The compounds known as Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors, or VEGF’s, are found in high concentration inside the eyes of patients with wet macular degeneration, and have been proven to be one of the causes for the formation of abnormal blood vessels below the retina that cause bleeding and sudden loss of vision.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved two drugs for injection into the eye that block VEGF’s, one of which has even been shown to improve vision! 

The two FDA-approved drugs are Macugen and Lucentis. While Macugen has been shown to stabilize vision in wet macular degeneration patients, some Lucentis patients actually experience visual improvement. Therefore, Macugen usage has become less common for the treatment of wet macular degeneration. 

Doctors are now more optimistic than ever with respect to the treatment of wet macular degeneration. However, studies have shown that in most patients, the effect is temporary, and some patients may require monthly injections of Lucentis for continued effect. 

Most interesting is that Genentech, the company that manufactures Lucentis, also manufactures a colon cancer anti-VEGF drug known as Avastin that might also prove useful in the treatment of wet macular degeneration. Dr. Philip Rosenfeld of the renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida was the first to use Avastin in the eyes of wet macular degeneration patients. Like Lucentis, he found vision improvement. And while Lucentis costs $2,000 per injection, Avastin costs only $50.00. 

Which of these two Genentech products works better? 

No one knows. Many physicians are using the less expensive Avastin “off-label,” because it is not FDA approved. But the National Eye Institute feels that it warrants more investigation, and will fund a study to compare their relative safety and effectiveness of Lucentis and Avastin.

If you require one of these medications in one of your eyes

-- Now, more than ever --

You need to take action NOW so that the Dry Macular Degeneration in your other eye doesn't also progress to Wet Macular Degeneration!

As you age, you are increasingly at risk to develop the world's Number One cause of central vision loss, known as Macular Degeneration. And the risk continues to increase as you get older. If you've got a family history of the disease, then you might be as much as ten times more likely to get it. Fortunately, there IS something that you can do to about it!

National Eye Institute proves value of eye vitamins!
Newer research shows vision may actually improve!

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Macular Degeneration can cause irreversible and blinding eye disease by attacking the center of the retina, which is the eye structure needed to see details such as reading words or recognizing faces.

There are two major types. Dry Macular Degeneration involves drusen, which are damaging deposits that form beneath the retina and cause retinal damage. The other major type is called Wet Macular Degeneration, in which bleeding and occurs below the retina and causes more rapid loss of vision.

A ground-breaking major study in 2001 involving macular degeneration vitamins was sponsored by the National Eye Institute - The Age Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). This important research proved, for the first time ever and beyond a shadow of a doubt, that supplements containing high levels of nutrients slowed and possibly even prevented the progression of macular degeneration.

But now there is new research showing that not only can vision be saved, vision can actually improve by adding additional nutrients to the AREDS Formulation.

The Lutein Antioxidant Supplementation Trial (LAST) demonstrated visual improvement in patients taking specific high-dose supplements that include Lutein and Zeaxanthin.

But here is where it is important not to make a mistake. Some vitamin supplements list the amount of Zeaxanthin in micrograms, or mcg. But this is only 1/1000th the amount of Zeaxanthin found in high quality formulas!

If you read on, we're going to tell you about the only eye vitamin that you will ever need and why it is better than any other product on the market.