0:01 Today we're going to talk about how to
0:05 reverse your eyesight and get rid of
0:07 these right here. If you're anything
0:09 like me and you sat behind the computer
0:12 desk for many, many years staring in
0:15 front of a computer, chances are you're
0:17 probably wearing these right now. I'm
0:19 going to show you some information that
0:22 is going to make you very happy because
0:23 there's a good chance you're not going
0:25 to need these. And I'm not only going to
0:26 be talking about poor eyesight. I want
0:28 to talk about a lot of different
0:30 problems that can go wrong with the eye,
0:33 including increased pressure of the eye
0:35 itself, what to do with dry eyes or
0:37 irritation underneath the lid, and also
0:39 a problem with your lens, which is
0:42 cataracts. There's some great remedies
0:44 for all of these things. We're going to
0:46 go through them, and I think the first
0:48 place to start is sharing some
0:50 fascinating information
0:52 where this whole problem starts. And it
0:56 actually starts with the cones. Now, I
0:58 need to explain a little bit of anatomy
0:59 so you can understand what the cones
1:01 are. I don't know if you remember ever
1:03 learning about rods and cones. Those are
1:06 little receptors in the eye that take
1:08 information or light and they convert it
1:10 to signals so you can visualize things.
1:14 And so cones are more responsible for
1:18 daylight, color, and fine detail. rods
1:20 had to do with more peripheral vision
1:23 and seeing in the dark and also like
1:25 shades of gray and things like that. So
1:28 the real simple basics are we have this
1:30 cornea which is this little dome-shaped
1:33 thing right here that does help to focus
1:35 light a little bit as the light comes
1:38 into the eye and then it goes through
1:39 the lens right here and you have two
1:42 little muscles right here that cause the
1:45 lens to get thicker and more elongated
1:48 and that allows you to accommodate for
1:49 distance so you can actually focus on
1:52 something far away or close up. It's
1:54 called the accommodation reflux and that
1:57 has to do with the lens and the muscles.
1:58 And so the lens normally should be very
2:00 flexible. But as we get older, it
2:03 becomes very rigid. So we'll talk about
2:06 that. And then as the light comes in, it
2:08 travels right into the exact back part
2:11 of this eyeball right here. The retina
2:13 is this complete back part right here of
2:15 the eye. The entire thing. Think about
2:19 the retina as wallpaper on the back of
2:21 the eyeball. and it's connected to this
2:23 nerve that goes deep into the brain
2:26 called the optic nerve. So retina is the
2:28 extension of your brain right here. So
2:29 it's going to capture a lot of
2:31 information and then a lot of this
2:33 information is being focused at this
2:34 point right here. This is called the
2:36 macula right here. And then a lot of the
2:38 focus on this smaller part of the macula
2:40 is called the phobia. Not that you need
2:43 to know that but the phobia has even a
2:45 smaller section that things are focused
2:48 on almost the size of a grain of sand.
2:51 In that location, you have the most
2:54 concentrated cones of anywhere in the
2:57 eye. And why that is significant is
2:59 because there's something very unique
3:03 about cones that will explain a lot of
3:05 problems that you might be having with
3:07 poor vision. The unique thing about this
3:10 photo receptor, the cone, is this. It
3:14 has the most mitochondrial pack cells in
3:18 the entire retina. So we start off young
3:20 having a tremendous amount of
3:23 mitochondria. This is so dense. We get
3:25 older and older and older. We start
3:28 losing the mitochondria and now we can
3:31 no longer see finer details of things.
3:34 Uh colors are not as bright. We need
3:37 glasses to see even in the daylight and
3:40 especially at night. So, if we look at
3:41 all of the factors that relate to poor
3:45 vision, this one single piece of
3:47 information just jumps out and slaps me
3:51 in the face. Massive loss of
3:53 mitochondria in the back part of the
3:56 retina, the actually most important area
3:58 of your eye that you need to be able to
4:00 see without glasses. When someone
4:02 reaches 60 years old, and by the way,
4:06 I'm 60 right now, they need three times
4:08 the light to be able to see. if you
4:11 compare to a 20-year-old. So why is
4:15 that? Because in order to see it takes a
4:18 tremendous amount of ATP energy from the
4:20 mitochondria. And so there's a couple
4:21 different stages that we go through.
4:24 Number one, contrast sensitivity. The
4:29 brain's capacity to differentiate light
4:32 intensity starts to break down. And so
4:35 at night when you're straining to see,
4:36 you're having a problem with this
4:39 contrast sensitivity issue. And that
4:41 would be uh the first thing that
4:43 happens. The second thing that happens
4:46 is in order to be able to even see
4:47 during the daylight, we need a little
4:49 more light. So we have to turn on the
4:52 light to be able to see things. Before
4:53 when we were younger, we could just read
4:56 it practically in the dark. Now we have
4:58 to shine a big light on it. Number
5:00 three, we start seeing more glare in the
5:03 dark. Okay. Everything starts to really
5:05 get foggy and uh it's like it's kind of
5:07 dangerous if you're driving when it's
5:10 raining out and especially foggy. It's
5:12 uh it's not good. And then number four
5:14 is when you start having more problems
5:17 with the macula. They call that age-
5:20 related macular degeneration.
5:21 And what's happening is you're losing
5:23 more mitochondria in this area right
5:26 here. And now you really can't see uh
5:28 fine detail. So you need these right
5:30 here. There's other problems with the
5:33 eye as well uh with the lens. You start
5:36 developing this opaqueness where it's
5:38 becoming cloudy. That's called
5:40 cataracts. We'll talk about what to do
5:43 in just a minute on that. And then also
5:46 when you are looking at your computer
5:48 screen, you're fixated in a certain
5:51 position, maybe two or three feet away
5:53 from you
5:55 for long periods of time. And so now
5:57 when you get up to look at things, boy,
5:59 everything is blurred. And then there's
6:01 a condition called gluccom which we have
6:03 a lot of pressure in the eye. Before we
6:04 get into what to do, I just want to
6:08 mention type 2 diabetes. The eyes are
6:10 very susceptible to blood sugar
6:12 problems. In fact, this is why a
6:14 diabetic has problems with the retina.
6:17 It's called uh retinopathy which is a
6:20 disease of the retina. And this is why
6:22 one of the leading causes of blindness
6:24 uh comes from diabetes because of that
6:25 high sugar going through the
6:27 bloodstream. And that's what happens in
6:29 the lens. And that's really what
6:32 cataracts are. I want to mention another
6:34 great amazing book that's really hard to
6:37 find. I think he could only find on
6:40 Kindle. The author is Dr. Harold Shell.
6:43 And he found that high doses of vitamin
6:47 D3 can reverse gluccom, but you have to
6:50 get your blood levels up to like a
6:53 hundred. Okay. Now, for some people
6:54 that's like, oh my gosh, that's way too
6:57 much. But if you read his book, it's
6:58 fascinating because he gets into how to
7:00 do it correctly, how to do it safely,
7:02 and he also talks about a lot of other
7:05 eye problems that can be improved with
7:07 higher doses of vitamin D3. It's a
7:09 fascinating read. I will put a link down
7:12 below of that book. So, now let's talk
7:15 about what you can do for the eye to
7:18 reverse these situations. It's red light
7:20 therapy. There's a right way to do it
7:21 and there's a dangerous way to do it.
7:23 And I'm going to explain both, but
7:25 there's a tremendous amount of new
7:27 research on this, and you're actually
7:32 exposing the retina to red light. So,
7:36 why does red light have anything to do
7:39 with the retina? It helps to make the
7:42 mitochondria more efficient and also
7:44 correct some of the damage in that
7:47 mitochondria. They found that you can
7:50 optimize the mitochondria with this
7:53 specific uh wavelength 670.
7:56 And what's really cool about the
7:58 simplicity of this therapy is you're
8:01 going to be doing this for 3 minutes
8:05 only in the morning once a week because
8:08 apparently the effects last a whole
8:10 week. But there are so many devices out
8:13 there right now that you don't even know
8:14 if they're really at the right
8:17 frequency. You don't know how powerful
8:19 they are. Uh they're not really
8:21 regulated that well. What can you do to
8:22 safeguard that and still get the
8:24 benefits? Well, the first thing is I'm
8:26 going to recommend closing your eyes
8:28 when you put this light into the eyes.
8:31 Okay? Keep your eyes closed. Even though
8:33 there's some references that say, "Oh,
8:34 it's not going to hurt you." Keep the
8:38 eyes closed. infrared can penetrate
8:40 through your eyelids very easily. I'm
8:43 going to put some links down below of
8:46 several devices that have this thing
8:50 right here. It's IEC 62471
8:53 exempt or RG1 lowrisk. And but I'm also
8:56 going to put a couple other links of a
8:58 couple other uh red lights that don't
9:01 have this, but they're designed for
9:04 babies and they're just one little bulb
9:06 and they are specific to this frequency
9:08 right here. So I think they're going to
9:09 be pretty safe, especially if you keep
9:11 your eyes closed. And the reason I want
9:13 to put that there is because those bulbs
9:16 are extremely inexpensive. I think they
9:19 might be I don't know $5 to $8. But this
9:22 technology is called photobiio
9:24 modulation. There'll be more and more
9:26 research on this, but I think it's quite
9:28 exciting, especially if it can help your
9:31 mitochondria in your cones, in your
9:33 retina. So, if that's your problem, that
9:35 could be a great solution. Is there a
9:38 way to make more mitochondria in the
9:41 body? And yes, there is. Regular
9:44 exercise. Okay, long hikes, walks,
9:45 things like that where you're getting a
9:47 lot of oxygen. But I would venture to
9:48 say that any exercise would be better
9:50 than no exercise. Also, intermittent
9:52 fasting because we know when you have
9:55 diabetes, you destroy the mitochondria
9:57 and we create eye problems. What is the
10:00 opposite of diabetes? Having a low blood
10:02 sugar and running your body on ketones.
10:05 So, you want to do a low carb ketogenic
10:07 diet with intermittent fasting with a
10:10 lot of sleep. Number three has to do
10:14 with most people are staring at screens
10:16 for quite some time and so they're
10:20 focused on a very close object and we
10:22 need to reverse that because the your
10:25 eye muscles are in a contraction and
10:26 that's really going to affect your
10:28 ability to focus and see things by going
10:31 outside and looking at something in the
10:36 distance for at least two hours a day.
10:37 something out of your house because in
10:40 your house you don't have much space.
10:41 Here's the thing that a lot of people
10:43 do. They go for a walk, they're on their
10:45 cell phones, they're not looking at
10:49 objects. So, the key of this whole thing
10:53 is to be able to focus in on a tree
10:57 branch, a leaf, a dog or a bird, or
10:59 something out there in your environment
11:02 and keep looking at it and focusing out
11:05 there for a period of time.
11:08 That would be very very therapeutic to
11:11 undo this contraction and also at
11:13 different distances like maybe 20 feet
11:16 and then like look at a you know a cloud
11:18 in the distance and try to focus in on
11:21 it. Very therapeutic. I want to talk
11:24 about number four. There is a genetic
11:27 problem converting beta carotene into
11:30 vitamin A which is going to affect the
11:32 eye because one symptom of a vitamin A
11:35 deficiency is night blindness. So our
11:39 eyes need vitamin A. Let me give you
11:41 some ideas on where you can get enough
11:46 vitamin A. Egg yolks, liver, cod liver
11:49 oil, butter. And the other thing to
11:51 realize is if you have a bad liver,
11:52 let's say you have a fatty liver or
11:55 cerosis or you don't have a gallbladder
11:57 anymore or you have a gall stone or you
11:59 have a a gallbladder problem or you have
12:02 inflammation in your gut, you might not
12:05 be able to even absorb vitamin A. So
12:06 that's another factor I wanted to bring
12:09 that up. Let's talk about number five.
12:13 Luteine and zeazanthin. Both of these
12:18 can help you see better. Both of these
12:22 protect the eye against oxidation. So,
12:24 they're very protective. They're very
12:27 necessary. They also protect you against
12:29 too much UV radiation. These two
12:32 phytonutrients are also in kale. They're
12:35 in pistachios. They're also in Swiss
12:37 chard. There's actually more of it in
12:40 kale and Swiss chard in pistachios than
12:44 egg yolk. But in the egg yolk, it's way
12:46 more bioavailable. So you're actually
12:48 going to get more of it if you consume
12:50 egg yolks than these other things. So
12:52 it's not just the total amounts, it's
12:55 how much you can absorb. Let's talk
12:58 about number six, floaters. If you have
13:01 floaters, that means you have uh damaged
13:03 proteins that are floating around in the
13:05 eyeball. So getting your body in a state
13:07 of autophagy is going to be the smartest
13:08 thing to do with that. How do you do
13:10 that? You just you start doing
13:12 intermittent fasting and then you fast
13:14 longer. Like you might go 48 hours, wait
13:17 a couple weeks, and then you go like 72
13:20 hours. When you start doing prolong
13:22 fasting, your body's going to go into
13:24 this recycling mode and start cleaning
13:26 up damaged proteins, and those floaters
13:28 are going to go bye-bye. Now, number
13:31 seven, I did touch on gluccom a bit ago
13:33 with Dr. Harold Shell. I'm going to put
13:35 a link down below with his book, but he
13:37 recommends taking higher doses of
13:42 vitamin D3 with K2 and magnesium to help
13:44 get rid of gluccom and he gets great
13:46 results. I have found there's some
13:49 research on also taking niacin. Let's
13:51 talk about cataracts and that usually
13:53 comes from consuming a lot of sugar.
13:56 Hidden sugar is like starches. As you
13:58 clean up the diet and you get rid of the
14:00 junk food and you do intermittent
14:03 fasting, there's a great remedy that
14:07 works fantastic with cataracts, animals,
14:09 and humans. You have to search it out.
14:12 NAC as a natural remedy. It stands for N
14:15 acetal carnosine. This comes in drops
14:18 and you put it on the outside of your
14:21 eye, the cornea. It gets absorbed. it
14:24 goes right into the lens and it breaks
14:28 up and dissolves those those little uh
14:30 glycated proteins. So, it's super
14:32 effective of reversing cataracts. I'm
14:33 not going to guarantee it's going to
14:34 work for you. I don't know what stage
14:36 you're at, but it's worth a shot,
14:37 especially since it's not that
14:40 expensive. There are other things that
14:43 can prevent uh cataracts. going on a low
14:46 carb diet. Benotamine,
14:48 carnosine is another thing that's really
14:51 good, but you can get carnosine when you
14:52 have red meat. It's loaded with
14:57 carnosine. Saffron is a fantastic
15:00 remedy for age related macular degeneration.
15:02 degeneration.
15:05 It has been found to improve vision. I
15:06 don't want to go too far into the
15:07 details, but it's another remedy that
15:12 works really good for the macula. Now,
15:16 number 10 is get a reading light if
15:19 you're over the age of 50 because in the
15:21 process of doing all this, it's going to
15:23 take some time. And if you wanted just
15:26 to see a lot better quickly, you can
15:28 just get a good light. Uh, I'm going to
15:29 tell you the light I'm going to
15:31 recommend. It's called a high CCT warm
15:36 light LED between 3000 and 4,000K. Okay?
15:38 You can just do a search on that. And
15:41 you want that light facing the surface
15:44 or the book you're reading or the
15:46 computer that you're looking at. So the
15:49 light is enhancing your ability to see.
15:52 11. Super important. This is a sunlight
15:56 hack. If you were to watch the sunrise
16:00 or uh watch the sunset and not look at
16:02 the sun, but look around the sun and
16:05 allow uh some of those rays to get in
16:07 your eyes, you would be doing a version
16:09 of this right here. You're going to
16:12 reset your circadian rhythm much better.
16:14 You're also going to generate uh more
16:17 intracellular melatonin, which is going
16:18 to help you sleep. It's a powerful
16:20 antioxidant that does a lot of other
16:22 things. Very therapeutic. Let's talk
16:25 about number 12. This is called the desk
16:27 reset. And the way to remember this is
16:31 202020 rule. Okay? If you're sitting at
16:34 your desk all day long, like today I had
16:35 to do a lot of research on different
16:37 things. I was at my computer for at
16:41 least uh 10 hours so far. So every 20
16:44 minutes I have a window and I'm going to
16:47 look 20 feet out and focus on something.
16:49 Ideally, it'd be good to go outside. And
16:51 I I have taken breaks today and and went
16:56 outside. And what you do for 20 seconds,
16:59 you focus on something 20 ft away.
17:02 Anyone can do that. It's super
17:05 therapeutic and it kind of reverses that
17:08 uh accommodation cramp that you have in
17:10 your eye. Now, while you're doing this,
17:13 okay, for 20 seconds,
17:18 every five seconds, you want to blink.
17:20 Every 5 seconds, you want to blink as
17:22 you're doing this, as you're focusing. Why?
17:23 Why?
17:25 Because when you're in front of the
17:28 computer, not only do you not blink as
17:32 often, but you don't completely blink
17:34 all the way down, and your eyes can dry
17:37 out. And that drying can cause fatigue
17:39 in the eyes. So this is another thing
17:42 that's actually very very important that
17:45 also relates to number 13, which is dry
17:47 eye. Being in front of your computer can
17:50 really dry your eyes out. Also, a lack
17:53 of vitamin A will cause dryness of the
17:56 eye. But there's one other cause of dry
17:58 eye that I need to make you aware of,
18:00 and that is a a problem with the
18:03 autonomic nervous system. When you are
18:06 deficient in vitamin B1,
18:08 the autonomic nervous system doesn't
18:11 work that great anymore. And that system
18:14 controls the smooth muscle that controls
18:16 your glands. And for this example, I'm
18:17 talking about the tear ducts. You're
18:20 going to have a lack of secretion of
18:22 tears and that's going to dry them out.
18:25 And the antidote is B1.
18:28 But you must also correct the reason why
18:29 you're deficient in B1. a lot of
18:32 carbohydrates, diabetes type one,
18:34 drinking a lot of coffee or tea can
18:37 really deplete you of B1. And then the
18:39 last point I want to talk about is these
18:41 advanced glycated end products. This is
18:44 that glycation when sugar connects with
18:46 protein. Uh this happens when you
18:48 consume a lot of junk food and things
18:51 like that. But there's things that can
18:54 reverse that. Going on a low carb diet,
18:56 doing intermittent fasting. Another
18:57 thing you can do to reduce this is
19:01 alphalapoic acid reduces AES. And again,
19:04 this can also help if you have an
19:08 advanced uh visual problems uh involving
19:10 your lens being very rigid or you have a
19:12 lot of complications from diabetes
19:14 anywhere in your body or you have
19:16 advanced uh cataracts, you need to be
19:18 doing all these things I'm mentioning.
19:20 Exercise is a big one as well.
19:22 polyphenols like certain herbs like uh
19:25 turmeric, resveratrol and even dark
19:27 chocolate. But probably the number one
19:29 most powerful thing that can help you
19:32 with this as well as other problems of
19:34 the eye is vitamin D. Vitamin D is one
19:36 of the best anti-inflammatories. It
19:38 helps break this up. Always make sure
19:41 you take magnesium with your vitamin D.
19:43 And if you really want to know what
19:46 vitamin D does in the body, not
19:48 necessarily with diseases, but actually
19:50 what it actually does, there's a
19:51 fascinating video that I want to share
19:54 with you right now, and it's right here.
