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Everything you need to know about signs and symptoms, treatment, and prevention of brain and eye disease.

BrightFocus Foundation is a nonprofit organization supporting research and providing public education to help eradicate brain and eye diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

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Contrary to claims we've been fed for years, eggs from pastured chickens can help to reduce your risk of heart disease, improve eye health, assist in weight loss, and improve brain health.

Spinach - A very nutrient - dense food - Loaded with flavonoids which act as antioxidants, protecting the body from free radicals - Helps keep the heart healthy - May slow the age - related decline in brain function - Its lutein protects against eye diseases such as age - related cataracts and macular degeneration

DHA and EPA are directly linked to brain, eye and nerve development in infants and toddlers and they also protect against cardiovascular disease.

EYE tests could one day be used for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, thanks to the discovery of a link between the amount of a characteristic protein in the brain and levels of the same protein in the eEYE tests could one day be used for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, thanks to the discovery of a link between the amount of a characteristic protein in the brain and levels of the same protein in the eyeeye.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

But the disease can be serious, damaging the eyes and brain, in those with weakened immune systems and in fetuses.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

The parasites can infect the lungs, kidney, brain, muscles, eyes, sinuses, or intestines, and can cause gallbladder disease and a debilitating array of gastrointestinal symptoms, including chronic diarrhea and wasting.

Genetic diseases like retinitis pigmentosa destroy the photosensitive cells of the eye, the photoreceptors, but often leave intact the other cells in the retina: the bipolar cells that the photoreceptors normally talk to, and the ganglion cells that are the retina's output to the brain.

Nathans is a neuroscientist who studies how cells in the retina — the light - absorbing structure at the back of the eye, which is considered part of the brain — assume their correct identities, and how those cells respond to injury and disease.

Researchers led by investigators Jerry Workman, Ph.D. and Susan Abmayr, Ph.D. at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research found that fruit flies that lack Ataxin - 7 experience neurodegeneration in the brain and the eye — paralleling the effects of the human disease.

Hot on the heels of last weeks report of the successful use of gene therapy to treat the eye disease Leber's congenital amaurosis comes a report that scientists lead by Nathalie Cartier and Patrick Aubourg of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research have combined gene therapy and stem cell medicine to successfully... Continue reading Gene therapy on the brain

Researchers elsewhere quickly adapted the methodology to create additional organoids — of the eye, lung, heart and brain — and their associated diseases, including cancers.

Our funding of the Catalyst for a Cure (CFC) and its innovative collaborative approach to research has changed the conventional understanding of glaucoma from an eye disease to a neurodegenerative brain disease.

Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, often starts with the classic «bulls - eye» rash and then can progress into multiple symptoms, including brain fog.

The classic symptoms of the autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome are dry eyes and dry mouth, but brain fog can also be part of the equation, as it is for the autoimmune disease lupus.

Oxidative damage to the... blood vessels causes arterio - and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arterioles and arteries) leading to heart disease and stroke; brain causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; eyes causes cataracts and macular degeneration; skin causes wrinkles, sagging and «age spots»; connective tissue causes faulty collagen and elastin formation, possibly leading to tendonitis / osis, and other musculoskeletal complications and injuries; etc..

Low - quality protein intake can lead to cellular stress; low sex drive; poor brain function, eye health and cardiovascular disease.

The most common serrapeptase uses (and studies) include relief for autoimmune disease; dysfunction of the brain and mind; heart problems; digestive distress; ear, nose, and throat disorders; eye health; lung health; women's (beast and gynaecological problems) and men's health (prostate); skin disease; muscle and joint pain; and even cancer.1 Very soon I was experimenting with higher and higher doses (on myself) and eventually found that 2,000,000 iu was completely safe and gave faster results for serious inflammatory problems.

There are a ton of healthy fats and nutrients found in avocados — oleic acid, lutein, folate, vitamin E, monounsaturated fats and glutathione for example — can help protect your body from heart disease, cancer, degenerative eye and brain diseases.

If you are more concerned about elevating your blood ketone levels than the fat that is being stored in your liver, pancreas, heart, eyes and brain and driving you towards the most common diseases of our western civilisation, then may I politely suggest that you should review your priorities?

Astaxanthin crosses the blood - brain barrier as well as the blood - retinal barrier, which brings antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection to the eyes, brain, and central nervous system and reduces the risk for cataracts, macular degeneration, blindness, and may be important for preventing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The protein and good fats in eggs make them a filling and satisfying way to get your daily zinc; iron; and vitamins A, D, E, and K. No matter how you prepare them, eggs can help improve cardiovascular health; prevent metabolic disease; and boost eye, liver, skin, and brain health.

«Many more people will contract low - level infections than heavy infections, and unless the larvae migrate to the eye or brain in sufficient numbers, these individuals will not develop clinically significant disease... most human infections with Baylisascaris are probably asymptomatic.»

AAHA, AVMA, AAFP, the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) strongly recommend parasite control for companion animals for many reasons, including prevention of visceral larva migrans, a condition in which parasites within a human «release larvae that migrate anywhere in the body... Organs commonly affected are the eye, brain, liver and lung, where infections can cause permanent visual, neurologic, or other tissue damage.

The migrating larvae in children can cause serious and tragic disease especially of the eye and brain.

ACT - activated clotting time (bleeding disorders) ACTH - adrenocorticotropic hormone (adrenal gland function) Ag - antigen test for proteins specific to a disease causing organism or virus Alb - albumin (liver, kidney and intestinal disorders) Alk - Phos, ALP alkaline phosphatase (liver and adrenal disorders) Allergy Testing intradermal or blood antibody test for allergen hypersensitivity ALT - alanine aminotransferase (liver disorder) Amyl - amylase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) ANA - antinuclear antibody (systemic lupus erythematosus) Anaplasmosis Anaplasma spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) APTT - activated partial thromboplastin time (blood clotting ability) AST - aspartate aminotransferase (muscle and liver disorders) Band band cell — type of white blood cell Baso basophil — type of white blood cell Bile Acids digestive acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder (liver function) Bili bilirubin (bile pigment responsible for jaundice from liver disease or RBC destruction) BP - blood pressure measurement BUN - blood urea nitrogen (kidney and liver function) Bx biopsy C & S aerobic / anaerobic bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity test (infection, drug selection) Ca +2 calcium ion — unbound calcium (parathyroid gland function) CBC - complete blood count (all circulating cells) Chol cholesterol (liver, thyroid disorders) CK, CPK creatine [phospho] kinase (muscle disease, heart disease) Cl - chloride ion — unbound chloride (hydration, blood pH) CO2 - carbon dioxide (blood pH) Contrast Radiograph x-ray image using injected radiopaque contrast media Cortisol hormone produced by the adrenal glands (adrenal gland function) Coomb's anti- red blood cell antibody test (immune - mediated hemolytic anemia) Crea creatinine (kidney function) CRT - capillary refill time (blood pressure, tissue perfusion) DTM - dermatophyte test medium (ringworm — dermatophytosis) EEG - electroencephalogram (brain function, epilepsy) Ehrlichia Ehrlichia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) EKG, ECG - electrok [c] ardiogram (electrical heart activity, heart arryhthmia) Eos eosinophil — type of white blood cell Fecal, flotation, direct intestinal parasite exam FeLV Feline Leukemia Virus test FIA Feline Infectious Anemia: aka Feline Hemotrophic Mycoplasma, Haemobartonella felis test FIV Feline Immunodeficiency Virus test Fluorescein Stain fluorescein stain uptake of cornea (corneal ulceration) fT4, fT4ed, freeT4ed thyroxine hormone unbound by protein measured by equilibrium dialysis (thyroid function) GGT gamma - glutamyltranferase (liver disorders) Glob globulin (liver, immune system) Glu blood or urine glucose (diabetes mellitus) Gran granulocytes — subgroup of white blood cells Hb, Hgb hemoglobin — iron rich protein bound to red blood cells that carries oxygen (anemia, red cell mass) HCO3 - bicarbonate ion (blood pH) HCT, PCV, MHCT hematocrit, packed - cell volume, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) K + potassium ion — unbound potassium (kidney disorders, adrenal gland disorders) Lipa lipase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) LYME Borrelia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) Lymph lymphocyte — type of white blood cell MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (anemia, iron deficiency) MCV mean corpuscular volume — average red cell size (anemia, iron deficiency) Mg +2 magnesium ion — unbound magnesium (diabetes, parathyroid function, malnutrition) MHCT, HCT, PCV microhematocrit, hematocrit, packed - cell volume (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) MIC minimum inhibitory concentration — part of the C&S that determines antimicrobial selection Mono monocyte — type of white blood cell MRI magnetic resonance imaging (advanced tissue imaging) Na + sodium ion — unbound sodium (dehydration, adrenal gland disease) nRBC nucleated red blood cell — immature red blood cell (bone marrow damage, lead toxicity) PCV, HCT, MHCT packed - cell volume, hematocrit, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) PE physical examination pH urine pH (urinary tract infection, urolithiasis) Phos phosphorus (kidney disorders, ketoacidosis, parathyroid function) PLI pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (pancreatitis) PLT platelet — cells involved in clotting (bleeding disorders) PT prothrombin time (bleeding disorders) PTH parathyroid hormone, parathormone (parathyroid function) Radiograph x-ray image RBC red blood cell count (anemia) REL Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Ehrlichia / Lyme combination test Retic reticulocyte — immature red blood cell (regenerative vs. non-regenerative anemia) RMSF Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever SAP serum alkaline phosphatase (liver disorders) Schirmer Tear Test tear production test (keratoconjunctivitis sicca — dry eye,) Seg segmented neutrophil — type of white blood cell USG Urine specific gravity (urine concentration, kidney function) spec cPL specific canine pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test spec fPL specific feline pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test T4 thyroxine hormone — total (thyroid gland function) TLI trypsin - like immunoreactivity (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) TP total protein (hydration, liver disorders) TPR temperature / pulse / respirations (physical exam vital signs) Trig triglycerides (fat metabolism, liver disorders) TSH thyroid stimulating hormone (thyroid gland function) UA urinalysis (kidney function, urinary tract infection, diabetes) Urine Cortisol - Crea Ratio urine cortisol - creatine ratio (screening test for adrenal gland disease) Urine Protein - Crea Ratio urine protein - creatinine ratio (kidney disorders) VWF VonWillebrands factor (bleeding disorder) WBC white blood cell count (infection, inflammation, bone marrow suppression)

Omega - 3 fatty acids have been shown to help alleviate the symptoms of arthritis in canines, slow the growth of yeast infections, prevent heart problems, and even aid in brain and eye health, as well as disease prevention,» Cochran says.

Generally healthy little terriers, Cairns can occasionally be prone to skin allergies, cataracts and other eye diseases, heart defects, thyroid problems, globoid cell leukodystrophy (a degenerative brain disease), von Willebrand's disease (a bleeding disorder), epilepsy, and joint problems like luxating patellas (kneecaps that slip out of place) and Legg - Perthes (a hip disease).

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

In Wilson disease, copper builds up in the liver, brain, eyes, and other organs.

Women, girls, toxic stress, the female brain and immune system, autoimmune disease and chronic physical and mental illness — if you care about any of these, keep an eye out for my upcoming three - part blog series in which I delve into the scientific links between them all.