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Health Guide for Retinitis Pigmentosa

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disease of the eye.

RP, as well as similar rod or cone disorders including cone-rod dystrophy, causes a progressive degeneration of the retina through cell death (apoptosis) via oxidative or free-radical processes involving sub-cellular mitochondria. Therapies that reduce apoptosis, and the use of certain antioxidants in a synergistic manner, are theorized to slow, stop or even reverse the degeneration. The following are not recommendations to the public, but are a list the author might follow if so diagnosed, based on theoretical discussions, and limited experimentation in the medical literature.

Food:

  • All meals should contain some kind of good fat.
  • Eat Color and Spice and protein in every meal.
  • Eat at least one tablespoon of Toasted sesame oil every day, in salads or in cooking.
  • Cook exclusively with Toasted sesame oil and other highly stable oils, like Coconut oil, butter, and other good cooking oils.
  • Eat cooked tomato dishes at least three times per week.

Virgin Coconut Oil

Flax Seed

Before Meals:

  • Take the supplements to the right at the very start of breakfast (OR lunch if breakfast contains no fat) AND dinner.
  • Tocopherols should not be taken more than twice a day.

Green Tea and Berry

Toco Combo

Grape/Wine Extract

Quercetin

Vitamin C Caps

Berry Extract

Pomegranate Extract

Olive Extract

Silymarin Caps

Bee Propolis

small meals can be preceded by:

Green Tea and Berry and

Tocotrienols

After Meals:

  • Take the supplements to the right once a Day immediately after a large meal (usually dinner).

Lutein Capsules - 40 miligrams minimum per day after breakfast.

Carotenoid Combo - take 2 after dinner.

CoQ10 Capsules - 500 miligrams minimum per day.

Fish Oil - 2 grams minimum per day

Alpha Lipoic Acid Caps - 1 gram minimum per day

Vitamin C Caps or powder - 10 grams per day, divided throughout the day, mostly after meals. I would consume the maximum my stomach could tolerate without discomfort.

Multivitamin Caps

Bilberry Extract

On an Empty Stomach:

  • Take the supplements to the right on an empty stomach, in divided doses throughout the day, with lots of water

NAC Capsules - 2 grams per day.

Alpha Lipoic Acid plus Acetyl L-Carnitine - 1 gram each per day.

Turmeric Extract (contains piperine)

Medications:

It requires a doctor's prescription, but I would insist on the following:

Lifestyle:

  • Wear sunglasses that block the blue-wavelength part of the visible light spectrum, whenever you go outdoors during the day. Such sunglasses have "lenses" that are usually yellow or brown in color.

Toxins:

  • Eliminate:

    Omega-6 Polyunsaturated oils, Sugar, Chips, Fries, white Rice and white Bread (and all other starchy, simple carb foods), Artificial Sweeteners, Soy foods, Charred or Processed Meats, MSG, Teflon Pans, Fluoride and Chlorinated Water, and everything else in the Toxins, Dangers and Hazards page.

Fluoride free toothpaste

Natural Deodorant

EM Meter

Air Purifier

Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 March 2007 )
 
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