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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.

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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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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

underpriced, business, access, sam, posts, membership, develop, vision, entrepreneurs, talk, involved, exclusive membership, paying, farmers, create, brand, words, giving, wellness

 

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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.

 

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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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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.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

people, colloidal silver, water, structured, test, heavy metals, hydrogen, parasites, healing, testing, health, holistic, silver, practitioner, nutritionist, body, nebulizer, coherency

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 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.

16:53

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.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

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.

Sources:

1. Delta-Tocotrienol suppresses VEGF-induced angiogenesis whereas alpha-tocopherol does not. 

• Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19702331/

2. Antiangiogenic and anticancer potential of unsaturated vitamin E (tocotrienol).

• Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19071006/

3. Distribution of tocopherols and tocotrienols to rat ocular tissues after topical ophthalmic administration. 

• Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15506242/

4. Effects of topically applied tocotrienol on cataractogenesis and lens redox status in galactosemic rats. 

• Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057512/

5. Reduction of oxidative-nitrosative stress underlies the anticataract effect of topically applied tocotrienol in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. 

• Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28350848/

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

vitamin d, cataract, antioxidants, retina, form, eye, study, research, leafy green vegetables, circulation, lutein, macular degeneration, conditions, lens, reduce, vitamin e, health, dry eye syndrome, support

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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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.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, prescription, wear, lenses, vision, left, double, quarter, blurrier, contacts, nearsighted, optometrists, number, technique, creates, muscles, balancing, closer, lens, practice

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.

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.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

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.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

divergence, eye, convergence, gram, vision, vector, ocular, spatial, kids, images, depth perception, slide, suppression, test, chart, diagnostic, 3d, cognitive, spectrum disorder, presentation

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.

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.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

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.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, cataract, patch, doctor, reduced, nearsightedness, prescription, work, started, years, teaching, vision, sat, gave, progressive lenses, surgery, optometry school, program, circle, process

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.

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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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

magnification, eyes, lens, vision, glasses, distance, called, screen, corrected, computer, reading, cervical spine, muscles, doctor, blue, light, lenses, drugstore, headache, inches

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.

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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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eye, doctor, prescription, eyedrops, holistic, stay, surgery, glasses, side effects, friend, functional medicine doctor, strong, stave, recommend, give, biological dentist, naturopath, tik tok, retina, fanciest

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.

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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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eyes, exercise, tracing, symbols, stress, thumb, feel, distances, muscles, prescription, focusing, doctor, brighter, destress, vision, circulation, closed, cataracts, nose, body

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Alright, so I want to at least talk to you about the physical eye therapy exercises. Okay? This is where you get into the habits with your eyes. Like what? And you know, even say habits, what do you mean? Like how your brain and your eyes interface. There are certain skills in vision. So vision is different than reading the eye chart. Reading part is I’m looking at a chart. That’s like your eyesight. But vision is this skill of how the eyes track an object. They focus, they change the focus with the muscles, the coordination of the eyes, how they work together, how well you’re able to destress your eyes. Because one of the problems that happens with people is they don’t know how to discharge the accumulated stress. I mean, our eyes are like a sponge. Absorb the environment they absorb.

You know, so do you want to absorb stress? Or do you want to absorb therapeutic things? Right, so I’m just gonna go through a couple of possibilities. You don’t have to do this, but I’m going to at least mention it. Okay, so the eyeball has six muscles that move the eyes around. And for most of us, we stay in a very tunneled, you know, position, we’re not doing a lot of movement. So one of the exercise, basically using your thumb and kind of tracing something around the room. So let’s do this right now.

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Okay, cover your left thigh.

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Okay, your thumb, come out. And pick something like across the room, it could be a shelf, a cabinet, a painting a window, and trace your thumb around the object. By moving your thumb like the thumb is tracing the edge. Be aware of your breathing, be aware of your blinking, do it in one direction and then do it in the other direction, then let me know when you’re done.

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Okay, okay, so you’re done. All right.

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So what I’d like you to do now is take your hay and put your hand down the thumb. Okay? And then take your hand away from me from the other eye. And now look around and give me an

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impression.

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What you see what you feel, when you eat reintroduce the left eye after you’ve stretched the right eye? brighter, clearer, more peripheral.

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Yeah, it is a little brighter, actually. Yeah.

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So the key in having good vision is allowing light to come into the eyes. Cover an eye and you do that kind of stretching, and then you reintroduce the eye, you’re accessing something called neuroplasticity.

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Okay. Yeah.

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So you’re creating a new new track a new pathway now that the right eye has changed. And now the left eye has to make an adjustment. So more clarity, and more relaxation. And now let’s do the other eyes. So cover the right eye with your left thumb. Again, pick something out. Trace it around and each direction when you do it, be mindful. I’m breathing. I’m blinking so I’m not just holding my breath. And then let me know when you’re done

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Oh, yeah, it’s a lot brighter.

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brighter. Yeah. So that is a really easy way for you to bring more circulation and oxygenation by stretching the muscles each eye separately. So I’ll send you a video on this. It’s called the thumb game. And he basically just play with you could do it with clouds in the sky. You could do it, you know, just anything beyond, you know, 10 feet where you’re, you’re just doing this little tracing thing with each eye.

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varying distances, your very

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your distances. Because in farsightedness what happens is what you have is you’re losing your Your ability to focus at different distances.

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Uh huh.

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The multiplication lens makes everything bigger. So your mind goes, why bother? I’ll just use the magnification.

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Uh huh. Okay, that’s good. So

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that’s one. A second exercise is more of a focusing exercise where you’re using both eyes at the same time. And it’s a coordination exercise. So what I’m going to send you is a sheet of paper with

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its four symbols. Well, two symbols, eight symbols to. Okay, so you look at

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the top row, again, I’ll send you directions of video and the chart, you hold over right up to your nose, that’s weird. And then you mentally look through the paper and you push it out about 10 inches. And those two symbols that we started with now become three symbols. And when they become three symbols at arm’s length, it means your left eye is focusing on the left symbol, the right eyes focusing on the right symbol. And the middle symbol has both eyes kind of connecting in the middle. So you get the three symbols and you move it around, like I’m doing. You know, maybe for about 30 seconds to a minute, and then you go on to the next pair,

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same thing.

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Okay, so you got four pairs that you’re going to, to turn into three. And as they turn in three, and you move it around, you are exercising both eyes together, and you’re relaxing your vision in the midst of focusing it. Okay. So you spend maybe three to four minutes on the sheet on the exercise, you know, and it’ll just, it’s a calisthenic that remind your eyes and your brain to be integrated, so that one eye is not doing more than the other eye. And you’ll notice that after you do it for a few days, your eyes are gonna feel more limber, they’re gonna feel more vital, like more awake, more active. And this is then where you can start coming down on the on the magnification part. Because you’re now exercising the muscles, the exact opposite of what the glasses are doing, which disconnects you from your muscles.

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Okay. Okay. All right. So again,

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I’ll send you a video and then the shoe shot sheet on that. Okay, there’s one more exercise I talked about, how do you de stress your eyes? How would you even know how to do that we’re not taught, you know, we stretch our body, we relax, we breathe, you know, whatever we’re doing. So I’m going to show you an exercise I’ve created now and we’re going to do it. And so what you’re going to do right now is for have your hands together one time for about 10 seconds, get the heat going. And then you’re going to

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call palm the put the palms of the hands

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over your eyes and they’re closed for that. All right, now I want you to do a normal breath in. Inhale through your nose. On the exhale, mouth is closed. And I want you to make a low audible so I can hear it humming sound.

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Go ahead and try it. Breathe in through the nose. On the exhale, your mouth closed

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okay let’s do it again. I’m supposed to be breathing.

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I mean, breathe in through the nose. On the exhale, keep your mouth closed. So you’re vibrating the sound in your mouth and in your face. Keep going.

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In breathe out, breathe out very slow.

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Well, you’re breathing out while you’re making the humming sound. So the oxygen is leaving as

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going One more

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Okay, now keep your eyes closed, and just drop your hands. Keep your eyes closed. Just drop your hands. And can you report to me what you’re feeling?

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Um, anything that’s in your words? I like

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I definitely sense a lot of light around me even though my eyes are closed.

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That’s fine. Whatever it is. How about on a body level? Do you feel any tingling? Do you feel a release? Do you feel your eyes more? Do you have? Like a like, bring it into the body? What? Yeah,

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I mean, I do definitely feel my eyes. I did feel a little bit of tingling, like in my nose kind of upper lip area.

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Okay. All right, perfect. Now I want you to open your eyes, I want you to look around the room.

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Everything’s really bright and clear. Yeah.

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So what you did there is you released stress and tension that maybe you’ve been carrying for a little bit. And as you know, when we carry stress anywhere, it lowers the circulation. And when you feel the tingling, and by the way, the sinuses are very connected to the eyes. The jaw is very connected to the eyes. What you did there is you by the sound was a way for you to release the tissue. Okay, it the face. And so I would make this a daily practice. And whenever you remember, do this poem, hum. Okay. Your hands are like tuning forks. So when you have them over the eyes, part of that sound somewhere is traveling into the eye tissue, the vitreous, the eyelids, the retina in a way that is creating more circulation. And it’s, in other words, you’re not holding the eyeballs in a certain position.

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Okay. And we did that, what like six times, how many times do we do that six times, six times.

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That’s all you need, you know, you want to do enough where you’re building some momentum. But I want to give you something I want to give you something to chew on here.

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All right.

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statistic. So as you know, I’m kind of a collective i Doctor, I work with a lot of different modalities. And one of the modalities two of the modalities I’ve studied are kind of like cranial sacral therapy. It’s a body centered therapy called somatic. I have also studied Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine when I taught at Esalen in California was about getting in touch with what’s my body feeling. And the eyes are like a dead zone. We don’t feel our eyes very much. We just don’t feel feel our eyes. We you know, the eye doctor says hey, we’re a lens and see you later and I’ll make it stronger. And so when I would study with these therapists, these body centered therapists and we’re all for it overall for offers Emily Conrad and continuum movement. They all said the same thing to me. Because I was the only AI person in the room, you know, what kind of eye doctor would study the body 60 to 80% of body tension is carried in the eyeballs. Wow. The ad print mean, you think about that? And you go wow. You know, I mean, you think about how we relate the first one of the first ways we look at something we look we tighten we we you know, and how do we get rid of that? You know, the way we don’t we just kind of keep perpetuating this lockdown. And then you go to an eye doctor and you’re in lockdown already. And so then the eye doctor is going to give you a lens that’s going to reinforce the lockdown that you’re already in.

Now, why wonder you couldn’t wear any of those prescriptions, because there’s a part of you that’s aware enough to say I feel this is not right. And then you start second guessing yourself because you go, well, it doesn’t feel right. But he’s the doctor, you know, he’s the authority he knows. No, he’s basing a prescription on some idea he learned in a textbook. And like, this is the formula. This is what you do. So he’s not even really looking at your body’s response or your response. And so then you have to come up with well, let me try this older prescription. Because that’s probably when you were looser, you know, you were in a situation where you had less stress. So you’ll well, they don’t like that. Because they’re like, Well, wait a minute, that’s not your current. You know, it’s all based on some idea. And I, you know, I know, I know these guys, because I go to conferences, they all have the same idea. Well, you know, at 40, you need reading glasses and 50. You need bifocals and 60. You get, you know, vitreous detachment, and seven, you get cataracts, and then ad you go blind. That’s kind of in the textbook. Well, I’m calm. I have an 84 year old right now, who is not wearing progressive lenses anymore. She’s healed her cataracts. Her prescription keeps getting better and better every couple of months, because she’s doing eye exercises, and she’s 84 years old. You would say, well, it’s just an anomaly, or that it’s an anecdote.

You know, it’s all on the placebo, I don’t know what they would say. But the thing is, is that 60 to 80% of body tension, if you want to keep your vitreous intact destress your vision and you felt something’s energy moving by simple, you know, and by doing that, and if you get into the, you know, the space of, let me just chill into this. It’s a game changer, you’re going to start seeing more clearly in the distance. And you’re going to start being able to maybe pick up some reading words, with the computer glasses. And, you know, it’s just gonna keep getting better. But of course, if you go to the doctor, you know, they’re gonna, I had a lady on Instagram, she wrote me and she was telling him about some of the things she was doing. And she said, his response was, he just laughed at

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me. Oh, okay. Instead of like,

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do you want to go to a practitioner, it says, you know, I’m curious, what are you doing? That’s interesting. Wow. I didn’t know that. Like a naturopath or an acupuncturist. They’re a little more open minded. They

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are curious, you know, we’re trained in a very fixed model. And, you know, obviously, it’s not working for you. I mean, for a lot of people it is they just

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follow along. That’s cool. My, my approach isn’t for everybody. I’m not

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

essential oils, lemon, aromatics, aromatherapy, oil, carrier oils, smell, drops, burns, skin, soles, organic, detoxification program, dirty socks, love, playing, attuned, put, mix, rose

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, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So I’m going to take one question. I’m so excited to talk about aromatherapy. You know, it’s one of my passions. I’ve been studying plant medicine for many, many years. And I want to focus in on lemon, lemon essential oil. So lemon is one of those essential oils that’s really versatile. But you have to be careful in how you use it. In fact, when you use any essential oils the first time, you need to introduce the oil to yourself in a very gentle and loving way. And that means what I like to do when I teach my classes, I recommend that you smell the oil first you get an aroma, it goes in through your olfactory system to the Olympic system, you’re gonna get an immediate yes or no.

So if I had rose oil, for example, you’d smell that for most people, it associates to the rose flower, it’s hard opening. Whereas there’s another essential oil I use called spike in art. And it smells like dirty socks, even though it’s a very shamanic essential oil, you can use it in the dream world. It’s very relaxing. So you know, you have to introduce yourself and see, first of all, is it a yes or no. And so with the lemon, most people love lemon, you know, it’s a citrus. And so with lemon, you smell it first, you get that? That first introduction. And then I like to do a test pass patch on my arm. So I use it on the inside part of my wrist, no, the kind of below the wrist, it’s a skin area there that’s pretty well protected in the sense that if you put an oil on there, and it burns a little bit, no big deal, as opposed to say, putting it directly on your face, or, you know, private areas of your body where it burns. And believe me, I’ve done that.

And it’s it’s painful for a minute or so. And then of course, it goes away. And by the way, if you ever put an essential oil on your on your skin, and it burns, you can immediately reduce the burning by using coconut oil. So that’s a trick that I learned when I was first learning about aromatherapy. And it’s it’s a great one for reducing or eliminating any burning from any essential oil. So with lemon, let’s say you’ve done test number one, you’ve smelled it’s good, you put it on the wrist area, the inside part of the arm, it’s all good. So the next thing would be to say where is the safe place to put it on the body. And I think you can put almost any essential oil on the soles of your feet. And so for adults, the dosage would be two to three drops of oil on either soul twice a day now with children, because I get this question a bit from parents because they love the essential oils. And actually kids actually love these essential oils even more, because they’re very connected to plants. You know, they’re out in nature, they’re playing hopefully not, not on their digital screen time, too much, but they’re out there in nature and they’re they’re playing and they’re so they’re more attuned to nature, so they’re going to be more attuned to most plant medicines, whether it’s homeopathy or herbs or essential oils.

So with them, if you’re doing adults say, two to four drops with kids, I would start with one drop. And the younger the child, of course, the less oil the more sensitive it’s going to be. So what are the benefits of lemon? So first of all, lemon is antibacterial, it’s antifungal. Lemon also supports the liver, the spleen, the kidney. It’s actually a detoxification agent. So if you’re doing a gentle detox, you can add lemon to your detoxification program. Again, always on the soles of the feet. Another thing I love about lemon is that it’s emotionally uplifting. You’re going to feel better you’re going to feel up. So let’s say you know you’re having a down day, little lemon goes a long way in terms of giving you that emotional boost.

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So the last question that I get about the essential oils is carrier oils. Now when I first learned aromatherapy, the school I was in was really extreme. We only used essential oils directly on the skin. And as I began to practice aromatherapy, I did observe that people had different sensitivity levels on their skin. And if you did get an organic carrier oil that you could mix in or use It I, I have softened my perspective on it. So three carrier oils that I would suggest and make sure they’re organic jojoba, Aloevera, or sunflower. These are three really compatible carrier oils that you can use with any essential oils. And again, you can just mix them in and apply it to your skin.

Now again, it’s going to dilute the essential oil a bit, so you may need to use a few more drops, but you’ll need to play with it. And you know, the the aspect of aromatherapy that’s really important is the intuitive part. And if you’re into intuition is strong, you’ll know one drop two drops once a day, twice a day, generally speaking, twice a day is really a good prescription. Again, one to four drops depending on the oil. So the company that I recommend, and I get no financial benefit from them, is Stillpoint aromatics. They’re in Sedona and Virginia joy is the founder and CEO of Stillpoint aromatics. She was actually on my health summit in Jade this past January. And I love her she’s got high integrity. She really shops the best farmers that she can find in terms of using biodynamic farming principles and it being organic and so on. So Stillpoint aromatics, you can find them online. All right, everybody. That’s my show for today. I want to thank you for tuning in. Until next time, take care.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, left, exercise, brain, patch, dialoguing, work, restore, blur, lazy, feel, develop, withdrawn, prescription, labeling, cover, hyper vigilance, release, exhale, peripheral vision

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.

We’re gonna play a little game. And the game is, I want you to cover your left eye with your left hand. And I want you to look above the screen. I just want you to look out in the room. Just look around, and we’re going to talk to the right, I am going to ask your right eye some questions. So you don’t need to analyze just kind of, you know, give me the first answer that pops into your head. Right i How old do you feel right now? I really don’t know. Okay, all right. You feel old? You feel young? Do you feel ageless? Do you feel like that’s a stupid question. I have no idea. I never thought

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I honestly Yeah. Like I don’t I don’t think about that. But I mean, right now looking around the room. Maybe? I don’t know. I guess it’s okay. I feel I’m like 30s Maybe

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30s Okay, great. Second question. Right. I write I do you know that you’re married to the left? I?

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Yes, definitely. Okay, and

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how’s the marriage is about is a deep

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work, but it’s not balanced. I do all the work.

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Exactly. Right. You do all the work. So right. i What do you need that you’re not getting? Probably some rest. Honey, yeah. All right. So now you’re going to slowly take your hands away from your left eye. And I want you to give me some impressions. When you reintroduce the left eye like things look brighter, clearer. Whatever, when you reintroduce brighter. Okay, anything else?

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I don’t know if they’re clear. Okay. It’s

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brighter. That’s one, maybe more peripheral vision. You know, who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Now I want you to cover the right eye. Okay, okay. What’s your first impression when you cover the right eye? What’s what’s the first thing that shows up in your awareness?

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very fuzzy, like,

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very fuzzy. Okay, interesting. All right, so

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I can see things but not

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blurrier than the right eye. Okay. Left Eye? How old do you feel?

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80 years old?

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Yeah, wow, you’re old. Okay. And left eye? How’s the marriage to the right eye?

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The right eye is great. I can’t do anything without it.

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So is it balanced? Or does the right I do all the work?

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does all the work.

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Okay, and so left i What is your belief system about blurry vision? Like, what what is what is this blur mean to you?

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Don’t know,

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well is it is it means something is wrong? Something is bad? Or do you could you get hurt? Are you just you know, are you just withdrawn? You know what, what, what is? What is your? What is your meaning of blur of blur? Does it make you happy? Is it make you sad?

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No, of course it makes me sad. I just feel that the eyes always been really incapable I kind of weak and not able to do

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so left eye what happened to you that caused this was Did this happen in utero? Did it happen at birth? Why have you withdrawn from the world? You know, they’ve labeled you lazy. So what happened left? I

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don’t know. I was born this way.

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You were just born this way? No, no idea why? And so you’re kind of just living this out. Okay. All right. So you can take your hand away reintroduce the right eye and give me an impression when you reintroduce the right eye?

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Yeah, everything’s clear. I can see again, you can see again,

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okay. All right. So I want you to get this. This is a really important. I want you to start working with an eyepatch on a daily basis. And I want you to start dialoguing and talking to each of your eyes. And when you whenever you wear a patch, it disrupts your habitual relationship kind of wakes it up. And it’s a very different kind of exercise than what the traditional doctor says which he would say well have just patch the good eye, you know, labeling at the right eye for eight hours a day and force the left eye to work. No, that is probably the most traumatizing thing that one can do. In this particular technique, you’re only patching for maybe a minute or two. And you want to bring an internal connection to yourself while you’re patching. And that’s why we asked the questions and dialoguing, because it disrupts the same pattern that you’ve been living under, since you were born. Yeah. And there’s also a labeling that happens.

Lazy, I’m lazy, lazy eye. And I would see if you could reframe it to say, Well, my left eye sees in a different perspective, than the right eye, you know, when when the left eye is more blurry, it can actually be more intuitive. It can be more receptive, like blurred does not have to be a bad thing. So I want you to see if you can stop saying left eye lazy. Because you’re, you’re living out that diagnosis that somebody put on you. And so it’s going to keep your eye ping, you know, withdrawn. So when you wear the patch, you’re going to do it equally, because it’s not just the left eye. And it’s not just the right eye, they both have a relationship. And the most important part of the patching is when you take it off, and you notice that things look better. Wow, brighter, clearer. So it’s kind of accessing a type of neuroplasticity in your brain, when you patch and then take the patch away, see the eyes originate from the brain, every tissue of eyeball is brain.

And it starts developing like two weeks, three weeks after conception. So when you’re in utero, and a lot of times when a child develops lazy eye, it could have been some stress in utero could have been just a gestation only, maybe you were, you know, you were leaning on the left side of your face, or maybe at birth, there was some, you know, breach or, you know, something happened there with the left side. Or, you know, maybe in development, there’s a certain motor development that children need to go through to develop their eye coordination. And whatever it is, we don’t know, I mean, you know, if we did a regression, you know, maybe we could find out, but it’s not even important. It’s just to start stimulating each eye separately, and then bringing them together,

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to bring them back together after you’ve separated them. And you’ve kind of internally talked about it, it changes how the two eyes are now relating to each other. And that’s what you want to do you want to create something new, new pathways. Right now, your left eye and right eye are living out a certain narrative. And the glasses just cover that over. And you need to start exploring, what’s the collaboration, like? And it may be? We don’t know, you know, when you go through this, there could be some dreams that come out, there could be some emotions that come out. It’s going to be provocative on a psycho emotional level, around the left eye. And the right eye, like we know right now, the right my right eye might be feeling a little resentful because it’s doing most of the work. That could be one of the reasons why your eyes are are deteriorating, because the left eye is not engaging with the right eye on top of this crazy prescription that this doc,

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yeah, totally. And I’ve been very protective. Like when you mentioned the idea of fear. I’ve always been afraid of an injury to my right. Because I keep I keep thinking that if something and I would even say this. I mean, it’s just crazy. I would even say something like if something happens to my right eye, I could become legally blind.

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Right, right. Yeah. So your mind is running that through that energy through your right eye? Yes, it’s stressing the right eye. It’s like a hyper vigilance. Yes. And that needs to stop. Now there’s a technique called NF T or not NF T EFT Emotional Freedom Technique. Look it up on line and it’s a way you can release your fear by doing some tapping, tapping into the fear, I would do what you can to release the fear, okay? That you stop unconsciously pressuring the right eye to have to, you know, oh my god, you know, because that hyper vigilance is is also creating a drain,

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of course. And you’re right, everything is in the brain, we know that the brain is developing and evolving and coordinating. I mean, the old ideas about the brain have completely been overturned. Science. So

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I just read a study University of Rochester said 50% of vision is brain. Well, I think it’s more than that, but that they did a research

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more, I think it is the Oregon itself. I mean, sometimes it’s not if you have diabetes, and you develop some issues with the eye in the structure of the eye and the vessels, the blood vessels. But in my case, if everything structurally is intact, at a physiological level, then it’s all brain. It’s 100% brain, right? Because the organ itself, like the part itself hasn’t been changed or altered by any means. So it’s all brain. So I need to restore it. Yeah, yeah, that’s awesome.

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Yeah. So now there are two more exercises in this in this session. The second exercise is I’m going to send you a link to a focusing exercise that I recommend using both eyes together, it’s called the Yin Yang, peripheral vision exercise, and I’ll send you a video on how to do it. And I’ll send you the chart which you can print out, it’s an exercise that you’re going to do, and you’re gonna have to focus your eyes in a certain way. And when you focus them correctly, you’re going to see three images on the sheet of paper. And when you get three images, that means that both of your eyes are engaging at the same time. So you’re practicing visual coordination simultaneously.

So the both eyes are working together, and you spend about a minute on it. And there’s four pairs of symbols. And you’re going to hold the sheet up to your nose, you’re going to look through it, you’re going to push it out to about 12 inches, and you got three images now that you’re focused on your left eye sees the left, right eye sees the right and both eyes see the middle. So now you’re re educating your two eyes to work together. And so you’re getting the eye dialogue, which I’ll send you that one also. So we just did. And then this is the focusing exercise, would you do like a minute or two minutes, I would do it like three times a day, you know, just to introduce a new pattern to your eye brain connection.

And then the third exercise is a relaxation exercise. Help the headaches give you more clarity. So I want to do it with you right now. This is what I want. If you would play with me, I want you to rub your hands together one time for about 10 seconds. And then I want you to take the palms and I want you to cover your eyes and your eyes are closed. I want you to take a normal breath in through the nose, just a normal breath and keep your mouth closed. And on the exhale. I want you to make a low but fairly robust humming sound and keep your mouth closed. So I can hear the hum. So go ahead and do one for me.

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On the exhale I hear the hum I’m not hearing the hum there we go okay, I want you to do six of those. Just like that. Be robust with it on the exhale. So you can feel the vibration six of them.

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Okay Okay, keep your eyes closed. And I want you to remove your hands. Keep your eyes closed. And what are you feeling? A lot of lights a lot of light. Okay, feel the energy moving. Feel the energy? Yeah.

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And now you can open your eyes and look around so what you just did there? How does other things look? What do you feel? What do you see?

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It feels pretty good. Very good. Color is the clarity.

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Yep. Okay, so this is called the palm hum. And this is a relaxation exercise that will release any tension in your eye muscles. And I’d like you to do this one three times a day also, okay. And if you start feeling like a headache coming on, instead of doing six of them, do 12 of them. And it will release the muscle tension. So any questions?

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If I do the exercises like how quickly am I expected to see some changes, or so what am I looking for?

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Well, I think number one, you’re looking for more peace and calming. And a loving relationship to your eyes. less worry, less stress, less frustration. So it’s going to show up there on an emotional level first. Once you release and let go of your current angst around it. And then you go get these this new prescription, I think it can be pretty immediate, that you’re going to start to see more clearly and your eyesight is going to start to restore itself. And then the long term would be to continue to do these practices. And you’ll see the reliance on your glasses, be less. And you’ll be able to go into a place and you’ll be able to read without meeting the magnifiers. Now, I’m going to circle back around and I’d like you to work with this for about six weeks. And then I’d like to do another session with you where I could teach you exercises to get rid of your reading glasses. Okay, you won’t be able to do that in this round. Right now we’re just trying to stop the bleeding.

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Right? It’s right restore, restore. It’s

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how to change the track that you’re on. But you’ll have days where you’re, you’re seeing really well. And I think healing this label of lazy I mean, the left, I could start seeing more clearly, that’d be another added benefit. It’s all going to be based on your healing ability. I mean, you are now given a lot of positive things to great change, instead of being in the same rut. And I would say that what that doctor said to you about between whatever the age is, that’s a myth. No, that’s not true. In my practice, people are getting better. I’m reducing their prescription every year they come to see me

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Yes, I want to go back to the days when I wear it on bad days on strenuous periods of time where I have to do like you know 1215 hours a day of reading and straining and then I take it off and I’m fine again. Right, exactly.

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Right, that would be another benefit but I would add do these exercises throughout the day.

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Hey everyone, welcome to the program. Today, I want to talk about essential oils and share my experiences with them. I first discovered essential oils when I had a digestive problem and tried cardamom essential oil, which provided great relief. Intrigued, I studied aromatherapy and became an aroma therapist. In fact, I may soon be releasing my own line of essential oils.

Essential oils are derived from various plant parts, such as grasses, roots, tree bark, and flower petals. They can be steam distilled or cold pressed and are highly concentrated and aromatic. While some people use essential oils for their pleasant fragrance, they also have medicinal properties. The most common way to experience essential oils is through inhalation, either by smelling them directly or using a diffuser. Inhalation can be beneficial for relaxation, reducing anxiety, and promoting better sleep.

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Hey, everybody, welcome to the program. Today, I want to talk about essential oils. So in this podcast, I want to give a little bit of advice on how to use essential oils where they come from. And so let’s just jump right in. I got exposed to essential oils many years ago actually had a digestive problem. And I was at a health fair. And there was an aroma therapist there and she said Why don’t you try this cardamom essential oil. And I said okay, so I put a couple of drops in some water.

And I said, Wow, this feels great on my stomach. I love this. So I bought a bottle, and I was using it after my meals and within a few weeks, my acid reflux and all my digestive discomfort discomforts went away. So I started to dive a little more deeply into aromatherapy actually studied it, I became an aroma therapist. I’ve taught aromatherapy I’ve sold essential oils. By the way, there’s a little secret out there that I am now talking directly do some farmers. And I may be releasing a line of my own essential oils and the next few months.

So just watch for that. And if I do that, I’m going to start teaching as well. So that’s kind of on the down low, but it’s probably going to happen fairly soon. So the essential oils can come from many different plant parts, grasses, roots, tree bark, flower petals, just to name a few of the plant parts. You can do steam distilled or cold pressed this is how you can access the essential oils, they’re highly aromatic, they’re very concentrated, they’re volatile, and they are very complicated in terms of their chemistry.

Some people will use essential oils just to make their space smell better, you can use the essential oils to cook with to clean with. And I want to talk a little bit about the medicinal qualities of the essential oils. So there’s a lot of applications ways that you can expose yourself to the essential oils.

So basically, what it is is that you want to introduce yourself to the essential oil and one of the best ways to do that is through your nose. So by smelling the essential oil, you are meeting the essential oil and the essential oils meeting you. So depending on how that goes. Then the other thing that you could consider is putting it in a diffuser and it will be diffused in In your personal space, that sometimes can work well.

If you’re in a high anxiety environment, or you’re stressed, or you’re having difficulty sleeping, you can use essential oils, like lavender, that can create a level of relaxation and ease, not only for you, but also for your pet. Well, since this is a introductory, you know, the thing that comes up around the central oils, is can you put it directly on your skin? Can you put it on your body. And there are a couple of schools of thought with this. Certainly, when I teach essential oil classes, we take a look at if the essential oil is more cooling, or if it’s a warm or hot oil. So let me give you an example.

Let’s say we were going to explore putting an essential oil on our skin. And we had two essential oils there. One would be vetiver, which comes from grasses is very cooling. It’s also very sticky and very thick. And then on the other end of the spectrum, let’s say we have a bottle of hot oregano oil. So notice I say hot. So you wouldn’t want to put that directly on your skin because you probably burn yourself. One of the things that I teach when we do our classes is to do a what we call a test patch, meaning you pick an area of your body that can handle the essential oil, I like to use this area here. So I might take a little bit of that vetiver and put it here and see what my skin’s response. Now if I start getting a lot of redness, or irritation or itchiness, it’s going to be in an area that’s very safe, you can always use something like coconut oil, or hobo oil right away. And that will neutralize any response.

I kind of doubt that vetiver is going to give you that reaction. Because it’s such a cooling oil. It’s a yin essential oil, as we say. But if you want to play it safe, you can always put your essential oils in a carrier oil. My favorite one is a hobo oil. But there are many of them out there on the market that you can do. And depending on the concentration, you can just do a few drops of the essential oil and say an eight or 16 ounce bottle. And you know you can shake it up a little bit. That certainly is pretty safe to do. I know some people like to bathe with the essential oils. So you could say take a few drops of lavender, put it in your bath as you’re heating it up, that would probably feel really relaxing. And so if you stay within those parameters and take a look at you know is it a hot oils and a cool oil, be really careful if you’re going to enter the domain of putting it on your skin.

Now if you take my classes, we practice applying them and using them in a variety of different ways. But for now, using a carrier oil, you can also put it in a spray bottle and spray it diffusers another way like when I had my digestive issue. And I use the essential oil cardamom and I put it in an eight ounce glass of water a couple of drops and I sipped it, that was no problem whatsoever. So with aromatherapy, another thing that’s very important is to know the source, where are these plants grown? Who are the farmers that are collecting the plants? What’s the process that’s used to extract the oil from the plant, and then how many hands middle people do the essential oils touch before you can buy it in the store?

Obviously, you want to try to get it as directly from the farmer as you can, or to have a minimal amount of hands in the middle middle areas, because the more people that touch it, you know, again, it may lose some of its medicinal value. Now that being said, there’s always the question do we want to go with say one of the famous companies that’s multi level marketing, I’m not going to name them, you know who they are. And many of those companies do have a very consistent effect of what the essential oil will do to you. And some of those companies are actually reputable. They’re really good. So I don’t I wouldn’t dissuade you from going that way if that’s what you want to do. A couple of other tips about where to buy essentials, what kind of essential oils to buy. You could certainly go to your local farmers market and talk to some of the herbalist there and the farmers they might be able to clue you in on a small farm, maybe it’s been there for a couple of generations.

And, you know, you can stay away from the multi level marketing. That happens with a lot of these aromatherapy companies. Now, look for a small company, a boutique company, somebody who tests the oils regularly. And, you know, if you do those things, you probably can find some really high quality medicinal oils. So in the last part of the program, today, I want to list some of my favorite essential oils, and what I use them for, so this may be helpful to you. Number one is lavender. And that is used for relaxation, reducing anxiety. Number two, Clary Sage, this is a great essential oil for hormone balance. Number three is laurel leaf. This is a great essential oil to help balance your lymph system.

Number four is frankincense. Being an eye guy, it’s great for your vision, you can put a drop right here before you meditate or up here. Number five is vetiver. I talked about that at the beginning of the program. This is a super relaxing, essential oil, it smells so great, you could actually use it as deodorant if you wanted to. And it’s a pretty sticky, gooey, so you have to learn how to use it and get it out of the bottle. One of the places I get my vetiver is from Haiti. And it’s very special, very medicinal. Obviously, there’s tea tree oil, which is anti viral, you could actually brush your teeth with it.

And eucalyptus Eucalyptus is great for respiratory health. One of the things I like to do is put a couple of drops on my fingers, or my place it over my nose. And I’ll just breathe maybe four or five breaths, that just opens up all my nasal and respiratory centers. And I can breathe better, I can think better. And then my last one is peppermint. So peppermint is a very cooling essential oil.

 

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So on a hot day, you could put a couple of drops on your body, one of the techniques I use is get a wet handkerchief, put a couple of drops of peppermint on that wet handkerchief, put it around your neck, and it’ll cool you down pretty quickly, especially if you’re gardening, or you’re hiking or you’re doing some whitewater rafting than all those things this summer. And it’s been pretty hot here in New Mexico. So having that in the afternoon, cools me down, you know, within a few minutes. Peppermint is also a great digestive aid. So you can put a couple of drops in some water incipit.

That’s also great. So those that’s a good start. Again, if you’re going to use essential oils, I probably would consider using a carrier oil just to start with. If you want to do a test patch on the cooler oils, again, using this part of your arm would be a good way to go. There’s lots of ways that you can apply them, you can smell them, you can you can drink them again in water, you can cook with them. And you can also put them on your skin one of the safe places you can put them on your skin is the soles of your feet. Usually you’ve got calluses, a couple of drops.

I know kids like this. So you can put a couple of drops on the soles of their feet like a lavender before bed. And that will help help them sleep, especially as we head back to school and my all those things. So that’s kind of the crash course it’s an intro. Keep watching my content because I hope to be able to release my line of essential oils. I’d love to start teaching again. I found that to be really fun, and maybe even invite you here to New Mexico and do a real live class and not just zoom. So that’s our show for today. I’m gonna get back on the trail. Thank you so much for tuning in. Take care

 

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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.

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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 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.

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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Join me today as we talk about the benefits of Cacao or dark chocolate. Cacao has many different health benefits, aside from just being a fun treat. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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cacao, dark chocolate, cacao chocolate, support, stem cells, talk, microbiome, nutrients, gut, blood vessels, higher, type, gut health, health, studies, regenerative abilities, research, angiogenesis, phytochemicals, cardiovascular health

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, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today I wanted to talk about cacao. Another way to say cacao is dark chocolate, but it’s a special kind of dark chocolate. And cacao is one of those magical ingredients, nutrients, phytochemicals, that does so many positive things for the body. And I’ve been using a cow a long time researching it, traveling to different areas of the world, to learn about the cacao bean and meeting the farmers. And in looking at, well, what they tell me and then also what I look in the in the literature, the research, and in my personal experience, is that, you know, we think dark chocolate is bad for us.

You know, we think of it as a guilty pleasure. But if you’re getting a high quality, cacao chocolate, and I’d like to do 80% or higher, it is packed with nutrients, it can improve your immune health. And it’s a very positive super nutrient that can really support your health and wellness. So a couple of things that this type of dark chocolate does is it actually supports cardiovascular health. Cacao has something in it called flavonols, which is a potent antioxidant. And it can lower your risk of cardiovascular disease. Cacao also is helpful for supporting specific kinds of bacteria, good bacteria that we find in the gut. So much is talked about with the microbiome, the healthy bacteria in our gut health. And for many people. gut health is a challenge. And I’ve talked about in many podcasts, written blogs, that if you have inflammation in your gut, you’re going to have a higher risk of eye disease, brain disease. And it’s it’s also affecting your immune health. So when you have the 80% Cow, this is supporting the microbiome in the gut.

Number three, this type of dark chocolate can actually reduce your anxiety and stress. There have been studies done that show that participants in these studies when they receive this type of cacao 74% or higher in terms of percentage of cacao, and they eat it every day after two weeks, they found that the stress markers of cortisol and adrenaline had substantially decreased in their urine. This type of dark chocolate also activates healthy blood vessel health. So when we eat this type of cacao it’s supporting what we call anti angiogenic genic effects. So I talk about any angiogenesis in terms of macular degeneration, wet macular degeneration, high blood pressure retinopathy, diabetic retinopathy, all of these things begin to weaken the blood vessels in the retina and we call this angiogenesis. So what this dark chocolate does is it reduces that tendency For us to produce those fragile blood vessels which can lead to things like edema and bleeding and

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loss of sight. And another part of the cacao conversation is that cacao helps provide DNA projection, I’m sorry, protection, and the antioxidant compounds found in dark chocolate, like the flavonols, like the poly phenols, support and repair our DNA, and they improve our regenerative abilities. Which brings me to the last piece of research is that cacao is a stem cell recruiting food. Sometimes scientists say that we have over 750,000 stem cells. And this helps our body regenerate every day. So that when you eat dark chocolate, it mobilizes your stem cells to carry out their job to the best of their ability.

In fact, there was a study done at the University of California San Francisco, researchers found that participants who received a chocolate drink made with cacao twice a day for 30 days, had twice as many stem cells in their circulation as the control group. So when you think stem cells, you’re thinking about regenerating the body. So overall, I would look for a high quality, cacao based dark chocolate, there are a lot of them on the market. And if you start eating those, they’re going to really support your health. You know, I make a drink every every day and cacao or drink.

Sometimes it’s a hot drink, sometimes it’s a cool drink. And I’m using the best cacao that I can find using part of a cacao chocolate bar, some cacao powder, and I’ll use some some some mushroom tea like chaga tea, some coconut meat or coconut water, coconut cream, a little bit of that maybe a little bit of special probiotics. And it sets it sets the tone for me. So I highly recommend adding cacao to your your health and wellness list of things that you’re going to do and send me send me an email let me know how you’re how you’re doing with it. And I think I’ll call it a day. So thanks everyone for tuning in. Until next time, take care.

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Sam joined Heidi Townshend to discuss the meaning of love on her podcast So, What Were You Wearing. Sam shares a vulnerable time in his life that led him onward with his search for true love. He was on the leading edge of his personal growth as he sought a love relationship that could last a lifetime. Listen in to Sam’s unique and fantastic story of fierce dedication to relationship and love, plus his own words of wisdom. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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charlie, sam, marriage, friends, relationship, married, growth, committed, love, commitment, date, new mexico, viewers, dance, met, called, heart-centered, learned, developed

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.

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Welcome everyone to So, What are you Wearing? I’m your host Heidi Townshend. And we are so excited today we have a very special guest who is a dear friend of mine. And his name is Dr. Sam Berne. He’s joining us today all the way from New Mexico. However, he is in Los Angeles at this time. So, Sam, welcome to our show. And please introduce yourself to our viewers.

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Hey, Heidi, thanks for having me on your podcast. So I am Dr. Sam Berne, known as Dr. Sam. And I have a health and wellness brand, holistic eye doctor and social media influencer entrepreneur teacher. And yeah, I’m in Los Angeles this week doing some promotional works and filming. Seeing your brother who I love and seeing you. We’ve just been having a great time. And yeah, I’m really excited to be on the show and interested in what you’re gonna ask me.

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Fantastic, Sam, we are so excited to have you here. And my brother is excited that you’re on the show as well. So you know, we know, Joshua, he’s fantastic. Yeah. So so this show, I know you do a lot of different shows. And you are so out in the public eye right now, which is fantastic. And this one in particular, called so what were you wearing is about how you met the love of your life. And so that’s where we’re going to be going today. And let me start off with just a very preliminary question. But so important for us as the viewers to kind of get a sense of what was going on in your life when, you know, at that time. So even taking us back a few years, take us back as long as you wish. But just give us the context of your life during those circumstances before you tell us how the two of you met.

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Well, it was a pretty turbulent time. I mean, there was a lot of transformation going on. So I had moved to New Mexico, maybe like two years before, and I was actually going to get married to somebody else. And it’s very humbling to say that she called off the wedding. And that was really at the time shocking and painful. I mean, it was it was yes. But you know, you know what, actually what happened was is that I saw it not right then but maybe about a year later. Yeah, I saw that. It was the biggest gift that she gave me because if I had married her, we would have been divorced in like six months. It was just one of those relationships. It was a long distance relationship.

And she was in Canada and I was in New Mexico. And anyways, so I was processing that. And I had I was in a men’s group. So I had a group of guys, and we’d meet once a week. And they helped me quite a bit. So anyways, what happened was is that that summer, I went to a dance camp, and Maine, you know, and it was, it was it was a lot, a lot of great fun. And, you know, it was kind of it was getting me out of the grief that I was in and you know, I’m a pretty fun guy. So doing a lot of contact improv and a lot of dance, you know, different kinds of dances, and, you know, meeting on a really cool people. So that I was coming off that and I we came home from New Mexico, the end of the summer, and I had a patient of mine. Her name was Winnie Bauer. And when he said to me, Hey, Sam, you know, I’m having this birthday party. Why don’t you come you know, be really great, you know? So I, I had a friend of mine who we were just very softly dating. And so I said when he would it be okay if I, you know, bring a date and she had like a strange look on her face like, well, I guess that would be okay. And there was a hole, there was a whole agenda going on that I didn’t know, which I found out later. And so I’ll tell you what that was. So when he had a really good friend, who was her name was Charlie, and when he wanted to fix us up, but when he was a patient of mine, and she really respected boundaries, and so she said, Oh, invite Sam to the party. And then I’ll introduce Charlie, to Sam, but I was with another date. And of course, I didn’t know anything. So yeah, so I show up at the at the party with your date with the right date, I had no idea. You know, so tell

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us tell us where is this birthday party? Is it at your friend’s house?

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Or? Yeah, so my friend when he married this really cool guy, Richard. And he had, he’d killed it in business. He was an entrepreneur. So he had this amazing house, and Suzuki New Mexico, which is just north of Santa Fe, and it’s, it’s kind of one of the wealthiest areas of of Santa Fe. So it was in this amazing house, palatial house. And you know, I always loved going there. Because Richard and I were kind of friends, you know, friendly. And so I, you know, drive up and they’re all these cars. It’s a big party, and it’s a birthday party for Winnie. So I walk in and my date, she goes, his I’m gonna go get a drink. And there’s this really nice lady sitting on the couch, nice woman on the couch. And I walk over to her, and I start tuning into her energy. And I said, wow, this person is really nice. And we just kind of connected right away. It was my, my future wife, Charlie. So here, it’s come kind of weird, because I’m with, you know, my date. And it’s like, oh, wow, I’m really connecting with this woman. She’s beautiful. And so my date comes in.

And I said to Charlie, you know, I gotta I gotta go be with my date. And Charlie knew this person. So the setup was, everybody knew that. I was gonna be set up, except me. She did. She didn’t. Well, not at the beginning. But I think she started because then what happened was, you know, I went into the kitchen, and I was getting some food, and Charlie came in. And so we have this, like, like, this magnetic connection, you know, we’re, we’re visiting. And she says to me, you know, I’m a professional musician, and I’m, I’m gonna be doing a concert tomorrow night at the end of the Anasazi hotel, I would like you to be my guest. And I’m going, Wait a minute, She’s inviting me on a date. I’m on another date. And when he’s like, in the corner guy, God. So I said, Yeah, definitely. You know, I’m not serious with my friend. That’s just, you know, she’s just a buddy of mine. So, so that’s what happened. So the next night, I went to the, to the her concert, and then we had tea afterwards. And that was the end of story. You know, we ended up hooking up and getting married, and I’ve been with Charlie for over 25 years and going strong.

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Wow, Sam, so tell us. I mean, not that obviously, the energy is what connected the two of you. Do you remember at all what you were wearing on them night?

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Well, I remember what I was wearing. And I remember what Charlie was wearing. So first, what she was wearing, she was wearing this really cute outfit, and she’s just, she’s a beautiful woman. And I was like, Wow, this dress is amazing. And it was very colorful, and it just fit her really well. And it really caught my eye when I got you know, when I walked into Winnie’s living room, and here she is sitting on the couch. And so that was one thing for me. You know, I’ve been to this dance camp and there was a t shirt that I had on called Dance New England, dn D and it’s a big you know, camp in Maine. So I had this D and E on and it Charlie was like, wow, you went to dance camp. You know, that’s really cool. D and E and, you know, I had the shorts on and I was looking good. You know, I I have to say. So it was. It was great that I wore that T shirt because it was kind of a Have a opener in terms of conversation and Charlie loves to dance. So, you know, it was just an opening remark, but I had no idea. The scheming, weenie, and Charlie

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kept you there. And then you come with a date. So when did your brains start to click and go, Hey, wait a second, was it your evening? Or was it later than

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I put to one side? Yeah, I put two and two together. And one of my other friends who was there said, you know, this is kind of a setup, you know, and I was like, Well, I wish they would tell me because I am totally out of the loop. I honestly, I had no idea. And sometimes I get into the social situations where things are going on. And I’m the last to know. And believe me, I was the last to know. And it was like, you know, I’m going to this party. And when he has been talking about me to Charlie, for like, six months, and like, Oh, my God, this guy’s amazing. And you guys should connect, and her former boyfriend was named Sam. So that was, that was a whole other thing.

So you know, I found that out later. But it was just one of these magical things that connected us immediately. And it wasn’t like this, you know, how sometimes you meet somebody and there’s this like magnetic sexual chemistry, it wasn’t like that it was more of like, oh, my, I’m feeling my heart, I’m feeling energy here. And it was very different than the woman that I had been engaged to, because that we met, you know, at omega Institute at this, you know, spiritual workshop. And it was a lot of chemistry. And it was a real learning for me about being attracted to somebody in relationship that was more on a heart centered level, not a sexual level, but a heart centered level. And that was really, that was really a growth moment for, for me, maybe for Charlie to I don’t know, you’d have to ask her. But there was this just attraction on a heart centered level first. And then later on, you know, we developed our relationship, but but I’ll tell you, one of the things that I did, I mean, I was a little shell shocked. So we started to get involved. And I said,

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you know, ask you, you were shocked about

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about that. But the last relationship, you know what happened right? Now wanting to get committed. And I said, you know, it might be a good idea if we go do some couples character therapy, before we get married, and she was like, Oh, I’m all in on that. And that, that was really helpful to me, because we got to know we know each other and our communication styles. And that that was, that was kind of like my insurance policy, to just go okay, I need to know, full disclosure here, what’s going on? And, of course, that that worked out well. And, you know, it all worked out. So

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yeah. And just for our viewers so that they can learn, potentially, like you have learned, were there any rough patches during this time, that, you know, just kind of needed some extra attention or needed a little, you know, a way of working together to be able to move forward? Or was it just smooth sailing the whole time?

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No, I mean, it was in the big picture. It was smooth sailing. I mean, you know, whenever you get into a committed relationship, as you know, there’s going to be different different needs, and you know, learning how to communicate in a way where you’re not blaming the other person, or you’re taking responsibility for your, for your own feelings. And both of us were really fiercely I’m using the word fiercely dedicated and committed to making the relationship work. So we created a very safe container saying, Okay, we are committed. And now within that commitment, things are gonna get hard, you know, when you commit, this is when the hard stuff comes up. And I can tell you being with Charlie for 25 years, there have been moments when it’s been challenging, you know, and very humbling for me, because we’re mirrors for each other. But, you know, it’s part of the growth and I think I use marriage as a spiritual practice.

You know, it’s, it’s, it’s like, it’s a way I kind of developed myself and my, I mean, again, I don’t want to speak for Charlie but you know, I really use As a way to see my, my shortcomings and the places where where, you know, I could communicate better. But what we offer each other is a stability and a commitment. And I can say death do us part, you know, I know, that’s it no matter what happens. I know that this is it. This is the one this is it. And, you know, in terms of our being being with Charlie, and she feels that way to me. So that’s very powerful to to know that. And then within that, yeah, some days are really hard. I mean, it’s, you know, you know how it is. So, but, yeah,

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I think you really hit on it with, though with your marriage as a spiritual practice that is just poignant in that. How do you, you know, walk the path. And there’s so many different spiritual practices. And this one is, I mean, between the two of you, and that you’re both Yeah. Yeah,

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exactly. And, you know, we’ve got families, you know, my family, Charlie’s family, and we all go through a lot. And so it’s a tribe, and it’s a community and it’s, I’m grateful to have such a community. And there you go. I mean, it’s thanks. Yeah, sayings. Yeah,

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yeah, no, that’s just really that you two have been together for 25 years says a lot. I mean, that’s just that you are committed and you’re there for each other. Marriage is a spiritual practice is I mean, that’s the first time I’ve heard that. And it’s just, it’s phenomenal. What can come from that, with both being committed to this practice and the growth, I would imagine that comes from

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an incredible end, you know, some of the business things that I do and professional things that I do, there is no way that I could do the same thing without having her stability and support. You know, because, at least in terms of the social media, I’m the public figure. And I’d never talk about her. This is unusual for me. But in this case, I would a little bit, but she’s much more private. She doesn’t even go on social media. But as a as an artist, and a musician, there is a public side to her where she is, you know, played for the symphony and performed. And she’s a fabulous performer. She’s kind of moved away from that at this stage. But what we do together now is we sometimes will play African music. And there’s a big West African community in Santa Fe. And so every now and then, well, lately, the last couple of months, we’ve been sitting in and jamming on Thursday night, and she’s a wonderful musician, professionally trained flutist, but artists poet, Mystic, she’s, she’s fantastic. So great to have an artist in the family. And it’s fun,

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just sounds so rich. It just sounds like we’re this sweet and rich experience. Yeah. So for no, that’s just to be able to share at that level is very tender, and very creative. And so for our viewers, how would you help them and just, you know, as far as guidance that you could provide, so that they too could follow this path that you’re on? And that, you know, you and your wife have found to be something that is really nurturing and allows for both of your growth?

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Yeah, well, that’s a that’s a really good question. I think in some ways, it’s, it’s a bit individual, but but I would say generally speaking, to, you know, have respect for the other person. You know, figure out what the communication styles that work and what don’t work, you know, really dig deep in terms of the commitment and you know, when you first meet somebody, it’s not just about the chemical reaction, the chemistry, the sexual chemistry that actually should come later. It’s more about you know, the heart centered, what do we have in common? What can we do to support the other’s growth, you know, like, not just, it’s not just about me in the relationship, but it’s about us. And we each have our own individual journey that we need to follow for sure. And then we have the life of the marriage as well.

And continually defining what is love you know, what love it love is not necessarily a chemical reaction, but so many things. It could be love, or it could be respect. It could be you know, acceptance, it could be there’s a lot of things we we talk about what is love a lot and you know, she is I studied the Sufi tradition quite a bit, and reads a lot of Rumi poetry. So you know, really talks a lot about what is love. And I was in a spiritual group for a long time and my spiritual teacher, we, we really explored what love is, from a non chemical level, but just, you know, a lot of different things. And just understanding that, you know, you make the commitment, and that’s when things get hard and to keep developing your own personal growth and your own personal development. Because I see this in couples where, you know, one, one part of the couple of one partner is doing therapy or doing some personal growth, and the other one isn’t doing anything. And that creates a dead relationship, you know, and we want things to stay alive and dynamic.

And the only way to do that is to keep coming back and being vulnerable, sharing, you know, deeply and, you know, understanding that sometimes it’s going to be challenging, and that’s part of the, that’s part of the deal. And, but there’s something really rewarding when you’re in a long term relationship, when it works. And you know, it’s it’s work, it’s definitely, we have to attend to it, you have to continually water the garden, so to speak, it’s not something that just, it just, you know, goes on its own because it will, it will die. And you see this in marriages. And so anyway, that’s, that’s my short answer. It’s not, I’m not a trained therapist, psychologist in the area of couples therapy, but that’s what I’ve learned as a, you know, somebody that’s been involved for a long time,

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that’s been involved for a long time, and to keep redefining love is where they hurt and to be vulnerable. Yeah, to be, you know, take that place of vulnerability so that you can learn and grow. And I think also important, you’d mentioned that both parties need to be engaged in their own growth, so that there’s no library fullness to the relationship. Right. That’s beautiful. Boy, Sam, thank you, I think, words of wisdom for our viewers. So hey,

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right on,

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right on, you know, so appreciate you being vulnerable to share with us because I know it sounds like it’s very private, which it is. And it shouldn’t be. And it is private commitment. And then hearing, especially in light of your first situation where it didn’t work out, you know, just the marriage, as you’re saying, Thank God didn’t go forward, but then being able to step into something that was good for you, and to navigate those waters. So I think you’ve really offered that lesson to people that have tried, and maybe it hasn’t worked out. And then you’re actually being very successful through your vulnerability and commitment to the marriage. So,

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you know, one of the things I learned about this, this process is that, you know, when it didn’t work out with, with a girl from Canada, from then on, I was gonna introduce any girlfriend to all of my friends. Ah, and they would have to sign off on it. Because I had poor judge, I didn’t trust my judgment. So I remember one of my friends said to me, when I was going to marry this cow from Canada, he’s like, Well, I think it’s a mistake. I don’t think you should do it. You know what, I’m not even gonna buy the airplane ticket, because I don’t think it’s gonna happen. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he did. And I said, Well, you know, you might be right. But I need to go through this experience. And lo and behold, you know, when she called me up and said, You know, I can’t get married. And I call them he said, See, I told you this. So then I introduced him to Charlie, and he was like, yes. And all my friends. And all my male friends, especially in Santa Fe, introduced her to them and they were like, yeah, she’s, she’s got it. She’s, she’s a good match for you. So that’s for anybody out there. You know, if you’re thinking about getting married, introduce them to your friends. And, you know, if they’re really good friends, and they’re honest with you, they’ll give you the straight answer on whether or not this is a good match and listen to them. save yourself a lot of pain and suffering. So you don’t have to go through what I went

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through. That’s great. You’ve given us the straight scoop.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Through living living the hard the hard challenges. Yeah, their sides. So yeah, be sure you talk to your friends. And that probably could go for girlfriends or marriage or you You know,

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anybody girlfriends boyfriends, I accept it all. So whatever. Gay Straight lesbian, yeah, doesn’t matter. So I just, I, but I definitely vote for marriage if it’s, you know, the right situation because I think it’s, it’s wild when I have personal growth and companionship and fun. And I’ll the whole the whole thing, it’s it’s really, you know, if you find the right person, go for it. And if you don’t, you know, being alone is just fine. I remember again, when when that marriage that wedding didn’t happen, being alone and being on my own was very, very therapeutic for me. And, you know, be patient for the right thing to come along.

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Mm hmm. That’s another good lesson for sure. Because, yeah, taking something just because you’re alone isn’t a good answer. I mean, it’s just not the solution at all, and that you deserve the best and to have a rewarding and fulfilling relationship, marriage, you know, whatever it is that fills your soul, right? Yes, exactly. Yeah. Oh, this has been so wonderful and exciting to hear, or do you have any final thoughts or words that you want to share? And you’ve already shared so much, but you know, anything that? Well, I

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would leave you with one. One question and that is, what does love mean to you? And that would be a great curiosity, question dwelling on you know, what is love what is love to you? And, you know, because we have so many cultural meanings, so many religious meanings, family meanings, but to be able to develop what is love and, you know, to really that that might give you some clarity on you know, attracting a partner that, you know, will match you in a way that’s going to be fulfilling.

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What is love is the question Great, we will post that along with your interview so they can ponder that and really come to their soul meaning for that. Thank you. You’re welcome, Heidi, in a rich experience.

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You’re welcome. Great to spend time with you. And good luck to you and, and your future.

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Thank you. Thank you, Sam. Bye now.

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Bye bye.

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Lately, I’ve been getting a number of questions about MS and how it affects our eyes. I want to take a moment today to address these questions and provide some solutions. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, vitamin d3, ms, talk, myelin, protocol, symptoms, eye exam, called, studies, optic nerve, cumbre, myelin sheath, mechanisms, affect, visual, light, calcium, terms, inflammation

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. Well, today, I’m going to talk about a condition called MS Better known as multiple sclerosis. And the reason why I want to talk about it is that I get a number of questions on MS and how it affects our eyes. And in fact, the visual system is one of the places where MS wreaks havoc. And some of the symptoms include things like peripheral vision loss, you start losing some of your side vision, this could also be called a visual field cut. So your visual field is, as they say, cut off, and the loss of vision keeps deteriorating.

Now some other visual symptoms include things like a loss or reduction in your ability to read the eye chart at distance, or to read letters in words up close, they actually can’t even become so blurred, and unrecognizable, that there’s a distortion. I talked about visual field loss. And now another medical term that’s used in the eye exam is scotoma. And this is a blind spot in the center of your vision. Things go black. eye pain can be another reason why someone suffers MS Blurred vision. So when you’re looking at objects, there’s a haziness a sense of cloudiness, fuzziness. double vision, when somebody starts getting duplicate images. One of the first things to explore is there a neurological breakdown in the visual system. vertigo, dizziness, mobility issues. So there’s a feeling of, I’m off balance.

I’m not sure why I am in space. And then another influence of Ms. On the eyes is a jerkiness. We call this nystagmus. This is when the eye movements are involuntarily jerking, quick movements horizontally, vertically, things are jumping around. Another one is headaches. So head pain that worsens when your reading or using your screens also can be triggered by light. So there’s a photo sensitivity. So some of the main areas of the eye that are affected would be the optic nerve. Now the optic nerve is so important, it’s a plexus of nerves that connect the eye to the brain. And, for example, in a condition like glaucoma, the optic nerve can be damaged. And this starts to affect our peripheral vision. So if you’re suffering any of these symptoms, it’s really important to go for an eye exam. If the eye doctor is not able to solve these symptoms, then perhaps you need to go to a neurologist and get some additional testing. So in studying Ms. Obviously, it is not only an eye issue, but it’s really a systemic issue that’s affecting the eyes. And I think of MS as a disease of the myelin, which is the outer covering the fat layer, and it tends to cover the you know the nerves. And when this myelin begins to disintegrate, this starts to affect our neurological health.

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Now I see Ms as a dysfunction in the lipids. And one of the things that I look at is cholesterol. And cholesterol is used to make myelin. So one of the mechanisms that I see in MS is that someone has an inflammatory process in their body there’s an increase in the white blood cells. So the body is then bringing more plaque and cholesterol to the area. But if you’re losing myelin, one of the aspects in the body that is really affecting this is an impairment in the glucose level, and the eyes have one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, the retina is made up of at least 50% of fatty acids. So it’s very fatty tissue. Of course, the eyes originate from the brain. So whenever there’s some inflammation in the eyes, there’s probably going to be inflammation in the brain, and vice versa. Now, another mechanism that happens in MS has to do with our insulin levels, insulin resistance breaks down the myelin. So in other words, when you have high levels of insulin, this can cause the myelin sheath the breakdown. If you’re under a lot of stress, you know, the adrenals produce cortisol.

This also not only causes high insulin levels, but it also causes inflammation. So if you are suffering ms, one of the things that you can look at when you talk to your functional medicine doctor is the ketogenic diet. In fact, there are a number of studies that show that if you start doing the ketogenic diet, that the MS starts to go away, as you run your body on ketones and not sugar, this begins to heal the myelin sheath. Now, there’s another interesting protocol out there. And before you do anything, I would definitely talk to your doctor about this. So this is, I want to do a disclaimer, this is purely educational only, I don’t want you to just run out and do this. But this comes from a protocol from Dr. Cumbre. And it has to do with dosing yourself with high levels of vitamin d3. So in the protocol, he says, doing 1000, I use per kilogram, so I’m about 160 pounds.

So I would do maybe about 71,000, I use a day vitamin d3. And there’s a concern here, if you do this amount of vitamin d3, you might get too much calcium in the blood. Now there are ways that you can neutralize that. But this is where you would want to get a blood test to see well, what are your vitamin d3 levels. And I’m going to talk a little more about this. Now I’m going to put Dr. Cumbre as links in the notes so you can learn more about it. So vitamin d3, there have been studies that show that when our vitamin d3 levels are higher, there’s a lower incidence of Ms. Now another way to say that is if you live in an environment where you’re getting a lot of sunshine every day, then you have a lower chance of developing Ms. Studies have shown that pregnant women who expose themselves to the sun are more vitamin d3, their their children have a less chance of developing autoimmune disease, asthma and so on. So vitamin d3 is an immune regulator, and a certain percentage of the population cannot absorb vitamin d3. So this is where you would have to work with your doctor to see

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how you would navigate that. But vitamin d3 influences over 3000 genes. And one of the mechanisms that happens is when you increase vitamin d3, you reduce the parathyroid. And this is responsible for calcium production. So it’s important that if you’re going to embark on this vitamin d3 protocol that you measure your parathyroid before and after. There’s some other things that are important to take in the MS. situation that would be DHA, the Omega three zinc, vitamin K two, which actually helps reduce the accumulation of calcium in the blood.

Obviously, you want to eliminate dairy. You want to take magnesium, vitamin B, two b 12, selenium, and you want to hydrate more you want to take about two and a half liters a day of water. Now in terms of the eyes, there’s some things that you can do to improve the eye circulation number one, actually the eye exercises that I promote the physical therapy works incredibly well for bringing more circulation to your eyes, more oxygenation, more hydration. This would include the eye stretching and exercise the animal eye chart, the binocular two eyed exercise called the Yin Yang peripheral vision An exercise where you’re actually engaging more peripheral vision, which is great for the brain in the eyes.

Color therapy is another great technique where you’re applying colors, you’re looking at the green color, the blue green color, the blue color, say, three minutes with each color twice a day, color therapy, when it bathes the retina, it actually can do things like balance your pH, increase the oxygen level, increase the hydration level, make your photoreceptors more efficient, and being able to take the light and turn it into more of an electrical better electrical impulse, which then goes back to the brain. And of course, there are ancillary treatments like cranial sacral therapy, acupuncture can also be supportive in terms of your eye health. So let me make no mistake about it. MS is a complicated situation. Again, I feel it’s a problem. It’s a lipid dysfunction. And I think that there are a lot of holistic doctors out there that you could explore in terms of helping you follow these kinds of protocols. And we’d love to hear your comments, so feel free to email me at hello at Dr. Sam byrne.com. And that’s our show for today. So I want to thank you so much for tuning in. And until next time, take care.

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I get all kinds of questions about astigmatism, so I am going to answer a couple here on today’s show. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to answer and keep an ear out for the answers. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

astigmatism, astigmatism correction, eye, stigmatism, body, twist, work, exercises, warping, prescription, therapy, eyeball, wear, visual, reduce, shaped, doctor, cranial-sacral therapy, vision, feel

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’m going to take some questions on astigmatism. This is a hot topic when I do a video blog on social media. There’s an explosion of people who asked a lot of questions about astigmatism. So just to remind you, astigmatism means that there’s a twist or a warping in the eyeball, it shaped more the eyeball shaped more like an egg instead of being completely round. And the six eye muscles that attach to the eyeball, they’re not working equally, which creates a change in the shape of the eye. But any twist in the eye also reflects a twist in the body. I know this because when I went back to massage school, and I studied cranial sacral therapy, I couldn’t believe how I could feel the body twist after I measured the eyes, for eye astigmatism. So I astigmatism twist, body twist, they go together. And this twist in the eye is also caused by posture issues, eye movement issues, dietary things, stress issues. So I’m going to go to the questions right now.

And the first one is from Natasha. And she is asking, How do I know what is twisted? Is it in the eyes and the body? How do I fix this? Well, the first thing to note is if you go to an eye doctor and you get an exam and he says you’ve got astigmatism, you’ve got a warping and twisting in the eye. Now the only way you know you have a twist in the body is if you go to a bodyworker, and the bodyworker can feel the tension. It could be anywhere in your body, it could be in the spine, it could be in the pelvis, it could be you know in your legs, anywhere where your body is twisting, where the two sides of the body are not integrating, this is a form of astigmatism. Now when you wear a full astigmatism correction, and then you go for bodywork and the bodyworker unwinds astigmatism in the body, but then you go back and you put your regular astigmatism glasses or contacts in, guess what happens, the bodywork gets neutralized, the twist starts coming back in the body. So this is why I recommend getting two pairs of prescriptions, one for astigmatism, and one that’s either reduced astigmatism or no astigmatism. Of course, you wear that no astigmatism correction 15 to 30 minutes a day in non-demanding and non-threatening situations. It’s going to feel weird when you wear that no astigmatism correction initially, because it’s showing you a nonwarping in your vision but you’re so used to the warping from astigmatism that you’re gonna say, Wow, no astigmatism.

This is unfamiliar to me, hang in there with it, stay with it. Also, you can’t expect to change astigmatism just by wearing a reduced to take astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work that way. You have to change the programming, you have to re-educate the brain in the eyes and the body through my physical therapy exercises. I do have a 90-day astigmatism eye exercise program, you must do that along with wearing a reduced prescription. If you don’t, your body is going to read reject your eyes are going to read reject the no astigmatism correction. Now, this brings me to another question I get. I got from a person who says Now I only wear nonastigmatism, glasses but my astigmatism is increasing. Well, that is because you’re not doing the reeducation work the exercises to change the programming which is causing astigmatism. Again, the expectation is, well if I wear a no astigmatism correction, my stigmatism will go away. You have to change it from the inside out. So you’ve got to be willing to do the 90-day astigmatism program. And then your eyes will adjust to the nonadjustable astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work the other way.

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Now, I’m going to take one more question about astigmatism. And this is a very interesting case. This is a mom. She’s got an eight-year-old son and she took him to an eye doctor and the eye doctor gave the child an imbalance of astigmatism there’s a difference between the right eye and left eye and also put them in a bifocal, which seems kind of confusing to try to get a child to look through a split lens. It’s certainly a technique sometimes that is used to reduce myopia or astigmatism but I find going with a single vision lens at the beginning, is the best way to go and not try to do these fancy prescriptions. Also, when you correct this stigmatism differently, you’re reinforcing the difference in the eyes.

You want to balance the eyes as best as you can. And then the eye exercises the vision therapy, doing things like the primitive reflex therapy. I do a lot of visual-vestibular therapy so you get the inner ear and the eyes working together. Remember I said the stigmatism is related a lot to postural issues, neck issues. So doing this visual-vestibular therapy, doing a lot of gross motor exercises, bilateral integration, forwards and backward, visually guided exercises, through obstacle courses. All of these things are really, really important. So I would leave you with this one point. When you’ve been diagnosed with astigmatism. It’s important to note that astigmatism is caused by tight neck muscles, postural issues, visual stress, and once the doctor starts measuring astigmatism in the eye, and he or she corrects it, it reinforces the warping or the twist in the eyeballs. And remember that I said that any prescription that’s in the eyes is showing up in the body in your movement, in your posture, in your tension patterns. And by working on the body twist, as well as the eye twist. This is the formula for reversing astigmatism. The second part of this is is that if you do get a reduced astigmatism correction or no astigmatism correction, you need to include the physical eye therapy exercises for astigmatism to help change the programming, what caused astigmatism and if you do all of these things, then you have a great chance to reduce astigmatism. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care

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I wanted to share some questions I got during a recent class I held. These were some great questions and we got into the benefits of infrared and red light therapies. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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eye, red light, red light therapy, infrared sauna, light, infrared, wrote, retinopathy, repetitive, infrared light, reducing, inflammation, great, body, device, give, floaters, company, therapy, somatic

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.

I want to talk a minute about something called the somatic eye. And I just wrote a blog about how the body influences the eye, and how the eye influences the body. So sohmas body, and in this blog that I wrote, and I’ll put the link up here, this is a very interesting kind of trans. I would say he transformation that I wrote about, because what I did was I took some of the work that I learned in the practice that I talked about at the beginning, which is continuum movement.

And I actually wrote this blog for that community, because those folks are super into the body, and how it relates to the eyes. So I’m going to put the the link up here. And I recommend that you that you read it at your leisure. So some other points about the somatic guy is that one of the trends that I see in eye care is that they perpetuate the repetitive treatments, the repetitive movements, the repetitive eye exams. And this is what myopia is. It’s basically a repetitive, robotic, monotonous, small bandwidth way of seeing. So when you are in that pattern, and your mind is saying the same things over and over again, you are creating more oxidative stress, more inflammation in the eyes. And this is one of the things that leads to the stagnating energy that I talk about, as it relates to your vision, your perception, and you’re problem solving.

Okay, I want to take this question about the red light, and the infrared light. So Carol is asking, Is it okay to expose our eyes to an infrared sauna, or red light. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to put up a link of an article that I wrote recently, just before the somatic eye, which is about the healing hue of red light therapy, and in my clinical experience, and also in the research what I discovered as I was writing this article, both red light, which is vibrating at somewhere around 660 nanometers, and infrared light, which is vibrating a little higher in about the 880 nanometers of vibration, the the red light, you can see it the infrared, you can’t see it, but both of them were found to do some very interesting things with the body number one, these two lights could actually reduce inflammation reduced many of the eye diseases like floaters. That’s a big one. Cataracts, dry eye, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.

Red light therapy was also helpful in some of the retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy, that’s where the blood vessels in the retina are stressed because of diabetes, and also hypertensive retinopathy. And so this particular form of light therapy has been shown to be helpful in healing different conditions. Now, there is a company and I don’t have any financial interest in it. Let me just get it for you. And I like this company for a couple of reasons. I did a lot of research. And I was looking for a company where the machine both projected red light and also

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infrared near-infrared red light. So this company is called Red rush 360. I’m going to put it up here. And it’s certainly something to check into. So it is a full-body lightbox. And you can either sit in front of it, you want to be about 12 to 18 inches away from the device, you can do it with eyes open. If your eyes are sensitive because it is a fairly bright light, I believe they can give you an eye protector, or you can just wear a bandana over your closed eyes and you’re still going to get the benefit. And this particular lightbox, if you use it every day, within a couple of weeks, it’s going to do some really amazing things with your body. First of all, it’s great for detoxification. It’s also great for reducing inflammation, improving digestion, improving sleep, and improving eyesight. So you can either sit in front of it, you can lie down on your side and get it that way, you’re looking to do about a five to seven-minute daily treatment of the red light near-infrared light therapy. Now, with the idea of the infrared sauna, those units tend to be more expensive.

And they don’t give you both the red light and the near infrared light, they don’t give you the red light. And it’s certainly the infrared sauna is great as a detoxification device. But what I found is this combination of using both the red light and the near-infrared light, and by the way, you can get Infrared Saunas that have both, but they are quite expensive. Whereas if you get this red light box, it will run us five to $700. And it’s a it’s a great device in terms of wanting to take your health to the next level. In terms of the eyes, it has been shown to be effective for conditions like floaters dry eye, even I’ve had a few cases of people using it and reducing their lens prescriptions, because it’s really draining the tension and the toxicity out of the eyes. Again, you don’t have to look directly at it with your eyes open. You can do it with your eyes covered. So I think it’s something for you to check out.

There’s a really good book by this author on red light therapy. And this gentleman he’s from San Diego actually. And I was on his podcast. It’s good guy, Ari Witten. He’s written a book on red light therapy, so you can pick it up on Amazon through Kindle. It has a lot of great research in it a lot of great explanations. He’s also recommending different red light machines that include both the red light and infrared light. Last point about the red rush 360. I have a measuring device that measures the EMFs. And the EMFs of this unit are very, very low. So you’re not going to get inundated with EMF pollution by using this particular light device. So you just have to decide, do you want to invest in this? Do you feel like you’re really attracted to the red light near infrared light therapy and you you have to make the call. But if you decide you want to go with it. There are some really great potential health benefits that I would recommend

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Today I am walking you through the eye patch protocol and the eye dialogue questions that go along with that as well as the lens to blur exercise. I highly recommend doing both of these regularly. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, left, eyepatch, patch, blurry vision, peripheral vision, vestibular system, eye exam, blurry, exercise, prescription, glasses, lens, talk, blur, clearer, myopia, feel, ghosting, vision

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.

There’s two more practices I want to explain. The first is the eyepatch. So if you have difficulty getting an eyepatch, most pharmacies, sell them. And I, I talk about the eyepatch as a pattern interrupter. Somebody this week sent me a post on the value of pattern interrupting. And I loved it, it was a brilliant post. Thank you for sending it. The eyepatch is saying to your eyes, you can’t look in the same way that you normally look. But you have to look in a different way. I love that. Because that is a open system that is a system that has some vitality, it has some fluidity. So how you do the exercise is you you patch the left eye, again, you’re doing this in a non demanding non threatening situation, you’re patching the left the left eye, so you’re looking at the right eye. And you ask four questions.

Right Eye How old are you? Right eye How’s the marriage between the right and left eye? Number three is right eye who does the work and the relationship? And number four is right eye what do you need to heal, you are now doing an eye exam on an inner vision basis. In fact, they should do this as part of the eye exam. This is the inner vision that’s really going to tell the truth on how your eyes are seeing and feeling about themselves and each other. It’s not surprising when you cover the left eye. And you asked that second question, right?

I do you know, you’re married to the left eye. And the right eye says, or the left eye says, or the right eye says whoever’s talking, I didn’t know that I didn’t know we were married. Well, I gotta tell you, if your two eyes don’t know, they’re collaborating, should be collaborating. They’re not collaborating. And probably because most of us are right handed, the right eye is dominating and do more of the work. And this is why in myopia a lot of times the right eye has more prescription than the left eye.

Because the right eye is working harder, it’s doing more of the work. And that actually pushes the left eye out of the way. All right, after you’ve done all four of those questions, you can take the patch off, and immediately notice the difference in how you see, like, brighter, clearer, I feel more relaxed, and it’s going to show your mind. Wow, when I actually tune into my right eye, and then I take the patch off, I’m actually seeing things much clearer. And that should give you some hope that yeah, I can get out of this rabbit hole. Alright, now you continue the exercise by patching the right eye. And you ask the four questions again, left eye How old are you left it you know you’re married to the right eye? Left Eye? Who’s doing the work in the relationship? And left eye? What do you need that you’re not getting?

Again, you go through the same gyration you then take the patch off the right eye and you take a look, this is important. You take a look after you take the patch off and get some insights, get some awarenesses and you’re going to go again, things are brighter, things are clearer. I don’t believe it, I’m actually being able to see things much clearer. So this dialoguing exercise is fantastic for getting your two eyes to work better together. My challenge to you for the next two weeks to do the dialog every day. Keep a little journal and it will blow your mind out of the water.

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All right now to add to that exercise. Again, you can go to my website and you can get the plus lens the blur those are the opposite lens prescriptions to what my patients wear when they are near sighted. Or you can go to the drugstore and you can look for a prescription there you’re looking to get about a plus three to plus 350 You need to generate enough blur so this is what you do. You patch the left guy you get a baseline on your naked right eye, you add the blurry glasses for a minute, and you track yourself, what do I see? What do I feel? What are my reactions, I don’t like this. I’m out of control. This is making me crazy. Whatever it is, I’m feeling dizzy. By the way, if you do feel dizzy with the blurry lenses, it’s just telling you that there’s more peripheral vision that is being accessed, but it’s beyond your comfort zone. So just go into the dizziness, and it will go away. By the way, when you expand your peripheral vision, the vestibular system gets better the inner ear, we did some of that today with the sound. And I talked to you at another session when we talked about vestibular health, how the vestibular system and the visual system work together in tandem.

Okay, question Is it normal on some of the exercises, one eye tends to see some ghosting while looking at letters, no double images, but almost a shadow of letters. Yes, it is normal to see ghosting, just keep going. Okay, if you’re able to get three of the images, both eyes are on and working together. So back to the blurry vision, you wear it for a minute, you got the patch on the left eye, you take it off, and you go Oh my I’m actually seeing more clearly now, since I put that blurry vision lens on me, then when I first started, so you do it two more times, because we want to layer the experience, you know, we talk about layering. And when you layer something, you get to go more deeply into it, which is why you do the blurry vision glasses three times. And then you take the patch off the other eye and you go, Oh my goodness, I am seeing very, very clearly. And then you repeat this on the other eye.

And you do the same thing, you get a baseline with the left eye you put the blurry vision glasses on, you wear for a minute, you take them off, you do it again two more times. Again, you may notice a big difference between how your left eye processes the blur, which is your masculine energy, the Father, the left brain and the left eye feminine intuitive mother. Okay, because those differences that you are unaware of are informing your eyes to stay in that reinforcement of the myopia. Okay, another way you can institute the blurry vision glasses, is just sit in the chair, take a look and get a visual acuity reading, put the glasses on for a minute with both eyes. And you’ll notice that things are super, super blurry. You know, remember I have said that one of the things I learned in the fitness world is being able to challenge your eyes in a stressful way that therapeutically it’s going to make them better and that’s exactly what you’re doing. When you were the opposite lens prescription. You’re taking your main focus away the detail and you’re having to grapple with more periphery. Well, it just so happens peripheral vision is going to save your vision. peripheral vision is your intuitive feeling, depth perception based memory based way of seeing so you’re out of this and you’re into the more openness.

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Ep. 251

We are wrapping up my list of the top 10 practices that are going to give you success as you work toward improving your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

prescription, myopia, nearsighted, vision, eyes, consciousness, body, number, lenses, confinement, non threatening, hyper vigilant, new mexico, media outlet, fear, eyesight, state, equanimity, detail, non judgmental

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.

Number five, notice your addiction to detail and needing more information. You know, when we become nearsighted, we’re probably studying more reading more. This is what the studies have shown, there have been studies where people who are more educated in school tend to become more nearsighted. And, you know, I used to observe this when I lived on the East Coast, and then I moved out to New Mexico, those of you that have been to midtown Manhattan, you see, all those buildings are right in front of you, it’s a restriction in space. And so your vision is in a confined space, this is what myopia is, you can find your consciousness to a very close distance.

And then when I moved out west, and I either I’m in New Mexico, or I go to California, and I go to the beach, that’s expansive, right, so that that confinement is gone. And that’s where you’re going. And it isn’t just a visual confinement. It’s a body movement confinement, it’s a mental confinement. And the more confined you are, the tighter your vision is going to be. And when you need more and more and more information and more detail, I want you to take a look at your addiction to detail how much do you really need. And when you are addicted to detail, you are blocking one of the highest intelligence centers in your being and that is the intuition. And if you can bring your intuition more into it, that is one of the best ways to balance your vision.

All right, number four, observe how the lenses cause your eyes and energy to be ahead of yourself. So when you go to the eye doctor, and he or she gives you your prescription that you’re wearing for driving. What that prescription is doing is is putting your eyes and your consciousness ahead of yourself. You could look into a mirror, I think I talked about this and look with the lenses on and you’re going to notice that your attention and your concentration, and your energy is going to be in the mirror. And when you take the lenses off. And there’s more blur out there, you become more inner directed, you’re more in your body. So why in the world would you want to not be in your body because of your hyper vigilant state of being the advanced scout. I’ve got to really search and seek and look and Danger, danger, danger. I mean, pick up any major newspaper today any media outlet, fear is the first thing that’s put out there. Fear, fear, fear, fear.

So we are ingesting this fear. This is myopia. It’s a it’s a myopic way of reporting the news. It’s not balanced. And so to bring more balanced to ourselves to understand that the emotional piece to our myopia we can change how clearly we see things by not buying into the fear, to really trusting our own experience intuitively. Alright, number three, in success for healing your myopia you sound breath, movement, touch and be exclusive with your body. As you look with your eyes, it’s what we did this morning in our opening practice, that is a great way for you to develop whole body seeing and number two, any vision improvement prescription should be used should first be used in non threatening and non demanding situations. So for those of you that have asked for reduced prescription notice I’m not having you read any eye chart when I give you the prescription. And if you think that the main reason you’re getting the prescription is so you can see things more clearly. You are going to be disappointed. So you have to understand that your eyes and your consciousness need to relax into the prescription in the non demanding and non threatening situations.

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And number one, the number one aspect of assuring success in this program. The key to clear eyesight is sustained inner equanimity, slowing down, learning to receive the world in a non judgmental state, being in the present moment, letting go of seeking chasing, making it happen. And finally, if you can master those things, the icing on the coconut cream dessert is getting rid of the glasses. That’s going to be the last step. So when you start to feel frustrated, I’m not there. This isn’t working. My prescription is you know, you start making a narrative. Go back to the practices, and these particular things are the secret ingredients that will clear up your eyesight.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Now we are going to move on to my list of the top 10 practices that are going to give you success as you work toward improving your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

prescription, process, rid, talking, eyes, give, blurry, drive, zai, contact lenses, intellectualize, shankman, pattern, myopia, dissolve, assure, number, nearsightedness, farsightedness, reduced

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.

Here are the top 10 practices that are going to give you success in this process. Number 10 is to understand that it’s probably taken you a while to get the prescription to get the habit to get the pattern that are that’s in your eyes. So the eyes are like pattern addicts, they love patterns. And part of this is due to our schooling, and our educational process. And if you have a prescription, it’s going to take some time to unwind your eyes and reduce the prescription. So you’ve got to understand that this is a process. Now remember, in my case, I had made significant progress, I got rid of about 75% of my prescription. And I became agitated and frustrated at one of my sessions with my doctor, Dr. Shankman. And he said to me that it’s time for you to let go of the goal of getting rid of your nearsightedness. And I said, I don’t think I can do that. Because as a near sighted person, as a person who tunnels, my whole life is around results, getting it right being perfect. You know, I got a lot of accolades by getting the results. And now you’re telling me that I’ve got to give up the attachment to getting rid of my myopia? No way I can’t do it. And he said, That’s the block, that’s what you have to do.

So I began meditating on that. And about three months later was the time that I woke up and I forgot to put my contact lenses in, and here I’m driving on the expressway, and I’m able to see the road signs. So I really got it on a deep level, how this process is a process. And the more focused you are on, I got to get the reduced prescription, I got to get the new prescription, my eyes are not getting clear enough, I’m frustrated, because things are blurry. These are all obstacles that you’re creating for yourself. Whereas I’m going to say enjoy the journey. Enjoy the reflections on what you’re going to gain from insights in your habits and patterns. And it’s lifelong. In fact, it may be past lives, also, many lifetimes. You know, we’re talking about bringing in the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, the nature spirits, all these different the ancestors, you know, if we’ve had a certain prescription, on an ancestral basis, this may have been passed down in the energy field. Now, again, I’m talking in a very broad bandwidth.

But this is what it’s going to take for you to reprogram this very structured way of seeing. And you’ve got to understand as number 10, in this practices to assure success, that this is a process. Alright, number nine practices to share to assure success, letting go of the goal of getting rid of your glasses. So I kind of already talked about that. And be very careful about the seduction of writing me and saying, Hey, give me the reduced prescription. I’m ready. I have a patient right now who’s 85 years old. She’s been coming to me for two years. And she’s dissolved her cataracts. And she’s starting to reduce her farsightedness. So that’s, that’s another course. But she wanted a new prescription. And I gave it to her. She gets the prescription and says, Oh, this is blurry, I can’t wear it. And I said, exactly. So you got to work with it. You know, you buy prescriptions, it’s going to cost you money, right? And your your expectation is, well

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I buy for a prescription, I should be able to use it. And in this particular case, the prescription that you may get, you may need to start using it outside the scope of your daily circumstances and routine. And that’s a reality that you have to come to grips with. Because if you have an expectation, Oh, give me the reduced prescription and then I can use it to drive I can use it to my computer and you get it and you go wow, this is challenging me a little little bit, you’ve got to work with it. It’s not that kind of a prescription, if you want that optics prescription, go back to your eye doctor and get that, and then use this one for your improvement purposes. All right, number eight, in the top 10 practices to assure success, observing your vision improvement as a journey, not a destination. Okay, this is a journey, it’s not a destination. So those of you that are looking for the results, the results are going to come indirectly.

When you learn to let go, surrender into your blur, let it happen, and soften and receive more, then the clarity will come. Number seven, in top 10 practices to assure success, practicing stress reduction activities as a way to relax your vision. So like the process we did this morning, using the J Zai. Zai sound. That’s one of a few that I’ve showed you. The more you can dissolve the stress, the better you’re going to see. Number six, be more, do less. So you know we talk about being and doing. And Pete myopes are doers. They love to do doo doo doo. Give it to me, I can do it. I can solve it. I can figure it out. I can intellectualize it. And part of what this process is on an energetic level is for

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you to be be receive.

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Reflect, look at the clouds. Take a walk in nature. Okay, so it’s been less doing.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

I am wrapping up my list of 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eyes, myopia, prescription, sighted, nearsighted, patched, survival, mistakes, exercises, fear, notice, number, vestibular system, farsighted, understanding, disempowered, codependent, intimate relationship, equal opportunity, lens

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.

Let’s go to number five in my top 10 list of mistakes that people make. Number five, failing to understand your survival circuits are tied into your myopia. Every person who is near sighted at some level is dealing with a fear button inside of them. That’s related to hyper vigilance. And if you think I’m lying, when you start worrying the blurry glasses, and you start seeing your attitudes about the blur, you’re going to start to notice the life or death, energy you put into your eyeballs to keep your eyes single, at any cost. And you’re going to also notice in the survival circuits, that this is not a present day situation, you are bringing the past into your perception and that is coloring the world and your reactions.

I may or may not have said this already, but myopia tunneling at some level you are holding on to the past, you are in the past, locked in and the prescription that the doctor gave you reinforced that moment, when you became nearsighted often ask the question, what was going on for you when you started to become nearsighted? And that particular answer can sometimes unlock the understanding that you’re still doing that you’re still doing that reaction, even though Fast Forward 40 or 50 years later, and you’ve got a lot more myopia now that you have to deal with. And this is where understanding the survival response, and how that might affect your adrenal health, your digestion, your sleep, and your stress.

Need I say more. All right, number four, in my top 10 list of mistakes. For people in this process, this is the number four, not including your body awareness in your seeing. The technique is called see feel. Again, you can do this throughout the day on your computer. If you’re on your computer, I want you to feel your sit bones, your feet, maybe you need to get an exercise ball like a physio ball, and you’re sitting on that that’s going to constantly be moving. You got to make adjustments. It’s great for the vestibular system, the inner ear and the eyes. And you need to feel the body. As you look through the eyes. I’m going to talk about the the worksheets that I gave you the exercises and you want to feel your body whenever you’re looking with your eyes. If you do that, you’re taking the stress out of your eyes to do everything.

Alright, my number three mistakes. Ignore acknowledging the fear related to your eyes. So if you cannot understand that fear is driving this show. If you can understand that, you’re going to start to dissolve your myopia. Whenever you’re in a fear state, you are disempowered, you are a victim. You’ve put the power outside of yourself. That’s why they call it the power in the lens because you are now disempowered and you’ve become codependent on the prescription. Well, when you become codependent if you take that prescription away, let’s say you lose it or you don’t wear it, you forget it, you get paralyzed. So there’s a level of paralysis with the fear that you need to get in touch with if you are in denial about that. Then you’re going to stay stuck in the same place.

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Number two top 10 mistakes, not being more gentle with your eyes. So today we took a few minutes and we put some sound into the eyes. This is one Have many ways for you to become more gentle in your relationship, to have a relationship with your eyes. Most people don’t even have a relationship. So I want you to call the Wii, an intimate relationship on how your eyes are doing. And my number one mistake, top 10 mistakes is not understanding that wearing a full powered prescription when you need it is the best practice to follow. Just kind of what I said a few minutes ago, it’s perfectly fine for you to wear your full prescription when you’re driving. Okay, full prescription when you’re driving. And when you’re then indoors, you can then take the lenses off and put on your weaker lens. Looks like we have a question here.

Joe is asking how much balance should we have? Well, I think maybe I answered that. I don’t know. How much balance should we have the exercises? If one eye is near sighted and one eye is farsighted? Do you recommend a significant amount of time patching the far side did I know Equal Opportunity experience? We can’t force one eye to work more than the other. So Joe, whatever you’re doing, patched the same amount of time with the right that you do with the left. And notice the differences between your near sighted and your far sighted. You are two people. You are twins in one body. So the level of creativity that you can access is more than others who have the same eyes. So it’s something to embrace and all you’re trying to do is get both of them working more together.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Today I want to address a parent’s concerns about their four-year-old daughter, Julie, who has been diagnosed with farsightedness and lazy eye. The parent has been advised by an eye doctor to have Julie wear glasses full time and consider eye muscle surgery. I want to offer an alternative perspective that emphasizes the malleability of a child’s visual system and the potential for improvement through non-invasive treatments. Enjoy the show.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eyes, lazy eye, glasses, visual, system, learning, exercises, vision, podcast, prescription, muscle, surgery, eyedrops, bilateral, brain, focusing, today, cranial vault, child, body

 

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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 with questions, you can email me at hello@drsamberne.com. And you can always text me your questions at 1-844-932-1291. I would like to let you know about my new membership program. This is going to offer members new information on how to improve their vision and wellness. So you will get access to articles, video, blogs, podcasts, and webinars. Also a live q&a with me. And all of this information will empower you to make informed decisions about your vision, and your health. So to sign up to go to my website, drsamberne.com. And you can see the details there. All right now on to the show.

 

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Hey, everybody, welcome to the program, doing a little urban broadcasting today. So I’m in downtown Santa Fe, actually, my old office is just over there. I closed that office in 2010. But this is a very sweet part of Santa Fe, it’s on the west side, pretty quiet and easy going. So I thought I would stop and take a question from a parent is very concerned about a four year old daughter Julie. So Julie has been diagnosed with farsightedness and lazy eye and she’s got an eye turning in. And her eye doctor said that she needs to wear these glasses full time, mom sent me the prescriptions about a plus six. And he also said that she only has about three more years to be able to improve the lazy eye. And he wants to schedule her for eye muscle surgery. Because the only way to fix this I turn is with eye muscle surgery. Well, of course, she is appalled by this. She wants other opinions.

And so she’s known me a long time. And so I wanted to give my point of view. So first thing I want to say is that with kids, their visual system is very malleable, very plastic in the sense that it’s versatile, it’s changeable. And when you start putting glasses on children are doing things like surgery. There’s even a technique where you can use eyedrops that can actually reduce a lazy eye. When you do all these invasive treatments, what ends up happening is it basically reinforces the problem. You know, the eyes are the only part of the brain that are outside the cranial vault. And since the eyes are brain tissue, especially in children, it’s a great opportunity to improve one’s vision by doing physical therapy exercises, because what you’re doing there is you’re creating new pathways, new ways for the child to use their visual system in the midst of using both eyes together.

So with the glasses prescription, you know the way glasses are prescribed is that the doctor is going to put in eyedrops that paralyze the focusing muscles. We call this dilating eyedrops. And once you do that, you have lost the opportunity to be able to measure the organic focusing flexibility of the visual system. And the reason is, is because those muscles are paralyzed because of the eyedrops. And so the prescription that the doctor is going to give is always way too strong. So in this particular case, one of the things we have to look at is First of all, what are the visual acuity requirements? So as a four year old are now in summer, probably not a lot of distance viewing, but you can always test the child, Julie.

And you can say, can you see the road signs out there? Can you see things far away? And that’s going to give you an indicator on, you know, maybe how much prescription she needs? Well, mom just did that. And she can see the road signs beyond 20 feet perfectly. So why would you give a plus five or plus six, when she sees perfectly at distance now up close, she’s learning to read and I asked mom to, you know, hold the book out there to see if there’s, you know, what she could see in terms of the print, and she had to pull it in a little bit.

But she was able to see the print pretty easily. And so one of the things that we might consider is doing a part time prescription. But I would only do like 20% of what the other person prescribed. So if it was a plus five, I would probably maybe give a plus one, maybe even a plus 75, we’d have to try it on. There’s also dynamic testing that you can do, where you can actually test a person’s focusing response. While they’re actually focusing either on a book or a target up close, it’s a pretty incredible test to use. And then you can put lenses in front of the eyes, to see where the best focusing response is. So that’s probably what I would do. Now, in terms of the lazy eye, first of all, there is definitive research now that you don’t have to be age seven or eight, like there’s a statute of limitations.

And after that age, you can’t be helped. In fact, there’s research that says that adults have been helped through different exercises that stimulate both eyes simultaneously, this can actually be done through a computerized program. And it’s a program that kind of gets both eyes to work together at the same time. So you don’t have to say, Oh, my goodness, by age seven, if we don’t fix this, that’s it, it’s just not true. Now, the third thing about the eye muscles, when you do surgery on an eye muscle, you start confusing the brain because it’s the brain that’s directing the eye muscles in the first place.

Learning to aim your eyes is a skill set. And the way you learn the skill set is by going through a set or series of motor skills, where you’re learning about how to motor and go through an obstacle course, where you’re using your visual system to guide your body through space. And there’s also an issue with bilateral reality that’s global, that’s with the whole body. It isn’t just with the eyes, it’s just the eye doctor is seeing it in the eyes, but it’s actually in the whole person. So this means that we want to go back and do some things like creeping and crawling, bilateral exercises, hopping, skipping, so gross motor, learning how to get both sides of the body to work together.

And then you bring the visual system in as a way to anchor the body and the body anchors the vision, where you learn how to use two eyes together. Now there are other exercises where you can work with visual tracking with each eye. You can even do by an ocular vision exercises, like with red green glasses, or stereo optical glasses, certainly that those are possibilities. And when you do that you’re presenting to the brain into the visual system.

This is what it’s like to use both eyes together. And you go through a curve a learning curve to do that. And when you when you go through that physical vision therapy, what you’re actually doing is changing the software in the brain so that the two eyes start to understand this is how I aim together. And when I aim together, I get stereo vision. my peripheral vision is more simultaneous, and it’s a much better way that’s long lasting compared to surgery, which is more treating symptoms. And by the way, if you do get the surgery, probably chances are you’re going to have to do the surgery again because the eyes are only going to get fixed temporarily where they look straight. But the brain gets very confused because now because the muscle is different.

How does it handle using both eyes together? So it’s a very different approach, but it is treating the Ha’s and not the symptoms. I also think getting some cranial sacral therapy, where you’re getting more movement in the bones around the eyes and the face the cervical spine. I’ve actually seen strabismus eye turns go away after cranial sacral sessions. And so as you change the positioning and the posture of how the bones articulate with the eyes, you then have a really good chance of learning how to use them together.

 

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Some of the future trends that I see with lazy eye and strabismus is this is more for adults but for lazy eye using virtual reality experiences actually has been shown to reduce amblyopia lazy eye, and also video games. And you know, it’s it’s one of those things that we have, where these specific video games, the left eye is wearing one lens and the right eye is wearing another lens. So it’s activating different things in the visual system. So it starts to encourage to use both eyes together.

And then the third way is more of what I’m doing now, which is more about perceptual learning, using different eye patches and stereoscopic glasses and yoke prisms, where you’re connecting the vestibular system with the visual system, also working perceptually with parquetry blokes working more with the gross motor and things like the primitive survival reflexes, and getting those in integrated.

Those are the infant reflexes that I’ve referred to in many, many podcasts. But here it is, this is another option in the buffet. So if you decide you don’t want to continue along the more traditional route. This developmental functional approach is quite exquisite in helping kids stimulate and learn to develop their vision with their body. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care

 

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Ep. 248

This week we are continuing down our list of 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

blur, prescription, lens, drug, eye, blurry vision, reduced, body, number, toxicities, mistakes, bedroom door, nei, pharmaceutical drug, fact, hate, side effects, problem, attitude, driving

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.

Okay, let’s go to number nine in our top 10 mistakes. Number nine is thinking of the eyeballs as only a mechanical instrument. Your eyes, as you’ve been finding out, are influenced by our environment, our nutrition, our liver health, our toxicities, our traumas, and much more. And this means that the eyes are interrelated and interconnected to our entire body. And you’ve heard me say this a million times. So this is 1,000,001. Nei problem has its roots systemically, metabolically and energetically in the body. Or let’s go to number eight, top 10 mistakes, number eight, not understanding that any prescription is like a drug, and has side effects. So you need to wake up to the fact that every time you look through the lens that the doctor has given you, is a pharmaceutical drug.

And when you have a pharmaceutical drug, and you take it or you look through it, you become the consciousness of the people who created the drug. The drug is synthetically made. It is not life affirming, for sure, it’s only treating a temporary symptom. And if anything, it’s driving the cause further in. And when I say this to people, 99.99% will push back and say, Oh, come on, this is not a drug. Well, I’m sorry, it is controlled and regulated by the FDA. And it is certainly a prescription, just like a statin drug, a drug for high blood pressure, or blood thinners, or cholesterol, or Ritalin for ADHD, and you know that drugs have side effects. Alright, my number seven in my top 10 list of mistakes is and this is a big one, this is this is going to hurt when I share this wanting to get a reduced prescription without doing the RE education work first. This is again, something I’ve repeated a million times, people, even people in this class, give it to me, give me it give me it, I want the reduce prescription I want it.

Well, the problem is, is that you have to reset your visual system, your eye may or your eye Mind Body attitude. First, clear out some energy so that there’s some healing, then you can take on and integrate the prescription. Because if you try to do it the other way, here’s the reduced prescription. Because you haven’t done the work. You’re going to reject it, you’re not going to understand what the lens is doing. And one of the things that’s hardest for people that are near sighted is grappling with a little blur. In fact, if you get a reduced prescription, and you haven’t done the work, your first reaction is I hate the blur. I don’t like this, that’s where your attention is going to go. And you’re going to get stopped in your tracks. Because what you think is going to be manifested, it’s what you’re going to attract. And if you get the blurry glasses and you go, I hate this, I don’t like it. Then you’re done. You’re sunk.

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So you have to do the work first. Okay, and even when you get the reduced prescription people have a false sense that, oh, I can use this for the computer. I can use this for driving. Maybe not. Maybe it’s a prescription that you’re wearing indoors, just getting used to something softer and new. So it’s not about I need to have it clear so I can function. This is not a doing lens, it’s a being lens. So a being lens is a lens that I’m using that’s introducing a new experience for me, so that my vision can start to soften and open. Alright, number six in my top 10 mistakes, to hate your blur.

So we’re going to talk this morning about the plus lens, the blur exercise, the one where you put it on the first time, and you go, Oh, my goodness, what is this guy doing to me? We’re blaming first of all, what is he doing to me? I’m in this blur. What is this about? It’s precisely your homeopathic constitutional for healing your eyesight. Okay, so that loving your blur and going into your blur is the fastest way for you to get clarity. There’s a disclaimer. Only do it on your meditation cushion with the bedroom door locked, and no demands on you. That’s the only place you should be exploring your attitudes, your belief systems about the blur. I’m not asking you to go around with blurry vision when you’re driving, reading, cooking, relating. I’m not asking for that. I am asking while you’re in your spiritual practice, that you are using these blurry vision opposite lens prescriptions to understand your reaction to the blur and if you hate it, again, you’re going to be stopped in your tracks.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Over the next few episodes, I am going to discuss the 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

prescription, eye, doctor, wear, vision, lens, relax, reduce, balance, lenses, myopia, astigmatism, feel, distance, drive, glasses, wrote, strong, contacts, lived

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.

What I want to do right now is I want to go through 10 things 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism. And you’ll get a copy of this, this is like my top 10 things that people do, where it takes them further away from the goal that they’re trying to achieve. Number 10, believing your eye doctor that you cannot improve your vision. Now, I know some of you are going to be in a conundrum about understanding how prescriptions affect you. And you’re not going to want to buy into the doctor’s, you know, attempt to give you the strongest prescription possible. And I actually did a post on tick tock yesterday, guy wrote me and said that he had been in a minus three lens for about eight years. And every time he would go to his doctor, he would say to the doctor, these lenses are making my eyes and body too tight. And the eye doctor would say, just get used to it, you know, it’s okay, it’s no big deal.

This is what you need. So we finally found a doctor who was willing to reduce his prescription by point two 5.25. So that would make it a 2.75. And he was having the same issues, where there was a lot of tension, there was a lot of stress. And so what he wrote me was, how can he get out of this maze? Well, what the great thing about myopia is, is that your eye doctor likes to sell you glasses, that’s how he makes his money. And in fact, what happens is, he’s going to give you the strongest prescriptions, so that in six months or a year, you’re off eyes are not going to be able to see as clearly out of the prescription because it’s making your eyes worse. So you go back, and he increases the prescription. So he gets to sell you another pair of glasses, it’s kind of a great business model, if you want to make money selling glasses.

But what I told this gentleman is what I would tell you is that the prescription that you need for 20 feet, is too strong for you for the computer, and or reading. And in fact, if you use that distance prescription for the computer, it is going to accelerate your eyes getting worse. So what you tell the doctor is I want a prescription that I can use for the computer, that’s less than what my distance prescription is. So it’s kind of clever on your part, because what you’re really asking for is a reduced prescription. And the, you know, we use the distance eye chart as a measurement, you know, for the term 2020. And it’s a standard measurement where you see a 1/3 inch letter at 20 feet, when you get the computer prescription, that’s going to correct you for a little larger letter about 2040. So instead of a 1/3 inch letter, it’s a one inch letter.

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But there’s some real great possibilities with that prescription because when you get it first of all, it is going to relax your eyes for all your screentime. And by the way, you might ask him for the blue blocker as well since you’re there. And what you’re going to do is you’re also going to use that prescription as your vision exercise and your Natural Vision Improvement practice. So many of you wrote, you just don’t have the discipline to do the exercises. So by wearing this reduce prescription, and I would wear it indoors, I would wear it when you cook I’d wear it when you relate to your family. I’d wear it you know outside if you’re walking in a park or walking on a hiking trail. You’re gonna see Clear enough in those instances, but what is going to do, it’s going to start relaxing your eyes and your eye muscles.

And over time, this prescription will become your distance prescription. Now, if you’re in a situation now, this is very important when I’m going to say, if you are in a situation and you’re wearing this Natural Vision Improvement vision fitness lens, and you start feeling frustrated, then put on your stronger lenses for that particular circumstance, so that you feel safer. So you can see things more clearly, you don’t want to practice Natural Vision Improvement in situations that that are going to frustrate you, because you’re now out of the healing energy, which is about slowing down, being mindful going inside having self awareness. And those are the places and that’s the environment you need to be in to sustain the reduction. Another thing I want you to do with that reduce prescription that you ask your doctor for is compare the difference in how your eyes feel between the strong lens and the computer lens, the weaker lens. And you should notice that the weaker lens is more relaxing, it’s more open, it’s softer. And that is a very important point. Remember, I said the first step is recognizing eye relaxation, the last step is going to be eye clarity. So as you wear that more and relax into it, then eventually that’s going to become your distance prescription.

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You know, in my case, I was very nearsighted. And I began reducing my prescription doing this the things that you were that I’m having you do. And I got to the point where one day I woke up, and I was late to drive in the office and I lived in Center City, Philadelphia, and I had a reverse commute out to my office in the suburbs on the main line in Philly. And I start driving among the Schuylkill expressway. And I go, Oh, my God, I, I’m not wearing my contacts. And I can see the signs. And that was it. And it blew me away, that I had forgotten to put my contacts in.

And I could see the road signs. And it was such a breakthrough for me. But it just kind of happened by accident, in that I had been mourning the reduced prescription so long, that my eyes actually just reset. So again, if I can do it, you can do it. But you’ve got to be patient. And you’ve got to go through the process. Now when somebody asked me about the balance, and you know, I had the good fortune, when I got out of school, I was 28 years old. And I met five holistic eyes, doctors in their 70s. They were like the elders, and they all lived in the Northeast. And I used to be a sponge, I would go to the meetings, I would hang out with them. And they all became friends and mentors to me. And they all taught me something very important about lens prescribing that I feel is lost today.

And it is this, that if you can talk your doctor into balancing the prescription, even if your eyes are different. When you wear the same lenses in each eye. It is a vision exercise that’s encouraging your vision, your eye Brain Body to come back to a level of integration and symmetry. So it’s a directional tool that’s moving your eyes back into balance, even if they aren’t in balance. Because the mistake that’s made in optics is correcting one eye differently for the other eye because when you do that, you are reinforcing the difference. Make sense, right? If you’re wearing different lenses, it’s only going to keep you in that same difference. So if you can to negotiate with the Doctor, can I get the same prescription in each eye? And if you do that, it will catapult you into more balance and integration.

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Today, we are looking at what is really blocking your vision? Stress? Fatigue? Or something else? It’s important to the process to dig deep and really understand what’s affecting you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

myopia, eye, skepticism, talk, clarity, relaxation, astigmatism, peripheral vision, daily routine, process, tunnel, creative, current, results, prescription, number, doctor, creativity, manifest, fatigue

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.

Question two, how is your current prescription or tunnel vision affected you? stress, fatigue, creativity. Again, I’m going to talk about why I’ve put these in here. What is the biggest block with improving your vision? Okay, 71% lack of daily discipline. So I’m going to talk to you about ways to get around that. Okay. I’ll release the results in a in a minute. But I want to go through each of these. So that you’ll have a little bit understanding on why I asked these questions, and how they can help you gain your gain your goals. So with myopia and astigmatism the last thing that’s going to change for you is your eye clarity. I wish it was the other way around. But it’s the, it’s the desert. Getting more clarity is the last step in the process. The first step in the process is recognizing how you’ve been holding your eyes in a certain tension. And the first step is feeling the relaxation in your eyes, that is number one step which you are doing.

The second step is recognizing how your myopia has caused you to exclude your peripheral vision. And so it’s I relaxation, one, peripheral vision two. Believing in it is three, because if you’ve got some skepticism, then you know, just like the placebo effect, what you put your attention on, is what you’re going to manifest. And if you’re manifesting healing, you are putting your energy on the gratitude that you have with your eyes on how you see it. Because in myopia and tunneling, it’s very easy to go into judgment. That’s what we do in myopia we’re going to, we’re good at critical thinking. So again, I want to emphasize this point, the last thing that’s going to change for you is eye clarity. Okay, number two, how is your current prescription tunnel, or tunnel vision affected you? Yeah, I would say that eye fatigue would be number one, because you’re muscularly, you have to tunnel in order to grab it, to seek it to chase it. And you know, you’re using a lot of your will, in making it happen. And of course, we know what this does to creativity, you know, the more you can let it happen, let the flow come to you get into that state of grace.

That’s where the creative flow comes in. And then ultimately, the clarity. And that’s why I have you wear blurry glasses, because when you go into the blur, that forces you into a more creative, less linear, less detailed, analytical way of thinking and being. So that would, I would predict that those results would be that would be it. And then number three, the lack of daily discipline in your practice is probably the biggest block. And what I’m going to say here is that if you can start incorporating one thing that you learn from the class, during your daily routine, in other words, from the time you get up from the time you go to bed, there is some thing or maybe three things that you’re thinking about that you have an awareness about around moving forward in this process. So it’s not about necessarily carving out the time. I mean, you can certainly do that. But the key is, throughout your day, what are some things you can do to remind yourself of disrupting the normal pattern?

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Certainly fear is the major emotion with myopia via it’s our kidneys, also in Chinese medicine, and one person talked about the skepticism of their eye doctor. And I mean, I can tell you that nine out of 10 doctors, if you go to them, and you start talking to them about what you want to do or vision improvement, you’re probably going to be met with skepticism. And you have to understand that it’s a threat to them. It’s a threat to the philosophy to the education to the thinking, and you have to understand that and that you’re not going to take it on. But you’re going to you know, you’re going to continue along this, this vein, and even if you don’t have the support of your current AI doctor, you’ve got me You’ve got all my content that I’m putting out, and if I can do it, you can certainly do it

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This eye exercise I am going to walk you through today uses sound and vibrations to create calm and clarity in the body and the eyes. Feel free to follow along. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

sound, eyes, zai, bones, few breaths, jaw, breathing, exhale, closed, notice, area, baseline, hands, peripheral vision, monotone, measurement, activating, breakthroughs, eyesight, ears

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 the process is going to be where I’m going to guide you through the whole thing. So the sound we’re going to be using is a J sound. And I really want you to move your face, your eyes, your jaw. So you know, get things moving in here, the sound is really activating the bones. Now this comes from Emily and continuum, where this particular sound resonates in the bones. You know, one of the insights I made just just to tell you about the sound is that if you as a child grew up in a household, where you were told your voice needs to be more in a monotone. As you get older, it’s those people where their voice is in a monotone, they have more difficulties with their bone health.

So sound is another way that increases the health of the bones, the bone marrow, which is our immune part of our immune system. And so by doing this ZIZ, you are activating and stimulating the bones in the entire body, but especially up in this area. So I’m going to talk you through this, it’s really easy, we’re just going to do it for a few minutes. But it’s going to set the stage for the learning that we need to do to make the breakthroughs today as we move forward. So we’re preparing ourselves to be able to access a maximum outcome of success. And this is one of many ways to do that. So I imagine all of you are sitting in a comfortable position, if you want to, so we can kind of hear each other, your surgeon certainly permitted to unmute yourself in making the sounds.

And what I’d like you to begin with, is to look out beyond your computer. And I want you to get a measurement of your eyesight. So if you wear glasses, take them off if you got your contacts in no problem. But I just want you to get a baseline on your peripheral vision, the color, the light, not a big deal. You’re just taking a you know, a measurement there. And then I want you to go inside. So you’ll close your eyes. And I want you to take a few breaths. And while you’re tracking your breathing, just notice how your breathing is right now. Is it shallow? Is it fast? Is it slow? Are you mostly in the diaphragm in your awareness, on the inhale, exhale Are you more in in the chest area, just just to touch in with your breathing a little bit. This is a great way to do this with your eyes closed. And just take a little baseline.

Okay. Now the next thing we’re going to do is I want you to take your hands and I want you to put them on top of your head. It doesn’t matter exactly where I’ll I’ll kind of coach you. You can also look at me. And I want you to take a normal breath in through your nose. And on the exhale. I want you to do some J i Zi sounds and let’s do six rounds. You can go at your own speed. You can do it with eyes open or eyes closed. And I’m going to be doing it with you so you can watch and hear me and we’re going to get each other’s energy as we do it. So let’s do six exhales with a j i and then pause.

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You You can keep your eyes closed, you can drop your hands on your lap and I want you just to feel into the area that you were just putting sound into and just notice the temperature the sensation is kind of listen to your body’s response. Maybe take two more breaths and now I want you to take one of your hands and put it on your forehead and the other hand in the back of your head and I want you to do six more J Zai Zai sounds on the exhale.

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Again, you can drop your hands when you’re done, keep your eyes closed and just send some feel into the areas where you were having your hands, the forehead and the back of the head, get notice sensation notice tingling notice anything that comes up into your awareness. Okay, we’re going to move to the jaw so now I want you to put your hands like this on either side of the cheekbone and the jaw you can put your thumb and have below the ear this is nice lymph area and let’s do six of the these as well J Zai Zai is the. Okay, you can drop your hands on your lap and just feel into the jaw area. Your face. Are you feeling more circulation? Maybe some tingling. All right, now you’re going to put your hands over your ears and we’re going to do six here he. He after six you can drop your hands again on your lap and take notice on what you’re feeling and sensing and experiencing around in and around your ears. Maybe take a few breaths and just just listen. Just observe. Okay, the last one is going to be too licking your palms, putting them over your eyes. And this is our finale six J Zai Zai sounds over the eyes

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and when you’re finished Can you can drop your hands on your lap into your lap. And just notice what you’re feeling in and around your eyes, the muscles, the eyeball itself. Okay, you can open your eyes. I want you to, to look around the room, get a new baseline on your eyesight, the brightness, the amount of peripheral vision, the amount of clarity, color, light contrast, just notice that and then close your eyes and take a baseline of the rhythm of your breathing. Has it slowed down? Do you feel like you have more oxygen more breathing more breath?

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

I am sharing my experience and how I started with the Continuum movement and what it’s taught me. I have learned and benefited from the things I share with you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

myopia, movement, called, Emily, give, prescription, bandwidth, repetitive, continuum, restriction, practice, moving, eye, bones, workshop, face, system, open, astigmatism, challenge

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 I actually want to start off with a little bit of a warm-up. And this is going to prepare us for the learning and the healing that we’re going to experience as we move through today. So this is a practice that involves using sound. And it’s going to open up the bones around the face, the head. And this particular practice is something I’ve been using quite a long time as a way to clear up myopia. So it’s kind of perfect. We have done a flavor of this before in an earlier session together. And this, I’ll just give you a little backstory on this just for a minute.

About 15 years ago, I was invited to give a workshop in California, Santa Monica. And it was at a studio that was run by a woman some of you may know have known her, her name is Emily Conrad, and Emily was the founder of a somatic practice called continuum movement. And after the workshop, she was very taken by what I was teaching, and we became friends and I actually studied her work. And then she became a patient of mine, and continue a movement, which you could actually look up continuummovement.com, is a fabulous healing modality that involves using different sounds, different movements, and different breathing sequences. Emily wrote a book before she died called life on land. And it is a groundbreaking book that you’ll read it was written on and Oh 2013, you’ll read it and you go, Oh, my goodness, this is what’s happening today. And she really draws a connection between our cultural and social challenges.

And what’s happened to the body, what’s happened to the lack of movement, the robot, and the mechanistic ways that we well we are exposed to. And if you go back to the Industrial Revolution, that was a place where we began to really Institute the repetitive mechanical movements, which, you know, created all this consumerism that we are now dealing with on so many levels, and how that’s impacted the environment and our health. And what Emily discovered in the Continuum movement is that the more we step outside of the repetitive robotic movements, we have the opportunity to regain our vitality. And as she would call it, our biological intelligence. In other words, on a cellular level, we have the intelligence to heal if we’re giving given the proper prescription and what I mean by proper prescription.

I’m talking about the holistic mind-body experiences, some of which I’ve been teaching. And there’s something called a closed system and an open system and a closed system means we kind of stay in the same bandwidth, which is a pretty narrow bandwidth. That’s called a closed system. And you may have noticed that since you’ve been introduced to me that I live in quite a broad bandwidth. And this broad bandwidth is called an open system. And when you live in an open system, the organisms that live in an open system thrive. There is a certain level of neuroplasticity that can occur when you live in an open system. Now it’s unfamiliar, it may challenge your current status quo. And those of you that have signed up for this course

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Obviously, you’re thinking about, well, in this particular context, I want to get out of my current myopia and astigmatism prescription, that’s a pretty fixed, repetitive way of seeing and being in moving, and behaving and reacting. Because when we look through the lens, everything that is colored by that prescription, whether it’s contacts or glasses. So in any event, one of the insights that I made while I explore continuing movement, and this also came from my cranial sacral training, is that there are several bones and the nerves and the muscles around the skull and the face that can start to impinge on the eye muscles and the eyeballs. And this is inducing myopia, which then when you go to the eye doctor, all he or she is doing is giving you a lens that reinforces the restrictions. And that’s kind of the bottom line, any doctor that you go to who’s just a mechanical, I’m measuring you and I’m giving you the prescription is really just reinforcing more of what you’re doing to yourself. And this is something that you want to step out of, which is why you met me.

And since I’ve done it, you can do it. So in this practice, we’re going to combine to sound. We used it at a previous session, which is like a buzzing sound. It’s a j I sound and then the ZIJIZ I and I are going to demonstrate it right now. Jin, Zhu Yi Xu. And what you do is you bring those together, and you bring them together in at different rhythms. So it could be something like this. She’s Z. Notice while I’m doing it, I’m moving to face my lips. This is a very activated area. We’ve got the cranial nerves that innervate the jaw up into the eyes, we’ve got the fascia, the connective tissue, and we’re going to use our hands as tuning forks, that can actually give us our own craniosacral treatment. So when the bones are here in the head, they come together in what we call sutures, and the sutures can get locked down. And this locking down creates a lack of movement or restriction, which leads to this vision fixation, which we call myopia, and astigmatism. And as I’ve said in many other of lectures, if you want to get rid of your myopia you must get in touch with the amount of tension that you’re holding.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Here are my three tips for preventing or reversing cataracts. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, cataracts, glutathione, foods, vitamin c, natural sunlight, blue, lens, glutathione production, antioxidant, support, light, vitamin e, studies, give, retina, health, selenium, dry eye syndrome, offering

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, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So we have a very interesting question today how to reverse cataracts. So I’m going to give you three tips. Before I do that quick announcements I’m going to be teaching a two hour class from 10am to 12 noon, on April 30. So if you’d like to join me, you want to learn how to use color therapy aromatherapy. We’ll be doing eye exercises. I’ll teach you how to negotiate a better eyeglass or contact lens prescription with your doctor to support vision improvement. So if you’re interested, you can go to my website, drsamberne.com. And we look forward to seeing you at the class. Oh, by the way, if you can’t make the class live, there will be a recording afterwards. You have access to that 24/7 for 30 days, you also get a 10% discount on all of my products. Speaking of products, there are three new ones that I’m going to be offering. I haven’t done this in quite a while. The first is a natto Vitamin E this is a special formulated Vitamin E that really supports the micro capillaries in the retina, especially if you’ve got conditions like wet macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, or you’re just concerned about your retina health. This annatto Vitamin E is a powerhouse in being able to give your retinas more nutrients support. The second supplement I’m going to be offering is one that we all know it’s called saffron.

This is an amazing spice. Studies have shown that saffron because of its antioxidant formula, very potent can support macular health, retinal health, and just overall eye health. And then the third supplement that I’m going to be offering is curcumin. Curcumin is another one of these very, very potent antioxidants. Studies have shown that it’s an anti inflammatory agent, it helps improve eye circulation. And so if you want to keep your eyes healthy, I would include curcumin in the mix. So watch for those. We’ll be sending out newsletters, announcements on social media and try them out. They’re great. I’ve been in the manufacturing phase testing phase. For over a year, we finally passed all the tests. And they are very, very high quality. I know you’ll enjoy them. So I received a question from Andy. He is suffering cataracts in both eyes. And when he went to his eye doctor, the doctor basically said let’s watch it get ripe. And then we will cut it out and he does not like surgery. So I’m going to offer three tips today to Andy to help him improve his lens health.

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Number one. I don’t know whether you know this, but studies have shown that people with cataracts have only 20% of the amount of glutathione compared to people that have a healthy lens. So glutathione one of the nicknames I give it is it’s the anti aging antioxidant. And it’s a antioxidant that most people become deficient in as they get older. It’s partly produced in the liver, you can also get it from sulfur based foods. So my suggestion would be to take between 509 100 milligrams a day of glutathione. One of the best ways to get it into your body is by using what we call a sublingual liposomal glutathione and that is very highly absorbed bioavailable, gets into the bloodstream gets into your eyes. Now if you don’t want to take a supplement, sulfur based foods here are some that are really great. That will help with the glutathione production and absorption. Arugula, avocados, Brazil nuts, garlic, onions, kale.

And by the way, Selenium the trace mineral is very important for glutathione production. And Brazil nuts have a high amount of selenium in them so that you’re getting to great things in Brazil nuts, I love them. They’re great. Get the organic kind, if you can. Alright, the second tip I would recommend would be the importance of vitamin C and eye health. This cannot be understated concentrations of vitamin C in the lens are 20 to 30 times higher than they are in the plasma, the blood plasma. There was a study that was put out in 2016, which said that, if you take one to 2000 milligrams a day of vitamin C, you lower your risk of eye disease. Now you can get the buffered vitamin C, I would recommend probably 2000 milligrams a day. Obviously, you can get vitamin vitamin C from a variety of foods, we know what those are, but include vitamin C in your diet, either through supplementation or foods, then my last recommendation about cataract is as follows. If you are on the screen, more than a half hour a day, I would highly recommend getting some blue blocking glasses or a blue blocking filter that you can put over the over the screen. And the reason why I say that is because blue light really wreaks havoc with our eye tissue.

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You know, the studies that I’m beginning to see, say that blue light is actually like a neurotoxin. And if we’re exposed to blue light, especially in moderate to long term use, it’s going to definitely dry out our eyes. I see people with really massive dry eye syndrome, blepharitis meibomian gland dysfunction, these are eyelid issues. I also see a higher incidence of glaucoma, macular degeneration, and I would include cataracts in that, you know, the lens is very sensitive. And when it doesn’t get enough antioxidants, or there’s some interference and the mitochondria, those are the energy producers in the cells. Free radicals start to form metabolic waste. There isn’t a day that goes by in my office when somebody is coming in. And I’m seeing cataracts forming a very high percentage of people get cataracts.

And now with the incidence of blue light, it accelerates the deterioration of the healthy proteins in the lens. So protecting your eyes from the blue light is very, very important. Now that being said, even if you are suffering cataracts, early in the day, late in the day, make sure you get outside and get natural sunlight 30 minutes a day, you can wear a hat, you don’t have to look directly into the sun. But there’s so many benefits to natural sunlight. People think that it’s the ultraviolet that causes cataracts. Well, if you’re a farmer or your construction worker or a lifeguard, and you’re out eight to eight to 10 hours a day. Yes, there’s probably some validity to that to that. But we need trace amounts of ultraviolet light as a way to boost our immune system. And also, it helps our eyes. So this idea that you have to avoid the sunlight completely, is just dead wrong. You need natural sunlight, it’s a food. It balances our circadian rhythms. It’s important for our eye circulation, and many many other benefits. So Andy, keep the faith. Try these different techniques. I know they’re going to work for you send me an email and let me know your improvement. And by the way, if you’ve got any questions you can email me at Hello Dr. Sam byrne.com. So that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for checking in with me. And until next time, take care.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Today we are talking about color therapy. What is it? How did I get started with it? How can it help your eyes? Color therapy can be so beneficial in so many ways. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

color, eye, retina, photoreceptors, therapy, technique, healing, different colors, light, energetic, glasses, class, eyesight, acupuncture meridians, minutes, body, deeply held, blue green color, stare, healer

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.

I’m going to tell you a brief story. I got interested in color therapy back in, actually the mid 1980s. And I was just starting a practice in Philadelphia. And I received a flyer in the mail about going to a class, healing people’s eyes with color. Now, after that weekend class, Monday morning, I came back into the office into the waiting room, and there was my friend, and her mom. And she had just failed the driver’s license. And she was diagnosed with macular degeneration. She had some retina issues. And she, she was devastated. So I said to my friend, I’ve got this new technique I learned, which is you stare at this color. And there was a cookbook at that point, if you stare at this particular blue green color, 20 minutes a day. What the teachers said for the class is that it could help improve macular health.

So we started a program where the my friend brought her mom in every day. And every day I’d gotten meet her in the waiting room and take her back to my room where there was a color machine. And she would stare at this color. So the color was coming into our eyes. I didn’t really know what I was doing. And after about two weeks, I came out into the waiting room. And I said, Oh my worse, where’s your daughter? And she said, Well, you know, I’m seeing so well, I was able to drive to the office, myself. And I went what. So I took her into my exam room, and I did an eye exam on her. And she was telling the truth, her eyesight had gone from 2400, which is seeing the biggie on the eye chart. And now she was seeing about 2080 which means that she was seeing a fairly small letter at 20 feet. So we can continued with the color therapy.

And when she was done, her visual acuity was 2040, she went back to motor vehicles, and she was able to get her daylights driver’s license. And this was just doing color therapy, there were no supplements, there was no you know, fancy eye exercises or anything like that. So the point of the story was is that, you know, if people look at different colors, it must have some positive effect on the retina because the retina is the part of the eye that captures the the light, you know, the technical term is called photoreceptors. And what I realized was there’s that over a lifetime stress traumas, body toxicities, visual habits, wearing prescriptions that are too strong, begin to shut off the photoreceptors in the retina. And that’s why people have the all these different eye problems, partly because the photoreceptors are not processing the light properly. And if you stimulate the photoreceptors with different light in different colors, then you can regain your eyesight and vision. So if we fast forward many, many years, here we are today.

One of the techniques that I developed was having people look through or look at different colors. And it became an experience where not only was there a physical change in the retina, but there was also an energetic and energetic change in the body. In other words, there was a change in the energy system of the body, whether it’s the acupuncture meridians, or the chakra system, you know, whatever you’re comfortable with or know about, but bottom line is, is that there are certain colors that we look at, that we get attracted to we go towards the color. There may be some colors that we are repulsed by or we don’t like.

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And what I have been teaching to my students and patients is to do what we call the rainbow color therapy session, which is you’ve got those colors that I sent you, which you can play as like a PowerPoint on your computer screen. And you start off by looking Each color now when you look at the color, that that frequency is being projected into your eyes.

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If you take your corrective glasses off, the color is going to go in even more deeply.

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You can even cover an eye and look at a color. And the two simple questions you can ask yourself are, what color do I see? And how does it feel? When you ask the question, how does it feel that gives your eye the opportunity to receive it and metabolize it and digested. And so the photoreceptors of the retina are getting bathe in all of your retina cells, even the ones that maybe aren’t working properly. So you spend anywhere between 30 seconds and two minutes, looking at each color, asking the same question, what do you see? And what do you feel by the time you get to the end of the color session, when you’re done, you can do some palming at the end, if you wish.

And you’re done with the session. Now, in any kind of energetic healing, it’s very different than say doing something like a physical exercise, or taking a drug. That’s a subtle improvement, it’s a subtle change, that over time, there’s going to be more an a more accumulated effect. So if you’re looking for some big change, like oh, I want to throw my glasses away by doing, you know, color therapy, I don’t think that’s going to happen. But in the context of doing everything else, the color therapy is going to improve the function of the photoreceptors of the retina. And so one of the things that you can observe about yourself is What is the color you most like? And what is the color you most dislike? And those are going to tell you things about what is the color that brings you the deepest balance, and what is the color that although it’s going to trigger you, it may bring up or release certain deeply held energies that you didn’t even know existed. I had a patient the other day, Master Healer, done everything super, like, you know, just master all over the place.

I gave her the color yellow. And within 10 seconds, she was triggered into a deep shame about her glasses and having to wear them as a seven year old. And she had done everything. So the color therapy is surprising. The more you do it, it penetrates the defense’s your, your thinking your mind your preconceived ideas. And the other thing I would say is don’t overthink it. Just sit in front of the color. And ask yourself what you see and what you feel. There’s no fancy technique here. It’s not, we’re not asking you to do somersaults. Just look at the color and let the light and the color do the work for you. And trust that whatever the color shows you is what you need. You know, there’s a term that I use called alchemy. You’ve probably heard of that term. And we can do straight eye exercises. And you’ll get good at the eye exercise.

But it’s not really changing anything deeply. Or the things that I’m giving you. Today I want to talk a little bit about aromatherapy if we have time. These energetic techniques, interface with each of us very differently based on what we need for harmony and balance. And for all of us because we are putting so much pressure and stress on our eyes based on the demands today. That when we expose ourselves to these energetic modalities, we have the potential to heal it very, very quickly. If we’re open and one of the sayings I like to use is take what you know and let it go. Like this Master Healer Oh, I’ve done this before I did colorfit Oh, there, there’s nothing to this. I

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said, Well, come on, let’s just, let’s just try it. Okay. And boom, it blindsided her, and it created a huge healing that she’s still reverberating with. So, what I would propose is every day, sit with the rainbow of colors. 30 seconds to two minutes and keep a journal. This is what I, this was my insight today. This is tomorrow, this was my insight, and just start to note, how you’re relating to the colors and how the colors are relating to you. I don’t know if I can say it any more simply. But that’s what I would suggest.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, chart, blur, vision, nearsighted, clearer, exercise, stretching, glasses, awareness, put, left, occlude, cataract, patch, create, brain, eyepatch, animal, experiment

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All right. So basically, what are your goals and objectives? And this would be for everybody. You know, as I work with you, Wendy, what are your goals and objectives? What do you want to get out of the investment and energy that you’re putting into your vision? Vision therapy?

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Okay, I have made it, what happened was the first operation wasn’t done well or properly. So they went in again and did a much more thorough job to do the retinal reattachment. I’m definitely not having another one of those operations, whatever happens, I’m not doing that, again. A cataract has already started forming in their tie, which they said would happen. And it’s, you know, if you take away all the gas exchanges by putting a gas button in, I suppose that’s entirely logical. So my I got vision, it’s very blurred, my, my goal would be to strengthen my unoperated eye so that I don’t get these problems again, and to create a vision that’s functional in my right eye, rather than being very blurred, and I’d take away the circumstances that are causing the cataract. Okay.

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All right. So I think where, where I would start with you, there’s a couple of places in this, looking at everybody in the group, I think the first exercise that you should do, and this would be, everybody should do this one. And I will send you directions video and a chart. It’s called the animal eye chart. And it’s a chart that I came up with, that helped you develop better circulation and oxygenation in the eye by stretching the eye. So let me give you a little backstory here. Many years ago, I had a Tibetan patient come and see me and showed me this chart. That said it was the Tibetan eye chart, and it was a stretching chart. And so I experimented with it. And I did some research and actually found out it wasn’t a Tibetan eye chart. But the stretching part of it was actually really beneficial. So I came up with my own chart, which involves working with a patch. And I think everyone here should be working with an eyepatch, or working with each eye separately.

Now there are different ways that you can address this one is either go to the pharmacy and get an eyepatch. Another way you could do it is just get like a scarf or a bandana and occlude one of your eyes. But there’s real value in working with each eye separately. And the reason is, is because when you isolate the eye, and in this case, the right eye, because when both eyes are on the left eye is doing most of the work. And the brain is what we call suppressing the right eye. And so we want to engage the blurry eye. And so this animal eye chart is a chart that I will send you all. And the way it works is you take the chart and you hold it right up to your nose, which is kind of odd. It’s not about seeing something it’s about making a movement, initiating movements in your eyes that are different than what you normally do. That’s kind of one of the arts of neuroplasticity is being able to create new pathways to stimulate new axons and neurons.

And when we speak of the eyes, we’re really speaking of the brain because the eyes are just an outer extension of the brain. The eyes start developing in utero about two weeks after conception and every tissue of the eye retina, cornea, eyelid, lens, eye muscles are all brain tissue, which means and this is an important concept for you and everybody else is that the eyes have the capability to be the regenerate or to create new pathways and seeing I don’t care what the eye doctors say. They’re wrong. The neuroplasticity the neuroscientists all say that when you stimulate vision differently, you’re going to open things up in your awareness in your brain in your movement in your posture and body. Now, another point here and then we’ll get to the animal eye chart is that about 60% of vision is in the brain. I think it’s even higher. I think it’s 90% but all eye exams only look at the 10% of the vision that’s in the eyeball, they are not addressing the 60 or 90%.

That’s what we’re going to be addressing here. Okay, so with this animal eye chart, what you’re going to be doing is no glasses, no contacts, this is for everybody, you’re going to sit comfortably, and you’re going to put that chart right up to your nose. And it’s going to have a lot of little squiggly lines that are like o’clock, 12 o’clock, one o’clock, two o’clock, and at the end of the line is an animal. And what you’re doing with your eye is your, as best as you can, it doesn’t have to be perfect, you are tracing the line all the way up to the 12 o’clock animal, and back down.

Now you’re doing this while the left eye is covered. And you’re bringing a level of body mind awareness, which means and this is another principle that’s so important that I want you all to practice, not only in this session, but throughout your days. And that is this, every time you start using your eyes, I want you to remember to feel your body to to feel your body and then look with your eyes. When you do that two things happen, you open up periphery, and you’re not putting all of your energy of seeing through the eyeball, that’s what stresses the eyeball out and gets you into tunneling. And because you are nearsighted to begin with, you’re already doing that at a high degree. And so you need to get more out into the periphery. So you back to the animal chart, you go up to 12 o’clock back to the center, which happens to be a heart, then you move the eye to the right, and you go to one o’clock and you bring it back down.

And I don’t care if you can see the animal or not, I don’t care if you’re not exactly precise about staying on the squiggly line, you’re just going back and forth, be aware of your body and your breathing. As you move the eye you go all the way around, you’re going to do now when you get to this is now let’s say this is how I’m doing this. On this side, I can see the animals pretty easy. But on my opposite side, I’m going to have to tilt the paper away from me so that my eye can see to the left and move to the left. And so basically, you’re going to go all the way around the chart with the right eye,

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then what you’re going to do is you’re going to put that chart down. And you’re going to close both eyes. And this is really important here. Because we want to go beyond the mechanics of the exercise. Oh, I did the exercise. No, that’s not it. The exercise is there for you to develop more internal awareness, inner vision awareness, which is going to change the outer seeing. So once you put it down the chart down, you’re now closing both eyes. And I want you to make a comparison between the eye you just stretched and the eye that was behind the patch. This is going to be valuable to you because you’re going to start to feel into your eyes a little more deeply.

And you may notice that the eye you just stretched, feels bigger, more relaxed. Here who knows that there’s going to be I want that comparison, it’s similar to what happens if any of you have taken a yoga class. And in the yoga postures, you’re doing one side, and then you go wow, that side is a lot longer, it’s a lot more open. So that’s what I want you to connect with. After you’ve stretched the right eye. Now the eyes are closed. And then what you’re going to do is you’re going to open the eyes, you’re going to take the occluder away. And I want you to take about 10 seconds. And I want you to look around the room and what you’re going to notice is the things are going to be brighter, and they’re going to be clearer. Whenever you occlude an eye, and then you reintroduce it, the light pattern is now going to be different than habitually how you bring light into the eyes. So vision is about bringing light into the eyes, which goes to the brain, which allows us to see light as the food. It’s the currency that we need in order to use our vision.

And when you change the light pattern, what you’re doing is you’re creating a whole new neural pathway experience that’s going to make things brighter and clearer and more open. And it’s really great for your brain to have that experience. because then whatever mental resistance you may have, that’s gonna start to dissolve, because you’re gonna say, Wow, I just worked my right eye for a few minutes, I took the patch off the left I am, I actually see things clearer and better, I might even see things clearer out of my left eye, I don’t know. Okay, then you do the other eye, we usually patch the left eye, do the stretching, and then we patch the right eye and do the stretching. That is an exercise I’d like you to do once or twice a day. So here’s the deal. The more time you can invest in these exercises. During this time period, the faster you’re going to see results. And, you know, there there is a thing around engagement, the more engaged and motivated you are, the better results you’re going to get. So bottom line, I want you to do the animal I chart, that’s the first one.

The second one I want you to do. And this is for all the people that are nearsighted, all the people that are nearsighted, you’re going to do this one as well. Even if you’re mildly nearsighted, you’re going to go to the drugstore, and you’re going to get yourself those reading glasses that I’ve talked about the blurry glasses. And what you’re going to do is come home, and I want you to go into a safe place in your apartment or your house. And you’re going to sit in the chair. And you’re going to do again occlude the left eye, and you’re going to get a baseline on your blurriness. And then you’re going to put those blurry glasses on. And I want you to watch your initial thoughts and feelings on what the blur means to you. And your job, your, your intention for one minute, is to see if you can relax into the blur. So in your case, you had the surgeries, you’ve got this extremely blurred vision in the right eye.

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So what I want you to do with the blurry glasses is I want you actually to go more into the blur, mentally. And what that’s going to do is that’s going to relax your mind to say, oh, I can actually go into this blur. And that’s going to be one key for you to start making things more clear. And that goes for everybody. So you put the glasses on for that minute, you go into the blur, you take them off, and you look again out of the right eye, and you go you know, it might be 5% clear, I’m seeing things differently. So you want to look for what’s different. If your attitude is nothing changed, everything’s the same, then you’re not going deep enough in your awareness. And I want you to find at least one thing that’s different. When you prompt yourself. Okay? Then you do it again, you put it on the second time, take it off, and you do it a third time.

So you’re going to do it three times, each time, you’re going to go more deeply into your resistance into your blur into what you don’t like about it. And then after that third time, get a final baseline on the eyesight, and then take the patch off. And you’re going to notice that things are a lot brighter and a lot clearer, you’re going to notice that then you cover the right eye and you do the same thing with the left eye. It’s going to be very different. It’s a very different personality, very different experience. All we’re trying to do is get your two eyes to work better together. And this particular blurry vision exercise we call plus lens to blur is a good way to do that.

Okay, the last thing I want to say is that as an experiment, and again, this is for anybody out there with prescriptions. If anybody is wearing contact lenses, and they can do this, like in your case, I would wear a 2.25 over the right eye and the left eye. And this is an interesting exercise to wear the same lenses on each eye. You know when you go to the eye doctor, he or she is optically freezing your vision in a certain position. And it’s reinforcing the symptoms that we have why you go there? That’s all he or she is doing. And when they make the lenses different It’s going to induce more difference to occur, it’s going to reinforce that. So when you start wearing the same lenses, it’s going to give you more integration and more balance, even though the right eye might be blurrier. Maybe do it in a non demanding and non threatening situation as an experiment, just to experiment with that symmetry, that integration.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

fasting, cataract, doctor, myopia, eyes, prescription, optometrist, lens, create, vision, eyedrops, blur, eyesight, metabolizing, social graces, very unpleasant experience, exercise, glasses, intermittent, unpleasant experiences

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You wrote that a few years ago, you went to an optometrist in Wisconsin, prior to the renewal of your driver’s license, and it was a very unpleasant experience. I know many of you have had unpleasant experiences with your doctors. I’m sorry for that. And you said that the optometrist diagnosis was myopia, and possibly cataracts. And he prescribed glasses, which were helpful. And since then you’ve had an aversion to eye doctors, I don’t blame you. So over the years, your eyes have gotten worse, you’re studying nutrition in Los Angeles, and you want to add to your vision. And since your exam, you don’t really have the documentation. That’s okay.

So the thing is, and this is for anybody, if you were prescriptions, if you want to send me the numbers, that would be awesome. And Ron, one way you could do that is go to like a commercial optical store, like a LensCrafters, or a pearl Vision Center, give them your glasses and just say, I’m going to go get a new eye exam, from my doctor, I want to know what the prescription is, and they’ll write it down for you. And then you could send it to me. But I think that, again, if you’re near sighted, I think the key thing would be doing that exercise plus lens to blur. Because in your case, not only would it help reduce the myopia, I actually think your cataract diagnosis and your myopia go together. I think they’re very similar. The cataract is just a more advanced part of the myopia. And the reason why I say that is that on a behavioral level, myopia on a mental level is about creating, hardening, rigidity. And your vision is reacting to something in the past. I’m not saying now I think you’re very open minded. But our eyes are like our Scroll of history.

Meaning that we absorb things in our life, we look and when we’re children, we internalize everything through our eyes. And this is the start of what myopia is. We start clenching, tightening, pulling in blurring it out, and the doctor reinforces what we’re doing to ourselves. And so if we really perpetuate that, eventually, it starts to affect the anatomy of the eye. And one of the first places that it really affects is the lens. And this is where the doctor looks in and he says up cataract. Now, again, if you really bathe and feed that I not only with loads of antioxidants, but I think I saw in another main have been Wendy, and I don’t know what the rest of you are doing. But doing some kind of intermittent fasting or cleansing can also be really helpful getting rid of cataracts.

And I’m going to save that for another session on how to do fasting, or what fasting works the best for clearing the eyesight, because there, there’s great fasting out there, whether it’s, you know, intermittent fasting, water fasting, you can do the master cleanse, you know, you can do days of fasting, or you can do an intermittent fast, and do it in a certain program. And it can really help your eyesight without completely stressing you out, or taking you away from some of the social graces that occur when you’re doing fasting because it’s a usually when we eat, there’s some kind of a social time going on. So I’m going to save that. But I’m going to say that maybe doing some kind of a cleanse or fast based on your nutrition studies would be valuable to you. anti inflammatory, no sugar, no gluten, no dairy, I’m assuming, you know, you’re you’re in that ballpark, because it’s those those factors that actually start to create this cloudiness in the lens, it’s very vulnerable to free radical damage. And it’s so much based on our diet or how we’re metabolizing and our gut health. There’s no question at this point that our gut health and our iHealth are so interrelated.

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And I think you have done the eyedrops, but You know, maybe doing another round of those sets of eyedrops along with that blurry prescription exercise, which will open up your periphery open up your circulation. And that’s what’s, that’s what’s needed here. So, why don’t you send me an email and let me know what you think about this. This idea or these ideas

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, left, blurrier, relaxation technique, body, question, stretching, self-regulation, area, separately, blurriness, cover, magnifier, trauma, blurry, head, heal, prescription lenses, palming, compression

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Well, you know, periodically, the neck muscles, swinging my head to the left gets, you know, a little tighter, I’m doing a daily Qigong practice, that seems to have, you know, more headaches from my Octopus up to my top of my sculpt my eye. Um, it’s like the energy is trying to open up places that have been compressed. And, and my vision on my left side is difficult, you know, I have to literally hold my head steady, and like, you know, cover over my eyes to really focus even wearing magnifiers. And that’s all I have, I don’t have prescription lenses, I have blue blocker mag, okay.

And so that’s one of my goals is to figure out how to heal this on residual compression or it’s almost like it blocks out what I’m seeing in my comprehension of it for a while you worked with me on how to know when I was driving, how to, yes, see what’s in the next lane and computed cognitively. And those exercises helped a lot. But now I I’m not sure why this is happening. Part of its with age, you know, my vision for decades was fine with no assistance needed and and then it started getting blurrier and blurrier. And now I have to wear a slight magnifier for driving more of a magnifier for reading a different magnifier for watching TV across the room. And it’s like

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three glasses. Yeah.

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And, okay. And one of the things that’s that’s happens, and it’s always going on to one degree or another, is the trauma. On like, my right, the right the upper right side of my head, if anybody comes near me, it gets me agitated, in that direction, or stands near me. If I’m at a theater or seminar or something, I have to look left to comprehend things because if I look right, it’s like scrambled eggs. Okay. So those are, those are two big things. One is okay, you know, to deal with the blurriness because life is blurry, I go for a walk and life is blurry. Mm hmm.

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Okay, so Marsha, a couple things, I do think doing some work with each eye separately would be valuable to you. The word is titrate, which means because of trauma, and this is for anybody that’s had trauma. Probably less time doing it is better than more. And so you need to monitor that. But what I would, there’s a couple things that I would suggest, first of all, the the exercise that I talked about the stretching the animal I chart, I think that would be a good one for you to do. But in terms of the stretching, move your eye in the area, like you get to go 12 o’clock, one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock. Maybe spend a little more time in the area where it’s most bothersome for you. And, you know, so maybe like 10 seconds, five seconds, just so as you’re moving up, that one’s okay, I’m moving it here.

Oh, I’m feeling some this is making me a little dizzy, nauseous, then come back and then so slow it down. But find those areas maybe where it’s a little restrictive for you in the movement and make sure you pause like I talked about, with Wendy, where after you’ve done the right eye, you’re taking a good chunk of time, and you’re just feeling into the eyes, okay, just okay, what’s going on here as it relates to my body? Because that awareness itself can start unwinding what you’re holding there. And then you do the other eyes. So you’re covering The right eye and you’re doing that stretching with the left eye, even even if that’s not the eye that’s giving you the problem, I find that you need to work each eye separately because there’s the relationship going on. So for that, I would say, the animal chart. And then the second one I would do would be the dialogue, doing some dialogue with each eye separately. So what that means is that again, no glasses, you’re going to cover the left eye, you can again, occluded however you want. And you’re going to ask the right eye for questions. Question one, how well do you feel? Right I question

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was, who

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was that? How? Oh, oh, hold? Okay,

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how old? The second question is. Right, Id you know, you’re married to the left eye? How’s the relationship? That’s going to be enlightening for you. And the third question is going to be right, Id know you’re married to your body? We don’t know. And then the fourth question, the last question is tapping into your intelligence, your body intelligence. And that is right, I you asked the right i, what do I need to heal? What do I need here? Do I need an essential oil? Do I need? You know, what do I need? Do I need a vitamin? Do I need some cranial sacral? What what is it that I need to do? After those four questions, you’re going to take the patch off the left die. And most likely my prediction will be you’re going to feel calmer. And you’re going to see things more clearly. And then you you do the same exact thing covering the right eye, you ask those same four questions, the age, the marriage, the marriage to the body, the marriage to the right eye, the marriage to the body, and what is the left eye need. And then you take the patch off. And same thing.

Give yourself a good 20 to 30 seconds to do you know to really reintegrate that’ll help you metabolize the dialoguing. And I’d like you to do that if you can everyday and maybe do some journaling. Now, in addition to that, and this again, goes for everybody, I think this would be a good relaxation technique, it’s now become pretty standard if you’ve worked with me. But sound making sound is one of the best ways to release compression and tension in the body. And so the palming and humming, like six to eight hums on the exhale with your mouth closed, is going to vibrate this whole area.

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So it’s, um,

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when I do six or eight of those, it’s releasing pain, inflammation, it’s creating more oxygenation, it’s creating more circulation. And so this would be a good one for you to do. And if you start getting relief, after you’ve done six or eight of them, you might try 10 or 12 of them. You might try it once or twice a day, you could do it sitting up, you could do it lying down. But that’s a self regulation type of deal to be able to to be able to maybe reduce some of the, the the problems you’re having with your neck and your head and so on.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

In this coaching session, I’m helping an entrepreneur move forward with his business with social media. This entrepreneur wants to create small snippets of information to engage their audience and keep them interested in their farm. We discuss using email blasts, social media sites, and podcasts to deliver the content. Also the importance of consistency and using platforms like TikTok for viral reach. Enjoy the show!

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podcast, people, reels, snippet, information, aromatherapy, videos, farm, create, imovie, put, 32nd, instagram, tick tock, social media sites, phone, microphone, audio, post, headliner

 

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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. If you want to get in touch with me with questions, you can email me at hello@drsamberne.com. And you can always text me your questions at 1-844-932-1291.

 

00:31

I would like to let you know about my new membership program.

 

00:36

This is going to offer members new information on how to improve their vision and wellness. So you will get access to articles, video, blogs, podcasts, and webinars. Also a live q&a with me. And all of this information will empower you to make informed decisions about your vision, and your health. So to sign up to go to my website, drsamberne.com. And you can see the details there. All right now on to the show.

 

01:35

Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to my podcast today. So this is a coaching session I gave helping a brand, develop their products through my marketing techniques. And so you’ll get a snippet of some q&a and also my advice on how to navigate podcasts and videos, especially when you’re just starting out. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks for tuning in, give me a little background on your project, and what you’re trying to achieve.

 

02:19

Basically, what I’m trying to do is we’re trying to create kind of, like you had said, you had mentioned about creating small clips information for content to pique people’s interest, or not wanting to Record interview with other people or creating long clips, but basically to create interest by giving snippets of information for people who are fans of Lazar during keeping them kind of little bits and pieces of nuggets about what’s happening on the farm, just to keep them interested in the goings on and either either give it to them embedded, this is my questions either embedded in the email blasts, we’re sitting out using MailChimp.

 

03:03

And I’ve gotten some pretty good response on on our email list. So I’m wanting to continue to use that not just in emails, but possibly also included up updates to the social media sites for the podcast, just try to figure out if that’s possible and how you do that.

 

03:24

So in this project that Jason you’re doing, are these podcasts that you’re wanting to,

 

03:33

you know, splice up and, and put in the newsletter or what’s the video content?

 

03:41

Well, basically, I remember what you had said before was I said you could use your your iPhone to create basically a podcast where then you they would use some sort of editor to break it up into segments and issue out different pieces of that to

 

04:02

to create interest from the people that are following you just so they can fit so they They basically come on, listen to a 32nd to a minute update in products, new products that are coming out happenings at the farm different types of things. And we release those every so often. I just wasn’t sure if that’s something that you would put in on your web. Would you put that in your social media like Facebook and Instagram? Maybe it possibly is real? Or could you just do that and insured also say like, if we do we’re basically we’re trying to do is every two weeks, send out an email to our email list our customers and give them information about what’s happening on the farm. I thought maybe if we can embed an audio clip for them when they when they get it. They will be able to hear what’s happening going on with the farm and that piece of information just to keep it kind of like an organic unique content as they receive the emails to

 

05:00

to pique your interest, okay, well, this is surely a podcast that you’re broadcasting as a channel on Apple or anywhere else, people can log into it a bit, listen to different podcasts like that it was more about cutting up the snippets and putting in information for the different types of media that you’re trying to submit to people. Okay, so there’s a software program called headliner.

 

05:25

And what headliner can do for you is it can

 

05:30

create an audio file that you could then

 

05:36

there’ll be, there’ll be a visual with it as well, which could be like, a picture or a slide or something. And it’s pretty user friendly, you could then take that finished product, and you could either

 

05:52

if you have a YouTube channel, you could,

 

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you know, upload it to your YouTube channel. And then when you do MailChimp,

 

06:02

there would be a place where there’s a if you have a visual of a slide or something, and it will say on the MailChimp Do you want to have a link, so you can add a link that would be attached to that picture. And then you could have a little headline to say, listen to this audio of an update that we’re doing at the farm, that would be one way to do it.

 

06:32

Another thing that you could do with that is you could take that headliner, snippet, and you could

 

06:41

you could post it on any of your social media platforms. And so again, what’s working really well right now is Facebook reels. If you have a Facebook account,

 

06:57

or Instagram reels, again, if it’s under 30 seconds, you would want to put it in Facebook reels, Instagram reels. And if you have a YouTube channel, youtube reels and what’s the advantage advantage contagious about YouTube reels is that it has the second highest search engine after Google. So if you come up with a clever name of the snippet, people could search for it. And even if you don’t get a lot of views on it, you would start to eventually get some traction. And the key is consistency.

 

07:35

Another idea I have is, with your iPhone, just take a video of the farm or if something and then do a voiceover.

 

07:46

And that would be you know, another possibility if you’re adept to doing that. And then you can, again, just post that directly. You don’t need headliner, you could post that directly on your social media sites. And as long as you have it

 

08:06

uploaded on either your YouTube channel or your website, whatever is easier, YouTube’s pretty easy, then you could take the link, and then you could use it for your MailChimp. You can put it on there.

 

08:21

I’ve seen where it shows that you can you can add the link to the picture of what you’re sending out in the campaigns. Yeah, well, I have seen that. So that would be that would be a way to do it. And with your posts, The more consistent you are on the social media platforms. I mean, we are posting about eight different content pieces a day on the variety of different social media sites. And so you know, I have a very active team now that’s working with me. And actually, you know, podcasting is so easy. That’s another way of, you know, getting people to listen to follow you.

 

09:07

I know that’s maybe not what you’re wanting to do right now and that’s totally cool. But, you know, consider that because

 

09:15

I gotta tell you, when I do an aromatherapy post, like on I’m an aroma therapist and I

 

09:23

I’m wanting to carry some essential oils on my ecommerce. In fact, I’d like to talk to you about that at some time. But anyway, I just did a post on tick tock about some essential oils I use for the eyes. And I think we got 200,000 views on tick tock. It was a viral video. And so you never know what tick tock because they’re still spaciousness on you know, people discovering you. You should be on that site or you should be on that platform for sure.

 

09:58

What is your what you

 

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Your name, social media name on tick tock. It’s, I think it’s Dr. Sam Berne, B, er, any holistic eye care.

 

10:12

So you can, you can start looking at the Tick Tock things that I posting.

 

10:20

So anyway, um, people like research and essential oils, like I did one on clary sage, and hormone balance, and that was another really popular one. So, Aromatherapy is, is, you know, it’s one of my loves, for sure. I mean, it’s so anyway, you know, I think you could do even more on it as well. So, but I think you’re on the right track with the,

 

10:51

you know, with the ideas of taking those audio files and, and just, you know, doing a 20 to 32nd snippet

 

11:01

that we do that all the time. You know, every time I post the podcast, I have about four of those I’m putting up. And, you know, people like that mistake you’re posting for those on the same social media platform on Facebook, or are you? Yes, yes, no, no, on, we do four on Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn.

 

11:28

So we take the same ones, and we just post them on all of them. And then we take the entire podcast, and we

 

11:38

put that on my apple, iTunes and Spotify and my website. That’s the that’s the so we’ll, we’ll use it as a teaser. If you want to hear more of the podcast, somebody sees it on Instagram, then go to my go to my podcast page. And I’ve just, I’ve just introduced, we’re starting a membership program in mid July. And so I have that at the beginning of the podcast, you know, hey, I’m starting a membership,

 

12:12

more videos and podcasts that you won’t see on social media. And then they go to the podcast, and we get about 10,000 uploads a month on our podcast. So it’s just another funnel, you know, for you to

 

12:30

you know, and another technique we’re doing is I’m doing a free class next Saturday. And in order to be able to come to the class, you have to give us your email address. So we’re, then we can add that to our, our newsletter.

 

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capability. So, you know, there’s lots of ways to continue to build. And

 

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yeah, so does that help you? Does that give you any ID? Okay, it gives us some good ideas about what to do. I believe we had a YouTube channel long ago, we’ve had some videos that we did, probably about close to 10 years ago, if I remember correctly, I’m gonna go back and investigate that and see if I can recover that information. If not, I’m going to create a new one, just because it allows me to upload a location for a for videos, because we’ve links to use within social media and our website or, you know, platforms to access these, these videos for people. And so I can share that content. My other question I had was, I’ve watched a few different

 

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people talk on social media about podcasts. And just so I can kind of get some basic information. And what are the things that a lot of these same people talked about was was an important part of this is the quality of the of the audio, for cost for the content that you’re creating for the people that you’re marketing it to? They’re saying, it’s really one of the best industries for being dynamic microphones, the SAM, Samsung, you to a microphone, is that really an important thing to do is to get the microphone and things like a software instead of a hardware, audio editing so that you create the snippets? Absolutely not. That’s crazy. That’s selling. So all you need right now to get started is use your iPhone. And there are several apps that you could use to actually upload right to it. If you want an audio guy, I could give you the name of somebody who’s not expensive, who could play with your sound levels on GarageBand. And,

 

14:46

but you don’t, I would not necessarily invest in you know, a lot of audio equipment right now. What you can do is record a intro and maybe get a jingle get us

 

15:00

Sound, we see what’s going to happen is that we’re going to be going to voice. And so the more

 

15:09

people can associate either your voice or a sound to your brand, that’s going to be the next thing. You know, like Siri, you know, say, Oh, can I have the name of an aromatherapy company in New Mexico or something like that. So if you have a jingle, if you have like something, and you’re making an announcement of, hey, this is my podcast, you know, an intro, this guy could help you with that. So that that would be on every podcast that you have, hey, send us your questions.

And I have a text where people can text me their questions, as well as emailing. And so if you want to, or you could just start and just do the audio on your phone, get some up going, you know, see how it goes. And then you can invest in a little bit of a microphone situation, but you don’t really need it, you know, some of my best, most viral videos are when the audio and the video is most raw. Like it’s unprofessional. Like, it’s not super, because because it’s more authentic.

You know, and I’m not saying that, you know, microphones don’t make a difference. They do. But I tell you what, I do a lot of my podcasts when I’m hiking, and I’ll hike in the woods, and there’s a stream going on. And you know, I have a wireless microphone system now that I use, but even then sometimes the audio isn’t the best. But people love it. You know, I mean, it’s definitely got to be audible. But it’s real. But it’s a bit it’s real. So so you know.

 

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Yeah, I don’t think you need to go to the highest level right now. I mean, if you’re in studio, if you had like a studio and you were doing an interview type program.

 

17:07

Again, I don’t know what kind of format you have are going to have, you could talk about getting some good microphones, definitely. But to start with, it’s not going to matter. I mean, people are going to want the information. And if you’re clear and you create value for them, then that’s the most important thing. They’re gonna keep coming back. And that’s the most important thing.

 

17:32

Am I have a question? Yes. So when you’re, when you’re talking about doing the 32nd reel for Instagram, and Tiktok, and Facebook, and you do this from your phone? Do you have to do the videos separate and do a voiceover? Or can a lot of times I walk around the farm and show him things that are growing on the farm? What’s going on? While I’m holding my phone and talking? Is that okay? Or do they have to be done separately? No, you could do it. Most of my video work is done while I have a gimbal. So I have this, this, this thing that. So when I walk people don’t get dizzy or you know, it’s it, they use it in the movies. Yeah. So you attach the phone to the gimbal and turn the volume up. And you can either video it on iMovie or iPhoto.

Either one iMovie gives you a little more option to edit it a little easier. And then once you have it, you can then upload it to any of your social media sites right off the phone. As long as you have the app. Yes. Okay. So it’s pretty instant. iMovie or iPhone goes on your phone. It does or does or software, you know, programs that are on your phone. I mean, the iPhoto is part of the phone and I suppose iMovie so you just download the app, so it’s on your phone, or on your phones.

And I mean I do so many videos where I’m walking or you know, that’s people love that. And you don’t Yeah, so that that would be a way for you. I mean, I did that on my own for like five years and then finally I was able to get somebody to do subtitles now we’re doing subtitles in Spanish we’re doing B roll on my videos but you don’t have to do that the beginning just I mean that’s what I did. I would just work for myself and now now I’m doing well so I have a whole staff of people but the beginning

 

19:37

just do it put it out and put out as much as you can, you know because you just put out a bunch of them because

 

19:48

Instagram we’ll put it up

 

19:51

well you can do longer form on YouTube. So that would be a place you could do long form and on regular Facebook you could

 

20:00

Do long form.

 

20:02

So it’s the reels that are shorter, but I do sometimes, you know, on my YouTube podcasts that run an hour, or an hour and a half, I just put those on YouTube. So you you have the long form, and then you have the short form. So you do both. And you have to kind of look at each platform and say what, what’s the, what’s the way that I have to present this that will match the people following because it’s very different, say on Instagram vs. Tik Tok, I mean, there’s nuances or LinkedIn.

So what you can do is just spend maybe an hour and just look through some of the people either that are doing the same thing you’re doing or just generally, so you get a feel for what, you know what’s working on that certain platform. And then because each platform has its own personality, and when I do on tick tock, I don’t necessarily do it on the other sites, because that’s its own. That’s its own gig going on there. And so it’s got to be edited really quickly. And it’s a fast paced, because, you know, usually people the attention span, what they’re looking for on Tik Tok is different. Sure.

 

21:25

I don’t know tick tock, but okay. Yeah. So you know, download the app, open an account and start wow, I mean, look at my stuff. You know, I do a ton on aromatherapy. Because I love it. And you’ll see it’s like, wow, I’m getting some, some views on this. So and I just tied in to my, you know, my work in the wellness stuff. And, you know, my love of nature and stuff like that. So, you know, it’s it’s a variety so people get to know me a little bit.

 

22:01

I’m not just Well, I don’t think you have that issue.

 

22:06

They know Well, only a small percentage. But anyway,

 

22:11

any other questions

 

22:19

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Today I’m going to take a question on ocular migraines which can affect our eyesight and vision. I will talk about what scientists believe causes this and what you can do to help alleviate your symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

migraines, eyes, circulation, magnesium, vision, call, nutrients, visual, stress, co q, trigger, reduce, peripheral vision, pain, cranial sacral therapy, complementary treatments, lavender, milligrams, work, field

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, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to take a question on ocular migraines. This is a related group of conditions. Many of these can affect our eyesight and vision. Sometimes we have pain that turns into migraines. And the jury is still out on what are the causes of migraines. There’s certainly a lot of discussion. But I want to go into briefly two types of migraines one is called an ophthalmic or visual migraine. And some scientists think that there’s an abnormal electrical activity that slowly spreads across certain regions of the visual cortex of our brain. They affect our eyes. And they usually start slowly. And they begin to create visual changes. And it takes about an hour or so one of the descriptions that sometimes is used is called scintillating scotomas, which means there may be some blind spots or vision goes in and out in terms of our ability to see things get blurry.

Then they’re what we call retinal migraines. And these are visual symptoms that take place, obviously, on the back part of the eye, the retina. And this usually occurs only in one eye. And so it’s not affecting both eyes. Sometimes this can be related to a change in our blood flow. Now, if we look at migraines, sometimes they cause what we call Aras. They can really create some debilitating, debilitating type of pain in the head. This idea of skill, scintillating scotomas means that we can either lose part of our vision, there’s a blind spot, sometimes our peripheral vision will start to tunnel. I see this sometimes in kids, especially if there’s a lot of stress in school, they’ll come for their eye exam. And there’s no real eye prescription that I find that I measure. But their visual fields, their peripheral vision is really really tunneled. And sometimes this will be accompanied with migraines, sometimes not. So the idea with migraines, at least from a conventional standpoint, is that if one can imprese increase the circulation, this can sometimes reduce the, the pain and inflammation. And so we look at conditions like hypertension, sinus issues, hormonal issues, sometimes foods can trigger migraines.

This can also affect us based on sinuses. Of course, there’s certain drugs that can trigger migraines such as drugs that treat epilepsy, and certain antidepressants, blood pressure medications. So all of these things are factors that potentially trigger migraines. You know, when I evaluate patients, one of the things I’m really looking at is the chronic stress and anxiety levels. Are they smokers? Are they dehydrated? What’s their blood sugar levels like? I’ve seen patients that migraines are triggered based on them coming to a higher altitude. And then finally, these are certain foods that can trigger migraines, chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, MSG, sugar,

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processed foods. So when I counsel people, obviously they’re coming to see me because there’s complementary therapies that They’re, you know, looking to do they’ve, they’ve done the conventional therapies or they’ve been to a conventional doctor. And, you know, the doctor says, well, we’ll live with it, we can medicate you. So I’m going to go through a list of complementary treatments that sometimes can help lessen the, the migraine and eventually, if they are disciplined with these complementary treatments, they have a good chance to at least neutralize when the migraine comes on. So my top one in terms of body centered therapies would be cranial sacral therapy.

This, as you know, is a is a therapy that I recommend, I’m a cranial sacral therapist, and cranial sacral therapy can actually help improve the movement of the bones, the fascia, the connective tissue, the cerebral spinal fluid in the head, the neck, the shoulders, the the spine, the sacrum, so cranial work is definitely one of the things at the top of my list. Another one that I really like, is something called continuum movement continuum is a mind body practice. It was invented by Emily Conrad, who was a pioneer in the field of somatic therapy. And one of the most potent things about continuum movement is that you combine using sound different sounds that can open up compression in the tissue of the body. And when you combine sound with different sequences of breathing, and slow spiral movements, that sometimes you can actually really change the integrity of the tissue that’s compressed, that may be contributing to the migraine again, migraine. In my view, there’s a problem with the blood circulation that, you know, we get inflammation, oxidative stress leads to pain. And when we’re under stress, whether it’s visual stress, or just general stress. This is sometimes one of the reasons why these migraines get triggered.

Now, in terms of nutrients, there are a lot of great nutrients that can help perhaps improve the blood flow. And I’m going to go through the evidence based nutrients. Because the the idea behind it is is that we’re trying to support what we call mitochondria function. So the mitochondria are those energy organelles in the cell that produce something called ATP, which the more energy we have in our cells, then the better the circulation, the better the detoxification pathways, the better our nutrients absorption. So here are some ingredients that have been proven that you should be taking. If you are suffering, chronic migraines Coenzyme Q 10, riboflavin, b two, magnesium, niacin, carnitine, Alpha Lipoic Acid. All of these can support better mitochondria function better circulation. Magnesium is a big one most people are deficient in magnesium. My recommendation as a minimum is to do about 500 milligrams a day of magnesium. This helps relax the smooth muscle muscle muscles within the blood vessels there for reducing the peripheral vascular resistance and promoting better overall circulation.

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I also think that the B vitamins are really important riboflavin vitamin B too. I’m recommending somewhere between 104 100 milligrams a day. Research shows that this can actually help reduce the frequency of migraine attacks Kokoon tech co q 10. Somewhere between 102 100 milligrams per day study show that CO Q 10 along with magnesium may also be a good alternative to the tree to treatment using medication.

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I also think when you are suffering a visually based migraine, getting an exam that takes a look at what we call the functional aspects of our vision that means how well our two eyes work together. The focusing muscles how they’re working, what kind of prescription we’re wearing, and when we’re wearing it. And you know, if we have a functional vision problem now this goes beyond the 2020 eye chart, because most people that see 2020 on the eye chart, that’s their eyesight, but it’s not their vision is this skill set on how we track and focus and coordinate our eyes, to get an evaluation to see if our two eyes are working together. And if there’s any competition or confusion between our two eyes, and then of course, what prescription we’re wearing, when you maximize your peripheral vision, then you’re minimizing visual stress. So things like monovision, progressive lenses, you know, those are not great optical systems to support your visual system being open and flexible, and being in a soft, relaxed state.

So you needed to talk to your eye doctor about, you know, the state of your vision, and what optical system you may be looking through. And of course, all the screentime that we’re doing. blue blockers are important taking frequent breaks. And when you you know, when you take into account the fix the functional vision, this is a big part to what could be triggering the migraines. And finally, one of my favorite subjects, is the use of Aromatherapy Essential Oils. I love essential oils, because of their oxygenating and hydrating qualities, they tend to help reduce pain and inflammation, and the ones that I would recommend would be spike lavender, it’s a special kind of lavender that acts as an analgesic. It’s a natural form of kind of ibuprofen. And you can rub a few drops of frankincense around your temples or, or, you know, massage it on the scalp, you can even put a couple of drops in your hand and breathe it into your nose.

So lavender would be one, the spike lavender, the second would be peppermint, that’s another great one that you can massage on the scalp of the eyes, you scalp the head, sorry. And you can put a couple of drops on your hands. And you can again breathe it in through your nose. So you’re getting it nasal Lee, olfactory wise, you’re opening up the sinus. And peppermint is really great for just relaxing and opening up. In fact, one of the techniques I like to use with peppermint is I’ll get a cotton ball, I’ll tear it in half, I’ll put a couple of drops of peppermint oil on the cotton balls also wet them. And then they put them in not the the big part of where my ear is, but above where the creases. So I put it in both ears. And over about a period of 10 to 15 minutes, there’s this band of energy that runs from one year to the other, that really starts to open up the circulation in the head. And it’s one of my go twos when somebody is suffering, migraines, and they’re in that acute stage, and they don’t want to do pain medication, this cotton ball application of the peppermint oil.

Again, in the in the crease of the years, not the main part of the years, works, works wonders. So I really feel for people that go through the the migraine issue. And I think that today I laid out some things that could be valuable, think better circulation, more relaxation, better self regulation, and be aware of what you’re eating, what nutrients are taking, and mindfully. You know how you’re using your eyes, and maybe doing some of my eye exercises as a way to boost your vision in a way that reduces stress that could be one of the contributing factors to migraines. So I want to thank you for the question a lot of people have have asked me about migraines over the years. So I hope this is helpful. Well that’s our show for today. That’s my tip for today. I want to thank you for tuning in. And until next time, take good care.

Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

So today, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

eye, myopia, astigmatism, light, floaters, blur, contacts, prescriptions, glasses, progressive lenses, dry, lens, mentally, retina, left, homeopathic, eyedrops, variety, oils, give

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, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. So I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for tuning in. There are a variety of reasons why floaters occur. Here at my top five for dentistry and heavy metal toxicity, exposure to glyphosate, head trauma, too much blue light exposure, dehydration in the eye generally. So there’s a lot of moving parts with floaters. But I would say number one would be to get the 15% as well, and start using it now one drop maybe two to four times a day. And it might work for you. It might, it might, it definitely has worked for a lot of people.

Now, if it doesn’t work, there’s some other things that you could do, I definitely would consider the glutathione I would consider the glutathione sublingual, I would consider possibly doing a liver cleanse, or even some intermittent fasting that the liver and the eyes go together very intimately. We know this from Chinese medicine, get rid of any inflammation that is in your gut whatsoever. It’s some cranial sacral get some acupuncture. So there’s a variety of different things. blue blockers, also probably if you’re doing a lot of screen time, because see blue light from any screen is going to dry your eyes out, which now brings me to dry eye. So basically, what’s in the back of the eye floaters is a dry eye in the vitreous. The eyelids are the main culprit with dry eye in the front of the eye. So there, you can do that 5% more often during the day as a way to stay hydrated. You could also get some homeopathic eyedrops called uptake, and go back and forth between the Optique and the 5% until you reach kind of loading zone level of hydration during the day and then in the evening, what’s a really nice thing to do is get yourself some organic castor oil and do a very light massage on the eyelids on the outside part of the eye, just a drop or two that castor oil heals wounds on the skin, it’s really moisturizing.

It may also help the cataract, it may also help the floaters and it’ll keep your eyes moist in the evening, as to into the morning. So hydration is the name of the game. And I know you’re plant based, but you need to consider some level of Omega three if you can. Omega three seems to really be important for dry eye. And 50% of the retina is omega threes. Not a lot of fats and oils are needed in the retina. But there are a lot of plant based sources. You can do an algae, you know you can do flax, you can do you know there’s a lot of ways to go there. But I pay attention to the oils and fats chia seeds is another one I like. So those would be the things to do for the structure and the tissue around your eyes. And it seems to work for most people in my community. But the thing with night vision is the better the retina circulation, the more peripheral vision access. Remember, you’re using monovision. So your the eye you’re reading with is not really seeing in the distance, right? It’s focused up close. It would be really interesting for you when you’re driving at night, if you got the same contact. That would correct you for distance. Because right now you’re in a strobe effect with your right and left eye. They’re capturing the headlights at different speeds. Yeah, right essentially

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So I you know, I think, yeah, you know, experiment with it. But one experiment is to get get, get the left eye corrected, so it matches the right eye. Right distance. And, you know, see how that is.

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Yeah, that’s a really important subject clearly. But anyway, I also bought these blue light blocking glasses. I put on kind of the middle the evening watching TV. Is there any benefit to these blue light? These are just clip ons onto my glasses. Is that a recommendation that you

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Yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely blue light. You know, that’s a chaotic frequency. So it definitely dries your eyes out more. Okay. Thanks, the melatonin production. So I’m all in on blue light protection, I think it’s, it’s important to at least know about it. Yeah. And if you want to use them for your screen time, right on, I think that’s a, that’s a positive step.

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Okay, those are my questions. But okay, we can talk myopia

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with myopia. I don’t think you’re going to be able to get rid of your contacts or glasses with my techniques. I’m, I think that you’ve been in it so long, right, and if not kind of moderate to high prescriptions. But it could open the door for you around insights, and healing your vision. And it’s a process, it’s not a quick fix, right. And so some simple things that you can do would be, as an experiment, get a prescription in that left eye for the contacts, that would match the distance of the right guy, and see what that’s like, you know, just as kind of an experiment with. A second thing is, is that I’m not completely against progressive lenses, you just don’t want to wear them all the time. But I think for now, you know, using them as you are, is not going to, it’s not going to be a game changer. Like, it’s convenient to have the different prescriptions in one lens. And if it works for you, I would be more concerned, if you were, you know, an IT specialists that use progressive lenses 10 or 12 hours a day, then we’d have to have a more serious talk. But so there’s that situation. Then we move into the eye therapy realm. And I’m going to give you one exercise, okay, to play with. And I want to emphasize the word play.

So what I learned over the years because I studied a lot of physical therapy is that one of the ways to improve myopia is to challenge the myopia to challenge the status quo. And the way you’re going to challenge it is as follows. You go to a drugstore, and you go to the part of the store where they have the magnifiers. Yeah, and you get the strongest magnification lens, which is a plus lens. You wear minus lens, you bring it home, in the comforts of your bedroom where you can lock the door, your contacts aren’t in you Oh clewd one eye either with a patch that you get at the drugstore or fabric or something and you get a naked acuity eyesight measurement through the right eye, it’s gonna be really blurry. And then you take this magnification lens and you put it over the right eye. And I want you to immediately watch what your mind starts thinking about. It’ll probably be the tone of it. I don’t like this blur, right? Not uncomfortable.

And so for the next minute, you’re practices. Can I mentally relax into the blur? Can I make friends with it? Remember, the door’s locked. You’re sitting down. There’s no demand on you. And you could watch how your mind goes What if What if What if You know, I can’t do anything with this or, you know, you’re gonna see all the mental thoughts that created your myopia. It shows you the recording, yeah, wow, After that minute you take it off. And you’re going to notice that your right eye goes, you know, it might be a tinge clearer. Or it might be something to this going into the blur, and relaxing myself mentally about blur. So you do it three times, then you take the patch off the left eye, and you get a baseline of the acuity with both eyes, and you’re gonna surprise yourself, you know, it’s not too bad, and it’s greater. So you’re interrupting the habit and the reinforcement that your glasses and contacts have done to you for X number of years, then you repeat the same thing with the left eye could be really different. I don’t know.

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After the third time you take the glasses off, you take a look through the left eye, you take the patch off, you do that every day for 30 days, it’s gonna start loosening up your eyes, because what’s causing the myopia is your mental belief that you need to keep things really clear or else all hell is gonna break. Right, and that is the source of your myopia amount of control, there’s too much chaos, I’m addicted to detail, I mean, you could probably write a book about it. And after that 30 days, you may start noticing when you put your your contacts on that you start to get a little headache. And that’s the time to call me and say, you know, I think these prescriptions are too strong for me. Wow. So then at that point, we’ll reduce you. Now something that’s really radical here would be if in the comforts of your home, to start wearing the same power in each eye, without astigmatism. So astigmatism means there’s a warp, there’s a twist in the eye, right? But studying my body work like I have, I know that that body twist is the twist is also in the body. It’s not just in the eye.

If you start wearing a non astigmatism lens in your eye, it’s going to unwind the astigmatism both in the eye and then the body. The issue is going to be mentally, you’re going to be dealing with a level of disorientation and blurriness. So you’ve got to carve out a time when there’s no demand on you. And to wear the same lens in each eye is revolutionary, because it’s now pointing your eyes into a direction of balance. And it’s a direction it’s not going to happen overnight. But, you know, let’s say for example, so you’re you’re at minus six in the right and minus one now you’re eight or nine I might say where minus six astigmatism without a stigmatism ni Chai, just for the hell of it. Yeah. You know, and it’s an exploration for you. You see, your homeopathic remedy, your constitutional homeopathic is loving your blur is mentally relaxing yourself in the blur in non demanding and non threatening situations. This has nothing to do with Bates and sunning and palming. And this is about getting to the core of what it is mentally that you have to be in such a hyper vigilant state. And that’s a hard thing to face. I mean, but that’s the, you know, I’m giving you six months of light therapy in 10 minutes.

But I think start with the start with the blurry glasses. And see wrestle with it. See, see what what mentally comes up for you around being in the blur? Right? I know it’s not going to be comfortable for you. And you know, maybe you might say I you know, I don’t really want to face this right now. So whatever level you Want to plug into is totally, totally great. Yeah, you know you want to stay in monovision part time. That’s good. No worries. progressive lenses I’m not saying give him up. I think these nutrients and eyedrops are definitely going to help. Okay? And then you be the judge you know I saw in there based on your buy in, you know how motivated you’re going to be well check it out see see if you can make some traction in it if you can, and you go all in well, there is you know there is a gold nugget at the end of the yellow brick road you’ve really emotionally energetically.

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Retinal Detachment is something that affects a lot of people and requires surgery to deal with. Today we are covering what retinal detachment is, what causes it, and how to recover post-surgery. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

retinal detachment, retina, eye, carotenoids, omega threes, important, high, acid xanthine, surgery, talk, stress, prescription, lens, starvation, omega, near sighted, lutein, eyeball, care, antioxidants

0Hello, 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.

Hello, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to talk about retinal detachment. And I bring this up because one of the students in my six week intensive, has been dealing with post surgery of retinal detachment. In fact, she had two surgeries. And I went over what can be done after you have had the surgery? And let me make no state mistake about it. You definitely need surgery. If you’re right that detaches. Now, what causes retinal detachment? is I get this question a lot. And there are a variety of factors I think one of the factors is being nearsighted and and so if you’re moderately to high, near sighted, have a near sighted prescription, I would say anything over minus four, you’re going to have a higher risk of developing retinal detachment because what happens in a retinal detachment is as the eyeball changes its shape. It can start to cause the retina to thin.

And if the retina is already weak, and I’ll talk about reasons why the retina may be weak, then you’re definitely more risk for developing some kind of retinal whole retinal detachment. In addition, I also feel that if you’ve had head trauma, if you’re under a lot of visual stress, if you suffer systemic inflammation these are some of the reasons why the retina comes away from the rest of the eyeball. In my practice, one of the biggest reasons I see retinal detachment has to do with a fluid buildup behind the eye. And this has to do with conditions like what macular degeneration or hyper retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy or hypertensive retinopathy.

Whenever you start getting a fluid build up behind the retina, you definitely are more risk for a part of the retina to break away or in terms of traction, pull away. And if that were to happen, you will start to see flashes of light, you might start to see a curtain come over your eye. And that is a sight threatening condition you want to get yourself to the nearest local ophthalmologist and get it put back and there are a lot of different ways now that surgeries are done. You’re going to need to go through a post operative period of rest. And once you you know get through all of the surgical procedures and you know all of that all of those situations. My recommendation and that’s what I told this student of mine. It’s really important that you are taking the Quran noids lutein, Xanthan and asked to xantham you know I talk about these a lot. These are the carotenoids that are pigments that protect not only the macula, but also the retina. The to plant carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. You can get those from your rainbow vegetables. And the acid Xanthine is a marine carotenoids.

So you can either have to get that through seafood, especially the pink seafood like salmon, or shrimp. And if you don’t want to go that route, you can do micro algae, acid Xanthine, supplements, omega three fatty acids, you know, there’s so many of my patients, I’ll say, Well, are you taking regular omega threes? And they say no. Well, yeah, you know, so they, they do it for a while and they they stop but make no mistake about it. Omega threes are so important. We don’t we don’t produce those in our body. So the DHA and the EPA part of the Omega three is so important for a variety of different conditions, dry eye, glaucoma, cataracts. So in terms of prevention, also, Omega three is so important for brain health, our nervous system, and it acts as such a strong anti inflammatory agent, you have to consider omega threes.

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I also think things like vitamin C, bilberry, gingko, trans, resveratrol, saffron, curcumin, these are all things that either you want to include in your diet, or through supplementation. Again, you want to really boost the antioxidants. The retina has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body. And for most people, they’re in a starvation state in Their eyeballs. And that’s part of why the tissue breaks down. And why we get all these, you know, eye conditions and eye diseases, because we’re just living in a starvation state and the dehydration state. So including these, they help improve circulation, they boost antioxidants. And it’s just a no brainer, you have to take better care of your diet and nutrition. wearing blue blocking glasses or getting a blue blocking shield is so important. And if you don’t do that, it really dries out the retina. And if you do wear prescription, you need to be careful, are you using a single vision lens or progressive lens? Again, I don’t feel using a progressive lens is the right optical system. If you’re doing hours of screen time, you’re better off using his single vision lens. And my eye exercises. I have seen time and time again, when people start doing my eye exercises regularly.

Their eyes are moisture, they’re more moist, they’re seeing more clearly, they have less tension and stress. So it’s it’s really important to do these eye exercises. You know, if you think about how much time we’re on the screens, and we’re focused at one distance for long periods of time. We need to move and use our eyes in a variety of different ways. And when we do that, we create more flexibility and versatility in the eye brain connection. So retinal detachment is a scary syndrome. It’s a scary disease that can occur. Again, you can be proactive by, you know nutritionally taking better care of yourself reducing your visual stress, doing my eye exercises, being conscious of the kind of lens prescription you might be wearing. And if it does happen, there are things that you can do afterwards to reduce the aftershock. So it doesn’t happen again. So that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care.

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LASIK Surgery has been a hot topic in my world lately and so I wanted to take some time and explain my view on this elective surgery. In this episode, we will dig into what LASIK is and why I don’t suggest it to my patients. While it works great for some people, it just treats the symptoms and focuses on fixing your sight, not your vision. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I would love to hear from you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

Resources:

• My TikTok video on Lasik that went viral and created controversy:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdkcL739/
• The NYT article on Lasik: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.html

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

lasik surgery, eyes, prescription, lasik, tik tok, refractive surgery, talking, blurred vision, procedure, quick fix, eyesight, experience, near sighted, people, laser surgery, play, coffer, called, put, article

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, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today, I am going to be talking about the pros and cons of lasik surgery. This is a surgery. It’s called a refractive surgery, the surgeon reshapes the cornea, and it helps you get rid of your prescription. The reason why I’m talking about this today is that I recently put a post up on the platform tic toc. And I came out against LASIK surgery in this video. And the reason why I came out against it was due to 1000s of patients that I’ve seen over the years that had difficulty adjusting to this refractive surgery. And so I shared my point of view, which was that there are two types of prescriptions that we deal with the prescription that’s in our eyeballs. And the prescription in our brain, our mind our body that creates the prescription in the eye. Another way to say it is that we want to blame faulty vision on the eyeball. But it’s not the eyeballs fault. It’s the programming that we’re doing to our eyes, that causes the prescription to begin with.

Well, the firestorm that I created on Tik Tok was amazing, I would say 95% of the comments, were so negative against what I had to say. And it was great, because it really got people to think. And, you know, they, they talked about why they loved LASIK surgery and why it works so well. And how can I, you know, say such a thing, when when they had such great results. So some of the things I might say in this broadcast, might be a little offensive to you, as it was to the Tick Tock community. And my apologies. That’s not the reason why I put out my content. These are direct experiences that I’ve had. And I get to see people who’ve had the mistakes who’ve had the problems. So I’m not making it up. Definitely, there was a segment of the the post that really spoke truth, at least through my experience. So I want to address LASIK surgery a little more deeply. And you be the judge. I’d love your comments, you can email me at hello at Dr. Sam Burns calm. And I’d love to get into a dialogue with you. You don’t have to agree with me. That’s not the point. I actually love different points of view.

So when LASIK surgery, usually it’s done for people that have moderate to high amounts of myopia, astigmatism. And there’s some things that can go on with LASIK surgery, such as eye pain, intermittent blurred vision, or recurrent have the the old prescription coming back in the eyes, where you need glasses or contacts, halos around lights, double vision. So these things definitely are part of the terrain of what happens in this elective surgery. But it is a quick fix. It certainly will get rid of the prescription in the eyes, at least for a while. Now in my Tiktok community. There were people that said you know they’ve had the surgery a long time. And they had kept their 2020 perspective. And so I want to I want to talk about 2020 for a minute. Just because you have 2020 That’s a measurement of your eyesight. That doesn’t mean that you have good vision. Vision is how the eyes and the brain and the body work together we start developing our ability to process information and move our body through space when we start creeping and crawling, crawling and walking and talking and catching a ball and riding our bike and later learning how to play baseball or tennis or ski or draw.

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So it’s a very A dynamic skill set. And just because somebody sees it clearly, it doesn’t mean they know how to use the hardware properly. And in fact, whenever you do any eye surgery, in my opinion, I think that you should do some physical therapy afterwards to encourage your brain to be able to integrate the new input that’s now in our on the eyes, whether it’s cataract surgery, laser surgery, or lasik surgery. So, with LASIK surgery, yes, you do get that clear eyesight, at least for a time. But what ends up happening is that sometimes the body prescription or the mind body prescription is stronger than the LASIK surgery procedure. And this is why the eyes start to revert back to the pre LASIK prescription.

For others, they need reading glasses. And that’s kind of odd for near sighted people because the part of the visual system part of the visual experience for near sighted people is their adeptness to be able to see well up close. So there was an article that was put out in the New York Times in 2018. And the title of the article is called blurred vision burning eyes. This is this is LASIK success. And I’ll put this link in the notes along with the TIC tock video that I did. And then this article the author’s talked about how people actually had chronic issues with their eyes post LASIK, probably the biggest issues that they had were dry eye halos around lights. Some people had intermittent blurred vision. And there was an interesting quote in the article. And it was from a former employee of the FDA. His name was Morris Waxler, retired senior FDA official who regrets the role he played in lasix approval over 20 years ago. And in fact, he and another lady Paula coffer have started an advocate, laser group. And it’s called LASIK complications.com 10 reasons not to have LASIK surgery.

So I think it’s, it’s fascinating when we get into these conversations, and people who spend money on this procedure, which it’s a pretty expensive elective process procedure, that they’re going to defend it. And that’s exactly what happened on Tik Tok, and more power to you. You know, my goal here is to create a container and a forum for people to be able to talk about their eyes and vision. I know in mainstream I care. It’s really about correcting you with the best possible 2020 eyesight using a lens and telling you that your eyes are only going to get worse as you get older. And things like physical therapy for the eyes is something that’s not going to work for you. I get that. But I’ve devoted my whole career to this perspective, this specialty. And there is a very small but very interested group of people who are tired of the same old thing. And they’re tired of being treated just with symptoms. And by the way, laser surgery is another symptom based technique. It’ll give you the quick fix for a while. And it works for certain types of people. But before you go into it, you want to know about the side effects, what the effects are. Was it what it’s all about? So I’m really open to the conversation. I’m not saying that I’m right. I’m not saying that I

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have the only point of view. But it is a point of view that I do think needs to have a voice and that was my point on Tik Tok and this podcast and my content that sometimes I put out information that goes against, say, the mainstream and what they’re promoting, but I definitely have a, a background in being able to support it, whether it’s through science or clinical experience. So, I’d love to hear from you. If you’ve had LASIK surgery if it went well, if it didn’t go, well. A lot of the patients that I see those are the people where it didn’t go so well. And no, that’s why I’m here. So I want to thank you for tuning in for today. And until next time, take care

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Today we are talking about Night Vision. What causes it and how to improve it. Struggles with night vision can cause a lot of disruption in one’s life. People tend to stop driving at night and don’t feel comfortable going out in the evening. This isn’t something that you have to just accept and live with, so today we are going to address some basic things you can do to help improve your night vision. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

retina, vitamin, milligrams, zinc, night vision, work, eyes, vision, blindness, doctor, talked, pigment, people, check, capillary, myopia, macular degeneration, light, tints, photoreceptor

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, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. And today I want to talk about night vision. Now, when you start suffering, night blindness or vision loss, it can be a very scary situation. And I have worked with so many patients who come in for their vision exam. And they say, they say to me, you know, I’m afraid to drive at night, I’ve stopped going out, because I don’t see very well. Or another symptom is, people get very disoriented, if they’re out in the bright sun. And they go indoors, and the adjustment period of going from light to dark. Or the other way around, let’s say you’re in a darker environment, just with, you know, ambient light, and you go out into the sunlight, you suffer a lot of light sensitivity and glare. And when you go to a regular eye doctor, most of them will tell you just get used to it. It’s aging, there’s really not much you can do about it. Well, I’m here to say that there are many things that you can do naturally. And I’d like to go over those today. So with night vision, this is a very common malady. And probably one of the biggest reasons why people have night vision issues is because they are not absorbing their vitamin A.

Now in the retina, there is a a collection of photo receptor cells that are highly sensitive to darkness. And we call this pigment rhodopsin. And rhodopsin in the rods, enables us to quickly adapt our vision from dark to light and light to dark. And the most essential component in getting this rhodopsin to work effectively is vitamin A. In fact, vitamin A is the biggest reason why people have night vision issues when I’m talking about his deficiency in vitamin A. Now, there are many reasons why. Even if we eat foods with vitamin A, there is a compromised intake. In other words, we can’t absorb our vitamin A very well why is that? Well, let’s run through the list. If you have iron deficiency, if you’ve got digestive issues, if you are taking the cholesterol medication, statins, if you eat a low fat diet, a big one is zinc deficiency. And I talked about how zinc is such an important trace mineral for a variety of different cellular reactions in the body and most people are deficient in zinc, because of the soil depletion, the the poor agriculture that the farming practices that are being done, this creates a zinc deficiency and zinc is really important for the absorption of vitamin A. Now when we you know evaluate the retina and we start looking at the symptoms of well how do you know you might have night blindness. There’s some easy things that you can check off the list number one would be weak vision in dim light. Number two difficulty seeing at night. We’ve talked about that. Number three, the slow visual update adaptation either going from bright to dim or dim to bright

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and There was a study that was published in the Canadian Journal Journal of ophthalmology, which reported that 50 to 70% of people with night blindness had these visual conditions called nystagmus. That’s when the eyes oscillate back and forth, or strabismus where the two eyes don’t work together. And they also put into this category, people that had myopia. Now, myopia is the fastest growing vision problem today because we’re all on screens. And so, there, these are some of the you know the things visually that begin to create problems with seeing at night. Now, there can be a genetic predisposition to night blindness, and you can ask your doctor to do a test called an electro retina gram which determines the functions of the red retina and to see if there is a genetic component. But more times than not when people have night blindness when I when I do an exam. These are the conditions they also have cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, Corneal dystrophies, like keratoconus or Fuchs dystrophy, myopia, glaucoma, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, vitreous detachment, floaters and people who’ve already had lasik surgery. Now I want to go into some some other things that show up when you have a night vision issue and we talked about vitamin A deficiency dietary malabsorption in the gut.

Tarin Taryn is a very important amino acid I actually have put it in my vitamin, because tarring is so essential for getting rid of oxidative stress on a photoreceptor level of the retina. I talked about zinc deficiency that’s a really big one. So zinc is needed for the enzyme that converts retinol which is vitamin A to retinol r e r e ti n a l r e t i n o L to R et al. And when we are taking in vitamin A either through her foods or supplements, zinc is right there to help us with the absorption and most people are deficient in zinc. Alright, so I want to go through the list of essential nutrients because this is probably the fastest and most effective way to see if you can get a handle on reducing nightvision lutein Is that correct? No. I talk a lot about the protects the macula? Well, lutein is a carotenoid you want to get and again I’m these are just general recommendations you want to check with your physician based on your height, weight and age but generally an adult you want to get about 16 milligrams a day of lutein, another important carotenoids Xanthan you want to get about six milligrams a day.

Vitamin A. I like to use the vitamin A palmitate and I get somewhere between 10,015 1000 I use a day bilberry that is a fantastic herb that helps us with not only protecting the retina but it improves the micro capillary circulation in the retina. You’re wanting to get about 100 880 milligrams a day. Talked about tarring and Tarin helps in the regeneration of rhodopsin. You know I talked about rhodopsin as that pigment in the retina that’s essential for night vision 750 milligrams a day of Tarin the Omega threes two to 3000 milligrams a day of a really high quality Omega three. The other one that’s not talked about is green tea extract. I love that one. And again it helps protect the retina. It supports the photoreceptors prevents cell death in the retina green, green tea extract 500 milligrams a day and then zinc plus copper, zinc 40 milligrams a day. copper two to four milligrams a day.

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They are synergistically working together. So when you supplement with zinc sometimes you lower the copper levels and there is bioavailable copper that also supports cellular reactions. Some other things I include would be Ginko 120 milligrams a day. Again, this helps stabilize the micro capillaries. But make sure you check in with your doctor if you’re taking blood thinners that would be a contra inject indication for adding gingko to your diet. Vitamin B. Again, the big ones would be B 600 milligrams B 12,000. micro grams. Folate 400 micrograms biotin 400 micrograms riboflavin, which is B 250 milligrams thymine B 100 milligrams. So, in terms of glasses, if you wear progressive lenses, my advice would be to wear a single vision lens when you’re driving. Sometimes getting an anti reflective coating on the lens can be helpful. Again, check in with your eye doctor about that. Certain tints sometimes can help deflect either the glare, or enhance your night vision. I know with a lot of my patients who have suffered macular degeneration, we use the yellow tints. And then in terms of eye exercises, if you can develop better peripheral vision, so that your two eyes are working together. I like doing my yin yang peripheral vision exercise that’s on my website. And that one will retrain your eyes and brain to have your two eyes work together. So send me your questions if you have any. Hello@drsamberne.com. That’s my take on night vision and how to improve it. And I look forward to seeing you in the next podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in. Take good care.

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In this episode, I am answering a question I received about Horner’s Syndrome. It’s a condition that affects the pupils of the eye and the eyelids and sometimes even the muscles in the face. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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eyes, castor oil, pupil, face, inflammation, nerves, eyelids, cranial, tissue, meridian, helpful, vibrate, circulation, affect, called, functional medicine doctor, palm, longtime listener, massage, condition

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, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. I’m going to take one question today. This is from Jesse’s a longtime listener, he is developed a condition called Horner syndrome. This affects the pupils of the eye can also affect the eyelids. And he can even affect the muscles in the face. It’s quite difficult to diagnose and you want to go to an ophthalmologist or a neuro ophthalmologist who can test you to see what your pupil responses are. Now, the pupils are the gatekeeper that allow light into the eye. You know, the pupil gets smaller as we go out into bright light and it will dilate as we dim the lights. And in Horner syndrome, there can be pain associated in our eyes, it also can affect the droopiness of the eyelids, we call this toeses. Again, you want to rule out things like tumors, trauma, stress, inflammation. And the other thing that I take take a look at is just our overall circulation to the eyes.

So you can do an imaging test. Sometimes an MRI can show a tumor or a lesion, which can explain this underlying cause of the irregular pupil response. But from a more holistic, integrative medical perspective, here are some things that I suggest and recommend. Well, first of all, I think that getting some cranial sacral therapy can be very helpful. You know, when you do the cranial work, what you’re doing is you’re creating spaciousness in the fascia and the connective tissue, especially if you’re working on the head and around the eyes. And if you can develop a kind of a more expansive cranial rhythm, that’s the cerebral spinal fluid pumping in and out of the brain, and it’s going to affect the eye circulation. This is a technique that I feel is very helpful at reducing irritation in the nerves, inflammation, stress trauma. So it’s, it’s my number one go to in terms of this particular condition. The second thing that I would consider would be some acupuncture.

You know, acupuncture doesn’t necessarily treat symptoms, but it opens up the meridians in the entire body and we know that many of the energy meridians traveled to and from the eyes, and they go to the glands and the organs in the entire body. And when you open up the meridian energy, this can sometimes help increase the function of the nerves reduce pain, and it’s a great modality in terms of creating more harmony and balance in the eyes, brain and body. The third thing that I would suggest would be to use castor oil, especially in the evening, you can get some organic castor oil, I like to massage it into the face. Also you can take a dropper to and massage it lightly into the eyelids.

There’s so many great benefits of castor oil, you know, it’s an ancient Egyptian modality that’s been used. In current times castor oil has been shown to actually be wound healing, reduce inflammation irritation in the skin. It’s also highly moisturizing it hydrates the tissue. And you know when you get into pain and inflammation, a lot of times there’s a drying out of the tissue. And so the castor oil massage can be really excellent at replenishing and rejuvenating the skin in the face and around the eyes. Another technique that I find to be very helpful for this condition is color therapy, especially the blue end of the spectrum. So looking at the turquoise color, the blue color, five to 10 minutes a day. You can do this with colored gels or colored glasses and you receive the color into your eyes. You

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do some breathing, you breathe it in. And you do this for you know eight to 10 minutes every day. This can also be beneficial for improving the health in the nerves. In the face and around the eyes. And then lastly, the exercise that I recommend is called the palm hum, that’s the one where you rub your hands together for about 10 seconds. You place the palms over your eyes, you close your eyes, and you breathe in normally through your nose. On the exhale, keep your mouth closed, and you make a pretty loud, low humming sound. So the hum is going to vibrate the face and in and around the eyes. Sound is one of the best ways to heal nerve issues to get rid of pain and inflammation. Sound vibrates and creates more circulation in the tissue. And it’s a really effective strategy in getting rid of eye stress, improving eyesight, and, you know, with these kinds of neurological conditions, it can be really helpful.

And then last but not least, I would look for a naturopath or a functional medicine doctor and I would explore dietary changes increase probiotics, the microbiome and the gut, eat an anti inflammatory diet, find out if there’s any systemic inflammation, especially in the gut area. If you’re suffering things like Candida, or irritable bowel syndrome or exposure to things like heavy metal toxicity or mold, all of these things can actually affect your eyes quite profoundly. And if you improve your liver health, you can actually improve your eyesight and vision. So Jessie, I want to thank you for the question. So ladies and gentlemen, that’s a wrap and I want to thank you for joining me today. Until next time, take good care.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Megan Ramos in this episode. She is a Canadian clinical educator and expert on therapeutic fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, having guided more than 14,000 people worldwide. She is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Life in the Fasting Lane.

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fasting, eat, people, insulin, meal, day, insulin resistance, fast, question, mindful, toronto, megan, caffeine, diabetic, food, marker, snack, individuals, coffee, green tea

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Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome our next guest and lecture. Her name is Megan Ramos. She is a Canadian clinical educator and expert in the field of therapy, therapeutic fasting, and low carbohydrate diets. She has guided more than 14,000 people worldwide. She’s co author of The New York Times bestseller life in the fasting lane. Megan, welcome to the summit. I’m so excited to have you on. I guess my first question would be, how did you get involved with intermittent fasting?

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It’s kind of an epic collision of sorts between my own personal journey and my professional journey. From a very young age, I was interested in preventative medicine, my mother is just one weird medical anomaly that we think a lot of her health issues were triggered by mold exposure. And that mold exposure led to tumor growth. And there was just a lot of suffering because she was such a young woman at the time, and nobody expected her to have all of the issues that she was. And they were just treating her symptoms without ever looking for the root cause. So from the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to be that medical mystery solver and really identify root causes of disease. So I from a young age, I got interested in medical research. When I was 15, I had the opportunity to work actually in the largest medical research facility clinical research facility, which actually based in Toronto, at the time, and it was a nephrology, so this group of kidney specialists were trying to detect kidney disease earlier. And they were working on all of these different types of lifestyle interventions to slow down the progression of kidney disease. So at 15, this is a total dream for me, and very much so was because I really valued their mission. And I stuck around high school, university after university became my full time job. Well, it took some time off before the plan was to go to medical school. But none of the interventions were working. And it didn’t really matter how early one detected kidney disease, because there was just this huge onslaught of type two diabetes does ravaging people’s kidneys. I mean, we went from having a handful of people on dialysis to having 1000s of people on dialysis 24/7. And from the time I was 15, to the time I was 25. And all of that was due to type two diabetes. So I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back, go to medical school, because it just seemed like all mainstream medicine could do was hopefully, you know, make people comfortable as disease ravaged them. And it was really heartbreaking. So in my mid 20s, when I was trying to figure out, you know what I was going to do with my life, I continued to do research at the clinic, but I thought, lady, you’ve got to get it together yourself. You know, I had stayed relatively slender, but was diagnosed with these metabolic health issues like fatty liver disease. When I was a kid, I had polycystic ovarian syndrome when I was 14. And they hadn’t gotten worse, but they hadn’t gotten better. They hadn’t gotten away, like most of the doctors thought they would. Because I was so skinny, they didn’t understand why I had these diseases of obesity. And hindsight, I was just a skinny sack of fat. I was not very muscular and very brittle and break my wrist every time I slipped on the soccer field at school.

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So looking at my family history and my own history, I decided that I needed to do this big intervention on myself. So I started doing all the things we’re doing with patients. Not really thinking about how it didn’t work for any of them. So why it had it worked for me. And you know, within 18 months, I was a full blown type two diabetic who gains excessive amount of weight. So I went from being sort of skinny on the outside and fat on the inside to just being fat all around. And it was was awful. Then being diagnosed with type two diabetes was so devastating. So one of my colleagues, nephrologist, Dr. Jason Fung. He had actually started looking into intermittent fasting after being inspired by a friend who had improved her hemoglobin he was see accidentally through fasting She’s fasting for spiritual reasons following a divorce. And Jason was very inspired by this in Toronto are the most multi culturally diverse city in the world. I’m in San Francisco now but Toronto And so many of our patients fasted for different religious reasons. So Jason did a deep dive into this and was just totally blown away and is working and collaborating together at the clinic. He was very excited to talk about this. And I was really excited to try it. It made so much sense to me once I took the time to listen to them speak about it. And as someone who was born in 1984, and grew up in House of fast foods, I had zero cooking skills at the time, so reinvented my diet and didn’t seem possible. So I started fasting got healthier, that gave me the energy to start to reinvent my diet. And within six months, I lost over 60 pounds, brought my hemoglobin m and c to 4.6%. That fatty liver and that PCOS that didn’t go away, went away. And I was exceptionally healthy. And I continued to lose weight to a total of 86 pounds. And we were inspired by my results or our colleagues were inspired by my results. And then we opened up what was at the time the first fasting clinic in North America based in Toronto.

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Well, that’s a very inspiring story. And you know, I certainly get a lot of inquiries through my clinic, my social media community. So what we want to know is how does it work? How do we get involved with fasting? And, you know, how do you see it working?

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Yeah, absolutely. With fasting, I think one of the reasons that we have gotten into such terrible metabolic state, there’s so many of them, but one of the largest ones is just this chronic eating that we do nowadays, with industrial, agriculture. Just food is readily available all the time, and all they do is snack and graze throughout the day. You know, there’s the underlying cause of obesity, metabolic syndrome, type two diabetes is this condition called insulin resistance. So it means that we’ve we’ve built out toxic levels of insulin in our body with a condition called hyperinsulinemia. And that leads to the development of this insulin resistance. And this is truly it’s synonymous with the term metabolic syndrome, it’s the exact same thing, it’s just the the cause of it is this development of insulin resistance. And B, we started develop bit when it comes to eating and to two fashions, we eat foods that are highly refined and process. This can be sugars, or it can be fats, like seed oils, for example. And this causes our body produces an exceptional amount of insulin in results with the consumption of these foods. So we get this high volume of insulin produced when we’re eating these foods. But then they also can develop insulin resistance by having that chronic stimulus of insulin being produced all day long. Whether it’s processed the refined foods or not, regardless of what we’re eating, we’re going to have a bit of an insulin response. Of course, we can choose things like olives and almonds and have a much more mild insulin response. But that chronic chronic stimulus of insulin still leads to the development of insulin resistance. So the quickest way to really try to get our health back on track is to just eliminate snacking, you know, go back, I jokingly tell everyone to, you know, go on Amazon Prime or something and find an episode of Leave It to Beaver. Yeah. You know, he was always getting in trouble for trying to snack before dinner, he had to save his appetite for his meal. Or he would want to snack after dinner. And his mom June Cleaver would say, Well, you didn’t eat enough for the broccoli on your plate. I mean, this is how we we evolved, you know, yes, there was mechanisms for food preservation, you know, throughout human history. But we didn’t have Kamen covered so cavemen Cheerio. Amen cookies. We were not intended to snack and to graze all day long. So we want to go back to sort of the the Leave It to Beaver schedule. We jokingly call it where our grandparents and great grandparents grew up on and just started eating three meals a day. And by doing so you’re naturally going to start fasting in between those meals and then doing an overnight fast, that’s equivalent to about 14 hours. And there’s great health benefits to doing even a FAFSA, it’s 14 hours, and then from there, and someone is either looking to do a little bit more therapeutic fasting, or needs to maybe there’s someone who’s on, you know, over 100 units of insulin has wants to lose 150 pounds and has fatty liver disease and other metabolic health issues.

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Then we would start cutting out one meal a day and so most people would skip breakfast and then they would end up doing sort of a 16, to 18 hour fasts, and then maybe going to doing some of the more longer therapeutic fast like a 24 hour fast two or three times a week, where they would skip breakfast and lunch, and then sometimes in two full day fasts, or even doing some multi day fasts, depending on their health goals. But we always encourage people to look at it like, like going to the gym and doing strength training. When someone is brand new at the gym, with a personal trainer, they don’t tell you, all right, you’re going to do the exact same protocol is that bodybuilder over there, even though you’ve never been in the gym before a day in your life, that’s not what happens, you start doing some mobility work. I’m someone who’s recently after a crazy international new and a pandemic, and who was just getting back into strength training myself. And even though I did it for four years in Toronto, I was like, yeah, there was no way, you know, we’re going to start off with a couple of weeks of mobility work, and then we’ll, we’ll assess where you are, and take it from there. So very much like the gym, you know, those 10 pound dumbbells might feel like they were 1000 pounds, but with consistent effort and practice, over time, they become too easy for us, and we go up to 15, or 20 pounds. And that’s what we do with with fasting, we cut out the snacks, we go to meals, it’s so hard, cuz like, it’s such a stressful time that meals have gone out the window. So it’s been a lot of time working with people about food preparation, and making it fun and doing it with families and or friends and just trying to make it enjoyable, because that will make it a lot more sustainable to have meals or even, there are some better options these days, if you do need meal delivery services or whatnot, that can help you. But it’s really about getting that meal timing and cutting out the stacking is just starting out the gym, but those 10 pound dumbbells. And then over time, depending on what your goals are your needs, then we would titrate up the fasting, just like we would titrate up the gym weight.

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You know, one of the questions I get a lot from my community is, well, instead of doing intermittent fasting, why don’t we just do a keto diet or a low carb diet? What’s your response to that?

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Yeah, so this is the bulk of the people that come our way nowadays with such popularity for low carb or keto and even certain like the American Diabetes Association, recognizing low carb as a therapeutic approach. So I mean, we, if we like to eat, right, most of us really enjoy eating, I enjoy eating. So why not just eat and not fast. But most of the people that come to us, this is the story, they have lost 50, about 80 pounds, but they can’t lose that last 30 pounds. Or they brought that diabetic marker there a one C down from nine to six. But why can’t they bring it to 5.2 or lower and more of the optimal range that we’re looking for. They think that maybe they’re just too metabolically broken, and they’re coming to fasting kind of as a Hail Mary, at this point, you know, they don’t know what else that they could do. But it really comes down to that chronic stimulus of insulin throughout the day. And when you eat almonds, and when you eat all that, when you eat a piece of cheese from like our raw goat milk, you are getting an insulin response, and that chronic insulin response throughout the day that that cause aggravation to the system. And that leads to the development of insulin resistance itself. So when these individuals come to us, I’m not telling them to eat any less, you know, they’re already reduced the volume of food they’re consuming substantially because they’re off of our buying process junk that you know, they can literally eat till the cows come home because it never say shades to eating these real Whole Foods prioritizing healthy natural fats like salmon, avocado, olive oil, coconut oil, they’re doing these, so they’re already eating volume a lot less. And I thought that I don’t want you to eat those olives or eat those almonds. Just eat them with your meals and minimize the number of times a day that we’re secreting insulin. So there’s a few different ways to explain insulin resistance. One of them is you know, if you were to eat some junk or eat a big bowl of spaghetti, you would produce a lot of insulin. So it’s like 100 people coming to your door, it’s going to be really aggravating to you to have 100 people outside your front door. But imagine you’re trying to work from home and every hour when person knocks at your door nonstop at the end of the day that’s going to be very aggravating to your system. Or we understand if we were able to listen to a song on repeat. Probably by the end of the day after several hours of listening to it over and over again. We will Have some resistance towards that song. But even hearing that song played every day, after so many days, you know, even if it’s just once a day, it’s very aggravating to the system. And we so we develop insulin resistance five, this chronic simulus of insulin even when it’s low level, and individuals who systems are already filled with insulin, even a drop of insulin is going to cause the system to overfill. So you know, until like a diabetic, that their their bodies are full of insulin, like this mug would be full of this is full of green tea moments. But it’s just like adding another drop, because their systems are already full, it’s gonna over overflow. So all of these individuals that have reached a great success with some variation of a low carbohydrate diet, but can’t reach the optimal range and they get stuck. And you know, we’ve got to arrange that meal timing as soon as we do. It’s not that they have to do a seven day fasts or a five day fasts every other week, or they need to do crazy fasting, just get rid of the snacking, keep the foods keep the quantity, just be mindful of how many times a day you’re actually causing your body to seek secrete insulin and response to food.

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Well, we are here with a Megan Ramos, she’s an expert in the field of intermittent fasting. And we’re coming down to the end of the formal interview. In terms of the audience, if you’ve got questions, you can type them in, and we can read them to Megan. But I guess my last question would be, what are the maintenance strategies? Do you know? Do we have to fast forever? Or what do you suggest?

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Yeah, it definitely don’t need to be fasting for days, days on end forever. When you are looking to treat a condition like metabolic syndrome, you do need to think of fasting as a therapy during that time. But once you’re done with that, then you can eat more often. Most people can imagine eating more often. Prior to moving my husband and I were at a restaurant in Toronto steak house that we like, and people around us, you know, we’re eating multiple courses and that meal. And my husband said, can you imagine like, this is like the third meal of the day. Plus they had snacks, like can you ever imagined going back to a time like this is our first meal of the day right now and we’re eating fresh food is that most people can’t go back to those old habits of snacking and grazing and eating all of these meals all the time, it doesn’t feel right. I mean, even then I’m in a family planning stage of my life. 2022 is going to be the year hopefully that we expand our family. And I’m trying to eat that more often. And it’s just painfully annoying at this point, to eat multiple meals a day. So we do want to be mindful as we reach our health goals and go into this maintenance that we are not chronically simulating insulin secretion all day. But you could go back to a place where you’re having three square meals a day or two meals a day, or even one meal a day. So long of that meal is nutrient rich, and you’re getting in a diversity of nutrients throughout the week. And you’re getting in plentiful natural fats and you’re feeling good during that. I find most people once they reach their health goals in someone like me, I was sedentary I was a slug or a slog, you know, when I wasn’t feeling well, and then I’m healthy. And I’m like, Okay, I want to do Pilates class, I want to do dance classes with my husband, I want to learn how to do strength training. So if the level of activity is higher, most people do two meals a day and they’ll maintain doing sort of the 16 to 18 hour fasts. And that’s where I find most people fall for maintenance strategies.

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I find that too. That’s a that’s a nice zone to be in at least at the beginning. And so we have a question from the audience. This is from David. And he writes butter is my friend. What should I do?

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Well, butter is a great friend, I do think it’s important to be mindful of quality. So when it comes to fat, there is a difference. versus say something like butter that comes from a grass fed source versus not a grass fed pasteurized source. So we do want to be mindful of quality, but we definitely have plenty of butter and around those households our in California now since everything nowadays is online. We’re not in Cerrado, so we even have raw butter but it’s something that we definitely cook with especially when we are cooking at a bit higher temperatures. It’s great to great addition to cookware Now if you’re someone who’s looking to fast but not necessarily lose a bunch of weight, you could slather that grass fed butter, you know, on their vegetables on their grass fed stay, or you can really add it up. And if you’re someone who’s looking to lose weight, you would just use butter throughout the cooking process but you weren’t necessarily slather on top of any of the food that you’re eating by. Good quality butter is good thumbs up in our

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household. Yeah, very good. Thank you. Next question. This is from Keith. I fast for 12 hours, but get lightheaded and nauseated. I tried to go longer. Do you have any suggestions.

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So it’s always important that you get checked out by your by your healthcare provider before you start fasting. But hydration is really important to everybody who’s new when they’re fasting, when you faster insulin levels are going to fall rapidly and insulin causes our body to retain water. So what happens when the insulin levels falls it sends a message to the kidneys saying hey kidneys, we can get rid of the some of this excess water since the inflows on here. And so we’ll see increased urination and grab that increased urination we are going on as electrolytes, which is my second point about hydration. Hydration is not just water, it is also electrolytes. So we encourage most people that told us the water you have in the morning, put in a pinch of salt, and maybe do so a few times throughout the day. and myself had very weak adrenal glands and have very low blood pressure due to some hormonal imbalances to my own adrenal glands are a lovely gift for my mother. And so I actually take salt, a cup of fed a quarter of a teaspoon every two to three hours on a fasting day, and then supplement with magnesium as well. Usually, if we can get adequate sodium, adequate magnesium on our fasting day, it helps maintain healthy levels of additional electrolytes like potassium and calcium, phosphorus. So we don’t mess around with those too much unless there’s a medical condition, or someone’s on a certain medication that warrants warrants that so we one thing to always ask your pharmacist or doctor, Hey, am I taking any medications like heart medications that might lower my potassium levels, for example, and I’m up unknowing, I want to start doing some fasting, I’m going to be losing excess water, should I be supplementing with some calcium supplementation? So Well, usually, you know, we’re seeing a patient in the clinical side, or we’ll ask them to assess that with their healthcare team.

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Great. Next question, when you begin intermittent fasting was a challenging from a social perspective, you know, given food, and grazing is such a regular part of our social culture.

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Yeah, it’s tough for so many of us, I have no exception. I don’t even think age. Demographic matters because I’ve worked with people who are much younger than me. And I’ll up into individuals in their 90s. Everybody seems to have a happening social calendar. But it’s difficult. I might not look the part nor is my name. But I come from an Italian household, where until I moved to San Francisco, the whole family lived within a 30 minute radius. So it was all about going to Grandma’s house or like No, no, it’s how are known as houses someone’s house on the weekend, and just eating galore, especially through like pasta and bread. And, of course, all of it was homemade, but it’s still starchy. So it was quite, quite challenging. I found socially, you know, I tried to arrange things for the days that I would be eating. And I encourage people to do this too. If my best friend wanted to go grab a dinner, say on Wednesday and say, oh, you know what, I have a yoga class on Wednesday. Could we go on Thursday instead? And I wasn’t lying. I would do yoga at dinnertime instead of eat at dinnertime on Wednesday. And she would say sure, and we would just arrange things around. Or sometimes I would just rearrange my class. I remember my mom’s 60th birthday was on a fasting day. So I just rearranged my fasting that week so I could make sure that I could eat and enjoy or just do a shorter fasts that day. So you do there is some planning and strategy that needs to go into it. But from from a social perspective, it was quite easy to navigate, and suddenly difficult if you let people know that you’re fasting. I don’t think I’ve never recommended and I’m never recently said, oh, you know, I’m not going out to dinner with you tomorrow because the fasting day can we go another day. Usually, I’ll explain what I’m doing in lieu of fasting, Pilates class gym, the got some work to do, rather than just throw the word fasting because it can be a scary word for some individuals. When it comes to holidays, especially like my I’m Italian, my husband’s family’s Puerto Rican, any culture, you know, holidays, family meal times are huge. And I’ll typically set a timer on my smartwatch and my smartphone. And I mean, these things are glued to us nowadays, for about 60 to 90 minutes. So when I show up at my mom’s or my mother in law’s, or my husband, God, mothers, I set my timer and I enjoy, I enjoy the the vegetables, the needs the whatever’s available, and then they cut it off. So I’m not trying to fast while everybody’s enjoying appetizers, hors d’oeuvres, I’m just trying to isolate how much I’m eating at these holidays. And that’s been a strategy that’s worked well for me and so many other people that I’ve worked with. Great,

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I love it. I love it. And I’m in the same boat. Because socially, I do a lot of fasting. And you know, when there’s social situations, I do have to plan ahead. And that’s a good reminder for us. So I want to go to the next question. What about coffee? Coffee In The Morning while fasting? Do you have any advice for that?

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Yeah, so we really wants to minimize the amount of insulin that we’re going to be secreting. And we want to ensure that we are burning or on body fat rather than fueling off of liquids throughout the day. So when it comes to coffee, we prefer that you haven’t slack. And then you need to know you’re where you are with caffeine. So I’m an individual that does terrible of caffeine, I enjoy my decaffeinated green tea once or twice a day. So some people seem to do okay on caffeine, a little bit of it, and others it’s a huge stimulant, and it causes all kinds of issues. You know, when people are already we understand when I see a new patient, I understand, you know, your cut out all of this food. Now I’m asking you to cut out all these meals and adjust your social calendar somewhat. Though when it comes to coffee, we’ll say you know, are your blood sugar levels going up substantially? Are you feeling hungry rather than satiated? And I find the responses about 5050. So if someone is feeling hungry is noticing an increase the blood sugar levels, then they’ll be having a stronger cortisol response that caffeine and that coffee. So we would encourage them to try something less caffeine, like maybe a cup of green tea or something like matcha tea. So is a Japanese green tea, but the slower release of caffeine and a bit less caffeine, just to help them get off of it. But we would encourage them to work on reducing caffeine like I unfortunately, do myself.

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Right. Okay, next question. This is from a listener you mentioned, I believe it’s AIC as a marker for health. Does that ring a bell? Which one? Which other ones do you look at? And what is the ideal goal?

28:26

Yeah, so hemoglobin a one sees sort of this 120 A day average of your blood sugar levels, can you report to do this percentage, optimally. I mean, I don’t think it’s the most ideal biomarker that is available. But we tried to get it under 5.2. Of course, you don’t want it to blow by 4.5 to 5.2 range, even 4.5 to five is something that we target. With fasting insulin, that’s another marker that we do look at, but we look at trends with it rather than isolated incidences. So when we had our Toronto clinic with something we actually tested every four to six weeks with individuals, or three months in just a weight loss population. And we’ll look at trends because it could be sensitive, you could have had a poor night’s sleep or got stuck in bad traffic or there could have been someone disruptive at the blood lab. And that can cause these big swings in your insulin. But in general, we’d like to see that fasting insulin trending under five. For someone with type two diabetes or metabolic syndrome. Usually they’re much greater than five. And then we course we look at sort of your triglycerides, how much free fatty acids you have floating around. Now, there’s a caveat to this. You don’t necessarily want to be doing a long fast going into your blood work because when you are doing longer fasts, you’re largely fueling on a pre fatty acid. So you’re going to see those levels Be quite elevated. So we encourage people not to do more than 14 hours of fasting for a few days before they do blood work. And then on your bloodwork, we look at the triglycerides just to see where they are. And we definitely want them under one amusing Canadian units in my head. And we want them sort of under 100. trending down less than less than 80 would be ideal. And then we look at the ratio of of HDL to triglycerides, we definitely want it to be greater than one and not less than mine. So those are some some of the key markers that we look at C reactive protein.

30:46

You know, I use blood markers also. And I have to be careful with patients in terms of what they’re doing. Because sometimes the the results are a little skewed. But they do give you a good marker. And I appreciate the question. I appreciate your answer. It certainly confirms the things that I’m doing. Let’s go to the next question. Are there any liquids other than water that you can drink? And this listener is, you know, recommending things like bone broth or green tea? What are your recommendations?

31:23

Yeah, so I mean, we touch base a little bit on a lot of coffee, coffee and decaffeinated depends on your health goals and your own N equals one response to that. But definitely herbal teas, green tea as well are okay, you just need to be mindful, you don’t want to be adding a lot to it, especially things like that, you want to make sure that you’re feeling off of your own body fat and adding fat to those beverages we slow things down. We’re big proponents actually, in our fasting community of sugar free pickle juice, it’s essentially water, some vinegar. And then like garlic and dill, spices, and it’s a great way to keep your electrolytes up during a fast, it doesn’t interfere with integrity of the fast again, we want to minimize the amount of insulin that we’re secreting. And the number of times we’re secreting insulin during the fast is the real intention behind our fasting days on our programs. So pickled juices, were very pro that it’s a great alternative for those who don’t like broth and broth on broth is great. I’ve I drink so much bone broth when I first started fasting because of my sluggish adrenal glands, I was so conscious of my body odor, I thought I smelled like a chicken. But it’s important when it comes to broth habit, if you need it, don’t have it. If you don’t get it just don’t have it just because just because. But if you’re starting to feel tired or fatigued, or if you know you’re going to be doing a workout, or the weather’s really hot, and you need to be mindful of your electrolytes, then absolutely have some broth. And the thing with the broth too, is that we don’t want to be in a position where we’re having to reheat it multiple times. You know, make your cup of broth sit down, enjoy your cup of broad isolate that period of time that you’ll be secreting insulin and our response to it even though it’s negligible. Really, in the big scheme of things when cost is negligible. But don’t graze on it, don’t snack on it. And that’s the same thing. If you did need to add a little bit of fat to your tea or coffee and my understand people are coming off of adding all kinds of garbage so their tea and coffee. So if you need to add a little bit, okay, that’s fine work on eliminating it, but try to isolate it. Don’t reheat that fatty coffee several times throughout the morning.

33:55

Okay, we have time for one more question. And because it’s been so informative, this is from Shireen. And she’s writing. What do you think Megan of protein shakes for breakfast, we eat a very high quality one every day for breakfast, which gives us amazing energy for four hours.

34:19

So there’s different approaches, different things are going to work better for individuals. There are some people in our that I’ve worked with and clinic in our program that will do breakfast and breakfast fasting, or they’ll eat breakfast and lunch and skip dinner and that’s how they choose to do their fats. And that’s fine if that works. works best for first best for you. Most individuals find it easier to cut out breakfast and a big reason why we sort of have skewed that way and are sort of our mainstream materials is because a lot of the people we work with are diabetics and they’re seeing this Donphan And then the morning so we all have gone phenomenon but diabetics have a more intense version of it where blood sugar levels go up in the morning time so for a non diabetic it’s you almost can’t tell but for someone who’s diabetic it is substantial and is very frustrating because they said yeah I’ve just been fasting at least for 14 hours Why are my sugars going up in the morning Let’s the body just trying to purge extra sugar and all that aside that fuel you and do you a favor in the morning time so we typically prefer that people if they’re experiencing this dramatic Golden Dawn effect on phenomenon the morning that they burn that off first before adding more into their their system. And then of course, you know, when it just comes to shakes, you know, being mindful of it was good quality protein. And I just a ton of fruit in there. Fructose CA, we always need to be mindful is a sugar too. So we don’t want to be flooding flooding our systems with that. So I’ve definitely been known to have a fatty or shake as a go to, you know, along with a cup of broth every now and then for lunch on a hectic day. But just being mindful about how much fructose is in that shake as well, especially in the morning time.

36:20

So Megan, how can people get in touch with you?

36:24

So the best way to reach out is through our website, the fasting method.com. There you’ll find links for all of our social handles for YouTube and for podcasts. Yeah, there’s a podcast called The Bad seed method that you can find on all major podcast.

36:43

I highly recommend it. I’ve listened to it. And I want to thank you so much for sharing this with us and folks, follow Megan Ramos, thanks so much for being with us today.

36:58

Thank you so much, Dr. Sam, everybody for listening..

At age 25, Dr. Glen Swartwout was the top student doctor at his school when he discovered that he had glaucoma. Starting at such a young age, he learned that he would most likely be blind by age 50 if he was treated by conventional medicine and surgery. In his quest for a cure, he found that he was also suffering from mercury poisoning and would almost certainly not survive past his 30s. Through intensive study of natural medicine, he has now exceeded his expiration date by over 25 years and maintains good vision at age 65. He helps doctors and their patients improve their health outcomes with his system of Accelerated Self Healing that saved his own life and his vision.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

body, vision, heal, minerals, glen, measure, substance, cleansing, people, state, energy, field, glaucoma, study, protons, quantum, working, venous blood, eye, remote

00:04

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series I’m featuring today one of my colleagues known him a long time. His name is Dr. Glen Swartwout. And he’s got a lot in his bio, he does some really interesting things. He was a top student doctor at his school where he discovered he had glaucoma, and I didn’t even know that. And starting at a young age, he learned that he would most likely be blind by the age of 50. This is what happens with glaucoma. That would have been if he was treated by conventional medicine and surgery, which is what usually happens with glaucoma. And he is a real pioneer because he was able to discover in himself that he had mercury poisoning, and he wouldn’t survive past his 30s. So through intensive study of natural medicine, he now has exceeded his expiration date by over 25 years. He looks really healthy and vibrant. He helps doctors and patients improve their health with a system called Accelerated Self Healing, and it saved his life and his vision. So Dr. Glen, let’s bring you on the program. I know we haven’t talked for a while, how are you doing? How are you?

01:30

Great! Enjoying being in Hawaii and working with a lot of folks mostly on the mainland and around the world. And we’ve gone 100% remote with our practice and consulting, which was easy because we were 85% remote before COVID hit. So we said okay, we’re gonna actually just hide in the wizard’s lair here and do what we do best.

01:57

Well, I’ve got a couple of questions for you. I want to start off with your system which you call Accelerated Self Healing. What is that?

02:09

Well, it starts with the acknowledgement that all healing is self healing. The bandaid doesn’t heal the cut. The aspirin doesn’t actually heal a headache. It suppresses the symptom and decreases the inflammation. But you know, what produces inflammation is the immune system. So our immune system is the real cure for most ails that we run into. It detoxifies the body. It cleans out toxic tissues, so we can regenerate and make new cells. So Accelerated Self Healing acknowledges that the body is always doing its best to heal. And you know, there’s a literally 1000… a million things that we could try to heal in any one moment, but we can’t… just like the mind can’t multitask and do everything all at once. You’d get nothing done. So with the body I find when we test energetically with biocommunication. We ask the body, “what is it doing?” We unravel the things that it is trying to heal. And we find that it might be up to five or six. In a rare case, there was a man who had about 21 different things his body was trying to do, but he was dying. His acupuncturist referred him because he couldn’t get his pulses to come up. He was elderly. All of his siblings had gone blind with glaucoma. So he was at risk for that as well. And it took a lot of stuff. He needed a lot of material substances, a lot of nutrients and herbs, especially nutrients in his case. Within the first month though, he got the pulses to come up and, you know, turn the corner. The sad end to that story is after maybe about a year working with him, he was doing great. His his family doctor and his family talked him into a medical treatment that was supposed to improve memory. And the protocol for that treatment was you go off everything else and only take this one drug. No supplements, no herbs, nothing. And in the course of doing that treatment, he actually had glaucoma hit him. He went blind during that. So it’s very sad. But the body is always doing its best to heal. It’s often stuck needing something. It could be a material substance, like a nutrient or botanical factor that’s missing from our diet. You know, we’ve lost 90% of the of the food plant varieties, the heirloom varieties that we used to have available. And the hybrids that we eat now mostly are devoid of over 90% of botanical compounds that they used to make, so we’re missing a lot that we need. Our bodies are adapted to the natural environment. You know, you think about our genetics, our inheritance, and it’s only in the last few generations that we’ve had this loss of… I call it nature deficiency. We’re separated from nature. Our ancestors, you know, four or five generations ago, they were pretty much all farmers. They ate from their own fields and gardens. The food was fresh. They used manure on the crops, so they were replenishing magnesium and other minerals into the soil. Our soils are depleted. So are our foods, even if they look beautiful, you know, a full size, beautiful carrot or tomato. This is because the soils are depleted in nutrients. The crops are also depleted. In commerce, we pay by the pound, not by the nutritional content for foods. So when we test the body, we find that… I call it functional Response Testing. There’s many ways to do that. But we’re looking at not just measuring the material substance of what’s in the body, like taking a sample of blood or urine or hair tissue and seeing what are the mineral contents and vitamins and other compounds. But how does the body respond like we do in vision testing? How does the body respond to a stimulus? Like let’s say with light and color therapy, which is I think how we originally met each other. When I started my practice back in New York in the 80s, when I studied Syntonic, Optometry, I said, this is fascinating. I wonder, you know, what will happen with some of my eye disease patients. And so I would do a little probe, a test, and see, if I think that a yellow green color of light might have a beneficial effect, I’d have them sit there for maybe five minutes, just do a little bit of a probe. And then retest something like visual acuity. And I was amazed to see, the body responds very quickly to energy, to quantum energy. It can respond very quickly to

06:56

chemical substances, nutrients, and botanicals as well. And if you measure on an energetic level, which you could do with muscle testing of various types… I use the Omura O-ring, a type of test that’s very easy and quick, and I could do that all day long without fatigue. And that’s how I test remote clients. I’ll think of them. I act as a surrogate for them. Surrogate testing comes originally from testing mothers and infants and observing that when… The work that I do originally comes from electrodermal testing, electroacupuncture, measuring the meridians. And you find that if you’re measuring the mom and the baby’s asleep across the room in a carrier, you’re measuring the mother, and the energy patterns in the meridians gives you a picture of what’s happening in her body. But as soon as the baby wakes up and is in her lap, either just sitting there or breastfeeding, you’re measuring on the mother, but she’s showing a completely different pattern that corresponds to the baby’s healing process. So we’re empathic by nature, you know. Mothers are particularly, you know. They have to be empathic with their children.They know when there’s something wrong, even if they’re not present, you know, in view… It’s like, “I gotta check in on my baby.” So, as a Medical Empath for all these years, I’m able to tune in and, and use my body as the surrogate – as the as the meter to see what’s going on for that person at a distance. And so we see that the presence of the healing substance, the healing energy, like quantum energies like light, or the healing information in the field, in the biofield, the bioenergetic bio-information field of the person, which we’re connected to at a distance through remote healing, remote intention, that there’s an instantaneous cascading effect of the body going into a different mode of healing… where the body goes into what I call a state of coherence, where when we measure the meridians, they’re all aligned with each other, just like after an acupuncture treatment, which is how the original electrodermal testing was developed back in Germany in the 1950s. So it’s been a real fascinating ride for me, not only being able to heal myself and keep myself alive, and from going blind, but then being able to help people with really challenging health issues to unravel those over time.

09:20

So we’re here with Dr. Glen Swartwout. He is going to be speaking. He’s also a sponsor at my upcoming whole health summit this coming weekend. It’s such a pleasure to talk to you again. And you know, you and I actually share quite a bit about the field, the biofield. I’ve done a lot of research in my world with it. And of course, we can work remote and your clients can be at a distance. It’s kind of obvious, right, to us of what’s possible. So, you know, I think my audience would be interested to hear about your theory on how vision works.

10:01

Well, you know, the current conventional theory is that the sky is inside the skull. They say, it’s a term, you know, a phrase that they use, which means the visual cortex is inside the skull, and that’s associated with vision. It’s where there’s activity going on that maps out what we’re seeing in the visual field, but it’s in here, right? And yet we see it, we know… anybody knows… a child knows they see it out there. You know, if children are asked, “How does vision work?”, they know that vision is projected out. The Greeks, the Greek philosophers describe the ray of vision from the eye to the object of regard. We know as visual scientists that that’s happening, yet from a conventional science perspective, we haven’t had a model to understand the physics, the actual physics of how can that happen? So, I’ve put together what works for me as an explanation. It’s been very fascinating to then come up with questions that “Well, if that’s true, then this must be true…” And then to research that and say, “Oh, yeah!” that it’s very explanatory and predictive. When we look at vision science, you’ll remember that – many people in the audience won’t know what the heck I’m talking about – but the Cyclopean eye is our technical term for the spot in the body field. It’s not an it’s not an anatomical association, but it’s between the two eyes, usually closer to the more dominant eye, and usually a little bit behind the eyes. There’s this spot in our body, in our conscious body, from where our vision is projected. It’s the mathematical center of that projection. And so, what the heck is that, because that’ll… when we do vision therapy, and we change a person from being mostly one eyed to working with two eyes… that spot will move toward the center of the physical body. So I modeled that as an anatomical structure of the spirit body, which is the conscious body, the immortal body. And I believe based on my study of modern alchemy, what I learned from the alchemists – I thought I knew a lot about minerals, and then I learned “Oh, I didn’t know about what’s being called M-state minerals, or, ORMUS, or monatomic, monoatomic minerals, white powder gold… There’s so many different terms, and different terms in every culture in ancient times as well. But about the highest level of alchemy they call the philosopher’s stone, which, when the Alchemist is producing this out of gold, let’s say, is one of about 12 minerals that are in this state in the spirit body, is the carrier of consciousness. And it’s a co-creation between the Alchemist… the intention of the alchemist, and the material substance, to put it in this spiritual state. And it’s a spiritual state that has all the properties of the quantum world. [Note: Dr. Glen meant to explain here that these minerals can therefore be in two places at one time, such as in the visual cortex and projected into space carrying our visual imagery] If we look at conventional physics, we actually can see we’ve gotten to a point where we have the science to understand it. The 2001 Nobel Prize was given for the research on on a new state of matter that Bose and Einstein (physicists) proposed called the Bose-Einstein Condensate. And so that’s my model of understanding. And it may be slightly different than that, but it’s certainly related. It’s a condensate-like state of mineral material, that of the transition minerals, which in the normal state of matter they are metals, like copper, gold, silver, rhodium, iridium. There was one study, for example, by the guy who got the patents on these back in the 1990s. They did one study on a sample of brain tissue from a pig brain. And they found that it was 5% by dry weight, rhodium and iridium. But in this altered state, that you can’t measure in a regular laboratory. They had to find a Russian patent on special equipment in a different atmosphere, not in normal carbon, oxygen, nitrogen atmosphere, and then burn the minerals for several minutes. We’re normally testing for 15 seconds and everything shows up. So it’s

14:30

a state of matter that’s not ordinary matter. It’s immaterial. It’s quantum in nature. In other words, it can be in the same place as physical material substance at the same time, just as we know the spirit body is in our body when we’re having what I call an in-body experience. I’ve had out of body experiences in my life and, you know, we know from other people’s experiences, oftentimes they’ll have have full vision 360 degrees in all directions like a full sphere of vision not limited by the field of view of the human eye that has an iris that we’ve got to, you know, see out of. And they’ll usually be seeing their body on the gurney in a hospital, because it’s usually with cardiac arrest. They’ll see that body and not even identify it as themselves until later and realize, “Oh, that must be my body.” But who we are is not the body. But we’re spiritual beings having a spiritual experience in the physical body, and that’s how the spirit develops. Because we have these bio body suits, some people call them, in order to be able to change and grow and learn, to make mistakes, and learn from our mistakes, and hopefully learn from other people’s mistakes as well.

15:52

Yeah, well, you know, it is such an expanded definition of what vision is, but it is amazing. You know, when people develop their spiritual awareness, how much their vision really expands. And, you know, just the idea of the 360 degree view or being out of body looking in, you know, you’re talking about a real evolution. And, you know, we are spiritual beings in a physical body. And it’s proven over and over and over again. So I’m here with Dr. Glen Swartwout. Loving this. He’s one of our featured speakers and sponsors at this weekend’s whole health summit. So we’re coming down to the end of our time together… I was wondering if you could speak briefly about what you mean, concerning biological terrain.

16:55

You know, this was actually the science that saved my life when I learned that I was toxic with mercury. There’s a system starting out of France, France and Germany, called BEV: Bio-Electronics of Vincent, where they measure the biophysical terrain of the body. They take samples of urine, saliva and blood, and it’s the venous blood, because arterial blood is under a lot of pressure… You don’t want to take a sample of that. It would be too messy. So they measure the key factors that according to physics, according to the Nernst Equation, define energy in a fluid medium. And those I boil down, studying it, understanding it – I’m not going to go into the equation, you’ll thank me – but it’s a measurement of three things that make up that energy. One is protons, which we know as pH: acid-alkaline balance. Acid is protons. That’s one form of energy. It’s a positive charge. The proton is the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, and it can carry electricity because it carries charge. Then we have electrons, which are negative charge. Again, we know those can carry electricity. And then the third thing is light. Why light? Because light is the fundamental unit of energy, the quantum. And when light is absorbed by a compound or substance, it energizes the electrons and it can actually ionize the substance. So now you have free electrons [or negative ions] that again can carry energy, and the substance left behind will have a positive charge. So it’s just so fascinating, that that maps out the terrains of health and disease, where we can go from balance to where we have, in the venous blood, too many electrons and protons, too much energy, but some of that energy is energy we don’t want. It’s toxicity. It’s where we have allergy and toxicity symptoms. And I call that terrain Cleansing terrain. So I’ve re-worked their system, their understanding from the medical perspective, to a self healing perspective of Phase One, Energizing the cells, Phase Two, Rejuvenating the cells, Phase Three Regenerating, where you can make new cells to replace old or dead ones. Phase Four, the Cleansing terrain, where we’re getting the toxicity out and we have lots of symptoms, but that doesn’t mean it’s the lowest level of health. It might be the highest level of symptomology. You know, when we’re in a chronic degenerative state, oftentimes, it’s 10 to 20 years of no symptoms. Most people who come to me surprised to learn that they have cancer, and looking for natural therapies to support their healing… they say, “I can’t believe it because I was the healthiest person I know for 20 years… I never even had a fever.” And that’s where we have to re-educate and say that meant that you didn’t have enough energy in your immune system to mount a fever. Cleansing responds to a Cold or Flu once or twice a year. That’s actually preventive because you’re not just fighting the virus that’s triggering it. You’re actually having a general cleansing effect in that whole tissue. So, if it’s a stomach flu, you’re cleaning the whole stomach, not just throwing the virus out.

20:19

Yeah, people get misinterpreted, or they’re not understanding what is going on. And I think you are reframing it in a really great way as a way to exercise our immune system and do a cleanse, do a detox. And so well, listen, I am so excited to have you give a presentation this weekend. How can people get in touch with you?

20:48

Well, see, I’ve got a website, GlenSwartwout.com. And the email with that is Glen.Swartwout@GlenSwartwout.com

21:08

For the replay, we will put it in the notes so that people will get your spelling and also you have a toll free line, which is 888-417-8118. So you can always call and leave a message. And we’ll get back to you.

I know you have a very busy practice.

21:29

If you leave your email address, that’d be ideal. We can start the conversation that way.

21:35

Great. I highly recommend folks working with Dr. Swartwout. He is an amazing healer. And he has studied so many things. He’s blended science and spirituality in a way like nobody has. And I want to thank you so much for being part of the program today. I look forward to seeing you this weekend. Thanks. Thanks for taking the time today.

22:00

Thank you. It’s gonna be fun. Come join us

Lisa Dymond is a Registered Speech & Language Pathologist in Private Practice with a passion for supporting the integration of speech/language skills into conversational competence that supports relationships & social-emotional well-being. She is passionate about integrating speech/language skills into conversations that support social-emotional well-being & relationships.

Since 1997, Lisa has been a practicing speech/language pathologist, with experience across the broad scope of practice. Lisa enjoys working with clients to integrate speech & language skills into conversational competence that supports sustaining relationships & enhancing psychological health & well-being.

You can reach Lisa at lisadymondslp@gmail.com or through her social channels: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

lisa, sensation, question, debbie, people, language, relationship, drew, speech, featured speakers, chelsea, speech language pathologists, part, attachment, point, emotion, hearing, health, impact, communicating

00:04

Hey everybody. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening, wherever you are. This is Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, you know, the health hole health summit is coming up very soon, we’ve got a few spots left, the dates are January 14 to the 16th 2022, you can register on my website on all my social media sites. Anyways, today, we have one of the featured speakers, and I love what she is putting out her name is Lisa Dymond. And just a little bit of backstory about Lisa. She’s a speech language pathologist. And she’s passionate about the impact of communication and supporting healthy relationships. So I want to bring her on leet. Lisa, welcome to the program. How are you today? How’s it going?

01:01

Hi, Sam, thanks so much for having me on, it’s going going really well.

01:08

So, you know, I work with a lot of speech language pathologists in the field of autism and add and so, but you’re, you’re kind of an amazing practitioner, and I want to introduce you to my community, because we want to know, how you got into this. And you know, what is your philosophy and perspective, because it’s, it’s, it’s really quite unique, I really love what you’re you’re doing. So, share with us how you got into this. And you know, what your philosophy is?

01:44

Well, thank you so much for that feedback. So starting with how I got into this, my, my original background, excuse me, was in anthropology and sociology, and just being interested in human behavior and human relationships on a bigger scale. And I always maintain this interest in languages. And so after that, I travelled a bit, saw the world and, you know, explore different cultures. And it was my mum, who said, What about speech and language therapy? So sure enough, I looked into that, and the nature of the work on a relation, relationship based way of working with people, and it was a perfect way to apply that interest in human relationships with languages and communication. So that’s how it all started.

02:39

Yeah, so relationship, this is like, critical, right? So can you say a little more about how you spotlight relationship? And what you’re doing with people?

02:53

Yeah, um, there’s so many different ways I can answer that question. And what comes to mind, at least for purposes of our conversation today is, you know, language and communication is there’s there’s receptive language and expressive language, sort of two sides of the same coin. And from a receptive point of view, what we understand, right, how we listen, how we, how we use our talking to listen to other people actually, in so that, so that, so that, as we’re listening, the other person feels seen and heard. That’s one part of it, the expressive part, you know, it’s everybody is expressing themselves, whether it’s a child in the womb, whether it’s an infant that’s babbling, whether it’s somebody who’s using a device to communicate, or I gaze, or whether it’s people using spoken language, we’re all expressing ourselves, and are we really communicating? And are we really communicating with each other in a social way, so that we ourselves feel seen and heard. So this, this way of looking at communication of receptive and expressive language, seeing and hearing the other, seeing and hearing ourselves that ties together the reciprocity of that experience, supports relationship in a way that that brings this reciprocal dynamic to, to the relationship that supports that the health of the relationship, the nurturing of the relationship and how the relationship can be sustained over time. What is it that makes us want to come together again, and again and again, and and keep that relationship going so that we have shared memories, we have shared stories, we can reminisce over time, when We’re in a classroom group, whether we’re in a family unit, and considering the summit that’s coming up the relationships we have with our health care providers, you know, they’re amongst amongst the relationships that are very important. Especially when we consider when we consider that the people who are helping us maintain optimal health well being, we want them to be our allies in that. Yeah. So that’s grossly speaking. That’s the that’s the foundation for how does language fit in to support that and and the development of that?

05:42

Oh, yeah, totally. So thank you for that. That clarifies it for me. And I think for the audience, I just want to say again, this is Lisa diamond, she’s a speech language pathologists, he’s gonna be one of our featured speakers, and my whole health summit. And so I want to, I don’t know whether you can do this, but I know you work one on one with people. So what’s your first session? Like? What What? Are you doing an analysis? Are you just listening? What what goes into how you figure out how you’re going to help somebody?

06:22

Well, I love that question. I love that question. Because it’s orienting to the whole path really. Often, when somebody is seeking services, they might be self referring, they might come because of a parent, they might be referred through a teacher, for example. And initially, there, initially, there’s an assessment process, right to figure out what what’s our path going to be? What are the goals? What are the intentions? What’s our purpose for working together? And informing that is? It’s a there’s a very broad way of informing it. Yes, there are standardized tests that are often used, because they provide concrete measurements. And in some instances, that’s helpful and useful. But more to the point, the context is really important. If it’s a child in a family, what are the family’s goals as well with that child? What’s the bigger picture that we’re going towards when we’re looking at the parts of a therapeutic plan? And most importantly, is the dinette in my mind is the dynamic piece of where is an individual’s starting with the skills that they have? And where are they going from session to session? Like it within a session, like from beginning to end? How did we achieve that, that success? What did it take to achieve that success? And then from session to session? What are we doing to maintain that? So that’s the dynamic part of an assessment where a person is compared to themselves? And in my mind, that’s where the most validity is, really to. Yeah, to to benchmark progress that way, as a starting point down progress that way?

08:14

Of course, yeah, that’s wonderful. And when you when you take on, say, a family or, you know, an individual, what, what is the arc of, you know, how long you’re going to work with them? What are some of the benchmarks you’re using to see if they’re making progress? How do you how do you see that?

08:37

Again, again, it’s it. There’s a broad way of answering that. Part of that depends on the setting for service delivery, some speech paths, there are, you know, specific constraints for how long of course, some people work in blocks, for example, so that more students can receive the opportunity of having therapy and it can get complex when it gets into sort of systems of delivery that way, ideally, though, it’s when those goals are set the progress towards those goals, are we meeting those? meeting those goals more of the time? And, you know, what would be the next step? Where are we going with the next step in that part of my own practice, too, is a lot of self rating scales. So a person’s own subjectivity, their own subjective point of view on their skill sets, and their progress because, you know, from the inside out, is really how we build the quality of our lives is what am I bringing to this and how do I feel about what I’m bringing to this? More so then, you know, external validation or an external reward He’s got to come from the inside out. And so really leaning into the conversations that indicate, indicate ease, indicate success indicate accuracy, according to that person’s own point of view and the broader application of skills in their relationships. So your speech and language is very bottom up and top down, meaning we’ve got the nuts and bolts of the mechanics of speech production, the mechanics of swallowing, the mechanics of acoustics, and you know, how we use those to build vocabulary and sentence structure and complex sentences, and put those together into narratives and conversations. But then we’ve also got the top down, which is, again, what’s my purpose here? What are my hopes and dreams for this conversation? What are my hopes and dreams for this relationship? And, right, and so then, then, we’re applying those nuts and bolts skills to the arc as you used in the, in your, in your question to the bigger picture, the bigger purpose and intention.

11:10

Sure, that makes sense. And, you know, it’s partly the way I work as well. And you bring in a really great point of healing from the inside out. And so many times, you know, I get frustrated with the rehabilitation field and the some of the therapist therapists out there, where it’s so external learning a splinter skill, or a certain outer technique, and then looking at it from a developmental point of view or holistic perspective. And also self awareness and self discovery, where you get people to start becoming aware through, you know, a checklist, or however you’re doing it. That’s so important, because how are they going to know there’s changes? If they’re not, you know, reflecting on themselves and where they want to go and what they want to do. So it’s, it’s, it’s a, it’s one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you on to the summit, because it is very much in line with how I think about things when I’m helping people with their vision. And so it’s, it’s really great to, to hear somebody out there like you doing that. So I just want to say to my audience, this is Lisa diamond. She’s a speech language language pathologist, and she is featured speaker at our upcoming home health summit. So now we’re going to get into q&a. And some of my listeners and followers have sent us some questions. This is gonna be fun. And so the first question is actually from a mom who I work with in Albuquerque, New Mexico, her name is Debbie. And she has an eight year old Asperger’s boy named Drew, I know Drew, worked with him. And she says, I have been told that I am very emotional about my son and his condition. Lisa, how do you think my emotional health affects Drew?

13:14

That’s a beautiful question. Remind me son, how old is Drew?

13:20

He is eight years old. He’s been diagnosed with Asperger’s. And, you know, he’s got some developmental delays going on.

13:28

And what’s nothing? Debbie, Debbie Debbie? Yes. I love Debbie’s question because she really is dialing into the experience of CO regulation, so to speak, or, or another way of saying that is her own emotions in the field with her son, and how, you know, this dance that’s happening. So. So when we are communicating, to shoot to communicate in a way that that helps us feel like we’re communicating in a way that brings our nervous system to a place of, of rest or in a zone of rest impacts the people that we’re communicating our communication partners, right. And so, and so Debbie’s question is, did you repeat her question for me specifically?

14:35

Yes, she she, she’s makes a comment. I have been told that I am very emotional about my son and his diagnosis. How do you think my emotional health affects Drew?

14:48

Right? Yeah, yeah. So So Debbie’s emotional health is part of what drew would be picking up on so to speak. It’s part of this This co regulation dynamic. So the more Debbie can notice what she’s noticing in herself, and the more, the more Debbie can use her own strategies, again, from the inside out, the more that will have a regulatory impact on you as well. Does that make sense?

15:24

Yeah, that’s gonna be really helpful to her that kind of thing. It validates what I’ve said to her and others. So that’s really great feedback for her so great.

15:36

I think one more thing. Okay. Sure. Well, fundamentally, fundamentally, the the outward perspective of, of course, this incredible care and concern for Drew, and compassion for Drew and how I’m How am I impacting Drew is, is sort of the tip of the iceberg. Right? That’s, that’s, that’s the external reflection of what could be going on for Debbie so to to just pause for a moment for Debbie to just pause for a moment and give herself the compassion and the self love to bring her perspective back inside. And before looking at the impact on Drew, look at the impact the impact on herself. And that’s where, you know, learning some strategies or taking a path of learning to figure out what it is for Debbie’s own self that helps her soothe and calm her nervous system. And then think about the reflection that will come back. True, true. Does that make sense?

16:49

Yeah, thank you. That’s great. Okay, we’re gonna move to our next question. This is Chelsea from London, England, from the UK. And so she’s been following me for a while. And I told her about you. So this is Chelsea. I’m quoting, I saw one of your posts, your posts. You talked about how we are creatures of attachment. And it gets formed in early child development. Chelsea goes on, she says, I’m an adult now. But I was a premature baby spent two weeks in an incubator before I could bond with my mom. What how do you think this is affected me?

17:35

Oh, wow.

17:38

That’s a big question.

17:39

It is a big question. I really thank Chelsea for noticing that information out there. And, and taking it inside and wondering about that. Certainly, again, this is this is a very broad topic. Two, I would really offer at the outset that that there have been two very influential teachers in my life. And of course Chelsea can contact me Of course, Debbie can contact me too if they want further conversation about their questions. But I do want to mention Myrna Martens. Who is a know her, you know her? Yeah, she’s been in DC and she’s just a marvel. She’s a family therapist. She integrates a lot of Cymatics. And what I what I’ve learned most through Myrna is the pre and Perinatal psychology piece. Oh, yeah. Right. Like it is. It’s huge, what is happening in the womb, and you know, the experience of the mother becoming the experience of the child in the womb, depending on right, depending on the mother’s reactions to all kinds of things and, and what that child inside sits with. And then once the child is out of the room, I would also really credit the work of Dr. Gordon Neufeld, who is a psychologist in Vancouver, BC. And he you know, a lot of people talk about attachment, attachment styles, but Dr. Neufeld has a way of he’s synthesized and you know, 40 plus years of clinical experience and all the theory that’s out there into his own characterization of the roots of attachments from from birth to six, how when those roots of attachment are really well formed, or when we get to develop those roots of attachment, we can actually come to rest in our relationships, learn to play. And then from there we emerge as you know, adaptive integrative adults in the world. So back to Chelsea’s question And and how that early experience impacted her. It’s, you know, there’s a very, there are many, many, many factors that would have to come into a conversation about that. Certainly, so, only to say, it’s worth it, it’s worth understanding, it’s worth understanding that, yeah,

20:22

absolutely, there’s just so much around the bonding, you know, at that, at that stage, especially when the newborn is so bonded with mom, and there’s oxytocin that’s produced, and there’s all kinds of hormones that are being, you know, energetically exchanged. So, I’m sure Chelsea will be contacting you, because it’s, it is a big imprint that probably is affecting her relationally.

20:52

Well, and, and given that early time, you know, that birth, birth to one is the time where we, you know, we have, we gain our attachment through proximity, right through hearing the sound of our caregivers from seeing our caregivers see us from smelling them from, you know, feeling their touch on us. And so to have the absence of that is something to consider at that point in time. And then how to move forward given that self understanding.

21:31

So we’re here with Lisa diamond, she’s a speech and language pathologist, and she’s going to be one of my featured speakers at the whole health summit. So we’re coming down to the end of our time today, it’s just flown by, we’re going to do one more question. And this is from Julie, who lives in the bay area of San Francisco. And she’s asking you, what is the difference between a sensation

21:57

and an emotion? I like Julie’s question to I would say and there may be, there may be many different points of view on this. So let me say that first. In my mind, just sensation can come from, you know, any of our body systems, first of all, and that sensation can drive us to emotion, emotion, as in to move the energy of that sensation. And then, from there, I think Julie’s Julie’s question lends itself well to sort of the next part of wondering, which is the meaning that we give that movement of energy that comes from the sensation, namely, of feeling, and that’s where language is the picture. Exactly, right. And then over that, how we use that language to name the feeling that might be coming from the emotion that came from the sensation of speaking that into conversation with the people that we’re with. So we’ve got a way of naming our experience and sharing that with another person through language that, that I mean, there’s incredible work out there on emotions. Lisa Feldman Barrett Barrett is somebody who comes to mind where when we really understand that we might call experience categories of emotions very differently. It allows us to get very curious about what somebody is experiencing on the level of feeling and emotion and sensation, without making assumptions that how I experience a sensation and the meaning that I give it would be the same as anybody else. And so in relationship, when we allow ourselves to speak, that allow whatever level of vulnerability is tolerable or can be cultivated in that relationship, to use our language to express that part of ourselves as well. There’s an incredible trust that can flow from that and a very deep way of being seen and heard. When we can use language apply language in that way. Started going right back to sensations.

24:27

Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Oh, thank you for that. So Lisa, how can people get in touch with you? Give us your contact info.

24:37

Right now people can get in touch with me with this my basic email address which is my full name, Lisa diamond, Li sa dy and o ND and then the letters S LP for speech language pathologist@gmail.com. That’s the best way to get in touch. There’s, I can also go to Instagram and it’s Lisa diamond speech. Just on Instagram, and send me a direct message there as well. It’s another way.

25:05

Great. Okay, I know people will. So I want to thank you so much for joining us today and I look forward to hearing your presentation listening to you at our health summit and I wish you the very best. Thanks so much for being with us today.

25:24

Thank you, Sam. Thanks for the opportunity and invitation and it’s been a pleasure chatting with you

Today, I interview one of our sponsors and speakers for the upcoming Whole Health Summit.  For over 38 years Virginia Joy aka V.Joy has been teaching. Initially, as an elementary school teacher teaching 5th grade in New York. While teaching in New York, V. Joy worked in conjunction with Columbia University training teachers “How to Teach writing”. In 2004 she founded Stillpoint Life Back in Balance, an energetic and massage practice in Sedona, where she combines her expertise in energy medicine and massage to create holistic healing sessions for her clients. In 2010 she founded Stillpoint Aromatics where she imports over 470 organics, wild-harvested, and biodynamically farmed essential oil and extracts worldwide. Concurrently, V joy teaches Aromatherapy Certification Programs, both beginner and advanced as well as many weekend workshops and a killer Mystery School.

Most of these classes are available virtually and in-person in Sedona. She has been published in numerous Aromatherapy journals and has been a speaker at National Aromatherapy conferences. She also holds a certification in Compassionate Care Bereavement counseling where she assists people who are dealing with catastrophic, traumatic grief and abuse as well as seeing clients in her Clinical Aromatherapy Practice.  

You can reach V.Joy through her at her website: www.stillpointaromatics.com, via text 928.606.0363, or through her social channels Instagram | Facebook

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00:05

Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of the Summit Series, today, I am interviewing a fabulous summit speaker and she has been a teacher. I think her whole life she is, wow, she’s had many lives. And she is the founder and owner of Stillpoint aromatics. I’m doing a little commercial here. This is my top essential oil company that I use. And you might, you know, in my community, I recommend aromatherapy and it’s in all my classes and all my work. And so Virginia joy. Let me give you a little background. She’s originally from New York. And she has migrated to one of my favorite cities Sedona, Arizona. And she opened up Stillpoint aromatics, which imports over 470, organic and wild harvested biodynamically farmed essential oils that are extracted through the entire world. And I just bought a lot of oils, and just brings back so many memories of all the oils that that I use. And so Virginia, Joy V. Joy, welcome to the program. It is so great to have you. How are you doing today? How’s it going?

01:43

Oh, pretty good. Yes, yes. Pretty good. And thank you my honor to be here. Really, my honor.

01:50

Well, both of our honors, but thank you so much. So tell me a little bit about how you got involved in the essences, and you’ve made it your passion, you have a very successful company, how did you get into it?

02:07

Oh, my God, that was in my other life, I used to use the essential oils, when I taught fifth grade with the kids. This is way back when. And so we would use different oils, you know, the usual safe ones, you know, lavender would help them calm down, we’d use rosemary before writing workshop, and the kids would have their favorite plant their favorite oil, and then we would put a drop on their test. And so that’s how it started. Really.

02:35

I love it, putting it on their test. That’s, that’s the way to go. So in terms of, you know, today in our climate COVID climate, and we’re talking a lot about immune health, what do you recommend for people so that they can, you know, stay away from the drugs and all that and use essential oils to boost their immune health?

02:58

You know, there are a few actually. So the top one really is it’s not even in the essential oil, it’s cold press black human, right, the Gela sativa there’s that them to use as a cold pressed oil in tea and a teaspoon in a capsule. And then its sister its counterpart, the black seed essential oil is fantastic to use. Also, because of the I think it’s the thyme queen in it. So there’s that and people that don’t like that, then there are the usual it’s like rosemary essential oil is fantastic. And lemon time, benchmark time is awesome. And you could use them in a variety of ways from diffusing to topical, like there’s this great aromatic morning routine people could do if they want to stop the day off, right? boost their immune system and use the oils are black spruce, laurel leaf, a little bit of clove, but not too much. And benchmark time and you just put a couple of drops of each in your hands in the shower. And while you’re still wet, you just put their all the end in, you’ll know the area, it’s the areas where between the digits and the toes, I say it rolling in tegu mentary areas, you so you put the oil on the chest, under the armpits and let the water hit you and you start the day off alert and also with quite a bit of protection energetically as well as within the system. And so yeah,

04:47

ditto I mean, I’m so with you on it. So many variety of ways to you know, get the essential oils into your body. And it’s a good reminder about black cumin and different ways you can use it and black seed. And then these other ones, you know, take I take a shower with Laura leaf and it just, you know penetrates so deeply right into

05:11

Yes. No, it’s awesome. Yes, yes it is. And Laura leaf also has the energetic protection, you know of, it’s the it’s the travelers herb. So back in the day, you would put a bay Laurel in your shoe while you’re traveling, so you’d reach your destination safe. So I’m big into the Yep, I’m big into the energetics too. You know, you can’t separate them right mind body, metaphysical physical. So

05:44

you know, it’s one of the things that’s drawn me to you and your company is the fact that you are but using both the physical and the energetic, the energetic is sometimes even more potent, at least I have found it to be the case. And so I I really love that you bring that bring that in?

06:02

Yeah. Okay, so let’s, let’s move a little bit into some of the essential oils in relationship to kind of more of a spiritual way that you use them, I know that you teach a lot of courses through your company, Stillpoint aromatics. And one of the your favorite ones is the mystery school. And I would love for you to talk about the application of the oils and how you weave that into your mystery school.

06:37

So, um, okay, so with with the Mystery School, really what the whole purpose of that is to help people live a balanced life on this planet and connect with their, their essence, so to speak. So it’s kind of it sounds kind of hokey, but you know, that essential oil, the essence of the essential oil connected to the essence of us, we could really do some deep work and clear old patterns. And, you know, I live in Sedona it’s awesome. It’s an awesome place. But I mean, it’s like a spiritual, Las Vegas and a lot of ways and everybody is always looking to Oh, my God, astral project and all of this stuff, but like we’re in a meat suit. And so the whole idea is to learn how to live in the meatsuit walk among the people create magical miracles for ourselves and others while we’re here. And that’s really how I integrate using the oils like with those teachings. And so, you know, the resin oils are great. The few gout banned them or the old, the ancient ones are really helpful. Most of the time when we’re working with them for to affect the spiritual body. It’s mostly through inhalation, you know, inhalation, a little bit of application, chakra points, stuff like that. But and the most important thing is that people have to like what they’re smelling. You know? It Yeah.

08:10

Yeah, well, you know, I remember one night to bed I was spiking art and my wife’s like, Get out of here. The height is can’t handle that. Yeah, and yeah, you know, such great dreams, right? No.

08:24

Yeah, no, I’d be right.

08:27

Yeah, exactly. So when you say resin oils, are you talking about things like frankincense or vetiver or what? Which ones you said mentioned Albanian, which is a very ancient essential oil. I love that aroma. But what other ones do you use?

08:44

So yeah, so frankincense, Mar, balsam? Copaiba is a really nice one. And then there are the there the oils here the what I call them, the pricey ones, but one of the best ones to use is agarwood. And perfumers know it as UHD. But it’s a it’s, it’s fantastic. And really the reason is, yeah, it is it’s great. And it’s and it’s great. Well, the whole like that story. Like if you look at the plant parts, like from where they come. So ag our wood is from the Agra wood tree. And though that tree, it gets a virus or a fungus, that part of the tree dies and that’s the part that’s distilled. So it’s it’s like yet so it’s a perfect of transformation, death life rebirth. So it’s, it’s, it’s awesome for meditation and for deep healing emotional wounds. But it’s a pricey one. So, but it’s awesome.

09:47

Yeah, but it works. And yeah, thanks for that reminder. So we’re here with Virginia joy. She is the founder of Stillpoint, aromatics central Oil Company based in Sedona, Arizona, and she’s one of our featured speakers for and a sponsor for our upcoming summit and I want you to check her out at her website. I’ll put that in the notes and she puts on a lot of workshops teaches people how to use the essential oils safely. And let’s talk about the respiratory system for a minute because we’re we’re kind of in this you know, virus flu situation and you know, we have the the winter flu. What do you what do you recommend? What are your protocols for respiratory health?

10:34

No, for respiratory health the first at the first sniffle, one of the best essential oils and herbs honestly to use is Rosemary. So the first sniffle, you want to take rosemary and it could be any of them rosemary, cineole, rosemary, Verbenone, rosemary, camphor, chemo, type camphor, and put it between your hands and sniff very deeply. And then take it and put it behind the ears and down the neck here. And if you can get to the store and get some rosemary to make rosemary tea from the rosemary, you know, even in the Safeway in the little packets, make rosemary tea, cut it up and and then inhale and then drink the tea. It’s one of the best things to stop. Because the whole idea is you want to stop it from turning into an upper respiratory, you want to keep it out of the lungs. And the other thing that’s invaluable is lemon lemon essential oil. One drop on honey, three times a day helps boost the immune system white blood cells.

11:44

Yeah, lemon is one of my go twos. I just I mean, Rosemary had forgotten about but Rosemary of course number one and lemon as you say, it is such an immune booster and it does support white blood cell. We also use it for cleaning. You know, I think in some of the you know, the cleaning agents are so toxic. And as we could be you could probably comment more on what are some good cleaning agents for essential oils that you might use.

12:13

Yep, lemon is great. And well any of the citrus is really orange is fantastic. And then if you want to have an antiviral, antibacterial add a little bit of time time. Oh, but yeah, not too much. Because then it smells time. Yeah, you know? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the pines are in the in the pines are really good red pine flag pine little

12:41

got some I just got some maritime maritime pine ocean pine I just love that. Talk about the pines for a minute and the different kinds you got, you know, red pine, and you got maritime pine educate us on on these tree essences and how they work and support us.

13:05

So well. Yeah, I really liked pines. And so you know, red pine. My favorite one is maritime pine too, though, that it is. And so maritime pine, all of the Pines you can use for respiratory, any of them, you know, you’ve just picked your favorite. But when it comes to the energetics and like the sub levels, I call them the sub layers of using the oils. Maritime pine is one of the most powerful because it’s the only pine that grows with its roots near the water with the with hence maritime pine. And so the energetics of maritime pine it helps it helps people go with the flow. So you know the waves roll in the waves roll out and up and downs of life so it’s it’s it to me it’s a I call it a passage essence so to speak, but it’s awesome. I’m awesome for emotional awesome for Cold Flu. Awesome. Yep.

14:01

Yeah, I can attest to that this morning, my first day back from holiday and I was met with all kinds of problems and you know, my my brand and webstore and everything. And I was using maritime pine the past couple of days and so I brought it out again and she’s been my friend today and I right now I’m feeling much more in flow has been the best part of the day. So yeah, you know, you can use these essential oils to dissolve blockages and you know, raise your vibration. What are some of your favorite ones for shock and trauma?

14:41

My favorite ones for shock and trauma are Melissa Neroli and, and laurel leaf, you know, and Melissa is it really is it’s the premier one for shock and trauma. It’s you know it’s sister or something Lemon Grass and Mei Chang have the same aroma but as far as as far as the psychological. It’s Melissa is it’s amazing. And the rolly for emotional shock and trauma, you know?

15:14

That’s awesome. So we’re here with Virginia joy. She is the founder of Stillpoint aromatics, where she imports over 470 organic and wild harvested biodynamically biodynamically farmed essential oils. She is one of our featured speakers and sponsor for our my upcoming whole health summit. So I wanted to ask you about inflammation, you know, a lot of elders, they have joint pain or muscle pain. What do you recommend to help people naturally without you know, you again, using pharmaceuticals?

15:53

Oh, the word that oil that should come to mind with inflammation is German Chamomile, it’s synonymous German, chamomile, it’s, it’s awesome. And you know, you can if you it’s blue, right? It’s that dark blue. Right? If you if you take it and you use it neat. And you let’s say you have a pain on your arm and you put the germ well, you can do this actually with any oil, but you put the German Chamomile on your arm, and where there’s inflammation, it’s going to absorb in and so you’ll start to see white and and then you just mush the rest of it over. So it saturates it, but it’s magic. The other one that’s really really good is Fly Fly Central. It’s it’s a root oil and it’s it’s and that’s more for skeletal and pain and inflammation that way musculus Yeah, yeah. But it’s but for the blue. It’s awesome though. The blue one. It’s and it’s Yeah.

16:50

Yeah, those blue essential oils are amazing. I mean, you remind me of the German camera meal. But even things like blue spruce, and cheese. What are some other blue essential oils anyway? They, they’re phenomenal. They’ve got such a vibration to them.

17:10

Now they do. Right? Yeah. And they’re great for people that have trouble speaking, you know, just put some, I mean, if they’re the blue collar you does it become a smurf. And then you could speak your truth actually. So.

17:28

So tell our audience about the flour, essential oils, you know, I mean, they are expensive. But they’re so potent in a lot of ways. How do you utilize the flour essential oils?

17:41

Yeah, they are there. The the lists, the cheapest, quote, unquote, one would be Lang Lang, Lang Lang, is the most affordable ones. But the flour essential oils, they have an affinity to the heart, you know, but they also have, which, and also it’s, they’re uplifting, they help with depression and stuff, but they’re also one of the great ones that help with the Wheel of Time, because when you think about it, flowers, they’re, they, they they get us in touch with our mortality for the the whole acceptance of just the wheel of life, because flowers don’t, you know, you give a bouquet of flowers, and they’re not going to be there a year later. And they all have within it like this pattern of a mattala You know, the, the flower itself. So I think flower oils are overlooked quite a bit because some people like too strong too stinky, too sweet. But they, they added depth to any kind of formula really, and a grounding.

18:50

You know, it reminds me of all the retreats that I did in Hawaii on the Big Island with dolphin twins, Dolphin swims, and we used to, you know, do a whole ceremony of applying the essential oils before we got on the boat. And a lot of times you know, we would ask which which oils the dolphins wanted. And a lot of times it was the flower essences because they’re so heart centered. And we had such magical experiences out there and in Hawaii with the wild spinner dolphins and using the essential oils before during and even after the swims because people would be processing a lot of you know energy from swimming with them and then in the evenings we would do meditations and, and things like that. So it’s it’s always great to that’s one of the versatile things I love about the essential oils is being able to use them under a variety of different conditions. And tell us about some of your upcoming workshops and what your what your offerings are in 2020 too.

20:01

So, oh gosh, I have a bunch but and I and I love teaching I miss I miss the kids, I think from my old school mom days, but um, there’s, there’s a variety of there are a variety of them coming up the next one that I’m excited about time up is an anatomy and physiology one. And I tell people that and they’re like, Oh, how boring and I’m like, No, not boring because well, it’s not boring. I’m not boring, um, lots of fun. But if you if you don’t know, if a person doesn’t know how their body works, how can they take back their power to help heal it? You know? So that’s, that’s the next one that’s coming up. I’m excited about so we learn anatomy physiology, we learned formulations, and applications and stuff. So even though people whatever. Yeah. And well,

20:52

how can how can people get in touch with you? How can they find you? Give us your contact info. And I’ll again put this in the podcast notes.

21:00

Oh, well, that would be great. So all the oils, all the classes are on the Stillpoint aromatic site. So that’s www. That’s Stillpoint aromatics, that calm. And if you want to get in touch with me, just give me a call. My personal number is 928-606-0363. So texts call, I’m happy to help happy to answer questions.

21:23

Yeah, so I mean, your real service to humanity and Mother Earth with with what you’re doing with the Stillpoint aromatics. And I am so looking forward to your presentation and your sharings and I want to thank you for being part of our show today. And we’ll see you next weekend at the at the summit.

21:47

Yep, yep, yep. Thanks, doc. And happy new year.

21:50

Okay. You too.

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01:38

Hi, it’s Dr. Jen. So we’re gonna have a great podcast today. And actually, you all asked for this podcast and someone said you got to check out Dr. Sam Berne Instagram page and he is where to go for this information. And we are talking about the eyes today. So everything holistic Dr. Sam Berne, his mission is to be your trusted source of information and provide the necessary tools to help solve Ira related problems using science based methods. Instead of living out your diagnosis and immediately turning to surgery or pharmaceuticals, Dr. Berne offers a roadmap to help you deepen the connection to your eyes and increase your health. So welcome Dr. Sam, holistic optometrist. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, thanks so much for having me today. So I’m a Doctor of optometry and I also have had advanced studies in child development. I’ve also studied naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, cranial sacral therapy, aromatherapy, and functional medicine. And so over the years, I’ve been inspired to help people improve their vision, I call it the wellness model instead of the disease based model that most eye doctors represent. And so I’m super excited to talk to you today about my work.

 

02:58

I am so excited. So tell us a little bit about how you went from traditional medicine basically right to what you do now. And are you like the black sheep? Because I know you are because there’s not a lot of you out there. Yeah, I’m certainly a pioneer probably like you. And it all started when I was about eight years old and I was diagnosed with a learning disability. And my mom bless her heart took me everywhere. And we ended up at an ophthalmologists office and he diagnosed me with nearsightedness. So I became very nearsighted. I was a memorizer. And that’s how I got through school. And when I graduated optometry school, I met a holistic developmental optometrist went through his physical eye therapy program. And he said two things to me. First of all, the reason why you have a learning problem is your left eye wanders out. And I said, Oh, that’s why I see double. And so through his physical therapy, I was able to learn how to use my two eyes together, the learning problem went away. That was an epiphany. And my nearsightedness went away completely. So I see 2020 on the eye chart I’ve ever since that was over 40 years ago. And so I decided this is my path. I want to help people improve their vision. And, you know, the rest of the story has been written.

 

04:25

That’s amazing. And I love that you turn your childhood struggles into your passion to help others because you don’t want anyone else to struggle like that. That’s so cool. So what are the methods that you use to reverse nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism?

 

04:46

Well, first of all, we want to blame faulty vision on the eyeball. And it’s not so much the eyeball but it’s the programming what our mind and brain is saying to our eyes. And there’s a certain

 

05:00

have perhaps experience or set of circumstances where we make adaptations based on some confusion or misunderstanding. And so we adapt our eyes to accommodate to the circumstance so we can be successful. So like in nearsightedness, what we do is we pull the world in, we tighten up our eyes, it gets blurry at distance, and we get a nearsighted lens, which reinforces our reaction. In farsightedness, we push the world away. And we need to make things artificially bigger than they really are. So we get a magnifying lens. But that reduces our responsiveness and our focusing. And then the stigmatism has to do with posture, how we hold our head, our neck, even our spine. And so we develop a twist in our body or our eyes. And so this creates a strange kind of warping in the perception. So we go to the doctor, and he gives us an astigmatism correction. So all these lenses are just reinforcing the adaptation we make. So in physical vision therapy, which is what I’ve developed over the years, it’s very much a mind I body approach to dissolving the habits and belief systems that have created the problem. And in this physical therapy, we also include things like light and color, nutrition,

 

06:31

you know, aromatherapy, many things, and I’ve had 1000s of success stories, with people reducing their prescriptions, or completely getting off their contacts and glasses.

 

06:46

That’s amazing. And so have you found that? Who’s easier to treat children or adults? Have you found? Well, it kind of depends on the parents with the children. But I think that children are generally easier because their system has more plasticity. But the way you treat children, in my opinion, is that you examine them based on where they are developmentally. So there’s the chronological age, and there’s the performance age. And my exam is very different because I’m testing how they move what their vestibular system is, like, are they able to have bilateral integration? Can they skip and hop, there’s also a whole body of work called the primitive survival reflexes, which are infant reflexes that actually influence our visual sensory motor development. I work a lot with OTs, and pts. So in helping kids it’s plugging into developmentally where they’ve disconnected. But they can do extremely well in reversing their visual problems because it’s not as reinforced as, as an adult, where, you know, we have years of habits and, and conditioning.

 

08:05

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So, so say someone in their 40s that they’re there. I say, it’s not terrible, but they do have that farsightedness. Um, you think that like you’ve seen their vision correct to 2020 using your methods? Yeah. So in a farsighted situation, what we’ve done is we’ve got used to the magnification lens, which makes our our eye muscles less responsive. So you need to interrupt what the side effects of those glasses do. By offering some visual flexibility exercises, which work really well pinhole glasses actually work very well because it’s really re educating you to focus in a more concentrated way. And for most people, you know, the comfort exam, I find that they’re overcorrected. They’re wearing a lens that’s too strong, so immediately you can start reducing their prescription. And then I’ve developed that technique where in the physical therapy, we have people work with opposite lens prescriptions. So in a farsighted person, we give them a nearsighted lens, and we have them do some visual activities. That’s amazing because it reconnects them to that visual responsiveness and after the exercise, they go, oh my goodness, I can see the eye chart and so they have to reinforce that over a few months. But you know, if you have a good diet, great lifestyle, low stress, I mean all these things come into play. You can definitely at the very least reduce your dependency on the glasses or or contacts

 

09:46

Yeah, I the pinhole that’s what they used to use, like decades ago, right? They did. Yeah, so we went away from that because obviously that doesn’t make money right. And well lens

 

10:00

Also the technology advances, you know, now you have a computer that reads the eye. It’s called an auto refractor. And so the technician is getting a readout. And then just giving that to you. In my examination, we try lenses on, we ask people to feel their body feel their eyes, while they look through the lens. So it’s very individualized in the prescription where we’re not using machines. And believe me, I used to have a lot of machines in my, you know, traditional office, but we really look at how the eye brain body responds to a certain prescription. And we go with that, I’ll tell you a quick story. You know, as a cranial therapist, what I would do is I would measure somebody’s eyes, and then I do an hour of cranial sacral on them on wine their system, and then their prescription would be 30 to 50% less when I re examined them, that’s what I would give them and they’d be thrilled because the eyes would be relaxed, but they would see so well. So that’s an example of how related our eyes are to our nervous system, our endocrine system, our stress our diet and everything else.

 

11:09

That’s that’s really cool story and it makes a lot of sense. So what about the opposite? What do you do for nearsighted? Well, being nearsighted I have a first hand experience on what it takes. What’s really cool with nearsightedness is we give people plus lens, a farsighted lens, and we ask them to process mentally and emotionally, what is the blur mean to them.

 

11:33

And in nearsighted people, we have a hyper vigilance that we’ve developed mentally, that we put everything through our eyeball. And so once people start to see the amount of hyper vigilance, they put through their eyes, and they relax into the blur, they can start wearing reduce prescriptions, and over a period of a few months, that reduce prescription becomes their distance prescription, this is what I did. And so you just keep bringing them down, bringing them down, and it works so much better than, say lasik surgery. I know that’s one of the questions you had, because in LASIK surgery, you’re just changing the prescription in the eye, but you’re not changing the programming, the programming is a lot stronger than the LASIK surgery. And this is why the prescription starts to creep back in and people have to go back to glasses or contacts plus, in LASIK surgery, there’s dry, there’s no other intermittent blurriness that occurs. And then the worst thing that you can do is a monovision, where you’re correcting one eye for distance, and one eye for reading that splits the brain. And that’s a very common surgical procedure, both in cataract surgery and in lasik surgery. Don’t do that, because you’re then eliminating depth perception, and you’re going to create more confusion in your brain.

 

12:50

Wow, okay. And I don’t think anyone’s getting informed consent with this stuff. When they’re going in for these operations. They’re just like, Oh, my God, I want to see and everything’s great. And then I had someone told me that they put something toxic into the eye during these LASIK surgeries. Also, do you know anything about that? Well, look, the eye has an ocular microbiome. And whenever you use any kind of either pharmaceutical drug, or you’re using a laser procedure, you’re going to create more scar tissue. Absolutely. There’s going to be toxicity that forms and I want to talk in a few minutes if we have time about the PFA s and the contact lenses, the plastic in that because it’s damning what is coming out now in terms of the toxicity in those contact lenses. So bottom line is, you want to use natural eyedrops, you want to stay away from these surgical procedures and pharmaceuticals because the eyes are like a sponge and they soak it in. And then you get things like floaters and dry eye and glaucoma and they can’t be explained. But it’s the toxicity that we’ve absorbed in our eyes that creates the problem.

 

14:01

That’s so interesting. You say that because I remember I don’t think I’ve ever got floaters until I started wearing contacts, you know, like in high school or something. And, yeah, it definitely makes a lot of sense. You’re clogging it up with just like lymphatics in the body or just like being constipated. So, yes, I think the eyes are kind of ignored. But also we need to have great thought leaders like you. And I loved what you said about like weaning down on the prescription because my mind went to like weaning down on medications. So it’s kind of like the same thing as what you’re saying. Okay, let’s talk about the contact lenses. So that study from that motivation. They tested a bunch of contact lenses. I was floored I had no idea that there was PFA s is in my contact lenses and the brand I use that keeps my eyes really, like really good. They feel like healthy.

 

15:00

They were the worst. And I think what bothers me most about this is when I went to my eye doctor, I went to the daily lenses because they’re like, yeah, they’re better than the two week ones, your eyes are gonna, there’s gonna be more oxygen exchange. They’re a little bit more expensive, but I’m like I want what’s healthiest for my eyes is literally what I sent her. And there’s no informed consent that there’s forever chemicals in my

 

15:23

right eye. So many, so much, so please break it down. Okay, well, this study, as you say, the mono innovation, and it was published environmental health news. And the three most popular companies Alcon Johnson and Johnson and Coopervision had the highest amount of PFA s, they tested with an org organic fluorine marker. And as you say, forever chemicals. I mean, NIH came out and said, you know, this is cancer causing and other serious toxicities. So, you know, people ask me this question all the time, is there a company out there that is PFS free, and there is and it’s a it’s made of silicone hydrogel. It’s actually a company called VSCO vision, and they’re in Taiwan and I can send the link to you.

 

16:21

They’re called Ion EIYN lenses, and they are PFA s free. I’m still looking into Boshin Lhomme. They haven’t responded to me, because they also may have lower PFA s. But it’s amazing that these three most popular companies in the US, they all tested very high for PFA S, which is super toxic. And as I said ocular microbiome, this is cancer causing and other serious things that I see that maybe can’t be explained. But if you’re a contact lens wearer out there, you need to know about PFA s and the detrimental effects it’s having on your eyes.

 

17:04

Yeah, that’s really scary. I wonder if there’s no studies unfortunately, that if this would lead to say things like macular degeneration or glaucoma and increase cataracts, but it Why wouldn’t it right, because you’re messing up the microbiome, you’re increasing oxidative stress by having these chemicals in the eye. So this is really scary. And for those who don’t really know a lot about this, these forever chemicals, so they’re called that because they stay in our environment forever. And this is kind of the DuPont the Teflon, the nonstick firefighters water resistant things. They have PFA SS in them, they were in the groin area of Lululemon pants. So the best thing we could do is try to avoid our exposure with these. And I, yeah, I’m gonna be looking in the silicone, I think I just bought like, a six month or three months contract, and then that came out. And I was like, oh, yeah, but I heard that someone said that one tip that they heard from their someone I forget, but this came up in my inbox is that if you, if you are using the daily contacts that don’t use the juice, don’t use the solution that’s in the container, take the contract out, rinse it out with just plain sailing, that’s good for the eyes. And that will help a little bit, please told me that’s right, because that’s what I’ve been doing. That’s true, you know, a couple of things, you want to, you know, use fresh lenses, so you don’t want to wear them too long. And if you use simple saline and don’t use the solution that comes in, I think that lowers your risk risk quite a bit. And, you know, that’s, that’s about the best you can do. And get off those contacts and get get into the non PFS contacts as soon as you can. And that’s for everybody out there.

 

18:59

Yeah, Dr. Brent, that’s super helpful, because a lot of us I know some people listening out there, maybe these silicone ones are covered by their insurance, or they’re more pricey. I’m going to be switching to these. I’m super excited. And I’m glad you did that research for everyone. Yeah. And I’ll send you the link so that you can distribute it to your listeners.

 

19:20

Yeah, that’s great. And I think that that’s good information. Also, knowing that that’s true. If you wash it out. Don’t use the juice that’s in there. Make sure you’re changing them every day. Don’t try to stretch them out. That’s all very helpful, very helpful. So let’s switch topics a little bit and talk about how to improve conditions like macular degeneration, glaucoma. Dry Eyes is big, and also cataracts. So the eyes have one of the highest metabolic needs of the body and nutritional needs. They are the eyes also have one of the highest concentrations of mitochondria. So let’s mark the mitochondria

 

20:00

because I’ll come back to that. So a lot of these eye diseases start occurring because as you said a few minutes ago, oxidative stress, inflammation. And so when there’s a starvation in the tissue of the eyes, and the retina has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, the macula has the highest metabolic needs of the retina. There isn’t a direct blood supply that you know, supports the macula, the lens of the eye, the cornea, so they’re highly susceptible to these diseases that start happening. And there’s so many things that you can do proactively. Number one for macular degeneration, it’s those carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin.

 

20:43

milligrams wise about 60 milligrams of lutein, four to six milligrams of Xanthine. Those are the plant based prot noids, and then about four to six of the Astra Xanth and that’s the marine carotenoid, that’s essential for macular health. And then you can add things like bilberry, which is an herb that helps improve the circulation Ginko and low dosages can be helpful, obviously, vitamin A, and how well you absorb those fat soluble vitamins. So what’s the health of your liver gallbladder and if there’s the bile healthy, so you’re absorbing those fat soluble with cataracts, that’s again oxidative stress, we have to bring in the sugar conversation because both with cataracts and floaters there’s a glycation process where the glucose molecule in the blood attaches itself to either the protein molecule in the lens or the vitreous. And this creates the pathologies that we see. And also just general oxidative stress. So you need to boost your glutathione and vitamin C, two essential ingredients to slow down the progression and in some cases, you can reverse early stage cataracts for dry, you’ve got to look at, you know, for women, estrogen levels, thyroid health, adrenal health, and just the inflammation of the eyelids. Because if you’re not producing enough of the proper tears, the tears evaporate too quickly. And then we bring in the screens, blue light exposure dries the eyes out even faster. So aside from these nutrients, like good fats and oils, there’s a new treatment on the horizon called red light therapy, you’ve probably heard of it. There was a study done by Dr. Glen Jeffery in the UK is an ophthalmologist. And he found that treating people with red light three minutes in the morning for 12 weeks, increased their visual acuity by 22%. These are folks that have macular degeneration and another condition called drusen, which have fatty deposits that accumulate in the retina. So I’ve developed read exercise glasses that people are using 670 nanometers is the the exact frequency. So red light stimulates the mitochondria, which increases ATP reduces the reactive oxygen species. And so it starts to reverse these problems. Last glaucoma, this is a problem with the the imbalance of the fluid in the eyes. Again, you want to stay away from the pharmaceutical drugs and the laser surgery. But there are herbs that you can use cranial sacral,

 

23:25

acupuncture, and there’s so many great things that we have developed in our team to help people reverse and improve their vision, even as they get older. And that’s what’s super exciting. I love seeing that. I get testimonials every day from people that are healing their cataracts, reversing macular degeneration, and so on and so forth. So just like any other part of the body, you can also heal your eyes.

 

23:53

That’s amazing. And I love how you said that the gallbladder and liver need to be functioning properly to absorb the fat soluble molecules. And I think that goes with anything we need to make sure our gut health is functioning. Because some people will take all the supplements it’s not working. It’s because their their gut health. They have a big dysbiosis they’re not absorbing it’s leaky. So the red light now are you talking or do they have to be specific glasses or someone has a red light? Because I feel like there’s a lot of controversy on that because you know, the red lights that I have one that I got during my pregnancy because I wanted to just have it on my face for physicians.

 

24:32

And I’ll use it now for back pain. You know, I use it for a lot of things. But there’s a lot of controversy. I feel like should you wear goggles? Can you look at the red light? Do you not look at the red light but now you’re saying that a little dose of red light in the eyes will stimulate the mitochondria as it does in other parts of the body. Yeah, so in looking at the you know, the light devices out there, they’re LED lights and they’re way too bright for the eyes. And so you need to protect your

 

25:00

eyes when you’re exposing yourself to the big light box. But when I looked at Dr. Jeffery study, basically, as long as you’re using that frequency, the key is you don’t need a bright light source. In fact, my patients, a lot of them are light sensitive. So what we recommend is you pick the light source where you feel most comfortable, you can look out a window, you can go outside, you can have a lamp on, because my patients are elderly, and they can’t handle that brightness, it creates a blink reflex, so you’re going to recoil from being uh, you know, open to receiving it. But clearly, the red light at the proper illumination has a positive effect on the mitochondria. And there are a number of studies that prove that I mean, we see it systemically because it reduces inflammation, as you say, and it helps the collagen level, and so on and so forth. So what I’ve developed is a way to work with a specific frequency that people get to regulate the brightness of it, so they can handle it. And again, the study is pretty bulletproof. And there are other research studies out there on the eyes that help people with wet macular degeneration with drusen with dry eye. Even they’re starting to look at things like glaucoma. And so I think it’s valid, I think you just need to find the right light source and the right you know, frequency, and you’re good to go. It definitely is beneficial without side effects.

 

26:36

That’s great to hear. Now, let’s talk about diets. What are some general dietary principles for improving vision? If people listening out there and they’re like, I want to start improving my vision or they might have a loved one that is struggling? Well, I think it starts like what you say with the gut, and I love your your content, because people their mess around their digestion. But generally speaking, the rainbow diet of vegetables, the reds, the oranges, those are great for the macula, yellow, you know, and then the greens, leafy greens are all fabulous. I love berries, you know, that is great for your retina, and healthy fats and oils, low carb, low sugar. And then you know, if you’ve got things like diabetic retinopathy, or you know, a very serious retina condition, I would say work with a functional medicine doctor, somebody like yourself, I don’t know, if you want to do more keto or intermittent fasting, we’ve had some good success with some of those more serious issues. But try not to eat processed foods. And you know, even if you’re going to do dairy, make sure it’s really high quality grass fed meat, you know, organic chicken eggs are a great source of of eye health. Avocados are another great source. So, you know, that’s the general guideline

 

28:07

in improving your vision by eating that way.

 

28:12

Yeah, and you describe so many different things to eat. So I think when people think about eating healthier, decreasing inflammation, or, you know, just getting their gut healthy, they think of what we’re taking away. The you just said tons of beautiful foods. So I think that that is a good way to look at it. You could eat the rainbow, you can eat your eggs, you can eat avocado, so it’s kind of exciting, you know, and let’s talk about something else. That’s kind of cool that you there, there’s a way that essential oils can improve vision. I’m excited to hear this one. Well, you know, I’m trained as an aroma therapist, and I’m I’m a little different than some of them where they say never put essential oils on your skin. Well, you know, again, I do lots of trainings to help people you know, learn how to use carrier oils. But there are three essential oils that I’ve used that improve peripheral vision and eye circulation. The first is called fennel or sweet fennel, the second is carrot seed obvious and the third is frankincense. And we actually with the carrier oil, you can put them here and you layer them so you would do you know fennel first and then carrot seed and then frankincense and you will notice immediately this opening of your peripheral vision it wicks in through the eyes. Now it can be a little irritating, so you use a hobo oil or, you know really high quality or you put it on the soles of your feet. So that’s that’s one technique another as we like to use the Helichrysum hydrosol where we spray it around the eyes with the eyes closed Helichrysum is so healing for the skin, but it’s great if you’ve got dry or Meibomian gland

 

30:00

and dysfunction. And so those are some simple ways that we use essential oils. And again, we do lots of teaching, we do test patches to make sure the oils don’t burn. And, again, there’s lots of ways that you can work with them. So you’re protecting yourself, but man, they are good stuff. They are Shamans in a bottle, especially if you use a high quality company.

 

30:22

That is so cool. I love those tips. Now, how does color and light therapy improve vision? So I actually my sons did a light box. I don’t know if this is the same thing you do. But they did like Like Box therapy to, to improve like to calm the brain down. And they were doing like tracking stuff. So I know it, it really works. Yeah, so So yeah, the retina, the retina is made up of about 130 million photoreceptors. Their job is to capture the light converted to an electrical impulse, send it to the brain. But based on stress, trauma and toxicity, some of those retina cells begin to lose their ability to process light, they get desensitized, and then when you break the natural light down into different frequencies, like the rainbow of colors, each color can affect the retina differently. And so the goal is to figure out, okay, what, what’s shutting down what part of the retina, and then you can apply how people look at different frequencies, you know, say 10 minutes a day for a couple of weeks. And you’ll start to notice the peripheral vision opens up, there’s more mental and emotional relaxation, obviously, part of the blood flow that runs through the eyes is going to get that light. So that’s going to pass out through the whole body. And so light is a Food and Natural light is so important. There’s studies that show that getting morning natural light, you reduce your myopia this has been shown in kids. So we know that natural sunlight is important as long as we do it in moderation. And, you know, I use light therapeutically as a way to reset the body reset the vision. And whether you’re doing natural full spectrum lighting, or you can break the colors down into you know different frequencies. It’s pretty amazing a medicine that again, the FDA cannot govern or, or regulate.

 

32:31

Yeah, good point, good point, light and natural light in the sun. It’s free. It’s true. That’s that’s not talked about, let’s say, well, let’s let’s make you afraid of it and avoid it. And isolate from it. When you know, we all have our own health sovereignty, and we know what we need. So getting out there, maybe you need a hat, maybe you need, you know, to protect yourself, your light skin. But the studies show natural full spectrum light is really helpful for our health and wellness.

 

33:06

It feels good. It’s in Northwest Ohio. It’s not it’s not always sunny here. But what it is everyone’s mood related. And it feels good. So well. Well, let’s let’s talk about you and where you’re at in this beautiful office that you’re sitting in. It’s not a fake background. It’s

 

33:28

it’s not a fake background. Now, this is my geodome you know, I closed my traditional office about 10 years ago. And we live outside of Santa Fe. And so we built the studio so that I it’s a healing space. So I still see some patients, but we’d have a really big online presence. And I do a lot of social media posting, podcasting. And we’re getting ready to do a membership subscription service for our more advanced followers, and have an e commerce Store develop some really great products, natural eye drops and, and things like that. So having a lot of fun with it and taking the profession to a new level, even if my colleagues are a little slow and following me but it’s just like you you know, we’re blazing a trail. And the consumer is responding. That’s the most important thing.

 

34:21

Yeah, I just I love everything you spoke about. It’s so cool. Like I think I would faint if I went into my dog. Oh my goodness. Oh, geez. Yeah. Well, so even just reducing your prescription you know, is is really foreign to them. Yeah.

 

34:39

Right. But I think the more we get the word out and start the conversation about these things, people will start asking for it. You know, why don’t you know about this and I think next time I’m gonna go to the eye doctor. I’m gonna be like, do you know that there’s forever

 

34:54

practicing informed consent on this but yeah, it’s it’s a Wild West.

 

35:00

Without air so How can everyone listening? Find you? You said you have a website, your Instagram handle, can you please share that? Yeah, so that’s Sam Berne OD  that’s my instagram handle. Or you can just go to the website Drsamberne.com

 

35:23

You can email us at Hello@drsamberne.com your questions. I do my best to try to answer everybody’s questions without treating them. Because people like to get treated through email, which I’m not able to do. And yeah, come in come and find me somewhere and we can have a conversation and I appreciate that

 

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thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Dave Gibson is a sleep coach and offers a sleep course Sleep Coaching for a Perfect Nights Sleep in 4 weeks tailor-made to you individually, available online or offline Corporate Workshops. With 30 years of continuous sobriety, along with helping solve sleep problems, he helps clients with addiction, stress, food, and underlying self-esteem issues, and more. He has found that once our life is in balance we sleep better too. You can get in touch with Dave through his Website or social channels: Instagram | Twitter

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sleep, night, people, melatonin, diet, eating, serotonin, question, brain, exercise, seasonal affective disorder, drives, light, women, dave, poor, hormone, day, minerals, men

00:03

Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of the Summit Series, you know, I’m organizing the Whole Health Summit, January 14 to the 16th 22. And I’m having the speakers on my podcast and today, we are blessed to have Dave Gibson. And he is an expert on one of my most sought after subjects that I’m learning about his sleep. So he coaches people on sleep. I saw on his Instagram that perfect night’s sleep in four weeks. So that sounds really pretty cool. He teaches workshops, he does individual sessions. And he’s joining us today from London. Dave, welcome to the program. I want to thank thank you for joining us. So how did you get in? Oh, yes. So how did you get into this topic? We’d love to hear your story. I know my listeners would. So give us a little background on who you are. I had a

01:19

personal need and a professional need to crack it. I mean, my background is that I I escaped advertising in my early 30s To become an osteopath. And in advertising, I used to drink a lot to get myself to sleep and I’d quit the booze and there there was lying awake, not able to sedate myself. So I had to relearn the art of sleeping. And I realized that I’d never really invested in it. As a child, I was sort of allowed out late at night to play in bands. So I had developed a habit of being underslept and coping with it. And equally on my mom’s side, she’s a very poor sleeper, and we’ve got a 30% chance of inheriting our parents sleep genes. And it’s one of the questions I always ask somebody, when it comes to me as a patient, you know, what’s your mom and dad sleeping? Like? When did you start sleeping badly. And you know, you open up a Pandora’s box when you look at your own genetics. And if you’ve got good genetics, you’re on it, you’re on a winning wicket more often than not anyway, when I started to work as an osteopath over 20 years ago, I suddenly found that more people had sleeping problems and bad backs. You know, I was talking about stress management, time management. And the more the more we started using mobile technology, it seemed that the worst athlete was getting, you know, so there was a, there was a tipping point that we got to about a decade ago, when all of a sudden people are noticing that their health is suffering, because they’ve gone below a sort of sustainable threshold. We’ve gone from being under slept on occasion to be chronically under slept long term. And then things started to go wrong, health wise and emotionally wise.

03:01

Got it? Wow. So, so many, so many factors involved in sleep, but I didn’t realize the 30% in the genetics, but, you know, makes total sense. I mean, in my field, and I care I asked about genetics, because there is a you know, there’s that gene that when it gets triggered in a certain way environmentally or through diet or stress, that we have a higher risk. So, um, you talked about the screens, the the electronics, how do you see that playing into people having difficulty with

03:35

sleep? I think what it’s done is it has two effects. One is the sort of psychological effect of being attached to stimulation very late in the day. And then the other is the physical part of it, which is called blue lights. The blue light is easier to control because what happens is when when you get hold of a screen like this, or an iPad, or a PC, the the wavelength of light that it emits mimics the same blue that is emitted from the sun first thing in the morning, that’s designed to wake us up. The alternative is when you shine blue light into your eyes, it fires a receptor and it blocks the production of melatonin. So it stops has been able to produce a signal that produces melatonin from the pineal gland in the brain. And melatonin is regarded as the sleep hormone. It’s the it’s the hormone that gives us the desire to sleep. You know, when you’re sort of laying on the couch and all of a sudden you feel like you’re going to not off. If you’re like me and my age is sort of after sort of okay, it’s time for bed. And one of the ways that we know it’s time for bed is when we feel like we’re going to we’re going to crash and that that is that melatonin it gives us the desire for sleep. The need for sleep is another mechanism that builds up during the day. It’s the one We blocked with caffeine. And that’s called adenosine as that sort of accumulates through the day in the brain, and it tells us that we need sleep, that desire for sleep is blocked, you can put the blue light filters on it, that’s fine. But what the other side of it is that we are mentally attached to mobile devices devices too late at night, and that is stimulating the brain, it’s winding us up. And what happens with sleep is we’re trying to get to a deep sleep quite quickly, quite efficiently, the more hyped up you are late at night, the harder it is to step down into sleep, you can’t flick a switch and go to sleep. You have to you have to not off, not switch off. And that process is a decline. You know, if you think about the prehistoric man in a cave, he wasn’t going to be watching too much at night. He was downtime. You know, he was relaxing at night. They did some interesting research recently, in Tel Aviv. They looked at people who use phones at night, particularly apps on phones at night. And they found that they were 60% more likely to grind their teeth than the people who just use mobile phones. And then when asked the research team, why they said Fear Of Missing Out. And it was like once once you’re attached to your phone, it’s very hard to be unattached because there’s so much going on. And I go into companies and I teach, you know, the science of sleep and the tips of sleep. And when I do the stats, I ask people to fill in a questionnaire before, I would say categorically that 20% Worst sleepers all use the mobile phone in bed. I would say it’s very rare. Very rare for you to be able to use this. I mean, not in the bedroom. I mean in bed. Once you’re on this segment, it sort of gets us hooked. And we’re overstimulated. And I would say that we wouldn’t be having a conversation about sleep being a problem if it wasn’t for a mobile phone. Mm hmm.

07:02

Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. Yeah, it’s, you know, again, in my my community, one of my challenges that I recommend people do is take your phone, put it downstairs or put it in another room, shut off your Wi Fi, if you can shut off your phone, get a break? Because you’re absolutely right. I know people are scrolling in bed, and they do it late at night. They do it early in the morning. And it’s so disruptive in, you know, in our sleep cycle. So from your perspective, why do we need sleep? Why is it so important to us?

07:42

It has a variety of effects on different cells, but every cell needs it. Firstly, when you look at the sort of immune system, it gets recharged at night, when you look at the brain and detoxes at night, when you look at the the effects of poor sleep, you get problems with your heart. So the body, the body needs it in terms of recovering the cells in terms of we get a downtime for the cells to repair. We get the sort of the emotions, we get the consolidation of our memory, we get the creative thinking from sleep. So there’s physical and emotional benefits of sleep, but every single cell goes into sleep mode. So there’s a sort of there’s not there’s not one just there’s one, there’s not just one reason there’s multiples. You know, the brain requires it, the body requires it. Everything requires it just to have that recuperation.

08:41

Yeah, oh, yeah, totally. And, again, I know so many people who don’t sleep well. And it affects their immunity, it affects their digestion, it affects their emotional health. And I’ve got a lot of questions here from my community. And I guess they’re looking forward to having you on our health summit. We’re here with David Gibson. He’s a sleep coach. He’s from the UK. He does workshops, he consults with on a corporate level. And he’s a real expert on sleep. And he’s going to be talking about sleep on our health summit, which is coming up January 14 to the 16th. So why don’t we go to our questions. We’ve got a number of them from our listeners. This is from Candace and she is from California. And she’s writing in how does the diet affect our sleep?

09:40

Great question. Great question. When you look at the content of a good diet, you need certain vitamins and minerals, that sort of if you’ve got a balance of a Mediterranean diet with all the colors of the Sun in the vegetables, and you’ll find that that will give you enough the gut biome as well. The gut bacteria theory any good good bacteria, gut bacteria go to sleep when we do they sleep in 90 minutes sleep cycles like we do. And they, they then create a lot of the a lot of the the serotonin that we need. So anyway, coming back to the importance of a good diet, it supplies the right minerals. So for example, magnesium is the one that mune traditionally associate deficiency with with parsley. Magnesium is an important one, vitamin D, you need that to get the depth of sleep and investment see, but all the minerals in a way, the B vitamins, all the minerals and vitamins play a role in sort of creating the right effects for the brain. If you have a poor diet, what tends to happen is if you eat too much processed food, too much carbohydrates, it overstimulates you and you don’t get to sleep at night well, and then when you when you lack sleep, the hormones that control your hunger starts to go haywire. So we get a decrease in the one that tells us we’re full. And we get an increase in the one that tells us aren t we get the munchies, we get cravings for very sugary, sweet and fatty foods. So the brain goes into panic mode. It reckons that we are in crisis if if an animal’s underslept. The brain goes well hang on a minute, why would you be under slept, you must be in crisis, I better get you to feed more, because that’s the only reason you could possibly still be awake at this time of night. So it drives us into the fight or flight syndrome. It drives us to eat more sugary and sweet foods that then kick us into even poorer sleep. So we get this vicious circle. So a good diet provides the vitamins and minerals and including supporting your gut biome. gut biome is one of the biggest symbols supporters have a good night’s sleep. So good diet drives good sleep good sleep great drives good bike, it’s a two way street.

11:55

Mm hmm. Great. All right, next question. This is from Jill and she lives in Vancouver, BC. And she says I have seasonal affective disorder. And I think this is affecting my ability to sleep. What do you

12:12

think? Yep, can do and events and it’s it’s vice versa. With seasonal affective disorder, the certain things that you can do. First one is to get yourself one of those sad lamps and get get a good one that gives you a dose of sunlight first thing in the morning, because and then also to look at something called five HTP. Go to your go to your to your local health physician and look at whether that could help because five HTP is a precursor of serotonin. So that’s something to consider looking at your food, what we realize is seasonal affective disorder runs in families. It’s related to serotonin and light. But this is important, Dr. Sun, when we look at the amount of seasonal affective disorder that you can attribute to lack of lights, only 12% of it. When they’ve done research worldwide. On the incidences, and looking at lights and people’s affective sort of discomfort if you like or seasonal affective disorder, only 12% can be blamed on the sunlight. What happens to says when we get a lack of light in the winter, we naturally feel a bit lower, you know, we’re not as busy, we’re not going out as much. And we start to socialize less, we start to eat poor food, we start to spend slightly longer in bed because it’s a bit too cold and damp out. There’s particularly in London, not where you are. But we adapt our lifestyle. And we change our social aspects in response to the lack of light that then make us feel depressed. So it’s not actually the lack of sunlight. It’s what we do in response to the lack of sunlight. So if we carried on exercising, eating well, socializing, not staying too long in bed, eating all the right foods and doing the stuff that we did in the summer. We wouldn’t feel the effects of seasonal affective disorder in the way that we do.

14:15

God. Wow. That’s great. Okay, let’s take a question from Jerry. He follows me on tick tock and he is in Athens, Greece. And his question to you is, what’s the difference between men and women and their sleep cycles?

14:37

Wow, great. One great one. Women have poor sleep the men factor her women actually women die about Simas than than men. Which is interesting because we now know that Alzheimer’s is related to poor sleep. Now what happens? We don’t have the menstrual cycle which is the biggest change in In a woman’s sleep pattern, because what happens is that progesterone and estrogen now is different ways that that encourages sleep. Progesterone is quite soporific. So when there’s an increase in progesterone during the cycle, it’s easier for women to get to sleep. Now what happens is a, we don’t have childbirth, we’ve got we don’t have the menstrual cycle. We were lucky in that way with regards to sleep, we don’t have to have the burden of carrying a child. We don’t tend to be the primary carer. So women’s sleep are disrupted by the menstrual cycle is disrupted by carrying a child is disrupted disrupted by being the primary carer afterwards, and then it’s disrupted by the change in life. All of those factors disturb women sleep more than men. So women tend to get more disrupted sleep than men, period. That would be the biggest difference.

15:55

Absolutely, absolutely. That’s a great question. And okay, let’s let’s go on to our next question. This is from Bob. He lives in Boston, and he wants to know how exercise can improve our sleep.

16:14

Exercise helps in a number of ways it increases our uptake of serotonin through the food. So it’s great that pulling in serotonin, serotonin is required for making melatonin. And it’s it’s a hormone that’s generally regarded as a feel good hormone in general, isn’t it, it’s a mood enhancer. The other thing with with, with with exercise is, the more we exercise, the easier it is to get more deep sleep. When you look at athletes, they tend to sleep longer than than the average. So professional athletes. You know, when you look at people like Roger Federer and even Usain Bolt, they’re having eight 910 hours sleep and more. So that they’re they’re sleeping more than the average. So certainly, you know, Federer is is 10 hours boat was 10 hours, but used to do a lot of napping as well. So when we when we when we drive the body harder with cardio, particularly, we increase our ability to get deep sleep, which is the one that rejuvenates the body. So we get more of that sort of deeper sleep, when we exercise more, we find it easier to get to sleep, and certainly that it sort of enhances it. Exercising too late at night, though, is something to be wary of both in terms of increasing your cortisol, increasing your body temperature. And also if you’re doing it under bright lights, it tends to affect us if we’re in a gym in a bright gym. For exercising first thing in the morning, going out getting a bright sunlight first thing, an exercise outdoors would be a great way of doing it.

17:49

So we’re here with Dave Gipson. He’s a sleep coach. He’s one of my featured speakers. My whole health summit. And we have a question from Australia. This is Jason. And he wants to know, what are the best supplements to take? And he is underlying Should I take melatonin? Should I do CBD oil? I don’t sleep very well.

18:16

I think the answer for Jason is it’s really to sort of start off by getting yourself onto a good diet like we were talking before to start with. So eating a range of fruit and vegetables, it’s about eating lots of stuff that that drive your gut bacteria. So propre post biotics getting that sorted, and really sort of looking at other stuff. So cutting down caffeine would be one way of making sure that you you could get a better night’s sleep, increase in the amount of exercise that you do learn in meditation there’s lots of other avenues apart from diet system we’ll look at why I’m I’m not sleeping and looking at meditation being as one of the great things in terms of allowing us to, to wind down slowly and to switch off properly. With regards to supplements attend to to use melatonin as a last resort. Older people tend to benefit more from it. But certainly if you’re under the age of 30, it wouldn’t be something to consider as a first line melatonin. It’s something that the body produces normally in enough quality and it’s really to look at the amount of light that you’re exposing yourself to to really have dim lights late at night to give yourself the best opportunity to produce it. Eating foods that contain tryptophan which is an amino acid that produces serotonin that then produces melatonin is useful phone and eating those with carbohydrates. So having a turkey sandwich or milk and honey Layton valerian, I quite like as a sort of herb, it’s a reasonable one but I would say, you know if you were worried about you know what things my diet could lack traditionally, it’s magnesium is the one that people would take for sleep. CBD Oh, some people love it. Some people don’t respond to it very well at all. It’s one of those socket unseen things. But I get all the other bits right first and then look at what you should add to it. So that would be the better way to do.

20:21

So I, there’s a question here from Caitlin. She lives in Florida. And she says that she practices IR VEDA. And so she’s following that particular medical theme. And our question to you is, what is the best time to eat dinner? So it won’t affect my sleep?

20:45

anywhere from three to three to four hours. But at least three

20:49

hours before you go to sleep at least two hours. Yeah, I think, you know, she, she’s a viewer of follower of mine and, and she wrote me a long email. And she says that sometimes she and her husband will go out to dinner like a, you know, 830 at night, and she has trouble sleeping. And then if she eats at six o’clock, she has less trouble sleeping. So that’s kind of what’s behind that. Do you have any thoughts on that in terms of? Go ahead?

21:20

Yeah, no, I would say categorically, you know, if you eat and drink alcohol, close to bedtime, you’re disrupting your sleep. So certainly three to four hours for both would be it would be would be ideal. Certainly, you know, getting getting that sort of opportunity to get your digestion out of the way and then to sort of unpack it earlier in the evening. 100% 100%.

21:46

Great, I appreciate that. And so that she so we’re coming down to the end of our interview, do you have any kind of golden nuggets, things that you might say to people, whether it’s on a corporate level on a you know, performance level, how they can improve their sleep? What are some of your, you know, go twos,

22:10

control the lights, control your exposure to line, get it very bright first thing and very dim at night. We’re learning more and more that a circadian rhythm is really driving itself through life. Don’t go to sleep too late. We’ve all got this idea that we’re night owls. We’re not very few people are traditionally night owls. They’ve done some research recently on heart disease and optimum sleep time. Best time to go to sleep for most of us is between 10 and 11 o’clock at night it’s early compared to what we would like it to be you know and when when I when I when and particularly this is a problem with men is you know you’re going to man commandos? Do I really need eight hours because I can get by with six and it makes me I’m more of a man if I could do in six or nine. No, not really. It’s just believe you are you’re not, you know, the the best way. Honestly, if you know, the way to know you’ve had enough sleep is to go to bed with go to bed. When you feel tired on a regular basis and wake up without an alarm, then you know that your body’s waking you up. Not you’re waking you up your body is so to go to sleep without an alarm is the sort of holy grail if you like, control your lights. Don’t overstimulate yourself at night, do something that’s a hobby that gets you in the flow. Learn to meditate so you know, learn to relax at night. Don’t drive yourself like a steam train at night. And when you start the day, think about how you’re approaching the day. Because when you approach the day, you include your evening with it and you know people know but when they wake up, they know they’re going to they know they’re going to cut it short. You know what I mean? They know that they’ve got too much on they no no I typically it’s it and we talked about women’s sleep part of the issue in the current environment. I get a lot of women clients for osteopathy, hypnotherapy for sleep, they’re all getting shredded because not only the dual income earner not only they’d be working from home, they do more of the childcare, they’re doing more of the school runs, they’re doing more of the cooking. And women are women constantly a time poor. And I would say to any woman that’s listening to this get your get your other half to do their fair share, please because when we set up our day, we know whether we got too much on and part of it is planning your day so you can have a reasonable day where you’re in charge not the day’s running you if you’re doing that you can allow yourself enough time to wind down properly. And you can’t do that to go to sleep. We nod off we don’t crash out of people who say my head hits the pillow I’m asleep all night great against asleep. No you’re sleep deprived. If you take less than than five minutes to get to sleep technically That’s too quick, it should take you a little bit of time. Because back in the wild, you’d be checking out whether it was safe to nod off, you’d be listening for the sounds of nature, it would take you a little bit of time to nod off slowly. If you crash out, you’re probably sleep deprived. So plan your day to allow yourself enough time to wind down at night, and to relax into sleep rather than expect to sort of crash out at night. And really allow enough time for it. It’s, you know, there was a guy called Matthew Walker and he said, You know, when people ask you, why should you sleep? When you look at what sleep does for you physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, you should be asking yourself, why should I bother being awake? Because your body benefits a lot more from being asleep than it does being awake.

25:48

That’s right. I totally agree. So Dave, how can people get in touch with you and give us your contact info?

26:00

Well, my website is called the sleep site.co.uk. Hopefully, there’s a lot of blogs on there with some topics covered like snoring and how to breathe through your mouth. It’s

26:08

really good, by the way, and yes, it’s really good, by the way, yeah.

26:15

co.uk then I’m on Instagram at Dave sleep expert, you know, please, you know, look me up. So, it’d be a pleasure to ask and answer any questions that you got be real.

26:26

Yes, very, very good. So ladies and gentlemen, check Dave out. He’s got an amazing amount of information. He’s going to be one of our featured speakers in my upcoming summit. Dave, thanks so much for your time. I wish you the best. And we’ll see you again.

26:46

Looking forward to it. Thank you.

Alexandra Defacio is a holistic therapist, reiki master, licensed colon hydro-therapist, lymphatic drainage masseuse, and modern shaman, trained in the ancient Ayurvedic medicine and initiated in the Amazonian shamanism.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, she has called New York City home since 1997, where she has been practicing the healing arts for over 20 years. She became interested in natural and alternative medicine when she developed thyroid imbalance and holistic treatments helped her heal herself, at which point she discovered colon hydrotherapy. You can get in touch with her through her Website or her social channels: Instagram | Facebook

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

healer, energy, nature, people, house, life, featured speakers, stillness, holistic therapist, put, healing, frequencies, beautiful, tap, breathe, connect, body, question, drum

00:05

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, as you know, I’ll be holding my second annual Whole Health Summit, which will be January 14 to the 16th 2022. Today, we have a good friend of mine and she is a just off the charts healer and teacher. She’s living now in New York City and I’ll give you her bio. Her name is Alexandra Defacio. She’s a Holistic Therapist, reiki master, modern shaman and I’ve experienced her healing firsthand. She has been trained in the ancient Ayurvedic medicine initiated in the Amazonian shamanism. And Alexandria, want to welcome you to the program today. Thanks for joining us. How’s it going? How are you?

01:08

Thank you so much for bringing that honor to be here with you again. I’m doing well. There Well, good.

01:18

Glad to hear it. I know when you were on the summit last year, it was the most powerful presentation. And people had such life changing experiences, through your teaching and your presentation. And so I had to bring you back because people are like, oh, we need to work with Alexandria again. So I’ve got a number of questions from listeners. Some are mine, some are yours. So I want to move to the first question. And this is from Julie. And she’s from Seattle, Washington. And she is really struggling with the news. And you know, COVID is back. And what she’s asking is what are some practices that can be done to help develop

02:17

stillness. Okay. The first thing is about breathing is about breath. So when you woke up in the morning before you get up the bath before you get up off the bed in the morning, I suggest for everybody to tap into your thymus and say to yourself, I ask you ask yourself permission to be nice units. I access my super consciousness and I access my intelligence. You access yourself ask yourself how can I be in a stillness? you the only one can answer yourself in breathe through because prana life force energy is through breath in breath can comes down your nervous system and calm down your body. So ask yourself what can I make me happy today? How can I be stillness and be the witness of yourself? In co Why am I am so anxious because that’s on the corrective. But another thing if the TV is being is being affecting your life, how about just watching the news on Lifetime? Right now in a in a in a daytime? Daytime you watching the news night? No night you have to put some music classic music by your narrow music or watching something that’s gonna really nurturing you not make me scared because if you listen the news before you go to bed you get up in the morning feeling anxious you know feeling feeling sad feeling like all over the place. So as soon as comes like I get totally permission to myself that should be my illness my silence you might found we make peace and you breathe to death to breathe that breathing a bad Indian witness can you put yourself to observing what you’ve been doing? I you like doing everything for everybody and you forget about yourself or make some I honor myself today you’re going to make a cup of tea. And then you’re going to put some music in I’m going to breathe into my body. That is a way to bring stillness. There is another way you can be best to like make a beautiful bath and go there for 20 Allow yourself to take 20 minutes of your time for your you don’t give time to ourselves.

04:57

Yeah, so true. I mean, you’re talking about self care. You’re talking about the breath. So important, we get under stress, anxiety, we’ve watched the news, we stopped breathing, and water, the water element being able to soak in there and, you know, reset our nervous system and do a major mental reset. So thank you, thank you for that. Let’s move to, you know, I have an international following. So, I want to bring in this question from Terry, who lives in Berlin. So, you know, he writes me a lot. And he, he says, you know, you live in a really beautiful place, Dr. Sam, but I live in the center of Berlin, it’s really hard for me to find my center. How can I do that? What are some practices I can do?

05:48

You know, first align yourself within your area of the city. Any city in the world has beauty to any use their energy, because on a city, much more energy, sometimes can be more chaotic? Use their energy for your transformation, tap into their energy for your transformation. I don’t know if that makes sense. Of course. Yes. Absolutely. So much openings, expand, you know, but you’re in a series, you’re like, how can you use the energy to moving my projects? My guess? I lost you. Sorry,

06:31

I lost you back. We’re back. No, you’re back. Yeah,

06:35

like, align yourself, allow yourself to align yourself with the CD, whatever you are, that is building everything in if you’re there, why? Because you have to be there. So learning with the energy of the city for your progress.

06:56

That’s great. And, you know, we, we have so many friends and family that live in the city. You know, I’ve got a lot of friends that live in New York City, like where you are. And I am sure that, you know, with your clients and with what you’re putting out for people, you’re helping them align to the city, because cities have such amazing energy, don’t they? I mean, it’s just the creativity, the passion, the you know, like you say, even the chaotic energy, we can tap into that. And that’s great advice for him. Because we can just get so overwhelmed. Because you know, nature is maybe not quite as is there as say, you know, other places, but there’s still ways to connect. So thank you. For that. Let’s move to let’s see, this is Lisa, and she’s living in Phoenix, Arizona, and she’s asking a question about how to prepare for 2022 What are some rituals or, you know, ceremonies that that one can do to get ready for the crossover?

08:15

Yes, excellent. Ah, first one, I’m going to suggest the first for your house, your house is your reflection of yourself. So I of course, you’re not going to have the time to clean up everything, everything that’s owed everything that’s broken in your house, out of the house before the 2022 everything that’s like if you have a piece of a like you know, like anything that’s broke, take it out of your and I suggest for you to use like a sage and you can sage your house if you okay with this with the is merge to the smoke, you can go from the first door and you can go clockwise in a whole house and you finish at the door and keeping the windows open just to Flushing all this is smoke in this Oh, energies and then you can invite new energy in you can invite the new industry bringing like white flowers, roses or planting to the house. That’s a good way to do that. Also invite the energy in your house with music, put some music that you love in bringing that energy to the house. And then for yourself. I suggest that is a very nice bath that you can do for cleansing yourself for the year. I’m going to do my tomorrow. So first you soak yourself just on a sea salt, like a just a handful of sorry, of assists out into the bath. Soak yourself for for 20 minutes there. And then when you done you rinse the water in you have a waterfall. Put a petals of flour into a bucket with your lavender or little bit honey. And you throw from the hair through your through your head all the way down. So you’re gonna shield your whole body in water flowers. So for the is about sweetness. So you can put a tablespoon of honey soft to bring a Sweeting sweetness to your life. The flowers bring beauty, beauty, color, color to your life. So you can bathing yourself in that beautiful water flower as much as you can in wear light collars for the new year. Light collars is very good because you’re moving Danish even if you’re going to pass a home, you can wear a pajama but put something like like blues and pinks and whites and greens, light and soft. That’s my suggestion for 2022. And 22 is about pillars is about creative structure, which is structure to use, like to creating a house. So make at least writing in your journal what you want for 2022 What do you want to be different in our lives? So now, for next?

11:29

Yeah, I mean, these may sound simple, but they’re so profound. And making a gesture making a ceremony making an intention mentally, really sets the stage for what we attract, and, and you know, all of the things that you’re saying such such wonderful reminders. So, I know, I know, she thanked you. So I want to move to Allie, and he’s from Toronto, Canada. And he writes me and he says that I attended Alexandra’s presentation last year, and I’m not the same person, it was so life changing. Can can she talk about her process when she uses the drum and she starts chanting? What happened? I don’t really understand. But I know that I felt completely different. I wanted to cry after and after I released that it really changed everything for me in 2021. Yo, Alexandria, what do you have to say?

12:45

We are, we are magnificent beings in this physical body, you know, we have to accept this. And all the molecules in our body are connected to the universe and connect to Earth. Correct. So we are molecules of energies, frequencies and sounds. When I open myself to that frequencies in energy, my body expands all over the cosmos, not just on a planet, that way I feel because I bring all the intuition. From lifetimes. Past Lives parallel lives in time and space. So whatever we tap in, in that’s what I pick it up in my body, my energetic body, what’s going on with the planet in with people and with everything. So that’s the way I check all my work. Sometimes I can come like, Okay, I have, let’s go talking about love. And then I can hear is about stillness. So like, you know, like, I listen, what’s the, the collective needs at the moment, in everything’s okay, I’m not looking for perfection is that’s the first one. If you want to be a good healer, in healer of yourself. Don’t look for perfection, we are not perfect. Just accept or whatever it is. That’s the way you heal. Let’s say if you’re sad, if you embrace your sadness, you give it permission, you hold the space for the sadness, to come up in release. If you keep putting your sadness under the you know, under the carpet, and keep Oh, I’m happy today and no, you’re not. You neglecting yourself. Be where you are. Accept where you are for you to heal. If you have a pain your body I feel pain my heart. Hold your heart. I see you I feel you the moment You are not to the pain, you’re going to feel discomfort for one, two seconds, and you breathe through that’s going to dissipate. So I connect to the cosmos. When I work, I really any service. And that’s why I think they they work so beautiful because I don’t pretend duty sometimes can be super uncomfortable on a drum when I play my moonshine when I sing in like languages, what I received is like languages is a frequencies from everywhere, you know, turn from the cosmos, from all of you. So that’s where I tapped in. And that’s why it’s so beautiful. So that’s why she cried. Because she was really something she doesn’t know, to know what it is. Just release to create space. That’s where the healing starts when you have space to heal, create space to heal. So that’s the way work I work. I trust totally my work. I see major transformation. And in you can feel you can feel all over the world. You can feel the energy, there is no developer. So thing now. Whatever you say with your intention, you’re healing. You’re healing someone, you’re sending message into someone. And just, we are not perfect. Act Your imperfection. That’s the way we heal ourselves.

16:32

Sure. Great answer. And I’m here with Alexandra De Fazio. She’s a friend of mine, Holistic Therapist, Shaman, and she’s going to be one of our featured speakers. She’s going to be doing a process at the whole health summit coming up January 14 to the 16th 2022 we’re coming down to the end of our our time today. But there’s a question that is I just received it. And it’s from Bill and he is an acupuncturist and he practices in Portland, Oregon, and he wants to know what are the characteristics that one needs in order to be a healer? What are what are some of the things you mentioned them in your last comments but maybe you know what, what What if people need to be able to heal themselves to be healers and so I think that’s a really good question. What

17:38

what say you we are all healers. We all healers. First accept that. Recognizing yourself. Again, we are unique each individual are unique The way you are even if I teach you how to do what I do is not going to be the same because you’re unique The way you are like example Dr. Sam like you’re a healer from the eyes. You heal people’s eyes you you heal people’s vision. You are a healer this person he’s a componentry so he works on the mediation of the body he’s understand the energy in the body the healer he doesn’t have to do anything the only thing he does show up in himself and accept that he is a healer for himself in his being comfortable to to other people through his work so they can heal themselves simple like that.

18:47

It is and you know I think it’s creating the space safe space for people and you know we both do that and there’s just you know a deeper connection as you brought in the cosmos and part of that could be nature you know how do you access nature in your healing what what are some of the ways that you do that?

19:13

I like a lot oh the sounds nature sounds sounds I play in the morning I play when I have a bath I play when x exercise i i try to tap in it within inside of myself nature because I’m sure you know both sounds I love you know even when you sing it to yourself lullabies like that’s a water is water movement. meant you know, we are nature in this physical body. You are eat plants we drink water, we are water beings. So have to be owning nature to be nature you can do the nature yourself. And I love Yes, I love musical stores around me I love crystals. I love my wind chimes. In again, everything has everything has energy correct. So wherever you have, like in this beautiful place that you are this, the cedar from the, from the trees over there. So they have this beautiful frequency in in that into that your chair, your peoples your clothing, they have all energy is all made from elements that comes from Earth, most of the time. So established, really recognize that we are surrounded through nature, the moment we wake up in the morning, the sun is already there for you. That is a beautiful day, we have another day. connect to nature connect when you drink our water, putting things into your water, that’s nature. You don’t have to be in it can be the nature yourself. And again, if you don’t find these ingratitude in yourself and loving yourself in life, in yourself, you can be a nature, indeed the most miserable person in closing down if nothing happens. So be in nature. Be yourself nature, because you are

21:38

that’s correct. We all are nature and the the more we connect connected that essence, you know, we line up and we are in gratitude and some magical things can happen. And Alexandra I know you do private sessions, you teach workshops, how to how can people get in touch with you,

22:01

you can be in touch with me through my Instagram GreenStar NYC or through my website, green star, wellness nyc.com Green Star wellness nyc.com.

22:18

So we will put that in the notes and Alexandra is going to be one of our featured speakers. She’s gonna do a an amazing healing process with our community during the health summit. So good to see you. And I hope someday we can get together physically either in New York or Santa Fe. And thanks so much for joining us today. I wish you the best and to be continued.

22:45

Yeah. So much. Is it my honor to be part of your of your your tribe in in giving all this message to everybody who’s ready for it? Yeah. Yes. Right on in a do one drum for two minutes. or No? Sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay. No,

23:07

we find it to drum for two minutes. That’d be great.

23:10

I was waiting here. Just back in okay connect to the drum. And say goodbye to the old. to the audience. She’s the fear, the pain, the anxiety. Two goes away in creating this beautiful container, to go into the 2020 to

23:48

allow yourself to be you to accept you exactly the way you are. I love you. I honor you. I love seeing you.

25:34

thank you so much or hate that’s a wrap ladies and gentlemen

This was a great interview with Dr. Seb.

Dr. Seb Lomas is a Biological DentistBiochemist – Natural Integrative Health Reduction in Inflammation,  Removal of Infections,  Metals &  Increase Structural Function & Airway Expansion U.K.

He answered some amazing listener questions and so much more. You can reach him through his Instagram page and find out more about Biological Dentistry at his website.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

teeth, breathe, dentist, airway, dentistry, mouth, question, gum disease, bacteria, materials, root canal, infection, problems, gum, healing, learning, biocompatible, clenching

00:04

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast as part of my whole health summit series. We’ve invited one of the speakers today, and I just love his Well, his content, and what he’s putting out. His name is Dr. Seb Lomas and he is a biological dentist, he practices in the UK. He does so many interesting things. So I want to bring him on. Dr. Seb, welcome to the program. How are you doing today?

00:41

I’m very well, thank you very much for having me. And I’m actually coming from the Scottish Isles right now, which is just incredible scenery. I’ve never been either. So beautiful. The nature here is gorgeous. And I’m sure very good for your eyes will have a distance focus.

00:57

That’s right. Yeah. The distance focusing and the green and the softness. That’s, that’s so true. So my first question, is kind of a personal question. How did you get into this form of dentistry?

01:14

Wow. So it’s a great question because my path was not linear. I guess like all of us that end up in these types of fields. I did always want to be a dentist when I was younger, I had this affinity for it. And I actually ended up not getting the grades to get into dental school the first time around. So I went and studied biochemistry. And I got very ill and after a bit of traveling around South America, and I met my wife who had lots of dental problems and she had had four teeth taken out when she was younger and chronic headaches migraines and astigmatism of the eye and no one could say that was this or that and she’s gonna need all this expensive jaw surgery and we went to this, this dentist which was few and far between and the whole of the UK, maybe five of them. And I was just I was blown away. I did always want to do dentistry in it, we managed to completely undo her chronic problems that no one had answers for using combination of osteopathy and well or expansion orthodontics or airway orthodontics. And it gave her breathe breath within our system and allowed her to live a normal life again, which was the main part of it. And that all came from by the dental aspect of one more than that, really, but the teeth of the bit that were treated right then it was just blew my mind. So then I was like, right, how do I get to study dentistry as quickly as I can. And that put me on the fast track and then shadowing lots of these dentists in the UK that would accept me anyway.

02:43

I see how and, you know, can you study biological dentistry? In Dental, dental school? How do you learn it?

02:51

Now you can’t unfortunately, there’s so I was actually listening to a book the other day called bring us at the door, which is very interesting. And it was talking about how, when we learn institution, it’s already out of date. And that’s so plays into the my theory of learning it within the dental field and then moving into biological dentistry. So in tandem, I was learning the foundations of dentistry, but also shadowing and work experience and going to study the biological dentist in the UK as well when I had enough time to, but it made it very difficult to pass my exams because obviously you just want to implement all of these other things, right, that you’ve already learned. So it really comes from passion and extracurricular courses, I’m sure much like yourself up, Sam. So

03:40

yeah, my, my journey is, is quite nonlinear as well. And fortunately, I had some great mentors when I graduated, and you know, healed my own myopia and astigmatism and, but it was it was a long road as they say, a road less traveled and you’re a pioneer. And you know what you’re putting out and I forgot some questions from listeners. So I thought maybe that would be a way to educate us based on some of these questions are really good. So the first question this is, this is from Bill, and he actually lives in the States. So where’s he from? He’s from Iowa, believe it or not, and he’s asking this is he says it has a bite problem aside from fixing my bite, filling cavities and resolving pain. How are you different than traditional dentistry?

04:41

Yeah, it’s a great question. Because there’s, I always break it down to four pillars, I think is the main thing. And there’s the first pillar for me, which is very much the function of the teeth and how we can chew food and that’s what most dentists do cover. And we all use different materials within that field which kind of brings me onto the second pillar, which is biocompatible, well rewind as biocompatible materials as we can have in the human body, apart from our natural dead teeth, struction and crystal and stuff like that. So they’re the first two really key points, one fixing the teeth so they can bite properly, and to using materials that are biocompatible, that don’t interfere or cause an oral interference to overall health. And if we want to get really esoteric, you know, a lot of a lot of forward thinkers say that if you’re using materials that don’t absorb and refract the light, then actually, you’re not the food that you chew, which is stored like, you know, isn’t going through the meridian points that end within the teeth themselves, which is just mind blowing. point that I come back to a lot of the time. So I try and use as translucent materials as possible, which is compiled composites, and BPA free Because don’t forget, within the within the plastic material, you can have estrogen mimicking compounds that can interfere in our system as well. So as biocompatibility as biocompatible as possible. And then really, the two other parts are infection infections, which most dentists do cover, but in the cases of root canal infections, or extractions that haven’t healed correctly ignore, say, or they’re not causing pain or problems so that what are they going to be doing for the body. So we take a real deep dive into that and understand, I mean, we’ve got tests and labs now that can look at the bacteria that within these sites, but the problem is, by the time you get to the site, you’re halfway in the process anyway. So you might as well clean out for the patient do that. Secondly, and but we have 3d imaging now, right, which shows the nature and disposition of the so an x ray sorry, that shows the position within the the jaw bone or the root canal, the infection around the 2d X rays, just don’t give us that perspective. And then the fourth pillar, which is my favorite one at the moment, and don’t get me wrong, the first three are super important, which is around the breath for me, and how the teeth, the jaws, the nasal breathing, how it’s all impeded or expanded, by the way that we bite together the way that our jaws are. And actually who’s to say, and this is a new field. Anyway, I’m doing a master’s on orofacial orthopedics at the moment, which is basically skeletal expansion through you know, brace work and removal, appliance therapy work. Who’s to say that if you are breathing, right, you’re resting right, you’re sleeping, right? How much more easily? Could your body tolerate the things that we were doing at the end of the spectrum before that? You know, and that’s where it’s mind blown for me at the moment?

07:43

Well, it brings me to my next question. This is from Lois. And she follows me from Greece. And her question is about, well, she makes a comment, I don’t sleep very well, I clench my teeth. And my husband says, I snore, and I have insomnia. How does your form of dentistry help me get better sleep?

08:03

Hmm. It’s really interesting, isn’t it. And I’ll try and do the quick summary around it. But if you think of it in terms of mechanics and a pipe, like our airway, and we have two access access points for our airway, the first and the prime primary is breathing through your nose. And you obviously, you’ve got to have wide enough nasal apertures to breathe through they but have clear sinuses. And all of that goes through filters, humidifiers, the air, which then goes to the back of your adenoids, cleans it up a bit more, and goes down to your tonsils down here. And then you’ve got this whole pipe when it gets to, obviously the the opening of the lungs. And then so if you mouth breathe, it cuts that hole out, which goes straight there to your tonsils, then to your and doesn’t humidifier doesn’t do anything like that. Now the clenching the grinding, the snoring are all obstruction, well, sorry, the snoring is an obstruction of the airway. One way or the other, isn’t it either the soft palate through the nose, or the tongue falling back into the airway. So if I were stood like this, you can imagine that the pipe maybe about that thick there. And I always try and demo it that our tube at the back of our throat or the back of the tongue is like this, this is your spine. And then this is your tongue. And if one closes, and don’t forget, we breathe from my diaphragm, which sucks the air in and out. So imagine I always say this and don’t get me wrong, I don’t drink them. But imagine having a really thick smoothie in a very thin straw and trying to suck it through the floor. It’s just going to collapse and you’re going to get the smoothie up up through this, though the milkshake actually is even thicker material, isn’t it, you’re not going to get that up there. And it’s very much the same if you’ve got very collapsible, narrow airway, or you have your tongue that falls back because it’s not strong enough or doesn’t live in the roof of your mouth because airway, tongue. So when we’re up here, all the way down here in the way up here out the way and it’s micro millimeters, but it can actually affect the way that we sleep. And actually that I raised About this application on our on my iPhone and obviously it’s got the EMFs and all of that, but I put it on airplane mode and it’s called snore lab and you can listen to yourself breathing at night and how how deep breath is and, and it goes from like quiet to, to medium to loud to Epic and obviously the more the better. And I’ve literally just had a bit of a cold, obviously when he stopped work the first few days at a sniffily nose and my snoring was the most it’s ever been, you know, since I’ve been recording last year anyway. And, and that was just because I do the mouth tape and all of that kind of stuff, because there’s so much information to get through. But if you’re breathing through your mouth, you’re cutting out that pathway of the humidifying of the air and more likely to get chest problems and lung problems and bacteria in there. So if you tape your mouth, you don’t open your mouth. And actually, when you open your mouth, and you breathe, it actually gets in the way the airway is another millimeter or so. So then you’re struggling to breathe are more likely to have sleep disordered breathing, or most of us know sleep apnea, right, which is where we have to wake ourselves up to breathe in the middle of night because the nose isn’t working. And the secondary root of the mouth is also not working. And then you’re just interrupting your sleep cycles. You’re not getting that regenerative sleep, you’re not healing essentially. Right. So that’s where it comes down to for me.

11:15

Yeah, one of my sayings is the nose is for breathing in the mouth is for eating. Yeah. And you got to do nose breathing. There’s so many factors involved with it. But I love your passion and your your expertise and your curiosity of continually learning. So we’re here with Dr. Seb. Seb Lomas. He’s a biological dentist from the UK is one of our featured speakers in my upcoming home health summit, January 14, and 16th 2022. So excited to have him on board. Let’s move to the next question. This is from Julie and she lives in Germany. And she’s asking, are there things I can do naturally to improve gum disease?

12:03

Hmm, absolutely. So many things. I mean, the first thing you got to look at is nutrients, minerals, you know, how are they in your system, you know, because a lot of us overlook, you know, the vitamins, the obviously C we all know from the scurvy days. But also, vitamin A is a very, very newly talked about vitamin and gum disease, which is really interesting, but also the B vitamins. They’re the they’re the three foundational vitamins and nutrients for gum disease to me. And that’s dealing from your yourself and how your body can be better attached and stronger within that that point of view from a gums disease perspective. But also then we have the bacteria that are living within the mouth and how we can minimize them or influence them to have a better balance between the good and the bad. And when I say bad, I mean the ones that are more likely to cause potential disease within the mouse such as gum disease. And for me, my favorite thing of all time is coconut oil purling. And if you want to use coconut oil, which has already antibacterial, fungal, viral, you can add in essential oils, make sure you get some good essential oils, and you can get ones that also influence the I personally like essential oils, because they are bacteria static, they’re not Seidel, they don’t kill off everything. It’s not like an antibiotic. And don’t be wrong. If you have a high concentration, yes, it probably is. But if you have a low concentration of essential oil that you’re swishing around in a coconut oil, you’re just you’re pushing that dynamic equilibrium in the way of the good bacteria being able to thrive and the bad ones not being able to survive. And for me, that’s the second part of the balance. And then don’t forget, we’ve got the structure, right, we’ve got how our teeth meet together. And if you’ve got a tooth that’s kind of crooked and back, bouncing into another tooth that’s kind of in the way of it, your gum, you imagine the root of your tooth is gonna be pushing in different ways. If you’re constantly biting in that, that’s just going to push the gum up, push the two through the bone into the gum and you’ve got the way that the teeth by, but also clenching on it and putting pressure on them, which is a reflex for us to breathe at night because it tense is that muscle of the airway and allows us to breathe, that can also weaken the gums and I see these classic signs in my patients, I’ve been to every other dentist and they say oh, you’re going to lose your teeth or 40. And one thing that they’ve never covered is the pressure they’re putting on their teeth, the crowding that they’ve got in their mouth, and they have this very specific pattern of just the gum disease being in the upper back teeth, which is the lower jaw, the one that smashes into the top jaw, and it’s the less dense bone at the top compared to the lower as well. So they’re the first ones that start going and wobbling in. So yeah, there’s so many things you can do and you’ve just got to cover each of the aspects but you can influence easily with vitamins and minerals and oil pulling and obviously the good oral or care hygiene as your dentist would recommend to you anyway,

14:51

sir, sure. Yeah, I love that and you’re covering all the bases there. I’m a big aromatherapy proponent also In fact, one of our sponsors for the summit Stillpoint aromatics, there, I just a firm believer in essential oils and use them in my own gum health. So that’s, that’s great that really, really good. All right, next question. This is from Felicia, she’s from Chicago. And she says my dentist will always advocate root canals. What is your opinion of this procedure?

15:29

Depends what you want out of the procedure, I guess, if you’re, if you’re wanting a tooth to remain within the mouth to chew your food, then it’s the best possible outcome. And probably the most cost effective on the long term. Now, I always say, before a root canal as needed, please try and save the tooth before you get to that stage, by going to the dentist regularly seeing what’s going on. And coming up with other ideas. There’s materials nowadays, that and ozone therapy and bio dentine ism as a filling material, that really, I would say, let’s just take the last year, for example, I must have done at least 50 of them, the other patients have been to dentist and said, right, you’re going to need a root canal or an extraction of the tooth. And we try this and let’s say 80% of them worked out. And as a small fraction of the cost of losing a tooth or you know. And the problem of root canals is our teeth are very, very porous. And I think that’s like 3000 miles of dentinal tubules within the tooth. And to put it from an inorganic perspective, to our enamel, which is the hard bit over our tooth is 97% inorganic, which so hardly any porosities like 3% holes or water within it. But the substance underneath it, which is the most of the tooth is dentine and dentine is 70%, inorganic and 30% water and things are made up of it. So imagine that 30% When a tooth not alive, and it’s been filled through the middle, you have all of these porosities around it, that can cook and they can allow bacteria to live within there. And I guess the problem is, we never know what bacteria gonna work within their mouth or within your system. And we don’t know the rest is gonna cause to your health. But if someone comes to me for a chronic condition, I say, even if they’re not showing huge signs of infection for me, I wouldn’t want them in my mouth. If I’m trying to get on top of a disease that i No one has the answers to. But if you’re fit, you’re healthy, you’ve got no problems, your choice. And I always say it’s informed consent, as long as you’ve done the research and read the books I recommend, and both had a look at both sides of the story. If you want to choose to function root canals the best option, that’s for sure. But the overall longevity and health, maybe not.

17:44

I see so many people who’ve had root canals and they have these chronic eye inflammation issues and eye disease floaters. You know, all kinds of things in this chronic bacterial infection that they’re living with. You know, I don’t like them and you know, you can offer so many alternatives, being proactive and then offering these, these great complimentary things is one of the reasons why I so strongly advocate for everyone to work with a dentist like you because you’re holistic, you see the connection of the teeth, to our health and wellness. And, you know, that’s what I’m all about also. So we are here with Dr. Seb Lomas. He is a biological dentist from the UK is going to be one of our featured speakers at my whole health summit. And we’re coming down to the end of the interview, we’re going to take one more question. This is from Lisa, who lives in Los Angeles. And she wants to know, what are the benefits that you see in ozone therapy?

18:50

Gosh, yeah, ozone is just incredible. For me easily limits, yeah, it delivers such a punch because it’s it’s three oxygen atoms. And when you have two oxygen atoms, that’s the air that we breathe, or the component that we take within to oxygenate ourselves. But when you have another one bonded to it, it has this charge on it that can go around, it’s very volatile, and it goes around and they can dissociate from the to, and when you’re delivering it specifically to an area like, for example, the main times that I will use it in, in dentistry that is is when a very deep filling like we were just talking around, it’s got deep decay close to the nerve take out as much as I dare and then ozone gas at the top of that which is an anti bacterial viral inhibitor you know if the ozone oxygen atom is going around on its own doing that, but it also lowers the inflammation because it’s delivering the oxygen to the area as well to help with the healing. And our two three, for example, very small and at the bottom and don’t forget that crystals. So when they’re in the jaw bone and you’ve got your nerve and your blood supply coming into the other side, if they’re crying out for help at the top here is normally the inflammation that can actually cause to die, because it cuts off the blood supply into the middle. And even about 6% of traumas, if you just smacked your head or not your teeth that can cause a tooth to dying, just because of the inflammation that builds up underneath the roof. So you’re covering off the anti everything viral bacterial fungal aspect, but you’re also delivering the oxygen to it as well. And that comes in massively when we’re removing infections from the jaw bone and cleaving out. And we use the therapy where we take blood from the arm and spin it back up and put it back into the socket to allow for better healing. Because don’t forget, our gums heal very quickly. But the bone underneath doesn’t say we have to fill the void before the GM heals, and that lets bugs in or however, and other silent infection, for example. So cleaning out all of these aspects is is fantastic. And we have to remember that our mouth is a very contaminated place. It’s so many bugs living in our mouth. And that’s what feeds our microbiome as we swallow 2500 times a day as well. So it really does start in the mouth.

21:02

Oh, fantastic. So looking forward to having you at the summit. Dr. Seb, how can people get in touch with you?

21:11

Well, I guess the most active for me is on Instagram and it’s biological underscore dentists and it’ll just kind of Dr. Sam and that’ll be on there and send me a voice note if you’ve got questions I try and get back as quickly as I can. But yes, I’m off on holiday until before so probably won’t receive too much until that time but no, that is the best way to contact me or we have a website called wonder of wellness Koto, UK, which has a lot of information around the type of procedures that I advocate and why I do so as well. So yeah, they’re the main reasons that thank you.

21:51

Yeah, I so endorse what you’re doing and yes, your Instagram is so active. I love your your posts. And folks, I want you to check this gentleman out. Dr. Seb Lomas, biological dentist from the UK. And I want to thank you so much for being part of the show today. I look forward to seeing you at the summit. And I wish you a great rest of your holiday.

22:15

Yeah, no, thank you so much for having me. It’s been such an honor and I can’t wait to share some more information with you as well. And thank you for everything you’re doing, Sam. Thanks