Diagnostic, prescriptive, and data-gathering system and method for macular pigment deficits and other eye disorders

A method of addressing eye-health problems in a human patient, comprising the acts of:

• receiving information from multiple patients at multiple locations, said information for each patient including macular pigment data obtained via a macular-pigment measurement machine at one of said locations, each of said macular-pigment measurement machines being linked to a central host, said information for each patient further including at least three of the group consisting of eye color, age, gender, smoking status, previously diagnosed eye disease, intake of nutritional supplements, genetic information, and diet;
• in response to the patient having a first level of macular pigment, providing the patient with a recommendation for a first carotenoid mixture to increase said macular pigment of the patient to a desirable level over a period of time;
• in response to the patient having a second level of macular pigment, providing the patient with a recommendation for a second carotenoid mixture that is different from said first carotenoid mixture;
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• periodically transferring, by use of a processor, said information to said central host from said multiple locations.

A method of addressing eye-health problems in a human patient, comprising the acts of:

• receiving information from multiple patients at multiple locations, said information for each patient including macular pigment data obtained via a macular-pigment measurement machine at one of said locations, said macular-pigment measurement machines being linked to a central host, said information for each patient further including at least three of the group consisting of eye color, age, gender, smoking status, previously diagnosed eye disease, intake of nutritional supplements, genetic information, and diet;
• periodically transferring said information from said patients at said central host from said multiple locations;
• in response to a patient having a first level of macular pigment as measured by one of said macular-pigment measurement machines, providing the patient with a recommendation for a first carotenoid mixture to increase said macular pigment of the patient, said recommendation for said first carotenoid mixture being based on data related to said information that is received at said central host;
• and
• in response to the patient having a second level of macular pigment as measured by the one of said macular-pigment measurement machines, providing the patient with a recommendation for a second carotenoid mixture to increase said macular pigment of the patient, said second carotenoid mixture being different from said first carotenoid mixture, said recommendation for said second carotenoid mixture being based on data related to said information that is received at said central host.