Podcast 127: Community Q&A

In this episode I take two questions. The first is from a 63 yer old who is seeing a pulse in her eye. It does not affect her vision. She is a transcriber and sits in front of a computer, hours a day. What do I think? The second question is about floaters. I revisit this topic and offer some new suggestions. SUMMARY KEYWORDSvitreous, eye, collagen, health, floaters, msm, vitamin c, called, red light therapy, ingredient, ginseng, eyelids, helpful, improve, develop, part, vision, macula, patients, day 00:05Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my I clarity 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 Hello at Dr. Sam Berne calm. 00:29Now 00:30to the latest I clarity episode. Hey, everybody, Dr. Sam is here and we are at 127. Wow. So it's great to be here today. We've got a couple of questions. I want to talk about the condition of floaters because I'm getting so many questions about that. I want to start off with a question that I receive on Instagram. This is from a lady who Well, here it is she's 63 years old and she's seeing a pulse in her eyes. She's worn glasses. Since she was in the third grade. Along with now she's got hypo thyroid disease. She's developed the sharp pain behind the left thigh five years ago and has excessive tearing. She recently noticed that there's a pulse that she sees in the left eye comes and goes. It doesn't affect her vision. She doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, but she's a transcriber. She spends all day on the computer. She wants some my thoughts and advice. First of all, the information that I'm going to be sharing is educational only. And it's not a substitute for going to your ophthalmologist or optometrist. That being said, the first thing that comes to me is eye fatigue, eye strain. You know, sitting in front of a computer all day every day is really damaging. We've got first of all visual confinement because you're sitting in one position staring in at one distance. That's like trying to run marathons. And over time, that is just going to stress your eyes out. And this can lead to you know, lowered circulation, oxidation issues not getting enough hydration. So this visually related stress on the computer is one aspect. The second aspect, which isn't really being talked about very much is the blue light. And I've heard some doctors actually say that blue light is a neurotoxin. And as a neurotoxin, it actually is creating damage to the eyes. And you need to have some protection in the form of blue blockers, blue blocking filters over the eyes, that there are certain screens out there that you can get that will deflect some of the damaging blue light by blue light is definitely another reason. Now, we can go a little deeper here and I always recommend getting a physical exam once a year, you know, go to your doctor check in because we have so many blood vessels running in and out of the eyes. My concern is is that you know we need to check just our overall blood pressure. And you know what's going on just on our heart level. The carotid arteries, you know, at 63 years old, you know you're wanting to make sure circulation wise there's no possible embolisms or aneurisms or things like that, and I'm not suggesting this at all. However, it's really important to check in with your doctor get some blood work. You know, the, the kind of doctors I like to go to a functional medicine doctors or naturopathic doctors and they tend to do you know, testing that's a little more valuable, whether it's maybe a 24 hour urine panel for heavy metal toxicity, hair and hair mineral analysis, and they're different blood panels that you can do.