Answering Some Questions on Facebook Live

I am answering a few questions I've received recently on this Facebook live and I wanted to share it with you. If you have any questions be sure to email them to me at [email protected] or attend my weekly Facebook live. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, MSM, cornea, keratoconus, vestibular system, question, called, eyesight, eyedrops, prescription, check, wear, people, blur, started, vitamin, sulfur, lens, optic nerve, blurry 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. Hey, everybody. Good evening. It's Dr. Sam. And I want to welcome you to Facebook live tonight. Behind me is not a green screen. This is actually my backyard. And I wanted to I wanted to come to you tonight being outside. We have some beautiful weather today. So I thought, let's bring nature to our discussion tonight. Alright, there's a question from Joyce and she wants to know about IPL for dry eyes. Look for dry eyes if you're suffering, from moderate to severe dryness. The IPL procedure, IPL is certainly something that you can do. It is a symptomatic approach, but it certainly will relieve your symptoms. Again one of the keys to dry eye is the health of the eyelids. How you can reduce the inflammation in your eyelids is the key. And the way to do that you can use a castor oil I massage in the evening, you can use my MSM mist during the day you can hydrate the corneas by using Optique, homeopathic eye drops along with the MSM eye drops, and make sure you're wearing your blue-blocking glasses for all your screen time. Make sure you're getting enough of the nutrients that we talked about the fat-soluble nutrients like vitamin A, lutein, and zeaxanthin because these are the lutein, zeaxanthin, and acid Xanthine are the carotenoids that I talk a lot about. The B complex is very good for the cornea. But bottom line you need to reduce inflammation in the eyelids. And don't forget systemic and metabolic health has a very strong influence on dry low thyroid overacting adrenals. That's on the endocrine system. stress, stress is definitely going to dry out your tissues more. And again, endocrine imbalances if you have either. 04:26 Well, just any kind of endocrine problems, you should check in with your functional medicine doctor because that can have an impact on your ability to produce the tears what I was thinking about was estrogen levels. So either very low estrogen or very high estrogen can also be a contributing factor to dry. And don't forget about omega-three fatty acids. There have been a number of studies that show that omega threes are super important for reducing dry so I think it's a combo certainly If you need to do the more conventional things, to reduce the symptoms and get some relief, I have no problem with that. But of course, I'm always looking for the deeper cause, what are the causes that cause our eyes? To let us down? Okay, I want to take a question here from TikTok, by the way, my tic tock, if you haven't gotten on TikTok, I'm doing some great, really fun posts on there, check it out. And but this person is asking about my exercise called the plus lens, the blur. So this is kind of crazy, because, you know, as an eye doctor, what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to correct people's eyesight to 2020 with lenses. But in this plus lens to blur, I'm actually doing the opposite. This is something I discovered many,