An eye doctor who went looking for why blindness from macular degeneration exploded in a single century — and kept arriving at the same suspect on the dinner plate.
A board-certified ophthalmologist and public-health researcher, and founder of the Cure AMD Foundation.
After years treating age-related macular degeneration — a leading cause of blindness — he traced its dramatic 20th-century rise and found it closely shadowed the explosive growth in industrial seed-oil consumption.
His “Diseases of Civilization” hypothesis frames seed-oil excess as a plausible unifying mechanism behind macular degeneration and other chronic diseases of the modern era, argued across peer-reviewed papers and lectures.
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