Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration
In this video, Marc Rose spends about 45 minutes speaking on "Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration" at the 30th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Marc Rose
MARC ROSE, M.D. graduated from Ohio State University, Columbus in 1967 with a B.S. Degree, Cum Laude and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in 1971 with an M.D. Degree and did his Residency in Ophthalmology at University of Illinois, Chicago in 1975. Dr. Rose had Board Certification and is a Member of California Association of Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataracts and Refractive Surgery and National Eye Research Foundation.
Memberships and Recognitions include: an appointment by Governor Edmund Brown, Jr. as Member of the 11th District Medical Quality Review Committee, Board of Medical Assurance’s; Certificate for Outstanding Contribution to the City of Los Angeles awarded by Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles; and Missionary Trips to Mexico with Flying Doctors carrying surgical equipment and treating the rural population with eye health problems.
Medical Appointments and Training include Assistant Professor of Surgery & Ophthamology at Western University of Health Science Pomona, and Photorefractive Keratectomy, Dept. of Ophthalmology at Jules Stein Institute, UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles, both in California.
Dr. Marc has developed many of the guidelines used to prevent and even reverse various age and lifestyle induced diseases of the eye that are in his book Save Your Sight! This 1998 bestseller contains these protocols, which have helped thousands of those afflicted with diseases of the eye.
Some of the Chapter Headings include The Nutritional Care and Feeding of Your Eyes; Preventing and Healing Cataracts, Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration; Keeping Your Blood Vessels Strong; Are Your Prescription Drugs Making You Go Blind?; and Exercise Your Way to Clear Vision with an Appendix: A Summary of Nutritional Prescriptions for Eye Diseases.
Transcription
Thank you very much for having me speak here, everybody. It's really an honor and a pleasure to be with such a wonderful noted physicians and clinicians such as Dr. Gary Gordon, who just spoke a wonderful mentor of mine, is giving me a lot of inspiration. Earl Mandele, others and others. I've been an ophthalmologist here in Los Angeles for the past twenty six years and I've been fortunate to be here in Los Angeles. My main office is down in an area of Los Angeles called Lincoln Heights that's down around the outdoor stadium Chinatown.
And most of my patients come from areas outside of the United States, were born outside the United States and over the past twenty six years, what myself and my identical twin brother Michael, who's also practices with me, opthamologist.
What we've noticed is that the people, the patients are patients who come from outside of the United States because Los Angeles is a melting pot, who come from us, who come from Asia, who come from China, Vietnam, Korea, Lao's, Cambodia, Philippines, Australia, come from Mexico and South and Central America are much more healthy and have much less eye disease than the American born people.
So our healthiest patients are the patients who were not born in the United States but who come from other places. And that got us very interested in nutrition and in changing people's lifestyles.
We got interested in this 20, 25 years ago. Back with Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw when they were living down in Manhattan Beach.
We became very close friends and they gave us a lot of impetus. And what so what we found is the people who practice simple basic lifestyles have less cataract, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, diabetic retinopathy.
We wrote a book called Save Your Site Natural Ways to Prevent a Reverse Macular Degeneration.
And in the book, we talk about that the eyes are connected to the rest of the body, which is foreign.
It's a foreign word with most opthamologist and most physicians, they don't realize that the eyes are intimately connected with the whole body, with the heart, with the lungs, with the digestive system, with all the endocrine systems, with a brain. The eyes are part of the central nervous system.
And by changing one's lifestyle through healthy living, through a diet with lots of vegetables, leafy green vegetables, all different colored vegetables, different colored fruits, blueberries, strawberries, huckleberries. One can actually prevent and reverse disease. Let me briefly talk about what Catterick served, because there's a lot of misconceptions about eye disease, what causes them, what they are, what they aren't, cataracts or opacity of