#1 Deficiency Behind POOR EYESIGHT
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that the more you wear your glasses, the stronger prescription you’ll need?
Contrast sensitivity loss is an eye problem doctors don’t commonly check for. This condition affects the ability to differentiate between shades of grey, causing blurry vision, especially in low light.
Carotenoids are antioxidants that protect the eyes against blue light, chemicals, damage from diabetes, and more. However, as we age, carotenoids decrease, so eye protection also decreases. Full-spectrum light can be helpful but will not solve the problem.
To improve eyesight, you need to increase the efficiency of the retina. Sunlight is vital for eye and retina health. It allows UV and infrared light into the eye and can also help build up the eye’s melatonin.
You can increase carotenoids in the eye by consuming foods with lutein and zeaxanthin. Both carotenoids are found in egg yolks.
If you choose supplements with lutein and zeaxanthin, look for one with at least 10 mg of lutein and 2 mg of zeaxanthin. Research has shown significant improvement in macular degeneration and contrast sensitivity loss in people who took lutein and zeaxanthin for 12 weeks.
Ophthalmologist Dr. Chris Knobbe stresses the importance of removing seed oils from the diet and moving towards an ancestral diet for improved eyesight and eye health. Fatty fish like salmon contain omega-3s, which support eye health and reduce inflammation. DHA is vital for the brain and retina and is found in fish oil and cod liver oil.
Vitamin D is critical for every part of the eye and can help with conditions like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and retinopathy. Take at least 10,000 IU of vitamin D every day. Vitamin A is essential, especially for night vision. Zinc can also help!
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm going to share with you how to improve your eyesight naturally without these things right here. |
| 0:04.8 | Glasses. I cannot stand these glasses. And they call them corrective lenses, but do they really correct |
| 0:10.5 | anything? No. The more you wear them, the more that you need a stronger prescription. In fact, |
| 0:15.4 | when I wear these, especially for long periods of time, oh my gosh, my eyes are killing me. Did you realize |
| 0:19.8 | that by the age of 45, |
| 0:21.8 | most people need glasses? What is going on? I think this video will be a game changer for you |
| 0:27.4 | if you have this very specific problem that I want to share with you. It's something that the eye |
| 0:33.4 | doctors rarely test for, unfortunately, in the routine eye test. I did a little deep dive and I found |
| 0:39.6 | there's this other thing called contrast sensitivity loss. The loss of being able to differentiate |
| 0:47.7 | different shades of gray. Things will look blurry, especially if there's not enough light. This is |
| 0:52.8 | definitely a breakdown with |
| 0:54.6 | the retina, and it could be also the lens. But it's a different problem. You see, when you go to an eye |
| 1:00.7 | doctor, they'll put a chart up with the letters, and you have black letters on a white background. |
| 1:06.1 | That is actually high contrast. They're evaluating different problems with the eye that are not necessarily |
| 1:11.5 | related to this contrast sensitivity loss. That's a completely different test and it's not a routine |
| 1:18.1 | thing that they test for. If someone has this loss of contrast sensitivity, adding more light |
| 1:24.8 | can greatly help the person see. That doesn't actually fix the problem. |
| 1:28.7 | It helps you compensate for the problem. |
| 1:30.8 | There's certain patents, there's certain research done, |
| 1:33.6 | that if a person starts to increase certain antioxidants in the eye, |
| 1:39.0 | that can improve this condition. |
| 1:41.4 | Why would an antioxidant improve your vision? |
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