Podcast 198: Lecture

Today, we are talking about the brain. I go over some key ways to increase your brain health and we talk about how that affects your eye health. You can use this information to increase your brain, eye, and overall health naturally. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, talk, eye, parasympathetic nervous system, patients, brain, work, nervous system, sleep, research, started, plasticity, period, treating, improve, hospitals, access, physical therapy 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. So another piece to neuroplasticity is the health of the nervous system, we're going to talk a lot about the nervous system today. There are two main components of the nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic Nervous System is our active state. The parasympathetic nervous system is our passive state. It's our relaxation. And for most people, we're spending so much time in the sympathetic nervous system, that there's no time in the nervous system that we're in this rest or settle, period. And of course, when do we heal, we rejuvenate. And we rest in that parasympathetic nervous system state. Okay. All right, so let's talk a little bit about some of the research that has been done over the years. And they need to bring in these researchers Hubel and Wiesel, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, they came from Harvard, from Johns Hopkins. And they did a lot of research in the area of neuroplasticity and vision. And they had some very interesting results. These studies showed how the visual system and the visual information processing would be affected by impeding an eye patching an eye and they work with kittens and how they did this study. And what they did was, they would suture one of the eyes, and they found that there was a significant drop in the visual development, which affected these kittens throughout their entire life. And they also said that, as the cells are responsible for processing, visual information, they were raised distributed to favor the eye that was unimpaired. And this was a this particular aspect, the critical period was something that I doctors, you know, they practice and they said, This is why you have to get, you know, the cataract removed in kids very early, or if you have a lazy eye, after a certain period of time, you can improve it. And there was a lot of debate in that particular area. But then, in the early 90s, there was another PhD, neuroscientist, Greg record wrecking zone. And he actually did some research which showed that you can change the eyes, you can change the adult brain, and that this critical period isn't really true. And this is what we're going to access today. Where, you know, if you have a certain condition going on, even in the adult brain, you can improve it. And I think that, you know, again, if you go to certain ophthalmologists, they might say, well, once you reach age seven or eight, you're out of that you're in that critical period. You can't get any better. Dr. Rick unsewn said no, no, no. And you can actually change even into old age. Now there's some things that you have to do in order to set the conditions but it can be done. So here's a research paper that I published back in 1990. And it came from the work that I did at some of the hospitals where I treated patients with severe traumatic brain injury. It's an interesting story because I attended after I graduated,