MS & Your Eyes

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.