March 23, 2023 - EyeClarity Podcast
I get so many questions about retinal detachment, so here is a deep dive on the topic and I hope it helps. Enjoy the show.
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retinal detachment, retina, eye, carotenoids, omega threes, important, fluid buildup, prescription, surgery, talk, omega, stress, starvation, lutein, lens, eyeball, ophthalmologist, care, anti inflammatory agent, nearsighted
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Hello, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to talk about retinal detachment. And I bring this up because one of the students in my six week intensive, has been dealing with post surgery of retinal detachment. In fact, she had two surgeries. And I went over what can be done after you have had the surgery? And let me make no mistake mistake about it.
You definitely need surgery, if your retina detaches. Now, what causes retinal detachment? I get this question a lot. And there’s a variety of factors I think one of the factors is being nearsighted and and so if you’re moderately to high, nearsighted, have a near sighted prescription, I would say anything over minus four, you’re going to have a higher risk of developing retinal detachment because what happens in a retinal detachment is as the eyeball changes its shape. It can start to cause the retina to thin. And if the retina is already weak, and I’ll talk about reasons why the retina may be weak, then you’re definitely more at risk for developing some kind of retinal whole retinal detachment. In addition, I also feel that if you’ve had head trauma, if you’re under a lot of visual stress, if you suffer systemic inflammation these are some of the reasons why the retina comes away from the rest of the eyeball.
And my practice, one of the biggest reasons I see retinal detachment has to do with a fluid buildup behind the eye. And this has to do with conditions like what macular degeneration or hyper retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy or hypertensive retinopathy. Whenever you start getting fluid buildup behind the retina, you definitely are more risk for part of the retina to break away or in terms of traction, pull away. And if that were to happen, you will start to see flashes of light, you might start to see a curtain come over your eye. And that is a sight threatening condition you want to get yourself to the nearest local ophthalmologist and get it put back in there are a lot of different ways now that surgeries are done. You’re going to need to go through a post operative period of rest. And once you get through all of the surgical procedures and you know all of that all of those situations.
My recommendation and is what I told this student of mine. It’s really important that you are taking the carotid noids lutein, z is Anthon and asked to Xanthine you know I talk about these a lot. These are the carotenoids that are pigments that protect not only the macula, but also the retina. The to plant carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. You can get those from your rainbow vegetables. And the acid Xanthan is a marine carotenoids. So you’re gonna either have to get that through seafood, especially the pink seafood like salmon, or shrimp. And if you don’t want to go that route, you can do micro algae, acid Xanthine, supplements, omega three fatty acids, you know, there’s so many of my patients, I’ll say, Well, are you taking regular omega threes? And they say no. Well, yeah, you know, and so they, they do it for a while and they they stop but make no mistake about it. Omega threes are so important.
We don’t we don’t produce those in our body. So the DHA and the EPA part of the Omega three is so important for a variety of different conditions, dry eye. Glaucoma, cataracts. So in terms of prevention, also, Omega three is so important for brain health, our nervous system, and it acts as such a strong anti inflammatory agent, you have to consider omega threes. I also think things like vitamin C, bilberry, gingko, trans, resveratrol, saffron, curcumin, these are all things that either you want to include in your diet, or through supplementation. Again, you want to really boost antioxidants. The retina has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body. And for most people, they’re in a starvation state in Their eyeballs. And that’s part of why the tissue breaks down. And why we get all these, you know, eye conditions and eye diseases, because we’re just living in a starvation state and the dehydration state. So including these, they help improve circulation, they boost antioxidants. And it’s just a no brainer, yeah, have to take better care of your diet and nutrition. wearing blue blocking glasses or getting a blue blocking shield is so important. And if you don’t do that, it really dries out the retina. And if you do wear a prescription, you need to be careful, are you using a single vision lens, a progressive lens?
Again, I don’t feel using a progressive lens is the right optical system. If you’re doing hours of screen time, you’re better off using his single vision lens. And my eye exercises. I have seen time and time again, when people start doing my eye exercises regularly. Their eyes are moisture, they’re more moist, they’re seeing more clearly, they have less tension and stress. So it’s it’s really important to do these eye exercises. You know, if you think about how much time we’re on the screens, and we’re focused in one distance for long periods of time. We need to move and use our eyes in a variety of different ways. And when we do that, we create more flexibility and versatility in the eye brain connection. So retinal detachment is a scary syndrome. It’s a scary disease that can occur. Again, you can be proactive by, you know nutritionally taking better care of yourself reducing your visual stress, doing my eye exercises, being conscious of the kind of lens prescription you might be wearing. And if it does happen, there are things that you can do afterwards to reduce the aftershock. So it doesn’t happen again. So that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care
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