If you have risk factors for macular degeneration, such as family history or smoking, and your eye examination revealed changes in your retina, we recommend lifestyle changes such as nutritional supplementation and blue light filtering lenses. With our new MPOD technology, we have a way to measure your current pigment levels to establish aContinue reading “How well are you eating?”
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Preserving Macular Health
by Damon Dierker, OD, FAAO Can We Eat Our Way to a Healthy Macula? The answer is YES! You are what you eat — we’ve heard it since we were children. Not surprisingly, what we eat today is simply not as nutritious as a generation or two ago. Industrial farming techniques have caused many ofContinue reading “Preserving Macular Health”
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