Look into intravenous food-grade hydrogen peroxide.

I make no claims, and it has its own risks, but ... since you're
already playing with hyperoxygenation as a concept....

There is also the possibility that your tissues grow accustomed to increased
oxygen, then when you return to room air, they rebel by secreting VEGF and
growing new vessels that break and bleed and scar.

No? Isn't that how we get retinopathy of prematurity?

-MT

By any chance are you the same as the Rich in:

http://www.i-see.org/optifuge.html

Don W.

…that’s the only kind I do  :-) …but this one is not as crazy as the
one that could have killed me, the “Optifuge” experiment (1)), but
quite unusual.

It’s the application of oxygen to the eye. I used a device called an
oxygen concentrator. By removing nitrogen from ambient air, it
delivers 90% pure oxygen, which I breathe at a rate of 5 liters per
minute through a nasal tube. (2).

So, what does this have to do with vision?  Just this: my previous
experiments have always involved myopia, but a couple of years ago I
was diagnosed with glaucoma (I didn’t know I had it), and my
ophthalmologist of course did what they all do, prescribed a
medication to lower my IOP (Intraocular Pressure), in my case, a Beta
blocker, Timolol.. Never mind that my IOP was within normal limits, he
went along with the hypothesis that glaucoma is the result of raised
IOP that damages the optic nerve.

When I asked about possible side effects, he dismissed them: “They
only occur in a small proportion of patients” (about 1 or 2 percent as
I recall). These include blurred vision, dizziness and dry eyes, as
well as more serious effects such as chest pain, fainting, and
irregular heartbeat (all these from the brochure accompanying the
medication).. Strange that they didn’t include others, such as
alopecia (hair loss)—just what I need! and impotence—Oh, great! but
then the brochure was written by the manufacturer. They didn’t include
the possibility of severe reactions like …death! (3).

Although I wasn’t bothered by the glaucoma, I also had to consider
the possibility that it could progress.

In researching the literature I kept coming across intriguing
references to the importance of oxygen to the eye. For example, how
many people are aware of the astonishing fact that the retina has “…
the highest oxygen demand of any tissue in the body.”?

Other papers dealt with the question of retinal hypoxia (def.:
deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues) and its
possible effect on vision. For example, “…damage to the cells of the
optic nerve is now known to occur during migraine headaches, when
blood vessels constrict the flow of oxygen and other nutrients to the
cells”; “,.,neovascular glaucoma occurs in individuals in whom there
is poor blood flow to the eye. Blood supplies much of the eye with
nourishment, including oxygen, and removes waste from it”; “Decreased
blood flow to the eye causes structural changes over time that results
in increased IOP.” “Glaucoma patients have narrowed retinal blood
vessels compared to normals”.

These citations and others persuaded me that a much more convincing
case could be made that glaucoma was caused by reduced blood flow to
the eye that damaged retinal and optic nerve cells, not high
intraocular pressure.

After just a few days of breathing the 90% oxygen I noticed that
colors had become much brighter, and print appeared blacker.This
suggested that increasing the blood supply to the retina had improved
my contrast sensitivity. I later found a report on precisely this
effect. (4)

I also noticed improved visual acuity as shown on a Snellen chart, but
it is unclear whether this was due simply to the improved contrast
sensitivity or some other effect (change in the lens?,  axial
length?).

From reading hundreds of papers in the ophthalmology journals I
discovered a few that, in effect, dismiss the Glaucoma/IOP hypothesis
as nonsense. I could cite these papers, but it may be sufficient to
show the illogic of this hypothesis is by considering this: large
numbers of people with high IOP don’t have glaucoma; large numbers of
people with normal IOP have glaucoma; and of the large number of
people who lower their IOP with medication, their glaucoma continues
to progress.

Exercising, while breathing oxygen, dramatically increases the amount
of oxygen in the blood plasma, i.e., the portion of the blood outside
the red and white ells. This can be determined by testing the blood
oxygen level in the arteries and veins.

Doctors will say that you can't increase the oxygen in your blood by
breathing oxygen. But what they mean is that you can't increase the
amount of oxygen in your red blood cells, which are responsible for
transporting oxygen to the tissues. The reason the amount of oxygen in
the red cells cannot be increased is because, under most
circumstances, they are already 97 percent saturated with oxygen. So,
they say, a three percent increase will make little difference and the
red cells won't accept the extra oxygen, anyway.

      While this is true, they ignore the role of oxygen in the
plasma, the "juice" within which the red cells flow. The oxygen
content of this fluid can be dramatically increased and thus oxygen
will be "pushed" into the body's cells without the aid of the red
cells. It's called the Law of Mass Action. If you build up the
concentration of a certain component in a chemical mixture high
enough, chemical combining will take place with other elements of the
mixture that ordinarily wouldn't happen.

      Most of the oxygen in the plasma under these high-saturation
circumstances will be "wasted" in that it will not be absorbed by the
cells which expect to be "fed" oxygen by the red cells. But if only
one-tenth of one percent of the oxygen gets through, and you offer
your cells this extra oxygen every day, there will be an extensive
increase in your total tissue oxygen level.
Ophthalmologists tell their glaucoma patients that the condition can
not be reversed. What they mean, I think, is that the drugs they use
can’t do it. Apparently they are unaware that several studies show
that glaucoma CAN be reversed. Here’s one:

Bojic reports  a double-blind study where subjects who had a
glaucomatous visual field loss were exposed on a daily basis to 2.0
bars of air pressure for 90 minutes. Sixty percent of the subjects
engaged in an oxygen-breathing schedule, while the remainder breathed
only air.

The report summarizes: 1) “In the experimental group there was a
significant improvement of visual fields (p.>0.5), whereas there was
no change in the control group.” 2) “Hyperbaric oxygen did not have
any influence on intraocular pressure”. 3) “…the achieved visual field
improvements [e.g. 30% less blind spot area] remained stable for three
months…4) Our study indirectly  points to the role of a vascular
mechanism in the pathogenesis of glaucoma”. Bojic' 1993 - Bojic' L,
Racvicv G, Gošovic' S, Kovacvevic' H. The effect of hyperbaric oxygen
breathing on the visual field in glaucoma. Acta Ophth 1993; 315-319

There are hundreds of millions of people who suffer serious eye
conditions such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic
retinopathy. There is the possibility that these conditions could be
prevented, stopped, or even reversed, with oxygen therapy. It
certainly deserves to be studied much more than has been the case to
date.

--Rich
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1. www.i-see.org/optifuge.html  Other experiments involved compressing
the globe, and applying vibration to the eye, described at
http://aarcolin4.net

2. The device I used was a Respironics Millenium. Not cheap—around
$1500, but refurbished models are around $550.

  Another method is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which
  involves the breathing of pure oxygen while in a sealed chamber
that has been pressurized at 1.5 to 3 times normal atmospheric
pressure

3. Between 1978 and 1985 there were 450 case reports of serious
respiratory and cardiovascular events, and the FDA and the National
Registry of Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects received reports of 32
cases of death attributed to ophthalmic Timolol

(4) “Hyperbaric oxygen treatment improves contrast sensitivity
(ability to see shades of gray) when administered to healthy
volunteers”

A useful book on the role of oxygen in human physiology is “Oxygen and
Aging” by Majid, Ali, M.D.

I should note that there are side effects to oxygen therapy for the
eyes, but unlike the drugs sold by Big Pharma, they are beneficial!
For more than 15 years I suffered from fibromyalgia in the form of
sometimes severe calf and ankle pain. After six weeks of oxygen
therapy it is almost gone!