Mon, Feb-12-18, 20:02
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I just did a quick search for the cause. I can summarize the bulk of info about that like this: "don't know".
From the point of view of evolution, macular degeneration (and basically all visual disorders of any kind, i.e. blindness, myopia, cataracts, etc) is extremely detrimental to survival. Therefore it's absolutely not a genetic disorder. It must be environmental, most likely diet, most likely carbs.
Personally, I met a guy in his 20's who suffered from severe macular degeneration. He used a special machine just to read. Therefore it must also be epigenetic (generational epigenetic). What this all means is that it's very hard to figure out the cause because we'd have to check what the parents did, and their parents, and so forth for at least 4 generations.
I note however that oxidative stress is involved, therefore ketones are involved because they are potent antioxidants which would otherwise take care of ROS. So, Imma say a very likely culprit is absence of ketones, therefore a high-carb diet.
Chris Knobbe pretty much says it's about nutrient density, i.e. displacing foods of modern commerce (taken from Weston Price's work). So the idea is that as we eat more flour, sugar and veggie oil for example, we eat less stuff that normally contains tons and tons of essential stuff like fat-solubles for example. And as we do this, degenerative diseases begin to appear. Chris talks about AMD, so the hypothesis includes AMD as one of those degenerative diseases. So, the obvious therapy here is to cut out all the crap and eat genuine food instead (but then that's the title of the video, doh).
I'm going to agree with Chris on that. However, as far as I'm aware, there's only a couple modern diets that have been tested experimentally in large groups of humans for long enough to draw solid conclusions about anything, and whatever ancestral diet he's talking about ain't one of them. But of those that have been tested, Atkins is king, it should do the job just fine because it too cuts out all the crap and includes genuine food instead.
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