The Berne Podcast with Dr. Sam Berne

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr. Jen Pfleghaar, DO, ABOIM @integrativedrmom on her podcast recently. Dr. Jen is very passionate about health. She completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Healthcare is often symptom-focused and reactive, rather than prevention-focused and proactive. Patients and physicians rarely discuss nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle change, and instead focus mainly on diagnosis and treatment of disease. Many clinicians feel unprepared to discuss the safe and effective use of dietary supplements or herbal medicines, or how to help patients incorporate relaxation or mind-body practices into their lives. She believes it is important to take the time with each patient and develop a strong relationship. Enjoy the show. -Emergency Medicine Physician -Integrative Medicine Physician -Owner of Healthology Integrative Med Spa -Owner Healthology by Dr. Jen Find her here: www.healthologymedspa.com www.healthologybydrjen.com www.integrativedrmom.com If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, people, pfa, prescription, nearsightedness, retina, light, lens, lasik surgery, vision, health, nearsighted, study, contacts, cataracts, sam, improve, reduce, developed, red light   00:06 Hey everybody, its 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 [email protected]. 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.   01:38 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 yo

In this episode, I am going to talk about Vision Motion Sickness. This is actually a pretty common condition that gets triggered when you are moving quickly or if you move your head quickly and you start to feel nauseas, dizzy or lightheaded. So let’s jump in. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS vision, visual, sensitivity, eye, podcast, vestibular, motion sickness, triggered, works, talk, prisms, vertigo, peripheral vision, traumatic brain injury, occurs, vestibular system, trauma, concussion, brain, cerebral spinal fluid 00:06 Hey everybody, its 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 [email protected]. 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. 01:36 Morning, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to my podcast today. So I’m going to talk about a condition called Vision motion sickness. 01:48 Now I’m going to preface this by saying that in this condition, it falls under the umbrella of vertigo. And I would check out on my website, my three videos I did on vertigo, which will give you some insight and basis as I talk about vision motion sickness. So this is actually a pretty common condition. And it occurs it gets triggered when you are moving quickly, either in a car, or if you move your head quickly, you start to feel nauseas or dizzy, lightheaded. So I want to talk about this condition. Because most eye doctors and neurologists, in my opinion, 02:40 could do a better job in diagnosing it. And of course, in my field, the rehabilitation of it is pretty awesome. 02:51 So if you suffer this set of symptoms, 2:56 what I have found over the years is that there’s some connection to either some concussion 03:04 trauma could be a head trauma could be emotional trauma. So those are the things that kind of trigger the initial hypersensitivity. And today, so many people are suffering, either concussion experiences car accidents, or just plain trauma that this creates a hypersensitivity in the relationship between our eyes and our inner ear. 03:36 And in other podcasts and video blogs, I talked about the relationship between our eyeballs and our inner ears, the visual vestibular system. And both of them are important in helping us deal with orientation and balance. And in this vote mode of vision motion sickness there is either an overacting visual component overacting vestibular component. And if this is a chronic issue, it can actually turn into 04:14 a chronic situation where you have low responsiveness. 04:20 Now another symptom that I’ll bring into this is the light sensitivity. And this occurs quite frequently, you know, when you go into one of the big box stores like Walmart, or target 04:37 and you’re dealing with those really troublesome fluorescent lights that are blinking and so you have an over sensitivity to this flickering. 04:49 Another factor in this is that your energetic resources and reserves are usually pretty low and 05:00 We can test this visually, by seeing how well you can sustain your visual focus, or how flexible you are in making changes in your focus. This is part of the vision exam that goes beyond reading the eye chart. But these are very simple tests that can really tell the doctor, okay, there’s a issue between the brain eye ear connection, and being able to filter out different sensory stimuli. And that’s really what it comes down to. Because if we’re working and playing optimally, we have a natural and organic filtering system in the brain that helps our eyes and our ears 05:51 regulate how much sensory information we get in. And once we start getting into a moving situation. 06:00 This amplifies this sensory stimulation. So if you’re not 6:08 working at a high level in terms of resource and resiliency, then you’re gonna get triggered by this vision, motion sensitivity. And it’s partly vestibular and partly visual. 06:24 So what can you do about it? 06:26 Well, what I have found is that, first of all, in terms of the light sensitivity, sometimes some filters or tints can work well. So I would either do a blue or purple tint, that can be very calming for the visual system. So

In a recent study conducted by a group called Mamavation in partnership with Environmental Health News, researchers found that 18 sets of soft contact lenses were evaluated and came back with various levels of organic fluorine—an indicator for the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS). PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” is a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals used in consumer products worldwide since the 1950s, according to the National Institutes of Health. They are ingredients in various everyday products, can last years without breaking down, and have been linked to cancer and other serious health issues. The sets of soft contact lenses tested were from three major companies (Acuvue, a Johnson & Johnson Vision brand, Alcon, and CooperVision). Contact lens analysis by a laboratory certified by the Environmental Protection Agency by the Mamavation eco-wellness website to determine how much of this PFAS building block was present in each product. The study examined organic fluorine in lenses made by Acuvue, Alcon, and Coopervision. It found the chemical between 105 parts per million (ppm) to 20,700 ppm. The chemistry is complex, and the lenses may have some other ingredients, but the readings suggest fluoropolymers. Fluoropolymer PFAS, in this form, is essentially a soft plastic material and a significant component for disposable, soft lenses. Among the tested contact lenses, 22% displayed organic fluorine levels surpassing 18,000 ppm, accounting for four of the 18 products assessed. Additionally, 44% of the lenses tested contained over 4,000 ppm of organic fluorine, representing eight of the 18 products examined. What our lab found was a bit concerning because 100% of the popular contact lens products we sent came back with various levels of organic fluorine, a marker for PFAS. Two companies use silicone hydrogel lenses that are free of PFAS. Our trusted manufacturing partner, Visco Vision, manufactures lenses. Visco is the largest manufacturer of silicone hydrogels and has been leading in the contact lens industry since 2009. The manufacturing plant originates in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. These lenses contain high-quality silicone hydrogel. With 47% water content and high oxygen permeability (175 Dk/t), Eiyan lenses provide all-day comfort and moistness. Band L Lenses made up of Silicone hydrogel Band L Lenses: https://eiyanlens.com/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS plastic, contact lenses, called, eye, pfa, ocular, contact lens, podcast, research, lenses, article, microbiome, membership, company, organic, private facebook community, toxic, sam, questions, today   00:05 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeCarity podcast. So if you want to get in touch with me, you can send me an email at [email protected]. Or you can text me now 1-844-932-1291 Send me your questions. Before we get to today’s show, I want to announce my membership program. This is an opportunity for you to get exposed to my exclusive content and resources, things you won’t see on my social media or website. The reason why I’m offering this membership program is to give you valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your wellness. You’ll receive personalized support and coaching, goal setting, and I’m going to make you accountable so that you achieve your goals. Also, with the membership, you’ll have the convenience of 24/7 access without having to pay for weekly appointments. We’ll be offering a private Facebook community so we’ll be able to share with each other. And you’ll be able to come to my live Q&A and ask me questions. So if you’re interested, you can go to my website, drsamberne.com. And sign up now. Okay, now to the show. 02:09 Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and we’re here at my podcast. I’m doing my morning hike. And I took a question from a listener are the plastics in contact lenses? Are they toxic? So that’s going to be the basis of our show today. So I’m going to reference a research study that was published, there was a group called mom ovation. And they partnered with a publication called environmental news health. And in this particular study, they took a look at 18 pairs of contact lenses from the most popular companies in the United States to see what was the plastic used in the contact lenses. 03:11 So the researchers came back from the study and they found that there were various levels of organic warming, which is an indicator of something called PFAS. PFAS is an indicator of 03:29 what we call poly floral alkali. And we call it 03:35 forever chemicals. Wherever chemicals are a synthe

Today, I am covering my top 3 tips to improve your vision. These are easy things you can do that can make a big difference. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescriptions, exercise, cellular level, vision, sam, relaxation, yin yang, access, peripheral vision, question, palm, informed decisions, spotify, goal, disease, hum, reason, podcast, adding Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I’m going to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. 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 the sign up, go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show. 02:09 Hey everybody, good morning. It’s Dr. Sam, like to welcome you to my podcast today. So I received a question from a listener, I get this question a lot. What are the secrets in actually being able to improve your vision. So I’m gonna give you three quick points here. The first is get the diagnosis, figure out what you’re dealing with, you know, if you get pictures if you can get this will be more in the eye disease world. Or if you have a prescription that keeps increasing or you’ve got, you know, symptoms of headaches or eyestrain from glasses, you want to know what you’re dealing with. Number two, to do a combination of just a few eye exercises, I’d like to pick about three of them, one of them would would be doing some kind of an eye movement exercise, the second one would be a visual coordination exercise. And the third would be an eye relaxation exercise. So these would be done every day, I usually do them three times a day. So my three ones that I think about right now are the animal eye chart, the Yin Yang peripheral vision chart, and the N Palm Hum. Those are on my website, they’re all over the internet, you can just Google it. The reason why I like those three is that the eye movement is going to stretch the eye muscles in all the areas of gaze. And that’s going to bring more blood flow and more I relaxation, you do each eye separately. And then doing an exercise where you’re using both eyes together. Like the Yin Yang, peripheral vision, that’s a soft focus, exercise visual relaxation, but you get the feedback that both eyes are working together, you need that feedback because this is a tendency. And this occurs both in the eye disease world and also in the refractive error world where the two eyes are not balancing. If you’re right handed, usually the right eye is doing much more of the work and the left eye is the brain is suppressing that left eye. So if you do the Yin Yang peripheral vision exercise, that’s going to get your two eyes to work together with the brain. And then after you’ve done both of those, and I do maybe two or three minutes of each, then I do the palm hum the end palm home exercise. This maximizes I relaxation, it’s a reset. It’s a good regulator. And you know, when you do the palm hum and you’re done, your eyesight is definitely going to be clear. You’re going to be more centered, your breathing is going to be deeper. And it’s a no brainer that that’s the sequence you follow and you do it for 30 days. That’s the other thing that you do. I would also consider you know if you do have an eye disease, to start adding certain supplements and also adding different foods to your diet. Add, because it will accelerate the process. If you feed your eyes and brain with better nutrients, it’s kind of like, if you’ve got the energy and on a cellular level to make the change, you’re going to make it faster. Whereas if you’re depleted on a cellular level, then you’re not going to make the changes or make the changes as quickly. And I’d be ve

Today, I want to take a question today from a listener who has high eye pressure, but no Glaucoma. I want to go into the causes and what you can do to bring your eye pressure down. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, hypertension, glaucoma, ocular, pressure, aqueous, podcast, coleus, blogs, improve, optic nerve, xanthan, eyedrops, histamines, soft cloth, information, integrative medicine   00:06 Hey everybody, its 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 [email protected]. 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.   01:37 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to take a question today from a listener. She’s got high eye pressure, but she doesn’t have glaucoma. So I want to go into the causes and what you can do to bring your eye pressure down. So in ocular hypertension, there’s a consistently high eye pressure reading that the doctor measures, but there’s no optic nerve damage or visual field loss. Usually it’s a problem with either the aqueous production or the drainage in the eye. And this is what causes the high eye pressure. So even though I am a believer in the epigenetics model, which says that the genes are expressed, based on our environment, our diet lifestyle, there is a link genetically if your parents or grandparents have had glaucoma, you do have a higher risk of having either glaucoma or in this case, ocular hypertension. I’ve also seen that as you get older, and you have more free radical damage or inflammation in the eye, there’s a higher risk of ocular hypertension and or glaucoma. And in ethnicity, African Americans tend to have more glaucoma or ocular hypertension. And so these are things to note if you fall into any of those categories. So I’ve done many video blogs and podcasts on primary open angle glaucoma, narrow angle glaucoma, you can find those on my website or YouTube or Facebook. But today because the question is about ocular hypertension, I want to talk about some other causes. One of the causes could be taking either oral or topical corticosteroids. So when you take steroids, this can artificially raise the eye pressure. And so you have ocular hypertension, if you’re taking any kind of corticosteroids. I’ve also found that eye trauma or eye injury can cause ocular hypertension. And this trauma can change the fluid dynamics and flow in the aqueous. And this is another reason why I’ve seen ocular hypertension. I’ve also seen that certain eye inflammatory diseases like iritis and Uveitis can drive the eye pressure up. And even secondary glaucoma like pseudo exfoliation, glaucoma, which has these flakes that can deposit in the drainage areas of the eye, which also cause ocular hypertension. You know, another thing that I asked a lot about is what kind of medications you’re taking, because certain medications can actually cause your eye pressure to go up. So let’s go through the list. We have things like decongestants anti depressants, any histamines so in treating this condition and I want to talk more holistically are using integrative medicine. One of the herbs I like is something called Coleus and you can get This is a tincture, it’s sold readily all over the internet, I would look for an organic Coleus herbal tincture coleus. And some of the small studies has been shown to actually bring down the eye pressure, you can take it internally, and then you can also put some drops on a soft cloth, and you can place it over the eyes as a compress. So you’re not going to use the tincture directly on the eyes, but you can use it as a compress. So both orally and topically, that’s one of the best things to do. Number two, I would suggest getting some kind of either lymphatic drainage treatment, massage cranial sacral therapy works really well of course, being a cranial sacral therapist, I’ve actually measured people’s eye pressures before and after I do a cranial treatment. And usually the pressure can come down anywhere between three and six points just after an hour treatment. I also like acupuncture. You know as I’ve said in other video

Today, I want to take a look at the research on using deep learning and artificial intelligence to make early diagnoses of eye conditions by analyzing images of the retina. This technology can identify diseases like macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, and may even indicate risks of cardiovascular issues and early-stage dementia. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! Referenced Article: Prediction of cardiovascular risk factors from retinal fundus photographs via deep learning SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, deep learning, researchers, disease, deep learning model, eye, podcast, diagnosis, macular degeneration, eye exam, degeneration, capillaries, early, artificial intelligence, biological, level, macula, micro, early diagnosis, clarity 00:06 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 [email protected]. 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. 01:36 Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to our EyeClarity podcast today. So I want to bring in some interesting research. And it has to do with being able to make an early diagnosis of eye conditions. And once you have that diagnosis, you can then use proactive or preventative ways to either slow down the progression, and in some cases, even reverse the disease process. So there’s a new type of research out there called deep learning this is done through artificial intelligence. And researchers are using pictures of the retina cells. It’s the micro capillaries, the optic nerve, the macula. And when you go for an eye exam, either the eye doctor looks with a some kind of a scope at your retina back of your eye. Or he or she now can use a photography instrument to take a measurement of the status of your retina cells, your macula, your optic nerve, and so on. So in this next level of diagnosis, what researchers are doing is they are calculating your biological age, using what we call deep learning models. And this is an artificial intelligence process. Whereby what happens is the researchers have hooked into a very large database of pictures of the eye. And these images show different stages of the diagnosis, diseases, especially in the areas of macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy. And you know, in other podcasts, I’ve talked about how eye doctors can look at the retina, because it’s such a great window into the body. And they can even pick up the brain health. So early stages of dementia, and even cardio vascular disease because when you look at the retina, you’re looking at the health of the tiniest blood vessels that are in the body, which we call the micro capillaries. And I’ve talked about them a lot because the micro capillaries are key in your ability to oxygenate and hydrate the tissue in the back of the eye. And when there’s a starvation when there’s oxidative stress when there’s inflammation in these micro capillaries, this is when disease starts to occur. So in this biological age that the researchers are looking at, if they can tell early on that there might be some deterioration and this is detected through through this deep learning artificial intelligence, because with the database that the researchers have collected, they now know what are the patterns? What, what are the images looking like, on a very subtle level, if you start showing, say, macular degeneration, and the ability for this deep learning AI to, to diagnose is so much better than even well trained ophthalmologist or optometrist who does an eye exam. Now, let’s say in this model, that there’s an early diagnosis of, say, macular degeneration, you can then modify your health practices, change your lifestyle, change your diet, maybe do some of the things that I suggest to recommend, and you are really catching the the the disease very early. So this biological clock that is being recognized by this deep learning model is really a breakthrough in one’s ability to be able to diagnose very early on. And in fact, some of the researchers have talked about actually creating an app where lay people can take a photograph of their eye, and they can send it somewhere a database. And they

Join us today as we delve into the exciting world of branding and social media growth. In this episode, I’ll be sharing a captivating presentation I recently gave on scoring big in these areas. Get ready to embark on a journey as I recount my personal experiences and offer valuable insights on discovering your target audience and cultivating a thriving social media presence. Don’t miss out on this engaging discussion packed with practical tips and strategies for building your brand and expanding your online influence. Enjoy the Show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS started, post, people, podcast, put, talk, question, business, social media, video, great, create, facebook, build, brand, product, tiktok, instagram, youtube, content

I want to talk about adjusting to a reduced prescription for nearsightedness. I received a question from a mother whose son is struggling to adjust to the reduced prescription, experiencing eye strain and muscle pain. When presented with a reduced prescription, the eyes should relax, but some individuals may feel the tension that was previously unnoticed due to a stronger prescription. So we are going to talk about why this might happen and what you can do to relax those muscles. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, wear, access, question, tension, reduced, eye, muscles, exclusive membership, nearsightedness, squint, sam, strong, distance, feeling, reduce, retina, vision, gave, today 00:05 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I’m going to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. 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 the sign up, go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show. 02:07 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to the podcast. So I received a question from a mom, who I’m working with her son who’s got nearsightedness? It’s a very interesting question. So I gave him a prescription that reduces his myopia. And she said that he’s having a hard time adjusting to the prescription that is creating eyestrain, and his eye muscles hurt. And she wants to know what she can do to tell him to get used to the prescription? Well, it’s interesting, because when you’re presented with a reduced prescription, your eyes should relax. Basically, any reduced prescription is saying, Can I let go with my muscles? And can I release and relax? Now in this particular case, there’s two possible scenarios going on. The first is that, and this is very common with people that start wearing reduced prescriptions, they start feeling their eye muscles more, and they start feeling this area. Whereas before, it was very, a very unrealized area, meaning they had no awareness of it. And so when you wear something that’s less tight, guess what happens? All of that tightness that you’ve absorbed over years of the strong prescription. You feel that. So it’s showing you what’s already there. It’s not causing it. But the relaxation potential is showing you the tension that you’ve been carrying for a long time. The second part of this is it’s not the prescription that’s causing the eye tension. It’s the attitude and habits that we bring to the prescription that creates the tension. So this means that we’re so used to having it clear that when we’re given a softer prescription, and it’s a little on the soft blurry side, we immediately want to get rid of it by squinting and straining. So we’re back to our old habits again. Yeah, exactly. So that reduce prescription is going to confront the habit of you wanting to squint and strain and muscle it. So what I told the mother is just invite the child to wear this reduced prescription at near at the 14 inches, maybe maybe 20 inches at the most but don’t Try to wear it in the distance for now. I mean, the prescription was prescribed for near vision to begin with. And it can be a big jump, and kind of disorienting if you get this reduced prescription. And you have the expectation that it should be clearer in the distance. Now what will happen over time, is that if you get used to the reduced prescription, you’ll notice that your distance acuity improves. And you know, you’re there, when you then put on the strong prescription, and you start getting a headache, you start feeling the eye ache, and you go, wow, this is what I used to wear all the time. And now, I’m aw

The gallbladder is key to your overall health, so today I am addressing my top tips for gallbladder health. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS gallbladder, eat, podcast, sam, eyes, exclusive content, foods, formula, produce, membership, absorb, enzyme, bile, health, offering, questions, white flour products, talk, floaters, milk   00:05 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:30 Before we get to today’s show, I want to announce my membership program. This is an opportunity for you to get exposed to my exclusive content and resources, things you won’t see on my social media or website. The reason why I’m offering this membership program is to give you valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your wellness. You’ll receive personalized support and coaching, goal setting, and I’m going to make you accountable so that you achieve your goals.   01:16 Also, with the membership, you’ll have the convenience of 24/7 access without having to pay for weekly appointments. We’ll be offering a private Facebook community so we’ll be able to share with each other. And you’ll be able to come to my live q&a and ask me questions.   01:43 So if you’re interested, you can go to my website, Dr. Sam berne.com. And sign up now. Okay, now to the show.   02:14 Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast today. So I want to take a few questions. The first question I want to talk about is a woman on TikTok has asked me, What can she do if she’s had her gallbladder taken out? Well, in some of my content, I talk about the importance of gallbladder health. And eye health. Remember, it’s the liver that produces the bile. And it’s the gallbladder that stores the bile. And it’s the bile that helps us absorb those very important fat soluble vitamins that we need for our eye health. Things like vitamin A,   03:04 lutein z is Anthon.   03:08 And when we do not either produce enough Bile   03:13 or store the bile properly, which is the gallbladder, then we may not be absorbing our fat soluble nutrients as well as we could.   03:27 So whether you have your gallbladder or not.   03:30 I want to give you some information that can help you either support a healthier gallbladder or if the gallbladder has been taken out. What can you do? So let’s talk first, if you’ve had your gallbladder taken out, it’s very important that you know that you can not eat a lot of fatty foods. So this would be things like steak, or home ground beef, bacon, pork,   03:59 things like lamb or sausage, and even dairy products, like whole milk or cheese, butter, lard, and even highly processed foods. Things with sugar in them, you know the white flour products, pies, cinnamon rolls,   04:21 and you want to steer yourself towards more high fiber type of foods, things that contain calcium and the B vitamins, the trace minerals, some of these high fiber foods would be things like beans or lentils. I even would go for things like   04:43 whole grain foods, nuts and seeds, things like chia seeds, flax seeds, and the foods that contain loads of antioxidants. These would be things like kale and spinach, citrus fruits, the berry family and of course your   05:00 cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, all would be great if you’ve lost or had to get rid of your gallbladder, and overall, lower your processed fats.   05:17 So consider when you’ve lost your gallbladder Eat smaller meals.   05:23 Also, I would consider eating very little dairy. And you can even go towards being a vegan or vegetarian, that might be easier on your gallbladder. And of course, I’ve created a gallbladder enzyme formula, which helps you absorb the fat soluble foods that you’re eating bile salts, would be something that you could add in my, my formula has that in it. But it really takes some some focus to be able to understand that you can’t eat the way you did when you had your gallbladder. Or let’s talk for a minute if, let’s say you still have your gallbladder, but you’re under a lot of chronic stress, or you’re dealing with toxicities, because there is a relationship between the liver and the gallbladder. So doing some liver support

I want to cover a topic I get a lot of questions about. EMF Exposure and our health. EMF exposure from our digital devices and its potential impact on our health. EMF pollution can affect various aspects of our well-being, including heart rate, blood pressure, brainwaves, circulation, and even our eyes. While some research suggests no health effects, many individuals experience issues like insomnia, inflammation, memory and concentration problems, mood changes, and even DNA alterations due to EMF exposure. So let’s dig in. Enjoy the Show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS emf, emf exposure, digital devices, microwave, earthing, affect, waves, head, bluetooth, sandia mountains, eyes, exposure, emfs, brainwaves, electricity, ridge, neutralize, exposed, pollution, magnetic waves   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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:01 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my I clarity podcast today. I’m on a great hike up to this area. I’m heading up to this ridge over here, it’s probably going to take me a couple hours. But I wanted to address this question that I get probably once a week. And it has to do with EMF exposure from all our digital devices. So in today’s show, I’m going to talk a bit about EMFs and how they may affect our health.   00:40 EMF pollution can do things like increase your heart rate, your blood pressure, affect your brainwaves, your heart circulation, and your heart waves, and of course, your eyes. So my first comment about EMFs. And how it may affect your health is that in some of the research, scientists feel that EMF pollution does not affect our health at all.   I’ve also gotten complaints from people who use electronic devices have more insomnia, higher levels of inflammation, memory and concentration issues. The EMF exposure affects their moods, so it could affect their dopamine levels. And some of the studies I’ve seen actually show that it can affect your DNA. In another study I looked at the EMF waves affect our calcium in the cells. Now, calcium is important, because it helps in the communication on a cellular level.   So this gets scrambled as we get exposed to EMF pollution. You know, one report I read is that the average person spends up to 10 hours a day on their digital devices. So one of the things I recommend is getting an EMF tester. And this way you can test both the EMF waves and the magnetic waves, and you can see what you’re exposed to. One surprising thing that I saw in some of the research is how damaging the microwaves are to our body. And I know a lot of people cook with microwaves. When I was studying with my teacher, Dr. Hazel Parcells, some of you know that I’ve referred to her when I met her. She was 103 years old, and she was starting a retreat center in sapio, New Mexico.   And Dr. Parr cells was adamant that putting your food or water in a microwave basically killed the food. And I certainly have some aunts and uncles and my grandparents who used microwaves. And no matter what I would say to them, when I would go visit them, they were addicted to using the microwave. So my suggestion would be if you have a microwave, just get rid of it.   Another trend that I’m looking at right now is how glasses are glasses companies are putting Bluetooth in the frame so that you can actually listen to audio. And you can use Siri and artificial intelligence to program the glasses so that you can listen to your favorite podcast. So I’m kind of against that because I feel that the closer these digital devices are to your head, the more it’s going to affect your brainwaves and also your eyes.   Another trend that I’ve seen is that more and more people are developing flashing lights and they go to their eye doctor and the eye doctor says your retina is fine. Your vitreous is fine. You don’t have any posterior vitreous detachment. And what I have found is that people that are on digital devices all day they absorb all those damaging waves. And this leads to flashing lights and eventually floaters. So here are three things that you You can do to mitigate EMF exposure.   Number one, keep those digital devices away from your head and your eyes and refrain from using Bluetooth. I know a lot of headphones have Bluetooth but I would not recommend putting Bluetooth around your head.  

Here is a great presentation I gave recently that I wanted to share with you. I talk about my history and how, as an eye doctor, I came to work with children struggling with their development and how that lead to KidPower. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS child, primitive reflexes, eye, vision, kids, trauma, nearsighted, visual, important, therapy, understand, create, doctor, called, parents, conditions, birth, developmental, nutrition, problem   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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   Hey everyone, I want to welcome you to my talk today, here at Kidpower. And Albuquerque. Kidpower is near and dear to my heart, because it’s a place I’ve been coming for, I don’t know, over 20 years, and I help the kids with their vision. So I’m going to talk about that today. And to begin with, what I want to do is I want to talk about a core issue that has been coming up in the context of working with kids. And that core issue has to do with cracking the code, cracking the code, with each child, what is it going to take to turn the switch on so that they’re thriving? And when I see a child here at Kidpower, or in my practice, that’s my biggest curiosity, because usually, you know, parents are coming in and we know as parents were really struggling with what’s going on with my child, and why are they struggling in school? And how come they’re not reading and we just went to an IEP, you know, we did the testing, and now they may end up in a special education class.   So I have to say, I have some personal experience, because I was one of those kids. I grew up in the Northeast, and I came from a family that really stressed education. And my parents, my grandparents, my aunts, and uncles, a bunch of intellectuals. And so I remember my uncle going to his house, and he had like, all these books on foreign language, he actually spoke five different languages. And my, my mom and dad, I mean, they just stressed college and grad school. But the thing was, is I was eight years old, and I was diagnosed with a learning disability. And, as I, as I think about it, now, it’s kind of a painful time because I didn’t want to read I didn’t like reading. I wasn’t a good reader. School was really challenging for me. And so my, my mom took me to a lot of places. And we actually ended up like a lot of the kids here at Kidpower. I ended up at an eye doctors office. And he said to me, Well, you’re nearsighted. And let’s give you some glasses. And so I got these lenses. And I started to memorize, that’s how I got through school. And I never was a good test taker. And I just worked really hard. And I was able to do pretty well in high school and college and got into professional school, graduated and I met a, what we call it developmental optometrists. This was a, an eye doctor who looked at vision in a more holistic way. And I was 20 years old. And he had a course that he was offering. And he also was offering his services as a doctor and as me as a patient. So I started going with him, and he diagnosed me with a condition called convergence insufficiency.   Meaning my left eye used to wander out, I would see double vision, I couldn’t focus. I had a little bit of impulsivity, a little bit of hyperactivity, and sounds like ADHD, right. And that’s kind of what I had. And so through his physical therapy exercises, I was able to heal that condition. And because of my pretty extreme nearsightedness that completely dissolved, so I didn’t need my lenses anymore. And so today, I, you know, I’m on my fifth book that I’ve written, and I read voraciously, and my learning is incredible. But when I see kids, I have a lot of empathy for them and their parents, because I was the puzzle I didn’t, you know, know, the first thing and my mom didn’t know at that point, that there were other resources like this. And so, when I meet a child and meet a family, I’m not just looking at the eyeballs, you know, and in traditional eye care, you know, we’ve all been gone to an eye for an eye exam. And what happens you sit in a dark room, and the doctor is flipping lenses. You’re looking behind a machine, and, you know, especially in children and then they use eye drops and it’s a pretty traumatic experience for Right.   05:00 And, and I just,

Here is a session I had with a patient who was suffering from double vision. In the first session, I recommended some physical therapy exercises and yoked prisms, but she was struggling with the program. So, we had another session where I laid out some important principles for her and anyone else suffering from double vision on the road to recovery. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS prisms, eye, vision, bead, double, left, awareness, exercises, glasses, feel, notice, touch, suppression, parasympathetic, moving, closer, internal, questions, string, suppressing   00:05 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:29 Now to the latest I clarity Episode   00:44 Hey, everybody, welcome to the show today. So you’re gonna get a peek into a session I did recently with a patient who’s suffering double vision. And in session one, I gave her some physical therapy exercises, I also recommended some prism glasses, my famous yoked prisms, and she was struggling with the program. So she sent me some emails and had some questions. They said, Hey, let’s just do another session. So in the second session, I start off by asking her to check in with me. And then I lay out some principles that I feel are very important only for her but also anybody who’s suffering double vision, what the road is to recovery. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks for tuning in. So   01:39 let’s let’s get a check in on sounds like you’re having some struggles and your formula on gets getting some positive spin here. So   01:54 lay it all out for me.   01:57 So I noticed, first, let’s start with like the brach string. I noticed with that, that my right eye is stable, but my left eye is like moving when I moved the string in and out. Like it’s moving back and forth. But my right eye seems to be staying still. Or maybe my right eye is just more linear. And my left eye is doing like a curve around sort of thing. I think, from the exercises that I’ve been doing, it seems like my left dies the problem.   02:35 When I now that my I think I’ve been suppressing the left eye for a long time. And so now that I’ve been doing the exercise, it seems to be coming back, which is making the double worse. But that’s like you said it’s an intermediary step. And I agree with you completely, I have to have that one to see for them to work together.   02:54 And so now,   02:57 since the left is showing up, I’ve been trying to like, look at what the left eye sees, instead of what the right eye sees. Does that make sense.   03:06 And when I look at what the left eye sees, it moves closer to the right eye, so it’s getting more in line with my right eye.   03:16 But I can only see what the left is, I always see double. But if I focus on a single thing that left I will show up, then I can see both pictures very clearly if I if I focus on one thing   03:35 the dot chart when I was trying to do that I was getting them kind of to line up but then I noticed I have two pen points.   03:44 And I’m not I think what is supposed to happen is they’re supposed to be a convergence in the middle of those two dots, isn’t it?   03:53 That’s one way you can do it. There are there are a variety of ways you can   03:58 Okay, what was happening to me is I was creating a.to, the left and the other like my right dot was moving on top of one of the dots that was already there. I don’t know if that’s crazy, or if it’s trying to do what it’s supposed to do.   04:21 And then I kind of now that my left eye is showing up and I can see what it’s doing. I did kind of a evaluation of what my eyes doing. So   04:35 if I’m looking straight forward, I have   04:39 I guess it’s called vertical diplopia. My right eye seems to be on top, the left is on the bottom. But if I lift my chin up, the left dips down and then it goes   04:54 it goes to the left and then it goes kind of back right up. So it’s doing   05:00 sort of like that. When I move my chin down, the left moves up, and it kind of meets the right and like I told you before, that’s kind of when I see my best. It’s not perfect, but it’s as close as it gets.   05:18 When I turn my head to the right, the left goes

I had a session with a concerned mother whose child was diagnosed with Strabismus. We work through what that means and steps she can take to help the child. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, primitive reflexes, vision, called, crawling, moving, brain, turning, muscles, husband, alternating, walking, birth, movement, other words, stimulate, learn, development, experience, holistic   00:05 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 [email protected].   00:29 Now to the latest EyeClarity episode   00:48 All right, so what would be your goals and objectives today? With our with our session?   00:56 Okay, what what do you what are you thinking about? I would like to focus on my my son Alexander is 18 months old. I think you could see him right there. Can you see him say hi? Yes, I can.   01:08 He’s 18 months old. And I noticed since birth one of you I don’t know if it’s one or both or depending is looks like it’s slightly off. I don’t know if you receive the pictures I sent.   01:21 Just okay. And I attempted a golden I like an ophthalmologist but I kind of walked out politely because they just wanted to do too much dilate. I just didn’t want to do that just yet. And I’m wondering if you could help assess what the problem might be. And if there’s something natural or exercise or something holistic that could maybe be treated or   01:43 want to make sure it’s not an issue and it’s not going to get worse and you know, something I have to be ahead of.   01:50 Absolutely. So Alexandre is 18 months old. Is that Is that correct? Yes. Okay, and tell me a little bit about your gestation period, the birth process. Anything unusual there? I went through IVF for about eight years. I had him when I was 51. I actually carried him through to 37 weeks. And we were supposed to go to 40 i My pregnancy was fine. No issues. No you no nausea, no cravings, nothing. It’s just up to 37 weeks. i My blood pressure was starting to elevate so my OB wanted to to take him out and we did a C section. He was born four pounds along the weight 15 ounces. And they said he was just under five pounds. So they had to put him in a NICU and they said it’s because he had a little low blood sugar and low body temperature. We were both in the hospital for about five days. Me to regulate my blood pressure and then my son to regulate his body temp and his sugar. And then we released and since then he’s you know, he’s seeing a holistic pediatrician and he’s taking vitamin D probiotic, and DHA and NACA what? He’s been healthy hasn’t been sick.   03:05 Great. Okay.   03:08 So, after the birth, brought him home, what is his? What is his mobility? Does he move around a lot? Is he on his tummy at all? Do you know what’s kind of active mobile activities? Are you engaging with him when he was when he came home from the hospital or in general? Well, you know, after so he’s 18 months. So we’ve got you know, a little bit of track record here. Obviously, you know, is there any mobility on the floor? Is he scooting, calling? Tell me about his his mobility experience? Yes, he’s right now he’s walking. He loves to activity walks, almost runs around the house. He’s very active.   04:01 Let’s see, we take him outside and I just stay focused. But this is his baby nurse. This is MISA. She’s known him since birth.   04:09 She could chime in. He loves to be outdoors. He goes he climbs the stairs here outdoors and a little slide he has in the backyard. You know with our assistance. She taught him to walk up and down the stairs with with assistance.   04:25 Yeah, like he wrote just like seems like a healthy boy. Yeah. All right. Cool. Tell me about his, his crawling   04:36 it the the crawling stage much or? Yes, he did go through the crawling stage. Yes, very fast. People say it’s the fastest call they’ve ever seen. And he’s progressed to walking so he really he crawls from time to time. But he very fast prefers to walk.   04:55 So when you say fast, meaning he kind of went   05:00 from say, sitting to standing walking, and he was in the crawling stage, but it was kind of a quick stage. Is that? Is that what you’re saying? I’m sorry, if I missed if I heard him, he’s, he’s, he likes to call. It’s funny c

I wanted to share this session I help with a patient struggling with nearsightedness. I show her some eye exercises and we work on creating a personalized protocol together. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescription, glasses, exercise, breakfast, vitamin, good, eat, wear, left, day, blur, thumb, distance, screen, home, protein, questions, jelly beans, foods   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 [email protected].   Next, recording for you. Okay, so what are your goals and objectives today I   00:12 want to learn about like, how I can improve my vision cuz honestly, I’m really just want to be comfortable not wearing my glasses.   00:23 Okay. All right, that’s fair enough. And when did you get your first prescription? I mean,   00:32 I was in second grade,   00:34 third grade. And you remember what happened? What was going on? Were you having trouble seeing the board? Or?   00:41 Yeah, I think it was because we had those, like vision tests that we did at school. And I think that mine didn’t come back. You know? 2020. So I remember my parents took me to the eye doctor, and I got my prescription.   00:57 Your first prescription? And then did you have any increases?   01:03 Yeah. I mean, it’s been like increasing over the years. Oh, my   01:09 God. Yeah. So I’m looking through the portal. Did you happen to send me that prescription somewhere?   01:24 You can read it to me.   01:26 I’ll read it. Okay. Okay. All right. Oh, D.   01:34 Yeah. Are these right?   01:35 I? Okay. Oh, D it says fear. Negative 4.5. And then cylinder, negative point five. Okay, and then access 175. Okay. And then oh, S series, negative 6.0. And then it says cylinder, d s.   02:00 And then nothing else. Okay, and what’s the date of that prescription?   02:08 The 21st of February this year,   02:13 which is, like fresh one, like for this appointment? Just to give you an idea, like,   02:19 where she’s at right now? Okay, is she wearing that prescription? No, she says one. You’re wearing an older prescription?   02:30 Yeah, from like, three years ago?   02:36 years ago, okay. And it’s not important, but do you have those numbers? I believe.   03:01 So it’d be Oh, do you would be negative 3.75. cylinder and x to stay the same.   03:12 Okay, and then   03:14 negative 4.5. And actually, you didn’t have anything for?   03:21 Yes. Okay, so, this prescription you’re looking through, which is three years old? Or how are you seeing out of it? Or is it blurry for you? Is it clear? What do you   03:38 generally like everything is still clear. I mean, if I’m looking at something small on the board, if I’m sitting like kind of foreign class, like it’s gonna be a bit blurry. For my day to day life, I, I really don’t have any issues at all in this English class. Okay.   03:58 Sounds good. And what about TV or road signs? Any difficulty there?   04:06 Not really. I mean, sometimes when it’s dark, I might have to like squint, but in general, not really. Okay.   04:18 So, how’s your driving?   04:23 Driving is fine. I never had any issues with driving.   04:28 Okay, so this prescription works for driving. Okay. And there’s quite a big difference in this February 21. Prescription, especially in the left eye. So are you are you noticing the left eye has gotten a lot worse since three years ago or more now?   04:53 Yeah, I definitely. I definitely can tell like when I was at the appointment and she just had me I don’t usually, you know, cover one eye on and regular basis going and covering my right eye. I was looking through my left eye had definitely noticed. That’s a lot where I said, I think that’s what’s really intriguing my vision at this point. It’s the left   05:13 like you, you feel like you’re using your right eye a lot more than your left eye or? No,   05:22 I’m not. I don’t really know, I’ve never really been able to tell if I use one. I’m more than the other.   05:27 Okay. And do you ever go without your glasses?   05:31 Yeah, I try to on like walking around or just with my friends. It’s interesting, because I just tend to see, like, I can get around pretty normally, if it’s sun

A recent CNN article came out that connected Alzheimer’s disease to your eyes. So I want to take a moment to break this down for you and look into it further. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS alzheimer, beta amyloid, retina, markers, eyes, podcast, holistic, called, brain, amyloid beta, clarity, tissue, dealing, cell, health, researchers, cognitive decline, disease, episode, today   00:05 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 [email protected].   00:29 Now to the latest I clarity Episode   00:46 Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another AI clarity podcast. So today I’m going to comment on a recent c and n report, which is connecting Alzheimer’s disease to your eyes.   01:08 So we know that the eye brain connection is really solid. In fact, the eyes originate from the brain prenatally. So every tissue of the eyeball has its roots in the brain.   01:26 And when you start looking into the eyes, you can actually monitor and see disease very early, whether it’s diabetes, hypertension, glaucoma, just to name a few. But you can see systemic disease in the retina   01:51 very early.   01:54 So in this latest research paper that was published,   01:59 the researchers took a look at the relationship between cognitive health and eye health. So let me explain.   02:14 One of the key markers in Alzheimer’s disease is something called beta amyloid. It’s a it’s a key marker, which can tell us what is the state of brain health and predict if there’s going to be cognitive decline.   02:36 Now they’re actually cells called micro glial cells. And these particular cells are responsible for maintaining other cell health in the brain, repairing cell health in the brain, and getting rid of this beta amyloid   03:01 collection that can occur both in the brain and of course, as I doctors, we can actually see it in the retina.   03:09 So one of the key things that we look for is inflammatory disease markers in that, which can   03:21 tell us whether there’s going to be a problem later on. And one of the markers I use is something called homocysteine. I’ve talked about this in other podcasts. If your homocysteine levels are high, you’re probably dealing with a level of inflammation that you want to deal with.   03:41 And in this particular study, what they took a look at is these amyloid beta plaques, were starting to show up in the eyes. And if they do, then you can start Alzheimer’s treatment much earlier.   04:03 To go into the specifics of the study.   04:08 Basically, what happened was that 86 people had died and they donated their retina and brain tissue to science, and they had different degrees of mental decline. So researchers compared the samples from these donors from normal cognitive functioning people or mild cognitive impairments, and they found that this beta amyloid marker was the key factor, especially when we pick it up in the retina. So the moral of the story is, if Alzheimer’s runs in your family, or you are concerned about Alzheimer’s, getting a regular yearly eye exam, where an eye doctor can do a   05:00 A specific analysis of the retina picking up this beta amyloid tissue. You have a chance of actually being able to maybe start a protocol. One of the people that I follow is a guy named Dr. Bredesen, Dr Bredesen is a physician who has developed a more functional medicine, holistic integrative approach to dealing with Alzheimer’s. And I would definitely look him up Dr. Bredesen, I’ll leave his links in the notes. And I I would highly recommend you taking a look at his content. He’s awesome.   05:45 So that’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care   05:58 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 a session I gave to an entrepreneur on social media growth. I share some of my key tips to grow your accounts and reach your audience. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS posts, repurpose, person, presentation, coaching session, podcast, videoed, depends, skin, hate speech, document, eyedrops, insights, santa fe, people, trip, bookstore, work, videographer, short   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 [email protected]. Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my podcast today a little different take on things I’m going to give a coaching session to person who’s an entrepreneur,   00:13 she’s got a skin line. And this is some of the stuff I do as volunteer through an organization that I work for called score, helping businesses. And so you’ll hear some of my insights on how I’m building my brand, my social media, and I hope you enjoy the show. This past weekend, I did a book signing at the ark, bookstore, and, and I, I basically, now I have a videographer now that I’ve hired but what he did is he had three cameras, we, we videoed the whole talk, which was really good. And now I’m turning that into a podcast. And it was a really great presentation, at least that’s what people said. And it was a live event. So you know, getting to do those is is really good. And the q&a, what I’ve done with that is each part. So I’d q&a in the group, and then people would come up, and they would have their individual comments and questions. And we told them ahead of time, everything is videoed, so I got some great interactions from people one on one, where you know, everything from, gee, I’m so frustrated with my current doctor, what do you recommend? Or you know, I’ve been using your stuff for six months, it’s really working, what do you think I should do next? So we take those and then repurpose them for shorter posts. And, again, it’s just I try to repurpose everything I can, your time is more efficient that way also, because, you know, like this, this lady who is one of my competitors asked me to do a presentation for her private group. And I said, Well, I want to be able to video it. She said, No, you can’t. I said, Well, how about this, I’ll video it, just my part. And I won’t video the q&a at the end or your people, she said, I don’t care, you can do that. So that makes it worth it for me to do it, because I’m not getting paid for it. So I’m always looking at ways like next week, I’m taking a trip, and I’m gonna document the trip, gets a book signing, and there’s some other things I’m doing. So I’m going to document the trip, document, different things I’m doing. And again, repurposing it. So that gives me that 48 content pieces a day, I’ve got so many at this point that, you know, it just keeps it going every week, I’m I’m doing you know, 100 to 200 posts, and I see the growth from that, because not everybody sees the the same, you know, post depends on their feed, and you know, who they’re following and stuff like that. So, and I had a thing where somebody threatened me around the eyedrops, you know, and so I had a contact Instagram and say, Look, this person is personally attacking me in a way that’s a little threatening, and they came stepped right in, they blocked the person, and I don’t know what they did with them. But, you know, if anybody ever does that to you, I don’t take it, you know, I immediately I just block them and say goodbye. I mean, I don’t want that kind of hate speech. In my, in my community. And I don’t mind constructive feedback. You know, I don’t mind that. But when it gets personal and they start personal attacks, and it’s fear, I understand that he I would look for a personal assistant, who could do your posts for you, I think that would be well worth it. You could probably pay somebody anywhere between 20 to $25 an hour. To do that. You can either look on Craigslist, it’s in Santa Fe, or there’s another platform called Upwork. And I have found really good people to do my posts, and my podcast uploads. And so, you know, again, it kind of depends on your cash flow and where you’re at with it. But as soon as you can, I would see if you could find somebody to help you that they could do that for you. An

I had a great chat with Sue Choi about her work and her new book. Sue Choi is a somatic movement teacher and bodyworker with over 2 decades of experience creating body solutions for clients. Her goal has always been making enduring and sustainable changes for people in their bodies that they can carry into their daily lives. Driven to understand how mental and emotional connections show up in the body, she has a particular interest in how the deep currents of trauma distort a body. Her professional trainings include yoga therapy at the Krishnamacharya Mandiram, Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad, Rolf Movement with Hubert Godard, neurosensory training in the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration Method™, manual therapies in craniosacral, visceral manipulation, myofascial release. Perceptual trainings include the Tomatis Method™ sound therapy and natural vision. The work of psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and academics as they apply to the sensory system have also informed how she works with the body in movement. Enjoy the show. Contact Sue Choi Website: coherentbody.com email: [email protected] Instagram: @coherent_body If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS book, people, vision, sue, somatic, body, balance, movement, head, hearing, preserving, feel, wrote, context, posture, brain, system, outcomes, read, parents   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 [email protected].   Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So we have a special guest. She’s an author, she’s a somatic educator, she’s a friend from LA, her name is Sue Choi. And she’s written a new book, which I just finished. And it’s called when things stick, untangling your body from old patterns. And I am so excited about the contents of this book. And I just add, I have Sue on So Sue, welcome to the program. And can you give us a background on where you’ve come from and who you are?   00:46 Thank you, Sam. So happy to be here. I have I’m a somatic movement therapist, and educator, I’ve been doing this work for over 20 years, a whole body of work that ranges from somatic movement to hands on body work that I do for private one on one clients in person. So I it’s been a fun journey to bring all these things together. And it was a big kind of effort to put the book together to distill things down. But I’m glad it’s out there.   01:26 Well, you know, when I read the book, you know, what, what jumped out at me is how you have put all these different disciplines together. And so how did you develop this system?   01:41 You know, it was, it was kind of piece by piece, mostly, it was focused on how to improve outcomes for clients. So if there was something that I could kind of see that just wasn’t fitting in place, I would research it, I did a lot of different types of trainings that may be kind of unusual, but I, one of the books that really turned things around for me was Dr. John Radies book on the fourth theatres of the brain and attention, and he, he’s a psychiatrist, and he wrote about the sensory system, and the importance of it. And it really spoke to me, because I was already doing the modest work. I had been exposed to Bates work, back in the early days when I first studied yoga therapy, and was training. So I learned about that in India, and I said, Oh, that’s just yoga for vision. And so the, as every, the threads of these things came together, and I read his book, and he wrote about these case studies where he worked with people and their sensory system and change things for them it was so it really struck me because I could see some of those those tendencies and certain people and I could tell that they’re, that’s what they needed, they didn’t need to do different movement, they needed to have different inputs. So I started to kind of work with the body as a as an information process and said, you know, ask myself how could I get better outcomes by perceiving and working with the body on that level?   03:25 So the people that you help what are some of their symptoms   03:31 um, I don’t know if it’s more symptoms is more their kind of self perception. If they kind of feel like they’re, they they’re not they can’t quite name then they know that there’s something going on with them or they need to they keep kind of hitting the

I was a guest on Dr. Robert Wiles radio show. He is a sports podiatrist, they call him the sports doctor, and we had about a 15 minute lively conversation about optometry, concussions, brain injury, and so much more. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, sports, doctor, concussions, vision, world, glasses, talking, holistic, baseline, guests, optometry, sam, physical therapy, body, worked, athlete, sorts, visual, problem   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 [email protected].   Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today I was a guest on Dr. Robert Wiles radio show, and he is a sports podiatrist. They call him the sports doctor. And we had about a 15 minute lively conversation about optometry, concussions, brain injury, and so much more. So everybody, thanks for tuning in, leave a comment on Spotify or my website. And I look forward to seeing you again.   00:38 Dr. Sam Berne. Welcome to The Sport’s Doctor   00:42 Thanks, Dr. Bob, great to be here.   00:45 Give us some background on yourself. And you can throw in a definition of holistic optometry while you’re at it.   00:55 Sounds good. So when you go for an eye exam, you know, the doctor has you read the eye chart, and you get the Reading 2020. That’s a measurement of your eyesight. But vision is how the eyes and the brain and the body work together. So eyesight is only one part of vision. So as a holistic eye doctor, I look at the eyes as an interrelated, interconnected part of the body. And there are things that you can do to improve your vision even as you get older. And that’s kind of the difference between the regular eye care, they just say your eyes get worse as you get older. In my, in my practice, people get older and their eyes get better.   01:39 At you know, we see truth for years on the sports doc, the doctor, hand eye coordination, all sorts of eye exercise for some commentators talking about enhancing performance. Regardless of the sport, there’s a lot of exciting information in that side, you know, besides the run of the mill, I can’t like you said, there’s so much more involved, even as a diagnostic tool, I don’t like podiatry when many times we might see diabetes for the first time because of a foot symptom. You also might see it when you see the eyes, right?   02:16 Exactly, because the eyes have one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, highly concentrated with those tiny blood vessels. So it’s one of the entry ways into the body like the foot. And you can pick up disease very early. And of course, in diabetes, this is a real vulnerable area, I’m talking about the retina. So you know, if you have glucose levels that are off the charts, or you’re pre diabetic, you’re going to see it in the eyes, it’s going to be one of the first places and then you can treat it by doing some holistic things if you want to.   02:56 Well, you talk about embracing your body’s ability to strengthen, healing balanced. And again, we talked so much about holistic medicine, I would have complementary medicine and so many different topics, and the sounds I could fit in Absolutely. With a big emphasis on prevention, as well as awareness and education.   03:19 You know, it’s being proactive, you know, just with diet alone, the eyes in the brain make up about 2% of the body weight, and use 25% of the food intake. So if you’re cut out processed foods and sugar and mostly gluten, and you eat, you know, the colorful vegetables and berries, getting enough healthy fats in your diet that in itself can keep your eyesight healthy. And well as you get older.   03:52 You know, it’s so common to see children younger, younger ages routinely with glasses of glasses. Now it’s styling, you know, some way. But do you feel that? Is the introduction of corrective eyeglasses too early? Or are we really paying big attention to prevention?   04:12 Well, when you get glasses as a child, what it’s doing is it’s reinforcing the problem that’s causing the need for glasses to begin with. So you know, again, back to the holistic perspective, I find the cause and treat that and we know that the eyes originate from the brain. And so if you do eye exercises, not only are you changing the brain, but you’re also changing the eyes. And of

Here is a peak into my San Diego Master Class where we work with essential oils and red light lenses. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS fennel, eyes, oils, work, glasses, frankincense, vedic, put, meditation, great, feel, carrot seed, gold miner, tonics, meditate, ophthalmology, smell, copper toxicity, funnel, people   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 [email protected].   work on two aspects. One is the copper toxicity. And the other is improving your eyesight. So the way this is going to work is I’m going to run you through a process on how you can use the essential oils in this. So the first oil, we’re going to use his sweet fennel. Fennel works great for digestion, you probably know about it. But the first thing we’re going to have you do is just smell it. That’s the first thing. It’s a now the next thing we’re going to have you do is, if I may have the inside part of your wrist, let’s do a test patch and see how that feels for you. Any burning any anything on your wrist that problem? Okay, so then the next thing is I like to layer the oils. And either you can use them, like we’re going to use them or you could have some coconut oil nearby, if it starts to get too intense. And so I use a drop of a set of nice, it’s very subtle. Yeah, it’s very subtle. What we’re gonna do is we’re going to put it up here on either side. So it’s kind of in direct line with your eyes, but it’s not near you. Yeah, right about. And then the second place we’re going to do it is by the temple and the hairline, by the way, so yep. Right. And then we’re gonna do the zygomatic bone, or let’s say the cheekbone. So we’re kind of painting around these, these dots here. So we’re doing it here. And here. And here. And here. Here and here. So this is the femoral. That’s the one we’re starting with. So let’s take a moment and see how that how that feels to you. Are you What are you experiencing? From the from the funnel? You can try it.   02:06 I think a sense of calm   02:08 sense of calm. Okay.   02:11 Then, sort of like love then   02:15 we can go into the emotional psychological, because these these can be very spiritual, actually. Yeah, there you go.   02:23 It’s also cooling I think in a bit   02:27 and I would say your your eyes situation, you have more heat coming out of your eyes. So anyway, we can kind of get more Yin into it. As you know. I don’t know what your Vedic Constitution is a more pizza. Yeah. So with pitta, you know, there’s a lot of mental activity.   02:48 Right. Right. Right. And the flex to the liver and the eyes.   02:51 Right. Exactly. Exactly. So the higher Vedic model life study that was you have and that’s another way to interpret.   03:03 I think fennel. My I already talked to India used to give me if you my kids had Boyles or any Oh yeah. eruptions. So 10 Raisins. So overnight with two or one teaspoon of fennel powder, we have completely removed all the data from the eggs. Options,   03:21 right? So that’s why I chose that for you. Yeah, I know you a little bit. So that was working with a beta on that one. All right. Now the second one we’re going to give you is currency. And I want you to smell it. First of all, make sure so all factory goes to the limbic brain. It’s really great as a way to introduce yourself to it. So what’s your experience with the currency? What do you feel? What do you notice?   03:49 It sort of goes to something? Liver,   03:52 yeah, it has, I think very little gold miner. And I see Yeah, that’s why I chosen it’s got some vitamin A and then of course, which is also really great. I let’s do a test patch on your skin. So if I take your wrist and just kind of see how that goes or what you feel, is it burning? It All? made sense? Okay, yeah. All right. So now we’re going to answer smells like name. Yes, it’s a little bit like me. So now we’re layering this right on top of the funnel because the funnel and the carrot see works synergistically. So again, good we can see here, here this is full scope optometry, isn’t it?   04:45 Right Yeah, that’s right. All right. So we’ve added the carrot seed here. Yeah, check that out. Money this physically, emotionally psychologically.  

Today I am going to talk about intermittent exotropia and what protocols I use to manage it in children, teenagers, and adults. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS exercises, spasm, eye, muscles, reflex, integration, working, infants, stress, toddlers, vestibular stimulation, called, muscle spasm, visual, bilateral, brain, vision, overwrought, patching, movement patterns 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So I’m going to take a question from Dr. Pillai, who’s asking about a condition called intermittent exotropia. For infants, toddlers, teenagers and adults, and how is it different? How do I manage it? What are the protocols? So, let’s break this down. When our two eyes are working together, they’re both aiming at an object in our environment, whether it’s up close or far away. So the goal is both eyes are working together. Now, when one of the eyes tends to wander, this is called strabismus. Now we can have an eye wandering in, which is called esotropia. Or we can have an eye wandering out which is called exotropia. In any case, what’s going on is there’s an integration problem in the brain, in the eyes and in the body. Now, exotropia means the eye is wandering out. Obviously, if it’s intermittent, it only happens sporadically some of the time. And maybe some of the time it happens when especially we’re talking about, you know, teenagers and adults, it happens when you’re stressed or tired, or fatigued, or you’re not feeling well. It’s kind of a weak link in the eye brain connection. Now, when one of the eyes wanders out, two things happen. Either you get double vision, or the brain says I’m just gonna shut off onto the eyes. And so take your choice, a lot of times, we start off seeing double, but then over time, the brain just says I’m going to ignore, you know, this double image, and I’ll just use the eye that is lining up. Now when we see this condition in infants and toddlers, it’s a timeframe where there’s a plasticity going on, in that we don’t want to necessarily try to fix it, either through surgery or patching. But what’s a better approach is to work with the whole body through different specific movement patterns. And to encourage bilateral integration with both sides of the body and both hemispheres of the brain, this is going to help you and then tell the eyes, okay, I can have a better opportunity for straightening out. So it’s something that I counseled parents to watch, and to maybe do some proactive exercises that can help. But you don’t want to do something as invasive as surgery War II patching. Because, first of all, those methods don’t work very well. It creates more trauma in the infant toddler, and it’s really makes no sense to them. Glasses is also another poor option, because that’s not going to do anything as well. So the bottom line is that by doing some bilateral exercises, doing some vestibular stimulation things with these infants and toddlers, working with something called primitive reflex integration, this is primitive reflexes are the motor patterns that we come out of the birth canal with. And they’re very important in helping us integrate our, our movement patterns with our vision. And if these reflexes are not fully integrated, they begin to have an effect on our visual development. So doing some primitive reflex therapy can be really effective at reducing this strabismic pattern. Now, another question that the doctor has is the relationship between accommodative spasms and our age group. So when we’re talking about accommodation, we’re talking about the muscles in the eye. And the muscles in the eye are responsible for helping us make our close details resolved so we can see them clearly. And then to be able to release the muscles so that we can then look into the distance. So obviously, a spasm is the fact that either the muscles are overwrought, they’re stuck in one position. There’s too much stress on the person and it’s like a muscle spasm. You know, any kind of muscle spasm overuse, an imbalance. And the first thing to do is probably to remove the stress, there’s probably too much demand being placed on the person to have this level of spasm. I love my exercise the poem hum exercis

Here is a peak into my San Diego Master Class. You can see how we work together to create a plan for her vision that will help move her forward and allow her to feel comfortable. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, glasses, vision, 350s, blurrier, peripheral, distorts, put, relate, cylinder, therapy, little bit, intuitive insights, feel, space, wear, relaxing, lenses, nearsighted, optometry   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 [email protected]. All right, Justine, you’re the last one. So, tell me a little bit about your vision and how you became nearsighted. And now what was your what’s your history?   00:16 Yeah, so I started wearing glasses when I was in fifth grade. And my optometrist prescribed me very strong minus lenses, and didn’t tell me anything about visual habits. So I used to color and write really close to the page. And I used to watch TV, you know, from the distance of this computer screen. And so my prescription just continued to climb and climb and climb throughout school. And it wasn’t until optometry school that I learned about good visual habits, about you know, relaxing your vision going outside, you know, not being so glued to the screens. But you know, with COVID and technology nowadays, we’re always on our screens. And so I do vision therapy with patients. And so I’m actively doing the exercises with them, especially the diverging activities. And what I’m finding is I’m approaching 36 now, and I’m feeling like I’m getting early presbyopic kind of symptoms, where long term your work, it’s starting to give me strain and headaches, and I even put a little bit of bass in prison and my glasses just to help with that. But I’m still finding that my eyes get really tired by the end of the day.   01:41 Okay, well, one thing I can say right off the bat, that can really help you is have you ever thought about wanting to reduce prescription?   01:50 Yes, that is what I would love to strive to do.   01:54 Okay. So the way we should do this is, if you’ve got some filters, and you can get them then what will happen is I’m gonna have you wear them over this, and I’m gonna have no,   02:08 okay, I’ve got it. I’ve got.   02:10 So this is a plus 50. And I just want you to wear it over Are you minus six? Like, are you   02:16 are you so I’m actually I’m not minus six. So this one here minus 375 minus 175. Sell. So spherical equivalent is about a five ish, and then left is a minus five. So a lot of so here, zero so   02:33 so we’re going to try a couple of things. So put the plus with these over the glasses. Okay, so what do you feel? Comfortable? Some people what’s the difference?   02:48 Yes. So definitely more clarity, but I also feel more center not as peripheral. And then when I put these on blurrier, but I feel more open and peripheral things are a little bit bigger.   03:04 Now with your right hand, right, that one I think the pluses of the one okay   03:08 over well this might be minus blurrier How does it feel mentally emotionally? I feel almost like a tingling right here. My nose bridge. Okay. Maybe a little bit of nausea.   03:31 So the nausea is now we’re actually much more peripheral. Okay. So now compare the, the right the left hand and also you can look at your print through   03:57 the plus 50 is a lot easier to adjust to   04:01 Okay. You think you could work in this thing? And what about the point of it is just be clear without with a   04:13 much more relaxing and vigor with the sun.   04:16 So I think number one, I would cut back on half that’s too much. Okay. So I would I would have a prescription made up and just reduce it to happen a child can use it indoors but only use   04:35 it for use it for weeding is if the only time you need those would be for long distance driving. And I think that could be a game changer. That will definitely move you out of this. Unnecessary. Unnecessary presbyopia like as a as a mio item I think you can always under correct yourself. And you can always have a second prescription if the three way driving. But I think you’re over a minus two.   05:18 And so that would be the number one thing now. That’s first. Alright, so now this makes it a mind or the bottom makes it a minus three   05:34 just for t

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. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! 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 [email protected]. 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, 05:58 you know, when we’re told

I had the pleasure of interviewing Ed Justus, the owner of Talk Story Bookstore in Kauai, on my show ahead of my book signing this Friday, April 7th from 5-7 pm. Ed and I talked about how he started his store and what it’s like to run a small book store in Kauai. Enjoy the show! Be sure to check out Talk Story Bookstore on Instagram. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS books, bookstore, authors, story, kawaii, friday night, business, customers, talk, started, book signings, generally, thought, sell, hobbies, debt, meeting, david bach, podcast, friday 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 [email protected]. 00:01 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to a special EyeClarity podcast today. So we have on the line, the owner of talk story books in kawaii gentleman’s name is Ed Justus. And I am doing a book signing at the bookstore this coming Friday. And well, I was curious about having it on and you know, as an independent bookstore, there are not as many of those I would like to see. But anyways, let’s bring Ed on to the program. So Ed, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you started the bookstore and give it give us your story.   00:52 Sure, thank you for having me on Dr. Berne. Why I’m originally from Virginia, actually, I came to Hawaii in 2002, just for a visit. And then when I got here, it felt more like home than any place I’ve ever been. So I just decided to stay. And I started over with a few $100 in my suitcases, and just took it from there. And month to month, I started going around to garage sales and picking stuff up and reselling it on eBay to make a living. And that’s after two years of doing that, that’s how it sort of became the bookstore. I never actually planned to open a bookstore, it just sort of happened. So there was a landlord couple in the town upon a paper they who I got to meet when I moved to the west side of kawaii and they, after talking with them for a little while they to make the story short, they actually offered me a space free per month to start a business. And at the time, I didn’t have any background and books or retail or business. So I it just seemed like a good way to get the eBay, eBay product out of the house. And I figured it customers would walk into the shop maybe I might sell more the eBay product. But it seemed obvious once I removed all the stuff into the shop that it seemed like a bookstore and Curiosity Shop because I had about 3000 use books and a variety of Watson ends. And that’s basically how it got started. And I I also didn’t know what to call it either because I didn’t want it to have a name that would be kind of typical, like paradise books or something boring like kawaii bookstore. I thought okay, what can we call it? So I put it out to the community to ask them, What would you like the store to be called. And eventually somebody came back with a name talk story. And it just fit it just felt right. And talk story is a local colloquialism, which means to chat or to shoot the breeze or to share his story. And that’s how talk story bookstore began back in 2004.   03:10 Yeah, I love to hear those stories, you know, has a because you’re, you’re an entrepreneur, you know, in some ways, and I know the magic of kawaii sometimes you go to a place and you never think you’re gonna stay there. And then all of a sudden, you become a pillar of the community. So what has been some of your most interesting, you know, authors and books that have come through your bookstore?   03:39 Well, every Friday night, there’s a hunt. There’s the 100 Pip, a Friday night festival in Artwalk. And that’s been going on for about 20 plus years. So when I started the store in 2004, of course, naturally, we decided to participate in doing Friday nights. So we had an open invitation for authors to come and do book signings on Friday nights. So we do actually get a fair number of local authors who would come in and have their books, be out front of the shop, do a signing, get the talk story with the customers. And we’ve had a wide variety of people from not only across the islands, but also across the state and across the country. And also, even from other countries doing book signings as well. I mean, there’s more way more known authors, I would say, We’re nationally known authors who come and done book signings, like, let’s see

So today, I want to help you effectively navigate the eye care system. I will walk you through how to find an eye doctor you are compatible with, help your eye doctor help you in the best way possible, and navigate surgery if the need arises. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS 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 [email protected]. 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

I wanted to share a few lifestyle tips with you today that can help improve your vision and eyesight. They are really simple steps you can take to improve your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS palming, eyes, sunning, stress, glasses, neuroplasticity, vision, blue blockers, creates, minutes, wearing, tinted glasses, number, contacts, opens, talk, good, recommend, closed, screen 00:02 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to my podcast today. So I’m going to talk briefly about lifestyle tips to help you improve your eyesight and vision. These are really simple things to do, maybe you haven’t thought about them, but I have, and these work. So number one, you want to use your blue blockers for evening screen time. Or if you’re under LED lights, so anytime after 6pm You should be wearing your blue blocking glasses. And of course, I like the blue blocking filters, you know, the ones I’ve made, versus the blue blocking tint. And I go into a lot of different video blogs on why I recommend the filter over the tint. But basically, the filter blocks the blue light without darkening the screen or creating an imbalance of color that comes into your eyes. And we know that you know light and colors of food and if you start wearing a lot of tinted glasses for long periods of time, what’s going to happen is this creates an imbalance of color going into your eyes, which is going to deteriorate them. Alright, so number one, where are your blue blockers for evening screen time. Number two, don’t put your contact lenses or your glasses on first thing in the morning when you wake up. So go without them for 15 minutes, 30 minutes an hour, you know, while you get your tea or coffee or you’re meditating or, you know, go without them. And notice what you see what you feel. This is so great. In terms of accessing neuroplasticity, you know, I did a course couple months ago, part one part two on neuroplasticity and one of the things that I recommended for people to open up new pathways and perceptions in vision is to take your habitual glasses and contacts off. In certain non demanding situations that opens up the brain, it opens up the vision. And yes, it’s not comfortable and there’s, you know, blur you’ve got to deal with or distortion or disorientation. That’s all really good stuff to see and feel as a way for you to move out of the reinforcing influence that the glasses or contacts have on you. And then number three, do three minutes of sunning and palming daily to get rid of ice stress. You know, one of the things the eyes are really good at is absorbing stress. And for most people, they have no idea how to discharge, this stress that gets accumulated. I mean, if you think about it, you’re focusing on a screen at 20 inches all day or your phone and the muscles are gonna get fatigued because they’re working in one position for a long period of time. So the stress builds up, builds up and this lowers the circulation and creates compression and the tissue dries out the eyes does a lot of negative things. And so you’ve got to do some neutralizing and that’s why I like to go outside with my eyes closed point my face towards the sun. And I do my sunning for a few minutes, morning and evening outside eyes are closed. So you’re going to be protected from any damage from the sunlight by closing the eyes. And then the palming exercise. You know, on my website, I talk about something called the poem hum, we’re actually putting sound into your eye tissue. While you’re palming, you can find that video readily available. So those are the things that help get rid of stress. So to summarize, wear your blue blockers in the evening. Number two, don’t put your contacts or glasses on first thing in the morning and number three, spend three minutes twice a day doing your setting and palming to get rid of your eyes stress. So I want to thank you for joining me today. 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.

Here’s a quick history on how I created my Masterclass. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS master class, work, observers, vision, person, teaching, la jolla, cataracts, breakout groups, unlock, macular degeneration, gestalt therapy, esalen institute, afternoons, day, action plan, blocks, improve, good, month 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 [email protected]. Good morning, everybody. I’m getting ready to teach my master class here in La Jolla. And it’s going to be a good day because we have some interesting people coming. And I’m sure between the Zoom observers and the in person observers, we’re gonna have a great time. Now, this concept of masterclass came about when I was teaching at the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, and it came about when I was teaching my month long workshop there, we actually had the same people for the entire month. And we used to have breakout groups, few afternoons a week. And this is where I got to work with each person individually, while people in the group could observe. And they did it with the Gestalt therapy that was offered at SLN. And I said, Well, why not with the vision work. So in a master class, I choose one person, they come up and they sit on the hot seat. And they share with me what they want to get out of our our mini session, and I started working on them. So if you’ve got cataracts or macular degeneration, double vision, you know, it’s not going to get rid of everything. But it’s a good start, and being able to ignite and stimulate an action plan so people can start making changes, you know, in any vision improvement experience. It’s a process and it takes time to make the changes that you need in order to improve. But a lot of times, we can unlock some of the blocks and it can create an accelerated change. So I’ll report to you after the day. Let you know what we’ve come up with. But I’m super pumped with this group. 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 get so many questions about retinal detachment, so here is a deep dive on the topic and I hope it helps. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS retinal detachment, retina, eye, carotenoids, omega threes, important, fluid buildup, prescription, surgery, talk, omega, stress, starvation, lutein, lens, eyeball, ophthalmologist, care, anti inflammatory agent, nearsighted 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 [email protected]. 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 mistake mistake about it. You definitely need surgery, if your retina detaches. Now, what causes retinal detachment? I get this question a lot. And there’s a variety of factors I think one of the factors is being nearsighted and and so if you’re moderately to high, nearsighted, 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 at 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. And 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 fluid buildup behind the retina, you definitely are more risk for 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 in 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 get through all of the surgical procedures and you know all of that all of those situations. My recommendation and is what I told this student of mine. It’s really important that you are taking the carotid noids lutein, z is Anthon and asked to Xanthine 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 Xanthan is a marine carotenoids. So you’re gonna 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, and 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. 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 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 ge

Today I’m bringing you behind the scenes of a session I did with somebody who’s dealing with nearsightedness and presbyopia. He’s a bit frustrated with the reading glasses because they’re making his eyes worse. So, I unpack his visual situation and we get to the root cause of his visual issues. Once we get to the root cause, we can begin to work on his visual transformation and we can work toward getting rid of his glasses. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescription, vision, blur, left, magnification, called, lens, wear, exercise, glasses, shankman, distance, optometrists, screens, pinhole, blurry, worse, noticed, therapy 00:05 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 [email protected]. 00:45 Hey, everyone, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today I bring you behind the scenes, I did a session with somebody who’s got nearsightedness, and also something called presbyopia. So reading glasses up close. But he’s a bit frustrated with the reading glasses because they’re making his eyes worse. And so I unpack his visual situation, and we get to the root cause. And then once we get to the root cause, well, now he can transform his vision, and he probably won’t need his glasses anymore. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. 01:34 All right, so what what would be your goals and objectives today? 01:41 I’m 01:44 getting a little bit of a handle on whether or not and when I should be wearing these glasses. And whether or not is actually making my vision deteriorate. 01:57 Because I kind of feel like it has. And just kind of steps forward to stop what I’ve noticed to be the diminishment of my vision in the last few months by wearing these glasses more. I don’t know if it’s causative, or correlative or what, but 02:19 I’ve noticed a significant change and I’m wanting to kind of halt the change. And you know, hopefully 02:29 kind of reverse if possible. 02:35 You can do that, of course. 02:39 That was this your first pair of glasses. Yeah. 02:44 It is. Okay. And what prompted you? What prompted you going to an eye doctor to well 02:55 explore that. It was about 02:59 I think it was about this time last year. I was like, okay. 03:06 So it had been for a few years, 03:11 where 03:14 what I noticed the most dramatically was if I looked at my phone first thing in the morning, 03:21 and then, you know, for anywhere from a minute to four or five minutes. And then I stopped looking at it and I looked into distance, I’d be like, oh shit, like, I can’t see anything. It’s like fuzzy everywhere. And it was a dramatic, I noticed a dramatic difference between 03:40 not looking at my phone and going about my business, and then looking at my phone and going about my business. And I’m like, and then I would notice my eyes. 03:52 When I worked on screens a lot 03:55 i 03:58 i would have trouble focusing on like the words would get a little blurry on the screen. And then when I looked 04:07 in the distance, things were a little blurry as well. 04:14 And that got a little worse, like progressively a little worse over time. I had great vision most of my life. Sure you hear this all me? 04:26 And then 04:28 yeah, one is doing one thing and one is doing another as well. I’ve noticed 04:38 and so that’s why I originally went in is it just was getting a little bit worse. And I was like maybe I need something for working on screens and maybe that’ll improve things. And so that was the focus when I went in and talked to this guy and worked with him. And I’ve since moved in. 04:55 I started poking around. I had a friend that was a vision therapist. 05:00 Many years ago, I actually went to a vision therapy conference that she invited me to. And so I was like, 05:08 there is a whole other paradigm of looking at vision. And that’s why I sought you out was because you know, you have the, 05:19 the medical chops, and then you also have the, it seems like a more kind of outside of the box kind of way of approaching how to ameliorate 05:33 conditions, you know, and improve conditions. 05:38 Okay. 05:40 So I want to get a little more 05:43 clarity on this. I have your file from April 16, where you went to Dr. Christiansen, who is a developmental optometrist? And it looks like he gave you a prescription 06:00 for was it for distance or for reading? 06:05

Today I am sharing 3 common myths I hear about our eyes. These are super common ideas that I hear all the time, so let’s debunk them. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, glasses, prescription, lens, doctor, myth, lenses, genetics, wear, eye exam, myths, neutralize, contacts, reversing, genes, clarity, cataracts, magnification, vision, improve 00:01 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to talk briefly about three myths that you might hear from your eye doctor that actually aren’t true. So here’s Myth number one, the eyes can only deteriorate as you age. Well, I think that this is a real disservice, that’s done to people. Because a lot of times when people start developing eye problems, especially over the age of 50, the company line by doctors is, well, it’s just age, your eyes are only gonna get worse. And clinically, you know, being in practice for over three decades. I have a lot of patients in their 60s 70s 80s and even early 90s that are improving their vision, things like reversing cataracts, reversing macular degeneration, neutralizing or reversing glaucoma. Those are the main ones, but even reducing their dependency on glasses, you know, I have an 84 year old right now, who’s gone from a really strong progressive lens magnification prescription, wearing it full time to now she’s just using her computer glasses and a reading glasses. But her prescription keeps going down, it’s kind of funny, because every six or eight weeks, she comes in and says, you know, I can’t see out of these glasses. And when I do an exam on her, I go, Wow, your eyes are actually getting better. And we have to keep reducing the magnification. She’s 84 years old. And I have hundreds of people probably at this point 1000s of people who’ve been able to improve their vision as you get older. So there’s this myth that’s perpetuated that the eyes only deteriorate as you age. Hey, it’s not really true. Alright, here’s Myth number two genes are the only factor that affect eye health. Well, you know, in the mainstream, epi genetics, has really become popular with a lot of functional medicine doctors, holistic physicians, scientists. And what epigenetics really says is that the environment can change the way your genes express. So this idea that well, because your mother or grandmother or great grandmother had XYZ condition, that certainly doesn’t mean that you’re going to get it now. There’s some tendencies there. So you can be proactive, you can change your lifestyle, your diet, your stress response, your sleep. And in doing those things, you can change the way your genes express themselves. And I’m speaking specifically about your eye health, but it could be throughout your entire body. So when the doctor says, Well, you’ve developed cataracts and runs in your family, it’s all genetics. That’s false, that’s not really true. You There are many, many things that you can do just eat better, more antioxidants, wear blue blockers get out in the natural sunlight, you know, there’s so many things that you can do to neutralize genetics. So that’s number two. And then Myth number three, I love this one, the doctors will say, Oh, Ma, you have to wear your glasses, all the time, or your eyes will get worse. Well, that is just not true. Now, there are circumstances that you need to wear your glasses or contacts, like when you drive, that’s, you know, sensible, you should do that. Or when you’re reading or when you’re on the computer or when you’re, you know, measuring something and you need to see more detail. It’s not an all or nothing, it’s not black and white. But when you start taking your lenses off, in non demanding and non threatening situations, something happens and what it is, is the your eyes, your mind and your brain start to see the world without the filtering system, meaning the lens that blocks or reinforces the symptoms and the visual problem that you’re going to the doctor for. And so by taking the glasses off, starting off, say don’t put them on right and when you wake up, you know, go downstairs and make your tea or coffee, do your meditation, maybe do your yoga practice without your lenses and and be mindful. N

I am covering a questions I’ve received a lot lately in regards to Red Light Therapy. People are wondering what kind of light they should use with the glasses. The short answer is, there isn’t one answer for everyone. So tune in to hear how you can learn what works best for you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS brightness, light, red light therapy, red light, bright light, self regulation, wattage, natural sunlight, glasses, light source, therapy, spotify, eyes, handle, fact, tune, frequency, therapeutic, stress response, people 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 [email protected]. Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So I’m going to take a question from a follower on my red light therapy. So with red light, the question that comes up for a few people has been, what about the light source? What about the brightness? And I think this is a valid question. Because if you get a more commercialized, light device, they always talk about the source of the light, is it an LED light, it needs to be a certain wattage. And since I’ve been doing this color therapy for a long time, I’ve had a lot of different generations of experimenting and researching and using different light devices. With the overall strategy of how do we get therapeutic light into the eyes. And so with red light therapy, what I’ve designed is a pair of glasses with the frequency, that 670 nanometers, this is the red light that is needed to stimulate the mitochondria in the retina. And once we increase the mitochondria function, we have the chance of reducing oxidative stress as the ATP goes up. So the first thing is the frequency. And then the second thing is the brightness. The wattage. Well, the people that are doing the red light therapy. They’re suffering pretty serious eye conditions, things like cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration. And a lot of times, they’re pretty light sensitive to begin with. So to do a bright light, as a source, it’s just not going to work. In fact, we all have what we call a, a reflex against bright light. All of us do, now we have different thresholds of how much brightness we can take. But I know in my community, a lot of people are suffering light sensitivity. So the last thing you need is a bright light source. As you’re trying to get this therapeutic light into your eyes. So it really doesn’t matter that you need a bright light. In fact, the best approach is to use a dim light. And you as the person who’s receiving the red light therapy, get to choose how much brightness you can handle. So it’s an individual choice, which is why I don’t put the exact wattage that you need, because everybody is different. And I know there’s some geeks out there that want to know, well, it should be this level of brightness, this low level of wattage, but honestly, it doesn’t matter. And in fact, what I would suggest is if you are going to embark on this on these red light glasses, is you get to regulate the brightness. And I’m a big believer in in terms of your health, to be able to develop better self regulation, I talked about this all the time, as it relates to your stress response, how you handle certain situations. And, again, everybody is different based on their lifestyle, their diet, their relationships, you know, it’s a whole body thing. And what I love to do is empower people to learn this self regulation skill. So in the red light, what I can say is the light source does not matter. And I know I’m gonna get arguments from scientists and people that maybe think they are in the know. But, you know, I’ve been a clinician for 40 years, and I’ve watched 1000s of patients receive color and light therapy into their eyes. And by watching their response. It has taught me what their threshold is. And what is the best therapy With brightness, in order to be able to get the maximum benefits, and what I’ve come to, is that it’s all dependent on how much how much light you can take, without having that reflex come in and shut you down. You know, as we go outside, and this happens all the time with people, they go outside and they go, Oh, it’s really sunny, the glare, or let’s say they’re skiing, or they’re at the beach, what do we do, we have to reach for our sunglasses. And even though natural sunlight is really go

Here is an awesome success story that I wanted to share with you all. This patient was worried about passing his driver’s test and can to me. This is the follow up to his initial appointment. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS vision, lighted, left, eye, improving, clarity, awareness, aware, myopia, prism, santa fe, visual, spotify, blurry, test, zeaxanthin, blocked, motor vehicles, field, blurriness 00:05 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 [email protected]. 00:46 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So if you have questions, you can always email me hello at Dr. Sam berne.com. Or you can now text me your questions 1-844-932-1291. So in today’s show, I do a short session with a patient who was diagnosed with high myopia more in his right eye than his left eye. He’s had some retinal problems in the past, and this is in the right eye. And he’s worried that they’re going to come back and he’s concerned about passing his driver’s test for motor vehicles. So he came to Santa Fe and we did an intensive with him. And this is a follow up zoom appointment before we do the masterclass in San Diego. And so you get to hear some of the great things that have changed for him now, in this process that I laid out. You know, when I work with people in this way we do it in a very individualized fashion. And you know we did the basic things like boosters crowd noise, lutein, zeaxanthin Astaxanthan, get them on vitamin D. Get his vitamin A to absorb better. He also did some things with our Veda and gi eyedrops. So I had him do the red light therapy, and we also did some special yoked prisms, which stimulated his left eye. His peripheral vision is much different. He’s got more visual awareness, and he’s just more connected to his eyes. So enjoy the show. Again, this is a short session but a little bit of a testimonial and things that he is accomplished in doing the work. 02:57 Hello, Dr. Ben, how are you? How are you? I’m good. Can see me okay. Yes, I can. Okay. 03:07 All right. Give me an update on your vision and 03:15 since I saw you in Santa Fe in November, I think we’ve made November 23 week of November. I have I think the the key difference I see is as I see more and more of us more and more of the prism glasses that you had sent. I see my left eye vision improving quite well. It stabilizes I can when I’m driving around I can see more of the street signs that I use not I usually just rely on my you know, maps are the navigation but now we can see the signs. It’s definitely improved my vision on the left I that’s one I do get moments of either they are under emotional stress or under some other stress. Like for example if I go to a crowded room or a mall situation or like a store, my right eye vision suddenly becomes more blurry I kind of sense that blurriness that discomfort that blur and I just become aware of it and you know just trying to see what’s going on definitely there is an emotional component to it I feel to the right type there. I am doing the the left. Blue color and right eye red color and also the positive glasses And the I think the key difference, as I seen is that that over the last one month, it’s been triggering, which is my sort of if the source is not is lighted, meaning the source of the object is lighted, for example, it’s, you know, something like lights at night or, or bombs in the distance, or just like, you know, I, my clarity through my right eye has definitely improved. But if it is just me staring at a, like a mirror, for example, if I’m just looking at myself with my right eye at the mirror, that that’s not a lighted object, or just like us, you know, more faintly lighted, like, for example, looking at you on my computer monitor here is still blurry, but the light portions appear more, more well defined, well formed, but the the low light detail at the Apple central portion of the vision, that still fuzzy, right, it’s just like, almost okay, you know, mostly I can I know the edges exist and all that, but, but I can like see you or your face, unless maybe I do this close. And then I can so but from a distance. Secondly, I have noticed that maybe it’s my meditation practice or something else. But when I become aware that I have to access the entire field of vision. 06:59 When that awareness comes to me, and using aware

Today’s a little different. I am going to share a session I had where I worked with a patient who was struggling with emotional trauma that was affecting her vision. I will share how we worked together to figure out the best course of action for her. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, sinuses, movement, called, trauma, fluid, continuum, meridians, cranial sacral therapy, self regulation, vision, sound, acupuncture, bones, affect, talk, cranial sacral, starts, part, body 00:05 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 [email protected]. 00:44 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today’s show is a little out there. I gave a patient this session. And the reason why she contacted me is that she was having some trauma, emotional trauma related to her vision. And a little back story about her she took one of my workshops was an online workshop during COVID. And I use one of the modalities I used was continuum movement. This is a movement modality, it was started by my mentor Emily Conrad, she’s not alive anymore. Anyway, it’s a really profound therapy, I would say what’s closest to it is cranial sacral therapy. And those of you that don’t know about cranial sacral, I would go on my website, and I would look at some of the videos I’ve done on cranial sacral. Basically, it’s working with the fluid body. And you know, as adults, we’re 70% fluid as infants were 90% fluid. And one of the reasons why we go through an aging process on a cellular level is that we lose our fluidity. Why we lose our fluidity Well, it’s diet, stress, inflammation, oxidative stress, and repetitive movements, repetitive thinking. So in this session, which I cut out my patients part of it because I wanted to respect her privacy. But I talk about how trauma affects our vision. And we go at it first of all from a Chinese medicine or acupuncture perspective. And in the first part, I talk about the relationship between our internal organs, and our eyes, the meridians and how each part of the eye anatomy is affected by certain organs. Another thing I go into is the relationship between the eyes and our bones in the face our fascia. She had a concern about her sinuses. That’s one of the reasons why she contacted me. So I talked about the relationship between cranial sacral therapy and vision. And then I give two practices, physical therapy exercises that help improve the visual system and also stimulate the acupuncture meridians and the cranial sacral system. It’s kind of a all in one. It’s something that I learned as I was going through my continuum movement training. So it’s an interesting show. There’s a lot of different ideas that I talk about. So I’m putting this up as a podcast just as a kind of a context, philosophically, some of the bigger macro things that I think about when I’m either teaching or working with a patient. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. So with the terror. The main meridian is the kidney meridian as it relates to the eyes, actually with the eye on kidneys. It’s also the pupil, the pupil is the part of the eye that is the gatekeeper that allows light in and out. Okay, and with your acupuncturist, there are a couple of points I would have them, you know, check the first would be the kidney. The second would be the lungs. So in the in the eye, the lungs are related to the white part the covering of the eye called the sclera. Okay, and a lot of times the kidneys in the lungs may go to Gather, the lungs are more related to grief. But, you know, there may be some of that around your grandmother. And you know, just that, that was a challenging relationship. So what I’m referring to here emotionally is that grief is very connected to our lungs. So if you’re grieving or you’re sad, it is going to affect your respiratory system, at least from a standpoint of Chinese medicine. And in this relationship that she was referring to, we were talking about the kidneys, which is fear, and we’re talking about the lungs, which is more grief. And these are things that her acupuncturist could help her release. So that’s what that references. So I finished up the Chinese medicine, acupuncture discussion, by talking about the relationship between other organs systems, and the cornea, the retina. So this is an interesting relationship

Visual Snow Syndrome is a neurological imbalance that’s in the eyes and the brain that causes you to constantly see static when you look out into the world. It’s a scary condition that is often overlooked because you can still see clearly, but you’re looking through a static like screen. So we’re going to dive into this condition. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS visual, eye, snow, syndrome, improve, work, condition, brain, therapy, clarity, vision, inflammatory, remedy, holistic, neurological, prisms, called, health, feeling, podcast 00:05 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 [email protected]. 00:46 Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So today I’m going to take on a subject I talked about maybe a couple years ago, and the syndrome is called Visual snow syndrome. So this is a neurological condition that seems to be growing in numbers. And it’s classified as a neurological imbalance that’s in the eyes and the brain. So if you’ve got visual snow syndrome, some of the symptoms could be things like static, when you look through your eyes, you know, like the old TV sets where you had static on the TV. That’s how it is when you look through your eyes, and you look out into the world. And you may think that you’re crazy, because you see the static all the time, it’s there 24/7 with your eyes open or closed. And the kicker is, is that you go to a traditional eye doctor, and nine times out of 10, they’re gonna say, Well, you see 20/20 on the distance eye chart, and your eyes are very healthy. So there’s nothing wrong with you. Even though you might be feeling anxious, you might even be feeling a little depressed. So this visual snow syndrome can be accompanied by something called traumatic brain injury. So this could be something like, you know, you fall down, you are in a mild car accident. If you’re playing sports, and maybe you have a whiplash or you you know, you just fall down. Sometimes this is the triggering factor, I find another aspect of visual snow syndrome is it’s related to your systemic health, specifically, your inflammatory situation in your body. So in other words, if you’ve got a high inflammatory level in your brain and body, this may be another contributing factor to visual snow. Now, some other symptoms that people have reported to me would be things like dizziness, nausea, tinnitus, that means a ringing in the ears. Also being sensitive to light, having night blindness, and having overall eye fatigue. I’ve had some patients say they feel like they’re on drugs. And if you have done psychotropic drugs, you’ve might experience something like this. People have trouble sleeping, so they have insomnia. They also might be, let’s say in a brain fog state. And as I said, sometimes this visual snow syndrome will occur after some kind of head injury, brain trauma, concussions. And so the relationship between our brain health and our eye health is once again spotlighted even though if you do some kind of a brain scan, you’re probably not going to find anything. Now I have a theory on visual snow syndrome. I’ve studied a lot of neurological health and I’ve worked with neuroscientists. And there’s a part of the brain called the thalamus, which may be partly responsible for where this visual snow syndrome occurs. And also it may also be related to a place in the brain called the superior colliculus and also the posterior colliculus. The superior is part of our visual and the posterior is part of our auditory where there is a strong visual auditory connection with visual snow syndrome. And this plays into how do we remedy it? Well, the first thing I do is I order our some kind of a lab test, you can do a blood test urine test hair mineral analysis, because I want to get a baseline on what’s going on with the digestive health, any inflammatory issues going on. And that’s a key thing. Because if you’re under stress, you’ve had trauma, you’re probably going to have some inflammation. Of course, this is based on what you eat. And so it starts with your diet and nutrition, I would definitely up your omega three fatty acids, I would move more into an anti inflammatory diet, lots of plant based antioxidant type foods, I’d work on your gut health, I might explore any toxicity levels, like hea

I’m going to take a question from a follower. He’s got a condition called Central Serous Retinopathy CSR. This is a condition where there’s a fluid buildup behind the retina, it can look like a blister, it also can turn into a retinal detachment. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, retinopathy, improve, vitamin, light, melatonin, retinal detachment, milligrams, intermittent fasting, health, integrative, nitric oxide, exposure, condition, carbohydrates, zeaxanthin, omega, absorption, called, clarity 00:06 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 [email protected]. 00:45 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So I’m going to take a question from a follower. He’s got a condition called Central Serous Retinopathy CSR. This is a condition where there’s a fluid buildup behind the retina, that sometimes it can look like a blister, it also can turn into a retinal detachment. Sometimes the choroid, which is the layer behind the retina, which is also filled with blood vessels is part of the reason why the fluid builds up in the retina. The first thing to notice the retina has one of the highest metabolic needs in the entire body. And this means that it needs lots of nutrients to stay robust. It also comprises of about 50% of fatty acids. This is the fatty part of the body, where of course we talk about things like Omega three, DHA, DHA, specifically, also EPA, those are the things that make up Omega three, and we don’t produce Omega three, we have to get it from outside sources. But there are other reasons why sometimes we might develop this condition. And it could be things like systemic inflammation, endocrine imbalances, exposures to things like glyphosate, which is found in the fertilizer, round up, which creates a lot of inflammatory disease. Also, if you’ve been taking corticosteroids if you’ve suffered head trauma, and central serous retinopathy tends to trend more in men than women. There’s also a glucose level relationship, meaning that if you’re pre diabetic, if you have difficulty processing sugars, or you’re eating a diet that’s either high in processed foods, or carbohydrates, you might have a higher risk. I even think secondary things like being exposed to chronic blue light from artificial light like screens. Blue light in itself can create more of an inflammatory situation a more drying out situation. But the bottom line is, this is a very serious condition. Sometimes you need to get some laser surgery, especially if there’s a retinal detachment. If it’s in the early stages, there are some integrative things that you can do, I’m going to go into that in just a moment. It’s important to stay connected to your eye doctor to get frequent retinal exams to make sure you’re not suffering a retinal detachment. And if you do that, then you can start using some of these integrative methods. So if you’re going to embark on my path, which is more integrative, I would start with the red lens therapy, the red exercise lenses. I’ve talked about this in many other video blogs and written blogs, posts on my social media. This goes back to the Geoffrey’s Lab, which discovered that five minutes of exposure to a morning red light in the 670 nanometer range, and you can do that five to seven days a week. This can actually help improve the mitochondria function, which improves the ATP function and reduces things like oxidative stress something called the reactive oxygen species, which tends to go up as we age in the retina as the ATP goes down. This is an everybody. So what the red lens therapy does is it gets rid of the oxidative stress and improves mitochondrial function. In addition, I would definitely boost your omega threes. I’m looking at maybe 2000 In 3000 milligrams a day of a really high quality Omega three, I sell one but there are other companies metagenic sells a good one. And of course things like vitamin A is really essential for retina health. Zinc helps in the absorption of vitamin A and one of the issues that happens with poor vitamin A absorption because it’s a fat soluble vitamin is the health of our liver, liver and gallbladder. So let me explain the liver produces the bile that helps us break down the fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, and also I would add the lutein and zeaxanthin those would be other things that

How often should you get an eye exam? There isn’t a one size fits all approach here. I typically recommend that everyone goes at least once every two years, however depending on your age and general eye health, you might need to go more. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, vision, visual, eye exam, cataract, eyedrops, infant, vitreous, doctor, kids, macular degeneration, reducing, bilberry, developing, check, clarity, exam, problem, dry eye syndrome, tic toc 00:05 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 [email protected]. 00:46 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So I’m going to take a question from a follower from tic toc. She’s asking, number one, how often should she get an eye exam? And what type of eye exam should she get? Well, this is a great question. And I get this one, probably a few times a month. So generally speaking, if you’re an adult, it’s good to get a comprehensive eye exam every two years. A lot of it depends on your genetics, your lifestyle, how old you are. And these factors play into whether or not you should get more frequent eye exams, especially if the doctor finds something. Now obviously, if in your day to day activities, you start developing some blurred or distorted vision, you want to get to an eye doctor asap. Now, if you follow my stuff, you know that being proactive is everything. And there are ways that you can reduce your visual stress, you can eat better, you can take care of your eyes when you’re working on digital screens. And even the prescriptions that you might be using are important based on you know, keeping your eyes healthy. Now for kids, it’s a little different. Now, my perspective is that, you know, for children, the kind of eye exam I like to get, at least with kids, is to get one that is more than just reading the distance eye chart. You know, I used to consult with a lot of schools and school nurses used to ask me what would be the best screening device to see if a child has a vision problem. And their thinking was that a lot of vision problems were missed, because they all saw the distance eye chart at 2020. Now remember, 2020 is like seeing a 1/3 inch letter at 20 feet. That’s only one aspect of your vision. And it’s very static. And a lot of folks see 2020 vision eyesight, and yet they have vision problems. So in kids, one of the best screening devices is giving them a book or you know, something to read up close, and just to observe their reactions, responses and behaviors. So for example, in the kid, if you see them covering an eye closing an eye, bringing their reading material much closer, they’re squinting, you know, these are all signals that there’s probably some type of visual focusing problem. Now again, in my training, I look at the visual system from a developmental perspective, meaning that when I test a child, I’m comparing their chronological age to their performance age. And I’m doing all kinds of tests in the areas of first of all their primitive reflexes, their gross motor and vestibular health, their eye movements, their eye focusing the visual coordination and even their perceptual skills, like visual memory or you know, other perceptual skills related to learning. You can even add things like your auditory processing, and you know, you’ve got a more comprehensive picture on what a child’s visual system is doing before you might prescribe any lenses. So with adults, you want to look for an eye doctor who is doing more than the bare minimum of checking your eye health and doing a distance acuity check. At least can you you know, have them check your near visual acuity and possibly things like your visual coordination, your peripheral vision and And you know those visual skills that are essential for optimal vision, visual health and wellness. Now on the eye health spectrum, again, if you can either supplement with the very important nutrients like lutein, zeaxanthin, esta Xanthine, bilberry, vitamin A trace minerals, zinc and chromium, maybe adding bilberry making sure you’re getting enough fats and oils in your diet. Those at the very least, you know, eating a healthy, well balanced diet with a lot of plant based antioxidants. And we call it the rainbow method, taking care of your gut health, reducing your stress, you know, getting out into sunlight every day, you know, being very mi

Here is a great interview with Jenna Hua who is the Founder and CEO of Million Marker, the only mail-in body toxicity test for BPA, phthalates, parabens, and other hormone-disrupting chemicals. Jenna talked about the dangers of BPA, phthalates, and other plastic chemicals. And how can these chemicals impact our hormones? Enjoy the show. To contact Jenna, you can DM her on Instagram @million_marker or visit her website: https://www.millionmarker.com/ If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, exposures, chemicals, product, bpa, test, plastic, fragrance, paraben, marker, environmental exposure, phthalates, big, offer, impact, expose, hormone disrupting chemicals, important, conceive, hormone 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 [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. So you are in for a special treat. Today, I’m going to be interviewing a really powerful, wonderful person. Her name is Jana Wah, she is the founder and CEO of million marker. And I’m gonna let her tell you what she does. But she is very transformational. And I was on her podcast not too long ago on Instagram. And I wanted to have her on, I wanted to introduce you to introduce her to you. So Jenna, welcome to the program. Tell us a little bit about yourself which what you do how you got there. And I’m going to turn the microphone over to you. 00:55 Thank you so much, Dr. Sam. It’s a pleasure to interview you and learning from you. I’m extremely honored to be on your podcast. One of my biggest goal, at least one of the mission familiar marker is to disseminate the information and get the public educated about environmental exposures. So my little bit about my background. As Dr. Sam mentioned, I’m the founder and CEO of million marker, and million marker we do we offer a direct to consumer endocrine disrupting chemical, environmental exposure testing, allowing people to understand their exposures and do something about it. How I came to balancing Milan marker, there’s the long history, a little bit of my background, I studied in nutrition and environmental health, during undergrad and graduate school, I was getting really frustrated that we don’t know we don’t really have a personalized way to understand our own exposures. While I’m saying is that your environment, closures is actually accounts for more than 70% of your chronic disease risk. One of the quotes that we learned is, you know, genetic loads of gun, but environment pulls the trigger. So your environment is extremely important in terms of your chronic disease development, your well being, and there isn’t really a personalized way for people to understand that. So professionally, that’s what I ran into during my research. So I really want to create a tool for people to understand, you know, what’s going on inside of us. Because, you know, given you and I have the same exposure, because we have different genes, we would respond very differently. And there’s no way of knowing that. And personally, I also I had a lot of fertility struggles myself, and then a lot of the chemical weed tests today, we call them hormone disrupting chemicals, which we can go into later. And these chemicals really impact fertility, they impact metabolism in the impact pretty much every aspect of your wellness and disease causing processes, particularly chronic disease. And I was very frustrated, because when I was going through my fertility struggles,

Here is a session where I worked with a mother with a 12 year old who had one year of vision therapy with another clinic, and she wants a second opinion because her child still has eye fatigue and eye pain after reading. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS therapy, vision, test, primitive reflexes, eyes, point, cellular level, reflex, hair, moro reflex, absorb, morrow, visual, bilateral, stress, problem, adaptive responses, motor, big, burned 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 [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today, I’m going to give you a bird’s eye view into a session I gave to a mom who’s got a 12 year old. And the dilemma is that she’s got some vision problems progressive myopia, a visual coordination problem called Convergence excess. But the big thing is, she has been doing physical vision therapy for over a year with some other doctors. And she still has the symptoms of her eyes getting really tired, sometimes her eyes feel painful, and she’s exhausted by the end of the day. So when I talk to the mom, you know, we go through things like the prenatal period, the pregnancy, the birth, the first three years bonding, and everything seemed to be pretty normal. And yet, here we are at age 12. And there’s still unresolved vision problems. So what do you do? So in this session, I bring in the whole body, and I talk about cellular biochemistry, and how we need more energy to be able to absorb any therapy that we might receive. You know, one of my mentors, was a world known developmental optometrist, he was practicing in Miami Beach professor at Berry College. And I studied with him for a long time. And one of the things that he taught me, which I still use today, is the fact that before we start with any child, in any kind of physical therapy program, we want to get an assessment of their nutrition. And if we can order a lab test, where we can see what is the nutrient absorption, like, Are there any heavy metal toxicities. And in figuring that out first, that is number one, if you can improve the energy and the biochemistry on a cellular level, then the child is more available to receive the therapy and make the changes developmentally that we’re asking that they need to do, because it takes an incredible amount of energy to go through any kind of therapeutic process. And if you’re depleted, you’re just not going to get very far. So in this session, I talked to the mom about some different ways to go about, you know, helping her her child. And for any parent out there who’s got a child and they just don’t know what’s going on, this could be really helpful. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks for tuning in. I see it is that especially in children, and learning in school, we have the sensory motor systems. And there’s a developmental arc where we as kids, kids, we learn through movement, how to integrate our sensory motor development, our eyes or ears or proprioception, you know, and then that leads to spatial decision making. And, and then some of the cognitive skills, you know, executive function, memory, and, you know, spelling and math and all that stuff. And it does start with the primitive reflexes, those are kind of the foundation. And, you know, there’s the morrow and the fear paralysis reflex, they tend to go together

In this session, I work with a child who really struggles with her farsighted vision. I worked with the mother and child and then came up with a plan they will implement to help her out. It was a great session! Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, eyes, glasses, exercises, moving, primitive reflexes, foot, vision, motor, arms, development, body, magnification, head, called, wear, crawling, stimulate, obstacle course, balance 00:05 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. 00:46 Hey, everybody, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So we’ve got a great show today. It’s a very interesting session that I gave to a mom and her daughter. And she’s inquiring because her daughter went to the eye doctor, and she’s wearing a very strong, farsighted prescription. So the higher the number, the stronger the lens, and so she’s wearing like a plus 7.25. That’s a lot of magnification. So as you’ll be able to tell from the session, I asked a lot of questions, especially early on, you know, I think the three most important times in a young child’s life is the prenatal period, we call gestation, the birth, and then the first three years of life where there’s exploration and motor development, and so on. And there’s an aspect of the child’s development that really explains why she’s got this really strong prescription. And so for any parent out there, and you go for an eye exam, you know, take your child for an eye exam, and you end up getting really strong glasses, that is such a symptom approach. It doesn’t get to the root cause. And basically, it’s just reinforcing the pattern that’s happening. And when I start looking at vision as a developmental process, and it’s influenced by our motor development, our emotional development, our nutrition, our traumas, things like that, we start working in a way where we’re treating the whole child and not just the eyeballs. And so you’ll get to see some very interesting things in the way I analyze, diagnose, and then a series of physical therapy exercises that I think are going to really contribute to the family. And so I was really grateful that they they gave permission that we could show this video. So I hope you enjoy the show. Leave your comments, and thanks for tuning in, guys. Got it? 03:11 Now too bad yourself. 03:12 Very well. Thanks. Good luck. Let us know up there. 03:17 Now really, it’s like there’s no snow. Oh, that’s terrible. Yeah, I know. I want some snow. 03:28 All right, well. 03:32 Give me a little background on what you want to work on. And we’ll we’ll get to is 03:37 up. We’re just trying to see if there’s any way to improve her nearsightedness bow. A year and a half ago, when she started preschool. I see a lot of what they preach before preschool when she first got the glasses. Um, we had her checked out maybe like two months ago. And it got like, a little bit a little bit worse, but it wasn’t that much of a difference. So I’ve seen some of your videos so and I know that there’s certain things that you can like help to

Here is a session I did with a patient who is struggling with Myopia. It’s a great session where we work together to create a plan that works for her. I answer questions on the plus lens to blur and eye dialog exercises, so I wanted to share it with you all. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS blur, wear, prescription, feel, lenses, nines, sevens, eyes, put, driving, people, exercises, softer, clarity, energy, world, nearsighted, fear, child, relate 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. Hey everybody, in today’s show, I did a session with somebody with myopia, some of my best stuff. So I hope you enjoy our session. Take care, you want to tell me about the plus lens to blur the eye dialog, your prescriptions, your vitamins, I draw my god, I had to do so many things. So, any changes, things getting better or worse? 00:27 I haven’t been getting better. I’m hoping it’s not getting worse. 00:35 Okay. 00:39 I’ve been pretty consistent with the plus, plus lands to blur, whatever, whatever that one’s called. 00:49 Lessons. The blur? Yeah. 00:51 Yeah, I’ve been pretty consistent with doing that. 00:55 Okay, well, let’s forget about the results for now. Let’s, let’s put that aside, even though that’s why you’re, that’s why you’re here for results. You learned anything about your habits? Anything about your relationship to blur? And like, Do you like it? Do you hate it? Are you checking out? Because it’s really, the best way for you to make change is to understand what the exercises are showing you. Maybe you’re not that kind of person where you can be reflective or go inside. 01:46 Yeah, I think I am that kind of person. I, 01:49 I do. So, yeah. Okay, so then, what are three things that you’ve learned about yourself? And the blur? I mean, what? You’re, you’re looking through the blur? Does it make you happy? Does it make you sad? Does it make you you know what? You know, getting? What? What’s it doing to you? 02:13 Yeah, suggesting you use the word. Sad because I have felt like, Okay. I feel like I’m doing okay, I don’t feel I don’t feel frustrated with the blur. But I have found myself feeling sad. Because, like, especially I love the view my view of the mountains out here and I know I’m missing things. And I’m sitting here with my children. You know, I’ve gotten used to it how it is I’m using the I’m mostly just using the 02:55 seven is it seven seven? Yeah. 03:01 With that I can drive my children to school go to town. It’s okay. But definitely, I definitely feel some sadness over. Just missing things. 03:20 Sadness over missing things. Yeah. 03:23 And like at church, I can’t like when people are singing and I love to listen and see everything and and I think that affects it might affect my confidence a little bit with going to meet people in a crowd. Okay, but I would say I feel okay. Like I don’t feel really frustrated with everything. 03:55 So looking out 04:04 and see if it shows up here. I gave you minus seven and a contact or minus seven and minus six. Do you remembe

In this episode, I give a lecture on how traumatic brain injuries can affect your vision. I discuss a variety of techniques that reduce trauma including vision therapy and color therapy. We also cover how to navigate your eye disease diagnosis and how screen time affects your vision. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, symptoms, vision, trauma, diet, retina, deterioration, people, prescription, creates, screen, eyesight, topic, oxygenation, lens, doctor, brain, improve, disease, health 00:06 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. 00:44 I want to start off with a couple of topics. These are questions that people have emailed me. And then definitely, I want to get to you bring you up on stage. So I want to start off, and the first topic I want to speak about is trauma, trauma and the eyes. And this is a topic that in my profession, unless you’re doing some kind of rehabilitation, therapy, for vision, a lot of times you get symptoms that you don’t really even know they’re connected in a way where the trauma is connected to your vision. And, you know, for almost all of us, we’ve had some kind of a, you know, trauma, car accident, fall, it could be even emotional or spiritual psychological trauma. And because of the relationship between the eyes and the brain, it’s very common that a person can suffer vision problems when they have trauma. But because the trauma is usually absorbed in the soft tissue, it’s hard to pick it up and say on MRI or any kind of scanning device, but you know, you’ve got the symptoms. And some of the main symptoms would be things like blurred vision, double vision, actually problems with memory, so cognitive issues. And then the other one that’s really common is balance, having difficulty with either your inner ear, vestibular system, and your eyes, or just a sense of nausea, dizziness. And, you know, most eye exams are just based on reading the distance eye chart, and they’re checking structural health font, you know, your health, but they’re not really looking at the functional connection between how the eyes enter act with the brain. And there’s certain very essential skills that help us with our reading or focusing our depth perception, our motoring. And so these particular symptoms can really start to confuse people because they all go and the doctor says, well, everything is, is normal, your eyesight is 2020, your eye health looks good. But then there are the symptoms that keep, you know, keep surfacing. So the process of rehabilitation through physical therapy, physical therapy for your eyes, is something that’s really helpful. And it’s helpful for anybody. But it’s really helpful for people who have suffered trauma, because it helps them rework and re educate, how to use your eyes as it interfaces with the brain. And you can do things like color therapy, which is very helpful for releasing trauma, relaxing the eyes, balancing the nervous system, and also just some of the physical exercises that can begin to help you integrate, you know, the skills as it relates to your functional vision, how you’re using your two eyes, in relationsh

Most people use Melatonin as a sleep aid, and that’s it’s main purpose, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting other parts of your body. So I wanted to take a moment and talk about how Melatonin works in your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! Sources: [1] Stefanova NA, ZHdankina AA, Fursova AZ, Kolosova NG. (2013). Potential of Melatonin for prevention of age-related macular degeneration: an experimental study. Adv Gerontol. 26(1):122-9. [2] Yi C, Pan X, Yan H, Guo M, Pierpaoli W. (2005). Effects of Melatonin in age-related macular degeneration. Ann N Y Acad Sci. Dec;1057:384-92 [3] Mehrzadi S, Hemati K, Reiter RJ, Hosseinzadeh A. (2020). Mitochondrial dysfunction in age-related macular degeneration: Melatonin as a potential treatment. Ther Targets. Apr;24(4):359-378. ↩ [4] Alkozi HA, Navarro G, Franco R, Pintor J. (2020). Melatonin and the control of intraocular pressure. Prog Retin Eye Res. Mar;75:100798. ↩ [5] Gubin D, Neroev V, Malishevskaya T, Cornelissen G, Astakhov SY, et al. (2021). Melatonin mitigates disrupted circadian rhythms, lowers intraocular pressure, and improves retinal ganglion cells function in glaucoma. J Pineal Res.May;70(4):e12730 [6] Abe M, Reiter RJ, Orhii PB, Hara M, Poegeler B. (1994). Inhibitory effect of Melatonin on cataract formation in newborn rats: evidence for an antioxidative role for Melatonin. J Pineal Res, Sep;17(2):94-100. ↩ [7] Rosenstein RE, Pandi-Perumal SR, Srinivasan V, Spence DW, Brown GM, et al. (2010). Melatonin as a therapeutic tool in ophthalmology: implications for glaucoma and uveitis. J Pineal Res. Aug;49(1):1-13. ↩ SUMMARY KEYWORDS melatonin, talk, retina, light, study, improve, glaucoma, march, inflammation, eye, ciliary body, optic nerve, produce, vision, artificial light, exposed, receptor, uv, conditions, developing 00:00 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. Alright, today’s show, we’re going to talk about melatonin. You know, most people think melatonin is asleep aid. And that’s basically it. But today I want to talk about how melatonin influences our eye health. So just a little backstory about melatonin. It’s a hormone that’s produced in the pineal gland in the brain, it helps regulate our body’s sleep wake cycle. But you know, it’s also present in the eyes retina. And it’s pretty interesting when you have melatonin in the retina. And also, it’s also regulating our circadian rhythms, as well as protecting the retina against oxidative stress and inflammation. Those are some of the reasons why we start developing retinal conditions. Because we are accumulating oxidative stress or free radicals, we start developing inflammation. And here we go that we have another ingredient melatonin that might help us. So there have been some studies that show that melatonin can act as an antioxidant in the retina helping us protect against, you know the the damaging blue light that we get from artificial light from our screens. And that melatonin can protect us against certain types of retinal degeneration. I’m going to talk about some specific research studies in a few minutes. But melatonin is another ingredient that may help stave

Here is a presentation I gave on how I built my social media community. I shared this with a group of entrepreneurs from Score who are interested in building a social media community. Score is a national organization I’m involved with that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses. So you get to see me in action, sharing some of my secrets about how I built my brand. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, podcast, post, brand, create, linkedin, question, products, social media, content, TikTok, money, business, interested, called, happening, facebook, instagram, building 00:05 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. 00:46 everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So today is a presentation that I gave recently, to a group of entrepreneurs who are interested in building a social media community. In I’m involved with a group called score, which is a national organization that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses. And I was recognized for all the great things I’ve done in my own brand. And so you get to see me in action, sharing some of my secrets, and how I built my brand. So I hope you enjoy the show. And thanks for tuning in. So everybody, I’m really excited to be here just a little bit about myself. You know, I grew up in a middle class, family, and we emphasized education. So I ended up becoming a doctor, I was always interested in natural healing. So I combined the two. And I started to private practices, one I sold, the other I still have. So I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit in me. And in 2016, I started my brand on the internet, and I’ll talk about that. And actually in 2020 is when I launched my E commerce right around COVID. So I’ll go into more details about that. And I’ve been a client of score for the past three years. So here we go. So when I started, I began to think of myself as a media channel. And the key thing in if you’re going to do social media, in my opinion, is to create value for your audience. And what I did early on is I gave away my best information, like everything for free. And it’s kind of like this idea of give, give, give. And then you can ask, okay, this is a really important aspect in building a brand, and is very different than, say being transactional. And I’ll kind of go into more detail on that in a minute. But if you are going to do social media, my advice would be start with your strengths. Are you better at writing? Are you better at talking? For me, I loved videos, so I loved doing video. I also love doing audio. And I actually started this. This process called morning walks with Dr. Sam and so I would I love to hike. So I be hiking in the national forests. And somebody would ask me a question. And so I would stop and go. All right, let me give you the answer here. And it became a huge way to build my following. Another thing that I did was I created four to eight content pieces a day and I posted them across all the social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tik Tok and Twitter. If you’re independent trust, you could do that. You could also do Snapchat. But I was

Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of blindness and I’m seeing more and more people diagnosed with a more serious kind, so I wanted to take some time to provide you with the latest information on how to prevent and reduce Macular Degeneration through a holistic lens. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS macular degeneration, macula, red light, retina, wet macular degeneration, eye, nearsighted, lutein, reducing, dairy, vision, talk, coming, milligrams, fluid, omega threes, check, podcast, part, book 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can always text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 Or send me an email [email protected]. I’ve got a couple of great workshops coming up in March in Southern California. I’ll be in San Diego March 5, LA March 7, and Santa Barbara March 12 doing my famous masterclass. I’m back doing that again in person. This is a great way to work with me one on one, if you’ve got an issue that you haven’t been able to solve. Register Here. And I’ll be doing some book events. As you know, my new book, Vital Vision is coming out the end of February, we’re in a pre sale right now. So if you want to order the book, you’ll get a discount. And there are also some events happening. You can sign up and we can do an online workshop that’s going to be happening in April. Also, you can get some coaching one on one sessions with me if you buy the book, and I’ll be doing a gathering in Santa Fe in September. This is gonna be a small group at my geo-dome. So if you’d like to register for that, we’d love to have you. Preorder the book here OR learn about my book events here. Hey, everybody, welcome to my podcast today. I’m doing some mountaineering. And in fact, I’ve 02:27 got some I’ll show you my shoes. So I got some cleats here. So I’m going to be heading up the mountain. 02:37 But I wanted to get this information out. So here we go. Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another podcast. So today, I want to give you the latest information on how I’m working with macular degeneration. And macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness I’m seeing more and more people diagnosed with a more serious kind of macular degeneration, which is the wet. But if you get this diagnosis, it can be kind of a wake up call that you need to do some different things with your eyes and with your body with your health. And I want to give you the newest and the best information. So a little anatomy lesson. The macula is the center part of the retina. It has the densest part of cones, where we see detail and color vision. And for people that are say over 6570 This is when macular degeneration can start occurring. But it’s probably been hovering around for quite a while. And this now has reached the the part where it’s now coming to your visual awareness. So the first thing to note is there are a lot of things that you can do. I know more and more doctors are talking about the air IDs and the air IDs to formulas. This is from the NIH study back in 2001 and 2006. And whatever brand you go with, if you start taking things like lutein Xanten as to Xanthan, I think that that would be a good step in the right direction. Now dosage, I would recommend somewhere around 16 milligrams of lutein, about six milligrams of xanthan, and about four to six milligrams of acid Xanthine daily acid Xanthine is the marine current Noid and so we talk about foods. Think red, orange, yellow, green mean vegetables, this would be for your lutein. And your Z is Anthon. And you know, this time of year, wintertime, you can do things like sweet potatoes, and squash. Also kale and spinach. And of course, the cruciferous vegetables are really important as well. Avocados are high on my list. Also, if you eat cage free eggs, there’s a lot of good lutein and eggs as well. So however you want to get it, you want to start in on the lutein, zeaxanthin and ask the Xanten. And another key factor here in your macular health, is to recognize that about 50% of the retina is made of fatty acids. Therefore, the omega threes are so important. And you’re looking at taking probably around 2000 milligrams a day, you can check in with your doctor, get

Here is a session I held where we discussed this mother’s child who is struggling with double vision and her eyes freezing up. We talked through what the likely causes were and came up with protocols for the upcoming months. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, person, color, called, therapy, virus, stress syndrome, child, lenses, nervous system, glasses, cranial, stuck, stress, dairy, learning, reflexes, regulate, wear, physical therapy 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 [email protected]. All right. So 00:05 there’s a lot to unpack here. You’re doing some great things. But where are you? What’s the status, say today or this past weekend? In terms of Melanie’s eyes? She’s seven years old. She’s been through a lot 00:23 on many levels. So give me an updated status report on based on where we are? Sure. I think to be honest, since I caught there is there is no, I think at this point, there’s no doubt in my mind that I’m dealing with some kind of inflammation. 00:44 And I think I wrote in the notes that they said in the beginning, she was allergic to dairy, wheat and eggs, but they told me oh, there is no, you know, impact, just give it to her because we don’t see anything. I don’t know if that was the right wrong thing to do or not. But when we removed dairy. 01:02 And the other thing that I saw made a big impact was the oat so we removed Oat. And I think it got a little bit better. Now. It’s also eight months since she got that whatever virus it was, I don’t know, did that go through a phase. And now, maybe if there was inflammation because of the virus that’s getting better? I don’t know that part. But I would say in the last two weeks, by being very careful with her diet. 01:35 We made some improvements. I can see Sorry. I can see things get worse based on food. Like one day, she had French fries, and there was canola oil the day after her eyes were horrible. So I feel like I am finding a pattern but I don’t know what it is right there was there is no doubt there was a strabismus at the beginning like I and that’s still there, right? Because when we go, they can measure it. And that’s very, very limited. But again, that was completely not not completely under control. Because I think I saw you you saw the report from Dr. Green for the visual development. So that one there’s obviously things that was not working very well with her via tweet, reading, or I could see patterns. So that was there impacting the brain. But when she got sick, right, that was the biggest thing that suddenly in May. It was diplopia 5060 times a day, I will take her shirt off, the eyes get stuck. Like I would put her pajama on the eyes would get it was like non stop. That’s the part that concerns me right? It was okay, I do the visual therapy for this threat hospice, right strabismus, I can’t pronounce it properly. But what happened with that virus that she went from, at least being able to function daily, to the eyes getting and when they get stuck, she tells me my eyes get stuck. And she sees too. But the eyes are in the middle. I don’t see the shift when she’s tired at night. And I see that left eye drift. When she from the time she got that virus. When she tells me my eyes are stuck. And that means I asked her what does it mean when you say the eyes are stuck. She says I see too. But I see them right in the middle, I don’t see a drift at all. And she has to physically touch for the eye to get fixed. Now we’re working on Okay, don’t touch your eyes, close your eyes and tell your eyes where to focus. And that seems to help. 03:38 But 03:40 that’s the part that suddenly was a big change since the month of May. 03:45 Okay. 03:48 So let’s talk big picture for a second and then we’ll go into more specific things. So what your daughter is experiencing is something we used to see a lot when I was in my training at a place called the gazelle Institute. And the gazelle Institute was a very well respected Research Center affiliated with the Yale study center in New Haven, Connecticut. And it was started in the late 1940s by developmental physician, Arnold gazelle, and a psychologist friend Francis illage. 04:28 And it was a place where there was research done on the experience that children 04:37 went through in their sensory motor development. And a big emphasis was o

The research is in! I am excited to share this study that covers red light, retina health, and Drusen. This research validates the things I’ve been doing for over 30 years, so let’s dive in! Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, red light, eyes, cones, study, developing, eyesight, atp, rls, age, called, cells, talk, jeffery, visual acuity, red light therapy, macular degeneration, vision, rods, today 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Before we get to today’s show, you can now text me your messages at 1-844-932-1291. You can also send me an email [email protected]. So today I want to dive into the conversation around red light, Retina health, and Drusen. I’m very excited about this topic, because finally, there’s research that validates the things that I’ve been doing for over 30 years, especially in the field of light and color therapy. So I want to share about a study that was done by Dr. Glen Jeffery, he’s the lead author, the University of College of London’s Institute of Ophthalmology. And Dr. Jeffery writes in his research paper, that a single morning exposure of red light, and that’s going to be at 670 nanometers can improve declining vision. In fact, he said that, it only takes looking at the red light for three minutes in the morning. And this can significantly improve deteriorating eyesight. So here’s the backstory. When we are born, our retina grows out from the brain. So every cell of the retina, our brain cells, this actually starts in utero. Very early, you know, after conception, that we start to see the developing eyes grow out from the brain. So every tissue of the eyeball originates from the brain, especially the retina cells. So the retina is not just connected to the brain. The retina is part of our central nervous system, you’ve heard me talk about this a lot. We can tell a person has eyes stress just based on their pupil response. If they’re in a dilated pupil response, their peripheral vision is going to be constricted their eyes, stress is going to be off the charts. And they’re going to be very sensitive to light. That’s just one example. There are many examples how the central nervous system is very connected to the eye. Now what’s kind of cool about the retina is that it is the only part of the brain that actually lives outside the skull, or we call the cranial vault. But it is an access point I’m referring to the retina where we can actually make a reversal in the aging process. I get this question a lot, you know if if your retina is damaged, and actually if any of the cells die at any point of your life, you can’t really regenerate the retina. And these retina cells demand the highest amount of energy in the body to remain healthy throughout life. That’s why I talk about how it’s so important that we we have to oxygenate and hydrate our eyes. Every day. We do it daily, that the foods you eat if you’re doing supplements if you’re doing eyedrops, you want to do the highest quality organic because your eyes require this high amount of energy to remain healthy. And if not, you start developing inflammation, oxidative stress. And of course this leads to physical changes in the eyes like macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, dry eye, and many other diseases. Now by age 40 We now see that the retina does begin to age and part of it is that the mitochondria these are the energy cells. They’re in our entire body but they’re in such a high concentration in the retina. The mitochondria Do something called a TI P. ATP is needed to maintain high energy in the cells. It helps with giving the cells more energy. And it also acts as a detoxification process. Now another thing that happens when we age we start developing something called reaction, oxygen species, our O ‘s. And when the RLs starts going up in the retina, we start to see an accelerated aging process in the retina. So over and over again, I read in my science and medical journals that both in the rods and cones, these retina cells are the most metabolically active. In the entire body, they demand and use the most energy. And we start developing age related eye problems when those mitochondria become compromised, and the ATP goes down. And the RLs goes up, and it accumulates

Today I wanted to re-share my conversation with Kim Konte. She is the founder of the national non-profit Non-Toxic Neighborhoods (NTN) and a Director of Jane Goodall’s youth service program, and former City of Irvine Community Services Commissioner. In November 2015, Kim helped launch a campaign to raise awareness to protect her children and other Irvine, CA residents. On 11/23/2016 the City of Irvine adopted a historic organic and regenerative land management policy. Since then the City of Irvine has successfully and organically maintained all pest pressure from weeds to rodents, on more than 570 acres of community and neighborhood parks, athletic fields; over 6,000 acres of open space, over 800 acres of public right-of-way, including street medians and parkways; 70,000 trees; and nearly 1.5 million square feet of facilities.   Kim and her team have now assisted over 200 cities, counties, and school districts to ban glyphosate and take organic and regenerative land management policies and legislation online.  NTN has proven that you can have beautiful parks, athletic fields, and open space without the use of harmful and synthetic pesticides. Non-Toxic Neighborhoods and our advisors believe that it should be a basic human right that our children are protected from environmental harm where they live, learn, and play!    Kim was awarded the City of Irvine’s Civic Leader award in 2017 and was added to the Wall of Recognition.  Non-Toxic Neighborhoods to work towards having every child have protection from exposure to harmful and synthetic pesticides. Since 2015 Kim has now assisted over 200 cities, counties, school districts, and New York State ban the use of glyphosate and adopt organic and regenerative practices.  Kim is currently working with Assembly Members and Senators to author a Bill banning Glyphosate from California’s schools and parks as well as many other states. Kim and NTN are currently working to have city leaders around the county adopt the Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights. SPOKANE, WA: With our partner group, Non-Toxic Neighborhoods, the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) developed and is releasing a new model ordinance, the Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights. – https://www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/news/childrens-environmental-bill-of-rights-model-law-launched.  The model ordinance, intended for passage by cities, towns, counties, and other municipalities across the United States, is focused on protecting children from environmental harm. The model ordinance recognizes the right of children to clean air and water, to be free from synthetic pesticides and toxic chemicals, and to be healthy. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS pesticides, glyphosate, city, children, organic, impacts, negative health impacts, parents, connect, utilizing, test, point, people, protect, roundup, nontoxic, work, policies, system, safe 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, as promised, I’ve been invited many different guests on my show. And today we have somebody very unique. Her name is Kim Konte, and she is the founder of the national nonprofit, nontoxic neighborhoods. And she is an amazing person who I really admire. I met her on her Instagram posts. And she has assisted over 200 cities, counties and school districts to ban glyphosate and take organic and regenerative land management policies and legislation online. So she’s trying to clean up the environment in all these common lands, like parks and golf courses, and places where people congregate, and we don’t realize how toxic these places are. And she is supportive for of course, parents, pet owners, schools and universities, landscape and professional manager, city managers, government officials. So Kim, I want to bring you on. Thank you for joining us today. Tell me your story on how you started these non toxic neighborhoods, and how it how it’s come about. 01:56 Sure. And thank you so much for having us. And it, it found me my backgrounds in traditional advertising. And I had no idea kind of this is where I would end up. But it happened, just by wanting to be able to protect my children and feeling like as a parent, I had failed them. You know, we have our kids, we love them, we want to enjoy them and make sure they’re

Here’s another look back at when I was interviewed by Gael Rosewood, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner and Sam Berne, O.D. Gael Rosewood, Rolfer, Rolf Movement Practitioner, and Continuum Movement teacher interviews Dr. Sam Berne, optometrist and so much more, on the relationship of eyes to structure, perception, and movement and his innovations in holistic eye care. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, people, vision, affects, cataracts, problem, prescription, macular degeneration, macula, body, doctor, astigmatism, studied, reduce, reverse, osteopath, lens, sam, condition, workshops 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 [email protected]. Gael Rosewood: I’m excited to be introducing Sam Berne O.D. to the Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) community. Sam has been a colleague of mine through the Continuum Movement community. We met at various of Emily Conrad’s workshops and retreats, and over the years I came to be intrigued with his particular specialty as an eye doctor. I took a workshop with him some years ago and have had an interesting journey into exploring his various healing protocols. It shows me that how I see the world is, as Rolfers know, a perceptual habit. I have options, maybe options that I never saw before. First, Sam, would you like to introduce yourself in any way? Sam Berne: Yes. I am an optometrist, but also much more than that. I’ve been in practice over thirty-five years, and I’ve studied many different disciplines and consider myself a holistic practitioner. It’s been an exciting journey, I’ve met amazing people along the way, and I’m happy to share what I know with your community. GR: How were you drawn into optometry? SB: Well, it actually started when I was a child. At about eight years old and I was diagnosed with a learning problem and my mom took me everywhere because I couldn’t read. At an eye doctor’s office I got a pair of nearsighted glasses. That didn’t address my learning problem but I became a memorizer, that’s how I got through school. My eyes kept getting progressively worse. After I graduated optometry school, I met a holistic eye doctor, Albert A. Shankman, O.D., and went through his physical eye therapy program. He said two things to me: “Number one, the reason why you have a learning problem is you have a left eye that drifts out and you’re not using your two eyes together.” And second, “You can definitely reverse your prescription.” So I went through a sixth-month program and I did both of those things. I dissolved my prescription 100% and I learned to use my two eyes together. I stopped seeing double, and I became a voracious reader. It inspired me to move into a track of helping people improve their vision instead of just looking for disease and using pharmaceutical drugs and surgery – that’s the way most eye doctors are trained. That started me on a very dynamic process where, although I’ve been out way ahead of the curve, luckily I’ve met other visionaries along the path. Along the way I studied various things. One was light and color therapy for the eyes, which can actually heal certain eye problems. And I developed programs in hospitals working with traumatic brain injury. When people have had some kind of a whiplash or head injury, they can have tremendous vision problems that either go undiagnosed or that are hard for eye doctors to treat, so I developed ways to help people heal their trauma. I’ve also worked with kids diagnosed along the autism to attention deficit disorder (ADD) spectrum. I ended up going to massage school and became a craniosacral therapist, and that opened up a whole world of somatic awareness. Then about ten or eleven years ago I met Emily Conrad after teaching a workshop on vision improvement at her studio. Eventually I became a Continuum teacher studying under Emily. So, I have a lot of tools in my toolbox to help people improve their eyes and vision (see Figure 1). When we have an eye problem, there is usually a thread of a systemic, metabolic, energetic, postural reason for it. So instead of treating symptoms (what most eye doctors do), I try to find the cause and treat that. Then the eye problem tends to go away, and it also has an impact on the person’s brain health and overall wellness. So that’s in a nutshell where I started. Dr. Berne quote: “When we have an eye problem, there is usually a thread of a systemic, metabolic, energetic, or postural reason for it.” GR: That’s an impressive list, say more

Today we are talking about all things related to astigmatism. I get a lot of questions about this, so I wanted to break down what it is and how you can improve it. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, eye, stigmatism, develop, body, repetitively, cornea, talk, posture, work, retina, astigmatism correction, measure, left, corneal, twisting, cranial sacral therapy, warped, distortion, part 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 [email protected]. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I wanted to let you know that you can now text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 That’s 1-844-932-1291 Or you can send me your questions via email. [email protected]. So today I want to revisit a subject that I talk a lot about. It’s called a astigmatism. And in astigmatism Well, the way I define it is that it’s a twist, a turn a warp that’s in the eyeball. I’ve done a lot of video blogs on on the stigmatism. And it just brings a lot more questions to me. So today, I want to delve very deeply into this topic. And they’re, they’re kind of different aspects that I have learned about and I apply when I help people reduce their astigmatism. So let’s bring in one of my reference books, it’s called the dictionary of visual science and I’m quoting, astigmatism is a condition of refraction in which rays emanating from a single luminous point to this is an object in space are not focused on a single point by an optical system, the retina, but instead are focused as to line images at different distances, generally at right angles to each other. So in layman’s terms, what this means is that when light enters the eye, if you’re near sighted, the light focus is in front of the retina. If you’re farsighted, the light would focus behind the retina, and then the astigmatism it focuses in multiple places. And this is due to the fact that the the eyeball we just talked about the structure becomes more egg shaped as opposed to being round. In optometry school, my professors taught me that astigmatism occurred when light entered an eye that was egg shaped, and the light focused on more than one part of the retina simultaneously. And this created a blur that was warped. But there was never a mention in my optometry training about the mind body connection to a stigmatism. And as I delved into my physical therapy protocols, and I started to explore the deeper aspects of astigmatism. I made some discoveries, which I will get to a little later in the article. But first, let’s talk about what causes a astigmatism. So there are many causes. One could be just an irregular curvature in the cornea that’s the the front surface of the eye the clear window or there could be also a distortion in the lens of the eye. In fact, when people start developing cataracts, sometimes a stigmatism will will be able to be measured by the eye doctor. Astigmatism also tags with nearsightedness, and farsightedness so you can be nearsighted and then you start developing a stigmatism or you can also say start wearing magnification glasses bifocals, in the magnification plus lens, and you also start developing a astigmatism. Many times when I measure astigmatism, there’s a fluctuation it varies. And this is why people can experience fluctuations during the day I get a lot of comments, how can my vision goes up and down? How come some days are better than others? A lot of time it’s the astigmatism that gets worse gets better and it’s based on many things stress, and how you hold your eye muscles, and what kind of things you’re focusing on what your prescription is, and so on. So, Corneal hydration is very important. I talk a lot about that. And when you start straining, squinting or tilting your head or you start twisting your body while you’re focusing. This also can influence the development of astigmatism. So what are the types of astigmatism you go to your eye doctor, and he says, Well, you’ve got a astigmatism, it’s this power. But astigmatism is based on the shape of the eye. And let’s go through the different types. So the first one, very common, it’s called with the rule of astigmatism. And that means the vertical part of the eye is more warped than the horizontal part of the eye. Number two, there’s against the rule. And this is

I want to share this session with you where I counsel parents who’s two year old son’s left eye has started crossing in. They were referred to me by a holistic pediatrician and you’ll hear how I take the parents through a journey and offer different protocols and exercises that are going to get the child back on track. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. You can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask a question! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, left, vision, movement, reflex, crawling, eyepatch, turning, roll, child, age, john, body, movement patterns, crawl, visual, brain, integrated, birth, development 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So for you parents out there, when you have a young child, and you start seeing one of the eyes crossing in or crossing out, it can be very well, let’s just say scary. it can be frustrating, can be confusing, and you don’t really know what to do. And there are a variety of opinions out there, you know, your pediatrician has an opinion, your ophthalmologist may want to do surgery, or eye patching. And in this particular session, I counsel parents, they have a two year old and they started, they started seeing the eye going in, it’s the left eye crossing in. And fortunately, they were referred to me by a holistic pediatrician. And you’ll hear how I take the parents through a journey. And in the end, offer different protocols and exercises that are going to really get this child back on track. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks for tuning in. I looked at the picture. And so what we’re talking about is the observation of John’s left eye. You’re referred by Dr. Huxtable. 01:25 Yes. Okay. Yeah, she first noticed it when he was just a tiny baby. And I think now it’s to an age where if we needed to do something, like, give him an eyepatch, or, you know, to strengthen that eye, he might actually wear it, but he just wanted to get your input on what might be causing it. Yeah. And it’s 01:50 not a consistent thing either. Like, sometimes he looks, you know, bolt, they’re perfectly aligned and you know, moving and then just at other times, like in the picture, it’s like, oh, yeah, that will look slightly off center. So it’s that kind of infrequent, but it is noticeable still. 02:09 Okay. So when did you first notice it? 02:14 When he was just a baby, like, in his first? I don’t remember exactly. But 02:22 we’ll just say like January of 21. 02:25 Back when he was two months old, maybe? 02:27 Months. Okay. And if I may, can I ask you a little bit about what was the birth experience? Like? Did you have it at home? Did you were you in a hospital? What was it like? 02:44 We drove up to our midwife’s home an hour and a half away and I was I was pretty calm about it all i i knew i was having contractions, but I let him sleep a few more hours because of the timing of them. And the the midwife said I had a textbook perfect birth, everything went really well. 03:13 Great. So now 03:18 natural birth. 03:20 How long was labor? 16 hours. Okay, but the actual pushing was 20 minutes. 03:28 20 minutes. Okay. And so once he was born, you were able to bond with him and everything was good that way there wasn’t there any. 03:38 We did have a challenge of he was what I thought he was latched. But um, he wasn’t latched well. So he wasn’t getting food as much as he needed in the beginning, but we caught it very quickly with the visits and weighing him. And we did have to do lip and a tongue tie release for him. And ever since that, it was like almost instant that he was able to I could tell the difference, you know, get milk. 04:09 And so what did you see there was different at that point. 04:15 Was he stopped crying? 04:20 Yeah, like if you look at it, if you looked at an early picture of him, like his face was pretty, not pudgy, or, you know, baby fat like him like and it likes them to find like, lines under his eyes, and then he filled out really quickly after that. Yeah, the weight gain was pretty significant. And then just the ability for him to latch without like, causing pain was almost instantaneous. It 04:45 was extremely painful for me when he was trying to feed in the beginning and he wasn’t latched properly. So that was a really big challenge to overcome and figure out 04:57 okay, All right, well, I want to, I want to go a little macro here. And then I’ll com

I received a question from a follower that I wanted to answer today. Can an increased prescription cause double vision? The short answer is yes. Listen to the episode to learn why and what you can do about it. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. You can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask a question! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescription, doctor, nearsighted, lens, double, peripheral vision, stronger, brain, eye exam, vision, exercises, growing epidemic, increasing, work, glasses, starts, tunneled, learn, ratcheting 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So I’m hiking today and I wanted to take a question from somebody who’s been following me on YouTube. And so the question is, this gentleman is nearsighted. We’ve got a lot of nearsighted people out there. It’s a growing epidemic. Anyways, he went to his eye doctor, and he got an increased prescription. And all of a sudden, he started to see double. So his question is, Can increasing the prescription create a double vision scenario? Well, the answer to that is yes. So let me explain. You know, when we get an eye exam, and we get a lens prescription, especially in the nearsighted world, what happens is the doctor is correcting you to see 1/3 inch letter at 20 feet, we call that 2020. And I would say in the eye care field, what we do is we keep ratcheting it up, we want to keep increasing the prescription, you’ve probably experienced that you go back and the doctor makes the prescription tighter and stronger. Because the thinking is, the better the resolution, the better you see, the safer it’s going to be. But unfortunately, that’s actually not necessarily true. And when you start getting a stronger prescription, it separates the eyes more tunnels the eyes more. So you have less peripheral vision. And this works for both contacts, and glasses doesn’t matter. You know, people think, well, if I wear contacts, I’m not going to have this problem. But it’s the same lens, except it’s a little more unconscious, because you have a lens on the eye, and you just forget about it. But whether it’s a contact lens or a pair of glasses, when the eye exam gives you a stronger lens, you’re going to be more tunneled, and it creates more separation in the eyes. And so with that separation, it’s going to be harder for you to keep using your two eyes together and your brain kind of wigs out here. So you either see double vision, or the brain suppresses or shuts off one of the eyes. You know, in the testing that I have done, what I learned over the years, is not only should you do an acuity check and distance and near. But you also need this to test the state of how well the two eyes are working together are they balanced. And when you do these kinds of tests, you can see that one of the eyes actually drops out the brain actually starts ignoring it. Because there’s a conflict between the two eyes, there’s a competition. So they’re not collaborative, but they’re competing with each other, you know, for right eye dominant right handed. And you know, the right eye connects to the left brain, which is more of our detail analytical things. This starts in school, you know, we have to get the job done, we have to get it right, we have to be perfect, we have to do details. But the left eye, which is our creative, intuitive side of the brain, sometimes gets left behind. And if we start getting blurry vision, the eye doctor is basically just validating or reinforcing what’s happening to a child when they’re, you know, learning to read reading, to learn, and so on. So for this gentleman, my advice would be to go back to your old prescription, either tuck your eye doctor into it, or ask him to give you a computer prescription, usually a nearsightedness, when you get a computer prescription, it is going to be less powerful than the distance prescription. And that would be a way to reduce the double vision. I also think doing my eye exercises like the end palm home the eye dialogue the in young peripheral vision, exercise those things can help relax the eyes, help the peripheral vision work in a more integrated way. And you can start to avoid this doubling effect, but there’s no question. There is a correlation in the stronger the lens prescriptions, the less chance your two eyes are going to work together. So my advice is go back to your old prescription start doing th