Podcast 230: Lecture

Today we are talking about Night Vision. What causes it and how to improve it. Struggles with night vision can cause a lot of disruption in one's life. People tend to stop driving at night and don't feel comfortable going out in the evening. This isn't something that you have to just accept and live with, so today we are going to address some basic things you can do to help improve your night vision. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, vitamin, milligrams, zinc, night vision, work, eyes, vision, blindness, doctor, talked, pigment, people, check, capillary, myopia, macular degeneration, light, tints, photoreceptor 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, its Dr. Sam, I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. And today I want to talk about night vision. Now, when you start suffering, night blindness or vision loss, it can be a very scary situation. And I have worked with so many patients who come in for their vision exam. And they say, they say to me, you know, I'm afraid to drive at night, I've stopped going out, because I don't see very well. Or another symptom is, people get very disoriented, if they're out in the bright sun. And they go indoors, and the adjustment period of going from light to dark. Or the other way around, let's say you're in a darker environment, just with, you know, ambient light, and you go out into the sunlight, you suffer a lot of light sensitivity and glare. And when you go to a regular eye doctor, most of them will tell you just get used to it. It's aging, there's really not much you can do about it. Well, I'm here to say that there are many things that you can do naturally. And I'd like to go over those today. So with night vision, this is a very common malady. And probably one of the biggest reasons why people have night vision issues is because they are not absorbing their vitamin A. Now in the retina, there is a a collection of photo receptor cells that are highly sensitive to darkness. And we call this pigment rhodopsin. And rhodopsin in the rods, enables us to quickly adapt our vision from dark to light and light to dark. And the most essential component in getting this rhodopsin to work effectively is vitamin A. In fact, vitamin A is the biggest reason why people have night vision issues when I'm talking about his deficiency in vitamin A. Now, there are many reasons why. Even if we eat foods with vitamin A, there is a compromised intake. In other words, we can't absorb our vitamin A very well why is that? Well, let's run through the list. If you have iron deficiency, if you've got digestive issues, if you are taking the cholesterol medication, statins, if you eat a low fat diet, a big one is zinc deficiency. And I talked about how zinc is such an important trace mineral for a variety of different cellular reactions in the body and most people are deficient in zinc, because of the soil depletion, the the poor agriculture that the farming practices that are being done, this creates a zinc deficiency and zinc is really important for the absorption of vitamin A. Now when we you know evaluate the retina and we start looking at the symptoms of well how do you know you might have night blindness. There's some easy things that you can check off the list number one would be weak vision in dim light. Number two difficulty seeing at night. We've talked about that. Number three,