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If you have an eye condition, ask your ophthalmologist how he will treat you. Then pick up Dr. Abels book and note how many more answers he gives. I can vouch for the fact that the options he offers, being natural and nutritional, are far better.Robert C. Atkins, M.D., best-selling author

Subtitled Prevent and Reverse Common Vision Problems, Dr. Abels authoritative, reliable book will help you and your doctor become full partners in saving your eyes and your overall good health.

Most of us believe that conventional medicine is the only way to treat common eye problems. But there is another way. In this breakthrough guide, ophthalmologist Dr. Robert Abel brings you amazing nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, and Asian therapies, along with conventional methods, to prevent and even reverse most vision disorders.

Combining the best of high-tech conventional and alternative methods, this book covers treatments for cataracts, glaucoma, pink eye, dry eye, macular degeneration, diabetes-related vision loss, and more.

Dr. Robert Abel, Jr., is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Jefferson Medical College. He performed his ophthalmology training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center (in New York City) and a cornea transplant fellowship at the University of Florida. Dr. Abel cofounded the alternative medicine curriculum at Thomas Jefferson University, where he is a clinical professor of ophthalmology. He has helped found eye banks, holds patents on artificial corneas, and has received the senior honor award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Abel has long been a nationally renowned teacher of conventional eye therapy. He assisted with the translations of ancient Ayurvedic eye therapies and his mission is bringing mind-body medicine to 21st century eyecare. He is a practitioner of Tai Chi Ch'uan. Dr. Abel lives in Wilmington, DE, with his wife, three children, and dog.

San Francisco's Jeff Riggenbach has narrated more than fifty titles for Blackstone Audiobooks. He is an author, contributing editor, and producer and has worked in radio for the last thirty years. He is a recipient of the "Golden Mike" Award for his work in radio.