Podcast 227: Q&A

Here is a post Whole Health Summit Q&A I held recently. We covered everything from dry eyes to eye health to whole health. Be sure to listen and keep an eye out for the next time I go live to get your questions answered. You can also email them to [email protected]. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, lens, vision, summit, astigmatism, question, prescription, peripheral vision, distance, dry, called, myopia, lenses, people, dry eye syndrome, develop, wear, creates, age, glasses 00:05 Hello everybody, it's Dr. Sam, and I want to welcome you to this special q&a tonight. I have a few opening remarks. I've got some questions that I'm going to get to in terms of the participants. If you have questions, you can either put them in the chat box, or you can come on live with me whatever you'd like. So I'm going to stay until we answer all the questions. And I want to start here. So recently, I had a colleague of mine asked me to come to his office. And he wanted me to observe some of his patients. He's got a couple of associates and he wanted me to, to watch what he was doing. So I was sitting in the exam room. And I observed patient after patient was getting the following information. The and these people were somewhere in their 30s 35. And basically this doctor was saying the same thing over and over again to his patients. This is a an ophthalmologist and he was this was his line. Well, Johnny, or Well, Julie, at age 40, you're going to start needing reading glasses. And at age 50 You're going to start needing bifocals. At age 60 You're going to need trifocals you know we'll put you into those progressive lenses that work great. And you'll also be getting floaters at age 60 and probably a posterior vitreous detachment, everybody gets those at age 60. And then at age 70, you will be scheduled for cataract surgery. And also, that's when you start getting glaucoma. So we'll probably end up putting you on some eyedrops pharmaceutical eyedrops, and you will eventually need a laser procedure called an iridectomy. And at age 80, you'll be developing age related macular degeneration first, the dry kind, then the white kind, we'll be doing injections monthly, and you'll eventually lose your eyesight and your driver's license. And you'll end up in a nursing home. So I heard this over and over again. And I was like, wow. And this is what's happening in most eye care offices. And I'm here to say that you don't have to live out your doctor's diagnosis. And one of the missions that I developed very early was to promote how to help people improve their eyes and vision as they get older. You know, just so happens today. I was seeing an 83 year old patient she's gonna be at four in March. And I met her when she was 80 years old and she was scheduled for cataract surgery with both eyes she was in trifocals. She was really having a hard time with her knitting. So it may be three both of the cataracts have dissolved completely. Her prescription has reduced multiple times. She's out of the progressive lens trifocal lenses, and now she's just using a pair of computer blue blocking glasses for digital time. And she uses some glasses for her reading and for knitting. And she was so excited because here she is going to be at turning 84 and her eyesight is getting better. I'm not making this up folks. And I probably at this point helped hundreds maybe 1000s of people achieve this amazing breakthrough and you can do that too. 04:58 Which brings me to The Summit, because many of you on this, on this broadcast, have just finished devouring the whole health summit. This is my second annual, and was interesting because if I compare it to last year's summit last year summit w...