Episode 129: Vision

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
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Speaker 5 (00:36):
Welcome to When Your Health Matters. Your host is doctor
Richard Huntoon of Advanced Alternative Medicine Center located right here
in Pool of Georgia. Doctor Hantoon has been practicing alternative health,
utilizing chiropractic and many other health techniques for the past
twenty seven years to support you when your health matters.
It's his intention to offer practical advice every week for

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you to consider and to apply in your own life
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Speaker 6 (01:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
Welcome to this week's show, When Your Health Matters, the
show designed to empower you to better health through knowledge
and education. And I'm your host, doctor Richard Untun from
Advanced Alternative Medicine Center. And here's my partner for the show,
your health advocate, Mark Saban.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know, last week we were talking about the liver
and one of the things that I've found very curious
is that you talked about the way that liver health
relates to your eyes and your vision. And I wondered,
is that why this would be a good time for
us to talk about ie health. Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, the springtime is the time the energy for expansion
is taking over and the trees wake up and sprout leaves,
Animals wake up from hibernation and begin to look for food,
and everything begins again. And this correlates as we've been
sharing with liver health and detoxifying the liver with some
spring cleaning. And associated with the liver is its chief

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sensory organ and that organ are the eyes. So eye
health relates to the healthy functioning of the liver. So
we focus no pun intended on that when addressing liver
health issues.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now, can you briefly describe for us the anatomy of
the eye and how that looks and what the parts are?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
All? Right, Well, most of us have two eyes that
are round, and it's filled with fluid, and it has
a front chamber and it has a rear chamber. The
retina is what allows us to see. The macula is
where the optic nerve enters into the back of the
eye and creates a blind spot you may or may
not be aware of. The front chamber of the eye.

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In front of the colored part of the eye is
the anterior chamber, and it's filled with fluid, and that's
where the lens of the eye exists. And then you
have the iris, which is the colored part of the eye,
and everything that exists behind that is the posterior chamber
of the eye, and that's the biggest part, and that

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is what the lens of the eye helps the focus
ideally on the back of the eye. If it focuses
on in front of that, that's one eye condition, and
if it focuses behind the back of the eye, that's
a different condition.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, your pupils have the ability to enlarge and shrink.
Why do they do that and what's the purpose of that.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, the pupils expand and contract to control the amount
of light that is processed by the retina itself. In
the dark, the pupils will expand to let more light in,
and when it's bright out, the pupils will contract, reducing
the amount of light that comes in. It's interesting when
I was a kid growing up and we would go
down to visit into New York City and we'd be

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on the we'd be on the I'm trying to remember
what the name of that road was. Basically on the
east side of Manhattan, right around ninetieth Street, you know
where the Governor's mansion is, is that there's an overpath there.

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And I remember sitting in the car watching my dad drive,
and as soon as we would go from being exposed
to the light into the tunnel, every car in front
of us would put their brakes on, and I found
that curious, and what I came to learn over time
is the fact that when a person stressed, okay, their

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pupils don't respond as quickly as they should with the
changing of going from light to dark or from dark
to light. And so people wear sunglasses because they're stressed out.
I've never worn sunglasses, and I can go out in
the sun and I don't squint, and I don't do
any of those things. But when the people were going
from the sun into the darkness of the overpass with

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essentially a tunnel, everybody would put their brakes on because
it would take them I don't know, three to five
seconds for their vision to adjust too no longer being
in the bright sun now being they need to have
their pupils open up a little bit more to let
more lighten. And so I just always found that curious
and turned out to be an interesting observation that I

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had because it helped me to understand how stressed out
people are.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Huh, Because I know that one of the things you
go to the eye doctor and they will do that
will they will put a light onto your eye to
see how quickly your pupil responds correct, and that gives
some indication of what's going on with your eye health.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
So in side the eye you woul talk about, there's liquid,
it's a jelly like substance, right, called vitreous, and sometimes
that can actually detach from the retina, and that's sometimes
described as part of aging. Is that a normal thing
for that to happen?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Normal?

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, I don't think it's normal for your retina to detach.
It's somewhat common, I would agree, And it indicates eye
stress and lacking proper nutrition to support the maintenance of
the eye health in a healthy way. And so we
have solutions for that in terms of nutrition. But when
a person develops when their eyes are under too much

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stress and they don't have the resources in which to
repair the tissues that are being stressed, then you could
have a situation like a detached retina, or you could
have other eye health issues as a result of that.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Now, in the back of the EYEU to describe the
retina being back there, that's where the image actually forms,
and that imag doesn't that image form upside down?

Speaker 3 (07:03):
It does, And then through the wonders of modern neurology
and our nervous system, the image gets transferred through the
optic nerve to the optic or the visual cortex in
the back of the head. That's where the vision centers are.

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They're in the back of the head, and once they
reach the visual centers in the back of the head,
they get reoriented so that we can actually see things
the way that they exist in the world is right
side up as opposed to being upside down.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Interesting, you know, growing up, my father was an optometrist,
and during his years as an optometicists, they devised a
mirror device that you could put in front of your
eyes kind of like this big construct looked like a ski,
a diving mask or something like that. So what it

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did was it flipped the image so that the image
was right side up when it hit your eyes, and
they would use that for people, I guess with some
sort of condition. But what ended up happening is once
your eyes had been trained to see things that were
no longer upside down on your retina as right side up,

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you couldn't go back to seeing correctly without the device.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Fascinating, it's a.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Really fascinating thing. And there was another story I heard
about a fellow who took a bicycle and reversed the
way the steering on the bicycle works, so that when
you turned your bicycle handlebars to the left, the wheel
turned to the right. And again it was a situation
where he learned how to ride the bike, but when
he tried to put the regular original bike back together,

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he could no longer ride it. So there are things
that you can learn that you can't unlearn. Interesting little
side note there, certainly. Yeah, no, when you see things,
you see things in color. How do you see things
in color? And what is that function in the eye.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, you have specialized cells in the retina, and those
types of cells are called cones. The other type of
cells are called rods, and so you have rods, and
you have cones that help to make up the retina,
and the specialized cells for color happen to be the cones.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
So I mean, other than the fact that you might
not be able to see well you need glasses or
something like that, what other things impact the health of
your eye.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Well, as we talked about last week, the main thing
is happens to be liver health and seeing things clearly
based upon your ability to disconnect from your non rational
emotional perspective. When you see things clearly for what they are,
then there's no stress in the liver. When you see
things through you know, the proverbial rose colored glasses, then

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you're not seeing things the way that they actually exist.
And so there's a lot of science coming out right
now that they're trying to understand do we see the
world as it is or is it a projection coming
from our brain and we actually create what it is
that we see and question of well, where's the consciousness
and relationship to that. So it's something that I recently

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started looking into and I'm not one understanding it to
the point where I can articulate it in a way
for the audience to understand. But there's you know, it's
just the next level of understanding is, well, where does
our consciousness come from?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Mm hmm. Now we look out through our eyes. But
also as a physician, you're able to look into a
person's eyes. What does that tell you about their health? Oh?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Many things, mostly related to how they process their stress
and the health of their liver, and so you know,
it's it's there's there's so much that can be told
and understood when you look at a person's eyes. You know,
there's a whole discipline, if you will, there's a whole

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practice of what you're looking at the iris part of
the eye, and it's a study of the iris, and
that's called iridology. And there was some seminar training that
I took to where we would analyze. We'd have pictures
taken of everybody who was participating as iris, and then

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we would sit around as a group and we would
talk about what we see when we look at the
iris and how that relates to the person's health, and
then we would try to figure out whose health we
were looking at without knowing. I mean, obviously, if there's
only one person in the place that has blue eyes,
we're going to know whose eye that belongs to. But
if you got six or seven people with brown eyes

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and you're looking at them, you don't necessarily know who's
health you're talking about. But it was a fascinating seminar
and it was very very hands on, and it helped
me to understand the possibilities of what's available and how

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miraculous the body is when it comes to healing. Because
we evaluated, we took pictures of and we evaluated this
one person's iris and within what the iris was showing
indicated that he had this particular health problem, and so
we as a group did a group healing on him,
and then we went back and looked at his iris change,

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and his iris had changed. Over the course of forty
five minutes of us doing that the focused treatment on
this particular individual, his iris physically changed. And so it's like,
you know, I've seen videos of healings that they do
in hospitals in Japan. This one person had a brain

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tumor and they showed the person laying on the table
and they showed the scan of the person's brain and
while they were doing their chanting and their hands on this,
that and the other thing energetic type healing, the tumor
literally just disappeared off the screen. And it's like, Okay, Yeah,

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anybody can do anything with AI and all sorts of
you know, cinematography tricks and this, that and the other thing.
But this was just fascinating. And having seen what we
did with that, gentleman Zyrus, I know that we have
absolutely no understanding as to the power of our mind

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and what it is that we can do.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I've seen other people that are those types of
healers doing pretty remarkable things, yeah, after a long training
and a lot of very powerful work that they do. So,
you know, we're talking about your eyes being windows to
your health, but how does your vision relate to your

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overall health.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
The healthy you are physically and emotionally demonstrates clearer vision typically,
and there's more that goes into that. But if you
have good, clean vision, you're going to be a healthier person.
And again, what we've continued to say last week and
this week is that your vision health is directly tied
to the health of your liver.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
And so clearly you want to be able to take
care of your liver. And then will you actually see
changes in your vision if you take care of your
liver and will let your vision improve.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, I know that from very specific experience of my
own self. There was a time where I was going
to school and couldn't see the board and got frustrated
and this, that and the other thing, and ultimately got
glasses and I wore my glasses all the time everywhere
that I went. And I went to see a natural
eye doctor up in New York and developed a nice

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relationship with him. He used the Chinese five ellament theory
specifically for eye health, et cetera. And so he evaluated
me and we talked about what it is that I
needed to do, and what I just decided for myself
was over time, I was like, you know what I
know about eye exercises. I know about everything what doctor

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Mark said, and I know about so many different things
related to the eyes. And I took an eye health course,
et cetera, and I just decided that I was going
to take my glasses off and I was going to
force my eyes to actually adjust to what it was
that I was seeing. And I did a lot of
eye exercises in terms of looking at things close up
versus things far away, and you get the muscles of

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the eyes to expand and contract properly. And when those
muscles start to have issues with regulating the thickness and
the expansion of the lens and they become fixated, I
call that arthritis of the eye. And so when a
person needs stronger and stronger prescription as they get older,
that's more and more stress in their liver as being

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processed through the eye, and the eye doesn't adjust the
way that it's supposed to. But I didn't go back
to see doctor Mark for ten years. And when I
went back, got my chin on the little thing, and
he's looking at my eyes from the other side of
the little scopes that he's using to figure out what
my prescription is, etc. And he's looking at my eyes

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and he's looking at his notes, and he's looking in
my eyes and he's looking back at his notes and
he's like huh. And I'm like, well, you're going to
have to explain what that means. Mark. So so he
said huh a second time. I said, could you just
tell me what's going on? He says, I don't see this.
It's not that it's not possible, but I really don't
ever see this in my practice. And I was like,

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what's that. He says, your vision hasn't changed since I
saw you ten years ago, and if anything has gotten better,
he says, I don't see people's eyes improve. And I said,
that's because most people won't do the work. I said,
I don't like having to wear glasses because then it's
just another step. It's just more things I have to
be responsible for, etc. And so I had the same

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pair of glasses for over twenty years, and I got
to the point where I didn't use them anymore.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's interesting.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
And I don't use glasses, you know. This last time
of driving from Georgia up to New York to help
the people up here, my glasses are sitting next to
where I watched television. I didn't bring my glasses with me,
and no problems driving up, no problems with any kind

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of vision at all. And it's like, okay, So I
evidently spirit has inspired me to go to the next
level to where I didn't even bring my glasses with me.
It's like, okay, So if you do the right thing.
And the number of times that I've done my own
detox program in an effort to clean all the crap
out of my liver, and the fact that I don't
repeat but putting crap back into my liver, I've set

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my body up for success. And the eyes are definitely
reflecting that by me no longer needing glasses.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
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Speaker 1 (19:15):
So Doc Greg, tell me what's going on with somebody
who is color blind? You can't distinguish different colors.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, they're uh rods and cones aren't working the way
that they're supposed to, specifically the cones because the cones
are for color. And so if those cells aren't connected properly,
if those cells aren't functioning properly, if the ability of

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those cones to interpret the red, green colors is not functioning,
then the person's going to be red green color blind.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is that more common amongst males than females?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I believe it is more common amongst males. I'm not
one hundred percent clear as to why that would be
the case. It just happens to be that that's what
it is. And if you can't see red and green,
then my thought is is Christmas isn't very exciting.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, it's not nearly as colorful. Another thing I think
you mentioned this in the first segment night blindness. What
is night blindness and why do you lose the ability
to see well in the dark.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
That has to do with with again that that more
has to do with the rods in the eyes. They
are the rods are in charge of the black and
white vision versus the cones are in charge of the
color vision. And so if there's a deficiency within the rods,

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then you may have difficulty interpreting the different blacks and whites.
And obviously during nighttime you get more of that. There's
less of that during the day because the day is
filled with colors, but at nighttime you need to have
that functioning properly. And so that's just another eye health

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deficiency in this case, specifically affecting the rods of the
eye as opposed to the cones.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Of the eye right now. I mean, since we were
driving culture a lot of times, if you're on any
kind of two lane highway, you have cars coming at
you with their lights shining in your face, and there
is that part of that we were talking about, the
adjustment that your pupils have to make back and forth.

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Is that one of the things that would be related
to night blindness or is that a different thing.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Well, obviously it's a visual issue. So as you're going
to need to see an eye doctor in order to
deal with it, they may give you glasses to help
deal with that.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
You know, I have.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
I was introduced to a concept to where there's some lenses.
You know, you see some of the senior citizens that
wear these big, bulky tinted lenses that cover their normal
glasses so that they can just put those kinds of
things on. This company was producing this particular type of

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lens to where it's going to make all things much
more sharp and focused during the nighttime and so that
you don't get that. And so when you put a
particular colored lens over your eye that filters out some
of the some of the light rays. Then it keeps

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the glare from being an issue and allows you to
see without having that as a problem. And you know,
at the end of the we need to support the
liver and then we have different nutritional supplements that can
help the health of the eye in terms of making
the eye repair itself as far as the rods and

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cones of the retina, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, another thing that's very common is there is near
sightedness and far sightedness. You kind of alluded to how
that works in terms of where the focus is on
the retina, if it's behind or in front of the retina.
Can you describe a little bit about what those differences
are near sighted and far sighted.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
So, near sightedness the image focuses in front of the retina.
In far sidedness, the image focuses behind the retina, and
both can be corrected when you adjust the lens. So
you adjust the lens from a concave to a convex,
and that'll change where the focal point of the vision

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ends up being. So if it's in front of the
eye and you're near sighted, then you put in a
particular lens that's going to lengthen that focus to hit
the back of the eye where it's supposed to. And
if it's already behind the eye, then you put a
lens in that's going to ratchet it up forward. It's

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where now it hits at the back of the eye
the way that it's supposed to be, And so it's
a situation that's pretty easily corrected. I guess the part
that I don't fully understand, which seems to become the
newest rage over the last ten to fifteen years, is

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where people are having laser eye surgery to make it
so that they don't need to wear glasses anymore. And
my only thought about that is is because we haven't
been doing it long enough, is what is the long
term effects of that? If they haven't change their emotional
reality or the stress that's in their liver, is that

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lens going to revert back to the way that it
was before, and therefore it ends up being a temporary
fixed as opposed to a permanent fix.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Well, I mean, just as a story, anecdotal story, my
mother who had just some of the worst vision of
anybody that I had ever known. And as I said,
my father was an optometrist, so he was pretty vers
to this, and so she had these very thick glasses.

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She couldn't recognize me from about eighteen inches away. So
she really had and she had a severer stigmatism as well.
So she was one of the early people that went
and had that type of eye surgery. I think it
was called Lasik eye surgery, and she had that, and
she was probably in her thirties when she had that.

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She's now in her late in her mid nineties, and
her eyes held up very well. But now that she
is old enough to where she has significant cataracts and
they were looking at possibly doing cataract surgery on her,
she's had to opt out of that because the scars
that she has from the surgery would make it like

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real hard. N Yeah, she could well, no, they could
get the lenses out, but whether they can correct her
vision or whether she would be legally blind at that point. Right,
So there are there are issues but that it wasn't
that the surgery didn't last. It lasts, but there are
other problems that that happened. A stigmatism. What is it?
What is an astigmaism? I said, my mother had that.
What is that?

Speaker 3 (26:39):
It's a condition caused by a blurred vision due to
an irregular curvature of the cornea or the lens of
the eye.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Can you can you get glasses to correct that.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
That's one of the solutions, and again so is Lasik.
So it's it's just a question of how involved do
you want to get. You know, we can all go
into a lens crafters and get a pair of glasses.
That's pretty simple. Ranging for to go in and have
the surgical procedure, that's become pretty simplistic too. I just

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imagine the difference in cost is probably significant.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, and I think not everybody's appropriate for the surgery
as well. Right, You mentioned needing reading glasses as you
age because your eyes can't adjust the focus to things
that are close to you. That seems to be again
one of those things is pretty common amongst people as.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
They age, it is. And again it goes back to
where do you spend most of your time focused? Okay,
for people who spend you know, eight nine ten hours
a day twelve inches from their computer screen, if that's
where they do most of their work, then the lens

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is going to be used to focusing from that distance.
You back from twelve inches to eighteen inches and then
it becomes a little bit more difficult to see. Or
if you go from twelve inches to six inches, then
it's a little bit more difficult to see. I remember
when I was younger. You take the proverbial finger and

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you follow it with your eyes instead of your head,
and you move closer in and further out, just to
see if your eyes converge the way that they're supposed
to and diverge the way that they're supposed to. I
had a vision that was so good as far as nearsightedness,
that I could bring my finger all the way to

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the tip of my nose and I could still focus
on that finger. I can't do that now, but that's
because I don't spend a lot of time looking at
things close up, Okay, but I do try, on a
regular basis, try to vary the distance of what it
is that I'm looking at for any length of time.

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And you know, so I'm not rigidly because of my
life and how I run my life, I'm not always
having my eyes focus at the same distance, which is
going to cause your lens to settle there and then
you're going to need some kind of device either in

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front of your eyes or done to your eyes in
an effort to adjust for how your body sees close
and far.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now, it's interesting you would talk about that follow your
finger without moving your head that I've seen videos of
police when they stop somebody that they are suspected driving
well intoxicated. I wonder what they're observing in.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
The well they're looking to see you. Do your eyes
adjust as quickly as they should. If they don't, that
gives the more probable cause to go into ascertaining whether
you are inebriated or not.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, well what about cross eye? Why would people have crosses?
Have their eyes crossed?

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Sometimes that depends upon the muscles of the eye that
control the positioning of the eye. There are six muscles
that do that. And if the muscles on the inside
of the eye, meaning closer to the nose, are tighter
than the muscles that are on the outside of the eye,

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meaning closer to your temples, then the tighter muscles on
the inside are going to pull your each eyeball to
look more towards your nose as opposed to looking straight ahead,
and so that would be called cross eyed.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
So it's a muscular problem.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, it's an eye muscle problem, and that relates to
some kind of cranial fault and other little nuances associated
with that.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Mm hmm. Sometimes the whites of people's eyes become yellowed,
a situation called jaundice.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, that's poor liver function, and the liver isn't processing
the billy ruben the way that it's supposed to, and
when you get too much billy ruben in your blood,
that leads to the yellowing of the eyes, and the
condition is called jaundice. Exactly what is glaucoma a group

(31:30):
of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve which connects
the eye to the brain and ultimately, over time it
leads to blindness.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Is that when they measure the pressure in your eye,
they want to find out that your pressure is too high.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, And the pressure may be too high as a
result of the duck that drains the fluid. That duct
becomes impaired, so the fluid in the eye increases, and
then that pressure leads to damage and leads to claud coma. Hm.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I actually heard of one of my Taichi students who
had a stint put in one of his eyes because
of that very problem.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yep, keep that duct open.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Keep that duct open. What are cataracts.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
It's a common condition where the lens of the eye
starts to become cloudy. And when the eye becomes cloudy,
then you can't see things clearly. And how they've chosen
to solve that is they just pop the lens out
and put a new one in.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Does it cause my because of the amount of ultraviolet
light you're exposed to.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, this could be related. The condition results from the
breakdown of the proteins and the fibrous within the eye
lens itself, and that could be due to a number
of different causes, and most of it has to do
with nutrition and the amount of stress that's going on
in the liver and the person's ability to see their
life clearly.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
What is this macular degeneration.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, the area around the optic nerve that enters into
the back of the eye is called the macula, and
so when that begins to degenerate, the area where the
nerve comes in and then spreads out to become the
retina of the eye is very finite, okay, But as

(33:27):
the eye degenerates, okay, then the back of the eye
and the retina associated with the macula the maculus starts
to expand, and then that creates holes in your vision
and your ability to see a good complete picture.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
I've heard that you lose that center vision. Is that right?

Speaker 3 (33:49):
That's part of what can happen with somebody.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Mm hmmmm. Floaters is another thing that people talk about.
They have floaters in their eyes where they see shadows
or light right.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Floaters are considered small spots or shapes that appear within
the field of vision due to aging, retinal tears, eye injuries, infections, dehydration, cataracts,
or macular degeneration. And you know, it's it's doesn't necessarily
mean that there's something bad going on with your eyes.

(34:23):
It could just simply be a normal part of aging
because your retina is going to slough off cells and
if they get trapped into vitreous, then when the light
is right, the lens of your eye may focus a
little bit internal within the eye as opposed to externally,

(34:45):
and then you might start to see some of these floaters.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Now, why would the retina tear you We're talking about
the vitreous becoming separated from the retina, but the renta
can actually tear.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
What would cause that, Well, the retina tears due to trauma,
and it can be repaired and strengthened with nutrition. They
can do surgery on it. There's a bunch of different
solutions for it. But usually the retina tears due to
trauma and due to stress itself. I remember my older brother.

(35:22):
We used to hang out in this place called the barn,
and it became somewhat famous in the lore of our childhood.
And when we first started hanging out in the barn,
outside of the barn was a whole bunch of crab
apple trees. And so we're in the barn and people
that were hanging out with or throwing crab apples at

(35:43):
the barn, and you know, my brother was stuck his
head up and then stuck it down, and they were
trying to see if they could hit him in the
head with a crab apple, and happened absolutely perfectly. He
stuck his head up after this gentleman had thrown an
apple and it literally missed his eyebrow and hit his

(36:07):
eye perfectly, and he detached and tore his retina, And
so Mom took him to the hospital, top eye doctor whatever.
They put a patch over his eye. They made sure
that he went and laid down on his back for

(36:28):
a number of days, and this, that and the other
thing in an effort to try to get the eye
to calm down and the retina to eventually reattach. And
the long term effects of that is the fact that
my brother's the pupil of my brothers, I believe it's
his right eye doesn't expand and contract normally, so his

(36:51):
eye looks more dilated on the right side versus the
left side. And that was the long term effect of
getting hit in the eye with a cravat.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
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Speaker 1 (37:53):
What are the best ways and best foods for maintaining
and improving your iehealth? Naturally?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Any food that helps the health of the liver and
we're talking leafy green vegetables, foods like liver, eggs, orange fruits, berries,
bell peppers, nuts, seeds, fish oil. Those are the things
to improve eye health naturally.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
What about carrots. That's the thing I always heard as
a kid growing up that carrots were really important for
your eyes.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Those are your orange vegetables absolutely.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
M So is that because they have vitamin A in them?
Is that? Am I right about that? Ah?

Speaker 3 (38:36):
That's part of it. It's interesting if you look at
a carrot face on, it looks like an eye.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Uh huh, Yes, that's right.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
And so what's interesting is how God leaves little clues
for us so that we have an inkling in terms
of what's good and what's not good. And so carrots, Yes,
carrots are good for eyes. And we remember bugs Bunny
eating lots of carrots and bugs Bunny having excellent vision,
and yeah, they kind of go hand in glove. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Now, the way your eyes can focus differs between like
the kind of focus that you use to read and
then your peripheral vision.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Right, so you have central vision and then you have
peripheral vision.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah, how do those work and why do they work so?
Function so differently?

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Well, they function differently in the fact that your body
needs to your eyes need to interpret everything that appears
within the visual field. And again, we have the central
part of the vision which is most important. Those are
the things that we focus on. But even as I'm
staring at the wall that's in front of me, okay,

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I'm aware of you sitting a little bit to the
left of that, just as I'm aware of what's going
on on the right side, even though I'm focused on
the wall direct in front of me. So your peripheral
vision helps to fill in the environment that you're experiencing.
But ultimately, the most important part of what you're looking
at is the thing that's in the central part of

(40:12):
your vision, which is what you're focusing on.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
You know. It's interesting. There's an exercise I do sometimes
with my students to sort of demonstrate for them the
you know, maybe it's the reason you shouldn't text and drive,
or maybe it's just what the difference is between focus
vision and you know that central vision and peripheral vision.
Because if you look, let's say you have a clock

(40:37):
on the wall, and you look at the wall using
your peripheral vision, you can't read the time. But if
you focus on the time, you'll see everything that's there.
But you need to use that central vision in order
to be able to read the time. You'll see the clock,
it'll be there, but you can't read it. It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
I've never done that, and now I'm intrigued to want
to do that. Difficulty is is we don't have a
clock in the room here, so I can't actually do
it right now.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
You could probably do it with your cell phone or
something like that, but yeah, it's an interesting thing to do.
Are there specific supplements vitamins that you would recommend for.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Your eye health? Oh? Absolutely. The primary one is called
oculo trophen PMG that helps to repair any damage that's
going on within the eye. Then there's the multi vitamin
for the eye itself called eyeplex, and those are the
two main ones. That we use, and we support the
liver health with liveroplex and hepatrophin pmg is as well

(41:36):
as muplex, and by having those particular nutrients gives the
body the best opportunity for high quality vision health.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Mm hmm. Now I've heard a lot about omega three
fatty acids.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Are those specific for your eye health or are they
general health?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Well, their general health, but it also has eye health effects.
It supports health and liver health and use of fish
oils from salmon, tuna, mackerel, cod, liver oil, flax seeds,
and walnuts are the omega threes that will actually help
and impact vision.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
What about you know some people suffer from dry eyes?
Are there other remedies natural remedies that actually can help
with that?

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Eye drops, warm compresses, reduce your screen time. The more
time you spend on a screen, the more issues you're
going to ultimately end up having. That just has to
do with you know, they're they're trying to improve having
a brain fog right now is the blue light that

(42:45):
comes out of our screens. They're trying to improve it
so that we have less of that coming out creating
vision problems for people because you know, parents nowadays don't
know what to do to occupy their infants, so they're
handing them screens and the kids in front of the

(43:07):
screen because that allows the kid to be distracted so
that the parent gets a break. And I'm not necessarily
sure how healthy that is over time.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, Now here's one of your favorite topics that you
talk about quite a bit is hydration. How does a
hydration impact your eye health.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
It leads to the lens becoming brittle if you're dehydrated.
Hydration of the body is very, very important, and the
more hydration that you have, the less stress that you
have on your liver. And since the liver controls the eyes,
the more hydrated you are, the better impact that you're
going to have as far as eye health. And if
I had to correlate, probably the best thing that I

(43:50):
ever did to help restore my vision and no longer
need glasses is just a regular intake of water.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Other than that, you know, drinking of water. And we
last time, we were talking about a lot about inflammation
and how that affects the liver. Is there a way
for reducing the amount of eye inflammation. I mean, you're
talking about all the screen usage. That's one thing you
could reduce.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Right, cool compresses artificial tears using baby shampoo, believe it
or not, using castor oil.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Castor oil.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
That's interesting.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Now, what can you how about sleep and how does
sleep affect your eye health?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Well, it greatly impacts the functioning of the liver and
the nervous system, so this would impact eye health indirectly.
But you know, you need to get sleep, You need
to recycle your body, You need to allow it to process.
And when you go to sleep, primarily between one and
three in the morning, that's one of the energy is

(44:51):
highest in the liver during the twenty four hour meridian
clock and that's when the liver recycles all the stress
that it went through during the day and hopefully, over
the course of that two hour window, it's able to
recycle all the stress so that when you wake up
the next day, you're not carrying around yesterday's old news.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Now, you know a lot of emotions get expressed in
the eyes, Tears come from the eyes, things like that.
What are some of the emotional and spiritual dimensions to
ie health.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Spiritually, it's about having access to the big picture, how
you relate it, how you relate to it and what
you can do to contribute to it. When you get
focused in this regard, the emotions will take care of themselves.
You know, when we talk about the triune body, body, mind,
and spirit, spirit is based upon eternity, because that's about

(45:46):
your soul, etc. Versus the physical body versus the mental body.
And so ultimately you come in with your beliefs or
you establish your beliefs, and you compose yourself in the
world in a physical manner. But ultimately, if we're an
eternal spirit, you want to make sure that you get
your your spirit in order, so to speak, and so

(46:10):
you don't necessarily develop problems physically or mentally.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Speaking of developing physical problems mentally and physically, this is
probably a softball question for you, but you must not
think too highly of getting things like botox injections to
reduce the wrinkles around your eyes.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, between you and me, Mark, it's
my most popular word over the last couple of years. Personally,
I think that's absolutely retarded. Botox is short for baculinum toxin.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
It's actually a poison could kill you.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
We know that bochelism is bad, yet some brain trusts
in the pharmaceutical industry decided that taking botch a line
of toxin and injecting it into people, especially in and
around the eyes and the face, basically destroys the nerves

(47:11):
that allow you to express yourself. And so people who
will have a whole bunch of botox treatments, they have
a very flat affect and they can't communicate their emotions
very well because your face helps you express those emotions.
And if your face can no longer duplicate what you're

(47:31):
feeling inside emotionally, it goes both ways. So you're actually
screwing with yourself emotionally by getting botox.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
You actually can't express, you can't actually feel your emotions
that you are unable to express. I mean, it actually
diminishes your ability to feel.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
It diminishes your ability to actually relate to the world
in a healthy, balanced fashion.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
That's remarkable.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
That's ridiculous, that's retarded.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I mean that is so. And I think you know,
for those of us who have a different approach to it,
do you look at the people who have wrinkles around
their eyes. It's actually a sign of the beauty of
aging and wisdom.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
You've earned them them, Why would you want to get
rid of them? Don't pay attention to Hollywood. That's a
big fantasy anyway, And all those people are fake and
they're you know, it's just like why, you know, we
appreciate our actors and our actiones because we connect with
them emotionally through the acting that they do on the

(48:36):
performances that they demonstrate on the big screen or the
little screen in our houses, which aren't little anymore. So
they're a great form of entertainment. But we shouldn't deify
any of them, no.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
And I think it's as we're finding some of the
folks that are in that Hollywood culture end up doing
some of these things like botox and then end up
not really being able to perform the way they want
to in the films that they're interested in being part.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Right. It's interesting that, you know, we just had the
Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago, and one of
the people that was featured in one of the commercials
was Tom Cruise. Now Tom Cruise isn't young, okay. You know,
he's got his new movie coming out, which is Mission whatever,
the Final Mission or whatever from the Mission Impossible series.

(49:27):
And I love all those movies because I grew up
watching Mission Impossible when I was a kid, and so
I've followed, you know, Ethan Hunt's character, and I just
am always interested in seeing and what kind of stunts
and this that and the other thing. And Tom is
still doing all of his own stunts, which I find fascinating.

(49:49):
And you know, some of the stunts that were done
during this particular second episode of I think they called it.
The first one was Final Reckoning and then what I
don't know, but it's just fascinating to see from Mission Impossible,
the first Mission Impossible, and how young he looked then

(50:13):
versus to how it is now. Why because it's happened
over thirty years. So to see him at the super Bowl,
there was a lot of people that were critical of
how he looked, and it's just like, well, you wonder
if you were going through the stunts that he performs
in producing the films that he produces, and the high

(50:35):
energy that he brings to all of it, you might
start to look a little haggard too. But I just
appreciate his craft.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
You know. Well, he is rather a fearless character. Yeah,
I mean, he's willing to fly off buildings and leap
on motorcycles. Yep, all kinds of crazy things.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Jump off cliffs with shoots on.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
And yeah, remarkable. Are there any before we end up
closing out our show today, are there any common myths
about natural eye care that you would care to debunk?

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Myths?

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Yeah? The other is misconceptions that people have about taking
care of your eyes naturally.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
All I can say is it worked for me, and
if you're committed to doing the work, it can also
work for you. Otherwise, expect your prescription to get stronger
and stronger over time and need for new glasses quite often.
Did you say earlier in the show that there was

(51:39):
a time in your mom's life where she had the
proverbial coke bottle glasses that were just so thick, And
it's like, yeah, you don't. You don't want to set
yourself up for that. So please take everything that we
talked about today somewhat to your heart and more to
your liver, and just understand that if you are needing

(52:01):
to wear glasses and you're dealing with the frustration over
not being able to see things clearly, that you're just
filling your liver up with more toxins, which is ultimately
going to lead to your eyes to generating faster over time,
and if you want to arrest that and turn it
around the head in the other direction, I would be
happy to talk to you about how to do it

(52:22):
and help you understand how to reserve health to your
liver and really get your body back to where you
need it to be. So I would look forward to that.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
So would that offer What are the best ways to
reach out to you and get that help that you
might be looking for.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
The best way would be to call my cell phone
directly in area code eight four five five six one
two two two five again eight four five five six
one two two two five. That is my cell phone.
I'll be the one answering the phone. Many people are
just inconsiderate and they will just text me directly without
even letting me know who they are or why they're

(52:59):
texting me. I don't typically pay attention to those texts.
I typically don't respond to those texts either. Call me,
let's establish who you are. Then you'll be in my
phone under your name, and then when you text me,
I'll know who I'm texting with and I'll know what
I'm texting about. And then the third way is to
email me, and that's probably the best way to get
a hold of me, which is send me an email

(53:19):
and I'll respond at length about whatever your questions are. So,
whether you call me, text me, or email me, eventually
we're going to invite you into the office so that
we can do an evaluation. So either way, you're going
to eventually end up in the office, and so that's
where I'll be able to do my magic and help
you maximally. And so that's what I would encourage you

(53:42):
as a listener to do. I see that we're just
about out of time. Mark, I really appreciate all your time,
energy and effort in facilitating this show and leading the
direction in terms of asking the question and being an
advocate for our listeners. I hope they appreciate you as
much as I you and uh, I appreciate the listener,

(54:02):
And I'm going to ask you to tune back in
next week, same health time, same heuth station. This is
doctor Richard on tune from Advanced Alternative Medicine Center, saying,
I'll look forward to supporting you when you're health matters.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
My physician he said, you're definitely ill. Then to the nurse,
I've seen worse, and the doctor just gave me a pill.
Take one of those three times a day. Don't ever
stop until you're dearly.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Dead or almost better.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Keep out of the region children. I thinks that might
be some side effects me the probably will well limits
of fact. Just come back and.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
I'll give you one out of the film. On top
of that, on top of that, on top of that,
on top of us, on top of that, on top
of that, and then he showed me his bill.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
I popped another pill.