Over the past 4 years I have completely reversed dry AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration) to visual acuity (Snellen) 6/6 both eyes in 8 months from diagnosis (there is only the slightest evidence of drusen at high magnification) and in 2023 have near reversed neovascular AMD in my left eye (6/18 in January and now better than 6/7.5 with an ever-shrinking reservoir of fluid, and RE: 6/5) with no evidence of any adverse vascular activity just 10 months from diagnosis – all without medical treatment. It is significant that during the neovascular recovery both eyes are shown to have profited from the recovery strategy. Both of these AMD events were the direct result of poor/inappropriate medical interventions.

We hear much about the increase of AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration), both dry and to a lesser extent neovascular, in the population across the Western World. We also hear that great advances are in process for treatments such as anti-VEGF. There are also some ophthalmic professionals who now state that poor diet and health are contributors to AMD. AMD is also referred to as a disease, and inherited genetics is also cited as a contributor. But have the ophthalmic profession completely misunderstood what actually causes AMD and that it can be avoided and, indeed repaired if caught early enough.

In recent medical papers and YouTube presentations I noted some ophthalmic specialists identify nutrition and health playing a significant role in AMD but, as with most ophthalmic specialists, they cannot resist medical treatment of the eye (effect) rather than addressing the cause.

As a former nuclear scientist with much exposure to the medical research profession, and in the past four years suffered from both types of AMD caused by poor/inappropriate medical interventions, have fully recovered from dry AMD and near full recovery from neovascular AMD using my own knowledge and research. I will share my journey with readers to completely redefine macular degeneration as health-related and, as such, eminently reversable without medical treatment if caught early enough.

My journey suggests that the age-related part of AMD is only an indication that, as we age, our lungs can become contaminated with atmospheric pollutants restricting the amount of actived oxygen extracted from the air we breathe, and an increase in the pH level in our digestive system meaning we no longer extract the nutrients we need. However, both can be easily corrected which suggests the eyes can be restored to good health. Therefore, I would suggest that HMD (Health-related Macular Degeneration) would be a more appropriate label.

I was faced on both AMD presentations by the senior specialist in AMD at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London with the prognosis that there was no way back, and my condition would deteriorate over time to blindness. Treatment such as anti-VEGF would slow the process but not repair the damage. This attitude appalled me and started a journey of discovery combing as many medical libraries as possible in the World seeking papers and data to help me understand AMD. The result of this research revealed a truly diverse range of thinking amongst professionals with the vast majority looking no further than the eyes for answers.

The eye perfectly lends itself to Black Box analysis as a complex muscle with one input and one output with a direct correlation of output being a function of input. Study found that the eye requires an extensive range of nutrients as well as the need for more Active Oxygen (defined as H₃O₂) than any other organ in the body in order to function correctly and stay healthy. Thus, diet and health are important to satisfy the inputs required. But this assumes much about normal digestive and lung function.

Reversing Dry AMD (8-month process)

My journey started with dry AMD after heart surgery in April 2019 where an over-zealous surgeon tightly sutured so much of my soft tissue that my left lung was barely functional for some 7-months. I have already written about this journey in a previous blog ‘Covid-19 and Airnergy+ Active Oxygen’.

Reversing Neovascular AMD (10-month process)

In November 2022 I underwent a Pfizer Covid booster jab to allow me to travel having previously undertaking two AstraZeneca injections for the same reason. The adverse impact of this vaccine occurred within one minute in the form of palpitations. Thereafter my health noticeably deteriorated culminating in a neovascular event in my left eye in January 2023. In its simplest terms the brain triggers vascular activity to support a recognised lack of nutrients to the eyes.

It took a request from me to secure comprehensive well-being blood tests. The initial response to these was ‘unremarkable’. After securing a copy of these results it was clear to me that they were far from unremarkable indicating problems, or potential problems throughout my major organs. My whole immune system was compromised. Having undertaken a revision cardiac myectomy procedure in April 2021 I worked hard to restore my health returning to active tennis by October 2021. However, I left Harefield hospital some 8kg (net of retained fluids) heavier and unable to lose this excess under normal diet and exercise during my return to health and fitness. Having researched what was pumped into me during surgery to gain so much retained weight it is likely caused by Hartnell’s Solution which appears to be a glucose bomb deposited in my liver and gallbladder. My blood tests indicated I was sleepwalking my way to diabetes.

As my liver determines the quality of blood to my eyes, I researched how I could lose this 8kg (17lbs) of excess weight without compromise to ensuring the nutrients required to restore my eyes and other organs to good health.

The medical response to my dilemma was that UK medical protocols do not permit the treatment of a number of organs simultaneously. My doctor chose to ‘repair’ my seemingly underactive thyroid with prescription drugs even after suggesting to him that my thyroid problem was likely a reaction to the underlying cause. I mention this because the medical establishment created this situation, commonly referred to as long covid but without any consideration of how to treat it.

Other concerns that needed address were:

• During my revision heart surgery in April 2021 at Harefield Hospital I was given a contaminated blood transfusion infected with Antigen-E. This antigen is aggressive towards red blood cells reducing life of the cell and reducing integrity. This contaminant was a potential inhibitor to my recovery, but Harefield suggested there was no method of removal. Back to my research to find a USA patent filed in 1994 detailing a method to destroy biological pathogens by the introduction of an electron into the pathogen molecule – essentially a bullet to the head. This was easy to deliver using microcurrent technology after which the Haematology Department at Harefield certified the complete removal of this antigen.
• As I can only attribute the complete breakdown in my established immune system to the Pfizer vaccine as can be clearly demonstrated with the significant deterioration of my health starting some 30 seconds after receiving the jab, I can only assume that this vaccine should have been identified as unsuitable for me.

My assumption was the Pfizer spike(S) protein was in my blood. As the spike protein is negatively charged it could well attach to my red blood cells degrading performance. Therefore, my objective was to rid myself of any residual proteins from this vaccine and rebuild my immune system. I had suffered two colds in two months – no viral infection has broken through my immune system since 2003.

Realising that I needed to solve my problems myself I formulated a strategy that would ensure:

• restored digestive function pH ≤ 3
• Maintain quality lung function
• Loss of the excess weight impacting liver and gallbladder function
• Adequate supply of vitamins, minerals, proteins, and enzymes using carefully selected sources and diet
• Restore my immune system
• Stay fit with a positive mental attitude.

Lung function was quickly under control with my Airnergy Pro+ machine – 2 sessions of 20 minutes per day.

Restore Digestive Function

AMD medical papers are now emerging that suggest a balanced diet is essential to eye function. However, if stomach function is not properly processing food intake the objective will not be achieved. Certainly, a good diet is essential to healthy living as is avoiding excess weight, but medics need to take a step back to digestive and lung function to make their pronouncements effective.

The medical expression for poor digestive function is hypothesis. My research revealed the typical indicators of hypothesis are:

• Low red blood cell count
• Low B12
• Low actived oxygen in mitochondria

For the stomach to function properly it needs to generate HCL (hydrochloric acid) for which it needs inputs of zinc, potassium, and sodium chloride all of which are extracted from food intake. This HCL is triggered from gastrin which stimulates acid production during meals.

As a former sufferer of acid reflux, I can provide comfort to sufferers as curing acid reflux is the same process as for poor digestive function always assuming no other health issuers such as obesity, diabetes, smoking, and overconsumption of alcohol. Indeed, anything proposed in this paper either refers to the otherwise healthy, or a commitment to becoming healthy.

The UK NHS suggests acid reflux is the overgeneration of HCL and will prescribe PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) such as omeprazole or lansoprazole with all their nasty side effects. Current research and now practice in the USA suggests this approach is debunked as it is now realised that acid reflux is the under-generation of HCL, especially in the over 50s, resulting in low gastrin which results in the failure to close the lower oesophageal sphincter which then allows acid to flow up to the throat. Treatment for acid reflux changed in the USA in 2020 – when will the NHS catch up. For the purposes of this paper poor quality HCL and/or under-generation of HCL requires the same treatment.

The treatment does not require prescription drugs. All you need is Betaine Hydrochloride in capsule form taken before meals to stimulate HCL production before a main meal. To determine how much you need I can only point to the YouTube video by Dr Eric Berg titled ‘Repair Acid Reflux’. By way of reference, I used two capsules each containing 324mg Betaine Hydrochloride and 5mg Pepsin before my main meal for 4 days after which, because I started my diet, I switched to 1000mg Acetyl L-Carnitine before my main meal as per the recommendations of my chosen diet. Post-diet I maintain HCL levels with daily doses of pure apple cider vinegar, usually taken in the evening.

Weight Loss

Losing weight and restoring the nutrients required by eyes sounds counterintuitive. However, the threat of Type-2 diabetes makes losing weight fundamental to help restore a healthy body, especially the liver. Far too many laud lengthy periods of exercise as the method to lose weight. As a healthy 72-year-old still playing competitive tennis I can attest that exercise is important, but not to lose weight, only to maintain a healthy body. Exercise relates to skeletal muscle, not abdominal fat.

Having studied this subject in great depth, I was very disturbed yet again to study papers from the USA around 2020 that indicated that the epidemic of type-2 diabetes in the USA is due to clinicians using the wrong marker (blood glucose) for diagnosis reflecting only what is happening in the blood, not the body. Indeed, the treatments for diabetes under this error increases fat storage. It was determined that glucose is a symptom; insulin is the protagonist. For the past 2-years the USA has adopted the measurement of insulin as a diagnosis. Why is the UK NHS still languishing under the discarded process? Do we need an endemic in the UK before they wake up?

I also studied the use of SGLT2 inhibiters such as Canagliflozin (Invokana) and the more recent Metformin as part of a low carb diet but not convinced that this method of weight loss is effective in the long-term and tends to alter metabolic rate in any event. Same applies to fasting.

There are many weight-loss diets out there professing to be definitive. Having a traditional diet I chose the weight-loss diet that has survived challenge for many years being the Dr Atkins Diet Plan albeit I would not recommend the Induction Diet Plan for this purpose. I chose the Atkins-40 Plan which means I limit my carb intake to 40g per day and no snacking. It requires adapting to food available locally but not difficult. I allotted a maximum of 12 weeks during which time I lost 11kg (24lbs) after which I returned to a normal diet where my weight has since remained stable. In addition to the nutrients I use specifically for my eyes, I also stuck rigidly to the nutrient supplements recommendations with the diet. I would recommend securing a copy of the latest edition of ‘New Diet Revolution’ by Dr Atkins which provides comprehensive information needed during this diet including a required nutrition supplement list and variations for various medical conditions. It is also necessary to establish when, during the day, you need to take these supplements as some are not appropriate early morning, and most with food. Exception are liquid selenium (afternoon) (for thyroid) and liquid magnesium sulphate (around 20 minutes before retiring). Not all supplements are the same quality – choose carefully, and some recommended daily intakes are a function of body weight.

The nutrients, vitamins, and minerals specific to the eyes are as follow:

• Lutein
• Zeaxanthin
• Billberry
• Vitamin D3 (twice recommended daily amount: 4000 IU)

Restore Immune System

Since 2003 I have used an immune modulation system consisting of various ionised mineral salts which perform their task of penetration into my blood regardless of digestive function but is beyond the scope of this paper as it only takes a few days to restore digestive function so any quality immune supplement system will suffice.

Improve Well-being

Wellbeing and healthy lifestyle are important components in this process. The fear of losing sight can be stressful, but stress should be avoided. A positive mental attitude and belief that you can restore your eyes will significantly improve chances of success. I had Moorfields scan my eyes every 4 –5 weeks so that I could observe improvement as well as modify my strategy if needed. Even though there was no evidence of irregular vascular activity, and visual acuity had already restored to better than 6/9, I was persuaded to take one injection of faricimab after 4 months of my strategy as precautionary but only because I wanted to undertake two long-haul flights during my recovery process. If anything, either the injection and/or the flights set me back a few weeks requiring additional recovery effort. I certainly would not consider any further anti-VEGF injections.

I also made a conscious decision not to use any prescription or OTC drugs throughout my recovery period. Having suffered enough from medical intervention my choice was to naturally supply to my body everything it needs to repair itself.

Acupuncture

It is most certainly a paradox that acupuncture has been in medical practice by some 50% of the global population for more than 2,000 years but still no robust scientific understanding of why it works. However, it would not have survived if it does not work. As a scientist I was taught that if you observe an outcome that can be consistently repeated, believe it even though the capacity to understand why is still beyond us.

Although generally discounted by conventional Western medicine it is slowly but surely increasing its presence in pain management, fertility and, interestingly, long covid within mainstream medicine. It is certainly in widespread use in sports therapy and rehab.

Furthermore, the general view of acupuncture is the traditional method of needles at specific points along the meridians. However, acupuncture can also be achieved by manual wand, electronic stimulation, and Otto vibrational forks which I have used very effectively to immediately relieve the pain of arthritis in my left thumb having long abandoned ineffective steroid injections.

With nothing to lose I researched therapists within 25 miles. Having interviewed and discounted 6 such therapists I found Lianne Aquilina of Aquilia Acupuncture, trained in China, impressive credentials, and approved by private medical insurers. We spent a whole Sunday afternoon discussing my case and her proposed treatment process before engaging in treatment.

Fortunately, having spent much time in the Far-East during my career, I am familiar with acupuncture as a treatment having witnessed the power of such treatment in competent hands. I found a paper ‘Effects of acupuncture on age-related macular degeneration: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials’ March 2023 (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283375) that looked at the benefits of using acupuncture as a treatment for AMD. Although not a rigorous randomised controlled trial it did include results from 508 AMD patients (631 eyes) of which 360 were dry eyes and 271 wet. The clearly serious and brutally rigorous analysis by the authors impressed me, and what interested me was the arguments why acupuncture could help AMD patients, especially with regard to treatment applied along the liver (LV) and gallbladder (GB) meridians.

Although I have no empirical evidence that acupuncture significantly contributed to my outcome Lianne was diligent in her regular reviews over the 16-weeks I engaged with her and the interesting vitals that acupuncture practitioners use to determine wellness of the body all showed significant improvement.

Conclusions

Both medical interventions responsible for my AMD events can be reasonably viewed as accelerated aging.

Assuming normal light conditions as the process, the eye lends itself to simple Black Box analysis with one [complex] input and one output.

It is acknowledged that ophthalmic professionals are likely to contest my views and approach (albeit I am aware of a number of optometrists in the UK who use Spirovital Therapy with their patients). It should be noted that, during my neovascular recovery, having declared the use of regular blood tests in addition to OCT scans to monitor progress, at no time did any ophthalmic professionals show any interest in these blood test results whereas my acupuncture practitioner wanted a copy for analysis as soon as available. These blood tests were critical to ensure my body was responding to the recovery strategy, especially my eyes.

As a qualified and trained scientist, I am fully prepared to argue my case and debate the logic and argument applied to my recovery. In any event the results speak for themselves, and mine is not the only reported recovery.

Everything is impossible until someone proves otherwise.

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