Podcast: Protecting Our Vision

Dietary remedies for keeping our eyes healthy. This episode features audio from:
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[@Edaryion]

Podcasts are great. I greatly appreciate listening to you share knowledge in this format, thank you Doctor Michael Greger.

[@xeropunt5749]

Omega 3. Goji. Sunshine. Palming. We suffer not from ignorance, but from indulgences & neglect…

[@sadiedesimone7460]

Love this generous genius!!❤️👍👍

[@inglesaocom913]

Doctor Greger is the best.

[@paulcohen6727]

Since going plant-based, my vision has improved quite a bit. I went in for my eye exam and the doctor noted that my prescription over the previous few years had gone down progressively from 6 diopters to 2.5 in one eye and 2.75 in the other. I also needed a 1.75 correction for reading and now I need none. Then during the pandemic, I stopped wearing glasses entirety since my glasses got fogged up due to wearing a mask. I figured better to see a little rather than not at all. I found that I could get along just fine without glasses and so now I don't bother with glasses.

[@Mogli-rb3ud]

I wish, I had a doctor like him. My doc is obese, has had a heart attack and eats chocolate and other crap all day long🙄

[@KJSvitko]

In the 1950's most doctors smoked. Doctors need to get nutrition education in medical school. Currently they do not get that education. They learn how to write prescriptions.

[@rozchristopherson648]

@@KJSvitkoThe medical schools are endowed heavily by the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies invest ensuring there will be doctors to write prescriptions for the medications produced by pharmaceutical companies

[@pinkiepinkster8395]

Get a new doctor asap.just eat fresh fruits and veggies and nuts and seeds and berries and melons and lentils and heal yourself and eliminate meat and dairy and gluten and oils

[@lilydauber3147]

Seek another doctor who takes great care of his/her health.

[@Mogli-rb3ud]

@@pinkiepinkster8395 I have eliminated meat from my diet 30 years ago😉 So I can say for sure that I am in much better health condition than my doctor is😁

[@angiebee598]

I'm in my late 50's and was diagnosed with ARMD a couple of years ago. I've been taking the AREDS2 supplements but also eat a variety of greens and eat a WFPB diet most of the time. I had so many sunburns when I was younger and I'm sure fried my eyes. My brown eyed dad also had ARMD. I will keep taking the supplements because my fear of blindness is strong.

[@Amshatelia88]

I am glad you found this information! Best wishes to you!

[@AndrewPawley11]

I love these podcasts!

[@leftyfourguns]

Nice try but I'll never give up raw carrots! They're so much more tasty and satisfying than soggy cooked carrots

[@Amshatelia88]

I eat both! Raw carrots and stewed in chili and other dishes!

[@Castaway_Chuck]

I bought your new book yesterday at Barnes & Noble in St. Petersburg, Florida yesterday. Thanks for the great work you do to help keep me and so many others healthy!

[@lukeweaver9287]

Awesome! I eat plenty of healthy eye-protective foods. 😃

[@adelaideelfie4922]

Is this for fresh goji berrie only, or the dehydrated sealed in packaging we find here in the US?

[@Chris-bm1gx]

Thankyou veryhelpful

[@acoustic61]

Not a vegan but since I've been exercising, eating better nutrition, very little processed foods, sugar or refined carbs and my vision seems to be better than it was 15 years ago. One eye seemed to have a bit of double vision on edge detail of distant objects. Noticeable when I blocked the other eye. In my 60's now and it's gone. Nearly perfect vision. I use glasses for only reading and even then only to magnify. I think because the light sensitivity has diminished.

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

thanks Dr. G.

[@merlot4276]

Dr Greger talks about Near-work induced transient myopia!!! Fantastic!! Fun Fact: If you go to an eye doctor with NITM they will most likely put glasses on your face. Fun Fact: the glasses then cause subsequent lengthening of the eyeball = Lens induced myopia and more blur in the distance. Fun fact: you go back to the eye doctor, they give you stronger glasses. Fun fact: this blur progression continues for the rest of your life. Fun fact: if you wear weaker glasses for close work, (about a diopter less than your full prescription) get outside, battle and overcome screen addiction, phone use etc you can REVERSE the blur and get back to 20/20!! Fun fact: I started with Left eye -7.75 and Right eye -6.25. Fun Fact: now at Left -5.5 and Right -4.5 and still getting better vision.

[@bigskytinybird]

Awesome! I've seen a video on this, only the recommendation was to lower your glasses/contact lenses by 0.25- not a full diopter. Can you share the resource you used to learn this? I wear my contacts only when going out of the house, and I wear them at 0.25 less (-4.75 rather than -5.00) but glasses at home, where I work at a computer. My glasses are crazy old though, from 2007, and I'm guessing they're in the -2.00 range.

[@merlot4276]

@@bigskytinybird It sounds like what you are doing is a good set up. If you go to scholar.google.com you can find research articles discussing NITM and lens -induced myopia. Jake Steiner is where I first heard all of this explained in this way. To improve your vision, you will need to tweak your habits and eliminate as much unnecessary close activities as you can and get outside more. I will mention though (and this will sound strange), your mind will most likely try to stop you from improving your vision. One part of us wants to improve our vision and other parts of us are like "That's nice, get in line." In other words, the top priority for the mind is emotional homeostasis (or at least an attempt at this!) - not vision improvement. It is a deep dive but a good example of this inner conflict is an interview on youtube called: Becoming Whole: Healing the Exiled & Rejected Parts of Ourselves | Richard Schwartz, Soren Gordhamer. Richard Schwartz also did a great interview with Rich Roll. Definitely worth checking out. Let me know how you do with trying to change your habits (if you want). Good luck!!!

[@merlot4276]

@@bigskytinybird Well, my reply to you I am pretty sure got taken down. Can not mention people I guess who know this is all true?? I guess this will get taken down also. Interesting. scholar.google has NITM info. May be saying this is ok?

[@user-sm2vp1zt7e]

Thank you Doctor Greger for the excellent podcast! I have had 2 retinal tears in the last year. Can a plant food diet prevent retinal tears or retinal detachment?

[@iamgoldsales4948]

Please how can you prevent vitreous synergy or heal it 🙏🏽

[@tedhuntington7692]

nice possible d2bw rnraw hint with the double throat clears :)

[@veganian2019]

Dr Greger, I suddenly developed a bunch of really annoying ’floaters’ in my right eye. They just appeared out of nowhere but are still there after several days and don’t seem to be going anywhere! (Apart from round and around my vision). Is there anything I can do about them please? Thanks. (I’m a longtime subscriber)

[@ElenaFrancis]

Do NAC drops help cataracts?

[@liliansng3820]

Will spending many hours taking photographs outdoors increase the chances of a macular hole in the eye? I use my right eye on the camera, but my macukar hole and retina detachment are both on my left eye. Hope this may be one of your research projects in the future. I am Chinese with brown skin. Thank you

[@ainsleyameerali7622]

Dr greger for president

[@kiwiwriter]

I'm reading these comments without glasses. I had to wear reading glasses for about five years but 18 months of WFPB nutrition later (1 meal per week or 5% might have some crap in it) I can read right down to a 12 font size. They told me this (macular degeneration) was an irreversible condition that comes with aging. They told me a lot of my problems (joint pain, weight gain, depression, anxiety, lethargy, shortness of breath) were age related and they were wrong about all of that too. I simply can't believe how sick I was and my doctor had no answers when a few doors down from his office is a store full of legumes, nuts, herbs, spices, mushrooms, fruit and vegetables. I went and asked healthy people what they were doing, and stopped listening to my lardass doctor.

[@tamihoenig2914]

What about low pressure glaucoma? Do you have nutritional guidance in preventing it? Less common than high pressure glaucoma, my mother had it.

[@aumnamashivaya4]

Isn't it too much to eat spinach daily??

[@Amshatelia88]

Not at all!

[@friedagelber5879]

Are the spinach, corn, collard greens and kale to be consumed raw as well as the goji berries or should the goji berries be dehydrated?

[@febo2367]

Shouldn't be illegal for supplements producers to lie about what's inside their supplements?

[@bohditony]

🙏💚

[@RealJonzuk]

i have brown that means i can eat mcdonalds everyday "im kidding i wouldnt eat that maybe the impossible whopper without mayo"

[@Top12Boardsport]

🫡🙏👌👍

[@pmw3839]

The fact that supplements are so unreliable is maybe good reason to eat a small amount of animal produce, such as fish, instead of taking a B12 supplement. Maybe 80% plants and 20% animal.

[@MassMultiplayer]

plz review my : Vegans Lack Nutriments - 47 Nutriment from non-animal-corpse / non-animal-secretions - Shorter Video tell me if i miss anything im obsess cause whole food plant based diet is AMAZING vegan for 4 years best move of my life i feel ultra energetic endurance strenght health no articulation pain Game changer no joke im 39

[@MassMultiplayer]

| Zeaxanthin and Lutein | Dark leafy greens (kale, spinach, collard greens), broccoli, peas | | | Brussels sprouts, corn, | one of my 47 nutriments (about 2200 calori 2 huge meal (fruit one and nonfruit spicy once) )

[@childofdestiny2811]

As an African-American person, I take some offense at the assumption that we eat collard greens all day. We are not all the same, so we do not all eat the same diet. I must admit, I am also a little taken it back by the introduction of the diet to help glaucoma. Why not start with “ glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in African-Americans”? Why was it necessary to first introduce the number of white women less affected by the disease, and then switch to African-Americans? I fear that it was a way to invite the audience to take the information more seriously, assuming that they may not otherwise. I’ve read every book you’ve ever written and I’ve watched every video that you’ve ever made, but I couldn’t finish this one because it distressed me too greatly. I really expected more sensitivity from you. I do thank you for all the work that you’ve done.

[@NutritionFactsOrg]

It is not our intention to offend by any means and we apologize if it came across that way. In the video this podcast is derived from, he is referencing a study that states among the participants in the study, "only 81 (8%) White respondents consumed at least one serving of green collards or kale per month, 123 (85%) Black participants consumed this amount." Quoted at the bottom of page 1085: escholarship.org/content/qt0wk7686d/qt0wk7686d.pdf?t=owmz7r The study the video starts with specifically focuses on African-American women: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448787/ Original video for context: nutritionfacts.org/video/greens-vs-glaucoma Steven - NF Staff

[@mutemoniker]

I'm gonna be real with you. This is racist af. No one would have notice this unless you pointed it out. You really think the creators of this video sat down on purpose and said, "Oh yeah, make sure that you mention white women first so they take it more seriously." ??? C'mon.

[@paulcohen6727]

I studied Public health and Epidemiology in Grad School and I was surprised how often discussion of disease included the distribution of the disease by race. Yet, I'm sure no slight or negative connotation was implied. It's simply the nature of the health literature. It would incomplete without it; it's needed to deliver meaningful health information to the particular community that we may be serving.

[@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094]

It's not racist to mention that certain races tend to eat a certain way. Doesn't mean every single person of that race eats like that, but we do notice a pattern which is simply observed and noted objectively in these studies. We really need to stop getting offended over these things.

[@anitamartini5144]

You are desperately incorrect, he cited studies-he can’t change who was studied, he can only report the studies, he never implied or said “we eat collard greens all day” what are you so upset about? If you do eat collards all day you would be more healthy than most. Maybe if you calmed down, managed your emotional response so you could actually get through the entire video before you pass judgement? When you click off a vid early and pop off without facts-that is offensive! Try to listen better and you would be more educated on this topic which will help you see past your biases, instead of jumping to unwarranted conclusions, presuming and making up things that are offensive to you. It’s as if you want to be offended and are looking for the insults that simply are not there.

[@xcast1]

"Nuts and seeds" for increasing absorption of lut./zea./fatty vitamins: I remember studies with some oil doing that. (People typically use that). Is there actual evidence for 'clunky nut & seed bits' doing as well. Is the fat in it present in the intestine early enough when needed for that absorption?