{"id":237343,"date":"2026-05-18T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-looking-through-static-can-help-people-with-a-common-degenerative-disease-see-better"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:05:34","slug":"how-looking-through-static-can-help-people-with-a-common-degenerative-disease-see-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-looking-through-static-can-help-people-with-a-common-degenerative-disease-see-better","title":{"rendered":"How looking through static can help people with a common degenerative disease see better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-looking-through-static-can-help-people-with-a-common-degenerative-disease-see-better.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness among aging people <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2214-109X(17)30393-5\" target=\"_blank\">globally<\/a>. Around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdfoundation.com.au\/about-macular-disease\/age-related-macular-degeneration\/amd-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">one in seven Australians<\/a> over the age of 50 have some signs of AMD.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/opo.12419\" target=\"_blank\">disease<\/a> results in blurred and distorted vision, and often loss of function at the center of the eye\u2019s visual field.<\/p>\n<p>The best current treatment involves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aao.org\/eye-health\/drugs\/anti-vegf-treatments\" target=\"_blank\">a series of injections<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jcph.2002\" target=\"_blank\">slow the progression<\/a> of the disease, but this process can be expensive and difficult with <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2147\/DDDT.S383101\" target=\"_blank\">potentially negative<\/a> long-term effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness among aging people globally. Around one in seven Australians over the age of 50 have some signs of AMD. The disease results in blurred and distorted vision, and often loss of function at the center of the eye\u2019s visual field. The best current treatment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}