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Idgie wrote:I was 40 when they discovered the macular degeneration -- they're calling it Familial Drusen, which they explained is genetic, but they don't know exactly why I have it so badly so young. I have the macula of an 80-year-old, with big crystals back there. Have been a vegetarian most of my life, never smoked, never drank, never did drugs -- sometimes the genes have it in for us. But I'll do what I can to fight it, and just to be safe, I'm learning Braille, because I hate being read to, so audiobooks don't appeal to me, but I'm a bookaholic.
Idgie wrote:I've been feeling really good on the MWL so far, but I have to be careful to eat enough, and often enough, to keep my blood sugar from crashing, at least until my body heals itself from hypoglycemia with the help of this eating plan. Today, I forgot to take my snack on a long errand trip, and by the time I got home, I was shaky and had a blood glucose in the low 70s. It shaped right up after I ate some red peppers and fat-free hummus.
I'm also going off all my vitamins except for B-12, but I'm a little nervous about stopping the AREDS2 vitamins*, because they're supposed to help stave off the macular degeneration I suffer from. I will go do some research on this, but for now, I'm stopping everything but the B-12, my thyroid pill, and my heart pill (beta blocker). With any luck (or, rather, with 100% compliance to this way of eating), I won't need the beta blocker much longer.
*The AREDS2 pills are vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, copper, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which is found by the AREDS study to slow the condition I have in my retinas.
Idgie wrote:I was 40 when they discovered the macular degeneration -- they're calling it Familial Drusen, which they explained is genetic, but they don't know exactly why I have it so badly so young. I have the macula of an 80-year-old, with big crystals back there. Have been a vegetarian most of my life, never smoked, never drank, never did drugs -- sometimes the genes have it in for us. But I'll do what I can to fight it, and just to be safe, I'm learning Braille, because I hate being read to, so audiobooks don't appeal to me, but I'm a bookaholic.
I don't like being read to either. If you haven't seen it, Dr. McDougall has a newsletter article on macular degeneration. https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2003nl ... ularPF.htm
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