How to Reverse POOR Eyesight (Especially Over 50!) — Transcript

Today, we're going to talk about how to reverse your eyesight and get rid of these right here. If you're anything like me and you sat behind the computer desk for many, many years staring in front of a computer, chances are you're probably wearing these right now. I'm going to show you some information that is going to make you very happy because there's a good chance you're not going to need these. And I'm not only going to be talking about poor eyesight. I want to talk about a lot of different

problems that can go wrong with the eye, including increased pressure of the eye itself, what to do with dry eyes or irritation underneath the lid, and also a problem with your lens, which is cataracts. There's some great remedies for all of these things. We're going to go through them, and I think the first place to start is sharing some fascinating information where this whole problem starts. And it actually starts with the cones. Now, I need to explain a little bit of anatomy

problems that can go wrong with the eye, including increased pressure of the eye itself, what to do with dry eyes or irritation underneath the lid, and also a problem with your lens, which is cataracts. There's some great remedies for all of these things. We're going to go through them, and I think the first place to start is sharing some fascinating information where this whole problem starts. And it actually starts with the cones. Now, I need to explain a little bit of anatomy

cornea which is this little dome-shaped thing right here that does help to focus light a little bit as the light comes into the eye and then it goes through the lens right here and you have two little muscles right here that cause the lens to get thicker and more elongated and that allows you to accommodate for distance so you can actually focus on something far away or close up. It's called the accommodation reflux and that has to do with the lens and the muscles.

so you can understand what the cones are. I don't know if you remember ever learning about rods and cones. Those are little receptors in the eye that take information or light and they convert it to signals so you can visualize things. And so cones are more responsible for daylight, color, and fine detail. Rods had to do with more peripheral vision and seeing in the dark and also like shades of gray and things like that. So the real simple basics are we have this

extension of your brain right here. So it's going to capture a lot of information and then a lot of this information is being focused at this point right here. This is called the macula right here. And then a lot of the focus on this smaller part of the macula is called the phobia. Not that you need to know that but the phobia has even a smaller section that things are focused on almost the size of a grain of sand. In that location, you have the most concentrated cones of anywhere in the

cornea, which is this little dome-shaped thing right here that does help to focus light a little bit as the light comes into the eye, and then it goes through the lens right here, and you have two little muscles right here that cause the lens to get thicker and more elongated, and that allows you to accommodate for distance so you can actually focus on something far away or close up. It's called the accommodation reflex, and that has to do with the lens and the muscles.

Uh colors are not as bright. We need glasses to see even in the daylight and especially at night. So, if we look at all of the factors that relate to poor vision, this one single piece of information just jumps out and slaps me in the face. Massive loss of mitochondria in the back part of the retina, the actually most important area of your eye that you need to be able to see without glasses. When someone reaches 60 years old, and by the way, I'm 60 right now, they need three times

And so the lens normally should be very flexible. But as we get older, it becomes very rigid. So we'll talk about that. And then as the light comes in, it travels right into the exact back part of this eyeball right here. The retina is this complete back part right here of the eye. The entire thing. Think about the retina as wallpaper on the back of the eyeball, and it's connected to this nerve that goes deep into the brain called the optic nerve. So retina is the

happens. The second thing that happens is in order to be able to even see during the daylight, we need a little more light. So we have to turn on the light to be able to see things. Before when we were younger, we could just read it practically in the dark. Now we have to shine a big light on it. Number three, we start seeing more glare in the dark. Okay. Everything starts to really get foggy and uh it's like it's kind of dangerous if you're driving when it's

extension of your brain right here. So it's going to capture a lot of information, and then a lot of this information is being focused at this point right here. This is called the macula right here. And then a lot of the focus on this smaller part of the macula is called the fovea. Not that you need to know that, but the fovea has even a smaller section that things are focused on almost the size of a grain of sand. In that location, you have the most concentrated cones of anywhere in the

cataracts. We'll talk about what to do in just a minute on that. And then also when you are looking at your computer screen, you're fixated in a certain position, maybe two or three feet away from you for long periods of time. And so now when you get up to look at things, boy, everything is blurred. And then there's a condition called gluccom which we have a lot of pressure in the eye. Before we get into what to do, I just want to mention type 2 diabetes. The eyes are

eye. And why that is significant is because there's something very unique about cones that will explain a lot of problems that you might be having with poor vision. The unique thing about this photoreceptor, the cone, is this. It has the most mitochondrial-packed cells in the entire retina. So we start off young having a tremendous amount of mitochondria. This is so dense. We get older and older and older. We start losing the mitochondria, and now we can no longer see finer details of things.

Kindle. The author is Dr. Harold Shell. And he found that high doses of vitamin D3 can reverse gluccom, but you have to get your blood levels up to like a hundred. Okay. Now, for some people that's like, oh my gosh, that's way too much. But if you read his book, it's fascinating because he gets into how to do it correctly, how to do it safely, and he also talks about a lot of other eye problems that can be improved with higher doses of vitamin D3. It's a fascinating read. I will put a link down

Colors are not as bright. We need glasses to see even in the daylight and especially at night. So, if we look at all of the factors that relate to poor vision, this one single piece of information just jumps out and slaps me in the face. Massive loss of mitochondria in the back part of the retina, the actually most important area of your eye that you need to be able to see without glasses. When someone reaches 60 years old, and by the way, I'm 60 right now, they need three times

mitochondria. They found that you can optimize the mitochondria with this specific uh wavelength 670. And what's really cool about the simplicity of this therapy is you're going to be doing this for 3 minutes only in the morning once a week because apparently the effects last a whole week. But there are so many devices out there right now that you don't even know if they're really at the right frequency. You don't know how powerful they are. Uh they're not really

the light to be able to see if you compare to a 20-year-old. So why is that? Because in order to see, it takes a tremendous amount of ATP energy from the mitochondria. And so there's a couple different stages that we go through. Number one, contrast sensitivity. The brain's capacity to differentiate light intensity starts to break down. And so at night when you're straining to see, you're having a problem with this contrast sensitivity issue. And that would be the first thing that

exempt or RG1 lowrisk. And but I'm also going to put a couple other links of a couple other uh red lights that don't have this, but they're designed for babies and they're just one little bulb and they are specific to this frequency right here. So I think they're going to be pretty safe, especially if you keep your eyes closed. And the reason I want to put that there is because those bulbs are extremely inexpensive. I think they might be I don't know $5 to $8. But this

happens. The second thing that happens is in order to be able to even see during the daylight, we need a little more light. So we have to turn on the light to be able to see things. Before, when we were younger, we could just read it practically in the dark. Now we have to shine a big light on it. Number three, we start seeing more glare in the dark. Okay. Everything starts to really get foggy, and it's like it's kind of dangerous if you're driving when it's

than no exercise. Also, intermittent fasting because we know when you have diabetes, you destroy the mitochondria and we create eye problems. What is the opposite of diabetes? Having a low blood sugar and running your body on ketones. So, you want to do a low carb ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting with a lot of sleep. Number three has to do with most people are staring at screens for quite some time and so they're focused on a very close object and we need to reverse that because the your

raining out and especially foggy. It's not good. And then number four is when you start having more problems with the macula. They call that age-related macular degeneration. And what's happening is you're losing more mitochondria in this area right here. And now you really can't see fine detail. So you need these right here. There's other problems with the eye as well with the lens. You start developing this opaqueness where it's becoming cloudy. That's called

something out there in your environment and keep looking at it and focusing out there for a period of time. That would be very very therapeutic to undo this contraction and also at different distances like maybe 20 feet and then like look at a you know a cloud in the distance and try to focus in on it. Very therapeutic. I want to talk about number four. There is a genetic problem converting beta carotene into vitamin A which is going to affect the eye because one symptom of a vitamin A

cataracts. We'll talk about what to do in just a minute on that. And then also when you are looking at your computer screen, you're fixated in a certain position, maybe two or three feet away from you for long periods of time. And so now when you get up to look at things, boy, everything is blurred. And then there's a condition called glaucoma, which we have a lot of pressure in the eye. Before we get into what to do, I just want to mention type 2 diabetes. The eyes are

that up. Let's talk about number five. Luteine and zeazanthin. Both of these can help you see better. Both of these protect the eye against oxidation. So, they're very protective. They're very necessary. They also protect you against too much UV radiation. These two phytonutrients are also in kale. They're in pistachios. They're also in Swiss chard. There's actually more of it in kale and Swiss chard in pistachios than egg yolk. But in the egg yolk, it's way more bioavailable. So you're actually

very susceptible to blood sugar problems. In fact, this is why a diabetic has problems with the retina. It's called retinopathy, which is a disease of the retina. And this is why one of the leading causes of blindness comes from diabetes because of that high sugar going through the bloodstream. And that's what happens in the lens. And that's really what cataracts are. I want to mention another great amazing book that's really hard to find. I think he could only find on

longer. Like you might go 48 hours, wait a couple weeks, and then you go like 72 hours. When you start doing prolong fasting, your body's going to go into this recycling mode and start cleaning up damaged proteins, and those floaters are going to go bye-bye. Now, number seven, I did touch on gluccom a bit ago with Dr. Harold Shell. I'm going to put a link down below with his book, but he recommends taking higher doses of vitamin D3 with K2 and magnesium to help

Kindle. The author is Dr. Harold Shell. And he found that high doses of vitamin D3 can reverse glaucoma, but you have to get your blood levels up to like a hundred. Okay. Now, for some people, that's like, oh my gosh, that's way too much. But if you read his book, it's fascinating because he gets into how to do it correctly, how to do it safely, and he also talks about a lot of other eye problems that can be improved with higher doses of vitamin D3. It's a fascinating read. I will put a link down

and you put it on the outside of your eye, the cornea. It gets absorbed. it goes right into the lens and it breaks up and dissolves those those little uh glycated proteins. So, it's super effective of reversing cataracts. I'm not going to guarantee it's going to work for you. I don't know what stage you're at, but it's worth a shot, especially since it's not that expensive. There are other things that can prevent uh cataracts. going on a low carb diet. Benotamine,

below of that book. So, now let's talk about what you can do for the eye to reverse these situations. It's red light therapy. There's a right way to do it and there's a dangerous way to do it. And I'm going to explain both, but there's a tremendous amount of new research on this, and you're actually exposing the retina to red light. So, why does red light have anything to do with the retina? It helps to make the mitochondria more efficient and also correct some of the damage in that

to see a lot better quickly, you can just get a good light. Uh, I'm going to tell you the light I'm going to recommend. It's called a high CCT warm light LED between 3000 and 4,000K. Okay? You can just do a search on that. And you want that light facing the surface or the book you're reading or the computer that you're looking at. So the light is enhancing your ability to see. 11. Super important. This is a sunlight hack. If you were to watch the sunrise or uh watch the sunset and not look at

mitochondria. They found that you can optimize the mitochondria with this specific wavelength 670. And what's really cool about the simplicity of this therapy is you're going to be doing this for 3 minutes only in the morning once a week because apparently the effects last a whole week. But there are so many devices out there right now that you don't even know if they're really at the right frequency. You don't know how powerful they are. They're not really

your desk all day long, like today I had to do a lot of research on different things. I was at my computer for at least uh 10 hours so far. So every 20 minutes I have a window and I'm going to look 20 feet out and focus on something. Ideally, it'd be good to go outside. And I I have taken breaks today and and went outside. And what you do for 20 seconds, you focus on something 20 ft away. Anyone can do that. It's super therapeutic and it kind of reverses that

regulated that well. What can you do to safeguard that and still get the benefits? Well, the first thing is I'm going to recommend closing your eyes when you put this light into the eyes. Okay? Keep your eyes closed. Even though there's some references that say, "Oh, it's not going to hurt

also relates to number 13, which is dry eye. Being in front of your computer can really dry your eyes out. Also, a lack of vitamin A will cause dryness of the eye. But there's one other cause of dry eye that I need to make you aware of, and that is a a problem with the autonomic nervous system. When you are deficient in vitamin B1, the autonomic nervous system doesn't work that great anymore. And that system controls the smooth muscle that controls your glands. And for this example, I'm

talking about the tear ducts. You're going to have a lack of secretion of tears and that's going to dry them out. And the antidote is B1. But you must also correct the reason why you're deficient in B1. a lot of carbohydrates, diabetes type one, drinking a lot of coffee or tea can really deplete you of B1. And then the last point I want to talk about is these advanced glycated end products. This is that glycation when sugar connects with protein. Uh this happens when you

consume a lot of junk food and things like that. But there's things that can reverse that. Going on a low carb diet, doing intermittent fasting. Another thing you can do to reduce this is alphalapoic acid reduces AES. And again, this can also help if you have an advanced uh visual problems uh involving your lens being very rigid or you have a lot of complications from diabetes anywhere in your body or you have advanced uh cataracts, you need to be doing all these things I'm mentioning.

Exercise is a big one as well. polyphenols like certain herbs like uh turmeric, resveratrol and even dark chocolate. But probably the number one most powerful thing that can help you with this as well as other problems of the eye is vitamin D. Vitamin D is one of the best anti-inflammatories. It helps break this up. Always make sure you take magnesium with your vitamin D. And if you really want to know what vitamin D does in the body, not necessarily with diseases, but actually

what it actually does, there's a fascinating video that I want to share with you right now, and it's right here. Check it out.