Dr. Chris Knobbe Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism

Dr. Chris Knobbe is an ophthalmologist and Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus, formerly of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas. He is also the founder and president of Cure AMD Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the prevention of vision loss from agerelated 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 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. Knobbes 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 a website, and a second book currently in the making. Knobbes current research focuses substantially