March 6, 2023 - EyeClarity Podcast
Visual Snow Syndrome is a neurological imbalance that’s in the eyes and the brain that causes you to constantly see static when you look out into the world. It’s a scary condition that is often overlooked because you can still see clearly, but you’re looking through a static like screen. So we’re going to dive into this condition. Enjoy the show.
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00:05
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.
00:46
Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So today I’m going to take on a subject I talked about maybe a couple years ago, and the syndrome is called Visual snow syndrome. So this is a neurological condition that seems to be growing in numbers. And it’s classified as a neurological imbalance that’s in the eyes and the brain. So if you’ve got visual snow syndrome, some of the symptoms could be things like static, when you look through your eyes, you know, like the old TV sets where you had static on the TV. That’s how it is when you look through your eyes, and you look out into the world. And you may think that you’re crazy, because you see the static all the time, it’s there 24/7 with your eyes open or closed. And the kicker is, is that you go to a traditional eye doctor, and nine times out of 10, they’re gonna say, Well, you see 20/20 on the distance eye chart, and your eyes are very healthy. So there’s nothing wrong with you.
Even though you might be feeling anxious, you might even be feeling a little depressed. So this visual snow syndrome can be accompanied by something called traumatic brain injury. So this could be something like, you know, you fall down, you are in a mild car accident.
If you’re playing sports, and maybe you have a whiplash or you you know, you just fall down. Sometimes this is the triggering factor, I find another aspect of visual snow syndrome is it’s related to your systemic health, specifically, your inflammatory situation in your body. So in other words, if you’ve got a high inflammatory level in your brain and body, this may be another contributing factor to visual snow. Now, some other symptoms that people have reported to me would be things like dizziness, nausea, tinnitus, that means a ringing in the ears. Also being sensitive to light, having night blindness, and having overall eye fatigue. I’ve had some patients say they feel like they’re on drugs.
And if you have done psychotropic drugs, you’ve might experience something like this. People have trouble sleeping, so they have insomnia. They also might be, let’s say in a brain fog state. And as I said, sometimes this visual snow syndrome will occur after some kind of head injury, brain trauma, concussions. And so the relationship between our brain health and our eye health is once again spotlighted even though if you do some kind of a brain scan, you’re probably not going to find anything. Now I have a theory on visual snow syndrome.
I’ve studied a lot of neurological health and I’ve worked with neuroscientists. And there’s a part of the brain called the thalamus, which may be partly responsible for where this visual snow syndrome occurs. And also it may also be related to a place in the brain called the superior colliculus and also the posterior colliculus. The superior is part of our visual and the posterior is part of our auditory where there is a strong visual auditory connection with visual snow syndrome. And this plays into how do we remedy it? Well, the first thing I do is I order our some kind of a lab test, you can do a blood test urine test hair mineral analysis, because I want to get a baseline on what’s going on with the digestive health, any inflammatory issues going on. And that’s a key thing. Because if you’re under stress, you’ve had trauma, you’re probably going to have some inflammation. Of course, this is based on what you eat.
And so it starts with your diet and nutrition, I would definitely up your omega three fatty acids, I would move more into an anti inflammatory diet, lots of plant based antioxidant type foods, I’d work on your gut health, I might explore any toxicity levels, like heavy metals, or any kind of toxicities in your body. And then I would start doing some cranial work some cranial sacral, because I want to get more circulation to the brain. And there’s no question when you improve the circulation in the brain, it’s going to have a very positive effect on your eye circulation, and your eye health.
And then I would employ vision therapy. And in the vision therapy, I would focus on primitive reflexes. Those are those early movement motor patterns that are governed by the brainstem. That’s our reptilian brain. And then they would do some things to help integrate the visual vestibular system. So improving our orientation, our spatial understanding, are ways for you to begin to occupy your eyes and vision better, and this would be the next step and healing this condition.
I would also do some three dimensional work in terms of improving visual coordination, peripheral vision integration, I would really check out what kind of lens prescription a person is wearing, you know, if you’re doing things like progressive lenses mono vision, or you’re over corrected in your lens prescription, this is going to contribute greatly to this visual snow syndrome. I also like doing color therapy, so we would do regular color therapy, I would probably also do red lens therapy. And I might even prescribe a tint. There’s a type of fluorescent type tint that you can get for for fluorescent lights, but this could work really well. For the visual snow condition. We might even do some things like yoked prisms, these are special prisms that we use in both eyes that improve our spatial awareness and IQ. And it takes about three months to remedy this condition. So if you are one of those people or you know somebody that suffers visual snow syndrome, you’re not crazy.
And if the doctors you go to don’t understand what you’re doing, then keep looking for a holistic integrative physician, somebody who can understand you as a whole person. Also, if you can find somebody like me, where you can do things like color therapy, and have a sensitivity around improving the visual system, not just the 2020 eyesight, because a lot of these conditions are missed, because people see 2020 on the eye chart, but they have this condition. So that’s our show for today. I hope this is helpful for everybody. Thanks for tuning in. Until next time, take care
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