Vitamins for vision health and body health EYEMAX-plus

• It's far easier to prevent a cataract than to reverse it. I think the success rate in preventing the cataract could be very close to 100%.

• 88% of the patients that I have put on a nutritional program over a two-year period of time improved in visual acuity. Of those who were blind before, 54% were not blind after the treatment. Approximately 54% who required surgery when they first came to me no longer needed surgery after nutritional treatment.

• In reversal, in my experience, improvement in vision is generally at least 50%, meaning that if you start nutritional therapy with a 20/100 cataract than you're likely to improve to around 20/50. If you start with someone with a 20/400 cataract, you're likely to improve to 20/200. Obviously, if you start with a 20/30 cataract you're likely to improve to 20/20.

• The risk is real when you have cataract surgery. The risk is at least 1/2 of 1% of loss of the vision in the eye. And about 5% end up with results that are as bad or slightly worse than the patient was when they had the surgery. Only about 94% of cataract operations result in a complete success. Even though cataract surgery is probably the most successful surgical procedure performed in the world today it still does have risks. And the risk, although it is small, does catch us every now and then and really makes the patient miserable.

• A person taking 200 units of vitamin E alone reduces their risk of developing a cataract by 56%.

• Persons who take vitamin E and vitamin C together have approximately 86% reduced risk in developing a cataract. Vitamin E is recycled by vitamin C so you can actually reduce the amount of vitamin E necessary by increasing the amount of vitamin C.

• The eye has the highest concentration of vitamin C than any other organ in the body. Before a cataract forms the lens of the eye becomes completely devoid of vitamin C and also glutathione.

• Glutathione, which is a protein molecule and enzyme, was proven at the University of Minnesota to be essential for preventing cataracts. We usually make our own glutathione, but you can't make your own glutathione unless you have adequate levels of selenium in the diet. Glutathione is recycled by the body and the recycling process depends upon selenium.

• There have been several studies going back over 15 years that zinc deficiency causes cataracts.

• I had proposed 10 years ago that selenium would be proven to be essential, and at this stage, has in fact, been proven to be essential.

• Niacine and riboflavin deficiency have been reported as causes of cataracts for many years.

• Toxic metals (lead, mercury, cadmium) are all causes of cataracts. In my study of 460 consecutive patients, 47% had measurable levels of toxic metals and 15.7% had significant levels of toxic metals in their system. Your chances are at least one in six that you have a significant level of toxic metals within your body.

• The amount of iron recommended daily, 18 mg, is based on the idea that you will absorb approximately10% of that, nearly 1.8 mg per day, but if you take 250 mg of vitamin C, you will increase that by a factor of 4 so that the RDA of iron for a person who is taking vitamin C should be around 4 mg, not 18 mg, and it is very easy to get 4 mg in a diet.

• There's a tremendous amount in the literature now speculating ultra violet light causes cataracts. Yet, when they compare people who live in the northern climates, such as New York or Canada, with people living in Florida there hasn't been a good strong correlation. And probably the reason there hasn't been is if you're taking vitamin C and vitamin E you can neutralize the effect of free radicals produced by infrared and ultra violet.

• A fair number of persons are sensitive to lactose. The lactose does penetrate into the lens of the eye and these individuals can develop a cataract, which is reversible if they'll stop drinking milk.

• I will start them on a good multivitamin and mineral supplement. My own personal formula is the Nutriplex (now updated to EYEMAX-plus). In an early cataract EYEMAX-plus is sufficient. Within a few months the cataract will be gone, or at least stabilized.

• I believe that when you put a patient on a nutritional program that you should give them at least 6 weeks. If there is no improvement in 6 weeks, I say go ahead and schedule the surgery. If on the other hand they have improved, most of them would like to wait another 3 months. If their vision has improved, my experience is they will decide they would like to stay on the nutritional program for another few months.

• Why should we use nutrition therapy initially for a cataract rather than going right on to surgery? Those who have been on a nutritional program heal much faster than those who have never been on a nutritional program. In my experience, they heal three times as fast. Further, in my experience, they have fewer complications.

• Although a 50% improvement in vision is typical, some improve rather dramatically. I have had some patients go from 20/200 to 20/25 so sometimes the improvement is rather remarkable. And I do believe a short course of at least six weeks is always justified.

• If you started a patient on a nutritional program during the early stages of cataracts, you can treat that patient for 65 years for the cost of the surgery you're going to prevent.

• Nutritional treatment of cataracts works, it's very simple. The United States if far behind the other countries in the world. This is done routinely in Germany and France, Japan.

• Even if the cost of preventing surgery didn't justify itself, we know from studies in Harvard and Sweden that you will have reduced your risk of kidney stones by 86% by such a treatment.

• We know that you will have reduced your chances of developing cancer by 90%. Forty percent of Americans today are going to die of cancer according to the National Academy of Sciences. And one could reduce that down from 40% to about 4%.

• You definitely are going to reduce your rate of heart attack or stroke by at least 50% and if you do have a heart attack your chances of survival will be increased by 92%.

• It would reduce your chances of developing arthritis by 82% and would reduce your chances of premature death by approximately 75%.

• Forget what the government says about Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA), because I don't believe they're very accurate, For instance, they say the RDA for vitamin C is 60 mg, yet if you take 250 mg of vitamin C over a period of a year you'll drop your cholesterol levels by 30%.

• Although it has been proven that vitamin C will not prevent a cold, vitamin C will shorten the coarse of it by about 60%.

• We know from studies that I have done and that other people have done, that at least 50%, probably 70%, of the American population is zinc deficient and is more likely to be zinc deficient in the elderly population than in the young.

• The American diet supplies 50 to 75 mcg of selenium per day, a Japanese diet 400 to 700 mcg of selenium a day. The FDA recommends a supplement of 50 to 200 mcg a day as safe.

• According to several studies of testing the diet of children and random samplings of diets most of the population is deficient in both niacin and riboflavin.

• If you are taking, or if you begin taking vitamin C and you have toxic metals stored in your bones then these metals will come out into your bloodstream before they are excreted and during this period of time you may actually get sick. And some people who react to vitamins, and particularly vitamin C, are reacting to it because the vitamin C pulls these poisons out of their bones and into the general circulation and it takes many months before you finally get rid of it.

• If you go out in the spring, after you have lost all of your tan, and go out and spend 20 to 30 minutes in the sun, you are going to get sunburned. However, if you will take 1,000 mg of vitamin C and 1,000 units of vitamin E before you go out in the sun, you can stay out there 8 hours in the sun and not get burned at all. That's how effective these vitamins are in neutralizing free radicals.

• The reason Nutriplex (now EYEMAX-plus) is designed the way it is with 4 tablets, you can break it, you know you can give one tablet to a small child for example, someone who is maybe 8 or 9 years old 2 tablets a day, a teenager 3 tables a day, an adult, 4 tablets a day.

• A vast amount of scientific research clearly demonstrates that a balanced diet and the right nutritional supplements can promote healthy eyes and a healthy body.

The original formula that Dr. Todd used successfully to treat cataracts has been updated, and is now called EYEMAX-plus.

EYEMAX-plus is a high-potency formula that is rich in vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants.

EYEMAX-plus - a formula so complete, so balanced and so powerful - contains everything that has been shown to promote healthy eyes and a healthy body.

DISCLAIMER:
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Regular examinations by a licensed health care professional are recommended.

The are three things to consider when choosing nutritional supplements for your eyes:

1. How important the visual system is to the body.
2. What ingredients - vitamins, minerals and herbs - are in the supplement.
3. The amount of each ingredient contained in the supplement.

1. The visual system - the eyes, nerves, muscles and processing centers in the brain - consume over 30% of the oxygen we breathe and more than 25% of the nutrition that we take in. A truly healthy body leads to a healthy visual system; a healthy visual system is the result of a healthy body. The eyes do not exist in isolation. The vitamins we take cannot magically be made to go to the eyes alone. Beware of any supplements that make claims to the contrary.
2. Study the list of ingredients in the EYEMAX-plus formula. You'll find EVERYTHING known to be necessary for the health of the body and the eyes.
3. You MIGHT find another formula that contains most of these ingredients, but you have to look deeper. What are the AMOUNTS of each ingredient? The amounts of the individual ingredients in EYEMAX-plus are the amounts your body and your eyes require. This is particularly true of the anti-oxidants and the minerals. Also keep in mind that TOO MUCH of certain vitamins and minerals are unnecessary and costly, and may, in some cases, even be dangerous.