March 8, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
So today, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. So I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for tuning in. There are a variety of reasons why floaters occur. Here at my top five for dentistry and heavy metal toxicity, exposure to glyphosate, head trauma, too much blue light exposure, dehydration in the eye generally. So there’s a lot of moving parts with floaters. But I would say number one would be to get the 15% as well, and start using it now one drop maybe two to four times a day. And it might work for you. It might, it might, it definitely has worked for a lot of people.
Now, if it doesn’t work, there’s some other things that you could do, I definitely would consider the glutathione I would consider the glutathione sublingual, I would consider possibly doing a liver cleanse, or even some intermittent fasting that the liver and the eyes go together very intimately. We know this from Chinese medicine, get rid of any inflammation that is in your gut whatsoever. It’s some cranial sacral get some acupuncture. So there’s a variety of different things. blue blockers, also probably if you’re doing a lot of screen time, because see blue light from any screen is going to dry your eyes out, which now brings me to dry eye. So basically, what’s in the back of the eye floaters is a dry eye in the vitreous. The eyelids are the main culprit with dry eye in the front of the eye. So there, you can do that 5% more often during the day as a way to stay hydrated. You could also get some homeopathic eyedrops called uptake, and go back and forth between the Optique and the 5% until you reach kind of loading zone level of hydration during the day and then in the evening, what’s a really nice thing to do is get yourself some organic castor oil and do a very light massage on the eyelids on the outside part of the eye, just a drop or two that castor oil heals wounds on the skin, it’s really moisturizing.
It may also help the cataract, it may also help the floaters and it’ll keep your eyes moist in the evening, as to into the morning. So hydration is the name of the game. And I know you’re plant based, but you need to consider some level of Omega three if you can. Omega three seems to really be important for dry eye. And 50% of the retina is omega threes. Not a lot of fats and oils are needed in the retina. But there are a lot of plant based sources. You can do an algae, you know you can do flax, you can do you know there’s a lot of ways to go there. But I pay attention to the oils and fats chia seeds is another one I like. So those would be the things to do for the structure and the tissue around your eyes. And it seems to work for most people in my community. But the thing with night vision is the better the retina circulation, the more peripheral vision access. Remember, you’re using monovision. So your the eye you’re reading with is not really seeing in the distance, right? It’s focused up close. It would be really interesting for you when you’re driving at night, if you got the same contact. That would correct you for distance. Because right now you’re in a strobe effect with your right and left eye. They’re capturing the headlights at different speeds. Yeah, right essentially
05:00
So I you know, I think, yeah, you know, experiment with it. But one experiment is to get get, get the left eye corrected, so it matches the right eye. Right distance. And, you know, see how that is.
05:16
Yeah, that’s a really important subject clearly. But anyway, I also bought these blue light blocking glasses. I put on kind of the middle the evening watching TV. Is there any benefit to these blue light? These are just clip ons onto my glasses. Is that a recommendation that you
05:36
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely blue light. You know, that’s a chaotic frequency. So it definitely dries your eyes out more. Okay. Thanks, the melatonin production. So I’m all in on blue light protection, I think it’s, it’s important to at least know about it. Yeah. And if you want to use them for your screen time, right on, I think that’s a, that’s a positive step.
06:05
Okay, those are my questions. But okay, we can talk myopia
06:11
with myopia. I don’t think you’re going to be able to get rid of your contacts or glasses with my techniques. I’m, I think that you’ve been in it so long, right, and if not kind of moderate to high prescriptions. But it could open the door for you around insights, and healing your vision. And it’s a process, it’s not a quick fix, right. And so some simple things that you can do would be, as an experiment, get a prescription in that left eye for the contacts, that would match the distance of the right guy, and see what that’s like, you know, just as kind of an experiment with. A second thing is, is that I’m not completely against progressive lenses, you just don’t want to wear them all the time. But I think for now, you know, using them as you are, is not going to, it’s not going to be a game changer. Like, it’s convenient to have the different prescriptions in one lens. And if it works for you, I would be more concerned, if you were, you know, an IT specialists that use progressive lenses 10 or 12 hours a day, then we’d have to have a more serious talk. But so there’s that situation. Then we move into the eye therapy realm. And I’m going to give you one exercise, okay, to play with. And I want to emphasize the word play.
So what I learned over the years because I studied a lot of physical therapy is that one of the ways to improve myopia is to challenge the myopia to challenge the status quo. And the way you’re going to challenge it is as follows. You go to a drugstore, and you go to the part of the store where they have the magnifiers. Yeah, and you get the strongest magnification lens, which is a plus lens. You wear minus lens, you bring it home, in the comforts of your bedroom where you can lock the door, your contacts aren’t in you Oh clewd one eye either with a patch that you get at the drugstore or fabric or something and you get a naked acuity eyesight measurement through the right eye, it’s gonna be really blurry. And then you take this magnification lens and you put it over the right eye. And I want you to immediately watch what your mind starts thinking about. It’ll probably be the tone of it. I don’t like this blur, right? Not uncomfortable.
And so for the next minute, you’re practices. Can I mentally relax into the blur? Can I make friends with it? Remember, the door’s locked. You’re sitting down. There’s no demand on you. And you could watch how your mind goes What if What if What if You know, I can’t do anything with this or, you know, you’re gonna see all the mental thoughts that created your myopia. It shows you the recording, yeah, wow, After that minute you take it off. And you’re going to notice that your right eye goes, you know, it might be a tinge clearer. Or it might be something to this going into the blur, and relaxing myself mentally about blur. So you do it three times, then you take the patch off the left eye, and you get a baseline of the acuity with both eyes, and you’re gonna surprise yourself, you know, it’s not too bad, and it’s greater. So you’re interrupting the habit and the reinforcement that your glasses and contacts have done to you for X number of years, then you repeat the same thing with the left eye could be really different. I don’t know.
11:05
After the third time you take the glasses off, you take a look through the left eye, you take the patch off, you do that every day for 30 days, it’s gonna start loosening up your eyes, because what’s causing the myopia is your mental belief that you need to keep things really clear or else all hell is gonna break. Right, and that is the source of your myopia amount of control, there’s too much chaos, I’m addicted to detail, I mean, you could probably write a book about it. And after that 30 days, you may start noticing when you put your your contacts on that you start to get a little headache. And that’s the time to call me and say, you know, I think these prescriptions are too strong for me. Wow. So then at that point, we’ll reduce you. Now something that’s really radical here would be if in the comforts of your home, to start wearing the same power in each eye, without astigmatism. So astigmatism means there’s a warp, there’s a twist in the eye, right? But studying my body work like I have, I know that that body twist is the twist is also in the body. It’s not just in the eye.
If you start wearing a non astigmatism lens in your eye, it’s going to unwind the astigmatism both in the eye and then the body. The issue is going to be mentally, you’re going to be dealing with a level of disorientation and blurriness. So you’ve got to carve out a time when there’s no demand on you. And to wear the same lens in each eye is revolutionary, because it’s now pointing your eyes into a direction of balance. And it’s a direction it’s not going to happen overnight. But, you know, let’s say for example, so you’re you’re at minus six in the right and minus one now you’re eight or nine I might say where minus six astigmatism without a stigmatism ni Chai, just for the hell of it. Yeah. You know, and it’s an exploration for you. You see, your homeopathic remedy, your constitutional homeopathic is loving your blur is mentally relaxing yourself in the blur in non demanding and non threatening situations. This has nothing to do with Bates and sunning and palming. And this is about getting to the core of what it is mentally that you have to be in such a hyper vigilant state. And that’s a hard thing to face. I mean, but that’s the, you know, I’m giving you six months of light therapy in 10 minutes.
But I think start with the start with the blurry glasses. And see wrestle with it. See, see what what mentally comes up for you around being in the blur? Right? I know it’s not going to be comfortable for you. And you know, maybe you might say I you know, I don’t really want to face this right now. So whatever level you Want to plug into is totally, totally great. Yeah, you know you want to stay in monovision part time. That’s good. No worries. progressive lenses I’m not saying give him up. I think these nutrients and eyedrops are definitely going to help. Okay? And then you be the judge you know I saw in there based on your buy in, you know how motivated you’re going to be well check it out see see if you can make some traction in it if you can, and you go all in well, there is you know there is a gold nugget at the end of the yellow brick road you’ve really emotionally energetically.
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