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Join me for an illuminating episode of the EyeClarity podcast, where we unravel the secrets of holistic eye care. From finding the right eye doctor to making informed choices about surgery, this episode is a comprehensive guide to maintaining and enhancing your eye health. Let’s journey through the realm of eye care together and empower ourselves with knowledge and insights that pave the way to better vision. Enjoy the show!

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Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. If you want to get in touch with me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. Before we start the show, I’d like to talk to you about my new membership platform. When you join, you get access to exclusive content that you won’t see on social media. You’ll be able to attend my live Q and A and ask me questions, and you’ll have the opportunity to join my advanced workshops. To sign up, go to drsamburnmembership.com now to today’s show.

Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today, I want to help you navigate the eye care system. So I’m going to take a few minutes. I’m going to talk about ways that, first of all, you can find an eye doctor that you can maybe be compatible with. Number two, how you can help your eye doctor, help you in the best possible way. And number three, if in fact, you do need surgery, what’s the best way to navigate?

All right, so let’s go to number one, how to find an eye doctor. Well, you know, the best way to do that, I think, is first of all, go on Google and type in holistic eye doctor. Now, you may or may not get somebody in your area. You may not even get a holistic eye doctor. You may get a holistic naturopath or functional medicine doctor or a biological dentist. And so at this point, I would contact whatever comes up on the Google, and I would contact that office and ask them for a referral. Is there anybody they know? And maybe it isn’t quite a holistic eye doctor, but somebody maybe who’s a little older, maybe who’s a little more gentle, a little more middle of the road. It’s kind of hard to find holistic eye doctors because in school, we’re not really trained to look at vision holistically only allopathically but many times there are doctors that at least they’re more reasonable in their attitude. And if you can find somebody like that, another way to do it is through your friends, through your community, to ask around who’s somebody that I have a holistic philosophy in my health. Is there somebody that at least isn’t totally extreme? Name that’s going to really just recommend surgery as soon as I walk in the door. And there are doctors, eye doctors out there like that, and that may be the best you can do in your area. So that would be number one.

The number two. When you go for your eye exam, I recommend taking a friend, a family member, and have a certain intention or focus on what you want to achieve. It could be, I want you to check my eye health. I want you to give me a prescription for my glasses, if that’s what you need. But I don’t want you to overcorrect me. And the way you do that is when he starts flipping the lenses. Feel it in your body, feel it in your eyes, and you’re wanting to stay as close to the current prescription as you can. And you need to stand up for yourself here and you need to say, I don’t want a super strong prescription. And most of the time, even if they don’t believe in you or believe what you’re saying, if you’re committed, because the stronger the prescription you get, the faster it is going to weaken your eyes. So you want to stay in the area of something that’s more in the middle, so you don’t have something that’s so strong that it’s going to make you dizzy, nauseous, or give you headaches.

All right, now, in addition to that, I would be very careful about going into things like progressive lenses or bifocals, especially if you haven’t done it before, you’re much better off getting two pairs of glasses. Something for distance, something for near. You want to stay away from things like monovision where they’re correcting one eye for distance, one eye for near. And you want to be conservative in what you’re wearing. These newfangled things that these guys and gals want to prescribe, they end up in disaster. I mean, people come to me and they go, I should have never gone down this road. I just had a guy yesterday and he said, you know, this is the busiest fanciest eye center in Santa Fe. And every time I come out of there, I get these glasses. I cannot see out of them. And I keep going back and they just say, Get used to it. And I’ve gone to them three years in a row. I am fed up. And so for the exam, what I did is I reduced his prescription by about 70% and he tried it on and he goes, my goodness, this feels great. I love this. This so it takes an empowerment. In your world to be able to say, I don’t want something too strong, and don’t give me all these bells and whistles. I’d even be careful about staying away from a lot of tints, a lot of coatings, because it ends up smudging the lens. It’s cloudy, and the lenses just don’t last as long, and they’re expensive. So stay with, again, middle of the road.

All right, number three surgery. So, first of all, if a doctor is recommending eye surgery, I would consider getting a second opinion. I would definitely do some research, consult with me or somebody like me. And before you enter into any surgery, you want to know what the side effects are. You want to know what the success rate is. You want to know, what can I expect from this? And in some of the side effects, you want to know things like, well, is this going to create dry eye? Is it going to create floaters? Am I going to have a retina issue? What are some of this? And really, if you can’t get those answers from your doctor, then you find a doctor who can tell you these things. And I would enter any surgical procedure very cautiously because there are side effects, especially to laser procedures and procedures that are invasive.

So that being said, as long as the condition is not sight threatening, and you’ve got even if you have four to six weeks, what I would say is start doing some of my protocols, and many times you can stave off the pattern and eventually turn the tide. So this is something, again, where you go with a friend, with an advocate, and you don’t let them bully you into something or scare you into something until you are completely informed on what’s going on. And this even includes pharmaceutical eyedrops, things like eyedrops for restasis, steroid eyedrops, antibiotic eyedrops. A lot of times, there may be alternatives that you can use, and this is where you get the information. And then you find somebody like me, and then there are ways that you can go. I mean, acupuncture can be really helpful. Craniosacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, herbal remedies, any plant based medicines, natural eyedrops eye exercises. There’s so many things that you can do.

And another aspect that we don’t discuss extensively is changing your diet. Reflect on the foods you consume. Shift towards a more plant-based, rainbow-colored vegetable-rich diet. Vegetables are highly beneficial for your retina, vitreous, cornea, and eyelids. Adopt an anti-inflammatory eating pattern. Explore intermittent fasting. Consider doing a cleanse. Seek guidance from a functional medicine doctor. Often, eye issues stem from either functional eye problems, incorrect prescriptions, eye coordination disparities, or biochemical/endocrine imbalances. A skilled naturopath or functional medicine doctor can assist you in replenishing essential nutrients and facilitating the healing of your eye tissues. For queries, reach out via email: [email protected], [email protected]. Connect with me on social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and Clubhouse. I’m here to support you. That concludes our episode. Take care, everyone.

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I invite you to join me on a captivating journey through the realm of aromatherapy in this podcast episode. Together, we’ll delve into the multi-faceted world of lemon essential oil, explore the art of intuitive aromatherapy, and uncover the remarkable benefits of harnessing the power of natural plant remedies. From sensory experiences to practical tips, I’m thrilled to share my insights and knowledge to help you navigate the intricacies of this enchanting practice. Tune in and let’s discover the transformative magic of aromatherapy! Enjoy the show!

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Hello, everyone. This is Dr. Sam. I’d like to extend a warm welcome to my EyeClarity podcast. If you wish to connect with me, feel free to send your questions to [email protected]. Prior to delving into the show, I’d like to discuss my fresh membership platform. By becoming a member, you’ll gain access to exclusive content that remains unseen on social media. You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in my live Q&A sessions, where you can ask me questions directly, and you’ll be eligible to join my advanced workshops. To enroll, please visit drsamburnmembership.com. Now, on to today’s episode.

Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam. I’m pleased to welcome you to today’s EyeClarity podcast. Today, I’ll be addressing a single question, and I’m thrilled to delve into the topic of aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is a profound interest of mine, one that I’ve been deeply immersed in for numerous years. In particular, I’d like to spotlight lemon essential oil. Lemon is an incredibly versatile essential oil, but cautious application is necessary. When using any essential oil for the first time, it’s crucial to introduce it to your system gently and with care. This is a practice I emphasize in my classes. Begin by experiencing the aroma of the oil, allowing it to engage with your olfactory and limbic systems. This will provide an immediate inclination towards acceptance or rejection.

For example, if I were to present rose oil, its scent is often associated with the rose flower and evokes a sense of heart-opening. On the other hand, an essential oil like spikenard, with its shamanic essence, might carry a scent reminiscent of dirty socks. Despite this, it holds value in the dream world, inducing relaxation. The key is to discern whether the initial response is positive or negative. Turning to lemon, a citrus aroma that’s generally favored, you’d similarly smell it initially and evaluate your reaction. Next, I recommend conducting a patch test on a less sensitive area of the skin, such as the inner part of the wrist. This minimizes any discomfort that might arise, as opposed to applying it directly to more sensitive regions like the face or private areas, which can lead to temporary discomfort. If you ever experience a burning sensation from an essential oil on your skin, applying coconut oil can promptly alleviate it.

So, having completed test number one for lemon—smelling and patch testing—the next step is determining suitable areas of application. Almost any essential oil can be applied to the soles of the feet. For adults, two to three drops of oil on each sole, twice daily, is advisable. With children, the dose varies. For instance, one drop for younger kids and up to four drops for older ones. Lemon essential oil boasts several benefits. It possesses antibacterial and antifungal properties while supporting the liver, spleen, and kidneys, functioning as a detoxifying agent. Thus, it’s a valuable addition to any gentle detox regimen, consistently applied to the soles of the feet. Moreover, lemon oil has a positive impact on mood, elevating emotions and combating feelings of negativity. When facing a challenging day, a little lemon can go a long way in boosting your spirits.

Lastly, there’s a common query about carrier oils. Initially, my aromatherapy training advocated for direct application of essential oils on the skin. However, as I began practicing, I observed varying skin sensitivities. Consequently, I’ve adopted a more flexible stance. Organic carrier oils, such as jojoba, aloe vera, or sunflower, can be blended with essential oils. They serve as compatible carriers, diluting the essential oil’s potency. While this might necessitate a slightly higher quantity of drops, experimentation is key. Intuition also plays a vital role in aromatherapy. A strong intuitive sense guides dosages—whether it’s one or two drops, once or twice daily. Typically, twice daily is a solid guideline for adults, with dosages ranging from one to four drops based on the oil’s nature.

Allow me to recommend a reputable company, Stillpoint Aromatics. Although I receive no financial incentives, I hold them in high regard. Their founder and CEO, Virginia Joy, ensures the utmost integrity in sourcing essential oils from biodynamic farms. Stillpoint Aromatics, located in Sedona, stands as a trustworthy option.

Thank you, everyone, for tuning in. That concludes today’s episode. I appreciate your listenership and hope you’ve gained insights from the Iclarity podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, kindly subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and consider leaving a review. Until next time, take care.

Today I want to address the pressing issue of managing children’s digital device use and offer valuable advice to parents seeking to establish effective boundaries. We’ll shed light on the potential pitfalls of excessive screen time – from eye strain to fatigue – and underscore the heightened vulnerability of children due to their less-developed protective eye pigments against blue light. I advocate for a thoughtful approach rooted in negotiation when discussing digital device limits with kids. Enjoy the show!

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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, everyone. Welcome to the episode today. So I want to target parents. I also want to target children, and this has to do with digital devices. And the topic of the podcast is how to set boundaries, digital device boundaries for kids. This is a constant fight that goes on in probably every household. Kids just want to use their screens all day, and parents are really upset that kids are spending so much time staring at their screens, either playing video games or even just schoolwork.

Recently, I was visiting a school and I was doing some consulting, and every classroom I went in, the kids were on their iPad, learning through their digital devices. So we can’t fight it. They’re definitely here. But what’s the research? What’s my clinical experience and how to navigate this conversation? And what is it that we can do to negotiate with our kids? How to set boundaries with digital devices.

So a conservative, mainstream publication this was put out by the American Optometric Association came out and said that, yes, children are at a higher risk of eye strain, eye fatigue, maybe even retinal damage from looking at their digital devices. There was an article that was published a long time ago, 1962, in the Investigative Ophthalmology Journal, and they were studying the difference between children’s lenses in the eye versus adults.

And what the researchers found is that children do not have the pigment developed that deflects the damaging blue light. So this means that. Adults do have this pigment inherently in the lens, but it doesn’t develop till later on in a child’s life. And so young children, school age children, they don’t have this pigment. This means that the blue light can absorb more deeply through the lens to the retina, therefore creating the potential of more retinal damage.

So the American optometric association also wrote in this publication that kids have a higher risk of developing headaches, blurred vision, and eye strain from staring at digital devices. The AOA also said that children may have a disruption in their circadian rhythms which affects their sleep cycle. Now, my clinical practice, what I have seen is kids love the digital devices.

They can’t get enough of it. It creates kind of an addictive focus for them. But at the same time, I’m seeing more kids with blurred vision at distance, red eyes, headaches, eye strain, avoidance of reading. And I think it is related to all the screen time that kids are doing so in being able to negotiate. This is setting boundaries, digital device boundaries. With kids, I think it comes down to a couple of things.

Number one, when you’re communicating or negotiating with your child, it’s better if you don’t take an authoritative approach like the parent says, it’s my way or the highway. I like to find the hot button with kids. What are their goals and objectives? What do they like to do besides digital devices? Or maybe it’s some goal that they’re going for.

They want to buy something or they want to go somewhere. So I like to ask them what are some of their goals and objectives in the bigger picture? And then once I have that information, I know what their hot button is. I can then begin to discuss this digital device conversation as it relates to their lifestyle homework, sports, travel, seeing friends.

And what I like to do with a digital device conversation is say, look, I can give you an hour a day of your screen time, especially if it’s video games or watching a TV show or a movie, but an hour is about the limit. And then on the weekends, maybe what we could do is if you get your homework done, if you’re cleaning up your room, if you’re taking care of your responsibility abilities, maybe what we can do is give you 2 hours.

But we split the. Time up. And so it takes this negotiation with your child to say, look, this particular activity that you like to do is really hard on your eyes and I want you to be able to do it. I know you get some pleasure, I know you enjoy it, but I also want you to do some other things as well. And it does get to be like an addictive behavior.

Just like when we eat sugar and then the doctor says, oh, we want you to stop eating sugar, and you go into this strong emotional reaction. I’ve had this many times with kids when they say their favorite food is laced with sugar, and I say, well, maybe we need to reduce it, there’s this strong emotional reaction.

No, I can’t do this. So the point is that

with the computer, with the screens, you have to kind of press into what their emotional reaction is going to be. And you have to manage it. You have to give them a say in it, listen to them, hear them out. And again, it becomes a negotiation where your goal is the end game is to limit it and get them to do other things besides just staring at their screens.

The other thing that you can do is you can put some screen protectors on the digital device. One of the companies I’ve been working with is called Safe Sleeve, and they have some wonderful blue blockers that you can put on your phones, your tablets, your computers, or blue blocking glasses. That would be another option as well.

So at least you’re getting your child to do that. If you take them to a holistic eye doctor, sometimes the doctor will prescribe low plus lenses. We call these developmental lenses. So the combination of the low plus with the blue blockers relaxes the visual system, but it blocks the damaging blue light.

So the bottom line is, number one, they need protection. Number two, you need to limit their screens, and number three, make sure they get outside into the natural sunlight, especially in the morning. That’s one of the best things that you can do for them. Studies have shown that kids who spend more time outside in the sun have a lower incidence of myopia or they reduce their myopia.

So there’s something to be said of being outside in open space, in natural light. We spend so much time with our artificial lights, whether it’s school, institutions, even our homes perhaps, that we need to get out into the natural sunlight. That’s a great antidote. And of course, if you can get them to eat the colorful vegetables and antioxidant foods, make sure they’re getting some good supplementation, some good fish oil or healthy fats.

These are all things that if you can get it in their diet, that’s helpful as well. And eliminate or reduce the sugary foods. So good luck, parents. It’s a tough one, I’ve been there. And I’ll have more to say as we move along. So thanks for your interest today. That’s our show. Until next time, everyone. Take care.

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In this episode I recount my personal struggle with vision issues and how I found solace in the holistic method. Vision encompasses more than just the eyes; it encompasses the brain, emotions, posture, and balance. I lay out crucial strategies for bolstering vision, especially for those aged 70 and above grappling with conditions like cataracts or macular degeneration. Enjoy the show!

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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. Welcome to my podcast. So today I’m going to take on a subject about your eye health, eye disease. And this is targeted for 70 years old and up. We’ve been diagnosed with a certain condition like cataracts or macular degeneration. So how do we dissolve the barriers to follow my protocols and program?

Well, I’ll start off with a personal story many years ago. In fact, if I think about it, it was over 40 years ago. I was very, very near sighted, and I also had a struggle with reading. I was in my late twenties. I had graduated optometry school. I was involved in a postdoctoral fellowship at the Gazelle Institute. And I was just starting my first private practice in Philadelphia.

And I met a developmental optometrist who practiced in Connecticut. His name was Dr. Al Shankman, and he wrote a book that you could look up called Vision Enhancement Therapy or Vision Enhancement Training. And he invited me to a year-long seminar that he was putting on for a group of young optometrists who were interested in his philosophy.

So he was holistic. He was mind, body. He was a yoga teacher. He also taught meditation. And he was in his mid-70s, so he’d given up his regular private practice, and he was doing this out of his home. So when I met him, I drove up from Philadelphia. I was really taken to him immediately. And we had a very strong connection, developed a deep bond over many years of my working with him and being a mentor, mentoring.

So he was mentoring me. And then we became friends, and he watched my career take off. But the very early part of it, I signed up to be a patient of his and I began doing his vision therapy. Now, it was a form of physical therapy that was very different than what I had learned both in school and in some of my externships. Because he was of the perspective that vision was not just in the eyeball, but it was a whole body pattern that influenced our posture, our movement, our emotions, our balance and many other things.

And so I started in on his program, but this is where it comes in about dissolving the barriers, because what I ended up doing was spending anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes a day, seven days a week, doing his physical therapy practices and having that level of commitment. I began to see some changes that went on that eventually allowed me to completely let go of my strong near sighted prescription. And it also healed my learning and reading problem that I had had since I was eight years old. So it was a 20-year odyssey.

And when those two things happen, I recognized that one of my own blocks was my inability to commit and be consistent in a daily practice. Now, the other point of it that he emphasized was whatever activities he gave me. And he didn’t like to use the word exercise because when we think of exercise, we think of I’m strengthening muscles, I’m stretching it’s more on a physical level. But vision is very much an internal process in the sense that when I would do the practice, I used the practice that he gave me as a mirror, be like looking into a mirror and seeing and watching and observing my patterns of awareness.

It could be things like my right eye was more emotional than my left eye, my left eye had a better balance than my right eye, meaning body balance. And my posture was different when I used each eye separately, stuff like that. So the activity allowed me to understand my awareness. And this led to my insight into habits and conditioning that caused the vision problem to begin with.

Because again. In the space, it’s all genetics or because my parents had a certain condition that I’m going to get it. And in the epigenetic research, there’s more to it than just your genes. But it’s really how the environment, how you interact with yourself and the world that turns the genes on and off. And this epigenetic dia is not new. It’s been around for a long time. I mean, if you wanted to look up, probably one of the founders, at least on a public level, is Bruce Lipton, who first introduced this to the mainstream and it really took off.

But in these practices around your vision, because vision equals brain, I began to understand that the brain, the mind, our thoughts, our belief systems had such a huge influence on the physical eyesight. Remember, eyesight is glasses and it’s the eye chart. But vision is the brain and how we process information, how our two eyes work together.

And so in my protocols, one of the things I emphasize is, number one, you’ve got to commit to do a daily practice of at least 30 minutes a day. Now you can split that up into different time periods, doing a little bit in the morning, afternoon, evening. And especially I’m targeting this towards 70 year olds because usually you’ve got a little more time, but your vision is deteriorating.

You are investing in being able to reverse any visual deterioration. The second thing that’s important is to keep a journal, keep a diary of your awarenesses. What you’re experiencing, feeling, seeing, noticing your thoughts. Just write them down. Awareness is the key, I think, in healing your vision. The more you become aware of the habits and conditioning, you’re now dissolving the obstacles that have been created that actually changes the physical structure.

So those two aspects are really, really important in being able to make the changes. Now, case in point, I’ll talk about two people who I saw recently who are in their seventies, and they were able to improve their vision. I had a patient who came in and she just wanted an exam. She was having difficulty reading contracts, skipping words, losing her place. And so during the evaluation I recognized that she was way over corrected in her glasses prescription.

But she wasn’t ready to. Take the less prescription. The other thing that was going on is her right eye was shutting off when she was using both eyes together. So we had to do a vision test to uncover that problem. So I began giving her a couple of vision practices to do. And I got an email about two weeks later, literally two weeks later. And she wrote and she said, you know, I can’t wear my glasses anymore.

My balance is off, and I see better without my glasses. So some switch got turned on and she came in and I was able to reduce her prescription by 50% 50%. That’s unheard of. And on top of that, she was actually able to do some reading without her glasses. So she’s farsighted. She needed some magnification, but I think the doctor just over magnified her.

And that was also creating some of the suppression in the right eye because she was saying, you know, I’m not having that problem right now reading contracts. And so that

was just two weeks doing daily practices that I gave her. The other person I’ll mention again is 70 plus. She came in with a cataract diagnosis in both eyes.

Now, in her case, I had her supplement with glutathione sublingual and vitamin C. Also had her take some additional eye supplementation that included lutein and Zeaxanthin to wear blue blockers to do some vision practices that I gave her. And within six months, her cataracts completely dissolved 100%. Now, she was 75 years old, but she made the shift as well.

Now, in both cases, these people committed to the practices, deeply committed, because if you’re dabbling in it or you just want the end result, it’s probably not going to work for you. It didn’t work for me. And this is one of the messages that I convey to people that they have to commit, they have to sharpen their self awareness, and they have to understand that this is a process of relearning how the eyes and the brain work together.

Now, some obvious other things that you can do would be get 30 minutes of morning natural sunlight every day. Get out in nature, 15 to 30 minutes a day. Improve your lymph system, if you can, by walking. Eat a diet that is cleaner. So you’re eating more fruits and a few vegetables. What I’m saying is a few fruits, like especially the berry family and the colorful vegetables, especially the red or orange yellow pigmented vegetables. These have the lutein. zeaxanthin in it. You can even add the astaxanthin by eating marine carotenoids. Just make sure it’s wild caught if you’re doing salmon, because the sources, again, can be a problem.

Include your omega three s, your fish oil, if you can remember. Fats and oils are really important in the equation. And I also include my red light exposure. Know, so many people have benefited from my red exercise glasses. And I think red light because it stimulates the mitochondria function in the retina. It does help reduce the reactive oxygen species that’s the free radicals that form in the retina. And it kind of turns the corner where you’re reducing oxidative stress and improving your visual functioning by absorbing your nutrients better.

The mitochondria are working better. So that’s kind of a no brainer. So that’s my message for today. I want to thank everybody for their contribution, their participation, and keep watching. I got more to say.

Take care, everybody. Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Let’s talk about how to approach the conversation around eye care with someone you’re close to, whether it’s a family member, friend, or your child. This can be a very delicate conversation. When someone you know is diagnosed with a problem like glaucoma, cataracts, or macular degeneration, I suggest taking a holistic and integrative approach, but it’s important to respect their choices and ask permission before offering advice. So let’s jump into today’s episode. Enjoy the show.

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Everybody, welcome to the program today. So I want to talk about what happens when either your family member or friend gets the eye diagnosis. So let’s say you have a parent, and he or she has been diagnosed with glaucoma, or cataracts or macular degeneration. And the doctor will say something like, well, let’s just watch it. Or let’s schedule you for a procedure. And you being a holistically minded person says maybe there’s something else. So how can you help.

Or let’s say you have a child who’s maybe struggling a little bit in school, or you notice that there’s an eye turn, or he or she covers one of her eyes, and you go to the doctor and he says, Well, you’ve got esotropia or amblyopia. And we need to either patch full time, or you need to do i muscle surgery right away, let’s get this scheduled. Or even if it’s just a friend, a friend who maybe has had a botched cataract surgery, or is facing glaucoma surgery, and you know that there might be a better way, how do you navigate the waters, the day doesn’t go by when somebody will write me and say, you know, I have a family member or a friend who’s got this eye condition. I know there’s a better way. And so you know, I offer certain suggestions and so on.

But this is educational only. So I’m not diagnosing or treating. But how do you handle the dynamics of this? So first of all, I think it’s important to note that everybody is on their own path. And as much as we want to help others, I think it’s important that if you’re going to offer advice that you want to ask permission, you want to make sure that it’s okay. Because some people just aren’t open to a more holistic integrative approach, especially with the eyes. For some reason, we don’t think we can improve our vision. It’s the one part of our body that isn’t going to heal at least that’s what maybe your eye doctor has said, even though people have had healings in so many other areas of their body, why not the eyes? So if you have that conversation, and the person says, Yeah, I’m open to it, what do you have? I think the first thing to do is maybe show some research based on the condition if that’s possible.

I’ve got a good resource list that you can use to show them that, you know, if you do x, it might change Why, certainly with conditions like macular degeneration, the research is pretty rock solid. That says that you know, if you add things like lutein, zeaxanthin, acid Xanthine, Omega three vitamin A zinc, that you have a chance of maybe improving your vision, if you start feeding your eyes with those nutrients. Of course you can get a little more edgy, and you can show them the red light therapy, which the studies have been done by the Jeffrey’s lab I’m in UCL University College London, which said that red light actually might be able to regenerate your eyes, especially the macula. And also there might be a reduction in drusen. You know, some people with red light if they’ve never been exposed to it before, this is a bit of a leap.

But you know, the research is pretty definitive, that red light is definitely helpful, at least in supporting mitochondria function, reducing oxidative stress and inflammation, at least on a body level. Another thing to consider is, you know, how open the person is that you know, diet and nutrition, play a big role in your eye health. And I’ve said this many times that the retina has one of the highest metabolic needs in the body and the macula has the highest metabolic need in the retina. And if we look at all the eye conditions, at least the main ones, we start at the front of the eye, we’ve got conditions like blepharitis, and meibomian gland dysfunction, it comes down to the state of the health of our eyelids, how much inflammation we’re carrying, how much I stress and blue block or blue light exposure we have.

And when we when we have inflammation in the eyelids, of course, this leads to dry eye, and cornea health, more problems like cataracts, of course, cataracts are formed because of oxidative stress, and also the glycation process. That glucose molecule attaching itself to the protein molecule of the lens is the person really willing to reduce their sugars and eat a more natural, organic, non GMO, low or no pesticide type foods, this is really important food is medicine. And if you can heal your gut, it’s going to have a positive impact on your eyes. And the more inflammation you have in your body, the more it’s going to create eye problems, as we know this, so this this is kind of the first conversation you can have. As we move further back. Of course, floaters are disturbing, but they’re not sight threatening, although people have a real emotional response to floaters. Again, some people get so frustrated and angry with their floaters. And again, it comes down to how can you boost your vitreous health, collagen health. And you’ve seen many of my video blogs to talk about that. And even things like posterior vitreous detachment, there are things that you can do to reverse that.

And then of course, then we move to the retina, we’ve got the optic nerve and the retina and the macula. And so that covers the eyes. Nutrition is an easy way to start. If you start making changes, this is a way for you to start seeing improvement in your eyesight. You know, I’ll never forget when I got into practice very early on my first practice was in the Philadelphia area. And I didn’t know very much when I started my practice, I knew I was committed to holistic optometry, but I used to counsel people just to change their diet. That’s it, you know, just eat a more healthy diet. And they’d come back and three and six and nine months later, and their cataracts were reduced, or their macular degeneration was reduced or their glaucoma, they weren’t taking as many medications they’re dry was less their myopia was less. So I saw early on the relationship, the connection between what we eat and how we see, obviously, eyes and vision relate to our lifestyle, our stress, how well we sleep, our relationships.

And all of these things contribute to the eventuality that if we don’t take care of ourselves, we have a higher risk of developing all these different AI diagnoses and conditions that the eye doctor is great at figuring out. So in the conversation that you have with your friends and your parents, these would be some of the places that I can start and then you can maybe turn them on to some of my content or other people’s content, who talk about holistic healing and functional medicine, things that are you know, steeped in research and you know, testimonials and things like that. If they go more deeply into it, then they can get into the AI exercise realm. But that would not be a place that I would start because that takes more commitment. It takes more buy in and you know if they’re open minded to doing it if they’ve done other things like yoga, or Feldenkrais, or you know, any kind of body centered practice mind body, meditation, those kinds of things, then they may be more open to the eye exercise therapy.

That’s certainly true. Now with kids, you or your child, if they had been diagnosed with a high condition like strabismus, or amblyopia, or high hyperopia or myopia or astigmatism, there are physical therapy exercises, in my opinion, that work so well organically in helping the child re educate, reprogram how their eyes connect to their brain and body. And taking a developmental approach, where you start looking at the arc of development from gestation, birth, and the first few years of life, these experiences definitely can impact a child’s sensory motor development, I put their vision in there as well, traumas have a huge impact on our visual system. You know, more and more professionals are talking about the effects of trauma, and how it affects our mental health. And our mental health and our vision are very tied in together. I’ll never forget one of my mentors, saying that vision is mostly mental, what we think about as what we see what we project and what we manifest.

Now, I know that’s kind of a metaphor, but it actually rings true on a physical practical level, that what we think will impact what we see and what we believe. And if we change our thinking, we can change what we’re seeing. And so with kids, especially because of their plasticity, I would definitely seek out a more organic physical therapy type program, instead of doing something invasive and traumatizing, like surgery, or long term patching, that stuff just doesn’t work, even though that’s what the mainstream promotes. It’s really fixing a symptom. And I think if there’s one takeaway today, when you talk to your family members, your friends, or your thinking about your children, or even yourself, is do you want to be in the fixed model, which is just treating symptoms? Or do you want to get to the causative factors, and realize that at least in the vision world, there’s physical, emotional, energetic, and psychological reasons why we develop our eyes in the way we do. And if you think of it that way, and you want to treat the cause, then you can seek out a more holistic approach and it works very well. It takes more time. It takes more persistence, consistency, commitment, but the results are amazing.

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So digest that for a while. I want to thank you so much for tuning in today. Until next time, take care.

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Today’s episode is all about the misconception of solely focusing on reducing prescriptions to improve vision. I share a powerful story of a nearsighted patient who demanded a reduced prescription without doing the necessary reprogramming work. It resulted in frustration and discomfort. I emphasize the importance of vision therapy to reprogram habits and beliefs before pursuing reduced prescriptions. Whether dealing with myopia, astigmatism, or farsightedness, the key is self-awareness, discipline, and adaptability. Vision is a flexible process, and with proper physical therapy, reduced prescriptions can be more effective. Don’t rush the process. Do the work first for lasting results. Enjoy the show.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

prescription, nearsighted, reduced, nearsightedness, vision, reduce, shankman, people, work, therapy, program, habits, podcast, fixated, astigmatism, self awareness, eyes, plasticity, private facebook community, goal

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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So if you want to get in touch with me, you can send me an email at [email protected]. Or you can text me now 1-844-932-1291 Send me your questions. Before we get to today’s show, I want to announce my membership program. This is an opportunity for you to get exposed to my exclusive content and resources, things you won’t see on my social media or website. The reason why I’m offering this membership program is to give you valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your wellness. You’ll receive personalized support and coaching, goal setting, and I’m going to make you accountable so that you achieve your goals. Also, with the membership, you’ll have the convenience of 24/7 access without having to pay for weekly appointments. We’ll be offering a private Facebook community so we’ll be able to share with each other. And you’ll be able to come to my live q&a and ask me questions. So if you’re interested, you can go to my website, drsamberne.com and sign up now. Okay, now to the show.

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Hey, everyone, welcome to the program. So the title of today’s podcast is don’t just live to reduce your prescription. So many people that I’ve worked with over the years, who wants to reduce their prescription who want to improve their vision gets so fixated on the prescription, that they’re missing out on what is really needed to make the deep level changes. I’ll tell you a story. One time that happened when somebody came to see me she was very nearsighted. And she asked me to reduce her prescription. And I said, you know, without doing the physical therapy to reprogram your eyes and brain, it’s not going to work. And she said, Oh, no, I can handle it. Give me a reduced prescription. So I’ll give you the numbers. Not that it means anything, but she was a minus 3.25 in each eye. So she had a moderate amount of nearsightedness. So I reduced her prescription to a minus three.

So I reduced it by a quarter of a diopter. So she got the prescription. And she called our office. And she was irate. She was so angry. She said, Dr. Byrne has blinded me, I can’t see anything. Wow. Okay, so my secretary, and I talked about this. And we made an appointment she came in. And I had her put on the glasses, and she was going off how things were so blurry, and how I really how could I do this to her and, you know, stuff like that. So I put her into the exam lane with the minus threes. And I said, I read the chart, and she was able to read the 2020 eye chart, except she missed one letter.

So I paused and I said, Well, you’re still seeing close to 2020. And she’s like, Well, I’m not really seeing the same way as I saw out of my three and a quarters. So it was a great learning lesson for her because it triggered some very deep fear issues and insecurity issues that just by reducing the prescription a little bit. She went into blame mode. She went into fear mode, and she went into survival mode. And so we talked it through and she recognized how much hyper vigilance she was carrying into her eyes that went way back to when she was in school. And she was learning to read and she wasn’t a great student, and on and on and on.

But Case in point, here it was I reduced her prescription the minimal, the most minimal amount. And it triggered such a deep reaction that, wow, this is what people go through, when they start reducing their prescriptions. It’s like it opens up Pandora’s box. So she enrolled in my vision therapy program. And we forgot about the reduced prescription conversation. I said, we’re going to revisit this in about six months. And she came for vision therapy for about six months. And when I re examined her, I was able to give her a minus 1.5 that she wore just for driving, she was able to read without her prescription.

And she considered that a major success story. But what’s missed here is that people will contact me and they will say, Hey, give me the reduced prescription. And I’ll say, No, I’m not going to do that until you do the work first. And sometimes people get very upset about that, because I do talk about giving reduced prescriptions, and how they can be beneficial. But you have to remember that any prescription you get is reinforcing the habits, belief systems, attitudes, reactions, emotional responses, posture, that when you start wearing something that’s unfamiliar, even if it’s just a small change, like this lady, it’s going to cause some changes in your awareness.

And yet people live for this idea of just give me the reduction, give me the reduced prescription. I can handle it. And I would say 99.9% of the time, they actually can’t handle it. They can’t adjust to it. Unless they do the reprogramming work the reeducation work first. You know, I remember in my own case, when I was going through my nearsighted reduction process, the doctor that I went to Dr. Al Shankman, he was my optometrist. He said to me, alright, I want you to give up the goal of getting rid of your nearsightedness. And of course, nearsighted. People are very goal oriented, they’re very results oriented. And I was like that too. And they said, you know, Dr. Shankman, I don’t think I can do that.

And he said, Well, that’s going to be the key for you in dissolving all of your nearsightedness because you’re too fixated on the reduced prescriptions, you’re too fixated on getting the results. And what you need to do is do the vision therapy practices and use them as a mirror, use them as a experience to learn about your habits, your conditioning, the relationship between your two eyes and your brain and your body. So there was a lot that I learned in my self awareness that got me to the place where one day I woke up, and I didn’t need my lenses anymore, but it became a byproduct of all the changes I made in my awareness, letting go of all the habits and conditioning that put me into that nearsighted world to begin with.

Now, this also happens with the astigmatism. I get a lot of DM’s on social media. Hey, I’ve got a stigmatism. Would you write me a prescription for reduced astigmatism correction? Well, you know, if we do that, it’s going to really upset the applecart for sure, because there’s going to be distortion, there’s going to be blurriness, it could lead to headaches, because the reduce prescription is asking you to relax and be in a non warped state. That’s what a astigmatism astigmatism is. It’s warping your perception, because the eyeball is now shaped like an egg instead of a tennis ball.

And so it creates this irregular blur, it affects the posture, and so on. If you want to qualify for a reduced astigmatism correction, you’ve got to do the vision therapy first. That’s the sequence. And last if you’re farsighted, same thing, if you wear magnifying glasses, I mean, it’s not going to work for you to wear something less and strain and stress and create, you know, headaches and those kinds of things. You’re basically reacting to the reduced prescription and you’re not learning what you need to do to adapt or adjust. Vision is about flexibility.

Vision is about adaptability. Vision is about how the brain and the eyes and the Body Talk to each other. And the eyes have a plasticity even after the age of 25. We still maintain a certain level of classes, plasticity, now not the same as children, but we do You have a plasticity that we can change, but we have to be willing to have self awareness, discipline, persistence, consistency in the physical therapy before we can qualify for these reduced prescriptions. So the moral of the story today is don’t just live for reducing prescriptions, do the work first, and then you can slide right into the new prescription, and that will work better. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care.

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Welcome to the EyeClarity podcast! In today’s episode, I share a powerful story about a patient diagnosed with glaucoma and the shocking way the news was delivered. This incident highlighted the importance of going beyond the routine eye exam and considering the patient’s unique needs. Glaucoma diagnosis can be challenging, but incorporating functional vision tests can lead to major breakthroughs. Don’t miss these valuable insights into comprehensive eye care. Enjoy the show!

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

glaucoma, eye, eye exam, vision, optic nerve, open angle glaucoma, doctor, diagnose, prescription, visual, test, major breakthrough, important, health, give, access, pressure, prescribed, missed, delivered

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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I’m going to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. Or you can text them to me at 1-844-932-1291. I want to let you know about my new membership program. This is an exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars, even a live q&a, where I will answer your questions. So you’ll be able to access valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health. I’ll be offering personalized support and coaching, giving you recommendations, helping you with goal setting accountability, so you can achieve your goals. This is a convenient way for you to access me 24/7 Without paying for appointments, or going to your doctor every week. So I’m so excited about this, I hope you can join me. And by the way, if you do join, you’ll get access to my advanced workshops in aromatherapy, color and light therapy, nutrition and physical vision therapy. So the sign up go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show.

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Everyone, welcome to the program. So today’s episode is titled, The advice that goes beyond the eye exam. Recently, I saw a patient who was diagnosed with glaucoma. And that’s serious enough, but the way the doctor delivered, the message was even more mind blowing to me. So the story goes like this. Somebody called us and said, You know, I want a second opinion. And we had some space. So she came into the office here. And I asked her, you know why she came and she said that she had had a conversation at the end of her last eye exam where the doctor said, and oh, by the way, you’re diagnosed with glaucoma. And it’s early stages, but you know, you’re probably going to go blind. And I’m gonna go on to my next patient. So she sat there, she was very upset, she was devastated.

And there was absolutely no emotional support, or anything beyond here’s the diagnosis and goodbye. And this happens more frequently than not and you know, speaking from somebody who used to be in a busy private practice, and you start seeing lots of people, you get kind of dumbed down, you know, where everybody looks like they’re the same and that, you know, you’ve delivered the message 1000s of times in, you’ve got this diagnosis, and you’re gonna go blind. So, we sat there for a few minutes, and she processed a little bit. Definitely she was traumatized. And as we went through the records, it became clear to me that she was more of a glaucoma suspect, than she had full blown glaucoma. And there are three main ways that you diagnose glaucoma.

The first is obviously the eye pressure, and that’s an important test. The second is the health of the optic nerve. And the third is the visual fields testing. And I had the good fortune when I was in my training that I studied with some ophthalmologists who were specialists in the area of glaucoma, and I would shatter them and it was very interesting for me at that time, because they weren’t sure when they saw certain patients whether they had glaucoma or not. And it became kind of a detective story where they had to do a number of tests multiple times before they could make a definitive diagnosis. Now not to minimize glaucoma because it is a very serious disease. And it’s also a silent disease, we don’t really know that we have it until we start losing our peripheral vision.

Now in most types of glaucoma, especially open angle glaucoma, there’s no eye sensation, like we have eye pain or I, you know, eye inflammation or things like that. Now a narrow angle glaucoma, different story, you can certainly experience pain. But in regular open angle glaucoma, it’s pretty quiet. And this is why it’s important, especially if there’s a genetic predisposition that you get your pressures checked regularly, you get an optic nerve analysis, maybe through an O CT, and also do a visual fields test. So you monitor those things. But the bottom line is that Glaucoma is pretty hard to diagnose.

And in this particular case, it was pretty sketchy because we went went back and looked at some of her earlier photographs and her eye exam records. And her eye pressures were normal, the optic nerves looked the same, they hadn’t changed. And the visual fields were normal as well. And this is where I bring in another very important point that is completely missed by most of the eye care field. And that is how we use our eyes affects the anatomy and the physiology. So let me explain in this case, this person does very fine work as hair removal, and it’s a very stressful job visually. And you know, you usually use some kind of a magnification loop.

Anyways, it’s a very intense visual demand. And she was also wearing trifocals, not transition progressive lenses, but straight line bifocals. And when I tested to see how well the two eyes work together, on a functional level, the left eye was shutting off, the brain was shutting off the left eye.

And this is important to note that, you know, we can do all the eye health tests, we can check the eye chart readings. But if we are not testing how well the two eyes are working together, we call this by nodular vision, then we’re missing a very big point in the brains relationship division. Remember, I said in a few podcasts ago, that I say n is glasses, reading the eye chart is glasses. And vision is brain. And we can do a great eyesight exam. But if we don’t do a vision exam, where we’re checking to see how the eye brain connection is, then we’re missing out. And in this particular case, a lot of the symptoms of the visual stress visual deterioration, eye pain in the right eye, was due mostly to how she was using both eyes together.

When I showed her our binocular vision test, basically, the left side of the image, the left eye seeing that was blanking out there was it was was coming and going coming and going. And this really surprised her it freaked her out. It was a epiphany, you know, we we explained exactly what was going on. And in the end, this was a major breakthrough for her to understand that on a functional level, her left eye and her right eye were not working together. And in fact, the right eye was doing most of the work. The other thing that was really amazing about this is that her current eyeglass prescription. I had to read the chart, and she could read all the way down to the very bottom line, which unless you’re going to be an astronaut for NASA is really overkill. It’s unnecessary.

So when I gave her a reduced prescription immediately, she said, Oh, my eyes feel more relaxed, and I can still see the eye chart. So this was a signal that she was wearing a prescription that was way too strong for her. And I blame this on how the eye exam is done. And I’m just as guilty because it’s the way I learned it. It’s the method I learned. And it wasn’t until I met some mentors who told me about how to prescribe based on looking at the whole person that changed the way I prescribed lenses. So in any event, what we’re going to do is we’re going to reduce her prescription. And that’s going to take away a lot of the eye stress. And that should be a game changer for her in terms of how she feels about her eyes,

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it could be even a contributing factor to some of these soft glaucoma symptoms that she’s having as well. So this was another major breakthrough for her that was entirely missed. The last thing I’m going to say is that, you know, if you ask your doctor, is there anything naturally integrative medicine wise that you can do for glaucoma? And he or she says, No, there’s nothing you can do. That is actually not true. Because there are many, many things that you can do to slow down the progression of glaucoma.

I’ll name a few, first of all, to check into your oxidative stress and your inflammation in the eyes and also in your body, your stress levels, what kind of prescription you’re looking through? Is it a bifocal trifocal, or single vision lens? If you have myopia, maybe you’re over prescribed. These are all, you know, risk factors that can be removed that can actually improve the eye circulation and your peripheral vision. In addition, making sure you’re hydrating your eyes with natural eye drops. Also feeding your eyes with all those great antioxidants that I talk about, especially lutein, zeaxanthin, astaxanthin and vitamin A. And then in terms of optic nerve health, making sure you’re getting enough healthy fats and or oils, Omega three gingko bilberry, taurine just to name a few, that are really important for optic nerve health.

And if you do have a pressure problem problem, there is an herb out there called coleus, which you could look up. And there have been small studies done to say that when you take this herb, it actually reduces your eye pressure. Jumping on a mini trampoline has been shown to bring high pressure down getting cranial sacral therapy changes the relationship of the cerebral spinal fluid into the eye that can lower the pressure, even meditation. I’ve done a video blog, you can Google it, where I talk about how meditation actually can bring down your eye pressure. So there’s lots of things that you can do.

It is a serious condition. It’s it’s very important that you track it. But the eyedrops and the eye surgery are the court of last resort. And to make sure that if you’re going to somebody, they have a deep experience on recognizing what is glaucoma, and can they definitively diagnose it, and also the delivery and how they give it to you is in such a way that you they’re not just gonna walk out of the room like this doctor did. And you know, maybe he was having a bad day or again, you know, he was burned out who knows. But the thing is, is this is collateral damage with this person. This is happening all the time, and I care practices. And I think that if you’re delivering some very serious news, you want to at least hang out so that the person has some time to process it at least to some degree. Okay, well, that’s my lesson for today. That’s our show for today. Again, I want to thank you for your support. Thanks for tuning in. And until next time, take care

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Hey everyone, welcome to today’s show. I want to talk about some exciting research in regenerative eye care. First, there’s stem cell therapy, both using embryonic and adult stem cells, which are introduced into the retina to treat conditions like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. Early studies show promising results. Gene therapy is also being explored, particularly for inherited retinal disorders. A recent study demonstrated positive outcomes. Enjoy the show!

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

retina, podcast, diseases, eye, research, embryonic stem cells, retinal, stimulate, scaffold, sam, promising, live q&a, retinal disease, showing, gene therapy, areas, degenerative conditions, signaling pathways, improve, regenerative therapies

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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. If you want to get in touch with me with questions, you can email me at [email protected]. And you can always text me your questions at 1-844-932-1291. I would like to let you know about my new membership program. This is going to offer members new information on how to improve their vision and wellness. So you will get access to articles, video, blogs, podcasts, and webinars. Also a live q&a with me. And all of this information will empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health. So to sign up to go to my website, drsamberne.com. And you can see the details there. All right now on to the show.

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Everybody, welcome to the show today. So I’m gonna do a little different spin, I’m going to talk about some of the latest research on regenerative eye care. So this is a little different than some of the clinical things they talk about. So here we go. So the first form of therapy that’s getting a lot of press today is called stem cell research. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s pretty popular in mainstream culture, especially if you have diseases like macular degeneration. Retina is picking pigmentosa or other eye degenerative conditions, that the regular medical care is not really helping you. So there’s embryonic stem cells, there’s also adult stem cells and these are introduced into areas of the retina where there’s a disease process going on, and there’s a degeneration.

There was an article published this year in PubMed on ocular regenerative therapies. four main areas in the eye were studied optic nerve damage, cornea damage, retinitis pigmentosa and age related macular degeneration, embryonic stem cells were introduced into these areas of the eye. early phase clinical studies show promising results with this stem cell therapy. The second form of research that’s going on is looking at gene therapy, especially for inherited retinal disorders, better known as IRDs for the years in the pediatrics world, I’ve seen a number of IR DS and this gene therapy is also showing promising possibility possibilities. There was a study that was published recently through PubMed, again, showing promising results. Okay, this third type of research may not be on your radar.

I’ve been looking at it and it’s called nanofiber scaffold, tissue engineered retinal pigment epithelium, so better known as RPE. In this layer of the retina, no fiber scaffolding is used to help regenerate certain retina deterioration diseases, and the results are early, but they’re showing some possibilities of tissue regrowth in the retina. And the last form of research that I’m going to talk about today is something called optogenetics. This is a field that combines genetics, with optics, stimulating neuron growth through light sensitivity, right? Researchers are using light to stimulate proteins in the retina, which improve the visual signaling pathways in the retina, thus reversing retinal disease, retinal degeneration, and the results are very promising.

Now one of my other podcast I talked about the artificial intelligence use of enhanced learning, and you might want to check out that podcast but basically, AI is looking at a very large database of what retinal diseases look like and can make early diagnoses and early treatments that could be really powerful, especially if you have a genetic predisposition. or you’re just suffering one of these eye diseases. Even an ophthalmologist or an optometrist can’t pick up the subtleties that artificial intelligence could pick up. So check out my other podcast on enhanced learning. It’s very interesting. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take good care.

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Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Hey everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, and I want to talk about my daily wellness practices. First and foremost, I prioritize getting into nature every day, whether it’s a park, hiking trail, or my own yard. I emphasize mindful eating, stress reduction through activities like walking in nature and spending time with friends, and the importance of quality sleep for recharging and deep rest. These are just a few of my wellness practices that I dig into in today’s episode. Enjoy the show!

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

wellness, explore, practice, health, meditation, creative outlet, day, light, sleep, access, earthing, barefoot, podcast, relate, accountability, hiking, technology, today, sam, set

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Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I’m going to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. Or you can text them to me at 1-844-932-1291.

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I want to let you know about my new membership program. This is an exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars, even a live q&a, where I will answer your questions. So you’ll be able to access valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health. I’ll be offering personalized support and coaching, giving you recommendations, helping you with goal setting accountability, so you can achieve your goals.

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This is a convenient way for you to access me 24/7 Without paying for appointments, or going to your doctor every week. So I’m so excited about this, I hope you can join me. And by the way, if you do join, you’ll get access to my advanced workshops in aromatherapy, color and light therapy, nutrition and physical vision therapy. So the sign up, go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show.

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Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’m going to welcome you to my podcast today. So I’m going to take a question. That’s kind of personal. But people ask this a lot. What are my wellness practices that I do every day? Well, let’s start with nature.

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And I know a lot of people that follow me live in the city I used to live in the city. And so I’m an urban person, even though now my life is more geared towards hiking and whitewater rafting and nature skiing, biking. But even so, I feel that number one on my list is getting into nature every day. You know, there’s studies out there that show that forest bathing is so good for our energy, it’s so good for our mood, it actually affects things like our our neuro chemicals in the brain like serotonin and dopamine. So forest bathing, whether you do it in a park, in your yard, or you can get out to a hiking trail somewhere. This would be number one, what I do every day. Second thing that I find to be very valuable in my own wellness practice is going barefoot outside.

You know there’s nothing like what we call earthing. earthing means that we are connecting to the earth through the bottom of our feet. And our shoes are all rubber. We’re around all kinds of wireless and technology all day. Even me because I’m doing a lot of content and meetings and going from one place to another. But I spend at least 15 minutes every day outside barefoot. Because with earthing, what that does is that discharges all that energy, that electrical energy that we’re absorbing from the satellites from the EMFs from the wireless routers. And by the way, if you can do it, shut your wireless off at night. That’s another thing that’s very important. But earthing is a second wellness practice I like to do and it’s a daily practice where I’m really connecting back in to the earth.

My third wellness practice is meditation. Now there are many different forms of meditation out there. I’ve explored a lot of them. And what I like to do is in the morning, I’ll get some tea. I have a ritual and a hat, get some tea, and I my sometimes I sit with my wife and my dog, sometimes I’m sitting alone. And I’ll either just focus on a mantra or breathing or some beautiful music and just to kind of have some space to be able to know what what’s my day going to be what’s my attitude, what am I looking to do, what are my intentions? And you know that

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There’s always things that we can get into with our mind. That’s kind of what meditation is about to watch the mind. And there are many different kinds. I’ve also explored things like Chi Gong, and Tai Chi and yoga. Continual movement is another one I used to teach that. So there’s a lot of different ways that you can explore meditation. But I think having a 15 to 20 minute time period in the morning, before you start your busy meetings, at least for me, it kind of wipes the slate clean, I get to explore and reflect, okay, what do I want to do today. So meditation is my third, wellness practice number four, number four. And this is an ongoing exploration inquiry into the health of my relationships.

You know, we live here on planet Earth, and we have to relate, we have to relate first of all to ourselves, we have to relate to our friends and family, maybe our business associates or employees, or strangers. And for me, the better I can relate to myself and relate to others, that’s going to help me get more out of my life and why I’m here. And so over the years, I’ve explored, and I still continue to explore different avenues of clearing out emotions, negative emotions, and that doesn’t mean that I just ignore them. But I’m doing different processes to say, well, I’ve got some fear today, I’ve got some anxiety, I’ve got some resentment, I’ve got some anger, you know, all of those things are part of what we as humans deal with.

And so to explore, okay, what’s going on? What can I do, and to be fully accountable for my own emotional health? I’m not blaming, I’m not projecting I’m not, it’s not somebody else’s problem. And you know, when I started to do this, in my company, where I took full accountability, it changed the whole dynamic and how I related to myself, and my family, and my employees, and my friends. So emotional health, emotional exploration, relationships, that’s my next wellness practice. And that’s probably I’m going to do it until I take my last breath. My next wellness practice, is having a creative outlet. I was very lucky, early on to study music. And

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so one of my creative outlets is playing music. And so whether I’m doing African music, and Jim Bay drum, or playing a little piano, these are all things that I feel just kind of take my mind away from all the intensity that I’m under, when I’m producing videos for you guys, and podcasts and talking to product vendors, and you know, my financial people, and so on. So having that creative outlet is another one of my wellness practices, I’m going to put these wellness practices together because these are pretty obvious because I talk about them. But being aware of what I eat, when I’m when I’m shopping, what I’m eating, what I’m cooking, and I’m not here to say that you should be paleo or vegan or keto, or use the Mediterranean diet.

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You know, first of all, this is just for me, what I find is I eat what feels good in my body. And I make it as natural as possible. So I don’t use a lot of sugar, anything I use that Sweden is a low glycemic index. But

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the point of it is, is for you to discover your own dietary bliss. And what’s coupled with that is stress reduction. What are some things that you can do for stress reduction naturally, walking in nature, hiking, biking, doing my sports is one way another way is meditation. Another way is getting together with friends and sharing and you know, having fun having a good time. And all of this sets me up for sleep. So this is my last point in terms of my wellness practice. And I feel that sleep is such an overlooked and it’s such an important part of our wellness quotient. So many of my clients and patients either don’t get enough sleep, or they just can’t sleep and I understand there can be endocrine imbalances, there can be stress imbalances.

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Many reasons why. But studying sleep, that is such a practice of recharging, of going into your dreams and just kind of exploring a deep state of silence and rest. So you can set that up in your bedroom by not having glaring lights on or the Television. And by the way, stop using your technology one hour before bed, that’s my challenge to you. Because the sooner you get off that technology, then the blue light is not affecting your pineal gland, your melatonin, which is going to definitely affect how deeply you sleep. So my last wellness practice I’m going to share is getting good sleep. So I’ll probably do this again. There’s many other wellness practices I use, but this is what I’ve come up with that I want to share today. So if it helps us it if it doesn’t, no harm, and thanks so much for tuning in. Take care

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Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Today’s podcast is a bit different as I recently gave a presentation to entrepreneurs through an organization called SCORE. I shared my experiences and expertise in marketing, especially in the holistic eyecare industry. I emphasized the importance of finding underpriced attention and getting the word out about your business. Building a brand and developing relationships with your community is crucial. I’m excited to launch a membership program where people can pay to join my community and receive value from my brand. Enjoy the show.

If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

underpriced, business, access, sam, posts, membership, develop, vision, entrepreneurs, talk, involved, exclusive membership, paying, farmers, create, brand, words, giving, wellness

00:05

Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my I clarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I want to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at [email protected]. Or you can text them to me at 1-844-932-1291. I want to let you know about my new membership program. This is an exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars, even a live q&a, where I will answer your questions. So you’ll be able to access valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health.

I’ll be offering personalized support and coaching, giving you recommendations, helping you with goal setting accountability, so you can achieve your goals. This is a convenient way for you to access me 24/7 Without paying for appointments, or going to your doctor every week. So I’m so excited about this, I hope you can join me. And by the way, if you do join, you’ll get access to my advanced workshops in aromatherapy, color and light therapy, nutrition and physical vision therapy. So to sign up, go to my website www.drsamberne.com. Now to today’s show.

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Hey, everybody, welcome to the program. This is a little different podcast today, I gave a short presentation to a group of entrepreneurs recently, the organization I’m involved with is called score and they help entrepreneurs figure out how to develop a business plan. And I come in and I help them with their marketing. So I say a few words, share my own experience with what I’m doing right now those of you that are following me in a really into the holistic eyecare movement. We’re having a great time. Anyways, I talk a little bit about the new membership launch, how to work with young people, I’m seeing more and more young entrepreneurs, artists, and musicians and people who want to realize their dream.

And I talk about how you may not be able to find this method of marketing in college that you have to go outside of your schooling to figure it out. And so I hope you enjoy the show. It’s a little different. But anyways, thanks for tuning in. Well, I’m Sam Berne. And I have a health and wellness brand that I started in 2016 doing really well. And I would say my expertise is finding underpriced attention and getting the word out.

Because you can have the best idea in the world. But if you don’t let anybody know about it, then you’re gonna fail. And so in my own business, I’ve been able to figure out how to tap into underpriced attention. And for me, I think the diversity of having a lot of different businesses in one space is actually really great. Because you can apply the same principles based on whatever your business is because the name of the game is, okay, what am I good at? And am I willing to commit in the long term to create a brand versus making it a sales or transactional situation?

So the way I built my brand was developing my community relationship wise, and I never asked them for anything. In fact, I created more value for them than you know what, what I was trying to get back I wasn’t actually getting anything back. So I had patients in that and I’m getting ready to launch what we call membership program. Meaning now people are going to pay something to Enter my immunity. And I think doing it in reverse where develop a clientele and a customer base, and then release your product or service, that’s going to be a winner. And I, you know, I hate to see people go into debt, I hate to see people take out loans, and they have difficulty getting stressed out, paying it back.

And what was really interesting for me at that presentation, was interacting with the young people like I would like to target the 18 to 22 year olds, I had an amazing conversation with a 22 year old who was starting a business, because I think that the things that I’m teaching, I don’t know if you’re going to learn them in business school, I don’t know if you’re going to learn them going to college. And you know, the the information is out there, you just have to go to the doctor to Google or YouTube knows interesting. I’m getting ready to start in the central oil line. And I need to cultivate farmers. So I went on chat GPT this morning. And it was the first place they actually got some resources where I can connect with some farmers. And I went on Google, I’ve talked to, you know, different businesses, and nobody could help me.

So the value of chat GBT, somebody had talked about it, what a great resource. And you know, we have to be careful, because we don’t know legally, what we’re involved with. We can’t You know, I know for me, if I’m writing a blog, it’s certainly background information. But I have to check every source and I have to put it in my words, because I don’t know what the trademark rules are with that if I want inclusivity. I like different socioeconomic levels. I like different age groups. I want to target the young people, I feel that they need a lot of help. I mean, we all do.

But I would like to invite the young people to come and really walked them through it. I had an amazing conversation with his entrepreneur. She was 22. And she was an artist. And she was so inspired by what I was saying, and was able to implement the steps because she’s an Instagram person. She’s a tick tock person, she knows what’s involved, you know, a 60 year old, it’s a lot harder to say, Well, I was I was giving a session today with somebody who was 60 years old, who has a business and she’s like, tick tock. And I said, Look, I just posted and I got Twitter and 50,000 views, I got a viral, you can do that, then that could do something with your business.

So I want to be there for the elders as well. And 65 is not old. I mean, you’re just getting started. So that’s another thing. People that say have retired, and they want to start a business, why not have the 65 Plus come in and say, Hey, you can start a business. You can you can do this social media stuff. And look, if social media goes away, I’m not married to social media. It’s just the next thing in line, maybe something else will come in.

But I know how to go after underpriced attention. And through organic educational posts video audio written. I’ve been able to you know, create some. So for you entrepreneurs out there that are looking to make it. I think the key thing is to create value. create great content on a daily basis. Be consistent with posting what you’re doing. Follow up by answering people who might comment and stay the course it definitely takes time. But it’s very satisfying, especially with something you believe in. And certainly in my field, helping people heal their vision, improve their vision, improve their wellness is really fun. So thanks so much for tuning in today. Take care

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Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.