For the sake of the patients, I hope there's a better long-term service plan than Second Sight Medical Products had:
People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
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Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
#12The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
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Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
#13The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Lutein may prevent or slow it. It's the best general eye supplement I've found too.
Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
#14The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Wearing sunglasses apparently helps. You just need to make sure they have a proper UV rating, a lot of the cheap ones you get online don't do a good job of blocking UV.
I find that surprising since most plastics you would make glasses from should block uv.
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#15The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Stop producing AGE's. Stop eating sugar.
Advanced glycation end-product proteins or lipids that become glycated as a result of exposure to sugars
Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
#16Pretty cool
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#17The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Eat astaxanthin, lycopene, lutein or similar yellow, orange and red pigments that plants use to protect themselves from sunlight.
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And here I was happy that we had a thread free of mentioning LLM’s, until you came along
Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
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Wearing sunglasses apparently helps. You just need to make sure they have a proper UV rating, a lot of the cheap ones you get online don't do a good job of blocking UV.
I find that surprising since most plastics you would make glasses from should block uv.
Most plastics are transparent to UVA, which is like 90% of UV that reaches earth's surface. They only start absorbing at higher UV frequencies. That's why sunglasses have dedicated UV ratings. You can bring your sunglasses to basically any optometrist and test how well they block UV. It takes 20 seconds and they'll probably do it for free.
Re: People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
#20The one thing I maybe missed, is there anything that can be done to reduce the risk of developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Lutein may prevent or slow it. It's the best general eye supplement I've found too.
I was prescribed vit a palmitate, lutein, and DHA. The vit prescribed was a high dose, like 10k iu per day. I cut back on that dose, I'm going blind but I also need to consider my general health. I have ushers syndrome, not md, but it's a retinal disease (retinitis pigmentosa).
To be clear, this is prescribed as a "we can't do anything else for you" thing, since there is no cure for RP. This may or may not actually help.