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Dr. Knobbe is also the founder and president of Cure AMD Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the prevention of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Dr. Knobbe has a deep interest in general nutrition, particularly as it relates to chronic degenerative disease, though his primary area of expertise is with the disorder Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness in people over the age of 65, currently affecting approximately 196 million people worldwide.
Dr Knobbe’s current research focuses substantially on omega-6 seed oil consumption as a major unifying driver of the chronic degenerative diseases of civilization, including AMD.
In my 24 years of ophthalmology practice, I watched hundreds of patients lose vision to AMD, and 2 or 3 go entirely centrally blind due to macular degeneration. I have trouble talking about the latter, publicly, because it is so emotional for me. Watching someone go blind is tragic, but it's also a travesty, because now I understand that it is entirely preventable.
Some people believe that, "We didn't have all of this disease -- heart disease, cancer, and macular degeneration (AMD), back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, because we didn't live long enough."
That belief that is based on extreme misinformation.
In fact, in the U.S. in the year 1900, 57% of both sexes were alive past age 50-54, 39% alive past age 65-69, 21% alive past age 75-79, and 12% alive past age 80.
The reason that the "average lifespan," which is actually the Life Expectancy at Birth (LEB), was only approximately 49.3 years of age, in the U.S. in 1900, is because death in childhood was extreme in that era.
For more on Life Expectancy, plus all references for these facts, and how and why this cannot possibly explain these drastic differences in chronic disease prevalence rates, please see this article "Was Age-related Macular Degeneration Rare in the 19th Century?"
'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'
(46 minutes)
Low Carb Downunder - June, 2020
Omega-6 Apocalypse: From Heart Disease to Cancer and Macular Degeneration
Over the past two hundred years, we’ve witnessed the evolution of pandemics of chronic degenerative, metabolic, and noncommunicable disease (NCD). (39 minutes)
Ancestry Foundation - October, 2019
Dr. Knobbe writes, "Thank you all for the hundreds of nice compliments!" "Thank you all for viewing, the support, and most of all, for spreading this live-saving, vision-saving message!"
Omega 6 Apocalypse: Do Seed Oils Cause Obesity & Chronic Disease
Dr. Chris A Knobbe (47 minutes)
Published by: MetabolixOrg - June 2022
Recommended Book
"Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration" Dr. Knobbe’s research efforts and revolutionary hypothesis for the nutritional basis of AMD have resulted in a published scientific paper, a book – Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration.
