March 12, 2019 - Eye Health
Hello, everybody is Dr. Sam. I received a question yesterday does ozone therapy helps our eyes?
So I’m going to point you to a study that was published in 2013 in Innovative Ophthalmology. The researchers took a group of 140 patients diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration and they split them into two groups. One group received ozone therapy and the other group received vitamin therapy.
People were evaluated two times – 6 months and a year out in the study. The results showed that people who received ozone therapy had far less oxidative stress in their blood plasma and better visual acuity than the control group that received the multivitamins.
The researchers concluded that ozone therapy may help in the vasodilation of the retinal microcapillaries which could produce something called nitric oxide, this is really good for the retina. Also, they found that the microcapillary circulation was much improved, and the visual acuity being able to see the eye chart also significantly improved.
So my takeaway is that ozone therapy may be something that comes out of complementary and alternative medicine that could be beneficial for preventing different retinal diseases like degenerative myopia, retinitis pigmentosa, stargardt’s disease, and diabetic retinopathy.
So that’s my message for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. And until next time take good care.