Retinopathy - can it be stopped in its tracks

[librarising]

Whilst surfing recently, and watching a health-related video on YouTube, this video showed on the right-hand video list

Shocking Blood Samples Doctors Don't Want YOU to See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-rzVr8C ... plpp_video

The visuals of the blood cells are certainly persuasive. Seems to be a blood 'improver.'
This led me to google further on pycnogenol (pronounced pick - nodge - enol) and I found this webpage :

http://www.pycnogenol.com/fileadmin/pdf ... Health.pdf ***
http://www.pycnogenol.com/fileadmin/pdf ... s_Care.pdf ***

(*** this single link seems to have been replaced by more than one webpage, so I have edited this post.)

When you think that diabetes complications are blood-related, then something that claims to improve the blood makes sense, IF its claims are accurate. It claims to positively affect :

blood sugar
retinopathy
vascular dysfunction
hypertension
micro-circulation
blood lipids
antioxidant protection

If retinopathy is caused by blood quality and leaky blood vessels and micro-circulation in the eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdThX1PE ... re=g-all-u
(another video, this time on retinopathy)

then taking this supplement, with its other benefits for diabetics, seems a no-brainer.
The results shown in the PDF link are encouraging.

I'm aware that there are previous mentions of pycnogenol on the forum, which I'll read at some point, but for now I'm doing a study (n = 1) and have started taking 100 mg a day (4 months supply of Maritime Pine Bark Extract for about £20)

Perhaps it's time to examine this more fully on this forum.

Geoff

 

[the_anticarb]

Thanks Geoff, although someone said that it can encourage further bleeding if you have an active bleed, so I don't think its good to take it if haemorrhaging. Soon as this bleed clears up though I'll be right on it!