Eye Drops For Dry, Irritated Dry Eye Condition

Dry eye syndrome, or keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) is an eye disease in which the amount, or the evaporation of tear film is increased, or most importantly the quality of tear production is decreased. The translation of  "keratoconjunctivitis sicca" from Latin is "dryness of the cornea and conjunctiva".  Essentially dry eye syndrome is a chronic lack of sufficient lubrication, proteins, and moisture on the surface of the eye. Consequences of this condition range from subtle but constant irritation to severe ocular inflammation of the anterior tissues of the eye leading to disturbed vision.

Dry eyes can be exacerbated by smokey environments, dust and air conditioning and by our natural tendency to reduce our blink rate when concentrating. Purposefully blinking, especially during computer use and resting tired eyes are basic steps that can be taken to minimise discomfort. Rubbing one's eyes can irritate them further, so should be avoided. Conditions such as blepharitis, an infection of the lid margins, can often co-exist and paying particular attention to cleaning the eyelids morning and night with mild shampoos and warm compresses can improve both conditions.


Dry, drafty environments and those with smoke and dust should be avoided. This includes avoiding hair dryers, heaters, air conditioners or fans, especially when these devices are directed toward the eyes. Wearing glasses or directing gaze downward, for example, by lowering computer screens can be helpful to protect the eyes when aggravating environmental factors cannot be avoided. Using a humidifier,especially in the winter, can help by adding moisture to the dry indoor air. For mild and moderate cases, supplemental lubrication is an important part of treatment. Application of artificial tears every few hours can provide minor and temporary relief.

A new methodology for treating dry eye is now available from BioRegenerative Sciences. Using the molecules from stem cells in the eye that normally provide the proteins to the tears, the new product called I-Ease restores the quality of the tear film by restoring the proteins normally found in the film. These stem cell derived proteins in I-Ease not only protect the eye, but also help induce a healing response. People with severe dry eye, post-lasik irritation, contact lens irritation, diabetic cornea, corneal transplants, ulcerated corneas, and glaucoma patients with irritated eyes have all benefited greatly from I-Ease. I-Ease is much more efficacious than Restasis for dry eye, and unlike Restasis, has no side effects and no stinging. I know first hand this is a great product!

Exfoliation With Out Damaging Irritation: Age Management For Healthy Skin

Exfoliation has long been used as a means to attempt renewing the skin, doing so by irritating the skin to exfoliate the outer dead layer of the skin called the stratum corneum. Acids are commonly used to cause the irritation, and most often the acid is glycolic acid. While there is no question that glycolic acid induced irritation and exfoliation can have short term benefits, the long term effects of glycolic acid may be damaging and lead to premature aging of the skin. Although the long term effects of glycolic acid are poorly studied, a few papers do show deleterious effects. Therefore, if non-irritating  and safe alternatives to glycolic acid are available, I suggest using the alternatives rather than the glycolic acid.

Recently a new non-irritating exfoliating product has come to market called Moisturizing Night Cream by BioRegenerative Sciences, Inc. of San Diego, CA, for whom I am a member of the scientific advisory board. The philosophy at BRS is that “healthy skin is beautiful skin,” and everything we do is to make the skin healthy, and not damage the skin. Therefore the exfoliating products of BRS do not contain glycolic acid, rather the Moisturizing Night Cream contains naturally derived products that are normally found in the skin that super moisturize the skin and gently induce exfoliation without irritation.

I’ve personally used the product for many months during testing, and can say the product performs exactly as intended. When the Moisturizing Night Cream is used with Vital Serum from BRS, the results are remarkable. People ask me what I’ve done to look so young. While I always recommend proper nutrition, exercise, sufficient sleep, and supplementation…I recommend supplementation from within by ingesting vitamins, minerals, omega-3 fatty acids, and anti-oxidants, but I also recommend supplementation with high quality topical such as the cosmeceuticals from BioRegnerative Sciences. 

Using The Planetree Model To Deliver Patient-Centered Healthcare

As BioRegenerative Sciences, Inc. begins to open a stem cell based healthcare clinic in Southern California, the basis for our technology is BRS’ S²RM Technology utilizing the molecules that multiple stem cell types release to induce healing.

Equally important to delivering the latest technology to the patient, are the services and processes that deliver the technology to the patient in a patient-centered, holistic, and healing atmosphere. To this end, progressive hospitals, beginning with University of California San Francisco’s Presbyterian Hospital, and now including many hospitals throughout the USA and Europe, have used a model system originally conceptualized by Angelica Thieriot. The inspiration for Angelica Thieriot arose during her battle with a rare viral infection. She sat staring at the cold, fluorescent lit blank walls of her hospital room. Overworked nurses hurried in and out without regard to Angelica as an individual, leaving her to sit alone for hours feeling lonely and afraid. She was disheartened to find that this lack of personalized care diminished the benefits of the hospital’s high-tech environment, leading to less than optimal healing.

Angelica’s experiences led her to envision a different type of hospital where patients could receive care in a warm, healing environment that would also provide them with access to the information needed to become active participants in their own care and wellbeing. Personalized, participatory healthcare, she hoped, would become the norm.

Planetree was founded in 1978 by Angelica using the name from the roots of modern Western medicine, which is the tree that Hippocrates sat under as he taught some of the earliest medical students in ancient Greece.

As stated by the Planetree non-profit organization, “The Planetree model of care is a patient-centered, holistic approach to healthcare, promoting mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and physical healing. It empowers patients and families through the exchange of information and encourages healing partnerships with caregivers. It seeks to maximize positive healthcare outcomes by integrating optimal medical therapies and incorporating art and nature into the healing environment.

Planetree continues to innovate, broadening our collective understanding of the concept of healing, and continuing our network’s expansion so that a growing number of patients and caregivers can experience the dignity, compassion, and humanity that are hallmarks of the Planetree philosophy.”

We at BRS embrace these ideals of Planetree as we move forward with our Spa-like stem cell based hospital in Southern California.

Argireline Is Not Botox In A Bottle

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Botulinum toxin is a protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, and is known to be extremely neurotoxic, and causes flaccid muscular paralysis seen in botulism. Physicians use this as a commercial product called Botox or Dysport to paralyze muscles. Botox was developed by Dr. Allan Scott, an ophthalmologist in San Francisco, and Edward Schantz for the treatment of the two eye conditions strabismus and blepharospasm in the 1960s. My colleague, Dr. Greg Maguire, used Botulinum toxin in his research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA during the 1980s and 1990s and has told me how powerful this toxin is.....able to quickly induce paralysis at the neuromuscular junction. In 2002, the FDA announced regulatory approval of botulinum toxin type A (Botox Cosmetic) to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate-to-severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines). When used for cosmetic surgery the Botox procedure is efficacious and safe and has only minor side effects.

The hexapeptide C{46}H{56}N{12}O{6}, (CAS 616204-22-9) termed Argireline, was produced by the Barcelona-based research laboratory Lipotec based on the Botulinum toxin molecule. Argireline is a shortened version of the Botulinum toxin molecule, designed to mimic the effect of Botulinum toxin in paralyzing muscles. There have been no double-blind studies of Argireline to prove an anti-wrinkle effect, and only one published study by the manufacturers. Anedotal reports are mixed, with some suggesting that a generalized sagging of the skin results from topical usage. Such a sagging effect is plausible given that the Argireline is applied topically without precise application to particular nerves as is performed in Botox injections. That is, if the Argirline really works, then the toxin is being applied all over the face, instead of precisely at specific nerves as is the case when surgeons inject botox. Such a generalized application of the toxin to the face may very well lead to sagging of the face.

My opinion is to use products that create beautiful skin by enhancing the health of the skin and avoid products, such as Argireline, that are toxins. Healthy skin, therefore beautiful skin, can be achieved by nourishing the skin from the inside and the outside. Such a program will include a good diet and proper hydration, and by applying topical products that are known to be safe and efficacious, such as anti-oxidants and naturally occurring factors found in healthy skin. New anti-oxidant, moisturizing, and stem cell-based topical products are appearing on the market that show great promise. The products that I have found most effective are from the biotech company in San Diego, CA called BioRegenerative Sciences, and include Vital Serum, Eye Serum, and Moisturizing Night Cream.

The Best Anti-Aging Skin Products Make Skin Healthy

The most effective way to make your skin look good, is to make the skin healthy. While procedures such as a face lift, or products such as Botox, can reduce the appearance of wrinkles and decrease sagging, the skin may still appear old, damaged, dry, and lack luster.

So even if one is using these procedures or products, the need still exists to make the skin healthy to bring back that youthful, glowing luster of young, healthy skin. Why does young skin look so good, and heal so easily? The answer is that young skin contain many stem cells, and different types of stem cells to make the skin healthy. Adult stem cells induce their positive effects in the skin by releasing "healing molecules" into the skin's layers to orchestrate a healing response. A new company, called BioRegenerative Sciences, for whom I am a consultant, uses the molecules from different types of stem cells in the skin, and formulates the molecules into cosmeceutical products in order to reverse the effects of aging.

In this way, BRS' products, Vital Serum, Eye Serum, and Moisturizing Night Cream serve to make the skin healthy, which naturally makes the skin look young and beautiful.

The World's Most Effective Anti-Aging Skin Care Products

I've been using BioRegenerative Science's new line of skin care products for several months and the results are fantastic. Not only can I see a very big difference in my appearance, but friends are asking what I have done to make myself look so much younger. Using Vital Serum, Eye Serum, and Moisturizing Night Cream from BRS has dramatically enhanced not only the appearance of my skin, but underlying this much improved appearance is more healthy skin. I can feel the difference, and I can see it.

Not only do these products contain BRS' S2RM Technology derived from combinations of adult stem cells, but the Moisturizing Night Cream also contains a new "super moisturizing" agent that both moisturizes the skin, but also provides a natural, non-irritating means to exfoliate the outer layer of dead skin, called the stratum corneum. Other products usually contain acids, such as glycolic acid, to produce the exfoliation. But using these acids actually irritates the skin and over time this continual irritation will lead to increased aging of the skin.

The great thing about these BRS products is that they all make the skin healthy, and as a result the skin looks better.

Regrowing Hair In Female Baldness (Alopecia)

Partial baldness is not uncommon in women. Aging, environmental factors, and illness along with a genetic predisposition can cause female alopecia. Recently, scientific evidence has given us a much deeper understanding  of the mechanisms involved in hair loss, and how to prevent hair loss and actually regrow hair.

Basically, the hair follicle is rimmed with a number of types of stem cells. These stem cells in the follicle are responsible for growing hair and for making the hair's pigmentation. With aging, illness, and through environmental factors, these stem cells can reduce in number and effectiveness, resulting in graying and the loss of hair.

Last month, BioRegenerative Sciences, Inc. of San Diego, CA, with whom I am a consultant, released a new topical spray for regrowing hair and pigmentation in women's alopecia. The good news....this product really works! Women regrow hair in about 6-8 weeks following the beginning of treatment. Treatment is simple, you simply spray the product, called Hair Stemulating Complex (HSC), onto the affected area of your scalp. On average, women who have used the product see significant hair growth and pigmentation in 7 weeks.

How does HSC work? The HSC product works by reconditioning the hair follicle. HSC uses the molecules from stem cells taken from hair follicles, and formulates these stem cell molecules into the topical spray. Thus, when you spray the HSC onto your scalp, the molecules from stem cells are absorbed into the follicle and mimic the natural hair and pigment regenerating mechanisms naturally working in the hair follicle. My colleague, Dr. Rita Friedman, and I have both used the product with very positive results.