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Cataracts are one of those things that don’t seem to be that big of a deal.
If you get a cataract, you just get it removed.
Then you have an artificial lens put in your eye — what’s the big deal?
But You can grow new lens using this cataract treatment that we’re going to explore today.
Just as a reminder, cataracts are cloudy eye lenses.
And the cloudiness makes it more and more difficult to see.
Until recently, the medical community thought that surgery with an implanted lens was the only way to fix the problem.
For a long time, they thought that the lens didn’t regenerate.
They thought that once it was cloudy, the lens couldn’t get un-cloudy.
But it’s not true.
So there is a way to reverse or prevent cataracts WITHOUT surgery!
In this study, they showed how rat lenses continually regenerate themselves.
They figured that people’s lenses probably do the same thing, and we’ll see later that they do.
However, serotonin and other stress hormones contribute to more stress on the eye.
And then the lens regeneration process doesn’t work well enough to keep up with the damage.
Eventually, the lens gets cloudy.
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In a previous newsletter, I showed you that some simple supplements can reverse or slow down cataracts.
Natural cataract treatment can help you avoid surgery.
I want to show you this new study.
It promises to regenerate your very own lenses even after you’ve had the cataract lens removed by the surgeon.
In this pioneering surgery, they did remove the cataract lens.
But they did something different — they kept a certain layer of cells.
These cells could be stimulated to regenerate the lens — to grow a brand new lens.
This type of surgery eliminates having to get an implanted lens.
The implanted lenses are typically made of plastic or some other material that will deteriorate over time.
With these lenses, you often end up needing another surgery to replace it.
There’s nothing like your eye’s real lens — the living breathing lens.
There’s just no replacement for it.
So this surgery promises that your body will regenerate that kind of lens.
It’s certainly best not to need cataract surgery at all.
But now here’s a new treatment for cataracts that may be universally available in a few years!
And it would allow us to have cataract surgery, but avoid the implanted lens.
We can build our own new clear lens in our eye.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0940960296801336
Lens regeneration using endogenous stem cells with gain of visual function
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7594/full/nature17181.html
so, how do you “regrow” your natural lens using stem cells (i.e. where to you put the stem cells – intraocular, IV, subcutaneous, into lymphatic system)? Experiments injecting stem cells INTO the eye has resulted in blindness more than once. My right lens has been removed and replaced with IOL. To grow a natural lens using stem cells, it means the newly placed plastic lens needs to be removed, correct?
What about the posterior lens capsule? Will it regenerate as well? Or once its removed, it’s gone forever? Because that makes any lens manipulation much more dangerous without posterior lens capsule.