Podcast 131: Community Q&A

Are you suffering floaters, macular degeneration, cataracts? Do you feel frustrated that your eyes are getting worse every year? In this episode, I give a presentation during my recent intensive workshop, and offer solutions to many of the vision problems that people are concerned about! SUMMARY KEYWORDSeye, called, lens, cataracts, vitreous, vision, glaucoma, macula, talk, starts, cloudiness, important, moro reflex, people, lymph system, brain, optometrist, reflex, nervous system, prescription 00:05Hello, everyone, its 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 Hello at Dr. Sam Berne calm. Now to the latest I clarity episode. I like this picture of the eye because it's a picture of where we're entering this black hole, which is called our pupil. And the pupil is the light regulator, it allows light into our eyes. And based on our sympathetic parasympathetic nervous system, that's the part of our nervous system that regulates our stress levels. The muscles around the pupil are called the iris. And based on again, our stress level, this pupil can get dilated. And the bigger it gets, the lighter it allows in. The smaller it gets, the more regulates less light getting in. And I'm going to talk a little bit about stress, and how this pupil response changes based on our stress level. So the whole my whole purpose of this class and my overall 37 years this is going on my 38th year, devoting my entire career of offering a new direction and vision care. And today and tonight, and this month, we're going to talk about different strategies, protocols, exercises that can help you reach your goals. So first off, I'd like to talk about the teachers who've had a major impact in my life. And many of these teachers, who came before me, developed this whole body of work called holistic optometry, developmental optometry. And the first person on this list is a guy most of you don't know there are a few optometrists taking the course. His name was am Skeffington. He was a doctor who was a physician and an optometrist. He started behavioral, developmental optometry in the 1920s in the Midwest. And he started to talk about the eyes as a whole-body system. That's not talked about today. You know, when you go to an eye doctor, the eyes are separate from the body and we're just looking at it as a mechanical camera. And it only gets worse with age. Well, Skeffington started to teach optometrists how to think of the eyes as it related to the body. Number two, Dr. Albert Shankman, he was my optometrist, and he was a holistic doctor. I met him in his mid 70s. I was in my late 20s. And he was the doctor I went to, that helped me completely dissolve my myopia, and astigmatism. And he took a very global Mind Body approach. He incorporated yoga, meditation, and he wrote a book called vision enhancement training. I'm not even sure you can get it anymore. But it's a book that talks about the mind body connection as it relates to the eyes and many of the philosophical things that I present or based on my work with Dr. Shankman. The next optometrist, Dr. Albert Sutton, was one of my dear mentors. He was a world-renowned developmental optometrist did a lot of research in child development. He also was very holistic he worked with nutrition. And he was one of my dear friends who was instrumental in many of the different things many of the different things I do today. 05:01Number four, Dr. John Streff’s and Dr. Dick Apell. These were holistic optometrists. And I studied with them when I went to the Gesell Institute. So the Gesell Institute, which was affiliated with Yale University, was started by Dr.