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Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to hello@drsamberne.com.
Hey, everybody. Good evening. It’s Dr. Sam like to welcome you to special Facebook Live q&a Tonight, we’re gonna go about 30 minutes. We’ve got lots of questions here on the screen, so I will get to those. But before I do that, you can now text me your questions at 1-844-932-1291 you can text me your question directly. You can also send me your question at Hello@drsamberne.com. And starting in December, I think it’s going to be around December 12.
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So I’m going to take questions we’ve got questions have been sent in from listeners on Instagram, LinkedIn, tick tock. And if you’ve got a question, feel free to type it here on Facebook and I will do my best to answer it. So my first question this is from a listener on Tik Tok. He says, what can you do for your eyes and vision when they are aging? Yes, we’re all in that aging process. But I tend to look at aging as we get older we get better.
And with all the screen time we’re using people are more concerned about their eyes and vision than ever before. We want to keep our vision healthy and strong. So how do we do that? Well, I think it starts with our diet. So eating a plant based diet, think of the rainbow colored vegetables. You know is it the co op today and I was shopping for some kale salad and I bought some red and orange bell peppers, some cucumbers and celery. Got some anti inflammatory influences there with cucumber and celery. I like it tomato and some carrots. Of course I’m getting organic, non GMO. You can also get this at the farmers markets, especially on the weekend. So think of the orange foods those are really good for your macula. They act like a pair of sunglasses so you know if you’re going to do the root vegetables right now yams, sweet potatoes, carrots. You can make a nice vegetable soup if you want to. In any event, think rainbow red, orange, yellow green. And you can also add BERRIES BERRIES are very good high in antioxidants. Great for retina health retina circulation. Don’t forget your fats and oils, healthy fats are really important. 50% of the retina is made up of fatty acids. So a lot of people do not get enough of their healthy fats in their diet.
You can do morning chia pudding, you can do walnuts, you can do flax. So a lot of different ways you can get your healthy fats and oils. If you eat animal products. You need to be careful about the sources but certainly wild caught salmon, and the wild caught halibut, those would be possibilities. But in any event, healthy fats and oils are so important heart health, eye health, brain health. So don’t forget about those. And you know, another thing that has come down which people are learning about is are we able to absorb our fat soluble vitamins like lutein and zeaxanthin and vitamin A lot of people aren’t. And that has to do with the health of our liver and gallbladder or liver produces produces something called bile. And our gall gallbladder stores it and for many people, if they have a compromise in their liver, maybe difficulties with detoxify cation, they’re not getting enough bile in there.
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In their diet or their the gallbladder is not storing it properly. We need bile to absorb our vitamin A or fat soluble vitamins. So sometimes, if you supplement with something called bile salts after a meal, you might find that your vitamin A is absorbed better. And so if you’re suffering conditions like dry eye, or any kind of retinas situation, or just eyestrain or red eyes, I would consider the possibility of at least checking in with your liver health and making sure that’s working properly and you’re getting enough bile produced so that you’re absorbing your fat soluble vitamins. And of course, how can I not talk about MSM? So another question on here is what is MSM? So MSM is a is a sulfur molecule, and I used MSM before I made it into an eyedrop MSM is a great anti inflammatory agent. Software is the third leading trace mineral found in our body, and I was able to make it into an eyedropper. And it’s it rocks. It’s amazing. And you can get to percentages and the mist, the 5% the 15% you can go on my web store and look at the reviews. I cannot make any claims to MSM. What I can say is it will revitalize your eyes. it’ll brighten them, it will help you in your radiance through your eyes by using it it’ll get the read out. So these are some major things that work for for us in terms of you know, all the screen time we’re doing all the staring all the stress.
So MSM is a great lubricator use that during the day one drop each eye four times a day. And you can do the castor oil eyedrop in the evening. So these are ways that you can take care of aging eyes. Again, if you’re on the screen, especially after 6pm I would consider blue blocking glasses. There’s a difference between the filter and the tint I recommend the filter. The tint tends to make things too dark, and it also dilates the pupil. So you want to be careful about that.
You don’t want to get an imbalance of light coming in to your eyes. So that’s why the blue blocking filter I put it on the back of the lens. I use my blue blockers after 6pm blue light is a neurotoxin especially when it’s emitted from artificial devices and LED lights during the day. If you’re outside. The blue light we get from the sun is important for balancing our circadian rhythms. But you want to be able to protect your eyes from the The blue light explore exposure, especially from your screen time. Or let’s take a question on Facebook. This is Kathy, she’s asking, Do I need to be worried about vitreous detachment? Anything I can do about it? Well, you know, worry is only going to create the negative hormones the neuro chemicals in the body. So clearing all your fears and anxieties. I like to do a morning breathing practice. That’s one of the ways I clear out my, my anxiety and fear. Also, you can do things like yoga, meditation, whatever works for you. But you can take care of your vitreous into old age. Yes, there are a lot of people that develop conditions like posterior vitreous detachment, or lots of floaters. But there’s some key things about the vitreous that you need to know about.
First of all, it’s a gel sac that’s made up of mostly collagen, amino acids, proteins and water. And if we are not getting enough hydration, so that’s why I talk about the MSM, eyedrops the castor oil, eyedrops, homeopathic eyedrops as well. If you hydrate the eyes, the vitreous won’t shrink or grow, and it creates a more healthy collagen environment. And if your collagen is healthy, in the vitreous, then it’s good to stay healthy. Also, another thing that creates problems with the vitreous are things like heavy metal toxicity, mold exposure, I can’t tell you the number of people who I’ve worked with, where I’ve tested them, and they’ve been positive for mold exposure. So that’s something that kind of goes under the radar. But you need to be aware of what are what is your toxic load inside what’s your digestive health, like, you know, the, the inflammation that creates things like macular pucker, posterior vitreous detachment, even retina detachments, there is an underlying both inflammatory situation going on, and the problem with glucose. So, if we do a lot of carbs if we eat a lot of breads, if we you know, if we have difficulty integrating or metabolizing glucose, this is one of the toxicities that can cause things like cataracts, wet macular degeneration diabetic retinopathy, we can look at all the eye conditions. Because the retina is made up of a sea of micro capillaries.
Those are the tiny blood vessels. If they’re not getting enough nutrients, oxidative stress forms inflammation forms. Another great therapy that I’m using more and more is red light. Red light, actually helps improve our mitochondria function which produces ATP. And mitochondria are very important for our body. They’re in every cell of our body. They’re really concentrated in our retina. So red light has been shown and the way you do it is three to four minutes in the morning three to four times a week. Studies have shown this can actually be a game changer at reversing retinal degeneration and retinal loss. So all of these things, Kathy are things that you can do. Make a list of your I ingredients vitamin A bilberry, gingko taurine, which is an amino acid, your omega threes, lutein z is Anthon Astra Xanthan. These are all really important I ingredients. I would also add glutathione and vitamin C. That’s very important for lens health. And a minute I’m gonna go into what what are the protocols for improving lens health? Okay, there’s another question on Facebook. Can you please tell how to do color therapy for cataracts? What instruments are needed please explain how to do it. Well, probably the easiest way to access color therapy is just to go outside. And I like to go out at sunrise and sunset and to explore the different colors that come through the the sun.
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And the key in color therapy is how well you can take the color in to your eyes. And you can do this even as a meditation and visualization Where you visualize each color I like to do the rainbow method. And you can visualize each color coming into the eyes and bathing the eyes, like you’re in a color dome. And each particular frequency red, orange, yellow, green, blue indigo, violet offers a different stimulation in the retina cells. And so the key with color therapy is to bathe your eyes every day. Now, if you have difficulty with visualization, another way that you can do it is different companies. I know Amazon sells it at T cells that you can get a set of color therapy glasses, which will give you the main visible colors of the spectrum. And you wear each of the lenses two to three minutes. And you subsequently sequentially you go through each of the colors. And the two questions you ask yourself, What color do I see? And how does it feel in my my eyes and my body and you breathe the color in? You breathe it in. You hold it for two to three minutes. And then you go on to the next color and you do this for 30 days. I’d like a 30 day treatment of the color therapy. In addition for the cataract, I would recommend either you can do the 5% MSM eyedrops, followed by either the can see eye drop, or the ocular Med, I drop their different can see has an AC in it, which is a very potent antioxidant. If you think your cataract is more related to glucose levels.
There’s a process called glycation where the glucose molecule molecule attaches to the protein molecule in the lens. So if you eat a lot of foods, high glycemic index a lot of carbs, but you got problems with glucose metabolism I would do the can see. That’s called a cortical cataract and that’s a diabetic cataract that’s a cataract with glucose level. So you could ask your eye doctor, Hey, Doc, what kind of cataract do I have? The second type of cataract is more in the center of the lens in the front called a nuclear cataract. This is more of an aging into oxidative stress. And this is where the ocular med would work well, because of the glutathione and the vitamin C and that I drop. And the MSM helps prepare the cornea to push either the can see or the ocular med more deeply into the lens of the eye. In addition, in the cataract protocol, I would consider 500 milligrams a day of glutathione 2000 milligrams a day of vitamin c these are essential for lens health. Now glutathione you can get that through your cruciferous vegetables, sulfur based foods. A selenium helps in the delivery system of glutathione. There are lots of different ways that you can, you can increase your glutathione production, it’s actually produced in the liver, I think I’m going to put out a series of videos in the next couple of weeks on how to naturally and organically boost your glutathione levels without having to do supplementation. So those would be some main things that I would suggest for cataracts and the color therapy is going to work on your peripheral vision that’s going to work on your visual stress, it’s going to stimulate the photoreceptors in the retina to work better.
So you’re going to have better peripheral vision which will help your depth perception and your memory. So peripheral vision is very important in our motoring ability, how well we we move in the world. And a lot of times when we get under stress, we start tunneling, our peripheral and our retinas scope asleep, they become desensitized to light. So using color therapy is a way to reawaken the retina cells. And it has a profound effect not only on our vision, but also our non visual pathways. Because some of those visual those non visual pathways are connected to the eyes. And so you could get a stimulation in your pituitary pineal hypothalamus adrenals thyroid. Remember, the blood vessels in the eye will absorb the light and color but then the blood transports the light and color through your entire body takes about 40 minutes. So when you bring light into the eyes, you’re gonna get it throughout the entire body. So there’s a lot of great things about that. Alright, let’s go to Anita. She’s asking How to heal corneal basement. Membrane dystrophy.
Okay, so this is a cornea issue cornea is the clear window of the eye, it’s made of mostly collagen. The big thing that caught the cornea needs is hydration, reduced inflammation. And I would really start using the MSM eyedrops four to six times a day and the castor oil I drop in the evening those would be great for corneal health. The B complex vitamins are very good for a cornea health, I would protect your eyes from the sun, and also from blue light, because those particular sources of light can affect the cornea. But at the same time early in the day, late in the day, make sure you get natural sunlight that’s very important for your circadian rhythms, your endocrine and your nervous system. But also you want to protect your eyes, especially from the damaging blue light on screens. I don’t know where if you wear any prescriptions, but if you do, make sure that you’re not using progressive lenses split lenses, that you’re only using a single vision lens and get the the right prescription for the computer for reading. And for distance. A lot of times people will get one prescription for distance but it’s too strong for them for the computer. Or if they take their lenses off. They have to get too close to the computer and EMFs will start to affect them as well. So getting a single vision lens for your screen time with a blue blocker is essential for corneal basement membrane dystrophies. The key is keeping the eyes hydrated. You could also add homeopathic eyedrops during the day, think hydration, it’s very important. The castor oil eyedrops will hydrate your eye in the evening.
You just need a little bit right before bed. So if you can increase your hydration and oxygenation in the cornea, then you will slow down and sometimes neutralize some of the corneal dystrophy. i Let’s take a question from Laurie she says I’m I’ve read somewhere that yoga can be bad for people who have high optic pressure, assuming the inverted poses with the head low is the concern. Well, I would agree with that, to a certain certain perspective. The key with optic nerve issues is number one, you want to develop a healthy lymphatic system. So gentle, simple movement, you know, there’s restorative yoga, there’s yoga where, you know, even if you do something like downward dog or a supported shoulder stand, if you do it for a little bit of time, but then you you’re using other poses, and it’s a movement type of yoga where you’re not so static. I think that yoga can be can be good for you. Certainly doing a lot of inversions head stands, shoulder stands, yes, I would probably not do those right now. And I would stay more with the the overall flow of the body flow Yoga, you know, restorative yoga, yoga, that’s, that’s rejuvenating. Those would be some things that I would consider. You know, it’s interesting with the optic pressure, high IOP.
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This can be due to several things it can be due to unresolved head trauma, heavy metal toxicity, oxidative stress, poor lymphatic system, not getting enough nitric oxide in your body. So nitric oxide is an ingredient now that’s being used to open up the circulation in the eye. Nitric oxide is an ingredient we call it a veza dilator. So it opens up the blood vessels. And I have a new product out which has nitric nitric oxide in it. It’s called Dr. Burns nitric oxide formula. You can get nitric oxide from plant based foods for sure. I would stay away from animal protein and nitric oxide. Those are toxic things like hot dogs and cold cuts and stuff like that. But plant based foods. Some of them do have nitric oxide salary’s one. But in any case, I think it’s really about being in a better flow. cranial sacral therapy is one of my top up modalities, acupuncture is also very helpful to bring down high circulation coleus for Skilar, which is an herbal formula has been shown to bring down eye pressure and ways to protect the optic nerve would be the amino acid taurine gingko. So with gingko, I would do maybe about 100 milligrams a day, you don’t need to do a large amount. taurine is about 500 milligrams a day.
And omega three omega three 2000 to 3000 milligrams a day of a good omega three fatty acid is essential for optic nerve health. Because the key in glaucoma or high eye pressure is protecting the optic nerve because that’s where you’re going to see visual field loss. And of course, things like the pharmaceutical eyedrops, and the also the procedures iridectomy ease and other procedures, laser procedures, you know, they tend to work more on the symptoms. So I would get really proactive with your eye pressure so you can avoid those procedures. Okay, so Paula, you you missed my thing with color therapy, I would use the rainbow method, you could get some colored glasses and go through the spectrum red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, spending about two minutes with each color. And somebody is asking about his blue therapy glasses, the best will blue works really well. If you’ve got inflammation in the eye. It’s also great for as a as a reducing pain and inflammation. It’s the first color I start to use if I feel somebody’s either got PTSD, or they’ve got some kind of traumatic brain injury or trauma.
Blue is a great color to start with. You know, it’s interesting, I had a patient the other day, who came to see me, and he has what we call amblyopia or lazy eye in the right eye. And in the color therapy I gave him read through the lazy eye read the right eye and blue with the left eye. The reason is because the left eye is so overworking and so stressed out. It needed the blue end of the spectrum. So he wears a patch. And he does the blue color for 10 minutes. And then he patches the left eye and unpatch is the right eye and he does the red light for 10 minutes. So your eyes may take different colors based on where they are at. One of the things I like to do is in the rainbow, we in the rainbow color. The colors that you don’t like the colors that you’re you know uncomfortable with are the ones that you may be allergic to. And those are the ones that will give you a deeper balance. So color is very potent, and you can get it in nature. I like to go walk in the woods and I’m working on my green being able to receive the green or I might go to a park and there’s some yellow or orange colored flowers. So that’s my place to get the orange and the yellow sometimes the red. In the evening. If we have a great sunset, I might get the blue color, the blue and the purple. So you know incorporating the light and color into your lifestyle. Your daily routine. Your meditation is really important because color and light is a food just like plants.
We are heliotrope ik like the plants we get towards the light and color and light therapy is one of the staples that I that I recommend and you can do it so many different ways. All right, last question is on floaters. I gotta talk about floaters. People get so frustrated about floaters so did you know that eating some pineapple every day the bro Moline and it is a way to reduce floaters. That’s right. There was a research study that was that showed that eating pineapple reduced floaters in the subjects that that took the bro Moline MSM is another great support for vitreous health. Highly ironic acid is also very helpful. hydrating your eyes, making sure they’re hydrated every day, getting rid of the toxins in your eyes, the mercury or root canals from dentistry. I highly recommend seeking out a biological dentist and really doing maybe some kind of a liver cleanse intermittent fasting. These are all things that can help get rid of floaters, then the last one And is lymph. If you’ve got a good lymph system, your floaters will go away.
So movement is very important don’t sit so much. For now what I’m even recommending for people’s get the standing desks that are on wheels so you can move the desk you’re standing, you’re moving, instead of sitting all day. So these are other other things that you can do to to negate the floaters and be patient with it. Because floaters they can be well, let me just say this. They can, they can fluctuate, they can get worse, they can get better. And they can, they can hang around. So it’s important for you to to explore different things and if you don’t hit it the first time, you can try some of these other things and they should work well. All right, everybody, I think I’m going to call it a night. I want to thank you for tuning in as always, and I look forward to seeing you down the road on another Facebook Live. Have a great, great Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving weekend, take some time off. rest and relax, enjoy. Have some fun, create. And I’ll see you again. Take care.
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