How one supplement stops macular
degeneration and Alzheimer’s

On Wednesday, I showed you how grapes can help prevent macular degeneration. While eating a phytonutrient-rich diet will go a long way toward preventing it, this is a very difficult disease to prevent and treat. So I always suggest throwing everything you can at it, including supplements. A new study looked at one supplement in particular and found that it can have a dramatic impact. What’s more, they found that it also may help Alzheimer’s disease.

In this study, the researchers treated middle-aged mice with vitamin D for six weeks. The vitamin apparently helped lower toxic beta amyloid in their eyes and blood vessels. You might know beta amyloid as the protein that accumulates in Alzheimer’s disease. It also affects your eyes.

The easy cure for high cholesterol 
most doctors never consider

Last week, I told you about Chris. He’s an NFL coach who ran into some bad advice from his team doctor. The team doctor found out that Chris’s cholesterol was high, so he put him on a statin to lower his cholesterol. The doctor meant well, but putting Chris on a statin caused the health of the otherwise very healthy man to spiral downward rapidly!

That’s when Chris called me and asked what was going on. His strength and stamina were gone. He was in pain. And his sex drive was dwindling fast. 

Superfood prevents macular degeneration
better than supplements

Macular degeneration is one of the worst eye diseases you can have. It’s the most common cause of blindness. And it’s terribly difficult to treat. So prevention is vital. The good news is one of my favorite foods can help you prevent this horrible disease.

Researchers in a new study compared the impact of a phytonutrient-rich diet on the vision in mice. But these weren’t just any mice. They were prone to develop retinal disease similar to human age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The researchers gave the mice either a grape-enriched diet, a lutein supplement, or a normal diet. The grapes proved to offer dramatic protection compared to the others. Grapes prevented oxidative damage of the retina and prevented blindness in the mice that ate the grapes. Lutein worked. But the grapes were far more effective.