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Stress & Eye Health
November 11, 2011
A number of our customers have asked us why we include an immune system modulator in our eye-health-management product line. Our answer: an improperly nourished immune system eventually affects ocular health and vision.
Biosyntrx Testimonials
November 04, 2011
We are frequently asked why we have no product testimonials on our web site. They were removed from our site a few years ago to protect our company from possible FDA or FTC shutdown.Enter Ron PaulRon Paul, a strong health freedom advocate, has introduced an important bill called the Testimonial Free Speech Act, HR 2908. The bill protects your First Amendment rig...
Why you should keep taking your vitamins.
October 28, 2011
The press has covered a number of responses about the vitamin mortality study published in a recent Archives of Internal Medicine. My favorite response article was written by Mark Hyman, MD, a well-published author and a pioneer in the use of functional medicine.Dr. Hyman’s three simple questions were: 1, Do vitamins kill people? 2. How many people have di...
BioTears Scientific Rationale
October 21, 2011
BioTears Oral Gel Caps has been clinically suggested to improve the tear chemistry and the health of the ocular surface on over 70% of the dry eye patients studied in less than 28 days.
GM Food Science?
October 14, 2011
An article published in The Scientist journal suggests that one billion people in the world are starving to death. That's one in every six people on this planet. With the global population continuing to explode and resources being stripped at an increasing rate, the outlook is not good.
Vitamin E Tocotrienols: 'Insanely Great'
October 07, 2011
Vitamin E saturated analogue tocopherols have been extensively investigated (particularly alpha tocopherol), but little has been known about the unsaturated vitamin E analogues called tocotrienols.
Another Inconvenient Truth
September 30, 2011
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." Schopenhauer. Walter Bortz, MD, the Stanford physician who wrote a new book called Next Medicine the Science and Civics of Health, included in his first chapter another brilliant quote from William James, "We live lives inferior to ours...
Nutrition Education Symposium
September 23, 2011
The 700 member Ocular Nutrition Society proudly presents its 6th COPE approved symposium in Boston on October 11, 2011
A Nation at Risk
September 16, 2011
"Never doubt the power of small groups to change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead, Anthropologist Prevent Blindness America released a report estimating that the costs associated with adult vision problems in the United States now exceeds $51.4 billion a year. This report provides both the costs to the individual and their caregivers, and the impact on the U.S. economy of vision conditions including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataract, diabetic retinopathy, primary open-angle glaucoma, refractive error, visual impairment and blindness.
Belly Fat Battle Plan
September 09, 2011
As more and more type-2 diabetes drugs are being recalled it's glaringly evident that medicine needs an armamentarium of clinically proven safe methods to help patients win the belly fat battle before diabetes develops.