Contrast Sensitivity Loss: Light, Antioxidants and Eyesight

Today I'm gonna share with you how to improve

your eyesight naturally without

these

things right here, glasses. I cannot stand these glasses, and

they call them corrective

lenses, but do they really correct anything? No.

The more you wear them, the more that you need a stronger prescription.

In fact, when I wear these, especially for long periods of time,

oh my gosh, my

eyes are killing me. Did you realize that by the age of forty-five

most people need glasses? What is going on?

I think this video will be a game changer for you if you have this very

specific problem that I wanna share with you.

And it's something that the eye doctors rarely test for,

unfortunately,

in the routine eye

test. Did a little deep dive,

and I found there's this

other thing called contrast sensitivity

loss, the loss of being able to differentiate

different

shades of gray. Things will look blurry,

especially if there's not enough

light. This is definitely a breakdown with the

retina,

and it could be also the lens, but it's a different problem.

You see, when you go to an eye doctor,

they'll put a chart up with letters,

and you

have black letters on a white background.

That is actually high contrast. They're evaluating different problems with

the

eye that are not necessarily related to this contrast

sensitivity loss. That's a completely different test,

and it's not a

routine thing that they test for. If someone has this loss of

contrast sensitivity, adding more light can

greatly help the person see. That doesn't actually fix the problem.

It helps you compensate for the problem.

There's certain patents, there's certain research done that if a

person starts to increase certain antioxidants in the eye,

that can improve this condition. Hmm, why would an antioxidant

improve your vision? You

normally have several antioxidants

in the retina area that protect the

eye against blue light. If you look at the spectrum of light,

out of all the different individual waveforms, blue light is the

highest energy. It can create the most damage.

This is probably why we have these antioxidants in the eye to protect our

eyes from blue light, and the category of antioxidants is called

carotenoids. These antioxidants not just protect you

against blue light, they

protect you against all sorts of problems in the eye.

Being a diabetic or pollution or any

chemicals in the body that go

through the eye, those antioxidants can actually protect

the eye.

As we age, our carotenoids go down.

Our protection in the eye goes down as well.

When you're twenty years old, you have this super concentrated density

of

antioxidants in the back of the eye, in the retina.

Then you get older, forty-five,

fifty, fifty-nine like myself, s- it's

significantly lower. Then the efficiency of absorbing

light goes down. By age sixty-five, you

need twice as much light to be able

to see like you did when you

were twenty years old because you no longer have the efficiency of

absorbing light like you used to. This is why adding more light will

help you, but it doesn't solve the problem.

It only gives you a temporary solution.

And so one solution is definitely

to get an extra light.

Make sure you get a bulb that is a full spectrum

light and it like...

And you wanna actually shine it on what

you're reading and studying, and you will

be able to see better, but we need to do something else to

increase the efficiency

of your retina. Let's get into what you need to do to

correct

that. Our ancestors did not spend all day long

inside in a dim room

looking at a cell phone,

flipping through

TikTok videos. Our eyes were not designed to do that.

Our eyes were designed to interact with the sun's light.

Of course, in nineteen eighty, the introduction of sun phobia,

like fearing the sun, was introduced with all sorts of

sunscreen and all sorts of sunglasses

which, by the way, make you look really

cool, but they definitely stop that light from going into the eye.

A regular dose of natural

sunlight on the eyes is a very

therapeutic thing.

Why? Well, one reason is you get UV

light into the eye, infrared, and infrared is very

healing to the

eyes. Infrared also builds up melatonin in the

eyes,

which is one of the most powerful

antioxidants in your cells.

This entire sun phobia, I think, was a huge mistake.

UV radiation to the eyes is

not nearly a problem if you have

the protection, the carotenoids.

You wanna get more light into your

desk or wherever you're studying.

You need to start eating foods high in lutein and

zeaxanthin. These are two carotenoids that you can find in egg yolks.

But the problem with egg yolks is if you consume egg

yolks from a commercial egg, not a pasteurized egg,

you're gonna get three times less carotenoids with commercial

eggs. There are also a lot of supplements out

there that you can get that have

lutein and zeaxanthin. I'm gonna recommend that you find one that

has at least ten milligrams of lutein and two

milligrams of zeaxanthin.

Also, if you can find one that has olive

oil in it or MCT oil or some fat, that can help

the absorption because carotenoids are fat soluble.

Another solution is just to take the supplement

when you're eating food

because they're gonna get absorbed a lot better.

In this one paper, a significant improvement in

decreasing macular degeneration, improving the loss of

contrast sensitivity by taking these two carotenoids

for twelve weeks. Also highly recommend you, at

the same time, stop consuming seed oils.

I'm talking about in the salad dressing and the

mayonnaise, soy oil, the canola

oil, the cottonseed oil, the sunflower oil.

These are very high in omega-6,

and they can go into our membranes in the

eye, and

they can interfere with the retina.

There's a great paper on this which was given to me by Dr.

Chris Kenobi, who's an ophthalmologist who specializes

in the eye.

That paper was really about, uh, getting rid of the seed oils

and replace it with

an ancestral diet, uh, something that's more a natural diet that

doesn't have all the refined foods.

Another important food to consume would be fatty fish,

salmon, because the omega-3 are really good for the eye,

also to reduce inflammation of the eye as well.

If you think about it, the retina is just an extension of the brain,

and the retina

needs DHA. That's a, an omega-3 fatty acid,

and you can get that in

fish oil or cod liver oil.

Let's come f- back to the topic of vitamin D.

Is that important for the eye? Wow, it really is.

I looked at the research in vitamin D.

Every, uh, part of the eye is improved with vitamin

D. A lot of conditions are improved too, like glaucoma.

There's research by another ophthalmologist from Germany who gets

fantastic

results with high doses of vitamin D for glaucoma,

which is an increased pressure in the eye.

And there's a lot of research on taking,

uh, vitamin D for macular degeneration,

using vitamin D to help reduce, uh,

the complications of

retinopathy, which is eye damage from diabetes.

I recommend you take at least ten thousand IUs of vitamin

D3 every single day. Of course,

vitamin A, which is actually in egg yolks, is

very important in the eye as

well. If you lose vitamin A, it's hard to see at

night. In summary, you need to get outside more.

If you're in front of your desk and computer,

cell phone for long periods of time,

you need to get outside and get sunlight.

In the meantime, you can get a-

another full spectrum light

that shines more light,

so you can actually wear these less.

That'll give you time to build up your carotenoids in the eye because as

you age, you have less carotenoids, and now the efficiency

of absorbing light is gonna be less.

Lutein, zeaxanthin are the

two that you need to build up over a

period of three months.

Of course, eat foods high in that as well.

Egg yolks, cod liver oil, vitamin D. Throw some zinc in there.

That can help as well. The reason

why most people need glasses at

age

forty-five is because our eyes were designed

to be outside, not in front of a computer.

Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next video.