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