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What are Cataracts?

What are the Cause of Cataracts?

Is there a Cure for Cataracts?

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A cataract is the lens of the human eye that has developed an opacification (clouding), causing the loss of vision. The modern surgical procedure is in an ambulatory setting where the inoperable lens is removed and a artificial intraocular lens implant inserted.

First, to understand what is being affected, we need to understand how the lens in the human eye is constructed. This lens is a transparent rubbery, jelly like structure, held in its location by tendons that are attached to a set of muscles used by the brain to expand and contract the lens. Thus, the lens, by changing shape, functions to change the focal distance of the eye so that it can focus on objects at various distances, thus allowing a sharp real image of the object of interest to be formed on the retina.

However, as you age, the lens, that rubbery structure, slowly hardens. In other words, the lens becomes less flexible, less transparent, thicker and begin to be cloudy in appearance and vision.

As the cataract continues to develop in the lens, the clouding becomes denser and involves a bigger part of the lens. The cataract scatters and blocks the light as it passes through the lens, preventing a sharply defined image from reaching your retina. As a result, your vision becomes blurred and is as if you are looking through an opaque glass, like bathroom window glass.

This hardening of the lens slowly begins to deteriorate the person′s vision, at first, hyperopia, or the need for reading glasses is developed. Later, stronger glasses are necessary until the onset of cataracts. Doctors have for centuries been doing cataract surgery, replacing the lens, first from cadavers, and since the mid 1900′s, optometrist began replacing the lens with intraocular implants.

But this approach is in effect, addressing the symptoms, not the cause.

Ask any medical professional and you will get an answer like: Most cataracts are due to age-related changes in the lens of the eye that cause it to become cloudy or opaque. However, other factors can contribute to cataract development, include: increasing age, diabetes, excessive exposure to sunlight, smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, previous eye injury or surgery, use of corticosteroid drugs, excessive alcohol drinking.

Further, the medical profession will inform you: No studies have proved how to prevent cataracts or even slow the progression of the growth of cataracts.

To be honest, the medical profession just list the obvious risks for any disease and in fact, is clueless in knowing what causes cataract, or any disease, sickness and problems with out health.

Still, cataracts cloud the eyes of tens of millions of people on the earth including nearly 20 percent of Americans over the age of 40. Currently, the only treatment is surgery.

Nothing has been perfected, in fact, even those who claim to have a cure, may have what will work for some people but in reality could only work for a few.

Nevertheless, the real cure of all things that ail humans today can only be found in The Real Way, Life Journey Step Seven, where you may learn of the Worship of the one true and most high God, Jehovah. (Psalms 83:18)

Yes, only through God′s Kingdom will his son, Jesus accomplish what Revelation 21: promises: 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Albeit, I truly believe that the arrival of God′s Kingdom is imminent, until then, we can search through what man has come up with. Of course, as always, for a price.

There is a team of scientists and ophthalmologist who have tested a solution in dogs that have dissolved the cataract right out of the lens with out surgery.

Although most medical professions will say otherwise, this hardening process is likely due to the lack of specific nutrients taken in as the food of ones diet. Too, as humans trying to provide the correct nutrition for good health, there has always been an onslaught of misinformation, so much so that most of us have just thrown our hands up. As a person becomes older, or fails to provide the necessary nutrition, the only option has been the age old cataract surgery.

And yet, there has been some promising research in the field of what is being reported as cataract dissolving drops.

One solutions is a steroid based eye drops, a lanosterol-laden solution and it has been tested in three separate experiments. First, human lens cells were used and the cataracts were significantly decreased. Second, rabbits suffering from cataracts were tested for six days and 11 of the 13 rabbits went from having severe or significant cataracts to mild cataracts or no cataracts at all.

The final test was on a group of seven dogs, including several breeds, all with naturally occurring cataracts. The dogs responded just as was hoped by the researchers, the application of the lanosterol solution given in the form of eye injections and eye drops showed the same dissolving patter as the human and rabbit test had shown. The improvement was visually noticeable and quite remarkable.

Ruben Abagyan, co-author of the paper and molecular biologist at UC San Diego, is looking forward to seeing what the lanosterol drops can dissolve next. “I think the natural next step is looking to translate it into humans,” he says. “There’s nothing more exciting than that.”

The paper that was written about this laboratory test was recorded in the Health section of www.sciencemag.org dated 22 July 2015.

A company called Profound Products (www.profound-products.com) has created Can-C an eye drop that contains N-acetylcarnosine (NAC) which is a non-invasive, antioxidant lubricant eye drop. The eye drop formula was developed by the principle researcher of carnosine from the Helmholtz Eye Institute in Moscow, Doctor Mark Babizhayev.

Human trials show that the ingredients in Can-C applied for six months, twice daily into the eyes of patients suffering from senile onset cataracts had the following results;

88.9% had an improvement of glare sensitivity.

41.5% had an improvement in the trasmissivity of the lens.

90% had an improvement in sisual acuity.

The study goes on to show that patients in the same age range, but without the onset of senile cataracts, who used I alleviated eye-tiredness and improved eyesight.

Cataracts are caused by the hardening and discoloration of the lens due to lifelong cross-linking (glycosylation) of the lens proteins with ascorbate. This persists in the aqueous humor at high concentrations, due to the low availability of natural defenses in the form of anti-oxidants (which decline with advancing age).

N-acetylcarnosine delivers L-carnosine into the aqueous humor of the eye (the fluid area surrounding the lens) where it acts as a natural and comprehensive anti-oxidant, protecting structural lens proteins from the free-radical induced oxidation process.

A cataract develops when antioxidant defense is exhausted, leading to the cross-linking of the lens crystallins and producing a clouded lens and impaired eyesight. The clinic trials show that the regular use of a 1% N-acetylcarnosine eye-drop, delivers a high-dose of carnosine eye drops capable of reversing the lens cross-linking, and aids in the reduction and possible eradication of cataracts which may help people avoid surgery.

Dr. Babizhayev who headed the Russian research team (Innovative Vision Products) that developed Can-C Eye Drops, has stated that the maximum obtainable results are usually achieved in a 3 to 6 month period, however there are often noticeable benefits within only 1 month.