Welcome to The Berne Podcast, a thought-provoking and informative journey with Dr. Sam Berne, an expert behavioral optometrist, and holistic health practitioner. Delve deep into the world of functional vision, eye wellness, and natural solutions for common and complex vision issues. Each episode explores Dr. Berne’s unique physical vision therapy protocols, integrating natural and holistic techniques to improve eye health, enhance vision, and support overall well-being. Whether you’re curious about functional vision therapy, seeking non-invasive ways to care for your eyes, or want to learn more about natural approaches to eye health, this podcast offers valuable insights for practitioners and individuals alike. Join Dr. Berne for engaging discussions, expert interviews, and actionable advice that will inspire you to see the world in a whole new way—naturally and holistically.
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Dr. Berne’s Physical Eye Therapy For Releasing Eye-Body Tension
Friday, September 20, 2024 • Duration 11:29
9 Minutes On How To Navigate The Eye Care System
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 • Duration 10:45
Join me for an illuminating episode of the EyeClarity podcast, where we unravel the secrets of holistic eye care. From finding the right eye doctor to making informed choices about surgery, this episode is a comprehensive guide to maintaining and enhancing your eye health. Let’s journey through the realm of eye care together and empower ourselves with knowledge and insights that pave the way to better vision. Enjoy the show!
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Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. If you want to get in touch with me, you can send me your questions at hello@drsamberne.com. Before we start the show, I’d like to talk to you about my new membership platform. When you join, you get access to exclusive content that you won’t see on social media. You’ll be able to attend my live Q and A and ask me questions, and you’ll have the opportunity to join my advanced workshops. To sign up, go to drsamburnmembership.com now to today’s show.
Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today, I want to help you navigate the eye care system. So I’m going to take a few minutes. I’m going to talk about ways that, first of all, you can find an eye doctor that you can maybe be compatible with. Number two, how you can help your eye doctor, help you in the best possible way. And number three, if in fact, you do need surgery, what’s the best way to navigate?
All right, so let’s go to number one, how to find an eye doctor. Well, you know, the best way to do that, I think, is first of all, go on Google and type in holistic eye doctor. Now, you may or may not get somebody in your area. You may not even get a holistic eye doctor. You may get a holistic naturopath or functional medicine doctor or a biological dentist. And so at this point, I would contact whatever comes up on the Google, and I would contact that office and ask them for a referral. Is there anybody they know? And maybe it isn’t quite a holistic eye doctor, but somebody maybe who’s a little older, maybe who’s a little more gentle, a little more middle of the road. It’s kind of hard to find holistic eye doctors because in school, we’re not really trained to look at vision holistically only allopathically but many times there are doctors that at least they’re more reasonable in their attitude. And if you can find somebody like that, another way to do it is through your friends, through your community, to ask around who’s somebody that I have a holistic philosophy in my health. Is there somebody that at least isn’t totally extreme? Name that’s going to really just recommend surgery as soon as I walk in the door. And there are doctors, eye doctors out there like that, and that may be the best you can do in your area. So that would be number one.
The number two. When you go for your eye exam, I recommend taking a friend, a family member, and have a certain intention or focus on what you want to achieve. It could be, I want you to check my eye health. I want you to give me a prescription for my glasses, if that’s what you need. But I don’t want you to overcorrect me. And the way you do that is when he starts flipping the lenses. Feel it in your body, feel it in your eyes, and you’re wanting to stay as close to the current prescription as you can. And you need to stand up for yourself here and you need to say, I don’t want a super strong prescription. And most of the time, even if they don’t believe in you or believe what you’re saying, if you’re committed, because the stronger the prescription you get, the faster it is going to weaken your eyes. So you want to stay in the area of something that’s more in the middle, so you don’t have something that’s so strong that it’s going to make you dizzy, nauseous, or give you headaches.
All right, now, in addition to that, I would be very careful about going into things like progressive lenses or bifocals, especially if you haven’t done it before, you’re much better off getting two pairs of glasses. Something for distance, something for near. You want to stay away from things like monovision where they’re correcting one eye for distance, one eye for near. And you want to be conservative in what you’re wearing. These newfangled things that these guys and gals want to prescribe, they end up in disaster. I mean, people come to me and they go, I should have never gone down this road. I just had a guy yesterday and he said, you know, this is the busiest fanciest eye center in Santa Fe. And every time I come out of there, I get these glasses. I cannot see out of them. And I keep going back and they just say, Get used to it. And I’ve gone to them three years in a row. I am fed up. And so for the exam, what I did is I reduced his prescription by about 70% and he tried it on and he goes, my goodness, this feels great. I love this. This so it takes an empowerment. In your world to be able to say, I don’t want something too strong, and don’t give me all these bells and whistles. I’d even be careful about staying away from a lot of tints, a lot of coatings, because it ends up smudging the lens. It’s cloudy, and the lenses just don’t last as long, and they’re expensive. So stay with, again, middle of the road.
All right, number three surgery. So, first of all, if a doctor is recommending eye surgery, I would consider getting a second opinion. I would definitely do some research, consult with me or somebody like me. And before you enter into any surgery, you want to know what the side effects are. You want to know what the success rate is. You want to know, what can I expect from this? And in some of the side effects, you want to know things like, well, is this going to create dry eye? Is it going to create floaters? Am I going to have a retina issue? What are some of this? And really, if you can’t get those answers from your doctor, then you find a doctor who can tell you these things. And I would enter any surgical procedure very cautiously because there are side effects, especially to laser procedures and procedures that are invasive.
So that being said, as long as the condition is not sight threatening, and you’ve got even if you have four to six weeks, what I would say is start doing some of my protocols, and many times you can stave off the pattern and eventually turn the tide. So this is something, again, where you go with a friend, with an advocate, and you don’t let them bully you into something or scare you into something until you are completely informed on what’s going on. And this even includes pharmaceutical eyedrops, things like eyedrops for restasis, steroid eyedrops, antibiotic eyedrops. A lot of times, there may be alternatives that you can use, and this is where you get the information. And then you find somebody like me, and then there are ways that you can go. I mean, acupuncture can be really helpful. Craniosacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, herbal remedies, any plant based medicines, natural eyedrops eye exercises. There’s so many things that you can do.
And another aspect that we don’t discuss extensively is changing your diet. Reflect on the foods you consume. Shift towards a more plant-based, rainbow-colored vegetable-rich diet. Vegetables are highly beneficial for your retina, vitreous, cornea, and eyelids. Adopt an anti-inflammatory eating pattern. Explore intermittent fasting. Consider doing a cleanse. Seek guidance from a functional medicine doctor. Often, eye issues stem from either functional eye problems, incorrect prescriptions, eye coordination disparities, or biochemical/endocrine imbalances. A skilled naturopath or functional medicine doctor can assist you in replenishing essential nutrients and facilitating the healing of your eye tissues. For queries, reach out via email: Hello@drsamberne.com, appointments@drsamburn.com. Connect with me on social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and Clubhouse. I’m here to support you. That concludes our episode. Take care, everyone.
Thank you for tuning in to the EyeClarity podcast show. If you found value in this episode, be sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and share your feedback with a review. Looking forward to having you back next time.
Dr. Berne’s Comments For Entrepreneurs Presentation from SCORE
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 • Duration 09:52
Today’s podcast is a bit different as I recently gave a presentation to entrepreneurs through an organization called SCORE. I shared my experiences and expertise in marketing, especially in the holistic eyecare industry. I emphasized the importance of finding underpriced attention and getting the word out about your business. Building a brand and developing relationships with your community is crucial. I’m excited to launch a membership program where people can pay to join my community and receive value from my brand. Enjoy the show.
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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my I clarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I want to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at hello@drsamberne.com. Or you can text them to me at 1-844-932-1291. I want to let you know about my new membership program. This is an exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars, even a live q&a, where I will answer your questions. So you’ll be able to access valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health.
I’ll be offering personalized support and coaching, giving you recommendations, helping you with goal setting accountability, so you can achieve your goals. This is a convenient way for you to access me 24/7 Without paying for appointments, or going to your doctor every week. So I’m so excited about this, I hope you can join me. And by the way, if you do join, you’ll get access to my advanced workshops in aromatherapy, color and light therapy, nutrition and physical vision therapy. So to sign up, go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show.
Interview with Lesley Rubinoff “The Holistic Bitch”™ | Certified Holistic Practitioner & Nutritionist
Thursday, June 2, 2022 • Duration 26:44
Lesley Rubinoff joined me on the podcast and we had an amazing chat. She digs into hydration and structures water, the benefits of Silver, and Fulvic Acid. This episode is packed with amazing information, so be sure to listen and follow Lesley for more information. Lesley is a dynamic holistic practitioner who’s branded herself as ” The Holistic Bitch”™ the meaning: be in total control of him/herself health. Lesley walks the talk and talks the talk! Focusing on foundational and root cause healing. She specializes in digestive disorders, female hormone/ fertility, and detoxification. Over the past 11 years, Lesley has worked globally with her clients via her virtual office. Her online presence reaches more than 60,000 people daily. Her main goal is to educate, inspire and motivate others to live a clean life by promoting healthy and clean living choices. Lesley has been involved in the cannabis space for the last six years, making her a pioneer in a fast-evolving industry. Lesley teamed up with renowned hemp innovators to create a revolutionary hemp cannabis line of products. A product line in a league of their own, incorporating terpenes, nutritional drivers, and genuine full-spectrum hemp cannabis.
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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
Benefits of Vitamin E
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 • Duration 07:51
Today I want to talk about Vitamin E. You know, Vitamin E has been regarded as one of the most beneficial nutrients to support eye health. So joined me as we take a deeper look into how it works and how it can benefit your eye health. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
Further Notes on Vitamin E:
Regarding eye health, vitamin E has long been regarded as a beneficial nutrient to support eye health and was included in the original Age‐Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) and in AREDS2, which also examined other antioxidants, such as lutein and zeaxanthin. AREDS investigated only alpha‐tocopherol, but newer studies suggest that tocotrienols warrant dedicated research. Owing to inhibition of angiogenesis, tocotrienols may have application in improving ocular conditions related to abnormal neovascularization, such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Tocotrienol is a potent anti‐angiogenic agent, with delta‐tocotrienol being the most effective.1, 2
As a powerful antioxidant, tocotrienol accumulates in the eye to combat cataract development, among the most common eye problems in the aging population.3 Rodent models show that tocotrienol administration delayed the onset and progression of cataracts by reducing lenticular oxidative and nitrosative stress,4 and in diabetic rats, tocotrienol application arrested cataract progression and restored lens transparency to normal.5 (It should be noted, however, that these studies used topically applied tocotrienols through eye drops. Annatto E protects the lens of the eye, the macula, and supports healthy eye circulation, cornea, and eyelid health.
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1. Delta-Tocotrienol suppresses VEGF-induced angiogenesis whereas alpha-tocopherol does not.
As I began to learn more about the holistic approach to eye care and worked with teachers in developmental optometry. They taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. One of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. So today, I am walking you through that process so you can work with your eyes instead of just fixing the symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
And then there’s kind of more radical philosophy. In addition to the contacts, which would be and I learned this from my teachers, they were I had, I had about five holistic, they were called developmental optometrists. When I was, in my first years of practice, I grew up on the East Coast. And so I began my first practice in Philadelphia, and I used to go up to Connecticut, and there were like five eye doctors, and they were in their 70s. And they taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. And one of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. Because when you wear the same lenses, it tells your brain and eyes to start integrating more like, it’s like, it’s like a Natural Vision exercise, it says, Okay, I’m meeting a quarter in my right, I’m seven and quarter in the left. So that means my right eye is focusing a little closer than my left eye needs more of my prescription, what if I gave both eyes minus seven and a quarter? Now my right eye is got to kind of match the left eye.
And time and time again, when I started to do that, people would come back and say, Wow, this feels so much more relaxing, I’m not getting the eye strain. And the other thing about that is because you’re at eight and a quarter, and seven and a quarter, or 950, and 850, you’re in a natural double vision setup because the right eye is focusing at a closer focal distance than the left eye, you could, you could figure that out by holding a target. And with each eye separately, you probably have to hold the object closer to your right eye to get it clear, whereas the left eye is slightly farther away. So that’s already creating an inherent double doubling. So and then, you know, you’re overriding that, but then you get hit as you did. And that kind of creates this, this, you know, a trauma in the muscles in the eyes.
Using Your Eyes and Brain Together
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 • Duration 12:17
I’m involved a lot with the autistic to ADD spectrum disorder community, I actually consult at a place called Kidpower. Recently, I gave a presentation on the exercise that helps improve our three-dimensional vision. 3D vision is so important because it helps us with our ability to make decisions to problem solve to see more deeply into situations. So, I wanted to share this talk with you all. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. So I’m involved a lot with the autistic to ADD spectrum disorder community, I actually consult at a place called Kidpower. And this is, an amazing place where occupational therapists offer many different modalities to help these kids grow and evolve. And I’ve been, I’ve been involved with Kidpower for, oh, my goodness, 15-20 years maybe. And recently, I was giving a presentation on the exercise that helps improve our three-dimensional vision. And 3d vision is so important because it helps us with our ability to make decisions to problem solve to see more deeply into situations. And when our two eyes are working together, we’re more easily triggered, or more fatigued, our concentration is less our balances less, and our memory is reduced. And you know, most eye exams, they don’t necessarily test, three-dimensional vision. In fact, what we’re doing in an eye exam is we’re testing the eye chart, and we’re looking at your eye health. And it’s usually a 10-minute experience, and you’re out the door, and the next person comes. So in this particular short presentation, I talked about a machine called the vector gram. And the vector gram is a 3d slide you put on some polarized glasses similar to if you went to the movies, and you were given 3d glasses, and you could see the film in 3d. Now.
Inspirational Patient Stories
Thursday, May 12, 2022 • Duration 16:46
Today, I want to share three inspiring case histories, including my own. And in doing this, it may give you some inspiration and hope. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today, I want to share three inspiring case histories. And in doing this, it may give you some inspiration and hope. And so here we go. This is patient number one. And this is a gal who I met when I was teaching a month long program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. I was on the faculty at SLN, for about seven years, and I started off teaching the staff and the the interest in what I was teaching really grew to the point where I was then offered to be able to teach something called the legacy program, this is a month long program where people would come and pay.
And they would be residents of SLN. So they would work on the grounds during the day. And then they would take healing classes and there would be two teachers per month, who would offer you know, their healing modality, whether it be nonviolent communication, or you know how to become better at acting or creativity. Of course, mine was how to improve your eyesight and vision. And this was the first year that I taught the legacy program. And the first night when we got together, we got a big circle, there must have been about 25 people in my class, and you get them for the month. So you you have to design different, you know, different processes when you meet every night. And then there’s a halfway point where you actually do a one day intensive during the day so that every other everybody gets, you know, the day off from their daily activities and routines and work commitments.
Screen Time and Your Eye Health
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 • Duration 26:39
Digital time is inevitable in life, but today I am sharing some tips on how to use your digital devices while staying healthy. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
So, in optics, there is a trend in the eye care field, which I’ve seen for many, many years, which is as follows. What the eye care field likes to do is like they like to give split lenses, maybe in what they call bifocals, or, in your case, it’s an invisible bifocal. So there’s a gradient. And I’m going to do a drawing here. And I’ll show it to you. And basically, the, the only part of the lens that’s usable This is, we call this like a progressive lens or a invisible bifocal, all of this is scratched out on the sides, you can’t use that lens, the only part of the lens that’s usable is this tiny sliver down the middle, now the top part is going to be distance, the middle part is going to be computer, and the bottom part is going to be reading.
And as you go down the lens, there’s more magnification that they put into the lens, it is probably the single most detrimental optical system that you could look through, like if you wanted to say, how do I make my eyes worse, in an accelerated way, then where are those because whenever you split the vision into these different gradient parts, now your brain has to direct your eyes through that segment of the lens. So you’ve got to do that. And then on top of that you’re focusing say on the screen, or let’s say you’re driving even though none of us have for driving or not. But what it’s eliminating is the most important part in your vision, which is your peripheral vision. So when you put those progressive lenses on, you are actually going into a straitjacket with your eyes, there’s there’s just a real limitation and how much vision you can access. You basically have to tunnel your your eyes. So when you tunnel on a nervous system level, what you’re doing is your creating a an increase in your stress, both eyes stress and body stress to try to aim your eyes through these different compartments. And it is the most deteriorating aspect of why people’s vision goes downhill. It’s it’s a really, it’s a really accelerated way to lose your ability to see.
My Top Tips on Navigating the Eye Care System
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 • Duration 10:42
So today, I want to help you effectively navigate the eye care system. I will walk you through how to find an eye doctor you are compatible with, help your eye doctor help you in the best way possible, and navigate surgery if the need arises. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today, I want to help you navigate the eye care system. So we’re going to take a few minutes, I’m going to talk about ways that first of all, you can find an eye doctor, that you can maybe be compatible with number two, how you can help your eye doctor help you in the best possible way. And number three, if in fact, you do need surgery, what’s the best way to navigate? Alright, so let’s go to number one, how to find an eye doctor? Well, you know, the best way to do that I think is first of all, go on Google, and type in holistic eye doctor. Now you may or may not get somebody in your area, you may not even get a holistic AI doctor, you may get a holistic naturopath or functional medicine doctor or a biological dentist.
And so at this point, I would contact whatever comes up on the Google. And I would contact that office and ask them for a referral is there anybody they know. And maybe it isn’t quite a holistic II doctor, but somebody maybe who’s a little older, maybe who’s a little more gentle, little more middle of the road. It’s kind of hard to find holistic eye doctors, because in school, we’re not really trained to look at Vision holistically, only allopathic Lee, but many times there are doctors that at least are you know, they’re more reasonable in their attitude. And if you can find somebody like that, another way to do it is through your friends through your community to ask around, you know, who’s somebody that I have a holistic philosophy in my health, is there somebody that at least isn’t totally extreme, you know, that’s going to really, you know, just recommend surgery since I walk in the door. And there are doctors eye doctors out there like that. And that may be the best you can do in your area. So that would be number one.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to the program. This is a little different podcast today, I gave a short presentation to a group of entrepreneurs recently, the organization I’m involved with is called score and they help entrepreneurs figure out how to develop a business plan. And I come in and I help them with their marketing. So I say a few words, share my own experience with what I’m doing right now those of you that are following me in a really into the holistic eyecare movement. We’re having a great time. Anyways, I talk a little bit about the new membership launch, how to work with young people, I’m seeing more and more young entrepreneurs, artists, and musicians and people who want to realize their dream.
And I talk about how you may not be able to find this method of marketing in college that you have to go outside of your schooling to figure it out. And so I hope you enjoy the show. It’s a little different. But anyways, thanks for tuning in. Well, I’m Sam Berne. And I have a health and wellness brand that I started in 2016 doing really well. And I would say my expertise is finding underpriced attention and getting the word out.
Because you can have the best idea in the world. But if you don’t let anybody know about it, then you’re gonna fail. And so in my own business, I’ve been able to figure out how to tap into underpriced attention. And for me, I think the diversity of having a lot of different businesses in one space is actually really great. Because you can apply the same principles based on whatever your business is because the name of the game is, okay, what am I good at? And am I willing to commit in the long term to create a brand versus making it a sales or transactional situation?
So the way I built my brand was developing my community relationship wise, and I never asked them for anything. In fact, I created more value for them than you know what, what I was trying to get back I wasn’t actually getting anything back. So I had patients in that and I’m getting ready to launch what we call membership program. Meaning now people are going to pay something to Enter my immunity. And I think doing it in reverse where develop a clientele and a customer base, and then release your product or service, that’s going to be a winner. And I, you know, I hate to see people go into debt, I hate to see people take out loans, and they have difficulty getting stressed out, paying it back.
And what was really interesting for me at that presentation, was interacting with the young people like I would like to target the 18 to 22 year olds, I had an amazing conversation with a 22 year old who was starting a business, because I think that the things that I’m teaching, I don’t know if you’re going to learn them in business school, I don’t know if you’re going to learn them going to college. And you know, the the information is out there, you just have to go to the doctor to Google or YouTube knows interesting. I’m getting ready to start in the central oil line. And I need to cultivate farmers. So I went on chat GPT this morning. And it was the first place they actually got some resources where I can connect with some farmers. And I went on Google, I’ve talked to, you know, different businesses, and nobody could help me.
So the value of chat GBT, somebody had talked about it, what a great resource. And you know, we have to be careful, because we don’t know legally, what we’re involved with. We can’t You know, I know for me, if I’m writing a blog, it’s certainly background information. But I have to check every source and I have to put it in my words, because I don’t know what the trademark rules are with that if I want inclusivity. I like different socioeconomic levels. I like different age groups. I want to target the young people, I feel that they need a lot of help. I mean, we all do.
But I would like to invite the young people to come and really walked them through it. I had an amazing conversation with his entrepreneur. She was 22. And she was an artist. And she was so inspired by what I was saying, and was able to implement the steps because she’s an Instagram person. She’s a tick tock person, she knows what’s involved, you know, a 60 year old, it’s a lot harder to say, Well, I was I was giving a session today with somebody who was 60 years old, who has a business and she’s like, tick tock. And I said, Look, I just posted and I got Twitter and 50,000 views, I got a viral, you can do that, then that could do something with your business.
So I want to be there for the elders as well. And 65 is not old. I mean, you’re just getting started. So that’s another thing. People that say have retired, and they want to start a business, why not have the 65 Plus come in and say, Hey, you can start a business. You can you can do this social media stuff. And look, if social media goes away, I’m not married to social media. It’s just the next thing in line, maybe something else will come in.
But I know how to go after underpriced attention. And through organic educational posts video audio written. I’ve been able to you know, create some. So for you entrepreneurs out there that are looking to make it. I think the key thing is to create value. create great content on a daily basis. Be consistent with posting what you’re doing. Follow up by answering people who might comment and stay the course it definitely takes time. But it’s very satisfying, especially with something you believe in. And certainly in my field, helping people heal their vision, improve their vision, improve their wellness is really fun. So thanks so much for tuning in today. Take care
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Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So we’ve got an interview today, and I’m so excited. This is something I’ve been anticipating for a long time. This is Lesley Rubinoff. She is a certified holistic practitioner nutritionist. Talk about dynamic. Oh my goodness, she brands herself as the holistic bitch. And I want to say that with the utmost respect, and humility. Because what she does is inspire people to take back their health. And she’s got a really active social media, Instagram, Facebook, she’s also got a really kick-ass eCommerce site. And I’ll, I’ll get that URL to you. But in the meantime, let me give you a little more background about her. Lesley has worked globally, with her clients for the past 11 years, and she reaches more than 60,000 people daily. Her main goal is to educate, inspire and motivate others to live a clean life by promoting healthy and clean living choices. And she is a wealth of information. You know, we just off-air, we just had a conversation for a few minutes. And I learned so much. And so, Lesley, welcome to the program. How are you today?
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I’m so great. And I’m so excited to be on your podcast. I remember the first time listening to you speak. And I was just like, Who is this person? He’s so smart, and so passionate and about something that so many people don’t even like to consider when it comes to our health, which is our eyes. So I was enamored and you know, really taken aback by your knowledge. And I’m so excited to be able to have this conversation with you.
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Yes, thank you very much. So can you give us kind of, at the beginning, what your philosophy is, and I know you talk about functional foundational health? Share your perspective with my listeners.
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So for me, as a holistic practitioner, and nutritionist, I think, what I learned and the biggest lesson I took back from what I was studying was the general consensus to healing is treating the symptom. So if something shows up, you’re in your skin like Exuma, we put a cream we put a steroid, you know you have a sinus, chronic sinus infection or a urine infection, you treat the symptoms. But why are those things reoccurring? Why are those things showing up? So as in my work, it’s about getting to the root cause. And that root cause is surrounded by several things. It’s physical, but it’s also the emotional component tied to disease. And I believe that there is every disease has an emotional component. And that is also something that is overlooked. I think that when we look at healing as a whole, we always have to look at the gut. And it’s become trendy, and it’s become a hot topic amongst health coaches. But I think there are very few. And when I say few, there could be hundreds of 1000s of practitioners who truly understand functional, foundational healing. And that to me, is what I pride myself in my work to make sure that when I am working with a client, or when I’m just educating, we understand that the symptoms are just a message from your body to tell us to investigate further.
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Well said, I mean, we share that philosophy and it’s nice to meet somebody who is so passionate about it and totally agrees with you. So when you know, when you think about people in their health, what tests do you recommend that they get?
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Yeah. So I mean, you know, again, when we look at Western medicine, we look at functional medicine is very different. Again, very basic versus very in depth. So bloodwork is basic to me, you go to your doctor, let’s say for your thyroid, and they test and they test for the TSH. They don’t they don’t test further they don’t go deeper into the levels. So for me when I’m working with someone first thing i Want to know, if if I’m working with someone? It could be anything? I want to know what pathogens are living there, what parasites are there? What heavy metals are there? What’s the toxicity load on the body? I want to use stool and urine and blood and saliva to test, you know, thyroid condition is so prevalent.
It’s so it’s so common, mainly with women. But and with the men, and it’s just like, okay, but there’s so much testing to be done to get a bigger picture, something like the Dutch test, right, where we look at the hormone panels from urine, which touches dried urine, test it, that’s what it is dried urine testing so that we can have an actual snapshot of what’s going on with the hormones and you can see better there, you know, what, what’s happening. And from that, then you can build out protocols to start to address that. The same thing if a kid is coming to me, who’s covered in exzima. First, of course, we look at the diet that we say, okay, is this kid has this kid been, you know, vaccinated and up to date on their vaccines, we want to look at that. And from there we go, we look at the load the heavy metal load and the toxicity or the mold, which is something that’s so commonly missed as mold. And from there, we can heal those parasites, we can heal, remove those heavy metals, we can get rid of the mold, and all of a sudden the skin clears up. So I like things like oats testing, gi mapping, you know, the Dutch testing for hormones, and adrenals there’s so many different types of tests that mycotoxin testing, you know, there’s so many different labs and with technology today, so much more advancement, and how we can get snapshots at health. And I think that missing piece is like the blind leading the blind and and your practitioner, your regular doctor, they’re not going to do that they don’t even believe in that testing. They believe in here’s my prescription pad. And it’s this, and it’s a textbook diagnosis, and it’s a textbook solution. So that’s what we move away from by using this type of functional testing.
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Yeah, it’s so true, you know, you need to do this kind of testing to really be a detective and figure out first of all, what’s going on? And then after that, where do you start? Is it the gut? Is it endocrine? How so we go from there.
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So when it comes to healing, and I think this is another thing that people have to be very mindful of, is, you can’t start to heal the body before you open the channels of elimination, right, which is our lymphatic system to promote our sweating, and our bowels. So many people are so constipated. And people don’t recognize that constipation. If you’re not having two to three bowel movements a day you’re constipated, if you’re going to the bathroom. Some people think it’s normal to poop once every three days or once a week. Okay, so that is the main thing that needs to start to work. First is elimination, right? And then from there, it’s different for everybody, right? So if somebody comes to me, and they’re loaded with parasites, and they’re loaded with heavy metals, I need to prepare the body to one bind. And you know, you have to bind it and then eliminate it. So it really depends, it depends on what we’re dealing with. But we always want to go and the same thing. If someone’s fully loaded with Candida and parasites, I have to kill the Candida, which is the food for the parasite before I can kill the parasites. And so many people do things where the by, you know, detox tea, or a parasite cleanse that’s marketed and, you know, that can end up making people really sick, because you have to go in a proper order, right. So usually, it looks like opening the channels of elimination, dealing with the pathogens, or the heavy metals or the mod, and that too, can take months, right, you don’t get sick overnight. And healing takes time. So if you’re someone who wants to rush healing, you’re never going to heal. And another thing is people start to think that they’re getting better because the symptoms go away, but and then they like pull back. And that’s the time where you really got to push forward. So it’s dealing with it’s going in the right order. So I always say open the channels of elimination, then you work on the liver, then you work on all the other organs. And the last step is kind of like cleansing the blood, and then you go through into the maintenance. So it takes time and listen, every practitioner is going to do it their way but I do believe that there is a proper order of healing and it’s always gonna start with opening the channels of elimination.
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I want to emphasize those two points, that it’s the sequence of where you start, and that’s so important, I’m glad you bring up that principle. And then the second piece is patience. And without patience, you know, you’re not going to, you’re right you, it takes, you know, takes a while for you to get sick. And it’s gonna take a while for you to get well. Which brings me to my next topic. And I know, we share this, and that is the topic of water. So could you give us a snapshot on drinking water and what you recommend and how it impacts our health?
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It’s one of my favorite topics. And it’s something that for so long, I was seeking to find the answer, I was seeking to find, you know, where, where can I get the best water. And, you know, there’s so many different companies out there. And I was always hesitant, and I started with something like a Berkey. And then I went to something like an awkward trough, which are really good initial steps. Because your tap water is so contaminated. Your bottled water that you’re buying at Costco is tap water. And people are like, Okay, well, I’ll get a Britta Britta is not going to really do much. And one of the most important things that we can do is to hydrate we’re made of water. And once I started really diving in to water, I started to learn about structured water and hydrogen water, properly filtered water, and the amounts of benefits it has. So when we look at, I know you understand structured water, but for people who are listening who may not structure water, if you look at a plant or a fruit or vegetable, and you see that they have their shape, that is structured water inside and structured water is 10 times more dense than regular water.
So what does that mean when you’re drinking, and it’s also like the fourth phase. So Dr. Gerald Pollack was who discovered water. So we know that there’s a solid and a liquid and a gas. And then this four stage is structured is considered structure water. That’s the work of Dr. Gerald pollack. So when we have structured water coming into our system, which is 10 times denser that velocity equals more hydration, and it also creates more coherent water molecule alignment. And the more coherency we have, it increases our electrical function of the body. So bioelectrical signaling means cellular communication. And essentially, it builds a bridge, a Water Bridge to communicate, and align ourselves. And when ourselves can share communication and pass information from one another. That means that our bodies are going to be correspondingly almost in perfect like unison. So when we increase the coherency, it’s so important. And it’s really interesting, because hydration enhances that process of our like I said that, that electrical function, right, so whatever water touches, it makes more pure, right. So when you have this density moving into your cells, when it doesn’t sit in the stomach, it forces his way into the cells, and that forces the toxins out of the body, literally, it forces, it means you’re going to sweat more, and you’re going to have to drink less, but you’re going to be hydrated more because the equivalent ratio is going to be about one glass, let’s say one liter of structured water is going to be like two to three liters of regular water.
Something else that I think is really interesting about structured water is that when we’re around all the the EMFs, that we’re around, right, we’re on our phones, we have even cars, you know, the more the more cars move away from gas and move into electricity, the more EMS because that’s how they have to work. So when EMFs hit the brain, which is made of water, it disperses the water Mater molecules. And when you have structured water, it actually helps to read harmonize it and there’s a lot of studies around structure, water and EMS and we know that EMF is altering water on the planet. So that was the first component that I thought was really, really cool. And then the second part was the hydrogen aspect. And hydrogen is the smallest gas on the periodic table. But it’s the most potent antioxidant. And we have free radicals in our body. And what happens is electrons steal,
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steal from our blood or bones in our organs. And hydrogen is kind of like that Santa Claus that comes in with two extra electrons. So when you’re drinking hydrogen, hydrogen water, you have that donator and it literally neutralizes free radicals in this specific machine that I found. There’s 1.4 1.6 parts per million of hydrogen in a leader and that antioxidant equivalent is like eating 750 Bananas, four bags of spinach and 35 large carrots. So those two things on its in its own, I think are so important things that people don’t recognize. And even though there’s a lot of machines out there that will claim to do that there’s the right type of hydrogen. And there’s also the right type of structured water. And if they’re electric using the water, you’re you’re not benefiting from it, either. And then again, you know, water when we start to filter it or you know, a lot of people use reverse osmosis water, which definitely wastewater but it also strips water vaults, nutrients, so you want to be making sure that whatever units you’re using, actually remineralizing. And using a crystal, the Maya fan, in this system that I have, you know, it’s your calcium and your iron and copper, zinc, it’s your Selenium to magnesium alongside twice it’s micronutrients you’ve probably never heard of. So there’s so much about water that people don’t understand. And this particular company where we can link it in the show notes. You know, we have people like David Wolfe, Gina Bria, Gerald Pollack, really fundamental leaders in the holistic space, that once they understand and they try this water is something naturally they want to share with their audiences. And I think if more people could be drinking better water, their whole life will change. And we will see disease start to dissipate. And you know, like the Lord springs, right, people go there to heal. And you see all these amazing things happen. And that’s the physiology and the composition of proper structure of hydrogen water. So that’s a little bit about water.
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Thank you so much for that information. And my my audience is going to really, really like it. So we are here with Leslie Rubinoff. She’s a certified holistic practitioner, and nutritionist. She does private one on one session. She also has a very dynamic social media presence and the E commerce site. So I want to move to the topic of Colloidal Silver. I use Colloidal Silver for conjunctivitis, and I think it’s very potent. Share with us your wisdom and knowledge about how you use Colloidal Silver.
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Oh, my God, Colloidal Silver is, I think one of the most healing powerful solutions that we have. I think the problem with is that people don’t use the right form of colloidal silver. And for me, I was lucky enough to find someone that really understood colloidal silver, and they created structure Colloidal Silver, so we just talked about structured water. And what’s really interesting is that silver is actually safe to take daily, if it’s the right, sober, and when it is structured sober, because because regular civil will actually kill both the good and the bad bacteria. However, the structured silver, which also has a homeopathic frequency added to it, it repels the lipid milkfat layer on good bacteria, so it doesn’t destroy that. So it keeps that attack, it just removes the bad one. But there’s so many things that Colloidal Silver can be used for. So you just talked about using it in the eyes. I mean, it’s one of the best solutions, even if you just have a spy in your eye. You know, I teach people if you’re traveling regardless of COVID any virus when you travel airplanes are filthy regardless.
So I always tell people sprayed in your eyes sprayed in your ear or sprayed in your nose and take it orally. And silver is one of those solutions that’s so safe in any hole any orifice. You can use it vaginally annually, you could use it in any hole, and it’s only going to be that official. It’s such a great tool because it kills it kills bacteria, it kills virus, it’s something to like when I was building out protocols for people for COVID It was something that’s so great that you can use it in a nebulizer. So you could get that right into your lungs or into the nasal cavity which is, you know, we want that we want to be able to, you know, have have something natural like that, to do that. And some people will say, Oh, you know, but like Colloidal Silver became, you know, like antibiotics and now it’s immune to every virus and every bacteria and I was like impossible like, the way that silver is it Is it’s there’s no way that that even makes sense that it’s, it’s going to repel, it doesn’t work like that. And I just think that structured water when it’s, you know, the pH balance of an alkaline silver, it really supports the body. I mean, I even put it in my dog’s. I give it to her every day in her in her foods, not really water, but she drinks structured water.
But there’s a alkalinity level of a 7.4 or higher. So that alkaline state we know that studies show that bad bacteria and yeast can’t flourish when the body’s outlined compared to being in an acidic state. So I think it’s I think sober is something that everybody should have in their home because you can, you can treat, you know, infection topically, you can you can help with yeast. And, you know, I just had a client who got back to me, after just a week of being on some of my products. She said her psoriasis is gone. And I said to her, that’s amazing. We still have to work towards the root cause but you know, she’s using that so far. So it’s so powerful, especially also, like our silver is at a 30 PPM parts per million concentration. And it has that 910 terahertz frequency and it’s balanced. And it’s also like the smallest particle sizes. So when you’re using a nebulizer, you want to be able to get those small little particles. And I think having and having a nebulizer at home is also really important. And then being able to have something like this colloidal silver to be able to get it into your lungs or your nasal cavity. So I think it’s something that every single home should have.
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I agree. And I’m so glad that you bring up colloidal silver, and you actually have a great product on your webstore. Is that correct? Yeah, I do. Yeah, it’s really. So we’re here with Leslie Rubinoff. She’s a certified holistic practitioner and nutritionist. And we’re coming down to the end of our time, but could you speak about one of my favorite topics? Fulvic Acid?
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Oh, yes. So another thing that became like it’s so funny, it that was another product that became super trendy. And it also got company shut down. But fulvic and humic acid are what I believe to be the crucial missing links to ultimate wellness. That’s 70 minerals and trace elements, you know, that is that provides essential nutrition necessary for our cell health cell balance. So growth, replication. And you have your minerals you have your electrolytes, your amino acids, I believe that the two should technically stay together. I don’t think that they should separate them but I do believe companies do separate them, because then they can sell to products and essentially the money is you know, better. But fulvic and humic acid you know, it strengthens the immune system and enhances the immune system.
It’s really good for cleansing toxins and heavy metals, weight loss, hormone balance, nutritional absorption, cellular hydration, digestive health, cognitive function, bone health, pain and inflammation. It’s anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, antitoxic, antiviral, you know, there are so many things about it. And the unique nature is that the minerals and trace elements are polyelectrolytes and supermolecular structures and that unique nature of these collide to diffuse easily through our membranes, like our cell walls, and then other you know when all the other stuff don’t and they collide is a really low molecular weight. There’s so much it’s good for and you know, you and I had a brief conversation is is is using sort of like a nano phobic for the eyes and for Eye Health which obviously you would know far better than I would but it’s something that I think you know, I will use every day and ensuring you get good quality because a lot of them really do test out for high levels of arsenic and heavy metals.
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Well, you have to test it but if you can find a good source of it it is you know top on my list. So how can people get in touch with you Lesley?
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Yeah, we’ll have to send you a bottle of mine you’ll give me your address I’ll send you a bottle of ours sounds good. So you guys can find me on Instagram @theholistichealthgenius. Facebook the holistic health genius clubhouse My name Lesley Rubinoff and my clubs the holistic bitches. The podcast which we’re going to have Sam on soon. The Holistic Bitches Unfiltered. And my website for the US is theholistichealthgenius.store. And for Canada is the holistihealthgenius.ca and we’ll link everything in the water and all the things we talked about in the podcast in the show notes.
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So everyone, I want you to check Lesley out. She is amazing. Hey Leslie, thank you so much for your generosity today. I wish you the very best and I know we’ll connect soon.
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Can’t wait. Thanks so much for having me.
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3. Distribution of tocopherols and tocotrienols to rat ocular tissues after topical ophthalmic administration.
5. Reduction of oxidative-nitrosative stress underlies the anticataract effect of topically applied tocotrienol in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.
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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@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I want to talk briefly about vitamin E. You know, Vitamin E has been regarded as one of the most beneficial nutrients to support eye health. And you may recall, it was one of the featured antioxidants that were included in the original age-related Eye Disease study better known as the errands and the Eretz. To study. This was these were studies that were organized by the National Institutes of Health and they were looking at how these antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin could reduce the risk of developing not only macular degeneration but also other retina issues. So in the arid study, the investigation with the vitamin E was with a form of vitamin E. That was the Alpha tocopheryl. And this alpha-tocopherol was the vitamin E that was promoted after the arid study came out. One of the things that I like to do is I comb the journals for research. And in looking at some of the newer studies that have come out recently, they suggest that this form of vitamin E needed more research because one of the keys is not only using vitamin E, but other antioxidants are the problem we run into called angiogenesis.
What angiogenesis is basically abnormal blood vessels that start to surface in the retina, especially in conditions like macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy? So, the Toka tree Nalls which is a newer form of this vitamin E has been shown to be a potent anti-angiogenic agent. And the tocotrienol, which is the new form of vitamin E has been shown to be a powerful antioxidant. Also in cataract development. Some animal studies have shown that tocotrienol administration actually delayed the onset and progression of cataracts by reducing oxidative stress in the lens of the eye.
And this also stopped the cataract per regression and restored the lens to its normal transparency. Now we can get vitamin E from whole grains, rice, barley, oats, non-GMO corn, and leafy green vegetables, but these have the taken care of tocopherols compared to the tocotrienols. Now I first became aware of tocotrienols when I started to read some of the research articles where this took a train Hall was derived in lat Latin America, from what we call an Annatto to and this form of Toka Trina Hall was very impressive not only in supporting things like cardiovascular health, cholesterol levels, inflammation responses, blood pressure, but it also had a very strong influence on our retinas circulation. So finally, after many months and years of research, I found that I was able to put this into a supplement and it is called annatto II. And you can find it on my website, my webstore.
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And I think that in trying this on over 5000 patients, I had a very high price Hundreds of them reduced the wet macular degeneration condition and many other ocular conditions related to circulation. In fact, you know if I think about most of the eye conditions from my Bohmian gland dysfunction and dry eye syndrome to cataracts to inflammatory diseases like UV itis circulation issues like glaucoma, and then, of course, RetinA problems like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachments, by adding lutein Xia xantham acts to Xanthan and this new form of annatto. I am finding that this form of vitamin E protects the lens of the eye the macula supports the eye circulation, the cornea, and eye health. So I’ll put the links to my research in the notes here. Check it out. I think it’s really another support system that you can use in your eye health protocol. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you for all the questions and all the communication, keep it coming. Until next time, take care.
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So it’s harder for you to kind of muscle it and keep it together and whatever. So my, my proposal, my proposal would be in the realm of saying, Well, what if, what if we got you a prescription in contact lenses, that would be the same in each eye soft lens. And also the number, you know, like, when it’s eight and a quarter and glasses, it’s going to be less of a number because it’s closer to the eye. But on top of that, one of the techniques that worked really, really well for me, and I again, use it quite frequently with people that are nearsighted is I actually have them wear a prescription that corrects them more for computer or reading. So it’s a, it’s a reduced prescription, that still gives them some clarity, but it’s not as tight or as strong as the distance prescription. And so, you know, I might think about saying, well, let’s do 675 Get you a pair of those you can get in the soft lens world, you can get these disposable contacts, and they don’t cost very much. And then maybe get you a second prescription that’s like in the minus six, realm six in each eye. Now, I would say to start off the 675, you’re probably not going to have any problems using those for driving or whatever.
But even so, I would just start, say, you know, in your house, you know, in a nondemanding situation just to get used to, it’s going to be greater vision, you’re going to have a lot more periphery. And this, this balancing between your right eye and left eye, it may take a little bit of adjustment, although my prediction is that you’re probably gonna go wow, this is pretty cool. I can wear the same lens in each eye. And then you could get the minus six, I’ll give you the prescription for both. And then with a minus six, you could play with those say on the weekend and just wear them
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and just experiment just say what am I noticing here? What’s What am I seeing what am I feeling what’s the double like? And those options would do a couple of things for you. First of all, it would get you out of the distortion of what the glasses inherently bring to you. Number two, it would start balancing your two eyes and number three would give you a technique where you could gently and slowly start reducing your myopia. And that’s great for your nervous system and the tension that we carry in the eye muscles. And you might find over time that the minus six actually becomes your distance prescription.
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For many people, they aren’t using their two eyes together. And unless you test for it, you have no idea that your two eyes are working together. And so some of the symptoms people will experience would be, I feel cloudy, I’m not able to focus. I follow a lot, you know, my memories kind of going. And when you do this kind of test. So the one that I’m explaining to the people at Kidpower. There are a lot of things that we talk about in terms of spatial reasoning, and spatial decision making. And then my physical therapy program, we focus on helping people regain their buying ocular vision. So there’s more stability, there’s more resiliency, and there’s more flexibility in using our two eyes and brain together. And it isn’t just the eyes. And it isn’t just the brain. But it’s both of them together. So I want you to enjoy the presentation, I wanted to give you a little context before we play this clip. And like always, I want to thank you for tuning in. Here we go.
So the vector grams is a powerful tool, both in diagnosis and treatment. From a diagnostic point of view, when you put a person on the vector gram, you’re going to pretty quickly discover if they have an ocular vision, depth perception, and suppression. And also, the other thing about the vector gram is that when you put a person on it, and you ask them in an open-ended way, what do you see? And what might you feel?
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Their answers are going to really tell you a lot about where they’re at in terms of their spatial decision meaning-making. And there was a research study that was done several years ago by a developmental optometrist. Harry wax is one of my mentors. And what Dr. Wax did is he measured people’s IQ. These were children. He measured their IQ, and then he put them on the vector gram. And then he did vision therapy with them for six weeks, and then he re-measured their vector gram and their IQ and he found that the kids who saw better depth perception jumped in their IQ scores from five to 10 points. So they increased. So the bottom line is, is that the better the spatial reasoning, the better the problem solving, and the deeper a person can go into being able to look at complex things and being able to solve them. If you’re in a suppression, or you see the world as flat, then your ability to see solutions to problems, whether it’s body-centered movements, or cognitive, vestibular doesn’t matter. The better the 3d vision, the better the problem-solving.
And the two eyes working together is such a powerful gift that when you help these kids develop better by an ocular vision, everything gets better, they feel more peaceful, they’re less triggered, and they understand what you’re saying to them. And their ability to work in a more complex situation just goes up. So when you do the diagnostic, and you find out where they’re at, it can be emotional for them. Because they may not understand what you’re asking, or they just can’t do it. So be very careful about pressing on them, you’ll get the information, Oh, I see it flat, I see depth, I don’t see the L I don’t see the R. Right now you’re using the race track and the and the other image.
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But when we move into the Mother Goose slide, this is really the test that I love doing because I set one of the pair of slides in convergence and the other set and divergence in the way you would know convergence, as you see the numbers at the bottom of the slide 1234, you can see the numbers, that’s convergence. And then the divergence would be the numbers. So what I do with that is and you can, you can put the convergence on the top or the bottom, you can vary it, that’s fun to do, as well. But when you put one chart and convergence in the other chart and divergence, and you ask the child to look at the images, you’re gonna get a whole lot of information on, their visual skills based on Are they able to see the King Bo Peep in Humpty, and where are they in space. And if you do The Mother Goose slide yourself, you will see that the right eye sees part of the picture and the left eye sees the other part of the picture. And each one of those images has details where the right eye only sees part of the picture. For example, the king, he’s got a pipe in his mouth and a bowl in his hand.
So the child might say, oh my god, the bowl is blinking on and off. So that’s going to tell you, for example, the left is shutting off, or the staff and the lamb. The lamb is the left eye the staff has the right or Humpty Dumpty. So you’re gonna get suppression checks, and you’re gonna get by nonocular responsiveness. And find out which chart they gravitate towards, you know, some kids say, say I want to go to the bottom chart first because I can see it. And so that might be divergent. So that tells you their preferences, more divergence. With other kids, they might be more in the convergence area, that might be their preference. And they can’t go into divergence. Usually, when a child prefers divergence, they’re in more of a parasympathetic state of, of consciousness. And it’s hard for them to get into the sympathetic state, which is convergence. Also, convergence is more of your reading. Skill. If you can’t converge, reading is going to be difficult. Divergence.
If a child can’t go into divergence, it means that they’re either in stress, trauma, or toxicity, and they can’t release, relax, and let go. And so that tells you about their ability to let go. That’s divergence. There are a lot of cognitive associations we can make with convergence and divergence. I think the first step on this is just putting those slides out. up through you all to look at each slide and determine what you see and what you feel. Remember, in convergence, the images should look closer and smaller. And in divergence, the images should look larger and farther away. These kids may not be able to see that. So that’s going to tell you the limitation they have in spatial decision-making. And I can speak for over three decades that when I help people develop better integrated spatial integration, it is a game-changer in their learning, their movement, their confidence, their mood, their stress levels, and with all the other things that you’re doing with them. This is the missing piece for you guys.
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So we were sharing in the circle, and there was a woman who had a patch on. And I said well, that’s very interesting. So we got to her and she said, Well, I was in a car accident about 12 years ago. And I really hurt my I went to a number of AI specialists. And nobody seemed to be able to help me. And the last doctor I went to said the best thing that you could do would just be to wear the patch full time. And that was about 12 years ago. So I went over to her and I sat down crossed to her and I said, Would you like to take that eyepatch off, she said, You know, I’m kind of afraid to do it. very self conscious. I haven’t taken it off in front of people in a very long time. So I said, Okay, you don’t have to take it off right now. But I’m going to give you the invitation that I want you to think about taking it off. And we’re going to do some different group processes to create some safety in this group so that you’re, you’re feeling safe. And about two nights later, we were doing a process. And I called on her and she said Alright, I’m ready to take the patch off. So she took the patch off. And that I was pretty much swollen shut. I mean, she could barely see out of it.
And she said, Here I am. Wow, this is very scary. It’s very revealing. And a few days later, I gave her a private session and actually what was happening is part of the eyesight, the clarity started to come back. And you know, I gave her some color therapy and some other eye exercises to begin to introduce that, that I that had been bought behind the patch to come back to life. And at day 29 You know, we were down at the end of our our time together. We all got to share, you know what we learned? And so she said, you know, by having the permission to be able to take the patch off And to be told that actually I could improve this I was life changing for me. And, you know, we all just kind of gotten a circle, we hugged her. And, you know, anyways, we ended the program, I went back home. And I got a email from her about three months later, saying that her eyes were now balanced, that this eye that had been behind the iPads for 12 years, she had brought it back to life with my help, and with the group’s help. And to this day, we communicate on Instagram. And it’s always really uplifting to hear from her because she’s doing great. She got a job that she really likes, she found a relationship. And so the moral of the story on this one is that,
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you know, when we’re told by the eye doctor, well, you’ve got this condition, and there’s really no help, you know, it’s only going to go one way, which is backwards. Again, we have to remember that the brain does have a certain plasticity, and part of vision is in the brain. And if we do certain, stimulating things to our vision, and we start to say, well, I’m going to do another course, I’m not going to listen to these doctors. Guess what, you have a chance to regain your vision. Alright, let’s go to case number two. This is a woman who lives in Santa Fe. And about four years ago, she made an appointment to come to see me and she’s in a wheelchair to 80 years old. And we really are not set up for, you know, handicap people. Because I’m in a home office now. And it’s a it’s a rural office. So it’s, you know, a lot of dirt. And you know, you have to kind of find your way to my geodesic dome, those of you that have seen me in my videos.
Anyways, her husband pushed her up the path. I helped her out of her wheelchair, brought her into the office, sat down and she said, you know, my doctor said that I have a cataract. And he tried to schedule me for surgery while I was sitting in the eye exam chair. And I think that I can heal this. And I think you’re the man that can do it. And I said, Well, let’s give it a try. So she was she had a cataract in both eyes actually was worse than the right eye than the left eye but I could see where the the eye doctor would say it’s time for surgery. You know, the rule of thumb for surgery, really is if it’s interfering with your daily seeing. She loves to knit she’s actually I found out later world class master knitter. She actually taught knitting and, but she was still able to do her knitting. Even with these cataracts forming, she had very thick glasses, very very farsighted, lots of astigmatism. She was in progressive lenses, you know, the invisible bifocals, and she said, I really want to work with you. So I said, Okay, so we started, she signed up for a series of six sessions and her husband would push, you know, the wheelchair every week and she would come rain and snow, sleet and ice, sun. Sunny weather. She She was dedicated. I saw that. And I gave her a nutritional protocol. We did eyedrops, we
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did supplementation, we did physical vision therapy. And about a year later. She said to me while she was still coming as a patient,
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I think my cataracts are going away. And I also think the cataract in my left eye might be completely gone. So I did my exam on her and she was correct. The Left Eye had completely healed itself. The cataract was completely gone. The right cataract had reduced by about 75%. And to boot the glasses that she was wearing. She said you know they’re not working anymore. I think they’re too strong for me. And she was right.
So we can’t work We kept working and you know, fast forward. Four years later, she just turned 84. And the cataracts are completely gone. And the other thing that’s really amazing is that she’s out of the progressive lenses. So she’s not using those anymore. And her computer prescription and her reading prescription, the magnification power keeps reducing, like every three months, she’ll say to me, no, these glasses are too strong for me. They’re too strong for me. And so I’ve had to change the prescription, about four times. And she’s at the point now where her prescription is reduced by about 60%. This is unheard of for people over the age of 40, who are in bifocals. Nobody reduces their magnification. I mean, unless they’re working with me, but it’s an anomaly. And so here we are at 84. She sees 2020 a distance and 2020 at near. She’s reducing her prescriptions. She’s out of her progressive lenses. And she’s just, she just keeps going. So I’m just really amazed by that. So that’s case number two. That case number three is my story.
And many of you have heard that I’ve, you know, in bits and pieces, I’ve talked about it. You know, when I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with a learning disability and I was not reading. And I grew up in a family where intellectual academics was stressed reading, writing, conversing, you know, going to professional school, you know, those were things that my parents really on a value system, instilled in myself and my brother. And when I couldn’t read, my mom tried everything, bless her heart, and we ended up going to an ophthalmologist. And I ended up getting some nearsighted glasses and my eyes kept getting progressively worse. And I became a memorizer. That’s how I got through school. You know, I became adept at looking at a lot of different cues and signals from my teachers what I needed to do to, to get the grade to get the answer. And, you know, I made National Honor Society, and I never was very, very good at it taking tests. But I got better at that as well.
You know, I could figure it out. But by the time I was 28 years old, I graduated optometry school, I was significantly nearsighted to the point where I needed my lenses all the time. And I met an eye doctor who was a holistic eye doctor and I started to go to him as a patient. I paid him and I went to him. And he said two things to me said number one, the reason why you have a learning problem is that your left eye wanders out, and you’re not able to use your two eyes together. This was news to me, when I’m not when I was in optometry school. All the optometrist who, you know, examined me would say your eyes are healthy, and you got myopia. So the second thing he said is that he thought that the nearsightedness, the myopia that I had in my eyes, was just all based on tension that I had an effort, I had a way of effort seeing that he felt if I went through physical therapy, I could reverse all of it. So I started on a program with them. Six months later, my two eyes are working together. And I really started to love to read. Second thing that happened is my nearsightedness went completely away. And it started me along a path of helping people do the same thing. And what’s great about this is that I definitely have experienced it. So by experiencing it, when people come to see me,
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either in the workshops or in the, you know, in the private sessions or whatever, that I’m walking my talk that I, I’m in total belief that you can change your prescription, you can reverse your eye disease, you can reduce your learning problem. And so there’s a lot of really great attributes that come from being able to go through that process. So, that’s my story. I’m sticking to it. And that’s our show for today. I want to thank you for your participation, your contributions and most of all, spread the word. The more people that know about this, it’s going to help a lot and you know, you don’t have to live out your doctor’s diagnosis. All right, ladies and gentlemen, until next time, take care.
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So in that case, you will just get two glasses, one for reading and one.
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Well let’s go a little deeper here. Yeah, so you’re in a situation where you’re farsighted. So let’s let’s talk about that from a more holistic perspective. So in farsightedness most people that are farsighted, there are a couple of different definitions. One aspect of the farsightedness is those are people that see well in the distance, and they’re kind of visionary, they see the big picture. And when they start losing their muscular focus flexibility in the lenses of the eye, these are the tiny, they’re called ciliary muscles. That usually means that they’re losing their near vision so they reach for a magnification lens. Now when you reach for a magnification lens, what’s happening to the muscles is they’re losing their responsiveness. Because things are bigger things are, you know, there’s no effort on your part.
But what it begins to do to the muscles is it makes them unresponsive and flaccid. And this is why when somebody starts wearing a magnification lens, and they wear it for a period of time and then they take it off and they go you know, I can’t restart my eye muscles. I’m not seeing
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how it’s helped. It’s not that was not able
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to refocus, right, you can’t refer back and forth. I couldn’t switch back exactly because of how it felt
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because the the magnification shuts off and muscular responsiveness, so functionally, okay. So then at that point, usually when you go to, again, a regular eye exam, and I don’t know how these people work it I mean, in some offices, you sit behind a machine called a phoropter, which has got lots of lenses and that either technician of the doctor’s, you know, flipping the lens, which is clear, one or two, that would you had, okay. So you don’t really know, you know, it’s like, it’s this artificial environment, one or two, one or two, you know, and so you have no idea. And let’s say you’re walking into the office, and it’s a day where he’s, uh, you know, I got so much stress, and I didn’t sleep well, or whatever. So you choose this lens, and you get it, and you put it on and maybe make you a little nausea, nauseous, nauseous, Dizzy, or something isn’t right with it, and you go back, and the doctor says, Well, you know, just get get used to it.
And so with that, with that message that you receive, Oh, get used to it, what you have to begin to do is you shut down your body’s awareness, to be able to accommodate to some optical idea that some doctor is giving you and on top of that, you’re being forced to make a choice, when probably neither of them are the lens that’s going to keep your eyes from getting worse, or improving your vision. And then on top of that, if you’re having a day, you know, the lens you get in that particular time period, fixes your vision, in that moment of time. So it’s, it’s kind of insanity, because your visual system is a dynamic, flowing movement, you need to be able to shift back and forth, you know, and be able to see in the distance come in to near accommodate flexibility, versatility. And the mind is part of this, the brain is part of this, the body is part of the so at this point, you’ve got whatever you’ve got, and it’d be good to know what those are.
But here is the first step that I would recommend for you. And what it would be is, whatever digital device you’re using, either it’s a laptop, I’m assuming, or a desktop. The desktop is a different conversation, but let’s say a laptop or a tablet, or even your phone. You can go into any drugstore, and they have a rack of magnification lenses. Whether you’ve done that or not, no. And you, you take your device with you, and you look for the lens, that’s going to make things clearer for the device without overpowering you without creating nausea. So in other words, there’s two criteria. It looks clear, and it feels good in your body. Like how does this make me feel? And so you want to get to a point where I feel comfortable, I’m not overcorrected.
And with I can see things, clearly, I don’t need to strain because people think, well, I should get something under corrected, make me work harder, that actually creates more strain. So we do physical eye therapy, you know, outside the time when you have to do your screen time, or when you need to see things clearly, in the in the balance point is somewhere in between, you know, it’s clear, and it feels good. My intuitive sense with you, I have no idea what the prescription is good to see the numbers, you might start with like a plus 1.0 or plus 1.25. And, you know, see if you can see your screen time like the laptop or the tablet, and see if that would work for you on the phone as well. Now, the thing that you have going for you with the digital stuff, is you can always increase the size. And by doing that, then you’re reducing the amount of magnification you have to look through. And so you don’t want to start going higher on the magnification. You know if your your text is really really small. Pat yourself a break, you know you want to make it so
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my other question that. So today laptops and phones both give you settings where you can make the font bigger is the same thing as getting a screen that sits on top of the you know two, because you could definitely change the size of the font to make it a little bit bigger so you could see. So I don’t know if I could do that. Or if you think that there is still a benefit from putting a screen on top of like the screen.
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Or when you say put a screen on top of a screen. What do you mean by that?
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I magnification. Like you’re saying the clear scope?
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In other words, putting glasses on over your eyes?
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No, no more. I’m talking. So you’re asking me to go to the store and get this clear screen to go on my laptop? And on my phone?
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Screen? No, no, not a clear screen, get a pair of glasses.
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Oh, pair of glasses,
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yeah, magnification. But you want to get a minimum magnification, that single vision. So you’re not dealing with a split lens. So that here’s the here’s the deal. The bigger the bigger the window you look through, the more vision you’re using, and the more relaxed your eyes are going to be.
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That makes sense. Yeah, so yeah, so we’re basically saying that because my eyes were somewhat limited. With range, it caused some fatigue and some stress, let’s now translating into maybe vision decline,
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correct. But it’s not just that it’s the, it’s the optical design of splitting the vision into different compartments, and recognizing the only part of the lens you’re using is the center part, right in the middle. So you’re eliminating, like, 90,
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get a pair of glasses for looking at a screen, right? Then
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you’re gonna, you’re gonna choose it, right. And you’re gonna have to feel your body and see it clearly. And I’m saying, you know, could be somewhere around a plus 1.0 plus 1.25, I don’t know, you know, we don’t know what your, I would imagine, you know, you’re throwing out a number of points seven, five. It might be that that’s I don’t know if that’s distance or computer or we don’t know. But the combination of making the screen, the font bigger, will lower the amount of magnification in the glasses. And there’s another very important point that I need to share with you. And that is that I learned this many years ago, you know, I had an opportunity. When I was training, when I was learning a holistic approach to vision. I was on the East Coast in Philadelphia. And there are about five Holistic i doctors along the northeast corridor. And they were in their 70s. When I met them, I was 28 years old man, I was so lucky. And I would just be like a sponge, when they would have their study groups and things. And one of the things they taught me that is gold, is that even if one eye is different than the other, that if you prescribe the same lenses for each eye, it encourages the two eyes to start working together, even if one is slightly blurrier than the other. Whereas when you go for a mechanical I examine the correct one eye for this power, and then another eye for this power, it reinforces the discrepancy
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got it makes the difference wider.
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Yeah, exactly. Audit it may it spotlights the difference, because there’s so this is why it’s going to work out great for you. Because we do want the same lenses.
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That was one of the questions I was going to ask you. So in the past, when my vision has not declined, I actually used to live in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia, I went to school and fell in Philadelphia. And I remember my my ophthalmologist, my doctor there at the time, he kept my vision really the same the entire time and I went to him because I just would get headaches from studying for too long or, and then I just cannot really do my work because my eyes my headache, you know, it stops me from doing that. And I do remember that on the left eye. He’s always kept it like blank. Like there’s not he never did anything with my lazy eye. Because my lazy eye was very cooperative. Okay. And it worked really well. And when he tested it, and I always wondered why he did that now they started correcting my left eye. And that’s when things kind of gone really bad now that I’m thinking back about it because now I have, you know, a lens that does both that that has a prescription in each eye and they’re different from each other. So that’s probably the challenge.
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Oh, you know, so so I can tell you that when the two eyes are focusing differently that your there’s going to be strained. Yeah, you know, I think that you know, there are many reasons of why we get headaches. Keep them in your case, and the first place I would start would be getting a lens that’s symmetrical to encourage you to I to work together, I think you’d get it was such a, it was such a great thing to learn. And when I can I do that with people, of course, I’m watching their body’s response when I give them a lens, but I think you could probably do it. And you know, you can always email me and say, and I’m getting a headache, blah, blah, blah. But this is why I think this is going to work for you to get a single vision lens, least amount of magnification, where your eyes can see clearly and your body and your eyes feel relaxed, that you’re not over corrected. Okay, great. And so then there, you would just wear the glasses when you need them, because this is another myth. And I think you already know this, the more you wear glasses, the weaker, your eyes are going to become more you need
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them. That’s exactly how I started, my eyes started feeling really weak. And now I can no longer read without my glasses. And the longer I wear him, the less I can see without him,
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there are exercises that I want to show you that can help you regain. And we’ll go into that in a minute. Now the other thing that you can consider, let’s do this in steps, step one would be just go get the real, you know, the glasses of the drugstore, get that figured out. And I do think that blue light that emanates from the screen, dry, dries your eyes out, and it also creates high strain. So a way to deal with that would be number one, there’s a blue light setting on most computers and phones and things. So you want to get that night shift turned on. Number two would be if you think that the blue light is affecting you, there’s a company that I like called Aki shield, oh cu Shi ELD. And they sell screens that you can put over your device that reduces the blue light exposure. And so that would be number two. And then number three, you know, once you get the prescription from the drugstore, and you you know you’re wearing it for a bed and you like it and it’s working for you, then you could consider having a you know, a pair made up. Now the whole glasses industry around blue light, I, I did some research, I’m a kind of an optics person. So I developed the blue blocker doesn’t make the screen darker, that’s what an orange or yellow tint does. What I developed was called a blue blocking filter. So basically a blocks the damaging blue light that I put the filter on the inside part of the lens. So a blocks the blue light, but it doesn’t darken things, it doesn’t distort the color. So you could get those through my web store, you could you could either send me a frame, or you could buy a frame, you know, we’re running sales all the time. So that you know you could do it’s not expensive and but that would come after you go okay, I like this prescription.
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Yeah, find something that works first works
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first. And then and then we can take the next steps. But I you know, I have blue blockers that I use after six o’clock at night. And
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so during the day, it’s okay to be exposed during the
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day, it’s fine, you know, the sunlight, and I know you’re in Seattle, but the sunlight has blue light, and we do need an amount of blue light, it balances our circadian rhythm, and so on. It’s more of the high energy blue light that comes off of our screens and see after 6pm The blue light tricks the pineal gland to stop producing melatonin. And so that affects the sleep and those kinds of things. So, you know, just know about it. I think right now the first step would be let’s get you into single vision lens that you like that feels good. And, you know, Park these progressive lenses. I mean, you it’s okay to use them a little bit like let’s say you have to go into a store and you’re you know, you’re back and forth. And you want some magnification help. But clearly not is such a I mean it also has a an effect on your cervical spine. Because you’re you know, you’re always which part of the being a cranial sacral therapist. I’m all always releasing the cervical spine. And the cervical spine is very connected to the eye muscles, the neck is very connected to the eye muscles. So releasing the spine, the cervical spine in the neck actually relaxes and gives more vitality to the eye muscles. So
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I have a question about the single vision glasses from the drugstore. So if I if I go pick them up, I’m looking what what distance? Am I looking to test with those? Is it like a computer screen distance or?
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Like? Well, it’s it’s it’s thinking about your current ergonomic setup when you’re using your computer. So you know, usually
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reading or when I’m reading, reading, so the
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distances for the distance for reading is actually the optimal distance is measured from the knuckle, under the chin to the elbow. That is the there were studies that were done that showed when was the stress level on the body reduced. And this is called the Harmon distance. And it was developed by this engineer scientists from Ohio State, I think our old Boyd Harmon. So you don’t want to be bringing it closer you want to have that. And again, it’s different, you know, you might be 12 inches, you might be 14 inches. So you don’t want to bring you know, you don’t want to be bringing your phone in here, because the EMFs. And so you know, you want to be out there, that’s the reading distance. Now with the computer. Generally speaking, it’s somewhere between 18 and 22 inches. Usually for you know, a laptop, now you get into a desktop. That could be you know, four inches away, but then you can really make the screen the letters larger. So you know that point. Either you need less magnification or no. And the thing you want to be careful about I’m glad we’re talking about this is the prescription that you use for reading is too much magnification for the computer. This is another thing that causes our eyes to deteriorate, because we’re paying too much magnification at that computer distance.
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So the computer distance, so the reading distance was not called to elbow that’s between 12 and 14 inches and the computer was what 18 inches, you said
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18 to 22 inches depending.
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Okay, so I’ll just I’ll test those because this is what I struggle with a little bit like how, what is the healthy distance?
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Yeah, so that’s it 12 to 14 inches for reading 18 to 22 inches for computer. So you can take your tape measure in, take your computer in. And you know, for 10 or $15, you’re gonna get a lens that is going to serve you better than you know what, what, unfortunately,
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and we’re saying here that optimize it for reading to stress and to make it feel good in the body. Yes. And do I get another one for the other distance for 18 to 22. Or just let that be natural get to?
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Well, I think experiment, it may be, you know, what’s interesting about that is that if you start doing some eye exercises, you might find that you just get the computer glasses, but you’re able to read, especially, you know, if you make the phone a little bigger or which would be great. So let’s say you decide on 1.25 for the computer. And if you make the font a little bigger on the phone or the tablet, or you have good light on your book, that that might work also for reading and the computer. So you don’t need two pairs of glasses, or you get a second pair that’s like if I have to look in a medicine bottle or you know something like you know, like it’s five point or seven point and then you would only use those for that particular circumstance. So you’ve got some wiggle room here. And if you start doing the vision, physical therapy that I’m going to teach you, you could actually start to reverse the need for the magnification lens.
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Yes, the some of the exercises on your website have done a little bit I actually felt pretty good. I could read my computer screen so the computer screen is the first I got corrected very quickly. Yeah, my mic my laptop was like I just did not need glasses anymore for reading. It kind of improved a little bit but then it declined again. I think I just didn’t really know what I was doing. I wasn’t targeted with my exercises with my work. I just I just feel that if I’m on the right regiment I should be able to recover where the math has become kind of as needed. I didn’t I have a headache. I’m doing too much reading today. I need it but I don’t want to be reliant on it now I can’t really see if I forgot him at home I can’t fill out a form right the pharmacy and that’s a problem right
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yeah it’s very disempowering at that at that point
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The number two, when you go for your eye exam, I recommend taking a friend or family member and have a certain intention or focus on what you want to achieve. It could be, you know, I want you to check my health. I want you to give me a prescription for my glasses if that’s what you need. But I don’t want you to overcorrect me. And the way you do that is when he starts flipping the lenses, feel it in your body, feel it in your eyes. And you’re wanting to stay as close to the current prescription as you can. And you know, you need to stand up for yourself here. And you need to say I don’t want a super strong prescription. And most of the time, even if they don’t believe in you, or believe what you’re saying, if you are committed, because you know, the stronger the prescription you get, the faster it is going to weaken your eyes. So you want to stay in the area of something that’s more in the middle so you don’t have something that’s so strong that you know it’s going to make you dizzy, nauseous, or give you headaches.
All right. Now in addition to that, I would be very careful about going into things like progressive lenses, or bifocals. Especially if you haven’t done it before. You’re much better off getting two pairs of glasses, something for distance something for near. You want to stay away from things like mono vision, where they’re correcting one eye for distance, one eye for an ear. And you want to be conservative in what you’re wearing. You know these newfangled things that these these guys and gals want to prescribe. They end up in disaster. I mean, people come to me and they go, you know, I should have never gone down this road. I just had a guy yesterday. And he said, You know this is the busiest fanciest Ice Center in Santa Fe. And every time I come out of there, I get these glasses. I cannot see out of them. I keep going back and they just say get used to and I’ve gone to them three years in a row.
I am fed up. And so for the exam what I did is I reduced his prescription by about 70% He tried it on and he goes, Oh, my goodness, this feels great. I love this. So it takes an empowerment on your, you know, in your world to be able to say, I don’t want something too strong. And don’t give me all these bells and whistles. I’d even be careful about staying away from a lot of tints. A lot of coatings, because it ends up smudging the lens, it’s cloudy. And you know, the lenses just don’t last as long. And they’re expensive. So stay with, again, middle of the road. All right, number three surgery. So, first of all, if a doctor is recommending eye surgery, I would consider getting a second opinion, I would definitely do some research, consult with me or somebody like me. And before you enter into any surgery, you want to know what the side effects are, you want to know what the success rate is? You want to know, you know, what, what can I expect from this? And in some of the side effects, you want to know things like well, is this going to create dry eye? Is it going to create floaters?
Am I going to have a retina issue? What what are some of this and really, you know, if you can’t get those answers from your doctor, then you find a doctor who can who can tell you these things. And I would enter any surgical procedure very, very cautiously. Because, you know, there are side effects, especially to laser procedures, and, you know, procedures that are invasive. So that being said, you know, as long as the condition is not site threatening, and you’ve got even if you have four to six weeks, what I would say is start doing some of my protocols, and many times you can stave off the pattern and eventually turn the tide. So this is something again, where you go with a friend with an advocate and you don’t let them bully you into something or scare you into something until you are completely informed on what’s going on.
And this even includes pharmaceutical eyedrops. Things like eyedrops for Restasis steroid eyedrops antibiotic eyedrops a lot of times, there may be alternatives that you can use. And this is where you get the information and then you find somebody like me, and then there are ways that you can go I mean, acupuncture can be really helpful. cranial sacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, herbal remedies, plant any plant based medicines, natural eyedrops eye exercises, there’s so many things that you can do and you know another one that we don’t talk that much about because change your diet, you know, take a look at the diet that you’re eating and go more plant based, more rainbow vegetables.
Really good for your retina and vitreous and cornea and eyelids and eat an anti inflammatory diets using intermittent intermittent fasting, do a cleanse, you know, find a functional medicine doctor to help you because a lot of times these eye problems are based on either a functional problem in the eyes themselves. You’re wearing the wrong prescription or both eyes are working together. Or you have a biochemical or an endocrine imbalance that a good naturopath or a functional medicine doctor can help you with replenish yourself with these nutrients and then your eye tissue heals. So if you have any questions, feel free to email me hello@drsamberne.com appointments@drsamberne.com. Check me out on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube TikTok, Twitter and clubhouse. I’m here for you. That’s our show. Take care everybody.
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