Episodes

EPISODE 50 - Part 2 of 8 Title: 8 Things Your Doctor Will Not Tell You About Eye Disease: You Need More than Your Doctor is Offering We continue our discussion about health, wellness, and the things we can do to improve all of these in ourselves. We are going to be talking about what we can do to maintain your health. If there was ever a time to be attending to it, that time is now. Today we will begin talking about our Better Eye Health Program. We work with people with severe eye or retinal ...

EPISODE 49 - Part 1 of 8 Title: 8 Things Your Doctor Does Not Tell You If You Have Macular Degeneration, Stargardt or Retinitis Pigmentosa The first of an eight-part series on degenerative eye disease. If you have, or know someone close to you, that has been diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, things like macular degeneration, stargardt disease (which is basically just the juvenile form of macular degeneration), or retinitis pigmentosa, then this will be of interest. These are diseases...

BEH PODCAST EPISODE 48 -- Featuring Dr. Damon Miller with Christine Rosche. Welcome to the OrganicMD podcast. We're here today. I'm still in the midst of the wildfires in California, and it's become such an issue that Christine Rosche and Dr. Miller decided to get together and devote an entire podcast to dealing with the smoke, with the focus on the kinds of things you can do to protect yourself from the very toxic smoke from these wildfires. The smoke is now blanketing the entire earth! You kno...

ORGANICMD PODCAST – EPISODE 47 Quarantined and Having a Lot of Emotion? Is it probably grief, quarantined, and having a Lot of Emotion? It’s probably grief. Does sheltering in place, along with the complete collapse of any semblance of your normal life, have you feeling a bit dispirited? Maybe more than just a bit? Of course it does. If it did not, I would question if you were actually human. Carlyle Coash offers practical advice on how to manage emotions during this time. We need to care for ou...

ORGANICMD PODCAST – EPISODE 46 Support to Have On Hand If You Do Get COVID-19 Infection Support to Have On Hand If You Do Get COVID-19 InfectionAllopathic prescription anti-viral drugs have been pretty ineffective. Integrative medical practices do not rely only on things that are anti-viral, but also take steps to strengthen the host. The virus is a parasite, and you are the host. Human beings have been coexisting with viruses forever and have very sophisticated systems to defend against the inv...

Welcome to the Organic MD Podcast. Part two of our discussion on D3, which is also kind of talking about the current state of affairs with the virus and all of the adventure and excitement that\'s happening with that. We\'re exploring the disease that\'s happening and how D3 is a great benefit to it, as well as some other things.

ORGANICMD PODCAST - EPISODE 44 Dose Your D3. Supplement with Vitamin D3 to decrease the risk of flu and COVID-19 coronavirus infection. Maintaining an elevated Vitamin D3 blood level is one of the most effective things you can do to protect yourself from infection from the flu virus or the current coronavirus. In this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think that doctors and public health officials would be screaming from the rooftops about the importance of everyone doing whatever it takes...

An exploration of two of our classes. One is the healthy eating workshop. Recent research has shown that recovery from degenerative conditions in the eye and brain is helped by a diet low in sugars, simple carbohydrates, and processed foods. The Healthy Eating Workshop introduces a plan for eating that includes those recommendations, and in six weeks, puts you on a path to a plan for eating that will serve your eyes for a lifetime. The second course, which you can do at the same time, is the "De...

Supplements are very important if you have a degenerative eye disease, or if these diseases run in your family. Over 60 years of research, and thousands of peer-reviewed papers have shown that supplements alone will slow the progression of eye disease, but they will not stop the progression, and they will not restore lost vision. Using the proper supplements, and optimizing your health may be all you need to prevent the development of eye disease if eye disease runs in your family. The Basic Pro...

Macular pseudoholes; macular holes; macular fold; macular tear; epiretinal membrane. The ophthalmologists consider all of the above as very different and distinct problems, but we have come to see that they are all simply different forms of structural degeneration of the retina, and are more common than different. Also we have seen all of them improve, even heal with the basic approaches used in the full Better Eye Health Program. The eye can heal, and there is Hope for Sight!

This is the third and final part of our series on autoimmune disease and eye disease. This episode offers the basics of what is needed to manage, even eliminate an autoimmune problem. All autoimmune issues come from an immune system that is over-stimulated. Too much immune stimulation and your body can start producing antibodies that damage your own tissues. The key to reversing this is to reduce the number of things challenging your immune system. Foods can cause reactions, as can toxins. So, c...

Part Two of the discussion on autoimmunity continues. In the work to reduce the challenges to our immune system, it is important to deal with chronic infections. For many, the challenge is centered in their gut. An unhealthy mix of microbes in the gut makes the gut unhealthy, and spills over into the body, causing inflammation and causing immune reactions. Careful attention to gut health is critical if your goal is to heal an autoimmune problem.

Autoimmunity is a big problem in health these days. It is not the cause of your eye challenges, but it makes it harder to heal. Dr. Miller talks about how keeping your wellness - especially in regards to toxins - can prove to play an important role in how you calm your immune system, rebuild tissue and reverse degenerative eye disease. This episode is the first of a three-part series.

Tens of millions of people with degenerative retinal diseases like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease hold the same story. When they were first diagnosed their doctor told them that there was nothing that could be done to stop the vision loss or restore lost vision. Maybe they were given some samples of eye vitamins, but nothing else. There is more you can do. Much more. Your doctor has no drug or surgery to offer, but there are proven therapies you can start now th...

We address the confusion some people have about wet versus dry macular degeneration. Hint: they are the same disease. All wet macular degeneration begins as dry macular degeneration. Wet (or exudative) macular degeneration is a more advanced stage of dry (non-exudative) macular degeneration. The leaking and bleeding found in wet macular degeneration are simply complications found in more advanced stages of the disease. The injections and treatments offered if you have macular degeneration treat ...

When you read about research into new treatments for conditions like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease, you may hear about clinical trials and wonder if these are something that might help you. We discuss the long history of clinical trials for the treatment of eye disease. Our general recommendation based on long experience is to not rush to join any clinical trial, for two reasons. One is that almost all of the new treatments being researched involve significant ...

Supplementing a healthy diet with vitamin and mineral supplements is recommended for all people with degenerative retinal diseases like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease. Eye doctors recommend some form of vitamins for all their clients. However, vitamins alone will not stop the progression of these challenging problems. Vitamins alone will not restore lost vision. Other therapies in combination with vitamins can help restore lost vision but vitamins alone will not...

Losing your memory? Afraid of where this is leading to as you age? We propose that you have two choices: (1) Wait for medicine to develop a drug or some other magic bullet. Could happen in the next 10 years. Or not. (2) Start now to pursue with a vengeance all of the things that doctors are proposing as ways to improve brain health, improve memory, and even reverse dementia. This podcast lays out the areas of research and the healthy practices that have been shown to improve brain health and mem...

In the full Better Eye Health Program™, we have perfected a system of acupressure or needleless acupuncture that we call the Acu-Eye™ Program. You learn to stimulate the points in the program yourself at home. The techniques of Oriental medicine have great value in helping people challenged by degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and glaucoma. Acupuncturists find that an aggressive micro-acupuncture treatment program can help when treatmen...

In the full Better Eye Health Program™, we have perfected a system of acupressure or needleless acupuncture that we call the Acu-Eye™ Program. You learn to stimulate the points in the program yourself at home. The techniques of Oriental medicine have great value in helping people challenged by degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and glaucoma. Acupuncturists find that an aggressive micro-acupuncture treatment program can help when treatmen...

In the full Better Eye Health Program™, we have perfected a system of acupressure or needleless acupuncture that we call the Acu-Eye™ Program. You learn to stimulate the points in the program yourself at home. The techniques of Oriental medicine have great value in helping people challenged by degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and glaucoma. Acupuncturists find that an aggressive micro-acupuncture treatment program can help when treatmen...

You need minerals. You need a mineral supplement that is separate from and taken separately from your vitamins. We recommend products that contain humic and fulvic minerals, extracted from ancient plant sources, made in the United States. Vitality boost HA contains a mix of humic minerals (a colloid) and fulvic minerals (a solution) extracted from the same raw materials. It is the most concentrated product we offer, and the best value. They are dark, but virtually tasteless. Energy boost contain...

Yes, more oxygen helps your eyes. There are so many ways to do this. We have seen people with macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease benefit from a regular practice of mindful breathing, breathing slower and more fully than you usually do. People also report benefits with more aggressive therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen or high tension oxygen therapy with 8 L per minute via a mask or nasal cannula. Finally, there is a treatment called Exercise With Oxygen Therapy (EW...

Taurine is in the basic protocol of eye supplements in the Better Eye Health Program™ because it is a raw material the body needs to repair and regenerate eye cells. Much of the regeneration and repair the body does occurs when we sleep, so we recommend you take taurine before bedtime, so it is in your blood and your body needs it. Also, taurine has been shown to support healthy sleep.