About the Healing the Eye Vision Therapy and Restoration Center
The Healing the Eye Vision Therapy and Restoration Center promotes wellness of sight, body, mind and spirit. The center was developed to help patients who are losing their vision and who want to pursue natural alternative methods to improve their eye sight. When the eye doctor tells you, “Nothing else can be done” this is when the work of the Healing the Eye Center begins. Dr. Kondrot has researched methods from all over the world and he brings these methods to his center. The center treats patients who seek holistic non-invasive therapies for eye problems which include macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, eyestrain and other eye disorders. Dr. Kondrot has a worldwide following because of these successful therapies.
Modalities used at the Center
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a scientific method of therapy based on the principle of stimulating the body’s own healing processes in order to accomplish cure. The basic system was devised and verified by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, nearly 200 years ago. Homeopathy’s astounding success rates in both chronic and acute diseases has resulted in not only standing the test of time, but also rapidly achieving widespread acceptance in Europe, India and South America.
In Homeopathy, (“homeo-” means “similar”), each of us is a total and complete individual, no aspect of which can be separated from any other. To be effective, any valid therapy must be based on a deep understanding of and respect for the uniqueness of each individual. In Homeopathy, each patient is evaluated as a whole person, mental, emotional and physical. The prescribing remedy is based on the unique patterns found on all three levels. This means that each person is given a remedy that will stimulate his or her individual body to heal.”
Vision therapy
Many of the symptoms of eye disorders are associated with functional problems. It is essential to have eye coordination and integration with the brain to have good vision. Vision therapy addresses problems that result from weaknesses in eye muscles or other problems, through a series of exercises and skill building sessions, or with physical devices such as special lenses.
For example, let’s look at reading… there are several basic visual skills that are important for reading. The first is pursuits or the ability to follow a moving target. When reading, it is necessary to follow and track words in sequence. Poor pursuits result in losing your place and jumping back and forth while reading. Another skill is saccadic movements… this is the ability to change fixation. When coming to the end of a sentence, it is necessary to change fixation to the next line. Two common examples of problems that can be addressed with vision therapy are tracking or convergence problems.’ Tracking’ means that an individual is not able to use their eyes to scan the text, left-to-right. ‘Convergence’ or ‘teaming’ means that the two eyes are not working together properly, so that the person may see double, or may lack binocular vision. There are specific eye exercises to develop these skills to help the eyes work better and more efficiently.
Vision therapy is not only to help to develop better reading skills but it is used to help improve all visual skills. Skills associated with driving, recreation and all sports.
Syntonic light therapy
This is a system of light therapy that has been used for over 75 years and has been developed by the College of Syntonics. There are certain wavelengths of light that have a physiological effect on the human body.
The red spectrum has been documented to stimulate the sympathetic system. No, we do not want this since most of our life takes care of this very nicely! The color red has been associated with anger and increased heart rate and an increase in blood pressure. Blue, on the other hand will relax the sympathetic system and stimulate the parasympathetic. This is the first step towards healing disease. Think about how relaxing the blue ocean water and the blue sky can be! A vacation to the beach can be very healing.
Light has been shown to affect the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic system has two parts, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic is responsible for survival,“fight or flight,” and the parasympathetic is responsible for the body sustaining life, like digestion and healing disease. When you are running away from a grizzly bear your body does not care about digesting your food! Stress – yes we have heard of that word – STRESS certainly contributes to disease and stress can also be the fuel that sustains disease and prevents healing. The mechanism of stress is felt to over stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and to suppress the parasympathetic. When the parasympathetic system is suppressed, the body has a difficult time to heal disease. Healing will not take place unless there is a balance in the autonomic system. Color therapy can help.
In many eye conditions, the visual field, or area of peripheral vision, is often reduced. This makes reading and other close activities extremely difficult. Imagine trying to read looking through a small one inch opening! Light therapy can help to expand the visual field and open the peripheral vision.
There was also a study published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1943 on the effects of green light in treating glaucoma. This study demonstrated that green light can lower the intraocular pressure.
Microcurrent Therapy
Microcurrent has been used over the past 15 years to help improve vision. The mechanism is felt to be threefold; increasing the circulation to the eye, stimulating the function of the retinal cells and possibly in the regeneration of cells. The effects of 10 to 500 micro amps on the cellular level have been documented by Dr. Cheng to increase ATP production by 500%, increase protein synthesis by 70% and increase cell transport by 40%.
A new technique called Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) has produced a dramatic improvement in the treatment of various eye disorders. The roots of Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) date back to the early 1900′s to Dr. Albert Abrams, who was the first physician to use calibrated instruments capable of detecting the radiations of living tissue. Dr. Abrams concluded that all matter radiates electromagnetic energy and the characteristics of the radiation depend upon the unique molecular structure.
Modern FSM utilizes hundreds of frequencies within the range of .01 to 999 Hz with varying intensities of 20 to 600 micro amps.
Microcurrent is the main treatment used at the center for macular degeneration, glaucoma and other ocular disorders.
CHELATION THERAPY
Although you may not be familiar with chelation, doctors have been using it in this country since about 1950, following its development in Germany in 1938. This is a treatment normally used to treat lead poisoning and even venomous snakebites. In the early years of its use, chelation was found to improve the heart disease of those who underwent it for other purposes. This prompted a number of physicians to begin using it for this purpose, since it is known to flush plaque and toxic metals from bloodstream. For many, many individuals it has been an alternative to heart or vascular surgery.
Chelation has also been used to reverse macular degeneration, since ARMD is caused, at least in part, by the blockage in the choroid capillaries, which deliver blood to the macula.
In 1994, the Journal of the Advancement of Medicine published a case where a 59 year old woman with ARMD used nutrition along with chelation for her condition. After undergoing the recommended series of chelation, her vision improved to 20/25 in one eye and 20/20 in the other. Her central vision was greatly enhanced. One year later, her vision improvement remained.
The word “chelation” is taken from the Greek word, chele, meaning claw. This describes the way the molecules of the chelating agent grab onto the molecules of heavy metal, such as lead, iron, and copper in the body and moves them to the kidneys, via the bloodstream, for excretion. The process of chelation also binds calcium, which is known, when it is present in cells in excessive amounts, to interfere with arterial health. Calcium is responsible for the build-up of plaque that causes blockages in the blood vessels. None of the calcium chelated and released during chelation is the calcium from bones and teeth. Chelation lowers serum ionized calcium which decreases clotting, reduces spasm and softens “hardening” of the arteries. A further benefit to overall health is that EDTA reduces the LDL cholesterol (the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol) content in the liver and the plaque formed in the arteries.
Despite its success, scientists do not know for certain how chelation works. One theory is that it reduces free radicals, which are the harmful by-products of metabolic processes. A related theory is that since heavy metals cause an increased production of free radicals, reducing them in the body, reduces the numbers of free radicals. Yet another understanding of how chelation works focuses on the relationship between calcium and magnesium as intracellular and intercellular components. As excess calcium is bound in the bloodstream, the calcium/magnesium balance is favorably affected.
There are several accepted methods of administering chelation and these depend on your condition and state of health. They include oral, topical, rectal and intravenous.
Lipid Exchange or the PK protocol
Lipid Exchange is one of the most exciting therapies now available in our clinic. This protocol was developed by Dr. Patricia Kane who has researched the relationship with neurological disease and deficiencies in lipids that comprise the cell membrane. She theorizes that by restoring lipids in the cell membrane, neurological conditions can be successfully treated. It has received increased clinical focus because of its ability to dramatically improve the outcomes of patients in a wide range of disorders such as ALS, Lyme, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, MS, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Autism, Bipolar, Seizures, Hepatitis C, Environmental Illness, Cardiovascular disease and eye disease. The Lipid Exchange is performed by mixing blood with a lipid called Phosphatidylcholine (PC). This blood lipid mixture is slowly infused back into the body.
The eye ranks as one of the highest in lipid cellular complexity. There are over 100 million rods and cones in each eye and each one has up to 2000 layers of lipid membrane. Each membrane contains 140 million rhodopsin proteins which are responsible for capturing photons to produce sight . Each day a portion of this membrane and the rhodopisin proteins are sloughed off. Each cell discards about 7% of its lipid membrane stack each day. The entire photo-receiving structure is regenerated every 14 days!
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) directly up-regulates the fluidity of the membrane, improving its vitality, which is essential for all of metabolism, including neuronal transmission. Poor neuronal response is degraded in all the neurological disorders and is directly improved with PC therapy. Raising PC levels plays an important role in improving memory and recall, and has clinically shown to improve the flow of information of all the senses and most significantly eyesight. PC, given either orally or intravenously, helps restore the proper integrity of the cell membrane, thereby restoring the proper function of organ systems, especially the liver, the gut, the brain, immune system, heart, and hormonal system, which will ultimately improve the total health of the individual.
Oxidative therapies
Oxidative therapy is a very simple, inexpensive therapy that has shown to be effective in promoting oxygenation, vasodilation, enhancing body physiology and circulation. Oxidative therapy has been shown to be effective as an adjunct treatment for many ocular disorders including macular degeneration and glaucoma. Studies have shown that it improves the following cellular activites: mitochondrial dysfunctions in the cell, changes acidosis seen in the chronically ill, improves the action of the krebs cycle and increases oxidative phosphorylation. In all disease states and conditions caused by viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, petrochemicals the above cellular activities are reduced. Oxidative therapy can dramatically reverse this negative effect. Dr. Robert Rowen, in his Newsletter 2nd Opinion, has advocated this therapy in the treatment of macular degeneration and glaucoma. There have been two published studies indicating that Oxidative therapies can be helpful in glaucoma. This article reported that a glaucoma patient who underwent oxidative therapies had improvement in optic nerve function and visual fields.
There are many methods of delivering oxidative therapies. These include intravenous and rectal Ozone, intravenous ultra violet light, and intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) refers to the treatment of the entire body with air at greater than normal atmospheric pressures. ,The earth’s atmosphere at sea level normally exerts approximately 15 pounds per square inch or 1 atmosphere of pressure. At this pressure, we normally are breathing air with about 20% oxygen. During HBOT the pressure is increased up to 2 atmospheres of pressure with a much higher oxygen concentration. This increased pressure, combined with an increase in oxygen, helps to dissolve oxygen in the blood plasma and all body cells, tissues and fluids up to 10 times normal concentration. The affects are a greatly increased oxygen concentration in all body tissues, even those with reduced or blocked blood flow. It also stimulates the growth of new blood vessels to locations with reduced circulation and improves blood flow to areas with arterial blockage. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment has been used successfully for many disorders including stroke, retinal artery occlusions, optic neuritis, brain injuries, poisoning, neurological conditions, glaucoma and macular degeneration.
Join us for our patient educational seminar series!
This series is sponsored by the Restore Vision Foundation, a non-profit Arizona Corporation that helps educate doctors and patients on alternative therapies for eye disease. There is no charge to attend, but a small donation to the Restore Vision Foundation will be greatly appreciated!
Dyslexia and learning disorders
January 14, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Guest Lecturer, Dr. Robert Rowen, editor of the famous Newsletter 2nd Opinion. Come and have all your alternative medical questions answered by this leading expert!
January 23, 2009
11:00AM to Noon
Microcurrent in the treatment of sporting injuries and vision enhancement for sports
February 18, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Alternative treatments of macular degeneration
Mar 18 , 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Reducing Presbyiopia (reading glasses)
April 15, 2009
7:00PM to 8:00PM
