References

(1) "Aging and Inflammation"

Life Extension Foundation; 07-22-04—based on different research sources, particularly on inflammatory protein markers; http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-146.shtml

(2) "Amyloid-β is found in drusen from some age-related macular degeneration retinas, but not in drusen from normal retinas"

Tzvete Dentchev, Ann H. Milam, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, Joshua L. Dunaief; Molecular Vision 2003; 9:184-90

(3) "A Sick Eye in a Sick Body? Systemic Findings in Patients with Primary Open-angle Glaucoma"

Mona Pache, MD,1 and Josef Flammer, MD2; Survey of Ophthalmology Volume 51, Number 3, May-June, 2006.

(4) "Can We Cure Aging? Controlling inflammation could be the key to a healthy old age"

Kathleen McGowan; Discover Magazine, 12.04.2007—based on the work of Russell Tracy, a professor of pathology and biochemistry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, a pioneer in work on inflammatory proteins, others with links to much research data; http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/can-we-cure-aging

(4) "Cataract: Window for Systemic Disorders"

Toshimich Shinohara, Harold White, Michael L. Mulhern, Harry Maisel; Medical Hypothses (2007) 69., 669-677

(5) "Cytosolic β-amyloid Deposition and Supranuclear Cataracts in Lenses from People with Alzheimer's Disease"

Lee E. Goldstein, Julien A. Muffat, Robert A. Cherny, Robert D Moir, Maria H. Ericsson, Xudong Huang, Christine Mavros, Jennifer Acoccia, Kyle Y. Faget, Karlotta A. Fitch, Colin L. Masters, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Leo T. Chylack Jr., Ashley I. Bush; The Lancet 2003; 361:1258-65 April 12, 2003.

(6) "Dying to See"

Ralf Dahm—this illuminating article is available as a pdf at http://www.la-sight.com/media/documents/Dahm.pdf; Scientific American October 2004, p83-89. See other publications by Dr. Dahm at http://www.ralf-dahm.de/publications/

(7) "Low grade inflammation and coronary heart disease: prospective study and updated meta-analyses"

(8) "The Optic Nerve: A window into diseases of the brain?"

Neil Miller MD (Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University), David Drachman MD (Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center); Neurology 2006,67:1742- 1743

(9) "Optics tests for early Alzheimer's diagnosis make significant advances"

PHYSORG.COM, Oct.3 2006; Lee Goldstein of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School described dramatic new developments in the technology during a plenary talk at Frontiers in Optics, the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in Rochester, N.Y.; http://www.physorg.com/news79093395.html

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