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I had a great conversation with my followers on Facebook live the other week that I wanted to share with you. We covered everything from cataracts and peripheral vision to eye exercises. If you have any questions for me, be sure to email them to hello@drsamberne.com 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. Good evening. It’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to Facebook Live. And we’ve got a lot of questions tonight to get to a couple of announcements. I’m going to be teaching a three day retreat online retreat in the beginning of October, October 7 to the 9th. It’s called the vision sanctuary retreat. And we’re going to be putting it up on the web store in the next week or so. So if you want to sign up, that’s a way to do it. If you have any questions, you can contact me at hello at Dr. Sam burn.com. I’ve taken a break from doing any online workshops for a few months and working on some other projects. So people have been asking when I’m going to be teaching again. And so here it is the beginning of October. So Friday, Saturday, Sunday, also it will be recorded. So if you can’t make it live, you’ll be able to watch it.

Anytime you want 24/7, you’ll also get a 10% discount on all my products on my web store. So check it out. And, again, if you have any questions, just shoot me an email. So I want to start off the show tonight. And I’m going to take a question from a mom who lives in Australia and she has a daughter who’s got a condition called up Thummalapally Ziya. It’s kind of a complicated disease. And I want to give you a little background on this condition. So her daughter was diagnosed with this progressive degenerative disease is basically a problem with the eye muscles. And it can be very deteriorating. But anyway, she was first diagnosed at age 10, I was referred to an eye specialist, because the eyelid was drooping a bit, we call that ptosis where one of the eyelid actually comes over the eye, and the eyelid gets weak. So she had many tests around her, her eyes and the nerves. And nothing was recommended at the time. Now at 30 years old, the eyesight in that particular eye where the lid is drooping, is getting worse. And she wants to know what I think. Okay, so in this particular condition, so we have six eye muscles that attach to the eyeball externally, we also have internal muscles that attach to the lens of the eye, and the muscles in the eye, change the curvature of the lens.

And this is how we get to focus up close release, the focus looked far away. So in any case, in this particular eye muscle condition, there is a progressive deterioration. And there are not many reasons why we develop it. Obviously there can be you know, conditions like having a tumor, having a viral infection, trauma is another reason. So the thing is, is that, you know, when you’ve got this kind of deteriorating eye muscle condition, the first thing I would do is I would go to a functional medicine doctor. And I’d find out if there’s any heavy metal toxicity. If there are problems with the thyroid, that can be another issue. I would also check the circulation and make sure the circulation in the brain is working properly may need to get an MRI, just to make sure that there are no tumors or neurological disease. There’s no neurological disease going on. Now, in terms of treatment, I get it, you know, in conventional eyecare there really isn’t a whole lot you can do I guess you could do Botox injections, which would help temporarily. You could also maybe if there is a drooping in one of the eyelids, you could maybe do some eyelid surgery to bring that lit up. You know, whenever the lid comes down over the eye, you’re going to be developing what we call lazy eye, or amblyopia because the eyes not getting stimulated. And so it is a conundrum.

In my experience, I’ve treated many kids who have this situation at different degrees. I think first of all, it’s important to rule out you know, all the you know the general disease Causes that’s neurologically and neurodegenerative Lee also circulation wise, you know, make sure there’s no tumors, there’s no, you know, anything going on that could be causing the eye muscle weakness. Now, once you get through that, what I know is that the brain directs the eye muscles, it’s the brain that tells the eyes where to aim and where to look. And this is a skill set that children begin to learn very early on. In fact, we start learning how to use our eyes, pretty much after we’re born. And especially when we start exploring the world, and we’re motoring we’re on our belly, or creeping and crawling, we’re falling down, or getting up. And so vision is a learned skill, we can remap the brain to improve our vision at any age. So we have to, we have to note that and every part of the eyeball originates from the brain embryologically, we know that the eyes originate very early after conception. So we need to work with us from a perspective of stimulation, re education, and whole body. So what that looks like is that I would certainly even though this, this person now is 30 years old, I would test the very early primitive infant reflex patterns. Those primitive reflexes are motor patterns, that actually if they’re not fully integrated in the brain, they do affect visual development, visual coordination, and the eye muscles. And so I would definitely test those out. There’s probably some issues going on there.

I don’t know anything about the birth or the first couple of years of life, but there was any birth trauma or gestational trauma. Those things can definitely impact our sensory motor development. You know, I learned this working many years with occupational therapists, physical therapists. And, you know, I spend some time every month working with special needs kids, I’ve been doing it for a long time. And these are kids with pretty severe neurological, you know, obstacles, and yet they’re able to improve their sensory motor systems and improve their vision, even with these obstacles in the way. And then we do some vestibular stimulating things. You know, the vestibular system, our inner ear, is so connected to our eyes and other vestibular is important in our orientation. Where are we in space? Where are we? Where are we going, where we come from, and the vestibular system and the visual system work together to help our proprioception, that’s knowing where our arms and legs are as it relates to our body in the world. So that even if we’ve got a visual deterioration or a visual defect, if we do some rotation, body rotation things, we stimulate the vestibular system, it helps the eyes know where to learn to aim and focus and coordinate together. So we’re using the brain and the vestibular system to see if we can stimulate the visual system in the eye muscles.

I would also do some bilateral cross patterning, exercises and, you know, probably some some basic things to see if we can improve things like the peripheral vision, and the depth perception. And in terms of the the ptosis, the eyelid weakness as part of what some of the symptoms are, I would certainly start instituting some cranial sacral therapy, some osteopathic, cranial sacral is somebody that that is skilled and being able to see what the restrictions are in the bones around the eyes in the face, what the fascia and connective tissue are doing with the cervical spine and the spine and the sacrum, in terms of movement and fluid flow. Many times if you start stimulating the lymphatic system and the fluid body, you can sometimes reduce the ptosis and you can actually have the person reconnect to getting more eyelid control. Again, it’s a process this is not a quick fix. I mean if you want a quick fix in terms of the eyelid Botox would be the way to go. I’m not a big fan of Botox. There are certain cases where it might help you know people with Parkinson’s disease or you know neurological deficiencies, especially in effect the eyes and vision. Botox sometimes can give you a jolt or it gives you you know, better muscle control for a little bit anyway. I would also consider other things like color therapy, maybe some sound healing, some acupuncture.

In other words, I would go full on to see if I could help improve the meridian energies in the body, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. And then on a functional medicine level, I’m curious about the magnesium levels and all the other trace minerals like zinc and selenium, chromium. Magnesium is really important as a governing factor for eye muscle control, I would check the glutathione levels and glutathione is that master antioxidant that really helps boost the the detoxification pathways, and also helps in improving the mitochondria function, the ATP. Another thing I might try with the red light therapy, you know, there’s a very high concentration of mitochondria, in the retina and in the eye itself. So doing a few minutes of exposing yourself to red light therapy every day, could also help the visual system. So there are lots of exercises that you can do physical therapy, physical therapy exercises. And I think what you have to face is that this is a process of re education of retraining of remapping, and getting the brain in the eyes more online. And as long as there’s no tumors or deteriorating neurological conditions, then you do have a chance, at the very least, of being able to slow down the condition.

And I think that even with losing the eyesight in the eye with the eyelid drooping, I think there are things that you could do to stimulate the the eyes to be able to at least engage your visual system with your brain and body better. So I want to thank you, Sharon for the question. And best of luck to you. Alright, let’s go to Sangeeta. Good evening. Can your blue blocker glasses be worn over regular prescription glasses? For those with progressive lenses? Is it okay to wear the clip on over the blue blockers? Does wearing two different lenses cause any problems in vision? Is it okay to wear fit over sunglasses over progressive lenses? Well, you know, it’s okay to wear, you know two sets of prescriptions. However, it may create more distortion and more eye stress to do that. And, you know, it may be worthwhile for you to invest in a really good pair of glasses in the most visually intensive situations that you’re using your eyes. And I’m not a fan of progressive lenses,

I can’t tell you the number of patients that call me or email me or come to my office who are just struggling with their vision. And a part of it is because they’re trying to focus their eyes through a tiny window in the center of the lens. And they’re disregarding the most important part of their vision, their peripheral vision. So one idea might be to go to your eye doctor and ask him or her for a specific computer prescription, this would be one lens, one lens, and you could get the blue blocker in it. And that by far would give you the most ease and comfort, it would also improve your performance and reduce your stress to get that pair of glasses for that particular circumstance.

Now in terms of sunglasses, again, it depends on you know what you’re doing if you’re just walking or driving. Again, when you’re using a split lens, the only part of the lens that’s usable for distance is maybe the top fourth of the lens and the rest of the lens it’s going to be blurry if you look beyond 14 to 22 inches. So it’s a very distorting experience to try to look through split lenses. Again, it’s worth it for you if you you know work with your eye doctor or an optician to get a really good pair of sunglasses I like either neutral Bray neutral, neutral brown or neutral gray tints. Those are the best although you know you can use other tents as well. And then you can decide how dark you want to go. If glare bothers you have light sensitivity bothers you then get a darker tint on the Sun lenses. I’m not a fan of polarized glasses because with polarization your right eye and left eye are are competing with each other to try to bring the two eyes together. And it can be very confusing and stressful for the Brain. So you know, unless your visual system is working at a super high level, I would not get the polarized. However, I do think again, it’s better to get a single vision lens or a lens, just one pair of glasses, and not try to put, you know, glasses over a pair of glasses you’re already wearing.

Certainly the clip ons would be an easy alternative. But if you’re using progressive lenses, again, it’s putting a lot of pressure on your eyes to try to look through, look through those tiny windows. And you’re excluding the most important part of your visual system, which is your peripheral vision, your side vision. peripheral vision is so important for memory depth perception, your balance your orientation, and when you wear progressive lenses, it’s like you’re putting you’re putting your vision in a straitjacket. And although you have the convenience of being able to you know, change your focus, you know, conveniently it’s costing you a lot of energy to be in that that very tight, narrow type of experience. So do what you can I know you got a budget going but these are your two eyes the only eyes you have. So save your money and shop around and get something that is close to your eyes and don’t have all these lenses and filters between you and the world. Okay, so now we’re asking about organic hexane free castor oil. I think that castor oil in small dosages really helps heal the skin. You know, if you did a kind of a retrospective on the benefits of castor oil, you would see that it’s anti inflammatory it supports the collagen health. It’s boosting the, the the eyelid. In this particular case, when you massage it on the eyelids, it helps moisturize the eyelids and that’s the place where the glands live. So that when you’re

when you’re using this little bit of castor oil on the outside part of your eyelids at night, you are moisturizing your eyes in a way that’s pretty sustainable. And you know if you’re dealing with something like cataracts, you could certainly do something like NAC or carnosine. Those things can work well kind of depends on the type of cataract you have. So if you’ve got a cataract that’s a cortical cataract. This would be a cataract that is like spokes around the edge of the lens. And by the way, when you go for your exam, and you are diagnosed with cataracts, ask your doctor. Do you have a nuclear cataract that’s in the center in the front of the eye? Do you have a posterior subcapsular cataract that’s in the center part in the back? Or do you have a cortical cataract, that’s the one that’s around the edges. So if you have a cortical cataract, there’s a glycation process going on where the glucose molecule attaches to the protein molecule of the lens.

1And this starts the slow deterioration of developing sugar bass cataracts. So eliminating all sugar, dairy gluten from your diet is important. And then using something like NAC or carnosine could be helpful in disrupting that glycation process. In a nuclear cataract, what happens is, this is more of an aging antioxidant accumulation. And in that particular case, I would tend to use more of a glutathione vitamin C cocktail. And there’s an eyedropper out there called doklam. Ed OCL ume D, you’ve heard me talk about it. You can get it from college pharmacy.com. That particular eyedrops got glutathione and vitamin C in it. And that would be better if you have a nuclear cataract or a posterior subcapsular cataract. The cortical cataract is going to give you some halos. It’s going to give you some light sensitivity but your center vision is probably going to still be good. With a nuclear cataract that’s where things get pretty foggy and blurry pretty quickly. And so you have to note that how much you want to tolerate that blurriness before getting the intraocular lens put in. And in a posterior subcapsular cataract, you have a little bit of blur but where it really affects you is when you drive at night and you get sunbursts and and glare and light sensitivity. So it has a little bit of the same thing has the cortical cataract but the cortical cataract usually you can maintain your your clarity a little bit longer. So as long as you have You know, as long as you know what you’re dealing with, then you can apply either the carnosine or the NAC.

If it’s cortical, or if it’s nuclear or posterior subcapsular, Larry, then you can use the ocular The MSM. 5%. eyedrops are wonderful to take as a as a preliminary so you put those in first, and that helps accompany the second eye drop more deeply into your eyes, I wait about 30 seconds after putting in the 5% MSM and it could sting a little bit. And then you put in the second eyedrops, I would do that two to three times a day. And if it’s going to work, you’ll start seeing some improvements, pretty right away, and it takes about three to six months to get rid of those cataracts. If your body is ready to do that, you know with some people, the cataract gets worse. So you just have to see how much you tolerate the blurriness distortion, the glare and so on. And if you have to get surgery, the cataract surgery is the best one to get it is a very high success rate. And so it’s it’s a good one if you have to go there. Remember, if you do get cataract surgery, you want to protect your eyes from the damaging blue light afterwards. So make sure you supplement with lutein, Xanthine 16 milligrams of lutein a day, six milligrams of xanthan, those are the plant carotenoids, and about six to 12 milligrams of the marine Corrado annoyed, asked Xanthine you want to do that daily, that’s going to protect your Macula against the damaging blue light. And then wearing blue blockers for all your screen time. So a lot of times the cataract surgeon doesn’t tell you that the intraocular lens doesn’t have a filter on it. So you have to be proactive and and just take charge and say, Okay, I need to get blue blockers if I’ve had cataract surgery.

Or let’s go to Rebecca this. She says this is an odd question. What would my right eye automatically? Why would my right eye automatically closed when I read or do any other detailed work? I wear trifocals? Well, whenever you start closing an eye, there’s a stress involved. And there’s a there’s a reaction that your eye brain connection is having in trying to decide what part of the trifocal to look look through. So remember, a trifocal is a very complicated optical system very complicated. You’ve got to deal with where the, you know, the line is where you look what segment you’re looking through, based on your angle of where you’re looking and how far away you’re looking. And when you start moving your eyes through the different compartments of the lens, it can be very dizzying, disorienting, nauseating. And so you have to start suppressing or shutting down your vision in order to be able to operate within this limited ecosystem, you know, the ecosystem, meaning I got three lenses to look through in a trifocal. Which one do I use, and I’m not able to use my peripheral vision, I have to pinpoint my eyes through these narrow windows, your right eye is saying, Hey, I gotta give up, I can’t, I can’t deal with this. So again, you know, you can ask your eye doctor for a single vision prescription for the computer. If you also know you’re reading prescription, you can start off by going to the drugstore and getting a pair of full prescription readers so that you’re using the whole lens and see if that starts to relax, and open your vision more. I might also consider a couple of my vision therapy exercises. And the ones that I would recommend for you would be three that you can Google them, has all my eye exercises. Number one would be the animal eye chart, that’s an eye stretching exercise. Number two would be the Yin Yang peripheral vision exercise, that’s a soft focus, visual coordination exercise. So you do this without any glasses.

And then number three would be the POM hum, that’s the relaxation or you’re putting sound into the eye tissue as a way to relax your eyes. I would say do those exercises three times a day just spend maybe a minute on each one and then move away from the trifocal at least part time and get the single vision lens in your most intensive visual experience of the day, which is probably will be screen time or reading and see if the right eye starts to play with the left eye again. So that’s, that would be my recommendation. All right, Donna’s asking about ocular med eyedrops, I bought a bottle, but I’m concerned with poly propylene glycol, okay. So, you know, it’s very interesting with these natural eyedrops that they have to put a trace of these things into the eye drop as a way to keep the eye drop first of all sterile and also consistent. The amount of propylene glycol in that ocular method is so minimal that the benefits outweigh this little ingredient they have to put in there to keep the eyedrops consistent. The only way to know would be to experiment to try it put a drop in each of your eyes and see what the reaction is. Now the ocular meds sometimes will burn a little, that’s normal. But here’s the deal. If you’re working with trying to reverse cataracts, there’s a couple of key essential ingredients that are necessary. Number one is glutathione. You could also not use the ocular med because of the propylene glycol I get that and you could use a liposomal sublingual glutathione

and you could also do a buffered vitamin C about 2000 milligrams of that vitamin d3 is very important for a healthy lens. Also lutein z is Anthon and asked the Xanthan. Now with the the glutathione I might consider a supplement with that you can certainly get get your sulfur based foods, you know if you think of things like the cruciferous vegetables, garlic, leeks, onions, you know, you can look at the software base foods, make sure you add some Selenium to that as well that helps with the sulfur based foods. You could do this all through the diet. And so you got to eliminate sugar. I would reduce or eliminate gluten and dairy. And I would eat mostly plant based if you can. Again, you know some people like to do something like the Mediterranean diet, but you want to get your rainbow vegetables the red, the orange, the yellow and then the green. Maybe berries you could do some of this time of year you can get some really great strawberries or blueberries. So you could do this completely through the diet and just forego the ocular med eyedrops, I think to decide what kind of a cataract is it is a again, cortical nuclear PSC that would that would give you information.

If there’s a cortical based cataract, then you’re dealing with a glycation process. So you’re going to have something like NAC or carnosine. And again, you can do these through supplements. You don’t have to, you know, use eyedrops, like the ocular med where they have a little bit in this. So I think you have to decide first of all, how ripe is the cataract? Is it really interfering? Do you feel like you’ve got some time to reverse it through diet? You know, when I first started in practice before all these eyedrops came on the scene, I used to counsel people just to eat better, you know, I would diagnose them with a cataract. And I’d say okay, this is what you do with your foods. This is what you don’t eat, this is what you do eat. And I would say a very high percentage of them over a period of three months were able to reverse their cataracts just by changing their diet. So, you know, it’s kind of up to you, I really hear you on the propylene glycol. But, you know, again, you just have to decide where you want to go with this and what you want to do. There are certainly ways to improve your lens health by

changing your diet. Alright, let’s go to Deborah. She’s asking what’s an easy exercise for better peripherals. There’s one right now called the hot dog experiments. So what you can do is take your fingers and I pulled them maybe about three inches from my eyes, but they’re right at eye level. So for you what I would do is look above your digital device so you’re not looking at me put your fingers up there and look out in the distance and what you’re going to see is a little hot dog in the middle there and you can move that around. So my mental focus is at 20 feet and I’m just looking through my fingers. And right now I’ve got a really nice hot dog. And so I’m really working my peripheral. So that’s one way to develop peripheral vision. Number two, would be to practice walking backwards. So walking backwards requires you to look over your shoulder and to expand your 360 vision. Now, I would do this in an environment or a climate where there aren’t a lot of moving objects or you know, obstacles because you don’t want to fall down. But practice walking backwards. And that will open your peripheral vision. If you want to take it to the next level, get an eyepatch and do it with the eyepatch.

Now, again, I would do this in say like your bedroom or your living room, someplace where it’s safe for you, I don’t want you to do it in the middle of you know, the city where there’s lots of places where you could fall or get hurt or anything like that. Now the third way to to improve your peripheral vision is on my website is an exercise called the Yin Yang peripheral vision exercise. And you can download the chart printed out, you hold the paper up to your nose, you’re looking at the two yin yang symbols and you’re mentally looking through it, you push the paper out, and you all of a sudden get three yin yang symbols, you take about 30 seconds, you move the paper and you keep the three young symbols. Then you do that with the second pair. There are four pairs there are four pairs of symbols on that paper. So you spend about a minute with that long focus or open focus to make the two into three and that means both eyes are working together when you get the three and then expand the periphery by keeping the three while moving the paper. So those are all great ways for you to improve your peripheral vision. peripheral vision is very tied into stress.

So you know when you destress meditate, get a massage, get some acupuncture or cranial sacral when your nervous system relaxes, your vision opens up. It’s that simple. Alright, Joanne is asking what does it mean when the doctor says the eyelids are like heels up and down bumpy? Well, the eyelids are one of the major lymph systems of the eye they house two glands, the lacrimal gland and the meibomian gland. The lacrimal glands are more by the eyelids and they’re the more producing the aqueous the watery part of the lids. And the meibomian glands are more up higher in the eyelids they produce the oily layer if you’re not producing enough meibomian gland oil, the tears are going to evaporate quickly. And so you know it’s good to get the information on the eyelid health because that is a big cause of dry eye and other issues. So it kind of depends on how you want to play it what your belief system is. Again, you could do a castor oil eye massage in the evening, you could do eyebright T warm or hot compress in the evening. You could do goldenseal or go to Cola, or chamomile those teas, sue the eyelids and with the castor oil massage in the evening. I would probably do my MSM eyedrops during the day, you could do the MSM massage where you put a drop in each of the corners of the eyes, and you massage on the eyelids that might work well.

And diet is a big thing around the eyelids. So you know eating more of an anti inflammatory diet, increasing your fats and oils, checking in with your thyroid health, your adrenal health, or in blue blockers for all screentime. I mean, there’s a lot of steps you have to take to see if you can rejuvenate, rejuvenate the eyelids, usually the eyelids like heat. So doing some kind of a heated mask can sometimes temporarily help how your eyelids are doing. But the thing is, is that if you’ve got you know this particular situation with your eyelids, it’s congestion. It’s inflammation. And so you’ve got to do some things to reduce inflammation so that those glands work better and they’re able to hydrate your eyes. So those are some things that you can you can do. All right, let’s go to Paula she’s asking Is it okay to do eye exercises? With the eye that is healing from retina being reattached is halfway healed? Or should I wait until it’s completely healed? Well, Paul, the the one exercise that I would do, which is rejuvenating is the palm hum, and that’s the one where you cup your hands over your eyes, and you do some humming and I would do maybe eight to 12 hums and just notice after you’re done how you’re Eyes are feeling that’s a relaxation exercise that’s passive, I would not do anything active yet, until you get the go ahead from the surgeon that your retinas completely healed. Now some other things that are interesting about you know, the retinal reattachment is that you can sometimes get scar tissue. And one of the ways to get rid of scar tissue is you can do two digestive enzymes one is called serrapeptase.

And this has been shown as a digest digestive enzymes to sometimes be able to to disintegrate or dissolve scar tissue in the eyes. Another one you could use would be natto kinase. So I would look into that and see if those things would would work for you as a way to get rid of the scar tissue. Another great eye exercise would be doing some color therapy. And you could use say the blue or the blue green, you can get a gel and just or a pair of glasses, and just let the color bathe your eyes. The blue and the blue green are great for trauma and surgery, you can even do it with the eyes closed. You know, having the the gel there and the eyelids will will titrate the amount of color getting in. So that’s very, very gentle. So those would be some things that we do and make sure you’re really boosting your antioxidants, your probiotics getting really good fats and oils, you know, the retinas made up of about 50% fatty acids. So the Omega threes are so important, I would really be loading up on omega three 2000 milligrams a day definitely. And you know, really have a clean diet, things like that. Do some meditation, relaxation, things, and visualization, so you can heal from this quickly. And because it’s the mind body, that really helps us heal from the surgery more quickly. All right, Laura is asking about drusen you’re scared to death of it. They don’t need to be. So it’s just a fatty deposit. On the retina it’s pretty normal. So with wet or dry usually for most people, they start with the dry form, which is less serious.

The wet form is going to create more distortion in the Amsler grid, there’s going to be fluid buildup behind the eyes. So I would definitely do a couple things. Number one, you need to do the carotid noids if you’re not already lutein Xia Xanthan as the Xanthan. Vitamin A make sure you’re getting some zinc to help absorb the vitamin A. If you have issues with liver or gallbladder, I would do a bile salts supplement after you know, you take the vitamin A vitamin A lutein and zeaxanthin are fat soluble. And if you’re not producing enough bile, this impedes your ability to absorb the fat soluble vitamins that are essential for Eye Health. Make sure you’re getting enough omega threes were blue blockers. And I would do my eye exercises. I probably do the one for macular degeneration. It’s a 90 day program, work each eye separately be really gentle.

So those are some things that I would say you could do if you’ve got the wet, I would consider no maybe checking yourself for mold. Some people to get wet AMD they’ve been exposed to mold and they’re dealing with black mold in their body. I would definitely eliminate dairy because dairy makes your body more damp. Sugar is another issue you know with wet AMD that’s a precursor for diabetes, or at least glucose levels that are out of whack. Maybe hook in with a functional medicine doctor talk to him or her about the possibility of intermittent fasting or the ketogenic diet. Again, I wouldn’t do any of this on your own because you want to get some blood panels. Also if you’ve been exposed to heavy metal toxicities, if you’ve got head trauma that’s unresolved or even getting some acupuncture might be helpful, especially with the macula situation. And finally, if you if you are dealing with drusen especially drusen out of control, check your liver health check your cholesterol levels. You might not be processing fat very well again, that’s back to the bile salts. So the bile salts can help you process your fats and make sure you only eat good fats. If you’re still really affected by this, you can always contact us at Hello at Dr. Sam Burns calm and I could give you a telemedicine session

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I think I’ve answered all of your questions. So I want to thank you for tuning in. And hopefully we’ll get to see each other next week. If you want more of me I will be on Instagram this Saturday at noon mountain time on my Instagram channel. I’m also going to be doing a special Tiktok live. I don’t know how many of you are doing tick tock but I will be on tick tock live at noon Mountain Time on Friday. So if you want to learn more if you want to get more q&a, those are some ways to get me obviously you can go to my website, Dr. Sam byrne.com. Check out my podcasts, blogs, video blogs and so on. Alright everybody, I wish you well until next time, take care.

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