The Berne Podcast with Dr. Sam Berne

Lately, I’ve been getting a number of questions about MS and how it affects our eyes. I want to take a moment today to address these questions and provide some solutions. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, vitamin d3, ms, talk, myelin, protocol, symptoms, eye exam, called, studies, optic nerve, cumbre, myelin sheath, mechanisms, affect, visual, light, calcium, terms, inflammation Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today, I’m going to talk about a condition called MS Better known as multiple sclerosis. And the reason why I want to talk about it is that I get a number of questions on MS and how it affects our eyes. And in fact, the visual system is one of the places where MS wreaks havoc. And some of the symptoms include things like peripheral vision loss, you start losing some of your side vision, this could also be called a visual field cut. So your visual field is, as they say, cut off, and the loss of vision keeps deteriorating. Now some other visual symptoms include things like a loss or reduction in your ability to read the eye chart at distance, or to read letters in words up close, they actually can’t even become so blurred, and unrecognizable, that there’s a distortion. I talked about visual field loss. And now another medical term that’s used in the eye exam is scotoma. And this is a blind spot in the center of your vision. Things go black. eye pain can be another reason why someone suffers MS Blurred vision. So when you’re looking at objects, there’s a haziness a sense of cloudiness, fuzziness. double vision, when somebody starts getting duplicate images. One of the first things to explore is there a neurological breakdown in the visual system. vertigo, dizziness, mobility issues. So there’s a feeling of, I’m off balance. I’m not sure why I am in space. And then another influence of Ms. On the eyes is a jerkiness. We call this nystagmus. This is when the eye movements are involuntarily jerking, quick movements horizontally, vertically, things are jumping around. Another one is headaches. So head pain that worsens when your reading or using your screens also can be triggered by light. So there’s a photo sensitivity. So some of the main areas of the eye that are affected would be the optic nerve. Now the optic nerve is so important, it’s a plexus of nerves that connect the eye to the brain. And, for example, in a condition like glaucoma, the optic nerve can be damaged. And this starts to affect our peripheral vision. So if you’re suffering any of these symptoms, it’s really important to go for an eye exam. If the eye doctor is not able to solve these symptoms, then perhaps you need to go to a neurologist and get some additional testing. So in studying Ms. Obviously, it is not only an eye issue, but it’s really a systemic issue that’s affecting the eyes. And I think of MS as a disease of the myelin, which is the outer covering the fat layer, and it tends to cover the you know the nerves. And when this myelin begins to disintegrate, this starts to affect our neurological health. 04:31 Now I see Ms as a dysfunction in the lipids. And one of the things that I look at is cholesterol. And cholesterol is used to make myelin. So one of the mechanisms that I see in MS is that someone has an inflammatory process in their body there’s an increase in the white blood cells. So the body is then bringing more plaque and cholesterol to the area. But if you’re losing myelin, one of the aspects in the body that is really affecting this is an impairment in the glucose level, and the eyes have one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, the retina is made up of at least 50% of fatty acids. So it’s very fatty tissue. Of course, the eyes originate from the brain. So whenever there’s some inflammation in the eyes, there’s probably going to be inflammation in the brain, and vice versa. Now, another mechanism that happens in MS has to do with our insulin levels, insulin resistance breaks down the myelin. So in other words, when you have high levels of insulin, this can cause the myelin sheath the breakdown. If you’re under a lot of stress, you know, the adrenals produce cortisol. This also not only causes high insulin levels, but it also causes inflammation. So if you are suffering ms, one of the things that you can look at when you talk to your functional medicine doctor is the ketogenic diet

I get all kinds of questions about astigmatism, so I am going to answer a couple here on today’s show. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to answer and keep an ear out for the answers. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, astigmatism correction, eye, stigmatism, body, twist, work, exercises, warping, prescription, therapy, eyeball, wear, visual, reduce, shaped, doctor, cranial-sacral therapy, vision, feel Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [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’m going to take some questions on astigmatism. This is a hot topic when I do a video blog on social media. There’s an explosion of people who asked a lot of questions about astigmatism. So just to remind you, astigmatism means that there’s a twist or a warping in the eyeball, it shaped more the eyeball shaped more like an egg instead of being completely round. And the six eye muscles that attach to the eyeball, they’re not working equally, which creates a change in the shape of the eye. But any twist in the eye also reflects a twist in the body. I know this because when I went back to massage school, and I studied cranial sacral therapy, I couldn’t believe how I could feel the body twist after I measured the eyes, for eye astigmatism. So I astigmatism twist, body twist, they go together. And this twist in the eye is also caused by posture issues, eye movement issues, dietary things, stress issues. So I’m going to go to the questions right now. And the first one is from Natasha. And she is asking, How do I know what is twisted? Is it in the eyes and the body? How do I fix this? Well, the first thing to note is if you go to an eye doctor and you get an exam and he says you’ve got astigmatism, you’ve got a warping and twisting in the eye. Now the only way you know you have a twist in the body is if you go to a bodyworker, and the bodyworker can feel the tension. It could be anywhere in your body, it could be in the spine, it could be in the pelvis, it could be you know in your legs, anywhere where your body is twisting, where the two sides of the body are not integrating, this is a form of astigmatism. Now when you wear a full astigmatism correction, and then you go for bodywork and the bodyworker unwinds astigmatism in the body, but then you go back and you put your regular astigmatism glasses or contacts in, guess what happens, the bodywork gets neutralized, the twist starts coming back in the body. So this is why I recommend getting two pairs of prescriptions, one for astigmatism, and one that’s either reduced astigmatism or no astigmatism. Of course, you wear that no astigmatism correction 15 to 30 minutes a day in non-demanding and non-threatening situations. It’s going to feel weird when you wear that no astigmatism correction initially, because it’s showing you a nonwarping in your vision but you’re so used to the warping from astigmatism that you’re gonna say, Wow, no astigmatism. This is unfamiliar to me, hang in there with it, stay with it. Also, you can’t expect to change astigmatism just by wearing a reduced to take astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work that way. You have to change the programming, you have to re-educate the brain in the eyes and the body through my physical therapy exercises. I do have a 90-day astigmatism eye exercise program, you must do that along with wearing a reduced prescription. If you don’t, your body is going to read reject your eyes are going to read reject the no astigmatism correction. Now, this brings me to another question I get. I got from a person who says Now I only wear nonastigmatism, glasses but my astigmatism is increasing. Well, that is because you’re not doing the reeducation work the exercises to change the programming which is causing astigmatism. Again, the expectation is, well if I wear a no astigmatism correction, my stigmatism will go away. You have to change it from the inside out. So you’ve got to be willing to do the 90-day astigmatism program. And then your eyes will adjust to the nonadjustable astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work the other way. 04:39 Now, I’m going to take one more question about astigmatism. And this is a very interesting case. This is a mom. She’s got an eight-year-old son and she took him to an eye doctor and the eye doctor gave the child an imbalance of astigmatism there’s a difference between the right eye and left eye and also

I wanted to share some questions I got during a recent class I held. These were some great questions and we got into the benefits of infrared and red light therapies. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, red light, red light therapy, infrared sauna, light, infrared, wrote, retinopathy, repetitive, infrared light, reducing, inflammation, great, body, device, give, floaters, company, therapy, somatic Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. I want to talk a minute about something called the somatic eye. And I just wrote a blog about how the body influences the eye, and how the eye influences the body. So sohmas body, and in this blog that I wrote, and I’ll put the link up here, this is a very interesting kind of trans. I would say he transformation that I wrote about, because what I did was I took some of the work that I learned in the practice that I talked about at the beginning, which is continuum movement. And I actually wrote this blog for that community, because those folks are super into the body, and how it relates to the eyes. So I’m going to put the the link up here. And I recommend that you that you read it at your leisure. So some other points about the somatic guy is that one of the trends that I see in eye care is that they perpetuate the repetitive treatments, the repetitive movements, the repetitive eye exams. And this is what myopia is. It’s basically a repetitive, robotic, monotonous, small bandwidth way of seeing. So when you are in that pattern, and your mind is saying the same things over and over again, you are creating more oxidative stress, more inflammation in the eyes. And this is one of the things that leads to the stagnating energy that I talk about, as it relates to your vision, your perception, and you’re problem solving. Okay, I want to take this question about the red light, and the infrared light. So Carol is asking, Is it okay to expose our eyes to an infrared sauna, or red light. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to put up a link of an article that I wrote recently, just before the somatic eye, which is about the healing hue of red light therapy, and in my clinical experience, and also in the research what I discovered as I was writing this article, both red light, which is vibrating at somewhere around 660 nanometers, and infrared light, which is vibrating a little higher in about the 880 nanometers of vibration, the the red light, you can see it the infrared, you can’t see it, but both of them were found to do some very interesting things with the body number one, these two lights could actually reduce inflammation reduced many of the eye diseases like floaters. That’s a big one. Cataracts, dry eye, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Red light therapy was also helpful in some of the retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy, that’s where the blood vessels in the retina are stressed because of diabetes, and also hypertensive retinopathy. And so this particular form of light therapy has been shown to be helpful in healing different conditions. Now, there is a company and I don’t have any financial interest in it. Let me just get it for you. And I like this company for a couple of reasons. I did a lot of research. And I was looking for a company where the machine both projected red light and also 04:58 infrared near-infrared red light. So this company is called Red rush 360. I’m going to put it up here. And it’s certainly something to check into. So it is a full-body lightbox. And you can either sit in front of it, you want to be about 12 to 18 inches away from the device, you can do it with eyes open. If your eyes are sensitive because it is a fairly bright light, I believe they can give you an eye protector, or you can just wear a bandana over your closed eyes and you’re still going to get the benefit. And this particular lightbox, if you use it every day, within a couple of weeks, it’s going to do some really amazing things with your body. First of all, it’s great for detoxification. It’s also great for reducing inflammation, improving digestion, improving sleep, and improving eyesight. So you can either sit in front of it, you can lie down on your side and get it that way, you’re looking to do about a five to seven-minute daily treatment of the red light near-infrared light therapy. Now, with the idea of the infrared sauna, those units tend to be more expensive. And they don’t give you both the red light and the near infrared light, they don’t give you the red

Today I am walking you through the eye patch protocol and the eye dialogue questions that go along with that as well as the lens to blur exercise. I highly recommend doing both of these regularly. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, left, eyepatch, patch, blurry vision, peripheral vision, vestibular system, eye exam, blurry, exercise, prescription, glasses, lens, talk, blur, clearer, myopia, feel, ghosting, vision Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. There’s two more practices I want to explain. The first is the eyepatch. So if you have difficulty getting an eyepatch, most pharmacies, sell them. And I, I talk about the eyepatch as a pattern interrupter. Somebody this week sent me a post on the value of pattern interrupting. And I loved it, it was a brilliant post. Thank you for sending it. The eyepatch is saying to your eyes, you can’t look in the same way that you normally look. But you have to look in a different way. I love that. Because that is a open system that is a system that has some vitality, it has some fluidity. So how you do the exercise is you you patch the left eye, again, you’re doing this in a non demanding non threatening situation, you’re patching the left the left eye, so you’re looking at the right eye. And you ask four questions. Right Eye How old are you? Right eye How’s the marriage between the right and left eye? Number three is right eye who does the work and the relationship? And number four is right eye what do you need to heal, you are now doing an eye exam on an inner vision basis. In fact, they should do this as part of the eye exam. This is the inner vision that’s really going to tell the truth on how your eyes are seeing and feeling about themselves and each other. It’s not surprising when you cover the left eye. And you asked that second question, right? I do you know, you’re married to the left eye. And the right eye says, or the left eye says, or the right eye says whoever’s talking, I didn’t know that I didn’t know we were married. Well, I gotta tell you, if your two eyes don’t know, they’re collaborating, should be collaborating. They’re not collaborating. And probably because most of us are right handed, the right eye is dominating and do more of the work. And this is why in myopia a lot of times the right eye has more prescription than the left eye. Because the right eye is working harder, it’s doing more of the work. And that actually pushes the left eye out of the way. All right, after you’ve done all four of those questions, you can take the patch off, and immediately notice the difference in how you see, like, brighter, clearer, I feel more relaxed, and it’s going to show your mind. Wow, when I actually tune into my right eye, and then I take the patch off, I’m actually seeing things much clearer. And that should give you some hope that yeah, I can get out of this rabbit hole. Alright, now you continue the exercise by patching the right eye. And you ask the four questions again, left eye How old are you left it you know you’re married to the right eye? Left Eye? Who’s doing the work in the relationship? And left eye? What do you need that you’re not getting? Again, you go through the same gyration you then take the patch off the right eye and you take a look, this is important. You take a look after you take the patch off and get some insights, get some awarenesses and you’re going to go again, things are brighter, things are clearer. I don’t believe it, I’m actually being able to see things much clearer. So this dialoguing exercise is fantastic for getting your two eyes to work better together. My challenge to you for the next two weeks to do the dialog every day. Keep a little journal and it will blow your mind out of the water. 04:24 All right now to add to that exercise. Again, you can go to my website and you can get the plus lens the blur those are the opposite lens prescriptions to what my patients wear when they are near sighted. Or you can go to the drugstore and you can look for a prescription there you’re looking to get about a plus three to plus 350 You need to generate enough blur so this is what you do. You patch the left guy you get a baseline on your naked right eye, you add the blurry glasses for a minute, and you track yourself, what do I see? What do I feel? What are my reactions, I don’t like this. I’m out of control. This is making me crazy. Whatever it is, I’m feeling diz

Ep. 251 We are wrapping up my list of the top 10 practices that are going to give you success as you work toward improving your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, myopia, nearsighted, vision, eyes, consciousness, body, number, lenses, confinement, non threatening, hyper vigilant, new mexico, media outlet, fear, eyesight, state, equanimity, detail, non judgmental Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Number five, notice your addiction to detail and needing more information. You know, when we become nearsighted, we’re probably studying more reading more. This is what the studies have shown, there have been studies where people who are more educated in school tend to become more nearsighted. And, you know, I used to observe this when I lived on the East Coast, and then I moved out to New Mexico, those of you that have been to midtown Manhattan, you see, all those buildings are right in front of you, it’s a restriction in space. And so your vision is in a confined space, this is what myopia is, you can find your consciousness to a very close distance. And then when I moved out west, and I either I’m in New Mexico, or I go to California, and I go to the beach, that’s expansive, right, so that that confinement is gone. And that’s where you’re going. And it isn’t just a visual confinement. It’s a body movement confinement, it’s a mental confinement. And the more confined you are, the tighter your vision is going to be. And when you need more and more and more information and more detail, I want you to take a look at your addiction to detail how much do you really need. And when you are addicted to detail, you are blocking one of the highest intelligence centers in your being and that is the intuition. And if you can bring your intuition more into it, that is one of the best ways to balance your vision. All right, number four, observe how the lenses cause your eyes and energy to be ahead of yourself. So when you go to the eye doctor, and he or she gives you your prescription that you’re wearing for driving. What that prescription is doing is is putting your eyes and your consciousness ahead of yourself. You could look into a mirror, I think I talked about this and look with the lenses on and you’re going to notice that your attention and your concentration, and your energy is going to be in the mirror. And when you take the lenses off. And there’s more blur out there, you become more inner directed, you’re more in your body. So why in the world would you want to not be in your body because of your hyper vigilant state of being the advanced scout. I’ve got to really search and seek and look and Danger, danger, danger. I mean, pick up any major newspaper today any media outlet, fear is the first thing that’s put out there. Fear, fear, fear, fear. So we are ingesting this fear. This is myopia. It’s a it’s a myopic way of reporting the news. It’s not balanced. And so to bring more balanced to ourselves to understand that the emotional piece to our myopia we can change how clearly we see things by not buying into the fear, to really trusting our own experience intuitively. Alright, number three, in success for healing your myopia you sound breath, movement, touch and be exclusive with your body. As you look with your eyes, it’s what we did this morning in our opening practice, that is a great way for you to develop whole body seeing and number two, any vision improvement prescription should be used should first be used in non threatening and non demanding situations. So for those of you that have asked for reduced prescription notice I’m not having you read any eye chart when I give you the prescription. And if you think that the main reason you’re getting the prescription is so you can see things more clearly. You are going to be disappointed. So you have to understand that your eyes and your consciousness need to relax into the prescription in the non demanding and non threatening situations. 05:01 And number one, the number one aspect of assuring success in this program. The key to clear eyesight is sustained inner equanimity, slowing down, learning to receive the world in a non judgmental state, being in the present moment, letting go of seeking chasing, making it happen. And finally, if you can master those things, the icing on the coconut cream dessert is getting rid of the glasses. That’s going to be the last step. So when you start to feel frustrated, I’m not th

Now we are going to move on to my list of the top 10 practices that are going to give you success as you work toward improving your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, process, rid, talking, eyes, give, blurry, drive, zai, contact lenses, intellectualize, shankman, pattern, myopia, dissolve, assure, number, nearsightedness, farsightedness, reduced Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Here are the top 10 practices that are going to give you success in this process. Number 10 is to understand that it’s probably taken you a while to get the prescription to get the habit to get the pattern that are that’s in your eyes. So the eyes are like pattern addicts, they love patterns. And part of this is due to our schooling, and our educational process. And if you have a prescription, it’s going to take some time to unwind your eyes and reduce the prescription. So you’ve got to understand that this is a process. Now remember, in my case, I had made significant progress, I got rid of about 75% of my prescription. And I became agitated and frustrated at one of my sessions with my doctor, Dr. Shankman. And he said to me that it’s time for you to let go of the goal of getting rid of your nearsightedness. And I said, I don’t think I can do that. Because as a near sighted person, as a person who tunnels, my whole life is around results, getting it right being perfect. You know, I got a lot of accolades by getting the results. And now you’re telling me that I’ve got to give up the attachment to getting rid of my myopia? No way I can’t do it. And he said, That’s the block, that’s what you have to do. So I began meditating on that. And about three months later was the time that I woke up and I forgot to put my contact lenses in, and here I’m driving on the expressway, and I’m able to see the road signs. So I really got it on a deep level, how this process is a process. And the more focused you are on, I got to get the reduced prescription, I got to get the new prescription, my eyes are not getting clear enough, I’m frustrated, because things are blurry. These are all obstacles that you’re creating for yourself. Whereas I’m going to say enjoy the journey. Enjoy the reflections on what you’re going to gain from insights in your habits and patterns. And it’s lifelong. In fact, it may be past lives, also, many lifetimes. You know, we’re talking about bringing in the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, the nature spirits, all these different the ancestors, you know, if we’ve had a certain prescription, on an ancestral basis, this may have been passed down in the energy field. Now, again, I’m talking in a very broad bandwidth. But this is what it’s going to take for you to reprogram this very structured way of seeing. And you’ve got to understand as number 10, in this practices to assure success, that this is a process. Alright, number nine practices to share to assure success, letting go of the goal of getting rid of your glasses. So I kind of already talked about that. And be very careful about the seduction of writing me and saying, Hey, give me the reduced prescription. I’m ready. I have a patient right now who’s 85 years old. She’s been coming to me for two years. And she’s dissolved her cataracts. And she’s starting to reduce her farsightedness. So that’s, that’s another course. But she wanted a new prescription. And I gave it to her. She gets the prescription and says, Oh, this is blurry, I can’t wear it. And I said, exactly. So you got to work with it. You know, you buy prescriptions, it’s going to cost you money, right? And your your expectation is, well 04:27 I buy for a prescription, I should be able to use it. And in this particular case, the prescription that you may get, you may need to start using it outside the scope of your daily circumstances and routine. And that’s a reality that you have to come to grips with. Because if you have an expectation, Oh, give me the reduced prescription and then I can use it to drive I can use it to my computer and you get it and you go wow, this is challenging me a little little bit, you’ve got to work with it. It’s not that kind of a prescription, if you want that optics prescription, go back to your eye doctor and get that, and then use this one for your improvement purposes. All right, number eight, in the top 10 practices to assure success, observing your visio

I am wrapping up my list of 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, myopia, prescription, sighted, nearsighted, patched, survival, mistakes, exercises, fear, notice, number, vestibular system, farsighted, understanding, disempowered, codependent, intimate relationship, equal opportunity, lens Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Let’s go to number five in my top 10 list of mistakes that people make. Number five, failing to understand your survival circuits are tied into your myopia. Every person who is near sighted at some level is dealing with a fear button inside of them. That’s related to hyper vigilance. And if you think I’m lying, when you start worrying the blurry glasses, and you start seeing your attitudes about the blur, you’re going to start to notice the life or death, energy you put into your eyeballs to keep your eyes single, at any cost. And you’re going to also notice in the survival circuits, that this is not a present day situation, you are bringing the past into your perception and that is coloring the world and your reactions. I may or may not have said this already, but myopia tunneling at some level you are holding on to the past, you are in the past, locked in and the prescription that the doctor gave you reinforced that moment, when you became nearsighted often ask the question, what was going on for you when you started to become nearsighted? And that particular answer can sometimes unlock the understanding that you’re still doing that you’re still doing that reaction, even though Fast Forward 40 or 50 years later, and you’ve got a lot more myopia now that you have to deal with. And this is where understanding the survival response, and how that might affect your adrenal health, your digestion, your sleep, and your stress. Need I say more. All right, number four, in my top 10 list of mistakes. For people in this process, this is the number four, not including your body awareness in your seeing. The technique is called see feel. Again, you can do this throughout the day on your computer. If you’re on your computer, I want you to feel your sit bones, your feet, maybe you need to get an exercise ball like a physio ball, and you’re sitting on that that’s going to constantly be moving. You got to make adjustments. It’s great for the vestibular system, the inner ear and the eyes. And you need to feel the body. As you look through the eyes. I’m going to talk about the the worksheets that I gave you the exercises and you want to feel your body whenever you’re looking with your eyes. If you do that, you’re taking the stress out of your eyes to do everything. Alright, my number three mistakes. Ignore acknowledging the fear related to your eyes. So if you cannot understand that fear is driving this show. If you can understand that, you’re going to start to dissolve your myopia. Whenever you’re in a fear state, you are disempowered, you are a victim. You’ve put the power outside of yourself. That’s why they call it the power in the lens because you are now disempowered and you’ve become codependent on the prescription. Well, when you become codependent if you take that prescription away, let’s say you lose it or you don’t wear it, you forget it, you get paralyzed. So there’s a level of paralysis with the fear that you need to get in touch with if you are in denial about that. Then you’re going to stay stuck in the same place. 04:44 Number two top 10 mistakes, not being more gentle with your eyes. So today we took a few minutes and we put some sound into the eyes. This is one Have many ways for you to become more gentle in your relationship, to have a relationship with your eyes. Most people don’t even have a relationship. So I want you to call the Wii, an intimate relationship on how your eyes are doing. And my number one mistake, top 10 mistakes is not understanding that wearing a full powered prescription when you need it is the best practice to follow. Just kind of what I said a few minutes ago, it’s perfectly fine for you to wear your full prescription when you’re driving. Okay, full prescription when you’re driving. And when you’re then indoors, you can then take the lenses off and put on your weaker lens. Looks like we have a question here. Joe is asking how much balance should we have? Well, I th

Ep. 248 This week we are continuing down our list of 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS blur, prescription, lens, drug, eye, blurry vision, reduced, body, number, toxicities, mistakes, bedroom door, nei, pharmaceutical drug, fact, hate, side effects, problem, attitude, driving Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Okay, let’s go to number nine in our top 10 mistakes. Number nine is thinking of the eyeballs as only a mechanical instrument. Your eyes, as you’ve been finding out, are influenced by our environment, our nutrition, our liver health, our toxicities, our traumas, and much more. And this means that the eyes are interrelated and interconnected to our entire body. And you’ve heard me say this a million times. So this is 1,000,001. Nei problem has its roots systemically, metabolically and energetically in the body. Or let’s go to number eight, top 10 mistakes, number eight, not understanding that any prescription is like a drug, and has side effects. So you need to wake up to the fact that every time you look through the lens that the doctor has given you, is a pharmaceutical drug. And when you have a pharmaceutical drug, and you take it or you look through it, you become the consciousness of the people who created the drug. The drug is synthetically made. It is not life affirming, for sure, it’s only treating a temporary symptom. And if anything, it’s driving the cause further in. And when I say this to people, 99.99% will push back and say, Oh, come on, this is not a drug. Well, I’m sorry, it is controlled and regulated by the FDA. And it is certainly a prescription, just like a statin drug, a drug for high blood pressure, or blood thinners, or cholesterol, or Ritalin for ADHD, and you know that drugs have side effects. Alright, my number seven in my top 10 list of mistakes is and this is a big one, this is this is going to hurt when I share this wanting to get a reduced prescription without doing the RE education work first. This is again, something I’ve repeated a million times, people, even people in this class, give it to me, give me it give me it, I want the reduce prescription I want it. Well, the problem is, is that you have to reset your visual system, your eye may or your eye Mind Body attitude. First, clear out some energy so that there’s some healing, then you can take on and integrate the prescription. Because if you try to do it the other way, here’s the reduced prescription. Because you haven’t done the work. You’re going to reject it, you’re not going to understand what the lens is doing. And one of the things that’s hardest for people that are near sighted is grappling with a little blur. In fact, if you get a reduced prescription, and you haven’t done the work, your first reaction is I hate the blur. I don’t like this, that’s where your attention is going to go. And you’re going to get stopped in your tracks. Because what you think is going to be manifested, it’s what you’re going to attract. And if you get the blurry glasses and you go, I hate this, I don’t like it. Then you’re done. You’re sunk. 04:27 So you have to do the work first. Okay, and even when you get the reduced prescription people have a false sense that, oh, I can use this for the computer. I can use this for driving. Maybe not. Maybe it’s a prescription that you’re wearing indoors, just getting used to something softer and new. So it’s not about I need to have it clear so I can function. This is not a doing lens, it’s a being lens. So a being lens is a lens that I’m using that’s introducing a new experience for me, so that my vision can start to soften and open. Alright, number six in my top 10 mistakes, to hate your blur. So we’re going to talk this morning about the plus lens, the blur exercise, the one where you put it on the first time, and you go, Oh, my goodness, what is this guy doing to me? We’re blaming first of all, what is he doing to me? I’m in this blur. What is this about? It’s precisely your homeopathic constitutional for healing your eyesight. Okay, so that loving your blur and going into your blur is the fastest way for you to get clarity. There’s a disclaimer. Only do it on your meditation cushion with the bedroom door locked, and no demands on you. That’s the only place yo

Over the next few episodes, I am going to discuss the 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, eye, doctor, wear, vision, lens, relax, reduce, balance, lenses, myopia, astigmatism, feel, distance, drive, glasses, wrote, strong, contacts, lived Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. What I want to do right now is I want to go through 10 things 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism. And you’ll get a copy of this, this is like my top 10 things that people do, where it takes them further away from the goal that they’re trying to achieve. Number 10, believing your eye doctor that you cannot improve your vision. Now, I know some of you are going to be in a conundrum about understanding how prescriptions affect you. And you’re not going to want to buy into the doctor’s, you know, attempt to give you the strongest prescription possible. And I actually did a post on tick tock yesterday, guy wrote me and said that he had been in a minus three lens for about eight years. And every time he would go to his doctor, he would say to the doctor, these lenses are making my eyes and body too tight. And the eye doctor would say, just get used to it, you know, it’s okay, it’s no big deal. This is what you need. So we finally found a doctor who was willing to reduce his prescription by point two 5.25. So that would make it a 2.75. And he was having the same issues, where there was a lot of tension, there was a lot of stress. And so what he wrote me was, how can he get out of this maze? Well, what the great thing about myopia is, is that your eye doctor likes to sell you glasses, that’s how he makes his money. And in fact, what happens is, he’s going to give you the strongest prescriptions, so that in six months or a year, you’re off eyes are not going to be able to see as clearly out of the prescription because it’s making your eyes worse. So you go back, and he increases the prescription. So he gets to sell you another pair of glasses, it’s kind of a great business model, if you want to make money selling glasses. But what I told this gentleman is what I would tell you is that the prescription that you need for 20 feet, is too strong for you for the computer, and or reading. And in fact, if you use that distance prescription for the computer, it is going to accelerate your eyes getting worse. So what you tell the doctor is I want a prescription that I can use for the computer, that’s less than what my distance prescription is. So it’s kind of clever on your part, because what you’re really asking for is a reduced prescription. And the, you know, we use the distance eye chart as a measurement, you know, for the term 2020. And it’s a standard measurement where you see a 1/3 inch letter at 20 feet, when you get the computer prescription, that’s going to correct you for a little larger letter about 2040. So instead of a 1/3 inch letter, it’s a one inch letter. 04:02 But there’s some real great possibilities with that prescription because when you get it first of all, it is going to relax your eyes for all your screentime. And by the way, you might ask him for the blue blocker as well since you’re there. And what you’re going to do is you’re also going to use that prescription as your vision exercise and your Natural Vision Improvement practice. So many of you wrote, you just don’t have the discipline to do the exercises. So by wearing this reduce prescription, and I would wear it indoors, I would wear it when you cook I’d wear it when you relate to your family. I’d wear it you know outside if you’re walking in a park or walking on a hiking trail. You’re gonna see Clear enough in those instances, but what is going to do, it’s going to start relaxing your eyes and your eye muscles. And over time, this prescription will become your distance prescription. Now, if you’re in a situation now, this is very important when I’m going to say, if you are in a situation and you’re wearing this Natural Vision Improvement vision fitness lens, and you start feeling frustrated, then put on your stronger lenses for that particular circumstance, so that you feel safer. So you can see things more clearly, you don’t want to practice Natural Vision Improvement in situations that that are going to fr

Today, we are looking at what is really blocking your vision? Stress? Fatigue? Or something else? It’s important to the process to dig deep and really understand what’s affecting you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS myopia, eye, skepticism, talk, clarity, relaxation, astigmatism, peripheral vision, daily routine, process, tunnel, creative, current, results, prescription, number, doctor, creativity, manifest, fatigue Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Question two, how is your current prescription or tunnel vision affected you? stress, fatigue, creativity. Again, I’m going to talk about why I’ve put these in here. What is the biggest block with improving your vision? Okay, 71% lack of daily discipline. So I’m going to talk to you about ways to get around that. Okay. I’ll release the results in a in a minute. But I want to go through each of these. So that you’ll have a little bit understanding on why I asked these questions, and how they can help you gain your gain your goals. So with myopia and astigmatism the last thing that’s going to change for you is your eye clarity. I wish it was the other way around. But it’s the, it’s the desert. Getting more clarity is the last step in the process. The first step in the process is recognizing how you’ve been holding your eyes in a certain tension. And the first step is feeling the relaxation in your eyes, that is number one step which you are doing. The second step is recognizing how your myopia has caused you to exclude your peripheral vision. And so it’s I relaxation, one, peripheral vision two. Believing in it is three, because if you’ve got some skepticism, then you know, just like the placebo effect, what you put your attention on, is what you’re going to manifest. And if you’re manifesting healing, you are putting your energy on the gratitude that you have with your eyes on how you see it. Because in myopia and tunneling, it’s very easy to go into judgment. That’s what we do in myopia we’re going to, we’re good at critical thinking. So again, I want to emphasize this point, the last thing that’s going to change for you is eye clarity. Okay, number two, how is your current prescription tunnel, or tunnel vision affected you? Yeah, I would say that eye fatigue would be number one, because you’re muscularly, you have to tunnel in order to grab it, to seek it to chase it. And you know, you’re using a lot of your will, in making it happen. And of course, we know what this does to creativity, you know, the more you can let it happen, let the flow come to you get into that state of grace. That’s where the creative flow comes in. And then ultimately, the clarity. And that’s why I have you wear blurry glasses, because when you go into the blur, that forces you into a more creative, less linear, less detailed, analytical way of thinking and being. So that would, I would predict that those results would be that would be it. And then number three, the lack of daily discipline in your practice is probably the biggest block. And what I’m going to say here is that if you can start incorporating one thing that you learn from the class, during your daily routine, in other words, from the time you get up from the time you go to bed, there is some thing or maybe three things that you’re thinking about that you have an awareness about around moving forward in this process. So it’s not about necessarily carving out the time. I mean, you can certainly do that. But the key is, throughout your day, what are some things you can do to remind yourself of disrupting the normal pattern? 04:56 Certainly fear is the major emotion with myopia via it’s our kidneys, also in Chinese medicine, and one person talked about the skepticism of their eye doctor. And I mean, I can tell you that nine out of 10 doctors, if you go to them, and you start talking to them about what you want to do or vision improvement, you’re probably going to be met with skepticism. And you have to understand that it’s a threat to them. It’s a threat to the philosophy to the education to the thinking, and you have to understand that and that you’re not going to take it on. But you’re going to you know, you’re going to continue along this, this vein, and even if you don’t have the support of your current AI doctor, you’ve got me You’ve got all my content that I’m putting out, and if I can do it, you can

This eye exercise I am going to walk you through today uses sound and vibrations to create calm and clarity in the body and the eyes. Feel free to follow along. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS sound, eyes, zai, bones, few breaths, jaw, breathing, exhale, closed, notice, area, baseline, hands, peripheral vision, monotone, measurement, activating, breakthroughs, eyesight, ears Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So the process is going to be where I’m going to guide you through the whole thing. So the sound we’re going to be using is a J sound. And I really want you to move your face, your eyes, your jaw. So you know, get things moving in here, the sound is really activating the bones. Now this comes from Emily and continuum, where this particular sound resonates in the bones. You know, one of the insights I made just just to tell you about the sound is that if you as a child grew up in a household, where you were told your voice needs to be more in a monotone. As you get older, it’s those people where their voice is in a monotone, they have more difficulties with their bone health. So sound is another way that increases the health of the bones, the bone marrow, which is our immune part of our immune system. And so by doing this ZIZ, you are activating and stimulating the bones in the entire body, but especially up in this area. So I’m going to talk you through this, it’s really easy, we’re just going to do it for a few minutes. But it’s going to set the stage for the learning that we need to do to make the breakthroughs today as we move forward. So we’re preparing ourselves to be able to access a maximum outcome of success. And this is one of many ways to do that. So I imagine all of you are sitting in a comfortable position, if you want to, so we can kind of hear each other, your surgeon certainly permitted to unmute yourself in making the sounds. And what I’d like you to begin with, is to look out beyond your computer. And I want you to get a measurement of your eyesight. So if you wear glasses, take them off if you got your contacts in no problem. But I just want you to get a baseline on your peripheral vision, the color, the light, not a big deal. You’re just taking a you know, a measurement there. And then I want you to go inside. So you’ll close your eyes. And I want you to take a few breaths. And while you’re tracking your breathing, just notice how your breathing is right now. Is it shallow? Is it fast? Is it slow? Are you mostly in the diaphragm in your awareness, on the inhale, exhale Are you more in in the chest area, just just to touch in with your breathing a little bit. This is a great way to do this with your eyes closed. And just take a little baseline. Okay. Now the next thing we’re going to do is I want you to take your hands and I want you to put them on top of your head. It doesn’t matter exactly where I’ll I’ll kind of coach you. You can also look at me. And I want you to take a normal breath in through your nose. And on the exhale. I want you to do some J i Zi sounds and let’s do six rounds. You can go at your own speed. You can do it with eyes open or eyes closed. And I’m going to be doing it with you so you can watch and hear me and we’re going to get each other’s energy as we do it. So let’s do six exhales with a j i and then pause. 04:59 You You can keep your eyes closed, you can drop your hands on your lap and I want you just to feel into the area that you were just putting sound into and just notice the temperature the sensation is kind of listen to your body’s response. Maybe take two more breaths and now I want you to take one of your hands and put it on your forehead and the other hand in the back of your head and I want you to do six more J Zai Zai sounds on the exhale. 06:49 Again, you can drop your hands when you’re done, keep your eyes closed and just send some feel into the areas where you were having your hands, the forehead and the back of the head, get notice sensation notice tingling notice anything that comes up into your awareness. Okay, we’re going to move to the jaw so now I want you to put your hands like this on either side of the cheekbone and the jaw you can put your thumb and have below the ear this is nice lymph area and let’s do six of the these as well J Zai Zai is the. Okay, you can drop your hands on your lap and just feel into the jaw area. Your face. Are you feeling more circulation? Maybe some tingling. All ri

I am sharing my experience and how I started with the Continuum movement and what it’s taught me. I have learned and benefited from the things I share with you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS myopia, movement, called, Emily, give, prescription, bandwidth, repetitive, continuum, restriction, practice, moving, eye, bones, workshop, face, system, open, astigmatism, challenge Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So I actually want to start off with a little bit of a warm-up. And this is going to prepare us for the learning and the healing that we’re going to experience as we move through today. So this is a practice that involves using sound. And it’s going to open up the bones around the face, the head. And this particular practice is something I’ve been using quite a long time as a way to clear up myopia. So it’s kind of perfect. We have done a flavor of this before in an earlier session together. And this, I’ll just give you a little backstory on this just for a minute. About 15 years ago, I was invited to give a workshop in California, Santa Monica. And it was at a studio that was run by a woman some of you may know have known her, her name is Emily Conrad, and Emily was the founder of a somatic practice called continuum movement. And after the workshop, she was very taken by what I was teaching, and we became friends and I actually studied her work. And then she became a patient of mine, and continue a movement, which you could actually look up continuummovement.com, is a fabulous healing modality that involves using different sounds, different movements, and different breathing sequences. Emily wrote a book before she died called life on land. And it is a groundbreaking book that you’ll read it was written on and Oh 2013, you’ll read it and you go, Oh, my goodness, this is what’s happening today. And she really draws a connection between our cultural and social challenges. And what’s happened to the body, what’s happened to the lack of movement, the robot, and the mechanistic ways that we well we are exposed to. And if you go back to the Industrial Revolution, that was a place where we began to really Institute the repetitive mechanical movements, which, you know, created all this consumerism that we are now dealing with on so many levels, and how that’s impacted the environment and our health. And what Emily discovered in the Continuum movement is that the more we step outside of the repetitive robotic movements, we have the opportunity to regain our vitality. And as she would call it, our biological intelligence. In other words, on a cellular level, we have the intelligence to heal if we’re giving given the proper prescription and what I mean by proper prescription. I’m talking about the holistic mind-body experiences, some of which I’ve been teaching. And there’s something called a closed system and an open system and a closed system means we kind of stay in the same bandwidth, which is a pretty narrow bandwidth. That’s called a closed system. And you may have noticed that since you’ve been introduced to me that I live in quite a broad bandwidth. And this broad bandwidth is called an open system. And when you live in an open system, the organisms that live in an open system thrive. There is a certain level of neuroplasticity that can occur when you live in an open system. Now it’s unfamiliar, it may challenge your current status quo. And those of you that have signed up for this course 05:01 Obviously, you’re thinking about, well, in this particular context, I want to get out of my current myopia and astigmatism prescription, that’s a pretty fixed, repetitive way of seeing and being in moving, and behaving and reacting. Because when we look through the lens, everything that is colored by that prescription, whether it’s contacts or glasses. So in any event, one of the insights that I made while I explore continuing movement, and this also came from my cranial sacral training, is that there are several bones and the nerves and the muscles around the skull and the face that can start to impinge on the eye muscles and the eyeballs. And this is inducing myopia, which then when you go to the eye doctor, all he or she is doing is giving you a lens that reinforces the restrictions. And that’s kind of the bottom line, any doctor that you go to who’s just a mechanical, I’m measuring you and I’m giving you the prescription is really just reinforcing more of what yo

Here are my three tips for preventing or reversing cataracts. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, cataracts, glutathione, foods, vitamin c, natural sunlight, blue, lens, glutathione production, antioxidant, support, light, vitamin e, studies, give, retina, health, selenium, dry eye syndrome, offering Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So we have a very interesting question today how to reverse cataracts. So I’m going to give you three tips. Before I do that quick announcements I’m going to be teaching a two hour class from 10am to 12 noon, on April 30. So if you’d like to join me, you want to learn how to use color therapy aromatherapy. We’ll be doing eye exercises. I’ll teach you how to negotiate a better eyeglass or contact lens prescription with your doctor to support vision improvement. So if you’re interested, you can go to my website, drsamberne.com. And we look forward to seeing you at the class. Oh, by the way, if you can’t make the class live, there will be a recording afterwards. You have access to that 24/7 for 30 days, you also get a 10% discount on all of my products. Speaking of products, there are three new ones that I’m going to be offering. I haven’t done this in quite a while. The first is a natto Vitamin E this is a special formulated Vitamin E that really supports the micro capillaries in the retina, especially if you’ve got conditions like wet macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, or you’re just concerned about your retina health. This annatto Vitamin E is a powerhouse in being able to give your retinas more nutrients support. The second supplement I’m going to be offering is one that we all know it’s called saffron. This is an amazing spice. Studies have shown that saffron because of its antioxidant formula, very potent can support macular health, retinal health, and just overall eye health. And then the third supplement that I’m going to be offering is curcumin. Curcumin is another one of these very, very potent antioxidants. Studies have shown that it’s an anti inflammatory agent, it helps improve eye circulation. And so if you want to keep your eyes healthy, I would include curcumin in the mix. So watch for those. We’ll be sending out newsletters, announcements on social media and try them out. They’re great. I’ve been in the manufacturing phase testing phase. For over a year, we finally passed all the tests. And they are very, very high quality. I know you’ll enjoy them. So I received a question from Andy. He is suffering cataracts in both eyes. And when he went to his eye doctor, the doctor basically said let’s watch it get ripe. And then we will cut it out and he does not like surgery. So I’m going to offer three tips today to Andy to help him improve his lens health. 03:15 Number one. I don’t know whether you know this, but studies have shown that people with cataracts have only 20% of the amount of glutathione compared to people that have a healthy lens. So glutathione one of the nicknames I give it is it’s the anti aging antioxidant. And it’s a antioxidant that most people become deficient in as they get older. It’s partly produced in the liver, you can also get it from sulfur based foods. So my suggestion would be to take between 509 100 milligrams a day of glutathione. One of the best ways to get it into your body is by using what we call a sublingual liposomal glutathione and that is very highly absorbed bioavailable, gets into the bloodstream gets into your eyes. Now if you don’t want to take a supplement, sulfur based foods here are some that are really great. That will help with the glutathione production and absorption. Arugula, avocados, Brazil nuts, garlic, onions, kale. And by the way, Selenium the trace mineral is very important for glutathione production. And Brazil nuts have a high amount of selenium in them so that you’re getting to great things in Brazil nuts, I love them. They’re great. Get the organic kind, if you can. Alright, the second tip I would recommend would be the importance of vitamin C and eye health. This cannot be understated concentrations of vitamin C in the lens are 20 to 30 times higher than they are in the plasma, the blood plasma. There was a study that was put out in 2016, which said that, if you take one to 2000 milligrams a day of vitamin C, you lower your risk of e

Today we are talking about color therapy. What is it? How did I get started with it? How can it help your eyes? Color therapy can be so beneficial in so many ways. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS color, eye, retina, photoreceptors, therapy, technique, healing, different colors, light, energetic, glasses, class, eyesight, acupuncture meridians, minutes, body, deeply held, blue green color, stare, healer Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. I’m going to tell you a brief story. I got interested in color therapy back in, actually the mid 1980s. And I was just starting a practice in Philadelphia. And I received a flyer in the mail about going to a class, healing people’s eyes with color. Now, after that weekend class, Monday morning, I came back into the office into the waiting room, and there was my friend, and her mom. And she had just failed the driver’s license. And she was diagnosed with macular degeneration. She had some retina issues. And she, she was devastated. So I said to my friend, I’ve got this new technique I learned, which is you stare at this color. And there was a cookbook at that point, if you stare at this particular blue green color, 20 minutes a day. What the teachers said for the class is that it could help improve macular health. So we started a program where the my friend brought her mom in every day. And every day I’d gotten meet her in the waiting room and take her back to my room where there was a color machine. And she would stare at this color. So the color was coming into our eyes. I didn’t really know what I was doing. And after about two weeks, I came out into the waiting room. And I said, Oh my worse, where’s your daughter? And she said, Well, you know, I’m seeing so well, I was able to drive to the office, myself. And I went what. So I took her into my exam room, and I did an eye exam on her. And she was telling the truth, her eyesight had gone from 2400, which is seeing the biggie on the eye chart. And now she was seeing about 2080 which means that she was seeing a fairly small letter at 20 feet. So we can continued with the color therapy. And when she was done, her visual acuity was 2040, she went back to motor vehicles, and she was able to get her daylights driver’s license. And this was just doing color therapy, there were no supplements, there was no you know, fancy eye exercises or anything like that. So the point of the story was is that, you know, if people look at different colors, it must have some positive effect on the retina because the retina is the part of the eye that captures the the light, you know, the technical term is called photoreceptors. And what I realized was there’s that over a lifetime stress traumas, body toxicities, visual habits, wearing prescriptions that are too strong, begin to shut off the photoreceptors in the retina. And that’s why people have the all these different eye problems, partly because the photoreceptors are not processing the light properly. And if you stimulate the photoreceptors with different light in different colors, then you can regain your eyesight and vision. So if we fast forward many, many years, here we are today. One of the techniques that I developed was having people look through or look at different colors. And it became an experience where not only was there a physical change in the retina, but there was also an energetic and energetic change in the body. In other words, there was a change in the energy system of the body, whether it’s the acupuncture meridians, or the chakra system, you know, whatever you’re comfortable with or know about, but bottom line is, is that there are certain colors that we look at, that we get attracted to we go towards the color. There may be some colors that we are repulsed by or we don’t like. 04:36 And what I have been teaching to my students and patients is to do what we call the rainbow color therapy session, which is you’ve got those colors that I sent you, which you can play as like a PowerPoint on your computer screen. And you start off by looking Each color now when you look at the color, that that frequency is being projected into your eyes. 05:08 If you take your corrective glasses off, the color is going to go in even more deeply. 05:15 You can even cover an eye and look at a color. And the two simple questions you can ask yourself are, what color do I see? And how does it feel? When you ask the question, how does it feel that gives your eye the opportunity to receive it and metabolize it and

Here is a peek into my latest Intensive Session. I work with attendees one on one to help them craft their own visual journey. In this session, I work with attendees on how to use the animal eye chart. I talk about where it came from and how it helps your vision over time. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, chart, blur, vision, nearsighted, clearer, exercise, stretching, glasses, awareness, put, left, occlude, cataract, patch, create, brain, eyepatch, animal, experiment 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. All right. So basically, what are your goals and objectives? And this would be for everybody. You know, as I work with you, Wendy, what are your goals and objectives? What do you want to get out of the investment and energy that you’re putting into your vision? Vision therapy? 00:18 Okay, I have made it, what happened was the first operation wasn’t done well or properly. So they went in again and did a much more thorough job to do the retinal reattachment. I’m definitely not having another one of those operations, whatever happens, I’m not doing that, again. A cataract has already started forming in their tie, which they said would happen. And it’s, you know, if you take away all the gas exchanges by putting a gas button in, I suppose that’s entirely logical. So my I got vision, it’s very blurred, my, my goal would be to strengthen my unoperated eye so that I don’t get these problems again, and to create a vision that’s functional in my right eye, rather than being very blurred, and I’d take away the circumstances that are causing the cataract. Okay. 01:24 All right. So I think where, where I would start with you, there’s a couple of places in this, looking at everybody in the group, I think the first exercise that you should do, and this would be, everybody should do this one. And I will send you directions video and a chart. It’s called the animal eye chart. And it’s a chart that I came up with, that helped you develop better circulation and oxygenation in the eye by stretching the eye. So let me give you a little backstory here. Many years ago, I had a Tibetan patient come and see me and showed me this chart. That said it was the Tibetan eye chart, and it was a stretching chart. And so I experimented with it. And I did some research and actually found out it wasn’t a Tibetan eye chart. But the stretching part of it was actually really beneficial. So I came up with my own chart, which involves working with a patch. And I think everyone here should be working with an eyepatch, or working with each eye separately. Now there are different ways that you can address this one is either go to the pharmacy and get an eyepatch. Another way you could do it is just get like a scarf or a bandana and occlude one of your eyes. But there’s real value in working with each eye separately. And the reason is, is because when you isolate the eye, and in this case, the right eye, because when both eyes are on the left eye is doing most of the work. And the brain is what we call suppressing the right eye. And so we want to engage the blurry eye. And so this animal eye chart is a chart that I will send you all. And the way it works is you take the chart and you hold it right up to your nose, which is kind of odd. It’s not about seeing something it’s about making a movement, initiating movements in your eyes that are different than what you normally do. That’s kind of one of the arts of neuroplasticity is being able to create new pathways to stimulate new axons and neurons. And when we speak of the eyes, we’re really speaking of the brain because the eyes are just an outer extension of the brain. The eyes start developing in utero about two weeks after conception and every tissue of the eye retina, cornea, eyelid, lens, eye muscles are all brain tissue, which means and this is an important concept for you and everybody else is that the eyes have the capability to be the regenerate or to create new pathways and seeing I don’t care what the eye doctors say. They’re wrong. The neuroplasticity the neuroscientists all say that when you stimulate vision differently, you’re going to open things up in your awareness in your brain in your movement in your posture and body. Now, another point here and then we’ll get to the animal eye chart is that about 60% of vision is in the brain. I think it’s even higher. I think it’s 90% but all eye exams only look at the 10% of the vision that’s in

Here is a peek into my latest Intensive Session. I work with attendees one on one to help them craft their own visual journey. In this session, I talk with one attendee about how his myopia and cataracts might be working together and we look at the steps he can take to alleviate both. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS fasting, cataract, doctor, myopia, eyes, prescription, optometrist, lens, create, vision, eyedrops, blur, eyesight, metabolizing, social graces, very unpleasant experience, exercise, glasses, intermittent, unpleasant experiences 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. You wrote that a few years ago, you went to an optometrist in Wisconsin, prior to the renewal of your driver’s license, and it was a very unpleasant experience. I know many of you have had unpleasant experiences with your doctors. I’m sorry for that. And you said that the optometrist diagnosis was myopia, and possibly cataracts. And he prescribed glasses, which were helpful. And since then you’ve had an aversion to eye doctors, I don’t blame you. So over the years, your eyes have gotten worse, you’re studying nutrition in Los Angeles, and you want to add to your vision. And since your exam, you don’t really have the documentation. That’s okay. So the thing is, and this is for anybody, if you were prescriptions, if you want to send me the numbers, that would be awesome. And Ron, one way you could do that is go to like a commercial optical store, like a LensCrafters, or a pearl Vision Center, give them your glasses and just say, I’m going to go get a new eye exam, from my doctor, I want to know what the prescription is, and they’ll write it down for you. And then you could send it to me. But I think that, again, if you’re near sighted, I think the key thing would be doing that exercise plus lens to blur. Because in your case, not only would it help reduce the myopia, I actually think your cataract diagnosis and your myopia go together. I think they’re very similar. The cataract is just a more advanced part of the myopia. And the reason why I say that is that on a behavioral level, myopia on a mental level is about creating, hardening, rigidity. And your vision is reacting to something in the past. I’m not saying now I think you’re very open minded. But our eyes are like our Scroll of history. Meaning that we absorb things in our life, we look and when we’re children, we internalize everything through our eyes. And this is the start of what myopia is. We start clenching, tightening, pulling in blurring it out, and the doctor reinforces what we’re doing to ourselves. And so if we really perpetuate that, eventually, it starts to affect the anatomy of the eye. And one of the first places that it really affects is the lens. And this is where the doctor looks in and he says up cataract. Now, again, if you really bathe and feed that I not only with loads of antioxidants, but I think I saw in another main have been Wendy, and I don’t know what the rest of you are doing. But doing some kind of intermittent fasting or cleansing can also be really helpful getting rid of cataracts. And I’m going to save that for another session on how to do fasting, or what fasting works the best for clearing the eyesight, because there, there’s great fasting out there, whether it’s, you know, intermittent fasting, water fasting, you can do the master cleanse, you know, you can do days of fasting, or you can do an intermittent fast, and do it in a certain program. And it can really help your eyesight without completely stressing you out, or taking you away from some of the social graces that occur when you’re doing fasting because it’s a usually when we eat, there’s some kind of a social time going on. So I’m going to save that. But I’m going to say that maybe doing some kind of a cleanse or fast based on your nutrition studies would be valuable to you. anti inflammatory, no sugar, no gluten, no dairy, I’m assuming, you know, you’re you’re in that ballpark, because it’s those those factors that actually start to create this cloudiness in the lens, it’s very vulnerable to free radical damage. And it’s so much based on our diet or how we’re metabolizing and our gut health. There’s no question at this point that our gut health and our iHealth are so interrelated. 04:56 And I think you have done the eyedrops, but You know, maybe doing another round of those sets of eyedrops along with t

Here is a peek into my latest Intensive Session. I work with attendees one on one to help them craft their own visual journey. In this session, we talk about the eye dialogue and how it can help your eyes work together. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, left, blurrier, relaxation technique, body, question, stretching, self-regulation, area, separately, blurriness, cover, magnifier, trauma, blurry, head, heal, prescription lenses, palming, compression 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. Well, you know, periodically, the neck muscles, swinging my head to the left gets, you know, a little tighter, I’m doing a daily Qigong practice, that seems to have, you know, more headaches from my Octopus up to my top of my sculpt my eye. Um, it’s like the energy is trying to open up places that have been compressed. And, and my vision on my left side is difficult, you know, I have to literally hold my head steady, and like, you know, cover over my eyes to really focus even wearing magnifiers. And that’s all I have, I don’t have prescription lenses, I have blue blocker mag, okay. And so that’s one of my goals is to figure out how to heal this on residual compression or it’s almost like it blocks out what I’m seeing in my comprehension of it for a while you worked with me on how to know when I was driving, how to, yes, see what’s in the next lane and computed cognitively. And those exercises helped a lot. But now I I’m not sure why this is happening. Part of its with age, you know, my vision for decades was fine with no assistance needed and and then it started getting blurrier and blurrier. And now I have to wear a slight magnifier for driving more of a magnifier for reading a different magnifier for watching TV across the room. And it’s like 02:10 three glasses. Yeah. 02:13 And, okay. And one of the things that’s that’s happens, and it’s always going on to one degree or another, is the trauma. On like, my right, the right the upper right side of my head, if anybody comes near me, it gets me agitated, in that direction, or stands near me. If I’m at a theater or seminar or something, I have to look left to comprehend things because if I look right, it’s like scrambled eggs. Okay. So those are, those are two big things. One is okay, you know, to deal with the blurriness because life is blurry, I go for a walk and life is blurry. Mm hmm. 03:11 Okay, so Marsha, a couple things, I do think doing some work with each eye separately would be valuable to you. The word is titrate, which means because of trauma, and this is for anybody that’s had trauma. Probably less time doing it is better than more. And so you need to monitor that. But what I would, there’s a couple things that I would suggest, first of all, the the exercise that I talked about the stretching the animal I chart, I think that would be a good one for you to do. But in terms of the stretching, move your eye in the area, like you get to go 12 o’clock, one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock. Maybe spend a little more time in the area where it’s most bothersome for you. And, you know, so maybe like 10 seconds, five seconds, just so as you’re moving up, that one’s okay, I’m moving it here. Oh, I’m feeling some this is making me a little dizzy, nauseous, then come back and then so slow it down. But find those areas maybe where it’s a little restrictive for you in the movement and make sure you pause like I talked about, with Wendy, where after you’ve done the right eye, you’re taking a good chunk of time, and you’re just feeling into the eyes, okay, just okay, what’s going on here as it relates to my body? Because that awareness itself can start unwinding what you’re holding there. And then you do the other eyes. So you’re covering The right eye and you’re doing that stretching with the left eye, even even if that’s not the eye that’s giving you the problem, I find that you need to work each eye separately because there’s the relationship going on. So for that, I would say, the animal chart. And then the second one I would do would be the dialogue, doing some dialogue with each eye separately. So what that means is that again, no glasses, you’re going to cover the left eye, you can again, occluded however you want. And you’re going to ask the right eye for questions. Question one, how well do you feel? Right I question 05:43 was, who 05:44

Today I’m going to take a question on ocular migraines which can affect our eyesight and vision. I will talk about what scientists believe causes this and what you can do to help alleviate your symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS migraines, eyes, circulation, magnesium, vision, call, nutrients, visual, stress, co q, trigger, reduce, peripheral vision, pain, cranial sacral therapy, complementary treatments, lavender, milligrams, work, field Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to take a question on ocular migraines. This is a related group of conditions. Many of these can affect our eyesight and vision. Sometimes we have pain that turns into migraines. And the jury is still out on what are the causes of migraines. There’s certainly a lot of discussion. But I want to go into briefly two types of migraines one is called an ophthalmic or visual migraine. And some scientists think that there’s an abnormal electrical activity that slowly spreads across certain regions of the visual cortex of our brain. They affect our eyes. And they usually start slowly. And they begin to create visual changes. And it takes about an hour or so one of the descriptions that sometimes is used is called scintillating scotomas, which means there may be some blind spots or vision goes in and out in terms of our ability to see things get blurry. Then they’re what we call retinal migraines. And these are visual symptoms that take place, obviously, on the back part of the eye, the retina. And this usually occurs only in one eye. And so it’s not affecting both eyes. Sometimes this can be related to a change in our blood flow. Now, if we look at migraines, sometimes they cause what we call Aras. They can really create some debilitating, debilitating type of pain in the head. This idea of skill, scintillating scotomas means that we can either lose part of our vision, there’s a blind spot, sometimes our peripheral vision will start to tunnel. I see this sometimes in kids, especially if there’s a lot of stress in school, they’ll come for their eye exam. And there’s no real eye prescription that I find that I measure. But their visual fields, their peripheral vision is really really tunneled. And sometimes this will be accompanied with migraines, sometimes not. So the idea with migraines, at least from a conventional standpoint, is that if one can imprese increase the circulation, this can sometimes reduce the, the pain and inflammation. And so we look at conditions like hypertension, sinus issues, hormonal issues, sometimes foods can trigger migraines. This can also affect us based on sinuses. Of course, there’s certain drugs that can trigger migraines such as drugs that treat epilepsy, and certain antidepressants, blood pressure medications. So all of these things are factors that potentially trigger migraines. You know, when I evaluate patients, one of the things I’m really looking at is the chronic stress and anxiety levels. Are they smokers? Are they dehydrated? What’s their blood sugar levels like? I’ve seen patients that migraines are triggered based on them coming to a higher altitude. And then finally, these are certain foods that can trigger migraines, chocolate, alcohol, caffeine, MSG, sugar, 04:49 processed foods. So when I counsel people, obviously they’re coming to see me because there’s complementary therapies that They’re, you know, looking to do they’ve, they’ve done the conventional therapies or they’ve been to a conventional doctor. And, you know, the doctor says, well, we’ll live with it, we can medicate you. So I’m going to go through a list of complementary treatments that sometimes can help lessen the, the migraine and eventually, if they are disciplined with these complementary treatments, they have a good chance to at least neutralize when the migraine comes on. So my top one in terms of body centered therapies would be cranial sacral therapy. This, as you know, is a is a therapy that I recommend, I’m a cranial sacral therapist, and cranial sacral therapy can actually help improve the movement of the bones, the fascia, the connective tissue, the cerebral spinal fluid in the head, the neck, the shoulders, the the spine, the sacrum, so cranial work is definitely one of the things at the top of my list. Another one that I really like, is something called continuum movement continuum i

So today, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, myopia, astigmatism, light, floaters, blur, contacts, prescriptions, glasses, progressive lenses, dry, lens, mentally, retina, left, homeopathic, eyedrops, variety, oils, give Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [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, you’re going to hear a recording of a session that I gave recently and we covered a variety of different topics. My take on floaters, cataracts, monovision, progressive lenses, blue light, myopia, and astigmatism. So I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks for tuning in. There are a variety of reasons why floaters occur. Here at my top five for dentistry and heavy metal toxicity, exposure to glyphosate, head trauma, too much blue light exposure, dehydration in the eye generally. So there’s a lot of moving parts with floaters. But I would say number one would be to get the 15% as well, and start using it now one drop maybe two to four times a day. And it might work for you. It might, it might, it definitely has worked for a lot of people. Now, if it doesn’t work, there’s some other things that you could do, I definitely would consider the glutathione I would consider the glutathione sublingual, I would consider possibly doing a liver cleanse, or even some intermittent fasting that the liver and the eyes go together very intimately. We know this from Chinese medicine, get rid of any inflammation that is in your gut whatsoever. It’s some cranial sacral get some acupuncture. So there’s a variety of different things. blue blockers, also probably if you’re doing a lot of screen time, because see blue light from any screen is going to dry your eyes out, which now brings me to dry eye. So basically, what’s in the back of the eye floaters is a dry eye in the vitreous. The eyelids are the main culprit with dry eye in the front of the eye. So there, you can do that 5% more often during the day as a way to stay hydrated. You could also get some homeopathic eyedrops called uptake, and go back and forth between the Optique and the 5% until you reach kind of loading zone level of hydration during the day and then in the evening, what’s a really nice thing to do is get yourself some organic castor oil and do a very light massage on the eyelids on the outside part of the eye, just a drop or two that castor oil heals wounds on the skin, it’s really moisturizing. It may also help the cataract, it may also help the floaters and it’ll keep your eyes moist in the evening, as to into the morning. So hydration is the name of the game. And I know you’re plant based, but you need to consider some level of Omega three if you can. Omega three seems to really be important for dry eye. And 50% of the retina is omega threes. Not a lot of fats and oils are needed in the retina. But there are a lot of plant based sources. You can do an algae, you know you can do flax, you can do you know there’s a lot of ways to go there. But I pay attention to the oils and fats chia seeds is another one I like. So those would be the things to do for the structure and the tissue around your eyes. And it seems to work for most people in my community. But the thing with night vision is the better the retina circulation, the more peripheral vision access. Remember, you’re using monovision. So your the eye you’re reading with is not really seeing in the distance, right? It’s focused up close. It would be really interesting for you when you’re driving at night, if you got the same contact. That would correct you for distance. Because right now you’re in a strobe effect with your right and left eye. They’re capturing the headlights at different speeds. Yeah, right essentially 05:00 So I you know, I think, yeah, you know, experiment with it. But one experiment is to get get, get the left eye corrected, so it matches the right eye. Right distance. And, you know, see how that is. 05:16 Yeah, that’s a really important subject clearly. But anyway, I also bought these blue light blocking glasses. I put on kind of the middle the evening watching TV. Is there any benefit to these blue light? These are just clip ons onto my glasses. Is that a recommendation that you 05:36 Yeah, definitely. Yea

Retinal Detachment is something that affects a lot of people and requires surgery to deal with. Today we are covering what retinal detachment is, what causes it, and how to recover post-surgery. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS retinal detachment, retina, eye, carotenoids, omega threes, important, high, acid xanthine, surgery, talk, stress, prescription, lens, starvation, omega, near sighted, lutein, eyeball, care, antioxidants 0Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hello, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to talk about retinal detachment. And I bring this up because one of the students in my six week intensive, has been dealing with post surgery of retinal detachment. In fact, she had two surgeries. And I went over what can be done after you have had the surgery? And let me make no state mistake about it. You definitely need surgery. If you’re right that detaches. Now, what causes retinal detachment? is I get this question a lot. And there are a variety of factors I think one of the factors is being nearsighted and and so if you’re moderately to high, near sighted, have a near sighted prescription, I would say anything over minus four, you’re going to have a higher risk of developing retinal detachment because what happens in a retinal detachment is as the eyeball changes its shape. It can start to cause the retina to thin. And if the retina is already weak, and I’ll talk about reasons why the retina may be weak, then you’re definitely more risk for developing some kind of retinal whole retinal detachment. In addition, I also feel that if you’ve had head trauma, if you’re under a lot of visual stress, if you suffer systemic inflammation these are some of the reasons why the retina comes away from the rest of the eyeball. In my practice, one of the biggest reasons I see retinal detachment has to do with a fluid buildup behind the eye. And this has to do with conditions like what macular degeneration or hyper retinopathy is like diabetic retinopathy or hypertensive retinopathy. Whenever you start getting a fluid build up behind the retina, you definitely are more risk for a part of the retina to break away or in terms of traction, pull away. And if that were to happen, you will start to see flashes of light, you might start to see a curtain come over your eye. And that is a sight threatening condition you want to get yourself to the nearest local ophthalmologist and get it put back and there are a lot of different ways now that surgeries are done. You’re going to need to go through a post operative period of rest. And once you you know get through all of the surgical procedures and you know all of that all of those situations. My recommendation and that’s what I told this student of mine. It’s really important that you are taking the Quran noids lutein, Xanthan and asked to xantham you know I talk about these a lot. These are the carotenoids that are pigments that protect not only the macula, but also the retina. The to plant carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. You can get those from your rainbow vegetables. And the acid Xanthine is a marine carotenoids. So you can either have to get that through seafood, especially the pink seafood like salmon, or shrimp. And if you don’t want to go that route, you can do micro algae, acid Xanthine, supplements, omega three fatty acids, you know, there’s so many of my patients, I’ll say, Well, are you taking regular omega threes? And they say no. Well, yeah, you know, so they, they do it for a while and they they stop but make no mistake about it. Omega threes are so important. We don’t we don’t produce those in our body. So the DHA and the EPA part of the Omega three is so important for a variety of different conditions, dry eye, glaucoma, cataracts. So in terms of prevention, also, Omega three is so important for brain health, our nervous system, and it acts as such a strong anti inflammatory agent, you have to consider omega threes. 04:33 I also think things like vitamin C, bilberry, gingko, trans, resveratrol, saffron, curcumin, these are all things that either you want to include in your diet, or through supplementation. Again, you want to really boost the antioxidants. The retina has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body. And for most people, they’re in a starvation state in Their eyeballs. And that’s part of why the tissue breaks down. And why we get all these, you know, eye condition

LASIK Surgery has been a hot topic in my world lately and so I wanted to take some time and explain my view on this elective surgery. In this episode, we will dig into what LASIK is and why I don’t suggest it to my patients. While it works great for some people, it just treats the symptoms and focuses on fixing your sight, not your vision. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I would love to hear from you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. Resources: My TikTok video on Lasik that went viral and created controversy: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdkcL739/ The NYT article on Lasik: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.html SUMMARY KEYWORDS lasik surgery, eyes, prescription, lasik, tik tok, refractive surgery, talking, blurred vision, procedure, quick fix, eyesight, experience, near sighted, people, laser surgery, play, coffer, called, put, article Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today, I am going to be talking about the pros and cons of lasik surgery. This is a surgery. It’s called a refractive surgery, the surgeon reshapes the cornea, and it helps you get rid of your prescription. The reason why I’m talking about this today is that I recently put a post up on the platform tic toc. And I came out against LASIK surgery in this video. And the reason why I came out against it was due to 1000s of patients that I’ve seen over the years that had difficulty adjusting to this refractive surgery. And so I shared my point of view, which was that there are two types of prescriptions that we deal with the prescription that’s in our eyeballs. And the prescription in our brain, our mind our body that creates the prescription in the eye. Another way to say it is that we want to blame faulty vision on the eyeball. But it’s not the eyeballs fault. It’s the programming that we’re doing to our eyes, that causes the prescription to begin with. Well, the firestorm that I created on Tik Tok was amazing, I would say 95% of the comments, were so negative against what I had to say. And it was great, because it really got people to think. And, you know, they, they talked about why they loved LASIK surgery and why it works so well. And how can I, you know, say such a thing, when when they had such great results. So some of the things I might say in this broadcast, might be a little offensive to you, as it was to the Tick Tock community. And my apologies. That’s not the reason why I put out my content. These are direct experiences that I’ve had. And I get to see people who’ve had the mistakes who’ve had the problems. So I’m not making it up. Definitely, there was a segment of the the post that really spoke truth, at least through my experience. So I want to address LASIK surgery a little more deeply. And you be the judge. I’d love your comments, you can email me at hello at Dr. Sam Burns calm. And I’d love to get into a dialogue with you. You don’t have to agree with me. That’s not the point. I actually love different points of view. So when LASIK surgery, usually it’s done for people that have moderate to high amounts of myopia, astigmatism. And there’s some things that can go on with LASIK surgery, such as eye pain, intermittent blurred vision, or recurrent have the the old prescription coming back in the eyes, where you need glasses or contacts, halos around lights, double vision. So these things definitely are part of the terrain of what happens in this elective surgery. But it is a quick fix. It certainly will get rid of the prescription in the eyes, at least for a while. Now in my Tiktok community. There were people that said you know they’ve had the surgery a long time. And they had kept their 2020 perspective. And so I want to I want to talk about 2020 for a minute. Just because you have 2020 That’s a measurement of your eyesight. That doesn’t mean that you have good vision. Vision is how the eyes and the brain and the body work together we start developing our ability to process information and move our body through space when we start creeping and crawling, crawling and walking and talking and catching a ball and riding our bike and later learning how to play baseball or tennis or ski or draw. 04:59 So it’s a very A dynamic skill set. And just because somebody sees it clearly, it doesn’t mean they know how to use the hardware properly. And in fact, whenever you do any eye surgery, in

Today we are talking about Night Vision. What causes it and how to improve it. Struggles with night vision can cause a lot of disruption in one’s life. People tend to stop driving at night and don’t feel comfortable going out in the evening. This isn’t something that you have to just accept and live with, so today we are going to address some basic things you can do to help improve your night vision. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, vitamin, milligrams, zinc, night vision, work, eyes, vision, blindness, doctor, talked, pigment, people, check, capillary, myopia, macular degeneration, light, tints, photoreceptor Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. And today I want to talk about night vision. Now, when you start suffering, night blindness or vision loss, it can be a very scary situation. And I have worked with so many patients who come in for their vision exam. And they say, they say to me, you know, I’m afraid to drive at night, I’ve stopped going out, because I don’t see very well. Or another symptom is, people get very disoriented, if they’re out in the bright sun. And they go indoors, and the adjustment period of going from light to dark. Or the other way around, let’s say you’re in a darker environment, just with, you know, ambient light, and you go out into the sunlight, you suffer a lot of light sensitivity and glare. And when you go to a regular eye doctor, most of them will tell you just get used to it. It’s aging, there’s really not much you can do about it. Well, I’m here to say that there are many things that you can do naturally. And I’d like to go over those today. So with night vision, this is a very common malady. And probably one of the biggest reasons why people have night vision issues is because they are not absorbing their vitamin A. Now in the retina, there is a a collection of photo receptor cells that are highly sensitive to darkness. And we call this pigment rhodopsin. And rhodopsin in the rods, enables us to quickly adapt our vision from dark to light and light to dark. And the most essential component in getting this rhodopsin to work effectively is vitamin A. In fact, vitamin A is the biggest reason why people have night vision issues when I’m talking about his deficiency in vitamin A. Now, there are many reasons why. Even if we eat foods with vitamin A, there is a compromised intake. In other words, we can’t absorb our vitamin A very well why is that? Well, let’s run through the list. If you have iron deficiency, if you’ve got digestive issues, if you are taking the cholesterol medication, statins, if you eat a low fat diet, a big one is zinc deficiency. And I talked about how zinc is such an important trace mineral for a variety of different cellular reactions in the body and most people are deficient in zinc, because of the soil depletion, the the poor agriculture that the farming practices that are being done, this creates a zinc deficiency and zinc is really important for the absorption of vitamin A. Now when we you know evaluate the retina and we start looking at the symptoms of well how do you know you might have night blindness. There’s some easy things that you can check off the list number one would be weak vision in dim light. Number two difficulty seeing at night. We’ve talked about that. Number three, the slow visual update adaptation either going from bright to dim or dim to bright 04:59 and There was a study that was published in the Canadian Journal Journal of ophthalmology, which reported that 50 to 70% of people with night blindness had these visual conditions called nystagmus. That’s when the eyes oscillate back and forth, or strabismus where the two eyes don’t work together. And they also put into this category, people that had myopia. Now, myopia is the fastest growing vision problem today because we’re all on screens. And so, there, these are some of the you know the things visually that begin to create problems with seeing at night. Now, there can be a genetic predisposition to night blindness, and you can ask your doctor to do a test called an electro retina gram which determines the functions of the red retina and to see if there is a genetic component. But more times than not when people have night blindness when I when I do an exam. These are the conditions they also have cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, Corneal dystrophies, like keratoconus or

In this episode, I am answering a question I received about Horner’s Syndrome. It’s a condition that affects the pupils of the eye and the eyelids and sometimes even the muscles in the face. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, castor oil, pupil, face, inflammation, nerves, eyelids, cranial, tissue, meridian, helpful, vibrate, circulation, affect, called, functional medicine doctor, palm, longtime listener, massage, condition Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. I’m going to take one question today. This is from Jesse’s a longtime listener, he is developed a condition called Horner syndrome. This affects the pupils of the eye can also affect the eyelids. And he can even affect the muscles in the face. It’s quite difficult to diagnose and you want to go to an ophthalmologist or a neuro ophthalmologist who can test you to see what your pupil responses are. Now, the pupils are the gatekeeper that allow light into the eye. You know, the pupil gets smaller as we go out into bright light and it will dilate as we dim the lights. And in Horner syndrome, there can be pain associated in our eyes, it also can affect the droopiness of the eyelids, we call this toeses. Again, you want to rule out things like tumors, trauma, stress, inflammation. And the other thing that I take take a look at is just our overall circulation to the eyes. So you can do an imaging test. Sometimes an MRI can show a tumor or a lesion, which can explain this underlying cause of the irregular pupil response. But from a more holistic, integrative medical perspective, here are some things that I suggest and recommend. Well, first of all, I think that getting some cranial sacral therapy can be very helpful. You know, when you do the cranial work, what you’re doing is you’re creating spaciousness in the fascia and the connective tissue, especially if you’re working on the head and around the eyes. And if you can develop a kind of a more expansive cranial rhythm, that’s the cerebral spinal fluid pumping in and out of the brain, and it’s going to affect the eye circulation. This is a technique that I feel is very helpful at reducing irritation in the nerves, inflammation, stress trauma. So it’s, it’s my number one go to in terms of this particular condition. The second thing that I would consider would be some acupuncture. You know, acupuncture doesn’t necessarily treat symptoms, but it opens up the meridians in the entire body and we know that many of the energy meridians traveled to and from the eyes, and they go to the glands and the organs in the entire body. And when you open up the meridian energy, this can sometimes help increase the function of the nerves reduce pain, and it’s a great modality in terms of creating more harmony and balance in the eyes, brain and body. The third thing that I would suggest would be to use castor oil, especially in the evening, you can get some organic castor oil, I like to massage it into the face. Also you can take a dropper to and massage it lightly into the eyelids. There’s so many great benefits of castor oil, you know, it’s an ancient Egyptian modality that’s been used. In current times castor oil has been shown to actually be wound healing, reduce inflammation irritation in the skin. It’s also highly moisturizing it hydrates the tissue. And you know when you get into pain and inflammation, a lot of times there’s a drying out of the tissue. And so the castor oil massage can be really excellent at replenishing and rejuvenating the skin in the face and around the eyes. Another technique that I find to be very helpful for this condition is color therapy, especially the blue end of the spectrum. So looking at the turquoise color, the blue color, five to 10 minutes a day. You can do this with colored gels or colored glasses and you receive the color into your eyes. You 04:44 do some breathing, you breathe it in. And you do this for you know eight to 10 minutes every day. This can also be beneficial for improving the health in the nerves. In the face and around the eyes. And then lastly, the exercise that I recommend is called the palm hum, that’s the one where you rub your hands together for about 10 seconds. You place the palms over your eyes, you close your eyes, and you breathe in normally through your nose. On the exhale, keep your mouth closed, and you make a pretty loud, low humming sound. So the hum i

I had the pleasure of interviewing Megan Ramos in this episode. She is a Canadian clinical educator and expert on therapeutic fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, having guided more than 14,000 people worldwide. She is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Life in the Fasting Lane. You can learn more about The Fasting Method here: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS fasting, eat, people, insulin, meal, day, insulin resistance, fast, question, mindful, toronto, megan, caffeine, diabetic, food, marker, snack, individuals, coffee, green tea 00:01 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome our next guest and lecture. Her name is Megan Ramos. She is a Canadian clinical educator and expert in the field of therapy, therapeutic fasting, and low carbohydrate diets. She has guided more than 14,000 people worldwide. She’s co author of The New York Times bestseller life in the fasting lane. Megan, welcome to the summit. I’m so excited to have you on. I guess my first question would be, how did you get involved with intermittent fasting? 00:45 It’s kind of an epic collision of sorts between my own personal journey and my professional journey. From a very young age, I was interested in preventative medicine, my mother is just one weird medical anomaly that we think a lot of her health issues were triggered by mold exposure. And that mold exposure led to tumor growth. And there was just a lot of suffering because she was such a young woman at the time, and nobody expected her to have all of the issues that she was. And they were just treating her symptoms without ever looking for the root cause. So from the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to be that medical mystery solver and really identify root causes of disease. So I from a young age, I got interested in medical research. When I was 15, I had the opportunity to work actually in the largest medical research facility clinical research facility, which actually based in Toronto, at the time, and it was a nephrology, so this group of kidney specialists were trying to detect kidney disease earlier. And they were working on all of these different types of lifestyle interventions to slow down the progression of kidney disease. So at 15, this is a total dream for me, and very much so was because I really valued their mission. And I stuck around high school, university after university became my full time job. Well, it took some time off before the plan was to go to medical school. But none of the interventions were working. And it didn’t really matter how early one detected kidney disease, because there was just this huge onslaught of type two diabetes does ravaging people’s kidneys. I mean, we went from having a handful of people on dialysis to having 1000s of people on dialysis 24/7. And from the time I was 15, to the time I was 25. And all of that was due to type two diabetes. So I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go back, go to medical school, because it just seemed like all mainstream medicine could do was hopefully, you know, make people comfortable as disease ravaged them. And it was really heartbreaking. So in my mid 20s, when I was trying to figure out, you know what I was going to do with my life, I continued to do research at the clinic, but I thought, lady, you’ve got to get it together yourself. You know, I had stayed relatively slender, but was diagnosed with these metabolic health issues like fatty liver disease. When I was a kid, I had polycystic ovarian syndrome when I was 14. And they hadn’t gotten worse, but they hadn’t gotten better. They hadn’t gotten away, like most of the doctors thought they would. Because I was so skinny, they didn’t understand why I had these diseases of obesity. And hindsight, I was just a skinny sack of fat. I was not very muscular and very brittle and break my wrist every time I slipped on the soccer field at school. 03:55 So looking at my family history and my own history, I decided that I needed to do this big intervention on myself. So I started doing all the things we’re doing with patients. Not really thinking about how it didn’t work for any of them. So why it had it worked for me. And you know, within 18 months, I was a full blown type two diabetic who gains excessive amount of weight. So I went from being sort of skinny on the outside and fat on the inside to just being fat all around. And it was was awful. Then being diagnosed with type two diabetes was so devastating. So one of my colleagues, nephrologist, Dr. Jason Fung. He had actually started looking into intermittent fasting after being inspired by a friend who had improved her hemoglobin he was see accidentally through fasting She’s fasting for spiritual reasons following a divorce. And Jason was very inspired by this in Toront

At age 25, Dr. Glen Swartwout was the top student doctor at his school when he discovered that he had glaucoma. Starting at such a young age, he learned that he would most likely be blind by age 50 if he was treated by conventional medicine and surgery. In his quest for a cure, he found that he was also suffering from mercury poisoning and would almost certainly not survive past his 30s. Through intensive study of natural medicine, he has now exceeded his expiration date by over 25 years and maintains good vision at age 65. He helps doctors and their patients improve their health outcomes with his system of Accelerated Self Healing that saved his own life and his vision. You can learn more about Dr. Glen through his website or social channels Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn or contact him via email [email protected] or phone 888.417.8118. Be sure to save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS body, vision, heal, minerals, glen, measure, substance, cleansing, people, state, energy, field, glaucoma, study, protons, quantum, working, venous blood, eye, remote 00:04 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series I’m featuring today one of my colleagues known him a long time. His name is Dr. Glen Swartwout. And he’s got a lot in his bio, he does some really interesting things. He was a top student doctor at his school where he discovered he had glaucoma, and I didn’t even know that. And starting at a young age, he learned that he would most likely be blind by the age of 50. This is what happens with glaucoma. That would have been if he was treated by conventional medicine and surgery, which is what usually happens with glaucoma. And he is a real pioneer because he was able to discover in himself that he had mercury poisoning, and he wouldn’t survive past his 30s. So through intensive study of natural medicine, he now has exceeded his expiration date by over 25 years. He looks really healthy and vibrant. He helps doctors and patients improve their health with a system called Accelerated Self Healing, and it saved his life and his vision. So Dr. Glen, let’s bring you on the program. I know we haven’t talked for a while, how are you doing? How are you? 01:30 Great! Enjoying being in Hawaii and working with a lot of folks mostly on the mainland and around the world. And we’ve gone 100% remote with our practice and consulting, which was easy because we were 85% remote before COVID hit. So we said okay, we’re gonna actually just hide in the wizard’s lair here and do what we do best. 01:57 Well, I’ve got a couple of questions for you. I want to start off with your system which you call Accelerated Self Healing. What is that? 02:09 Well, it starts with the acknowledgement that all healing is self healing. The bandaid doesn’t heal the cut. The aspirin doesn’t actually heal a headache. It suppresses the symptom and decreases the inflammation. But you know, what produces inflammation is the immune system. So our immune system is the real cure for most ails that we run into. It detoxifies the body. It cleans out toxic tissues, so we can regenerate and make new cells. So Accelerated Self Healing acknowledges that the body is always doing its best to heal. And you know, there’s a literally 1000… a million things that we could try to heal in any one moment, but we can’t… just like the mind can’t multitask and do everything all at once. You’d get nothing done. So with the body I find when we test energetically with biocommunication. We ask the body, “what is it doing?” We unravel the things that it is trying to heal. And we find that it might be up to five or six. In a rare case, there was a man who had about 21 different things his body was trying to do, but he was dying. His acupuncturist referred him because he couldn’t get his pulses to come up. He was elderly. All of his siblings had gone blind with glaucoma. So he was at risk for that as well. And it took a lot of stuff. He needed a lot of material substances, a lot of nutrients and herbs, especially nutrients in his case. Within the first month though, he got the pulses to come up and, you know, turn the corner. The sad end to that story is after maybe about a year working with him, he was doing great. His his family doctor and his family talked him into a medical treatment that was supposed to improve memory. And the protocol for that treatment was you go off everything else and only take this one drug. No supplements, no herbs, nothing. And in the course of doing that treatment, he actually had glaucoma hit him. He went blind during that. So it’s very sad. But the body is always doing its best to heal. It’s often stuck needing something. It could be a material substance, like a n

Lisa Dymond is a Registered Speech & Language Pathologist in Private Practice with a passion for supporting the integration of speech/language skills into conversational competence that supports relationships & social-emotional well-being. She is passionate about integrating speech/language skills into conversations that support social-emotional well-being & relationships. Since 1997, Lisa has been a practicing speech/language pathologist, with experience across the broad scope of practice. Lisa enjoys working with clients to integrate speech & language skills into conversational competence that supports sustaining relationships & enhancing psychological health & well-being. You can reach Lisa at [email protected] or through her social channels: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter Be sure to save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS lisa, sensation, question, debbie, people, language, relationship, drew, speech, featured speakers, chelsea, speech language pathologists, part, attachment, point, emotion, hearing, health, impact, communicating 00:04 Hey everybody. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening, wherever you are. This is Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, you know, the health hole health summit is coming up very soon, we’ve got a few spots left, the dates are January 14 to the 16th 2022, you can register on my website on all my social media sites. Anyways, today, we have one of the featured speakers, and I love what she is putting out her name is Lisa Dymond. And just a little bit of backstory about Lisa. She’s a speech language pathologist. And she’s passionate about the impact of communication and supporting healthy relationships. So I want to bring her on leet. Lisa, welcome to the program. How are you today? How’s it going? 01:01 Hi, Sam, thanks so much for having me on, it’s going going really well. 01:08 So, you know, I work with a lot of speech language pathologists in the field of autism and add and so, but you’re, you’re kind of an amazing practitioner, and I want to introduce you to my community, because we want to know, how you got into this. And you know, what is your philosophy and perspective, because it’s, it’s, it’s really quite unique, I really love what you’re you’re doing. So, share with us how you got into this. And you know, what your philosophy is? 01:44 Well, thank you so much for that feedback. So starting with how I got into this, my, my original background, excuse me, was in anthropology and sociology, and just being interested in human behavior and human relationships on a bigger scale. And I always maintain this interest in languages. And so after that, I travelled a bit, saw the world and, you know, explore different cultures. And it was my mum, who said, What about speech and language therapy? So sure enough, I looked into that, and the nature of the work on a relation, relationship based way of working with people, and it was a perfect way to apply that interest in human relationships with languages and communication. So that’s how it all started. 02:39 Yeah, so relationship, this is like, critical, right? So can you say a little more about how you spotlight relationship? And what you’re doing with people? 02:53 Yeah, um, there’s so many different ways I can answer that question. And what comes to mind, at least for purposes of our conversation today is, you know, language and communication is there’s there’s receptive language and expressive language, sort of two sides of the same coin. And from a receptive point of view, what we understand, right, how we listen, how we, how we use our talking to listen to other people actually, in so that, so that, so that, as we’re listening, the other person feels seen and heard. That’s one part of it, the expressive part, you know, it’s everybody is expressing themselves, whether it’s a child in the womb, whether it’s an infant that’s babbling, whether it’s somebody who’s using a device to communicate, or I gaze, or whether it’s people using spoken language, we’re all expressing ourselves, and are we really communicating? And are we really communicating with each other in a social way, so that we ourselves feel seen and heard. So this, this way of looking at communication of receptive and expressive language, seeing and hearing the other, seeing and hearing ourselves that ties together the reciprocity of that experience, supports relationship in a way that that brings this reciprocal dynamic to, to the relationship that supports that the health of the relationship, the nurturing of the relationship and how the relationship can be

Today, I interview one of our sponsors and speakers for the upcoming Whole Health Summit.  For over 38 years Virginia Joy aka V.Joy has been teaching. Initially, as an elementary school teacher teaching 5th grade in New York. While teaching in New York, V. Joy worked in conjunction with Columbia University training teachers “How to Teach writing”. In 2004 she founded Stillpoint Life Back in Balance, an energetic and massage practice in Sedona, where she combines her expertise in energy medicine and massage to create holistic healing sessions for her clients. In 2010 she founded Stillpoint Aromatics where she imports over 470 organics, wild-harvested, and biodynamically farmed essential oil and extracts worldwide. Concurrently, V joy teaches Aromatherapy Certification Programs, both beginner and advanced as well as many weekend workshops and a killer Mystery School. Most of these classes are available virtually and in-person in Sedona. She has been published in numerous Aromatherapy journals and has been a speaker at National Aromatherapy conferences. She also holds a certification in Compassionate Care Bereavement counseling where she assists people who are dealing with catastrophic, traumatic grief and abuse as well as seeing clients in her Clinical Aromatherapy Practice. You can reach V.Joy through her at her website: www.stillpointaromatics.com, via text 928.606.0363, or through her social channels Instagram | Facebook Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS essential oils, oils, aromatics, people, rosemary, pine, maritime pine, lemon, awesome, favorite, essence, summit, energetic, little bit, put, laurel leaf, swims, maritime, life, inflammation 00:05 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of the Summit Series, today, I am interviewing a fabulous summit speaker and she has been a teacher. I think her whole life she is, wow, she’s had many lives. And she is the founder and owner of Stillpoint aromatics. I’m doing a little commercial here. This is my top essential oil company that I use. And you might, you know, in my community, I recommend aromatherapy and it’s in all my classes and all my work. And so Virginia joy. Let me give you a little background. She’s originally from New York. And she has migrated to one of my favorite cities Sedona, Arizona. And she opened up Stillpoint aromatics, which imports over 470, organic and wild harvested biodynamically farmed essential oils that are extracted through the entire world. And I just bought a lot of oils, and just brings back so many memories of all the oils that that I use. And so Virginia, Joy V. Joy, welcome to the program. It is so great to have you. How are you doing today? How’s it going? 01:43 Oh, pretty good. Yes, yes. Pretty good. And thank you my honor to be here. Really, my honor. 01:50 Well, both of our honors, but thank you so much. So tell me a little bit about how you got involved in the essences, and you’ve made it your passion, you have a very successful company, how did you get into it? 02:07 Oh, my God, that was in my other life, I used to use the essential oils, when I taught fifth grade with the kids. This is way back when. And so we would use different oils, you know, the usual safe ones, you know, lavender would help them calm down, we’d use rosemary before writing workshop, and the kids would have their favorite plant their favorite oil, and then we would put a drop on their test. And so that’s how it started. Really. 02:35 I love it, putting it on their test. That’s, that’s the way to go. So in terms of, you know, today in our climate COVID climate, and we’re talking a lot about immune health, what do you recommend for people so that they can, you know, stay away from the drugs and all that and use essential oils to boost their immune health? 02:58 You know, there are a few actually. So the top one really is it’s not even in the essential oil, it’s cold press black human, right, the Gela sativa there’s that them to use as a cold pressed oil in tea and a teaspoon in a capsule. And then its sister its counterpart, the black seed essential oil is fantastic to use. Also, because of the I think it’s the thyme queen in it. So there’s that and people that don’t like that, then there are the usual it’s like rosemary essential oil is fantastic. And lemon time, benchmark time is awesome. And you could use them in a variety of ways from diffusing to topical, like there’s this great aromatic morning routine people could do if they want to stop the day off, right? boost their immune system and use the oils are black spruce, laurel leaf, a little bit of clove, but not too much. And benchmark time and you just put a

Dave Gibson is a sleep coach and offers a sleep course Sleep Coaching for a Perfect Nights Sleep in 4 weeks tailor-made to you individually, available online or offline Corporate Workshops. With 30 years of continuous sobriety, along with helping solve sleep problems, he helps clients with addiction, stress, food, and underlying self-esteem issues, and more. He has found that once our life is in balance we sleep better too. You can get in touch with Dave through his Website or social channels: Instagram | Twitter Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS sleep, night, people, melatonin, diet, eating, serotonin, question, brain, exercise, seasonal affective disorder, drives, light, women, dave, poor, hormone, day, minerals, men 00:03 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of the Summit Series, you know, I’m organizing the Whole Health Summit, January 14 to the 16th 22. And I’m having the speakers on my podcast and today, we are blessed to have Dave Gibson. And he is an expert on one of my most sought after subjects that I’m learning about his sleep. So he coaches people on sleep. I saw on his Instagram that perfect night’s sleep in four weeks. So that sounds really pretty cool. He teaches workshops, he does individual sessions. And he’s joining us today from London. Dave, welcome to the program. I want to thank thank you for joining us. So how did you get in? Oh, yes. So how did you get into this topic? We’d love to hear your story. I know my listeners would. So give us a little background on who you are. I had a 01:19 personal need and a professional need to crack it. I mean, my background is that I I escaped advertising in my early 30s To become an osteopath. And in advertising, I used to drink a lot to get myself to sleep and I’d quit the booze and there there was lying awake, not able to sedate myself. So I had to relearn the art of sleeping. And I realized that I’d never really invested in it. As a child, I was sort of allowed out late at night to play in bands. So I had developed a habit of being underslept and coping with it. And equally on my mom’s side, she’s a very poor sleeper, and we’ve got a 30% chance of inheriting our parents sleep genes. And it’s one of the questions I always ask somebody, when it comes to me as a patient, you know, what’s your mom and dad sleeping? Like? When did you start sleeping badly. And you know, you open up a Pandora’s box when you look at your own genetics. And if you’ve got good genetics, you’re on it, you’re on a winning wicket more often than not anyway, when I started to work as an osteopath over 20 years ago, I suddenly found that more people had sleeping problems and bad backs. You know, I was talking about stress management, time management. And the more the more we started using mobile technology, it seemed that the worst athlete was getting, you know, so there was a, there was a tipping point that we got to about a decade ago, when all of a sudden people are noticing that their health is suffering, because they’ve gone below a sort of sustainable threshold. We’ve gone from being under slept on occasion to be chronically under slept long term. And then things started to go wrong, health wise and emotionally wise. 03:01 Got it? Wow. So, so many, so many factors involved in sleep, but I didn’t realize the 30% in the genetics, but, you know, makes total sense. I mean, in my field, and I care I asked about genetics, because there is a you know, there’s that gene that when it gets triggered in a certain way environmentally or through diet or stress, that we have a higher risk. So, um, you talked about the screens, the the electronics, how do you see that playing into people having difficulty with 03:35 sleep? I think what it’s done is it has two effects. One is the sort of psychological effect of being attached to stimulation very late in the day. And then the other is the physical part of it, which is called blue lights. The blue light is easier to control because what happens is when when you get hold of a screen like this, or an iPad, or a PC, the the wavelength of light that it emits mimics the same blue that is emitted from the sun first thing in the morning, that’s designed to wake us up. The alternative is when you shine blue light into your eyes, it fires a receptor and it blocks the production of melatonin. So it stops has been able to produce a signal that produces melatonin from the pineal gland in the brain. And melatonin is regarded as the sleep hormone. It’s the it’s the hormone that gives us the desire to sleep. You know, when you’re sort of laying on the couch and all of a sudden y

Alexandra Defacio is a holistic therapist, reiki master, licensed colon hydro-therapist, lymphatic drainage masseuse, and modern shaman, trained in the ancient Ayurvedic medicine and initiated in the Amazonian shamanism. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, she has called New York City home since 1997, where she has been practicing the healing arts for over 20 years. She became interested in natural and alternative medicine when she developed thyroid imbalance and holistic treatments helped her heal herself, at which point she discovered colon hydrotherapy. You can get in touch with her through her Website or her social channels: Instagram | Facebook Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS healer, energy, nature, people, house, life, featured speakers, stillness, holistic therapist, put, healing, frequencies, beautiful, tap, breathe, connect, body, question, drum 00:05 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, as you know, I’ll be holding my second annual Whole Health Summit, which will be January 14 to the 16th 2022. Today, we have a good friend of mine and she is a just off the charts healer and teacher. She’s living now in New York City and I’ll give you her bio. Her name is Alexandra Defacio. She’s a Holistic Therapist, reiki master, modern shaman and I’ve experienced her healing firsthand. She has been trained in the ancient Ayurvedic medicine initiated in the Amazonian shamanism. And Alexandria, want to welcome you to the program today. Thanks for joining us. How’s it going? How are you? 01:08 Thank you so much for bringing that honor to be here with you again. I’m doing well. There Well, good. 01:18 Glad to hear it. I know when you were on the summit last year, it was the most powerful presentation. And people had such life changing experiences, through your teaching and your presentation. And so I had to bring you back because people are like, oh, we need to work with Alexandria again. So I’ve got a number of questions from listeners. Some are mine, some are yours. So I want to move to the first question. And this is from Julie. And she’s from Seattle, Washington. And she is really struggling with the news. And you know, COVID is back. And what she’s asking is what are some practices that can be done to help develop 02:17 stillness. Okay. The first thing is about breathing is about breath. So when you woke up in the morning before you get up the bath before you get up off the bed in the morning, I suggest for everybody to tap into your thymus and say to yourself, I ask you ask yourself permission to be nice units. I access my super consciousness and I access my intelligence. You access yourself ask yourself how can I be in a stillness? you the only one can answer yourself in breathe through because prana life force energy is through breath in breath can comes down your nervous system and calm down your body. So ask yourself what can I make me happy today? How can I be stillness and be the witness of yourself? In co Why am I am so anxious because that’s on the corrective. But another thing if the TV is being is being affecting your life, how about just watching the news on Lifetime? Right now in a in a in a daytime? Daytime you watching the news night? No night you have to put some music classic music by your narrow music or watching something that’s gonna really nurturing you not make me scared because if you listen the news before you go to bed you get up in the morning feeling anxious you know feeling feeling sad feeling like all over the place. So as soon as comes like I get totally permission to myself that should be my illness my silence you might found we make peace and you breathe to death to breathe that breathing a bad Indian witness can you put yourself to observing what you’ve been doing? I you like doing everything for everybody and you forget about yourself or make some I honor myself today you’re going to make a cup of tea. And then you’re going to put some music in I’m going to breathe into my body. That is a way to bring stillness. There is another way you can be best to like make a beautiful bath and go there for 20 Allow yourself to take 20 minutes of your time for your you don’t give time to ourselves. 04:57 Yeah, so true. I mean, you’re talking about self care. You’re talking about the breath. So important, we get under stress, anxiety, we’ve watched the news, we stopped breathing, and water, the water element being able to soak in there and, you know, reset our nervous system and do a major mental reset. So thank you, thank you for that. Let’s move to, you know, I have an international following. So, I want to bring in t

This was a great interview with Dr. Seb. Dr. Seb Lomas is a Biological DentistBiochemist – Natural Integrative Health Reduction in Inflammation,  Removal of Infections,  Metals &  Increase Structural Function & Airway Expansion U.K. He answered some amazing listener questions and so much more. You can reach him through his Instagram page and find out more about Biological Dentistry at his website. Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS teeth, breathe, dentist, airway, dentistry, mouth, question, gum disease, bacteria, materials, root canal, infection, problems, gum, healing, learning, biocompatible, clenching 00:04 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast as part of my whole health summit series. We’ve invited one of the speakers today, and I just love his Well, his content, and what he’s putting out. His name is Dr. Seb Lomas and he is a biological dentist, he practices in the UK. He does so many interesting things. So I want to bring him on. Dr. Seb, welcome to the program. How are you doing today? 00:41 I’m very well, thank you very much for having me. And I’m actually coming from the Scottish Isles right now, which is just incredible scenery. I’ve never been either. So beautiful. The nature here is gorgeous. And I’m sure very good for your eyes will have a distance focus. 00:57 That’s right. Yeah. The distance focusing and the green and the softness. That’s, that’s so true. So my first question, is kind of a personal question. How did you get into this form of dentistry? 01:14 Wow. So it’s a great question because my path was not linear. I guess like all of us that end up in these types of fields. I did always want to be a dentist when I was younger, I had this affinity for it. And I actually ended up not getting the grades to get into dental school the first time around. So I went and studied biochemistry. And I got very ill and after a bit of traveling around South America, and I met my wife who had lots of dental problems and she had had four teeth taken out when she was younger and chronic headaches migraines and astigmatism of the eye and no one could say that was this or that and she’s gonna need all this expensive jaw surgery and we went to this, this dentist which was few and far between and the whole of the UK, maybe five of them. And I was just I was blown away. I did always want to do dentistry in it, we managed to completely undo her chronic problems that no one had answers for using combination of osteopathy and well or expansion orthodontics or airway orthodontics. And it gave her breathe breath within our system and allowed her to live a normal life again, which was the main part of it. And that all came from by the dental aspect of one more than that, really, but the teeth of the bit that were treated right then it was just blew my mind. So then I was like, right, how do I get to study dentistry as quickly as I can. And that put me on the fast track and then shadowing lots of these dentists in the UK that would accept me anyway. 02:43 I see how and, you know, can you study biological dentistry? In Dental, dental school? How do you learn it? 02:51 Now you can’t unfortunately, there’s so I was actually listening to a book the other day called bring us at the door, which is very interesting. And it was talking about how, when we learn institution, it’s already out of date. And that’s so plays into the my theory of learning it within the dental field and then moving into biological dentistry. So in tandem, I was learning the foundations of dentistry, but also shadowing and work experience and going to study the biological dentist in the UK as well when I had enough time to, but it made it very difficult to pass my exams because obviously you just want to implement all of these other things, right, that you’ve already learned. So it really comes from passion and extracurricular courses, I’m sure much like yourself up, Sam. So 03:40 yeah, my, my journey is, is quite nonlinear as well. And fortunately, I had some great mentors when I graduated, and you know, healed my own myopia and astigmatism and, but it was it was a long road as they say, a road less traveled and you’re a pioneer. And you know what you’re putting out and I forgot some questions from listeners. So I thought maybe that would be a way to educate us based on some of these questions are really good. So the first question this is, this is from Bill, and he actually lives in the States. So where’s he from? He’s from Iowa, believe it or not, and he’s asking this is he says it has a bite problem aside from fixing my bite, filling cavities and resolvi

Dr. Bhanote is a quintuple board-certified physician and published author with expertise in Integrative Medicine and Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology, and Culinary Medicine. Dr. Bhanote has additional training and certifications in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Plant-Based Nutrition, Ayurveda, Yoga for Cancer Recovery, and as a Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist where she applies a whole-body approach to healing. She is a sought-after health and wellness expert providing both speaking and written commentary to multiple news media outlets and publications. As the founder of the Holistic Wellbeing Collective, she continues to practice, write, and teach wellness business entrepreneurs with an evidence-based approach to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals through practice, education and research. You can learn more about Dr. Bhanote and reach her here: Facebook | Instagram | LinkTree Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS culinary, medicine, people, body, yoga, health, summit, holistic, wellness, perspective, called, medical, incorporate, quintuple, food, certifications, eat, complementary, articles 00:04 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of our Summit Series, I am conducting an interview today with a really special guest. She’s also a featured speaker on the summit and those dates are January 14 16th 2022. She’s a good friend and colleague of mine and I have the deepest respect for her in what she’s doing. Dr. Monisha Bhanote. She’s a quintuple board-certified physician, she has a new book coming out, which I’m really excited about. It’s called the anatomy of well-being. I’m going to ask her about that. She’s also an expert in the area of integrative medicine, and an anatomic and clinical pathology. And the topic that she’s going to be speaking about at the summit is culinary medicine. She is so well versed because she’s done additional trainings and certifications in mindfulness based stress reduction, plant based nutrition, or aruveda yoga for cancer recovery, yoga medicine. And she takes a whole-body approach, it’s something that we have in common. She’s also a consultant in rights for Health Line, she’s a medical expert. And she’s also doing something called holistic, holistic, well being collective. So I’m going to ask her about that also. So Dr. Bhanote, it’s so great to have you back on the program. I would love for you to begin by giving us an overview in kind of your philosophy, how you work with people you’re teaching, I know you’re a complimentary, you offer a lot of competent, complementary medical advice to people. So I would like to introduce you to my audience. Tell us a little more about your philosophy. 02:05 Yeah, thank you so much, Sam, for having me back on your podcast, and I’m looking forward to the conference we’re having in the new year. So the way I work with individuals is, you know, from definitely from a whole body perspective, but more so from a combination of lifestyle, and really taking a look at how we can make our daily habits sustainable and optimize them. So really taking in how the body works, how we can optimize how the body is going to work. And doing that from you know, whether that’s a sleep perspective, a culinary medicine perspective, a movement perspective, or maybe even emotionally, like really taking that whole body approach, because when there’s a block somewhere, you know, we’re not going to get to the best level that we are able to get to. And also considering everybody is individual, right? So you want to take your unique chemistry your unique body into account. 03:11 Yeah, I love that. It’s it. It isn’t a cookbook approach. And you really, you know, take an individualized perspective, but it’s also very integrating and how did this Healthline position come up? Tell us about it. How can people find you on this because you you write a lot, and oh, my goodness, you just offer such great info. I love it. I look at your Instagram every day. So tell me about Healthline 03:41 Yeah, so thank you for asking. Um, so I became part of helpline medical network in the past year. And part of me joining with them is because they are the biggest source of medical information available on the internet. And what I like about them is that all their articles are being reviewed by medical experts in the field, and they and they take this feedback seriously. So working with them, you know, I have been able to help the writers who are writing the articles, modify the information, so we’re able to really share evidence based information but also start incorporating m

Dr. Jess is a visionary for the future of healthcare. She is an expert in the field of stealth infections and infectious disease, biologics and regenerative medicine, cannabis, ozone, and environmental toxicities. Dr. Jess trained at the University of Louisville. During this time, Dr. Jess experienced what many of her patients today are suffering from anxiety, hormonal imbalances, and adrenal dysfunction. She began to seek out real answers that got to the root cause of disease, not just for herself, but for her patients as well. After realizing that allopathic medicine was not the perfect fit for chronic disease solutions, Dr. Jess trained in the realm of functional medicine, Gerson therapy, ozone, and nutrigenomics. Her philosophy now embodies true health as being all-encompassing of mind, body, and spirit, which is true health. What she has learned, and wants to share with the world, is that our bodies are perfect. 90% of disease comes from lifestyle, diet, and environment, which is what ultimately changes our genes, so everyone does have a chance to HEAL and reverse chronic disease. Dr. Jess now has a cutting-edge website app entitled Wellness Plus by Dr. Jess, where she educates everyone on how to be their own best doctor. You can reach her here: Facebook | Instagram | LinkTree Save your seat for the Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS toxicities, people, glyphosate, toxins, fluoride, mold, body, neurotoxin, summit, homeostasis, water supply, jess, featured speakers, cytokine, cytokine storm, heal, technological revolution, question, mitochondria, pathway 00:00 So Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. As part of my Summit Series, I’ve invited one of the speakers today. She’s one of the featured speakers at the whole house summit on January 14, and 16th 2022. Her name is Dr. Jess Peatross. And she is a visionary for the future of healthcare and I share that with her and I am so inspired by what she is doing in the field of environmental medicine, and we’re gonna get into things like toxicities. I get a lot of questions about that. And I’m not an expert in this area. I’ve certainly studied it and studied functional medicine, but not to the level that Dr. Peatross has. She is an expert in the stealth infections and infectious diseases, biologics and regenerative medicine. She’s board certified in internal medicine physician and she seeks out real answers to the root cause of disease and one of her taglines is, she believes and I believe this too, is that our bodies are perfect and 90% of disease come from lifestyle, diet and the environment. And we can ultimately change things and we can heal and reverse chronic diseases. She has just launched a website app called entitled Wellness Plus by Dr. Jess, I highly recommend you check that out. Check her out. So Dr. Jess, welcome to the program. I’d like to start by having you give us kind of an overview as an environmental Doctor, what are you seeing out there in terms of the toxicities and how it’s affecting people’s health? 01:57 Thank you for having me so much Dr. Garner. I appreciate it. Let me clarify something really fast. I previously was board certified. I have since slept that flaps because I no longer practice under those guidelines. But to address your first question about how to environmental toxicities impact us, I think the answer is so far reaching and wide, it’s hard to just narrow it down to a few things. Because I want people to imagine how our genes are so different, unique and bio individual. So when certain toxicities or trauma or emotions are perceived push through a genetic profile, they can sometimes press certain genes and turn them on or off, which can appear as different chronic diseases in different people based on their genetics. So maybe let’s say dirty water with perchlorates would cause thyroid disease in me, maybe it would cause thyroid cancer and someone else. So toxicities have far reaching effects on us. The EPA says there’s over 80,000 unregulated toxins out in the environment. And we none of us really know how that impacts each and every human being. 03:07 Yeah, exactly. And I think that one of the areas that I deal a lot with around the eyes is glyphosate. I get all these weird conditions. And you know, they’re living in the middle of an agricultural area. And they don’t even think about how glyphosate affects us. How do you see it? 03:28 Wow, I think this is something that remains to be unseen as well. Obviously, Monsanto has lost a couple cases in court now for causal precipitating cancer in workers who work closely with glyphosate or Roundup Ready. Of course, this is in the court of law. They say this doesn’t scientifically prove anything. But we

Today, I’m going over 3 Lifestyle changes you can make to improve your vision and overall health. Remember, our body is a whole system and all the parts work together, so it’s important to consider a holistic approach when improving your vision or any other aspect of your health. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS palming, eyes, stress, glasses, sunning, neuroplasticity, vision, minutes, creates, wear, tinted glasses, contacts, opens, number, talk, closed, good, recommend, rid, blue blockers 00:02 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 is a 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, wear your blue blockers for evening screentime. 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 a 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 suffering and palming daily to get rid of I 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 going to get fatigued because they’re working in one position for a long period of time. So the stress just builds up builds up and this lowers the circulation and creates compression in 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 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 sunning 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.

In today’s episode, I go over 3 simple tips to improve your eye health. These are easy, everyday changes you can make to improve your overall physical, mental, and eye health over time. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS macular degeneration, tip, eye, lutein, sun, cataract surgery, susceptible, avocado, important, natural sunlight, wear, intraocular, lens, light, blue, carotenoid, protective, asters, cataracts, bed 00:02 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to my podcast today. So this is a short one, three i tips that can help your vision, I get this question a lot. So I thought I would just put it out there for everybody. So the first AI tip is to get 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day. Now, why is that? Well, we need natural sunlight, not only for our eyes, but for our entire body, you know, the research out there is pretty bulletproof, in that when we get natural light into our eyes and into our body, our mood is better, we have more energy, we have less inflammation. So there are many benefits to getting a hit of sunlight every day. Now I know the opposite argument is well, if you get out into the sun, it’s going to cause things like cataracts and skin cancer. And I would say that if you’re a construction worker or a farmer, and you’re out in the sun 79 hours a day, of course you want to protect yourself. But in my opinion, I think that getting that 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day is really important. And you can do so by wearing a hat. You can certainly wear protective clothes if you need to. But I would suggest doing it without sunglasses doing it without protective lenses. I like going out at sunrise or sunset though it’s a little less intense where the sun is, is not going to burn you or overwhelm you and especially in the wintertime right now. I think it’s super important to avoid seasonal affective disorder, which affects a lot of people. Getting that hit of 30 to 60 minutes of natural sunlight every day is really helpful. The second tip I would recommend would be to stop using your digital screens 30 to 60 minutes before bed my preference would be one hour before bed, turn off your digital devices. So you have a transition time before you go to sleep. And of course in the evening anytime after 6pm I would definitely wear your blue blockers. Make sure you’re getting you know the natural ingredients we talked about like lutein, zeaxanthin and asters Anthon. Those carotenoids protect your Macula from both damaging ultraviolet light and blue light. And the third tip would be is really simple. eat an avocado a day. You know avocados, first of all have healthy fats in it. But they also contain something called lutein. lutein is that carotenoid that really protects your macula. And if you’re sitting in front of a screen all day, you are more susceptible to at the very least eyestrain headaches, eye fatigue. And of course, if you’ve had cataract surgery, a lot of times the intraocular lens that put in the eye doesn’t have any blue light protection so you’re more susceptible to getting conditions like macular degeneration. And I see it clinically all the time where people get cataract surgery. And then a year later, they’re developing macular degeneration because they weren’t told that there’s no blue light protection in the interocular lens and they weren’t wearing a blue-blocking prescription. So those are my three eye tips today. I want to thank you for joining us. Take care everybody

Joshua Townshend-Zellner has been involved in the entertainment industry for all of his adult life and has coupled his protocols with work in the yogic, shamanic, and esoteric worlds creating a nature-based approach to the creative process and storytelling. He has worked with amazing writers, actors, performing artists, and many creatives. Today, he talks about these aspects of the creative process: Perception. Being Present. & Awareness, as well as takes Q&A. He can be reached at his website: https://www.joshuatownshend.com or through his social channels: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok Joshua is one of the many amazing speakers joining me for my upcoming Whole Health Summit. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, work, create, joshua, question, creativity, person, perception, awareness, feelings, moment, thoughts, sam, townsend, book, result, creative, line, talking, summit 00:05 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another AI clarity podcast. So as part of our Summit Series, as you know, I’m putting on my second annual health summit, which will be January 14 to the 16th 2022. We have one of our featured speakers today, and he’s an amazing human being. I’m so excited that we could book him. His name is Joshua Townsend Zellner. And let me give you a little background about Joshua. He’s been involved in the entertainment industry for all of his adult life. And he has coupled that work with things like yoga and shamanic healing, esoteric worlds. And I’ve taken some of his workshops, and he’s very nature based very holistic, especially in the creative process and storytelling. So I want to bring him on Joshua, it is great to have you on the program. How are you today? How’s it going? 01:09 I’m doing great. And thank you so much for the invitation. Sam is such a delight to see you. 01:14 Yeah, likewise. So there’s so many areas we can go. And by the way, we’ve got some great questions from followers. So we’ll get to those in a few minutes. But I know that you have worked with some incredible writers, actors performing artists, creatives. And there’s something that you talk about, and I’d like you to expand on it if you would. And it’s related to the creative process perception, being present, and awareness. So why don’t we open that door? And give us a view and your perspective on these things? 01:53 Wow, those are three great words. I really appreciate that. Thank you. And what I’m realizing in that moment is, you know, awareness, right? 02:00 Hmm. Yeah. 02:02 So I’ll take that for all just take that one word, awareness. Awareness is everything in terms of, of conscious creation. So right now I’m having the awareness that my head is turned slightly to the right. It’s not, it’s not straight, right. And that creates like a situation like, I can hear myself, I can hear myself listening more. As opposed to when I’m when my head is like straight like this, then I feel more balanced and more like, yes, how can I help you? But here I have, like an, I have an opportunity, from a sentiment perspective, to actually have like, more curiosity, more leaning in, tell me more, you know, even even my year goes forward a little bit, you know, and that’s so interesting to me, because awareness, awareness and perception are coupled at the at the highest level. Do you notice that do or? 02:58 Oh, yeah. So I mean, it’s all about awareness for me and listening and, you know, gestures and posture and somebody walks in. And I watched their, their gesturing and their posturing, and it tells me everything about them. And I would imagine, you know, in your clients, you know, how do you how do you tune into people, you know, they’re, they’re seeking help in their story or their performance? And they go, you know, I want to work with this guy. How do you know how do you do that? What is what are some cues and signals that you’re, you’re observing 03:38 that I’m looking for? Yeah, what is completely unique, right? So it’s, it’s so really depends upon what’s in front of me what I’m what I’m perceiving. And it’s very interesting, almost a third word, you you asked about awareness, perception, and most the third one, I want to make sure that we don’t leave anything out. 03:54 Being present, being present present, a perception being present. Yeah, 03:59 yeah, I feel like I feel like being present is the foundation to the awareness and the perception. So if we want to look like, like a triangle, or Sure, part of it, do you just have done that you’re in right now that sustains everything? 04:10 That’s a lot a lot of triangles behind me. Yeah. So 04:13 the presence would be on the baseline and then awareness and

Today, I had the honor to interview Gabrielle Buresch-Teichmann, a pioneering Holistic Color Consultant and Color/Light Therapist, internationally known speaker, and facilitator for over 30 years. She has authored a book: In the Beginning There was the Color Red and founded the Color Lights World Project. You can contact her through her Website or LinkedIn. She will be one of my featured speakers at my upcoming virtual Whole Health Summit. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS color, light, Gabrielle, therapy, people, sessions, years, pioneer, working, zoom, medicine, winter, energy, proven, treat, Austria, holistic, gave, test, summit 00:04 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to an eye clarity podcast. As part of December in January, we are inviting the holistic, holistic health summit participants, the speakers, and today I’m going to do an interview with a really amazing person I have the deepest respect for her name is Gabrielle boorish. Teichman. And wow, she has a resume. That’s really long. So I’ll, I’ll keep it fairly short. She is a pioneer in holistic color and consulting. She’s a color and light therapist who lives in Austria, internationally known for over 30 years. She’s a facilitator and teacher, she also does private sessions. She’s founder of something called the color lights World Project, which I’m gonna have her speak about. She’s also an author of titled The book is titled In the beginning, there was read I love that. So you should check that out. It’s on Amazon. And we’re gonna have a really lively conversation today on light and color from Gabrielle’s perspective. So, Gabrielle, I want to welcome you to the program. I feel so honored that you’re here. How are things going? How are you? 01:34 Thanks a lot, Sam, for having me. I’m very much looking forward to the summit. And I feel very happy and honored to be part of this and to have the opportunity to contribute. 01:48 Okay, well, we have a lot to ask you. But before we get to that, I’ve been following you on your website, and LinkedIn and Facebook. And can you tell us a little bit about your color lights project, I’ve been observing and being part of the kind of the listenership share what this project is what it’s all about how people can access it. 02:19 Yeah, so one year ago, in fall, exactly for one year ago, I founded the color lights World project. So together with a group of 10, International color light experts, based in the US in South Africa, in Europe, and in Japan, we are offering zoom in ours and zoom events, and also color weeks, with the aim of spreading the knowledge, the beautiful energy, the healing and the inspiration of color in light, especially in these challenging times that we are having now, since more than one and a half years. So this in the last winter and fall season, I ran 12 Zoom webinars with these international experts, who are specialists in different areas of working with color and light and have different approaches. So we did 12 Zoom webinars. And it was really quite amazing what we were able to spread and share, because we did color tests on Zoom. And we even did a color light therapy session on Zoom. So very interesting. And then this year, and actually last December, we started the project, the first thing we did is we did two events called color lights gifts to the world. We’re at each event five of us gave a colorful present over zoom to our audience. So for both of these events, we had 100 People from five continents. So that was actually the start of the project. What we also did is we ran two color weeks, one in March and one in October, where we announced that every day of the week would be dedicated to one color. And we invite all the people on social media actually in our own color group on Facebook color called color lights World project, but also on Instagram and linked in to share the colors in their lives. And it was amazing because in both weeks, the whole social media was flooded with colors. And it was a surprising experience even for all of us who were kind of the contributors or who were kind of leading the discussion. Rajic how much energy this brought. And then now in the fall season, I ran three panels with these experts to three different special topics. So the first was about the deep beauty of color and light. The second was color, light and self awareness and consciousness. And the third, this week was about color, light and healing. So that’s our dedication. That’s our passion. And I can say, if I count our participants, I think we have about 700 people who already took part at our events, and even from all five continents. So it’s really a big joy for me to do that, especially because color and light are my passion and my vocation. 06:02 Yeah, I mean,

Dr. DeWittt is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist with a focus on Mindbody Medicine. Dr. Kierstin uses her 3 step Holistic process to help people feel more connected to their mind and body, allowing them to move from stressed and overwhelmed to self-aware, empowered, and resilient. Overwhelm, creating sustainable health. You can learn more about Dr. DeWitt and reach her through her Instagram. Learn more about the upcoming Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS overwhelm, people, reframe, impacts, Alzheimer, lives, pandemic, summit, brain dump, featured speakers, mind-body medicine, ways, cultivate, reconnect, work, manage, important, website, support, health 00:06 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast as part of my health summit series which is going to be coming up January 14 to the 16th 2022. I am bringing on the speakers and doing some interviews and today we have one of our featured speakers for the summit, Dr. Kierstin DeWitt, she is a licensed naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist with a focus on mind body medicine. She uses her three step holistic process to help people feel more correct connected, and the mind body, I love the mind body as well. And she is going to be speaking about overwhelm and creating a sustainable health paradigm. So Dr. Kierstin Welcome to the show. I want to thank you for joining us today and how did you get into this? This area in naturopathic medicine around overwhelm? Give us a little background on that. 01:13 Yeah, well, thanks so much for having me on. I always loved chatting with you, we always have such great conversations. So I appreciate it. And I’m so excited for you know, your upcoming event. So how I got involved? Well, first with naturopathic medicine, with it being a holistic system, right. And same with traditional Chinese medicine, they’re both holistic systems, it was during school that I really saw how overwhelming stress has a direct impact on our physical well being. And that was really, really pointing out this mind body connection to me. So after school, I dove into, you know, other training and, and just learning more practices for how we can kind of reconnect the mind and the body together because of this direct link. Right. And we’re seeing so much more research coming out of how how directly connected the mind to the body is whether that’s through our immune system through our gut health, our cardiovascular health, so many different ways. And you mentioned the three part, you know, the the three part process that I walk people through, and to me, this is kind of how I view the whole person, right. So I always look at the what I call the inner self. So this is like the core of who we are, and moving out to our embodied self. And so this is more like that physical layer, and then out to what I call the interactive stuff. And this is more of how the environment impacts us and how we impact the environment and the world around us how we show up in the world, and how that impacts our our health and well being. And so we can see even with overwhelm how that really impacts these three different layers as well. And I’ve just been, you know, through my own experience with overwhelm, I’m sure you can recall just just going through school itself, right, that is such a, it can be a very stressful environment. And it’s a lot of work balance, you know, trying to maintain balance through school and through work, and then add on top of that pandemic, right, I think so many of us can really relate to this feeling of stress and overwhelm. So just seeing the way that it really can manifest and impact at so many different layers. To me, it’s just a really important topic to talk about until learn how to manage and cope with. 04:14 Well, you know, when you were coming on the show, people started to email me questions. So I’d like to go to a question. This is a listener who lives in upstate New York, and her mother, who is suffering, Alzheimer’s is going to be moving in with her in the family and she’s worried about Of course, not only her mom, but the holidays and then with the pandemic. And so she’s an overwhelmed, she said, Help Help. And so I said, Well, I’ll be talking to Dr. Kiersten today. What would be some things that you would offer her to maybe help her manage her overwhelm, knowing that she’s dealing with her mom and the holidays and family and so on? 04:57 Yeah, well, first, you know, my crib because my grandma had Alzheimer’s and so this is one of the one of the reasons there’s many people in my immediate family who have experienced many different types of mental health conditions. And that being one of them, and so it’s one of the reasons why this is a really important topic t

Today we have a special guest, Emma Destrubé. She is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and physician of East Asian medicine, as well as a somatic movement therapist and Continuum teacher. Beginning in her teens, she apprenticed under somatic movement pioneer Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. Together they researched and developed fluid movement/sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications of somatic movement and breathwork practice. Emma holds a private holistic health care/healing arts practice in Los Angeles, where she helps to cultivate vitality with patient-empowering, poetic medicine including acupuncture, herbalism, somatics, and energy work. Her patients are a broad mix of creatives, celebrities, athletes, artists, activists, meditators, and even children. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma – a Continuum-based subtle movement, breath, and embodied meditation practice that sources somatic inquiry in the wisdom and poetry of Taoist medicine.Learn more about Emm through her website: https://www.emmadestrube.com/about or her social channels: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn Hear more from Emma at my upcoming Whole Health Summit! She is one of our amazing speakers! Save your seat: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS bodies, solstice, movement, inwards, sensations, emma, intelligence, mysterious, practice, world, featured speakers, life, question, classes, winter, continuum, move, innate intelligence, moment, summit 00:05 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast as part of our summit special. Yes, we’re having the summit. Oh, health summit January 14 to the 16th 2022 and one of the featured speakers is a guest today. Her name is Emma Destrubé, and she is a colleague and friend of mine, wonderful person. And she just a little background about her. She’s an acupuncturist, herbalist and a physician of East Asian medicine. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma, a continuum based subtle movement, breath, movement and embodied meditation practice. She studied under Emily Conrad, our, our distinguished colleague, founder of continuum. And together, this is interesting, she and Emily actually researched and developed fluid movements, sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications. And I know when I used to go to the studio, I used to see Emma there. And it was it was great to be with her and Emily. So, Emma, it’s great to have you on the program today. How’s it going? How are you doing? 02:07 Great. I’m so well, thank you for having me. It’s great to be here. 02:13 So we’re coming into the solstice season. And I know we both feel there’s a certain harmony harmonization. And we with our communities, we bring them together this Solstice time. What does Solstice mean to you? And how do you express it? How do you you know, integrate it in your practice in you know, in your personal life? Yeah, so 02:38 the solstice is a seasonal node here in the middle of the winter, the shortest day of the year. And when we look at the world around us nature changes according to the seasons, we see this so clearly. And when we look at our bodies, our internal worlds are a microcosm of the universe. So as the seasonal turning happens externally, a seasonal shift is also happening within our bodies. So as an acupuncturist, one of our primary diagnostic tools is reading the radial pulse of the wrist. And we see that a normal pulse or a healthy pulse changes according to the seasons. So we’re not separate from our environments. And one of the most primary tenets of Chinese medicine is that when we can harmonize our way of living and our bodies with the external world that is health. So when we’re living out in concert with the natural world, that’s when this harmonies that lead to disease tend to arise. So for me, the solstice is this incredibly important time to allow ourselves to come in we see that in nature, everything is coming inwards, there’s this entropic contracting movement that started in the fall, the trees, dropping their leaves, drawing their nutrients down into their trunks and into their roots for storage through the winter. We see animals scurrying around and collecting their their fruits and berries to last them through the winter. And it’s just this this moment of coming in culminating at the solstice this darkest, darkest time. So it’s an opportunity to allow ourselves to slow down to rest in words to incubate and to come together with our communities to celebrate in the solstice moment, the returning of the light. So it marks this tipping point between an inwards contracting energy

I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she’s got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don’t work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I’m going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you’re a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSeyes, work, surgery, learning, called, depth perception, startle reflex, trauma, cranial-sacral therapy, eyeball, doctor, excerpt, alternating, primitive reflexes, kids, cosmetic, brain, motor, muscles 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. 00:01Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she’s got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don’t work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I’m going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you’re a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. And so enjoy the show. And so the first thing I want to say to you is that if you do the surgery, basically, you’re changing the length of the muscles in the eyeball, but you’re not telling the brain. And so what happens is there becomes a confusion in the brain, because it’s the brain that directs the eye muscles. And learning to coordinate your eyes is a skill that’s learned and developed. It’s an organic skill that infants, toddlers, young children go through. And so when there is a, an alternating situation in the eyes, the way to improve that is by working with the whole person with different physical therapy techniques based on their age. And so it’s, it’s an education process or re education to get the two eyes and the brain to work together. So whenever you do the surgery, you are then disrupting or interrupting the normal developmental arc that we go through to learn how to use both eyes together. Because once you change the length of the muscle, you’re basically going for a cosmetic here. So it’s going to look straight for a while. But the brain says, gee, you know, I don’t know how to work these eyes now, because there’s new input in the muscles. And so you end up having to do multiple surgeries, which creates more trauma, which creates more confusion. And it’s probably the surgery that has the least success. And the idea that there’s a critical period is dead wrong, because neuro neuroscientists are proving that you can actually access you know, different patterns, even into old age, you have to do some different things in order to, to access that. But the surgery is the last option that you want to consider. And that doctor is dead wrong about exercises and physical therapy, things don’t work, they actually work really well. And I want to I want to give you a kind of a baseline on how to do that. But you don’t really want to go into surgery, if you can avoid it, because it’s the success rate is very low, maybe 20 to 30% at best. And the physical therapy, the success rate is anywhere between 80 to 90%. And you don’t have the side effects of the trauma of the surgery. It’s very, it’s very much a a mechanical eyeball, symptomatic answer. In this next excerpt, I talked about the importance of depth perception, you know, that’s being able to use our two eyes together and judge distances spatial I called spatial IQ. And it’s a learned and developed skill. But it’s certainly an issue for people that have strabismus because their two eyes aren’t working together. And they have to use other cues and signals to figure out where things are in space in relation to their body. Well, one indicator in depth perception is if the eyes look straight, or both eyes are aiming at the same thing at the same time, then she’s going to have a better chance of depth perception. When one of the eyes is straight and one of the eyes is turned in. What she sees is either double vision or the brain just suppresses or ignores that. And so the eyes bye bye. Learning how to aim both eyes together is a kind of a fine motor muscular skill. That would be kind of an indication that she’s probably got

I answer some questions about the exercises I’ve been releasing over the past few episodes and we talk about how this translates into the bigger picture. Our bodies contain the intelligence of billions and millions of years of a planetary process that we have absorbed that we are part of and if we get out of the way, and if Western medicine gets out of the way, our bio intelligence can come in. We know what our body needs, we have the medicine, to heal ourselves. It’s why I’m much more interested in natural approaches rather than surgical or pharmaceutical approaches. Because those don’t work with body intelligence. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, trauma, body, feel, figure eights, area, sound, sensation, sovereignty, intelligence, nutrients, brain, birth trauma, energy, neck, part, accessing, practice, involution, create 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. Great. That’s what you needed to do. More breath everywhere neck relaxing, reminds me of my mother teaching me polish, wonderful, beautiful, I feel more relaxed, more relaxed and spacious. It’s an interesting way of creating vibration. Through the cranial bones Exactly. Imagine the ways it is affecting the brain. It is pumping cerebral spinal fluid in and out of the third ventricle of the brain, which is going to have an effect on the sphenoid bone. And the occipital bones also into the jaw area, it’s a way to give yourself a cranial sacral treatment, I could feel my heart beating in my head but not like a headache, just pulse. Spacious. Yeah, we want to create more spaciousness in the neurons like when that picture I showed you when we were a child, I found that fascinating many different thoughts. Easier to type after doing this was a reward for my body awareness. So the potency in this is beyond words. That’s why I became a continuum teacher. And bringing this in with all my trauma patients and you know, my students online, this is a great way to convey this, there’s a transmission, I feel tight in the back of my lower head and neck still feel tight. So a lot of times is this practice will show you the ongoing tightness that you’ve been carrying, you know, again, in the poll we took, I think it was a very high percentage if not everybody is dealing with their conditions in a chronic way. So what you have to keep doing is interrupting the current state of affairs in your body and creating enough momentum that you can create the change. And somebody is writing about the precautions, I would say the only precaution is is that you may hit a spot while you do this, where it brings up some very old trauma. And in that point, I would just stop the sound and go into the open attention so that you’re just resting. And that will reduce the overstimulation in the trauma. I mean, ultimately, this is going to uncover the places where the trauma is living right now. And so you can what we call titrate it meaning that maybe don’t do as many, much of the sound do less of the sound and more of the resting titrating means know what my body needs, and I don’t want to give it too much to overstimulate myself or re stimulate the traumas. The other thing is that if you start feeling the trauma just go into the sensation of it, not the memory, not the emotion of it. Sensation could be things like tight, loose, hot, cold, light, dark. So in other words, you’re staying out of the emotional body, and you’re more in the first order of experience, which is the sensation, that would be a way for you to self regulate. 05:38Oh, wonderful to do it outside. Great to do it outside. Yes, it’s gonna increase your coordination. Can you do circles or figure-eight important. You can do figure eights, in other words, you want to do more of a circular than a straight line. So anyway, you do that circulation, it can be a small, it can be a large, it can be a small, medium, large. The word we use is called involution. If you look up the word involution, what we’re doing in involute oceans is we’re making these spiral movements, different sizes, and you can make them into the earth, you can make them into your body. And we’ll go more into the evolution next time. But us basically a spiral, you know, again, you can look this up google it and look at pictures of spirals. And a spiral is a curving movement, it’s curving. And as it curves, it creates more energy, more vibration, more CI more prana, as opposed to going in a straight line. couldn’t feel a thing over

We are preparing to take a moment to breathe and walk through some of the exercises I have been talking about for the past few episodes of the podcast. Use this episode as a jumping-off point to make space for yourself. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSbaseline, lying, breathing, minutes, stimulation, check, nervous system, step, improvisational jazz, self-regulation, lip, reins, handout, body, trace, belly button, copying, musician, groins 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. So the baseline is breathing. So when we breathe, and we get under stress, we breathe through our mouth, saw stress, right, our nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system goes through the roof. And we can get a gauge on what is our breathing rhythm like, and that’s going to tell us the health of our oxygenation, the health of our nervous system. So by taking a baseline at the beginning, we get to see, well, here’s where my nervous system is. And then number two, when I’m done with this, your breathing is going to be a lot slower, it’s going to be a lot more expanded. And that’s part of the self-regulation that you’re going to. That’s what you’re going to do in the baseline. Now somebody is asking on the lip, is it just one finger moving? No, you can move every so, in other words, I want you to be your own improvisational jazz musician. This is not about copying me, this is not about following me. This is about you, having sovereignty, and what you feel you need to do, you’ve got the structure, you know, you’re going to be working in this area sitting up, you know, you’re going to be working with this area’s lying down. This is going to be the Jacques sound, this is going to be the oh sound. That’s all you need to know, you can’t do it wrong. This is not about being perfect. This is not about following the technique to perfection, it’s about you taking the stimulation, setting pauses up in between so that you get to rest, and then re returning to the stimulation again if you have the time. And then sitting up lying down, sitting up, and doing the baseline before and after. Now, I know you want me to lead you through this, and I know you want me to guide you. But no, I’m gonna step back. And you are now going to take the reins of the horse, the the the plane, the pot, you’re the pilot now, and I’m going to step out of this, you can’t do it wrong. You, you there’s this, it’s just for you to activate your system in a new way. Whatever you’ve remembered about this, I mean, you’re going to get a written handout on this. But for now, I want you to step into it and do it on your own. Now I’m going to be here holding space. We’re going to do this for about 15 minutes. Usually, we do this for about 45 minutes to an hour. But we’re going to do 15 minutes, it’s 1130. We’re going to go to 1145. I will let you know when there are five minutes left. Oh, come back on screen. And then we will do a check-in for the last 15 minutes questions. And this is going to be your practice. This is going to be the second practice after you’ve done those charts. And I’d like you to do this anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour each day. This is going to be a very powerful neuroplasticity Check, check, check-in Okay, so I want you to start in the chair. Start with the jocks do those for a little bit that I want you to lie down on your back. How much of your bodies come connecting with the ground I want you then to do the hum are they Oh, big areas eyes, lips, neck, some kind of movement down the front of your body, belly button, and groins. And then I want you to trace your foot along the other leg on either side. And then you can do and with the shocks, we’ll probably just be able to do one, one round of these shocks sitting lying down oh sound back with the shocks. I will let you know when there are about five minutes left. Go for it. Okay, I’ll see you in about 15 minutes. 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 is another exercise that I walked my Neuroplasticity class through. We talk about the importance of making each exercise your own so it fits your needs. Follow along with us. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSactivates, breathing, area, movements, puff, eyes, groin, called, foot, neuroplasticity, part, acupuncture points, noticing, spiral, vagus nerve, nervous system, body, leg, potatoes 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. Now another main area that you’re going to be touching is this area here, this brings in the polyvagal theory, this is the vagus nerve, very involved in our nervous system and how we’re able to relax. So when we are on the floor, and we’re making the Puffco sound, we start here, and then we move into the star roles. And then we move into this area right here. This is called the Governing Vessel, this is an acupuncture meridian, we’re going to do some puffed those here, and then we’re going to do some potatoes here, this is called the Conception Vessel. These are acupuncture points. So by putting the sound into these areas, you’re going to activate these acupuncture points, and you do a few puffs those here, you can do some cycle circles in this area, say your thyroid needs a little help. Okay, so that again, you’re doing the O’s into here, and then you’re doing a kind of figure eight, all the way down. Until you get to this area. This is a major lymph area. This is called, obviously the groin but it’s a major lymph area. One of the keys in neuroplasticity is activating your lymph system that’s here and your groin, so you’re going to make the sound, do some spirals here, some spirals here, some spirals here, and then criss-cross your way down to the groins while you’re making the Puffco sound, so you’re going to really activate this whole energy channel, which is going to increase the balance of the nervous system, the fluid body, and each person is going to do it a little differently. Or let’s go back to the puff dough sound, do we let our mouth be loose? Oh, hold it firm. You can keep it loose, you can keep it you don’t need to keep it firm. And let me demonstrate this the Puffco sound again, 02:22it’s like 02:26think about oh, I’m going to make no sound Oh, 02:31oh. 02:35And I’m just closing my mouth, there’s still some air coming through it. Think about blowing out a candle, you blow out a candle, a little air comes out. And then you just add the o sound. Whoo. Now, if you’re really confused about this, what you can do is just make a humming sound like this. 02:56Mm hmm. 03:00So if you don’t get the puff dough, just do a hum, that would be another way for you. To get the sound going. The sound is so important. Because it activates the tissue. It activates the connective tissue, the fascia, the lymph, the cerebral spinal fluid, the nerves, the muscles, you’re getting a lot of activation there. So that’s the sound part of it. The first is the zSeries, you’re going to be sitting up, the second will be the Puffco. And you’re going to be doing this movement and you’re going to be doing something with your feet. So I think right now what I’m going to do is I’m going to get into a position where I’m going to demonstrate this so you can watch me do it. And then we’ll cut you loose and let you kind of explore on your own. This is a very nonlinear process in that you know how most classes, you go to a yoga class or you go to a fitness class, and you have to copy the teacher you got to follow the teacher. This is about you following your own rhythm following your own kind of speed and flow with it. So you have a structure to work on. But you go at your own speed. You don’t have to copy the teacher that’s going to help you become more self-directed. I mean, it’s a radical idea because we’re always taught to be an obedient school, I need to copy the teacher, I need to do what the teacher says. And in this particular level of neuroplasticity, it’s about you using these techniques, these prompts to help you find your own rhythm. Alright, I’m going to turn the computer around 05:14Alright, so this is the first part of this you can see that this is kind of by my where I’m going to be laying down okay 05:59so the first thing I do is I take a baseline of my breathing. So I’m sitting in my chair, I close my eyes, I jump just taking a baseline of my breathing in silhouette here w

I want to share this piece from the neuroplasticity course I did recently. Follow along as I want the class through combining sound and movement and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming episodes that will expand and add to these movements. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSsound, eyes, activate, movement, body, practice, bones, oxygenation, cranial-sacral, brain, closed, fluid, connect, continuum, called, spiral, work, making 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. So this particular somatic practice involves three different parts. The first is making sound making some sounds. Number two, it’s about tracking and monitoring your breathing, and there may be some breathing practices that you might get as well. And then the third part is being able to connect with your body by touching different parts of your body while you’re making the sounds. No sound when you make a sound, and these are very specific sounds that activate different parts of your brain, your nervous system, your fluid body, your muscles, your fascia, your connective tissue, and even the fluids in your body, like your cerebral spinal fluid, your blood. And the idea of this is that by activating your body in this particular way, what it’s going to do, it’s going to open up new pathways, in your focus in your awareness, on a cellular level on an energetic level. And it’s very particular, based on what you need. Now, what what, there isn’t one size that fits all, you know, again, in a disease-based model, you have an inflammation, so they give you a steroid, and it suppresses the immune system, but it can reduce the inflammatory response. What we’re talking about in this practice is being able to activate the medicine inside of you. And each person needs something different based on what they’re bringing to the table. Now, this work that I’m going to introduce to you has a long lineage. And it comes from the somatic practice called continuum movement. And I’m going to write it on here. Continuum movement is a healing practice that was started by a visionary named Emily Conrad, she was a friend, mentor, colleague of mine, she passed away in 2014. And I met her in 2010, I was co-teaching a workshop at her studio in California, specifically, Santa Monica. And after the workshop, she and I really connected and she had a condition called narrow-angle glaucoma. And so I helped her with that condition, we reduced the dosage and she got some of the sights back in her left eye. And she asked if I wanted to become a continual movement teacher, so I went through her training, and I became an authorized continuum teacher back in 2014, and I bring it into the I work and the neuroplasticity work because at about the same time, I had been studying cranial sacral therapy, and in cranial sacral, for those of you that don’t know about it, cranial-sacral is an osteopathic technique that helps improve the circulation and the movement in the structures of the body, top of the head bottom of the feet, and some of the treatments in cranial-sacral can have a huge positive impact on the eyes and the brain. And so, in this particular somatic practice, I draw from Emily and her work and her teachings. And there are two sounds we’re going to do today. And one of the sounds is called 05:00shock, shock sound. And basically, it’s making a J Zai Zai sound. And whenever you make sound, certain sounds can really penetrate places in your body where the tissue is very compressed, which could be due to trauma could be due to stress. But the sound is one of the great ways to penetrate that compressed tissue and bring it back to life that we talked about at the beginning of the workshop, the brain is about 73% water. Now if we lose 2% of that, it can start to become dehydrated. When you put this particular sound into the head area, it actually creates more fluidity, it creates more movement in the bones that surround the eyes. And in the brain, we have our skull with many bones that come together in terms of sutures that connect the different bones, the temporal bone, the parietal bone, the frontal bone, the occipital cortex, the cervical spine. And when we get into trauma, what happens to the movement of the bones is they get locked. And when they get locked, it reduces the circulation in the brain. So this particular sound, when you make this sound, what it does is it actually creates a movement in the bones around the skull, and it starts to activate the brain in a very positive way. So one of the aspects of this

Today I’m playing some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDStrauma, eyes, cranial, create, circulation, called, brain, exercise, cranial-sacral, glasses, good, acupuncture, neuroplasticity, people, prescription, sound, vision, practice, impact, area 00:00Hey everybody, in this episode, I play some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. So in this first clip, I give some background on my training, and how I became an expert at traumatic brain injury and vision. Just a little background here, you may or may not know this, you know, my first practice was in the Philadelphia area I just completed a year fellowship at in the gazelle Institute, which is a place where we work with autistic kids. And it was great. And I saw I opened a practice in Philadelphia, a very convenient area, mainline and I couldn’t get any patients. So I went to one of the local hospitals and I volunteered my time to work with traumatic brain injury, the outpatient areas because none of the eye doctors really knew about it, you know, and so within three months, I had such a great success. I got contracts with other hospitals. And that’s how I built my practice in Philly, build it up, sold, it moved into Mexico, and I did some research on traumatic brain injury and vision, which I published and so have, over the years developed, a really great understanding of trauma, you know, studying Peter Levine’s work and cranial sacral and continuing movements, and just the relationship between getting hit in the head, and how it affects the muscles and nerves in the eyes. Because in the regular world of what we just say, I care, it’s a glasses check and an eye health check. And then you’re gone, right? And that’s really your eyesight and eye health. So it’s not looking at the functional aspects, or how does trauma impacts us. And when I was on the staff at Esalen Institute, we used to do a lot of back and forth and the cranial people on trauma and neuroplasticity. And so 35 years later, I have some track record on what has happened to you how it’s impacted you and how you can repair it. So whenever we have a trauma, as you probably know, the body immediately will freeze up in that particular area as a way to protect it. But when it freezes up, it creates kind of a hole in the connection, the energy that flows, you know, from one part of the body to another as a protective mechanism. So in the nervous system level, what happens is we go into an immediate fight flight or freeze response. And the impact affects us in that particular area. So the tissue begins to compress, and it can deaden, there’s less circulation. So there’s that going on. And then we know because the eyes and the brain are so interrelated. If we look at prenatal development, very early on the eyes originate from the brain. So every tissue of the eye is brain tissue. So you know, the retina, the cornea, the optic nerve, the lens of the eye, all of those are basically just an extension of the brain. And the brain is about 70% Water 60% fat 03:40and it’s floating in the cerebrospinal fluid. So when you get hit in the head area, it can reduce the circulation in that particular area. And so you need to be careful about you know, the flow of cerebral spinal fluid in the brain, and also the circulation then the oxygenation. That being said, the brain has an incredible capability of regenerative potential. This is why the neuroscientists are all always publishing papers, on you know, the neuroplasticity potential even in dementia and Alzheimer’s. In certain cases, there can be some renewal, if you give the brain proper nutrients if you know, do some things that create better circulation, and dietary absorption, and so on. Just so happens right now I’m teaching a class on vision and neuroplasticity. And it’s two parts I just did the first part the second part in November. And there were a lot of people in that class who had some level of an accident like you, you know, wasn’t it like you didn’t lose consciousness? Maybe you just got, like, as you say, you know, a little jolted. But it definitely affected you. And so whenever you get a blow to that area, whether you get stuck or you fall, it does rattle the muscles and the nerves that attach in and around the eyes. So the good news about the neurologist you went to is, it doesn’t seem to have impacted you say, on a structural level or a physical level, like, you know, getting some kind of a retina problem or developing glaucoma or anything like that. But there is still that soft tissue experience that you had, tha

Today we are continuing to talk about neuroplasticity, but we get into how working with colors can help stretch the brain and increase your focusing mechanism, mind, eyes, and body and you bring in both hemispheres of the brain. You can follow along as I walk the class through this exercise. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, brain, colors, eye, row, read, develop, exercise, shape, improve, focusing, columns, chart, words, metronome, eyedrops, macular hole, angle glaucoma, green, focus 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. 00:00All right, so um, what I want to do right now is I want to show you we’re going to do two different things in neuroplasticity practice. One is more physical visual. And the second is going to be more body-centered self-regulation of the nervous system and the fluid body. So let’s start in with the focus, go back to our screen share. And so in neuroplasticity, a lot of the research talks about it’s very important to get very specific in what it is you want to change. So I love it. People are saying, I want to improve my cornea health. I want to get rid of my macular hole I want to reduce or dissolve cataracts without surgery. I’ve got narrow-angle glaucoma, how do I develop better vascular health? Okay, so these are great. And there’s a combination of yes there nutrients, you know, eye nutrients. There are eyedrops natural eye drops, and that’s readily available, you know, on all my content on my website, you can find an email us and we’ll send you the links. But this particular thing is not on my website. It’s not something that I lead with, although we use it a lot in terms of developing better. neuroplasticity and I want to spotlight something here is that when you increase your focusing mechanism, mind, eyes, and body and you bring in both hemispheres of the brain. There’s this neuromodulator called acetylcholine, which gets produced and it acts as a highlighting pen, which causes the synapses to fire better, isn’t that cool? That by increasing your focus, this acetylcholine increases and it helps you determine, Okay, these are the things that I want to improve. You know, I have experienced that every eye problem has a deficiency in the brain. And that as a person accesses better brain function, they then can improve their sensory systems, all their sensory systems, eyes, hearing, proprioception, movement, smell, touch, you know, all of these things start to activate. So here’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to do a focusing exercise right now. And this comes from the work that I learned at the gazelle Institute. You can see this chart. I’m also going to provide you with this chart. It’s called it’s from a guy named Bob Halpin This is called a Halloween card. And what it is, is a way for you to develop better focus in your high mind-brain. Now, one of the things I’m going to recommend for you is to get yourself some kind of a timing device. I have a metronome going right now you may hear it and this is what I’d like everybody to do in there where they are right now we’re going to start with the first row here the circle and to the beat, I want you to say one shape per B. So circle, square, triangle rectangle are you try the second row 04:13and then the third row and finish out the chart Okay, good. So now what I want you to do is I want you to see the colors. Okay, so you’re going to start here. 04:39It’ll be purple, red, black, brown, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, red, purple. orange, yellow, green, blue. So when you do this at home every day, level one is you’re just gonna say the shapes. Level Two, you’re gonna say the colors have been level three. The first row is going to be the shapes. The second row is going to be the colors. The third row is going to be the shapes. And the fourth row is going to be the colors. Now another way to do this, since you’re going to be doing it every day is, let’s say day two, you could say read the rows starting from right to left. This is a neuroplasticity game, it’s already in neuroplasticity game because you’re, you’re doing this exercise where you’ve got to selectively focus, what are the shapes, what are the colors, but you could read from right to left, you could read the rows, say day two, day three, you could read the columns. So this is good for eye-tracking brain tracking, you could also do the columns down to up. So in other words, you can

Today we are exploring the history of neuroscience. I introduce you to a few neuroscientists whose work has shaped how we look at the brain and we talk about how their work has led to the way we are talking about neuroscience today. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSnervous system, worked, theory, rehabilitation, neuroplasticity, evolution, today, reflex, area, movement, called, deeper level, muscles, flight freeze response, interview, research, 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. Alright, another neuroscientist I need to bring into the conversation. There are two of them today I want to bring in. And it’s a gentleman called Charles Sherrington, he came up with something called the Sherrington model. It’s a model that’s still used today, quite, it’s quite prevalent in the rehabilitation, the conventional rehabilitation movement system. And he’s the guy who developed something called the knee jerk reflex, he worked with the reflex model of the nervous system. And he also researched how spinal reflexes affect the muscles, and how that gives information to the nerves. And there’s a feedback loop that sees a feedback loop where the sensory information goes to the spine, and it goes to the muscles, and it creates this muscle tone posture relationship. Now, one of the things about the Sherrington model that I find to be limiting is that it’s a bit linear, you know, and in the rehabilitation model, when I was working in the physical therapy, areas of the TBI in hospitals, I stepped out of the Sherrington model, because I found the sherry thing, Mark Sherrington model to be very much in the area of repetitive and superficial. And it didn’t really add the inquiry, the internal awareness that I found was needed, and being able to access a deeper level of neuroplasticity. So the sharing to model stays on the surface. And although it’s an important part of the history of nervous system development, I found that it really gave a limited view. And especially in eye care, nobody is talking about rehabilitation or regeneration, or neuroplasticity. But if we take it to the brain level, the nervous system, body level, there are so many dimensions to what we can do beyond the Sherrington model. This brings me to the next person that I want to introduce today. And his name is Steven Porges. And he developed something called the polyvagal theory. And it’s a very involved idea of the evolution of the autonomic nervous system. But and I’m not doing full service to Dr. Porges. Because it’s a very complex theory. But one aspect that I want to spotlight today is this idea in our nervous system, we go through something called the fight, flight freeze response. And that’s kind of more of our reptilian reaction. We’re hardwired in that. But as we begin to soften the trauma events and the trauma imprints in our nervous system, we actually move to a more mammalian response, which is empathic capabilities. And social engagement is one of the keys to stimulating this type of evolution. So I’ll speak more about the polyvagal theory. On the November 13. Class, I’m also going to send you a handout. That was a really fabulous interview, somebody interviewed Dr. Porges. But I want to say that the polyvagal theory is, in some ways, very connected to what we’re going to do today because it really can help us access a deeper level of neuroplasticity. And I don’t want to go too deeply into all the different aspects of the polyvagal theory because it can get kind of dense, and I want to stay focused on the practical aspects of what we need to do so that you can get what you need. So I’ll send you again this interview. I’ll talk more about it in our next lecture. You certainly can go to YouTube and type in Dr. Porges. He’s got some great YouTube videos. He’s also written a lot of different things. 04:36He’s done a lot of research his wife, Dr. Sue Carter, has also done a lot of research in the area of something called oxy Tosun and vasopressin and how those impact our nervous system and fluid body. He’s worked very closely with one of my teachers, Emily Conrad Emily started the somatic practice continuum movement, you could certainly Google Emily Conrad and continue a movement. And she worked with Steven Porges. In the evolution of moving the continuum movement work further. So there’s a lot of connections here between Porges and Conrad. And those are some sources that you can look for in terms of your Google s

This episode is all about Neuroplasticity. It starts very early in life, infants contain a whole web of wired connections and as children’s brains grow certain brain maps get activated, while other brain maps begin to disappear if they are not developed or cultivated. This is how neuroplasticity begins to develop. With this understanding, we can start to learn how we can utilize neuroplasticity to better ourselves today. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, nervous system, experiences, brain, infants, trauma, cataracts, self-regulation, spaciousness, create, repetitive movements, develop, fluid, explored, adults, gestation, regulate, circuits, cranial-sacral therapy, talk 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. So nervous system when you talk about neuroplasticity, we talk about the brain we talk about the nervous system. And as young people, we get customized based on preferences based on our environment, based on how we respond to experiences externally. So we need to bring in the conversation of the in utero, we call that gestation, birth, and bonding. These are very important, early experiences that actually shape our brain health and our neuroplasticity potential. So neuroplasticity starts very early in life, infants contain a whole web of wired connections again, those of you that are parents or grandparents, and you see, you know, the infants crawling around and exploring, they are in a neuroplasticity soup. And certain brain maps get activated, other brain maps begin to disappear if they are not developed or cultivated. This is how neuroplasticity begins to develop. And one of the most important aspects of neuroplasticity is our social engagements. And these begin to shape our nervous system. So for infants, toddlers and children here is a picture there’s a lot of spaciousness in the synapses in the axons. Now, with adults, we don’t have that kind of spaciousness anymore. But as young, young children, this is what they’re doing in terms of their neuroplasticity. Social Engagement is very important. Now, in neuroplasticity in this certain circuits in the brain, fortunately, there’s some that are hard to change, like our heartbeat, our breathing or digestion, even our pupil response to light. So this is an important distinction that some circuits we don’t want to change. We want to support our nervous system to help us with these autonomic experiences. So in the child’s brain, there’s an incredible potential for neuroplasticity. Now, if we bring in trauma, and all of us have experienced trauma in our life, it’s an imprint that affects us and in studying things like Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine’s work cranial sacral therapy, continuum movement, perinatal, and prenatal therapy. These are all things that I’ve explored around how does trauma affect our eyes, our vision, our brain, all have our sensory systems or motor experiences. So the thing about experiences and trauma is it’s the way we respond to the experience. If you have support, you’re not going to be traumatized. But if you were abandoned or you didn’t get the treatments or the experiences that you needed, you didn’t get the social connection, then this is going to shape your nervous system and it creates that trauma response. So, in my I practice working with kids over the years, congenital cataracts, lazy eye strabismus, you know, these are all conditions that you know, regular doctors say well, there’s not much you can do we do surgery. If you don’t catch it early. There’s there’s not much happening here. But in applying many of these neuroplasticity techniques and protocols. These kids have been able to dissolve their cataracts, reduce their lazy eye, reduce strabismus and so on and so forth. So, there is this neuroplasticity potential that we all can come into. And as the infant we’ve got these web of connections and certain experiences affect us and can access the neuroplasticity while others other interactions. 04:36Well, maybe they don’t access our neuroplasticity and this is kind of what we’re dealing with in the dance of the development of our nervous system. Okay, this is important slide because over the age of 25, the neuroplasticity capability changes and it does become more challenging to access neuroplasticity. So what are the things that you can do to create this healing this opening in your brain and nervous system? But before we go deeper in neuroplasticity, I want to bring in the fluid pott

Today, we are talking about the brain. I go over some key ways to increase your brain health and we talk about how that affects your eye health. You can use this information to increase your brain, eye, and overall health naturally. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, talk, eye, parasympathetic nervous system, patients, brain, work, nervous system, sleep, research, started, plasticity, period, treating, improve, hospitals, access, 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]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So another piece to neuroplasticity is the health of the nervous system, we’re going to talk a lot about the nervous system today. There are two main components of the nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic Nervous System is our active state. The parasympathetic nervous system is our passive state. It’s our relaxation. And for most people, we’re spending so much time in the sympathetic nervous system, that there’s no time in the nervous system that we’re in this rest or settle, period. And of course, when do we heal, we rejuvenate. And we rest in that parasympathetic nervous system state. Okay. All right, so let’s talk a little bit about some of the research that has been done over the years. And they need to bring in these researchers Hubel and Wiesel, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, they came from Harvard, from Johns Hopkins. And they did a lot of research in the area of neuroplasticity and vision. And they had some very interesting results. These studies showed how the visual system and the visual information processing would be affected by impeding an eye patching an eye and they work with kittens and how they did this study. And what they did was, they would suture one of the eyes, and they found that there was a significant drop in the visual development, which affected these kittens throughout their entire life. And they also said that, as the cells are responsible for processing, visual information, they were raised distributed to favor the eye that was unimpaired. And this was a this particular aspect, the critical period was something that I doctors, you know, they practice and they said, This is why you have to get, you know, the cataract removed in kids very early, or if you have a lazy eye, after a certain period of time, you can improve it. And there was a lot of debate in that particular area. But then, in the early 90s, there was another PhD, neuroscientist, Greg record wrecking zone. And he actually did some research which showed that you can change the eyes, you can change the adult brain, and that this critical period isn’t really true. And this is what we’re going to access today. Where, you know, if you have a certain condition going on, even in the adult brain, you can improve it. And I think that, you know, again, if you go to certain ophthalmologists, they might say, well, once you reach age seven or eight, you’re out of that you’re in that critical period. You can’t get any better. Dr. Rick unsewn said no, no, no. And you can actually change even into old age. Now there’s some things that you have to do in order to set the conditions but it can be done. So here’s a research paper that I published back in 1990. And it came from the work that I did at some of the hospitals where I treated patients with severe traumatic brain injury. It’s an interesting story because I attended after I graduated, got my degree in optometry, I spent a year at a place called the gazelle Institute. And the gazelle Institute was started by Dr. Arnold gazelle, who started this clinic in 1948. It was affiliated with Yale University was up in New Haven, Connecticut. And when I attended this, this program in 1986, it was a program on how to evaluate children from a more holistic perspective. These were kids that were along the spectrum disorders. And it was a great program. 04:53I mean, one of the things that Gizelle taught us is that whenever we do an eye exam, we’re not just treating the eye But we’re treating the whole person. And you know, that particular thread has stayed with me my entire career. For those of you that follow me on the social media channels, I’m always talking about when there’s an AI problem, there’s a systemic, metabolic and energetic reason why we see it in the eyes. And since the eyes and the brain are so married together, a lot of times we see things in the brain that again, have some systemic or metabolic relationship. So I graduated the program, I starte

This is a bit from a class I did recently on Neuroplasticity. We talked about how to increase your brain health naturally, even if you work in front of a computer all day. We also connect that increase in brain health to an increase in eye health and longetivty. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, brain, eyes, structure, bifocals, brain cells, function, neurons, important, exercise, called, working, modulators, blink, optometrist, oxygenation, macula, aspect, degeneration, rehabilitation 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. No one knows for sure, but the latest estimate is that our brains contain roughly 86 billion brain cells 86 billion. Now each neuron can transmit 1000 nerve impulses per second, and make as many as 10s of 1000s of synaptic contacts with other neurons. All brain cells are not alike. There are as many as 10,000 specific types of neurons in the brain. And in class number two, I’m going to go into some of the most important modulators in brain function. Other two that are really important for neuroplasticity, one is called acetylcholine, and the other is called epinephrine. So how do we stimulate those through our diet? Through natural methods, there are ways that you can certainly increase through pharmaceutical sources, I’m not really into that I’m not really in the pharmaceutical drugs, I only say take them when you need them. But because of the side effects and the synthetic nature of pharmaceuticals, how are there natural ways that you can increase these brain modulators. And we’ll talk about in class number two. Another fast fact about the brain is that the brain needs a constant supply of oxygen, as little as five minutes without oxygen can cause some of the brain cells to die. And this can lead to brain damage. So we need to really think about how we can improve our breathing practice get more oxygenation, flowing, throwing in flowing into the brain, and throughout the entire body. Now I’m going to talk a little bit about the development of neuroplasticity. And for those of you that are parents out there, you can attest to the teenage brains are not fully informed. And what I mean by that is that the teenage brains are not developed until we reach about age 25. Now, once we hit 25, our access to neuroplasticity changes. So how do we maintain that accessibility? Because most of us are over 25 in this class? How do we do that, and I’m going to show you ways that you can access the neuroplasticity even as you get into your 60s 70s and even 80s. Last, last thing I’ll say about the brain is that the brain can process an image that your eyes have seen for as little as 13 milliseconds, less time than it takes to blink. And we’re going to work with our eyes today and our brain with a focusing exercise that’s going to help you with things like visual memory, attention, focus. And these particular aspects, especially through the eyes, is one of the best ways to activate your neuroplasticity. And I’m going to share some research that I did, working with trauma patients around this particular practice. And we’re going to move to the next slide. And this is an important concept here for you to get and that is called the eye brain connection. And that is this that the eyes originate from the brain prenatally. So every structure of the eyeball is brain tissue from the eyelids, all the way back to the optic nerve. And so when we’re working with the eyes, we’re working with an extension of the brain. So what is the definition of neuroplasticity, you can go on the internet. And there are hundreds of scientists that are talking about neuroplasticity. 04:22It is called neural plasticity. You may see it as that or blink brain plasticity. And it’s the ability of neural networks in the brain and nervous system. So I’m going to bring in the nervous system here. That’s going to help in the change through growth and reorganization. If we go a little deeper another way to say it is that neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to modify, change and adapt both the structure and the function throughout life and in response to experience. Now, this particular aspect of structure and function are very important because most neuroscientists stay in the world of structure and they don’t move into the world of function. Now, myself being a rehabilitation therapist, as an optometrist, well, that’s kind of a unique combination optometrist eye doctor, who’s also thinking about rehabilitation is unu

Nathan Oxenfeld joins the EyeClarity podcast today! He is a Natural Vision Teacher, and founder of Integral Eye Sight Improvement. He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgeries and how many common vision problems can be prevented and decreased with simple and natural practices that retrain the eyes and mind to function more optimally. Nathan, combines the Bates Method, Yoga, Meditation, Breath Work, Emotional Work, Diet & Nutrition, and other vision training techniques to explore a more holistic approach to eye health. He teaches classes, also is very active on social media. He completed a documentary in 2020 on Natural Vision Improvement. Link: Vision2020movie.com To contact Nathan, go to: https://integraleyesight.com Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, palming, bates, eyes, bates method, vision, teaches, eyesight, sunning, documentary, light, natural, world, teachers, pandemic, nathan, glasses, screens, yoga, broaden 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 folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast where we have an interview today with a really special person His name is Nathan Oxenfeld. And he teaches something called integral eyesight improvement. So he’s kind of in the same sphere is as me. He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgery, you know how we can prevent, be proactive in healing our eyesight and vision. And Nathan has a great background, the Bates method, love the Bates method, yoga, meditation, breath, work, emotional work, diet and nutrition, and many other techniques to support people in their eye health. He actually created a documentary, which I’m going to talk to him about today. If you want to check him out, you can do so on his website or on his YouTube videos. I love his videos on YouTube, by the way, check those out. So, Nathan, I want to bring you on. I want to thank you for joining us today. And my first question is, who have been your biggest influences in terms of your current teachings? 01:23 Yeah, thank you so much, Dr. Sam, it’s really really special to be here with you. I, I’ve been influenced by several people, but since you mentioned the name of my practice, integral eyesight improvement, that first word integral is very inspired by integral yoga. So I definitely want to share the inspiration I got from Swami Satchidananda, who actually founded the ashram in Virginia where I did my yoga teacher training Satchidananda Ashram or yogaville, sometimes I call it like, your, like summer camp for adults Yoga Camp. And, yeah, that that definitely was a huge influence in the direction of my life in general to kind of shift gears and go down the route of natural healing and in alternative health and stuff. And then you also mentioned that I teach the Bates method. So obviously, I’ve been influenced a lot by Dr. William Bates. And it’s been showing up a lot in my teachings lately because I’ve been going through the better eyesight magazines that Dr. Bates published monthly from 1919 to 1930. And in 2018, we’re coming up on that 100 year anniversary so I came up with this plan to create a podcast where I read me and other vision teachers and maybe we can even get you involved moving forward reading the original Bates method materials from that month 100 years ago. So definitely like getting refreshed and it’s so cool the synchronicities of what was going on for example, in October 1921 it a lot of times it kind of lines up with whatever I’m teaching in October 2021 100 years later, so it’s just as applicable. And then, you know, those were definitely the two biggest kinds of influences in terms of the foundation of my work, but actually worked with, you know, a living Bates method teacher because Dr. Bates passed away in 1931. She lives in California whose name is Dr. Jerriann Taber, and she was my vision teacher who helped me you know, improve my vision naturally and get off of my classes. So those are definitely the three big ones Swami Satchidananda William Bates and then Jerry and Taber. 03:54 Nice. So in terms of your classes now, what are you seeing what are people dealing with? 04:04 Yeah, well, we’re in a very unique time in world history and you know, leading up to the pandemic and you know, the world shutting down and people being inside all the time, I mean, people’s like screentime was already skyrocketing, and then we have nothing else to do but just kind of stare at screens all the time and so I&#8