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Dr. Sam Berne - Holistic Eye Health

This holistic eye care podcast explores natural ways to prevent and reverse eye diseases like macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, dry-eye syndrome, and more. read less

Tips for Gallbladder Support
6d ago
Tips for Gallbladder Support
The gallbladder is key to your overall health, so today I am addressing my top tips for gallbladder health. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS gallbladder, eat, podcast, sam, eyes, exclusive content, foods, formula, produce, membership, absorb, enzyme, bile, health, offering, questions, white flour products, talk, floaters, milk   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:30 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.   01:16 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.   01:43 So if you're interested, you can go to my website, Dr. Sam berne.com. And sign up now. Okay, now to the show.   02:14 Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast today. So I want to take a few questions. The first question I want to talk about is a woman on TikTok has asked me, What can she do if she's had her gallbladder taken out? Well, in some of my content, I talk about the importance of gallbladder health. And eye health. Remember, it's the liver that produces the bile. And it's the gallbladder that stores the bile. And it's the bile that helps us absorb those very important fat soluble vitamins that we need for our eye health. Things like vitamin A,   03:04 lutein z is Anthon.   03:08 And when we do not either produce enough Bile   03:13 or store the bile properly, which is the gallbladder, then we may not be absorbing our fat soluble nutrients as well as we could.   03:27 So whether you have your gallbladder or not.   03:30 I want to give you some information that can help you either support a healthier gallbladder or if the gallbladder has been taken out. What can you do? So let's talk first, if you've had your gallbladder taken out, it's very important that you know that you can not eat a lot of fatty foods. So this would be things like steak, or home ground beef, bacon, pork,   03:59 things like lamb or sausage, and even dairy products, like whole milk or cheese, butter, lard, and even highly processed foods. Things with sugar in them, you know the white flour products, pies, cinnamon rolls,   04:21 and you want to steer yourself towards more high fiber type of foods, things that contain calcium and the B vitamins, the trace minerals, some of these high fiber foods would be things like beans or lentils. I even would go for things like   04:43 whole grain foods, nuts and seeds, things like chia seeds, flax seeds, and the foods that contain loads of antioxidants. These would be things like kale and spinach, citrus fruits, the berry family and of course your   05:00 cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli and cauliflower, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts,
Do EMF’s Cause Health Problems?
May 29 2023
Do EMF’s Cause Health Problems?
I want to cover a topic I get a lot of questions about. EMF Exposure and our health. EMF exposure from our digital devices and its potential impact on our health. EMF pollution can affect various aspects of our well-being, including heart rate, blood pressure, brainwaves, circulation, and even our eyes. While some research suggests no health effects, many individuals experience issues like insomnia, inflammation, memory and concentration problems, mood changes, and even DNA alterations due to EMF exposure. So let's dig in. Enjoy the Show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS emf, emf exposure, digital devices, microwave, earthing, affect, waves, head, bluetooth, sandia mountains, eyes, exposure, emfs, brainwaves, electricity, ridge, neutralize, exposed, pollution, magnetic waves   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 hello@drsamberne.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:01 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I'd like to welcome you to my I clarity podcast today. I'm on a great hike up to this area. I'm heading up to this ridge over here, it's probably going to take me a couple hours. But I wanted to address this question that I get probably once a week. And it has to do with EMF exposure from all our digital devices. So in today's show, I'm going to talk a bit about EMFs and how they may affect our health.   00:40 EMF pollution can do things like increase your heart rate, your blood pressure, affect your brainwaves, your heart circulation, and your heart waves, and of course, your eyes. So my first comment about EMFs. And how it may affect your health is that in some of the research, scientists feel that EMF pollution does not affect our health at all.   I've also gotten complaints from people who use electronic devices have more insomnia, higher levels of inflammation, memory and concentration issues. The EMF exposure affects their moods, so it could affect their dopamine levels. And some of the studies I've seen actually show that it can affect your DNA. In another study I looked at the EMF waves affect our calcium in the cells. Now, calcium is important, because it helps in the communication on a cellular level.   So this gets scrambled as we get exposed to EMF pollution. You know, one report I read is that the average person spends up to 10 hours a day on their digital devices. So one of the things I recommend is getting an EMF tester. And this way you can test both the EMF waves and the magnetic waves, and you can see what you're exposed to. One surprising thing that I saw in some of the research is how damaging the microwaves are to our body. And I know a lot of people cook with microwaves. When I was studying with my teacher, Dr. Hazel Parcells, some of you know that I've referred to her when I met her. She was 103 years old, and she was starting a retreat center in sapio, New Mexico.   And Dr. Parr cells was adamant that putting your food or water in a microwave basically killed the food. And I certainly have some aunts and uncles and my grandparents who used microwaves. And no matter what I would say to them, when I would go visit them, they were addicted to using the microwave. So my suggestion would be if you have a microwave, just get rid of it.   Another trend that I'm looking at right now is how glasses are glasses companies are putting Bluetooth in the frame so that you can actually listen to audio. And you can use Siri and artificial intelligence to program the glasse...
Dr. Sam KidPower Presentation
May 25 2023
Dr. Sam KidPower Presentation
Here is a great presentation I gave recently that I wanted to share with you. I talk about my history and how, as an eye doctor, I came to work with children struggling with their development and how that lead to KidPower. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS child, primitive reflexes, eye, vision, kids, trauma, nearsighted, visual, important, therapy, understand, create, doctor, called, parents, conditions, birth, developmental, nutrition, problem   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 hello@drsamberne.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   Hey everyone, I want to welcome you to my talk today, here at Kidpower. And Albuquerque. Kidpower is near and dear to my heart, because it's a place I've been coming for, I don't know, over 20 years, and I help the kids with their vision. So I'm going to talk about that today. And to begin with, what I want to do is I want to talk about a core issue that has been coming up in the context of working with kids. And that core issue has to do with cracking the code, cracking the code, with each child, what is it going to take to turn the switch on so that they're thriving? And when I see a child here at Kidpower, or in my practice, that's my biggest curiosity, because usually, you know, parents are coming in and we know as parents were really struggling with what's going on with my child, and why are they struggling in school? And how come they're not reading and we just went to an IEP, you know, we did the testing, and now they may end up in a special education class.   So I have to say, I have some personal experience, because I was one of those kids. I grew up in the Northeast, and I came from a family that really stressed education. And my parents, my grandparents, my aunts, and uncles, a bunch of intellectuals. And so I remember my uncle going to his house, and he had like, all these books on foreign language, he actually spoke five different languages. And my, my mom and dad, I mean, they just stressed college and grad school. But the thing was, is I was eight years old, and I was diagnosed with a learning disability. And, as I, as I think about it, now, it's kind of a painful time because I didn't want to read I didn't like reading. I wasn't a good reader. School was really challenging for me. And so my, my mom took me to a lot of places. And we actually ended up like a lot of the kids here at Kidpower. I ended up at an eye doctors office. And he said to me, Well, you're nearsighted. And let's give you some glasses. And so I got these lenses. And I started to memorize, that's how I got through school. And I never was a good test taker. And I just worked really hard. And I was able to do pretty well in high school and college and got into professional school, graduated and I met a, what we call it developmental optometrists. This was a, an eye doctor who looked at vision in a more holistic way. And I was 20 years old. And he had a course that he was offering. And he also was offering his services as a doctor and as me as a patient. So I started going with him, and he diagnosed me with a condition called convergence insufficiency.   Meaning my left eye used to wander out, I would see double vision, I couldn't focus. I had a little bit of impulsivity, a little bit of hyperactivity, and sounds like ADHD, right. And that's kind of what I had. And so through his physical therapy exercises, I was able to heal that condition.
What to Do if You Suffer Double Vision
May 23 2023
What to Do if You Suffer Double Vision
Here is a session I had with a patient who was suffering from double vision. In the first session, I recommended some physical therapy exercises and yoked prisms, but she was struggling with the program. So, we had another session where I laid out some important principles for her and anyone else suffering from double vision on the road to recovery. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS prisms, eye, vision, bead, double, left, awareness, exercises, glasses, feel, notice, touch, suppression, parasympathetic, moving, closer, internal, questions, string, suppressing   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.   00:29 Now to the latest I clarity Episode   00:44 Hey, everybody, welcome to the show today. So you're gonna get a peek into a session I did recently with a patient who's suffering double vision. And in session one, I gave her some physical therapy exercises, I also recommended some prism glasses, my famous yoked prisms, and she was struggling with the program. So she sent me some emails and had some questions. They said, Hey, let's just do another session. So in the second session, I start off by asking her to check in with me. And then I lay out some principles that I feel are very important only for her but also anybody who's suffering double vision, what the road is to recovery. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks for tuning in. So   01:39 let's let's get a check in on sounds like you're having some struggles and your formula on gets getting some positive spin here. So   01:54 lay it all out for me.   01:57 So I noticed, first, let's start with like the brach string. I noticed with that, that my right eye is stable, but my left eye is like moving when I moved the string in and out. Like it's moving back and forth. But my right eye seems to be staying still. Or maybe my right eye is just more linear. And my left eye is doing like a curve around sort of thing. I think, from the exercises that I've been doing, it seems like my left dies the problem.   02:35 When I now that my I think I've been suppressing the left eye for a long time. And so now that I've been doing the exercise, it seems to be coming back, which is making the double worse. But that's like you said it's an intermediary step. And I agree with you completely, I have to have that one to see for them to work together.   02:54 And so now,   02:57 since the left is showing up, I've been trying to like, look at what the left eye sees, instead of what the right eye sees. Does that make sense.   03:06 And when I look at what the left eye sees, it moves closer to the right eye, so it's getting more in line with my right eye.   03:16 But I can only see what the left is, I always see double. But if I focus on a single thing that left I will show up, then I can see both pictures very clearly if I if I focus on one thing   03:35 the dot chart when I was trying to do that I was getting them kind of to line up but then I noticed I have two pen points.   03:44 And I'm not I think what is supposed to happen is they're supposed to be a convergence in the middle of those two dots, isn't it?   03:53 That's one way you can do it. There are there are a variety of ways you can   03:58 Okay, what was happening to me is I was creating a.to,
I’m Answering Your Questions
May 22 2023
I’m Answering Your Questions
I wanted to share this live I did while consulting and teaching in Hawaii. I had some great follower questions! Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, question, prescription, people, reduce, improve, astigmatism, lens, vision, exercises, eyedrops, glaucoma, called, castor oil, macula, zeaxanthin, acupuncture, floaters, important, retina   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.     00:46 everyone, its Dr. Sam and I'm here in Hawaii. We are live and book signing here for a little bit and had some great folks coming by. And so I've been getting a lot of questions and part of my trip has been teaching Consulting and a little bit of fun. But I thought I would take a few questions as well. I had a minute. So I received a question from Lisa and she's got a condition called macular degeneration. And in this scenario, she wants to know what can she do to help her macular see better so she's got the dry kind.   01:30 So of course it always comes down to a couple of things very simple. First of all, the ingredients lutein and zeaxanthin as are such important karate noids that they feed the macula. And so if you've got any kind of Macula issues, you want to make sure you're getting lutein, zeaxanthin and the third one which is a marine prod Noid, asked to Xanten and you can get those through foods. Think about the colorful vegetables, the red, the green, the yellow, the orange, those plant pigments contain the necessary ingredients that feed the macula. And of course, that's the sad thing is the Marine Corps annoyed where you get that through wild caught salmon or shrimp or things like that. But you can also get it through a micro algae supplement. Also,   02:26 I would also protect yourself from the damaging blue light, especially after 6pm. So wearing blue blockers is another proactive practice that will help   02:38 protect your maquilas. And the third aspect that I would consider in especially in the dry form is making sure you're getting enough vitamin A and the trace minerals zinc helps in the absorption of vitamin A. And those fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A lutein and zeaxanthin. We know in Chinese medicine and acupuncture, the liver rules the eyes. So if you're having difficulty with liver function, either getting some acupuncture or you can also supplement by supporting your gallbladder and pancreatic enzymes. That'll help you absorb your fat soluble vitamins better, I would cut down on your sugars and make sure you're eating only natural natural foods not processed. And of course the last thing which is hot, hot hot right now is my read exercise glasses. And I've done a ton of   03:45 posts on the research on red light and how it affects the mitochondria both in the macula and in the retina. So treating yourself with a red light every morning is very, very important.   04:01 So as we move along here that they see about taking another question, this is from Robert. He's got myopia, and he's thinking about LASIK surgery. So I just did a podcast pros and cons of lasik surgery. And so I would point you to a couple of my blogs that I've done and podcasts on the pros and cons of lasik surgery. Remember, when you have a prescription in your eye, there is the eye prescription and there's also the mind body brain prescription. I know that may be foreign for a lot of people but we want to blame faulty vi...
Working with a Child Diagnosed With Strabismus
May 18 2023
Working with a Child Diagnosed With Strabismus
I had a session with a concerned mother whose child was diagnosed with Strabismus. We work through what that means and steps she can take to help the child. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, primitive reflexes, vision, called, crawling, moving, brain, turning, muscles, husband, alternating, walking, birth, movement, other words, stimulate, learn, development, experience, holistic   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com.   00:29 Now to the latest EyeClarity episode   00:48 All right, so what would be your goals and objectives today? With our with our session?   00:56 Okay, what what do you what are you thinking about? I would like to focus on my my son Alexander is 18 months old. I think you could see him right there. Can you see him say hi? Yes, I can.   01:08 He's 18 months old. And I noticed since birth one of you I don't know if it's one or both or depending is looks like it's slightly off. I don't know if you receive the pictures I sent.   01:21 Just okay. And I attempted a golden I like an ophthalmologist but I kind of walked out politely because they just wanted to do too much dilate. I just didn't want to do that just yet. And I'm wondering if you could help assess what the problem might be. And if there's something natural or exercise or something holistic that could maybe be treated or   01:43 want to make sure it's not an issue and it's not going to get worse and you know, something I have to be ahead of.   01:50 Absolutely. So Alexandre is 18 months old. Is that Is that correct? Yes. Okay, and tell me a little bit about your gestation period, the birth process. Anything unusual there? I went through IVF for about eight years. I had him when I was 51. I actually carried him through to 37 weeks. And we were supposed to go to 40 i My pregnancy was fine. No issues. No you no nausea, no cravings, nothing. It's just up to 37 weeks. i My blood pressure was starting to elevate so my OB wanted to to take him out and we did a C section. He was born four pounds along the weight 15 ounces. And they said he was just under five pounds. So they had to put him in a NICU and they said it's because he had a little low blood sugar and low body temperature. We were both in the hospital for about five days. Me to regulate my blood pressure and then my son to regulate his body temp and his sugar. And then we released and since then he's you know, he's seeing a holistic pediatrician and he's taking vitamin D probiotic, and DHA and NACA what? He's been healthy hasn't been sick.   03:05 Great. Okay.   03:08 So, after the birth, brought him home, what is his? What is his mobility? Does he move around a lot? Is he on his tummy at all? Do you know what's kind of active mobile activities? Are you engaging with him when he was when he came home from the hospital or in general? Well, you know, after so he's 18 months. So we've got you know, a little bit of track record here. Obviously, you know, is there any mobility on the floor? Is he scooting, calling? Tell me about his his mobility experience? Yes, he's right now he's walking. He loves to activity walks, almost runs around the house. He's very active.   04:01 Let's see, we take him outside and I just stay focused. But this is his baby nurse. This is MISA. She's known him since birth.   04:09 She could chime in. He loves to be outdoors.
Dr. Sam at The Ark
May 16 2023
Dr. Sam at The Ark
Here is a talk I gave recently at a book shop called The Ark. I cover topics in my new book and take questions from the audience. It was a great time! Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, called, people, macular degeneration, eyedrops, started, vision, study, cataracts, macula, good, nearsighted, glasses, glaucoma, gallbladder, doctor, prescription, kids, child, sun   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com.   00:47 Good evening, everybody. Thank you all for coming here. It's really nice to have a fence back at The Ark. And I've been coming to them recently, but it's very loving. We're very proud to have them. And we're very excited to have Dr. Sam Berne with us this evening.   01:09 Being on the holistic optometrist and vision therapist for over 30 years, and immense following of people who believe in Him. And I took a look through his book. And it's very, very wonderful, fascinating things that I loosely follow, even though I see pretty well. I'm a little bit disappointed that not everyone's wearing glasses, though, because that seems like a missed opportunity. I hope you enjoy what he has to say. And I think it would be very beneficial for everybody. We do have the book available if you need it to be signed. And Please enjoy yourselves. And I hope you'll learn all you can.   01:56 Well, before I begin, I have a couple of thank yous. First of all, I'd like to thank the yard for hosting me tonight. And also, I would like to say my partner and wife, Charlie, she has really supported me over the years. And there are people in this audience that I would like to thank that have both helped me with the book, and just been great supporters. I'm gonna keep it anonymous. But I'm deeply grateful for their support. And so let's begin. I want to see a show of hands of people who have either worked with me take one of my workshops, or so Okay, a few of you. That's great. So, you know, in my story, one of my Northstars is when I was about eight years old, I I grew up in a middle class family, my parents really emphasized education. My mom was a schoolteacher, my dad was in business. And my grandparents and my aunts and uncles, they always stressed going to school reading, I remember my uncle, I would go see him. And he had this library kind of like this room. And I would go in and pick one of his books. And the problem was is that I was labeled as learning disabled. And I was a really poor reader. And my mom took me everywhere. In fact, I don't know if you remember, Evelyn was sure speed reading. That was like one of many things we did biggest waste of money. But we ended up we ended up at an eye doctor's office. And of course the doctor gave me a pair of glasses. This is a kid he uses these. And so I started down the road of being nearsighted. And the way I got through school was memorizing. So it became this brainy kid, and I worked really hard. But there was not a good reader. I did enjoy reading. So fast forward, I got through college, got to a professional school. By this time, my glasses were pretty thick. And I couldn't see the big E on the HR. So I was like, my perfect optometrist, just couldn't see. But I met this doctor. And he was called a behavioral optometrist. So if you think of the two words together, it's kind of a juxtaposition. It's kind of an oxymoron behavior vision. What does that but anyway, this His name is Dr. Al Shankman,
How to Reduce Your Nearsightedness at 20
May 15 2023
How to Reduce Your Nearsightedness at 20
I wanted to share this session I help with a patient struggling with nearsightedness. I show her some eye exercises and we work on creating a personalized protocol together. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, prescription, glasses, exercise, breakfast, vitamin, good, eat, wear, left, day, blur, thumb, distance, screen, home, protein, questions, jelly beans, foods   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 hello@drsamberne.com.   Next, recording for you. Okay, so what are your goals and objectives today I   00:12 want to learn about like, how I can improve my vision cuz honestly, I'm really just want to be comfortable not wearing my glasses.   00:23 Okay. All right, that's fair enough. And when did you get your first prescription? I mean,   00:32 I was in second grade,   00:34 third grade. And you remember what happened? What was going on? Were you having trouble seeing the board? Or?   00:41 Yeah, I think it was because we had those, like vision tests that we did at school. And I think that mine didn't come back. You know? 2020. So I remember my parents took me to the eye doctor, and I got my prescription.   00:57 Your first prescription? And then did you have any increases?   01:03 Yeah. I mean, it's been like increasing over the years. Oh, my   01:09 God. Yeah. So I'm looking through the portal. Did you happen to send me that prescription somewhere?   01:24 You can read it to me.   01:26 I'll read it. Okay. Okay. All right. Oh, D.   01:34 Yeah. Are these right?   01:35 I? Okay. Oh, D it says fear. Negative 4.5. And then cylinder, negative point five. Okay, and then access 175. Okay. And then oh, S series, negative 6.0. And then it says cylinder, d s.   02:00 And then nothing else. Okay, and what's the date of that prescription?   02:08 The 21st of February this year,   02:13 which is, like fresh one, like for this appointment? Just to give you an idea, like,   02:19 where she's at right now? Okay, is she wearing that prescription? No, she says one. You're wearing an older prescription?   02:30 Yeah, from like, three years ago?   02:36 years ago, okay. And it's not important, but do you have those numbers? I believe.   03:01 So it'd be Oh, do you would be negative 3.75. cylinder and x to stay the same.   03:12 Okay, and then   03:14 negative 4.5. And actually, you didn't have anything for?   03:21 Yes. Okay, so, this prescription you're looking through, which is three years old? Or how are you seeing out of it? Or is it blurry for you? Is it clear? What do you   03:38 generally like everything is still clear. I mean, if I'm looking at something small on the board, if I'm sitting like kind of foreign class, like it's gonna be a bit blurry. For my day to day life, I, I really don't have any issues at all in this English class. Okay.   03:58 Sounds good. And what about TV or road signs? Any difficulty there?   04:06 Not really. I mean, sometimes when it's dark, I might have to like squint, but in general, not really. Okay.   04:18 So, how's your driving?   04:23 Driving is fine. I never had any issues with driving.   04:28 Okay, so this prescription works for driving. Okay. And there's quite a big difference in this February 21. Prescription,
CNN Report Connects Eye Health to Alzheimer’s Disease
May 11 2023
CNN Report Connects Eye Health to Alzheimer’s Disease
A recent CNN article came out that connected Alzheimer's disease to your eyes. So I want to take a moment to break this down for you and look into it further. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS alzheimer, beta amyloid, retina, markers, eyes, podcast, holistic, called, brain, amyloid beta, clarity, tissue, dealing, cell, health, researchers, cognitive decline, disease, episode, today   00:05 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 hello@drsamberne.com.   00:29 Now to the latest I clarity Episode   00:46 Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I'd like to welcome you to another AI clarity podcast. So today I'm going to comment on a recent c and n report, which is connecting Alzheimer's disease to your eyes.   01:08 So we know that the eye brain connection is really solid. In fact, the eyes originate from the brain prenatally. So every tissue of the eyeball has its roots in the brain.   01:26 And when you start looking into the eyes, you can actually monitor and see disease very early, whether it's diabetes, hypertension, glaucoma, just to name a few. But you can see systemic disease in the retina   01:51 very early.   01:54 So in this latest research paper that was published,   01:59 the researchers took a look at the relationship between cognitive health and eye health. So let me explain.   02:14 One of the key markers in Alzheimer's disease is something called beta amyloid. It's a it's a key marker, which can tell us what is the state of brain health and predict if there's going to be cognitive decline.   02:36 Now they're actually cells called micro glial cells. And these particular cells are responsible for maintaining other cell health in the brain, repairing cell health in the brain, and getting rid of this beta amyloid   03:01 collection that can occur both in the brain and of course, as I doctors, we can actually see it in the retina.   03:09 So one of the key things that we look for is inflammatory disease markers in that, which can   03:21 tell us whether there's going to be a problem later on. And one of the markers I use is something called homocysteine. I've talked about this in other podcasts. If your homocysteine levels are high, you're probably dealing with a level of inflammation that you want to deal with.   03:41 And in this particular study, what they took a look at is these amyloid beta plaques, were starting to show up in the eyes. And if they do, then you can start Alzheimer's treatment much earlier.   04:03 To go into the specifics of the study.   04:08 Basically, what happened was that 86 people had died and they donated their retina and brain tissue to science, and they had different degrees of mental decline. So researchers compared the samples from these donors from normal cognitive functioning people or mild cognitive impairments, and they found that this beta amyloid marker was the key factor, especially when we pick it up in the retina. So the moral of the story is, if Alzheimer's runs in your family, or you are concerned about Alzheimer's, getting a regular yearly eye exam, where an eye doctor can do a   05:00 A specific analysis of the retina picking up this beta amyloid tissue. You have a chance of actually being able to maybe start a protocol. One of the people that I follow is a guy named Dr. Bredesen,
Social Media Coaching Session
May 9 2023
Social Media Coaching Session
I am sharing a session I gave to an entrepreneur on social media growth. I share some of my key tips to grow your accounts and reach your audience. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS posts, repurpose, person, presentation, coaching session, podcast, videoed, depends, skin, hate speech, document, eyedrops, insights, santa fe, people, trip, bookstore, work, videographer, short   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 hello@drsamberne.com. Hey, everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my podcast today a little different take on things I'm going to give a coaching session to person who's an entrepreneur,   00:13 she's got a skin line. And this is some of the stuff I do as volunteer through an organization that I work for called score, helping businesses. And so you'll hear some of my insights on how I'm building my brand, my social media, and I hope you enjoy the show. This past weekend, I did a book signing at the ark, bookstore, and, and I, I basically, now I have a videographer now that I've hired but what he did is he had three cameras, we, we videoed the whole talk, which was really good. And now I'm turning that into a podcast. And it was a really great presentation, at least that's what people said. And it was a live event. So you know, getting to do those is is really good. And the q&a, what I've done with that is each part. So I'd q&a in the group, and then people would come up, and they would have their individual comments and questions. And we told them ahead of time, everything is videoed, so I got some great interactions from people one on one, where you know, everything from, gee, I'm so frustrated with my current doctor, what do you recommend? Or you know, I've been using your stuff for six months, it's really working, what do you think I should do next? So we take those and then repurpose them for shorter posts. And, again, it's just I try to repurpose everything I can, your time is more efficient that way also, because, you know, like this, this lady who is one of my competitors asked me to do a presentation for her private group. And I said, Well, I want to be able to video it. She said, No, you can't. I said, Well, how about this, I'll video it, just my part. And I won't video the q&a at the end or your people, she said, I don't care, you can do that. So that makes it worth it for me to do it, because I'm not getting paid for it. So I'm always looking at ways like next week, I'm taking a trip, and I'm gonna document the trip, gets a book signing, and there's some other things I'm doing. So I'm going to document the trip, document, different things I'm doing. And again, repurposing it. So that gives me that 48 content pieces a day, I've got so many at this point that, you know, it just keeps it going every week, I'm I'm doing you know, 100 to 200 posts, and I see the growth from that, because not everybody sees the the same, you know, post depends on their feed, and you know, who they're following and stuff like that. So, and I had a thing where somebody threatened me around the eyedrops, you know, and so I had a contact Instagram and say, Look, this person is personally attacking me in a way that's a little threatening, and they came stepped right in, they blocked the person, and I don't know what they did with them. But, you know, if anybody ever does that to you, I don't take it, you know, I immediately I just block them and say goodbye. I mean,
Interview with Sue Choi
May 8 2023
Interview with Sue Choi
I had a great chat with Sue Choi about her work and her new book. Sue Choi is a somatic movement teacher and bodyworker with over 2 decades of experience creating body solutions for clients. Her goal has always been making enduring and sustainable changes for people in their bodies that they can carry into their daily lives. Driven to understand how mental and emotional connections show up in the body, she has a particular interest in how the deep currents of trauma distort a body. Her professional trainings include yoga therapy at the Krishnamacharya Mandiram, Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad, Rolf Movement with Hubert Godard, neurosensory training in the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration Method™, manual therapies in craniosacral, visceral manipulation, myofascial release. Perceptual trainings include the Tomatis Method™ sound therapy and natural vision. The work of psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and academics as they apply to the sensory system have also informed how she works with the body in movement. Enjoy the show. Contact Sue Choi Website: coherentbody.com email: info@coherentbody.com Instagram: @coherent_body If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS book, people, vision, sue, somatic, body, balance, movement, head, hearing, preserving, feel, wrote, context, posture, brain, system, outcomes, read, parents   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 hello@drsamberne.com.   Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam. And I'd like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So we have a special guest. She's an author, she's a somatic educator, she's a friend from LA, her name is Sue Choi. And she's written a new book, which I just finished. And it's called when things stick, untangling your body from old patterns. And I am so excited about the contents of this book. And I just add, I have Sue on So Sue, welcome to the program. And can you give us a background on where you've come from and who you are?   00:46 Thank you, Sam. So happy to be here. I have I'm a somatic movement therapist, and educator, I've been doing this work for over 20 years, a whole body of work that ranges from somatic movement to hands on body work that I do for private one on one clients in person. So I it's been a fun journey to bring all these things together. And it was a big kind of effort to put the book together to distill things down. But I'm glad it's out there.   01:26 Well, you know, when I read the book, you know, what, what jumped out at me is how you have put all these different disciplines together. And so how did you develop this system?   01:41 You know, it was, it was kind of piece by piece, mostly, it was focused on how to improve outcomes for clients. So if there was something that I could kind of see that just wasn't fitting in place, I would research it, I did a lot of different types of trainings that may be kind of unusual, but I, one of the books that really turned things around for me was Dr. John Radies book on the fourth theatres of the brain and attention, and he, he's a psychiatrist, and he wrote about the sensory system, and the importance of it. And it really spoke to me, because I was already doing the modest work. I had been exposed to Bates work, back in the early days when I first studied yoga therapy, and was training. So I learned about that in India, and I said, Oh, that's just yoga for vision. And so the, as every, the threads of these things came together,
Session on High Myopia, Glaucoma, and Cataract Surgery
May 4 2023
Session on High Myopia, Glaucoma, and Cataract Surgery
Here is a session with somebody who recently had cataract surgery and is currently struggling with Glaucoma and dry eye. In this session, I focus on the relationship between her high myopia and Glaucoma. There is a very strong correlation to our refractive error and eye disease. The difficulty comes in when you are nearsighted before the surgery, and you become farsighted after the surgery like this patient and I talk about the influences and also the effects of this discrepancy and how it may be playing into glaucoma dry eye and other things. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, glaucoma, prescription, glasses, people, optic nerve, prisms, castor oil, called, lens, ophthalmologists, nearsighted, farsighted, vision, wear, myopia, red light, talk, physical therapy, eyedrops   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 hello@drsamberne.com. Great to have you on my EyeClarity podcast today. So I gave a session that somebody recently diagnosed with glaucoma. And she just had cataract surgery as well. She's also dealing with dry eye. But the point I want you to hear about is the relationship between her high myopia and her glaucoma. There is a very strong correlation to our refractive error and eye disease. I know that's not talked about very much in the medical literature or even in, you know, clinical practice. But when you develop a certain prescription like myopia, especially at minus 14 in the right eye and minus 11 in the left eye, that's a high degree of tunneling and pulling in your vision which creates compression in the eye tissue, which is parallel to what Glaucoma is. It's a tunneling. It's a tightening. And there are different reasons why we develop glaucoma. Amin is a vascular disease, but function changes structure, how we use our anatomy is going to eventually change the anatomy and physiology. The other piece I want you to think about is this patient was very nearsighted. And then she had cataract surgery and she became farsighted. And I talked about the ramifications of that in the session, because if you're near sighted your personality or behavior, your response to life is very different. The mindset is very different than if you're farsighted. And so those of you that say are thinking about refractive surgery, or cataract surgery, the best way to go is if you're nearsighted before surgery, you want to be nearsighted after surgery. And if you're farsighted before surgery, you want to be farsighted after surgery. The difficulty comes in when you are nearsighted before the surgery and you become farsighted after the surgery like this patient and I talk about the influences and also the effects of this discrepancy and how it may be playing into glaucoma dry eye and other things. I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks again for tuning in, leave a comment or review on Spotify, Apple, or my website. I have your history in front of me and your intake form. And it sounds like you want some advice from a functional medicine perspective. With optic nerve glaucoma, and   03:22 fuzzy vision and my dry eye,   03:25 your dry eye of course less. So give me a little context on what you've tried. Maybe what the other eye doctors have given you. Your glaucoma meds if you're on any   03:39 Yes, actually. The glaucoma meds I'm only in my my left eye. I'm on Tima law with dorzolamide. Today in the left eye and then latanoprost at night. I don't take any,
The Sports Doctor Interviews Dr. Sam
May 2 2023
The Sports Doctor Interviews Dr. Sam
I was a guest on Dr. Robert Wiles radio show. He is a sports podiatrist, they call him the sports doctor, and we had about a 15 minute lively conversation about optometry, concussions, brain injury, and so much more. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, sports, doctor, concussions, vision, world, glasses, talking, holistic, baseline, guests, optometry, sam, physical therapy, body, worked, athlete, sorts, visual, problem   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 hello@drsamberne.com.   Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I'd like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, today I was a guest on Dr. Robert Wiles radio show, and he is a sports podiatrist. They call him the sports doctor. And we had about a 15 minute lively conversation about optometry, concussions, brain injury, and so much more. So everybody, thanks for tuning in, leave a comment on Spotify or my website. And I look forward to seeing you again.   00:38 Dr. Sam Berne. Welcome to The Sport's Doctor   00:42 Thanks, Dr. Bob, great to be here.   00:45 Give us some background on yourself. And you can throw in a definition of holistic optometry while you're at it.   00:55 Sounds good. So when you go for an eye exam, you know, the doctor has you read the eye chart, and you get the Reading 2020. That's a measurement of your eyesight. But vision is how the eyes and the brain and the body work together. So eyesight is only one part of vision. So as a holistic eye doctor, I look at the eyes as an interrelated, interconnected part of the body. And there are things that you can do to improve your vision even as you get older. And that's kind of the difference between the regular eye care, they just say your eyes get worse as you get older. In my, in my practice, people get older and their eyes get better.   01:39 At you know, we see truth for years on the sports doc, the doctor, hand eye coordination, all sorts of eye exercise for some commentators talking about enhancing performance. Regardless of the sport, there's a lot of exciting information in that side, you know, besides the run of the mill, I can't like you said, there's so much more involved, even as a diagnostic tool, I don't like podiatry when many times we might see diabetes for the first time because of a foot symptom. You also might see it when you see the eyes, right?   02:16 Exactly, because the eyes have one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, highly concentrated with those tiny blood vessels. So it's one of the entry ways into the body like the foot. And you can pick up disease very early. And of course, in diabetes, this is a real vulnerable area, I'm talking about the retina. So you know, if you have glucose levels that are off the charts, or you're pre diabetic, you're going to see it in the eyes, it's going to be one of the first places and then you can treat it by doing some holistic things if you want to.   02:56 Well, you talk about embracing your body's ability to strengthen, healing balanced. And again, we talked so much about holistic medicine, I would have complementary medicine and so many different topics, and the sounds I could fit in Absolutely. With a big emphasis on prevention, as well as awareness and education.   03:19 You know, it's being proactive, you know, just with diet alone, the eyes in the brain make up about 2% of the body weight, and use 25% of the food intake.
San Diego Master Class Part 2
May 1 2023
San Diego Master Class Part 2
Here is a peak into my San Diego Master Class where we work with essential oils and red light lenses. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions!   SUMMARY KEYWORDS fennel, eyes, oils, work, glasses, frankincense, vedic, put, meditation, great, feel, carrot seed, gold miner, tonics, meditate, ophthalmology, smell, copper toxicity, funnel, people   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 hello@drsamberne.com.   work on two aspects. One is the copper toxicity. And the other is improving your eyesight. So the way this is going to work is I'm going to run you through a process on how you can use the essential oils in this. So the first oil, we're going to use his sweet fennel. Fennel works great for digestion, you probably know about it. But the first thing we're going to have you do is just smell it. That's the first thing. It's a now the next thing we're going to have you do is, if I may have the inside part of your wrist, let's do a test patch and see how that feels for you. Any burning any anything on your wrist that problem? Okay, so then the next thing is I like to layer the oils. And either you can use them, like we're going to use them or you could have some coconut oil nearby, if it starts to get too intense. And so I use a drop of a set of nice, it's very subtle. Yeah, it's very subtle. What we're gonna do is we're going to put it up here on either side. So it's kind of in direct line with your eyes, but it's not near you. Yeah, right about. And then the second place we're going to do it is by the temple and the hairline, by the way, so yep. Right. And then we're gonna do the zygomatic bone, or let's say the cheekbone. So we're kind of painting around these, these dots here. So we're doing it here. And here. And here. And here. Here and here. So this is the femoral. That's the one we're starting with. So let's take a moment and see how that how that feels to you. Are you What are you experiencing? From the from the funnel? You can try it.   02:06 I think a sense of calm   02:08 sense of calm. Okay.   02:11 Then, sort of like love then   02:15 we can go into the emotional psychological, because these these can be very spiritual, actually. Yeah, there you go.   02:23 It's also cooling I think in a bit   02:27 and I would say your your eyes situation, you have more heat coming out of your eyes. So anyway, we can kind of get more Yin into it. As you know. I don't know what your Vedic Constitution is a more pizza. Yeah. So with pitta, you know, there's a lot of mental activity.   02:48 Right. Right. Right. And the flex to the liver and the eyes.   02:51 Right. Exactly. Exactly. So the higher Vedic model life study that was you have and that's another way to interpret.   03:03 I think fennel. My I already talked to India used to give me if you my kids had Boyles or any Oh yeah. eruptions. So 10 Raisins. So overnight with two or one teaspoon of fennel powder, we have completely removed all the data from the eggs. Options,   03:21 right? So that's why I chose that for you. Yeah, I know you a little bit. So that was working with a beta on that one. All right. Now the second one we're going to give you is currency. And I want you to smell it. First of all, make sure so all factory goes to the limbic brain. It's really great as a way to introduce yourself to it. So what's your experience with the currency? What do you feel? What do you notice?
What To Do For Intermittent Exotropia
Apr 28 2023
What To Do For Intermittent Exotropia
Today I am going to talk about intermittent exotropia and what protocols I use to manage it in children, teenagers, and adults. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS exercises, spasm, eye, muscles, reflex, integration, working, infants, stress, toddlers, vestibular stimulation, called, muscle spasm, visual, bilateral, brain, vision, overwrought, patching, movement patterns 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 hello@drsamberne.com. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast today. So I'm going to take a question from Dr. Pillai, who's asking about a condition called intermittent exotropia. For infants, toddlers, teenagers and adults, and how is it different? How do I manage it? What are the protocols? So, let's break this down. When our two eyes are working together, they're both aiming at an object in our environment, whether it's up close or far away. So the goal is both eyes are working together. Now, when one of the eyes tends to wander, this is called strabismus. Now we can have an eye wandering in, which is called esotropia. Or we can have an eye wandering out which is called exotropia. In any case, what's going on is there's an integration problem in the brain, in the eyes and in the body. Now, exotropia means the eye is wandering out. Obviously, if it's intermittent, it only happens sporadically some of the time. And maybe some of the time it happens when especially we're talking about, you know, teenagers and adults, it happens when you're stressed or tired, or fatigued, or you're not feeling well. It's kind of a weak link in the eye brain connection. Now, when one of the eyes wanders out, two things happen. Either you get double vision, or the brain says I'm just gonna shut off onto the eyes. And so take your choice, a lot of times, we start off seeing double, but then over time, the brain just says I'm going to ignore, you know, this double image, and I'll just use the eye that is lining up. Now when we see this condition in infants and toddlers, it's a timeframe where there's a plasticity going on, in that we don't want to necessarily try to fix it, either through surgery or patching. But what's a better approach is to work with the whole body through different specific movement patterns. And to encourage bilateral integration with both sides of the body and both hemispheres of the brain, this is going to help you and then tell the eyes, okay, I can have a better opportunity for straightening out. So it's something that I counseled parents to watch, and to maybe do some proactive exercises that can help. But you don't want to do something as invasive as surgery War II patching. Because, first of all, those methods don't work very well. It creates more trauma in the infant toddler, and it's really makes no sense to them. Glasses is also another poor option, because that's not going to do anything as well. So the bottom line is that by doing some bilateral exercises, doing some vestibular stimulation things with these infants and toddlers, working with something called primitive reflex integration, this is primitive reflexes are the motor patterns that we come out of the birth canal with. And they're very important in helping us integrate our, our movement patterns with our vision. And if these reflexes are not fully integrated, they begin to have an effect on our visual development. So doing some primitive reflex therapy can be really effective at reducing this s...
San Diego Master Class Part 1
Apr 11 2023
San Diego Master Class Part 1
Here is a peak into my San Diego Master Class. You can see how we work together to create a plan for her vision that will help move her forward and allow her to feel comfortable. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, glasses, vision, 350s, blurrier, peripheral, distorts, put, relate, cylinder, therapy, little bit, intuitive insights, feel, space, wear, relaxing, lenses, nearsighted, optometry   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 hello@drsamberne.com. All right, Justine, you're the last one. So, tell me a little bit about your vision and how you became nearsighted. And now what was your what's your history?   00:16 Yeah, so I started wearing glasses when I was in fifth grade. And my optometrist prescribed me very strong minus lenses, and didn't tell me anything about visual habits. So I used to color and write really close to the page. And I used to watch TV, you know, from the distance of this computer screen. And so my prescription just continued to climb and climb and climb throughout school. And it wasn't until optometry school that I learned about good visual habits, about you know, relaxing your vision going outside, you know, not being so glued to the screens. But you know, with COVID and technology nowadays, we're always on our screens. And so I do vision therapy with patients. And so I'm actively doing the exercises with them, especially the diverging activities. And what I'm finding is I'm approaching 36 now, and I'm feeling like I'm getting early presbyopic kind of symptoms, where long term your work, it's starting to give me strain and headaches, and I even put a little bit of bass in prison and my glasses just to help with that. But I'm still finding that my eyes get really tired by the end of the day.   01:41 Okay, well, one thing I can say right off the bat, that can really help you is have you ever thought about wanting to reduce prescription?   01:50 Yes, that is what I would love to strive to do.   01:54 Okay. So the way we should do this is, if you've got some filters, and you can get them then what will happen is I'm gonna have you wear them over this, and I'm gonna have no,   02:08 okay, I've got it. I've got.   02:10 So this is a plus 50. And I just want you to wear it over Are you minus six? Like, are you   02:16 are you so I'm actually I'm not minus six. So this one here minus 375 minus 175. Sell. So spherical equivalent is about a five ish, and then left is a minus five. So a lot of so here, zero so   02:33 so we're going to try a couple of things. So put the plus with these over the glasses. Okay, so what do you feel? Comfortable? Some people what's the difference?   02:48 Yes. So definitely more clarity, but I also feel more center not as peripheral. And then when I put these on blurrier, but I feel more open and peripheral things are a little bit bigger.   03:04 Now with your right hand, right, that one I think the pluses of the one okay   03:08 over well this might be minus blurrier How does it feel mentally emotionally? I feel almost like a tingling right here. My nose bridge. Okay. Maybe a little bit of nausea.   03:31 So the nausea is now we're actually much more peripheral. Okay. So now compare the, the right the left hand and also you can look at your print through   03:57 the plus 50 is a lot easier to adjust to   04:01 Okay.