My Macular Degeneration Update: Specialist says: "Astounding!"

#51 2025 The Rowen Report

Dear Subscriber,

All but the newest of you know that I have age related macular degeneration (AMD). This is a disease that decays the central part of the retina and ultimately damages or destroys your central vision. It is considered progressive and incurable. It affects nearly 20 million Americans and its incidence rises to nearly half in those 85 and older. Truly frightening.

My dad had it and, after years, it severely affected his vision. I found out about mine 6 years ago during a routine eye exam, a Western medicine evaluation I recommend for everyone when they hit 50. While I knew I was genetically at risk, I thought I might have it bypass me considering my diet of the past 25 years. I had a reasonable diet for 20 years before that, but in 2001, when I came to live in California, I became an organic vegetarian (dairy permitted). By about 2011, I ceased eating heated oils thanks to my fatty acid mentor, Brian Peskin, MS.

Then, in 2019, in that routine exam, my local ophthalmologist dropped the bomb on me. I responded, “You essentially told me I have cancer.” I was happy to know then before I noticed any significant visual changes. He told me in no uncertain terms that the disease would progress and there was essentially nothing that could be done about it.

I believe that AMD is a disease of modern civilization. There was little AMD 100 years ago. I became more than convinced about this upon reading a book Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration detailing the diet connection to AMD, while I was put away. Author Knobbe wrote a terrific book and easy read, and its implications go far, far beyond AMD.

I came to realize where my AMD came from. I had a great mom, but moms then were ignorant of certain aspects of nutrition at that time, and were caught up in all the garbage commercial advertising propaganda of the time. We had lots of vegetables, animal protein as needed, but mom prepared a lot of cooking in oil. Margarine had been pushed, Crisco, Wesson, Mazola and more. I also, like most ignorant young people ate my share of potato chips and fries, some of the worst food one can eat. Please DO NOT blame your mom or yourself for dietary ignorance. Same as you should not blame your folks for vaccinations. They were programmed and brainwashed. My disease fits into the hypothesis of Dr. Knobbe. And it tells you that your disease of today likely germinated decades ago.

Upon diagnosis, I wasted no time. I was already doing intravenous ozone therapy monthly, just for general prevention and tonification of my body. I increased ozone frequency to weekly. I researched and researched and began a cocktail of supplements with any connection to protecting the eyes and/or the brain. Retina is actual brain substance. The optic nerve is actual central brain tissue. The eye is your brain’s direct connection to the outside world. Even your auditory nerve is a “peripheral” nerve and not actual brain substance.

Over the last six years my local eye doc was surprised at the very slow progression, despite diagnosing my condition as moderate in one eye and advanced in the other. I attributed this to the ozone therapy and my diet, as well as supplements.

Early last autumn, I went to Dr. Todd Ovokaitys in southern California. He does a novel form of stem cells directing them directly to the target organ with a device he invented called the “Song Laser”. My next exam surprised my local eye doc. My condition stabilized. No deterioration!

About 4 months ago, after some advanced education at a Stem Cell Society meeting, Terri injected my eye area with exosomes, a growth factor extracted from umbilical cord and placenta tissue of newborns. This is very ethical as the tissue would otherwise be discarded. I also began a new product from Moremito.com, which I take in addition to their Restore product. These are to improve mitochondrial function. If you need a rep, use “terrisu”.

I couldn’t wait for my next exam, which was earlier today. The doctor came in the room after my scans had been done, looked at them, and summed up his thoughts in one word; “Astounding”. He remained in disbelief not having seen any improvement in any of his many hundred of AMD patients, ever. In fact, in common nomenclature, he looked “s#!^ faced”. And, he admitted he was now reading about ozone. However, true to Western doctor form, he said he needed to see some “studies” on all I do to be “convinced”, but encouraged me to continue exactly what I am doing.

In a nutshell, my R eye macula thickness improved 16-20 microns, after thinning a small bit over the years, a measure he says was quite significant.

Further, the soft drusen (waste oxidation grunge which accumulates in the retina) surrounding the most important site – my fovea - had gone way down in one eye. The fovea is the point of central vision. The letters herein you are reading are falling right on your fovea. Soft drusen is more toxic than hard drusen.

Further, the “hills” in the scan of my retina underneath the macula, where the drusen accumulates, had becomes narrower and blunted. He says my L eye was largely unchanged on scan from my last visit based on one scan, but overall, compared to 18 months ago, is mildly but definitely improved (the hills). My R eye is significantly improved. And to top that off, my R eye visual acuity stunned him (and me). Six months ago, it was seeing a relatively good 20-25 minus 2. Today it made a perfect 20-20 and had the technician continued, I believe I could have read the 20-15 line. My L eye remained unchanged at a relatively good (for my age) 20-30.

Yes, I am highly exposed to toxic blue light. I stay up late on my computer to write these reports and I am outdoors a lot. But my readers are yellow tinted “blue blockers”. This softens the effect of otherwise excitatory computer blue light on my retina. I want to detail for you some more of my activities of the last 12 months.

You know I did the stem cells with Dr. Ovokaitys (www.qigenix.com). I made some additions to my regimen. Recently, I wrote about cocoa bioflavonoids in the Premium section a short while ago. I go interested in it because cocoa flavonoids are reported to protect brain, and retina is actual brain tissue. I’ve eating dark chocolate nearly daily for years. But for a few months I have been taking a scoop of cocoa powder in my morning coffee or tea. (Premium subscribers should reread that post.

I also added plasmalogens based on the work of Dr. Goodenowe who pioneered research into these neuromembrane repairing nutrients. Additionally, after learning about ozonated glycerin, I decided to try it and back off some on my intravenous ozone. I take 1 tsp daily, having worked up from 1/8 tsp. I add it to the coffee/tea/cocoa after it has cooled some. And, in the past few weeks (I don’t attribute improvement to this since I only started a few weeks ago), I am taking 1/3 – 1 TBS honey added to my drink. (the premium readers are getting my research on honey now). . I have also used the frequency specific microcurrent device pioneered by my friend Dr. Ed Kondrot, holistic ophthalmologist.

So, to summarize recent additions to my regimen, in the past 10 months I have received stem cells, have had exosomes injected by Terri under my eyeballs and into my sphenopalatine ganglion as per the teachings of Dr. AJ Farshchian, started cocoa flavonoids, and held to my diet omitting all heated oils. Doctors who practice Neural Therapy can likely perform the exosome injections. The product is very pricey, so be prepared. We are well seasoned in neural therapy injections. Terri is outstanding.

Finally, I am taking oral ozonated glycerin. I do have OG eyedrops, but have only used them for severe pollen allergic symptoms I had in the spring. I will likely now use a drop in my eye twice daily.

OG products are obtainable from www.PurO3.com (discount code is REDWOOD), and www.SimplyO3.com (discount code is DRROWEN). I believe you can get drops from PURO3.com if not both companies.

I am only a N of one. I have heard of other cases of AMD improving on regimens. We have had a case of wet macular degeneration disappear with intravenous ozone therapy. We have had a few cases progress, but I don’t think they kept to the rigor to which I have kept. We tell our cancer clients, “Once a cancer case, always a cancer case”. Meaning you have to be vigilant for life. To me, this is a “cancer” of my eyes. I will have to be vigilant for life, and when it comes to vision, I certainly shall be.

I cannot tell you what worked. And that is often a problem with clients in the office, who want to know the magic single agent. We like to enter a medical challenge from as many points as possible, believing them all to be synergistic if done to promote our natural biology. But beginning with the stem cells, then exosomes, and additional changes, my eyes have made a significant turnaround.

Perhaps the most important thing is the thanks and gratitude I humbly give to God every night before retiring, which I have done for years, for sustaining my overall health and enabling me to still see, virtually normally. To me, it is a miracle.

Thank you for your support of this page.

To Your Excellent Health!

Robert Jay Rowen, MD

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