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By Al Jazeera - Under 3 minute clip on removing blindness with 5 minute cataract surgery
By Al Jazeera - Longer 25 min clip about Dr Sanduk Ruit and his cataract surgery efforts
By Give Me Sight - Bringing cataract surgery to Myanmar, Dr.Haines and Somsran - 1 hr
By AAO - most advanced lens replacement available
By HBO - trailer for documentary - same/similar as other free ones about Nepal
NOTE: Early draft means there are unfinished sentences, incomplete ideas, and text which isn't always organized and arranged properly. But the main structure of what is to be communicated is ready.
In this series of pages we will be talking about cataracts and pre-cataracts. Some videos on Macular Degeneration and Glaucoma are also included. Like many things in life, we don't usually think about them until we are affected by them - either directly or indirectly (someone we care about). Cataracts are the clouding of our ability to see. If allowed to progress without any intervention – we are essentially blind. Avoidable blindness it may be termed. It happens due to the clouding of the lenses of our eyes.
What causes cataracts? The default answer from optometrists or “those in the know” is often reduced to ultraviolet light (UV). Really? Is it really that simple? Maybe I should just wear sunglasses? That will cause other health problems, for we need sunlight to be healthy. If you study light you realize that UV light is beneficial to our health. (Check out a book by John Ott - Health & Light) Vitamin D being popular in health circles these days. UV light also has another property that benefits us. Talk about Steripen....
Maybe there is something wrong on the inside? By all accounts, cataracts is a PROTEIN buildup. Should we not eat protein? Maybe we shouldn’t, but that is a conversation for another day. But if we do, maybe the issue has something to do with our body’s ability to process the protein we eat? And this is where knowledge of all the things that affect our
Watching the videos above you can learn about the life stories of many people who have suffered from cataracts. In other words, learn from other people's suffering, so you don't have to!
Cataract surgery as billed as a quick procedure. Obviously, being able to see clear is better is better than cloudy, but potential complications aside, how is "regular vision without cataracts" vs "vision with an artificial lens replacement?"
"Cataracts gradually obstruct the vision of all people beginning at about the age of 50 onwards." - Give Me Sight website. Well...maybe "all" people are doing something wrong then! What is it? Read the book first! Here's a clue...Health and Heart
Lens Options (UC Berkeley)
- vision with limitations is better than no vision at all, but artificial lenses are not as good as our biological one!Himalayan Cataract Project -- About HBO Open Your Eyes documentary -- NPR Review of HBO Open Your Eyes
Cataract Surgery (All About Vision) - ~70% of 80+ years olds have cataracts!
Background photo credit: Shutterstock
If you read the See to Play tab in the Eye University section you will learn about athletes who have great peripheral vision - which begs the question, to me, are we already blind, relatively speaking? Not totally blind, but getting blinder?
A metaphor....
Going blind, one pixel at a time.
If you imagine our eye like an LCD screen made of pixels...in truth...it isn't quite that simple as electrical flow, rods, cones, and who knows what else...
It's no secret, but it is definitely not well known that microwave / RF radiation affects our eyesight - negatively. When microwave energy was first developed by the military...... Details of this early history can be found in a 1977 book called Zapping of America, among other sources.
Here are a few passages from a 1977 (!) book - Zapping of America by Paul Brodeur.
"...Concern was expressed in some quarters that, in addition to the EYE and TESTES, other areas of the body with relatively poor blood circulation, such as the cavities of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, the GALL BLADDER, and the URINARY TRACT, might prove vulnerable to microwave damage." (p.26-27)
Have eye, testes, GI tract, bladder, and urinary tract issues increased? Do some research and find out...hmm... sales of Viagra and Cialis, leaky gut syndrome, celiac disease (what?), rise of probiotics - what are those for again? gluten intolerance....so many related datapoints. Who wants to lEARN?
In the early days microwave radiation was confined to specific military personnel and related industry technicians. It was only in the 1970s with the advent of the microwave oven did this kind of microwave radiation start affecting the general public. 1980s MW Oven Revolution
-- 1970s appliancesALL microwave ovens emit radiation when cooking, even the latest ones. You can test this yourself without a meter by putting your cell phone in the microwave and calling it. Here's a video showing a test with a meter. (To be uploaded)
RVs and Cars
An interesting side note is that many RV (recreation vehicles) owners have microwaves in their vehicles. Microwaves reflect and bounce off metal! In other words, when someone is using a microwave oven in an RV, they are getting hit by all the rays leaking out. Thus, not only the food gets cooked, so do we.
The same goes for using wi-fi / cell phone (via bluetooth) in a car! Except no food! Microwave radiation is officially defined as any frequency above 300 Mhz. This means all cell phones and current PC wireless technologies are also forms of microwave radiation. Again, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth share the same frequency as microwave ovens. They all use 2.45 Ghz
Why Does Your Microwave Oven Mess With The Wi-Fi Connection? (Gizmodo) - article talking about interference. Nicely done, except for the end. They tell you not to be worried - they don't know what they are talking about.
Microwaves can cause cataracts and raise the risk of CANCER, research suggests (The Sun - UK) - nothing "new" here, the research has been around for decades.
"While camping in Arizona one day I met an older lady who was the camp host. She told me about her improving health since moving to Arizona from Wisconsin - numerous (cancerous?) lesions in her brain had disappeared. But, she remarked that she was told that she may need cataract surgery soon. As I was looking at her living situation - a small RV with a tent outside, I inquired as to whether she used a microwave oven. She told me 'all the time.' I told her that was the likely cause of her cataracts." - W.C. Peace
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Cataract Statistics
Incidence of Cataract Surgery continues to increase steadily (Mayo clinic) - note graph. Incidence rate in Mayo Clinic's home county in Minnesota has been rising since the late 1970s. It rose quickly to 400 or so then it took 10 years to get to 550. It then spiked around 2001-2002, then dipped slightly around 2007, then spiked up again. Data ends at 2010. No explanation is given for the incidence rise. But let's consider -- microwave ovens started to become popular in the USA in the late 1970s. Wi-Fi started to become popular in 2001-2002, although it was introduced formally a couple years earlier. [In 2001/2002 was when I first used wi-fi. I was then working for a division of Panasonic where we usually had the latest and greatest technology. Back then wi-fi was not built into the laptop I used, it was a separate PC card (PCMCIA)- W.C. Peace. One of the most popular consumer wireless routers, Linksys WRT54G, was introduced in Dec.2002] The iPhone (with bluetooth / wifi) was introduced in 2007. Hmm.... skeptics may say correlation does not mean causation, but what is your guess / hypothesis for this rapid increase in cataracts?
NEI Statistics 2000-2010(National Eye Institute - USA) - note that from 2000 - 2010. A couple of interesting observations. Females have more cataracts than men. From 2000 - 2010 the # of cataract cases increased by 20%, yet the USA population only increased from 281 million (April 2000 census) to ~310 million, only 10%.
What could possibly account for such a sharp jump in cataract cases? Double the population growth. What happened between 2000 - 2010? Wi-fi, Bluetooth, and the growth of cellular networks, that is what happened. As for why females have more cataracts, who tends to talk on phones more?
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US Major League Baseball strikeouts continue to rise - 11 years straight!
Baseball strikeout era (Yahoo) -
Could microwave / wireless radiation slowly be affecting the eyesight of current and new ball players so much that they strike out more? Remember, cataracts don't just appear overnight! It's a slow clouding of the lens. Or put another way, the destruction of "pixels." There are certainly other factors, but what explains the long term increase?
The amount of radiation would also help explain how performance differs between locations when players switch teams. Could more radiation be in their new home, city (Bars and clubs they visit), clubhouse, etc... Other factors include more/less sun and UV-A / B..
Yet another datapoint is how many foreign born players are in MLB. Why are so many foreign born players better? 27%! Where do they come from? What does that have to do with radiation? Well, many players come from countries that did / have not adopted technology as aggressively as the USA, or they are countries which are poorer and do not have the same technology level - thus aspiring players are not exposed to the same level of radiation in childhood. Dominican Republic and Venezuela account for more than 60% of all foreign born players! Both of these countries are much less wealthy materially speaking.
While there are other factors, let us consider that the strikeout rate has increased for 11 straight years...which brings us back to the debut of the iPhone more/less. "Common wisdom" may place blame on pitch velocity, but what is the PRIMARY factor? Just another datapoint.
Speaking of baseball - let's look at radar guns....
...also radar guns...those RF waves could be producing momentary micro distortions in vision....
Real or not? Striking examples of failure becoming a turnoff - Each team has averaged 8.72 strikeouts per game this season, up from 7.71 in 2015 and up from 6.77 in 2008, so that means about four more strikeouts between both teams per game than we had a decade ago.
Strikeouts on the Rise (NY Times) - 2013 article with nice graph. In recent times, strikeouts started increasing in 1980 before taking off in 2007. What happened in the early 80s again? The microwave oven proliferated!It was already growing in the late 1970s. What happened in 2007? The iPhone!
MLB Team Strikeouts per Game - data goes back to 2007 (Team Rankings)
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Wireless Virtual Reality (VR) Goggles - Oculus Go - wi-fi - irradiating your eyes up close! Genius! -- Google Daydream Standalone VR Headsets. Also any VR holder that uses a smartphone, like Samsung Gear VR.
great product to buy and use regularly, if you want to go blind!
In a recent inquiry to both Lenovo and Oculus (Facebook) - I learned that it is NOT possible to TURN-OFF the WI-FI on their latest models - Lenovo Mirage Solo or Oculus Go, which are standalone devices that don't require a smartphone to be inserted into a holder. The Wi-Fi is ALWAYS on. Now if one only uses these devices very briefly the harm is minimal, but if one is using these regularly to watch movies, play games, then it would seem to me that one's eyesight would detoirate faster. Who wants to be a guinea pig? The power of the radiation is concentrated directly at one's eyes. - W.C. Peace
There's a song...Everybody plays the fool (Youtube). So, why is a harmful technology like this allowed. Answer that for yourself. And as Amanda learns with global warming, microwave radiation isn't the primary problem, so there is very little point in protesting or complaining too loudly as the emotions attached to how good technology is (w/o question) are VERY strong. Best to just learn how to avoid and protect yourself and lower pride.
Microwave radiation isn't the only that causes cataracts! That's just the latest toxin to our body. Cataracts have been around for a long time if you watch the Ancient Horrors video. A modern day reference point are Nepalese villagers who are going or already blind from cataracts. What has caused their blindness?
Nepal - altitude. Increased UV strength (Link to table) Indonesia - 2-3 million estimate (Facing East - Gift of Sight) have cataract blindness. (Out of 250 million) UV rays reflecting off water
Many of them certainly don't have wi-fi or historically, haven't had cell phones. They also live in mountainous areas that are relatively free from many of the pollutants which are pervasive in many parts of the world.
Many will say the harmful effects of UV light.....but....
Lives at 4,000 feet....
Insert a photo of mine from Nepal
estimates of 150,000 Nepalese are blind. Which also means many are "partially blind" as nobody goes blind from cataracts overnight.
Nepal - altitude. Increased UV strength (Link to table) Indonesia - 2-3 million estimate (Facing East - Gift of Sight) have cataract blindness. (Out of 250 million) UV rays reflecting off water"I traveled to Nepal in 2004 and hiked part of the Annapurna trail as well as spending time in Kathmandu and Pokhara. I spent 1-2 weeks in Nepal, I do not recall exactly. I never heard about cataracts in villagers. Why would I? But, I mention this that just because one has traveled somewhere, doesn't mean they know "interesting" things about it." - W.C. Peace
Macular degeneration is...
Why is there a lightning bolt for the tab icon?
AMD Statistics USAA(NEI)
Glaucoma
Are (pre)cataracts reversible? Glaucoma? Macular degeneration?
Answer: Probably yes if not too far advanced, based on my healing and understanding of how our body works. Suggest you contact me for a consultation. Because you will need a crash course in understanding. - W.C. Peace
If you've worked in a large corporation you may be familiar with corporate improvement programs like ISO 9001 or Six Sigma. If you want to transform your health, you need to continously improve your own health and understanding. Except, with Mind / No Mind, there are no certifications, belts of different colors, or champions. There are just the 7 phrases that you either accept at your core or do not. If you do, it will open many new doorways of knowledge.