Eyedeal Wellness

01/31/2025

What is HOMA-IR? It's the Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance. You can calculate yours if you know your fasting blood sugar and fasting insulin levels. If your doctor isn't ordering your fasting insulin he/she should be! It's an inexpensive test and you can't fully assess metabolic health without knowing if you're insulin resistant or not.

High HOMA-IR points to insulin resistance. Find out what it is, why doctors test it and how to improve it here.

10/31/2024

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37587412/

The cornea is a hormone-responsive tissue that responds to changing levels of female s*x hormones. This review focuses on the structural and functional changes in the human cornea associated with the hormonal milestones of menarche, pregnancy, and menopause, as well as consequences stemming from the...

10/31/2024

"Estrogen exposure may have a neuroprotective effect on the progression of primary open-angle glaucoma but further studies need to confirm this finding."

This article's objective is to provide an overview of the association between estrogen and glaucoma. A literature synthesis was conducted of articles published in peer-reviewed journals screened through May 5, 2015, using the PubMed database. Keywords used were "estrogen and glaucoma," "reproductive...

09/30/2024

45% of adults and 25% of children have fatty liver disease.

09/30/2024

Uric acid us a primary driver of hypertension. This has been known since 1967.
~Dr. Robert Lustig

09/30/2024

"You would think that the American Diabetes Association would be very happy for people to not be insulin resistant. The American Diabetes Association isn't into prevention; they're into treatment. They're into pharmacology. Their entire budget is basically underwritten by Big Pharma."
~Dr. Robert Lustig

09/30/2024

I think fasting insulin is the single best marker for metabolic health that we can order.
~Dr. Robert Lustig

09/30/2024

If your mitochondria are working, your fasting insulin is low. If your mitochondria are not working, your fasting insulin is high.
~Dr. Robert Lustig

09/30/2024

Fasting Insulin is our best proxy for mitochondrial function. ~Dr. Robert Lustig, MD

09/16/2024

"We are going through the largest reduction in solar light exposure in history, while going through the greatest increase in light exposure at night." ~Scott Zimmerman, engineer and optics expert

08/05/2024

Statins used as primary prevention of heart attacks have very week data associations. Statins males who have already had a heart attack is a different scenario than someone who was not had a myocardial infarction. Statin risks include increased risk of developing diabetes and cancer, and now, according to this study, glaucoma. Please evaluate pros and cons of statin therapy carefully before you are put on them for life. With algorithmic medicine, it seems many providers are treating numbers on a page rather than patients as individuals.

Conclusions from the study:
Statin use was associated with increased glaucoma likelihood in the overall adult AoU population with hyperlipidemia, in individuals with optimal or high LDL-C levels, and in individuals 60-69 years old. Findings suggest that statin use may be an independent risk factor for glaucoma, which may furthermore be affected by one’s lipid profile and age.

To investigate associations between statin use and glaucoma in the 2017-2022 All of Us (AoU) Research Program.

06/28/2024

On the QBC podcast this week we have Dr. Valerie Giangrande

Dr. Giangrande is an optometrist, Integrative Holistic Nutrition Health Coach, and a graduate of the Applied Quantum Biology Certification. And she's one of the very few eye doctors who are applying Quantum/Circadian principles to ocular health!

Check out Episode 080, “How Our Eyes Run Our Biology"

"What I love about the eyes is that they are window into the body, in the sense that everything is connected. The eyes are an extension of the skin, they have mucus membranes, there's nerve tissue, it's brain tissue, it's cardiovascular tissue, it's lymph tissue. It's everything altogether."

- Dr. Valerie Giangrande

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