Why the White Ring Around Your Iris?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Is a white ring around the iris something to worry about? Here’s what you should know.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:13.3 | I want to talk about this white ring that sometimes you see around the cornea of someone's |
| 0:29.3 | iris and if this is a dangerous thing, what does it mean? |
| 0:33.7 | What's the significance of it? |
| 0:35.6 | Mainly you see this in older people. |
| 0:37.0 | In fact, you can probably see this in the majority of people, probably even 70% of everyone |
| 0:42.3 | over the age of 80 is going to have this white ring around the iris and it's called |
| 0:47.1 | Arcus Sonilus. |
| 0:48.1 | There's nothing really to worry about. |
| 0:50.2 | It's actually a cholesterol ring. |
| 0:52.3 | What happens as you get older is your ability to oxidize cholesterol becomes less and |
| 0:57.3 | less and less and it can start to accumulate in certain parts of your body. |
| 1:00.9 | It doesn't mean that your arteries are getting clogged. |
| 1:03.4 | It has nothing to do with that. |
| 1:05.0 | It just means that you're not fully oxidizing or burning some of the cholesterol and it's |
| 1:09.5 | backing up in certain tissues. |
| 1:11.8 | Now, if you see this in people that are less than 40 years old, then this is something |
| 1:18.1 | a little different. |
| 1:19.1 | It could mean that you have a problem with lipids and cholesterol, especially LDL and |
| 1:24.8 | just so you know, I'm talking about those people who are doing a high carb diet and high |
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