Eye Health – Dr. Sam Berne – Holistic Eye Care

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Sam Berne (00:00.078)

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Sam Berne (01:58.591)

I’m calling this ocular calcification and here are the symptoms. If we find moderate to high levels of calcium in the cornea, the diagnosis is called band keratopathy. Remember the cornea is the clear window of the eye made up of mostly collagen and water symptoms include dry eye feeling like something’s in your eye like we call sand in the eye or a foreign body sensation blurred vision halos around lights glare

and a white or gray line that’s running through the cornea causes can be chronic inflammation. If you have the eye condition called uveitis, that’s one of the diseases that can occur with calcium deposits, but can also be systemic inflammation too much calcium in the blood kidney disease. Another cause is long-term use of eye drops with preservatives and a hyperparathyroid.

Now more in the back of the eye. We can find calcium both in the retina and the choroid which surrounds the retina. It’s more of the protective part of the eye and we can see things like benign tumors in the choroid or drusen which are fatty deposits that are found in the retina. We can see things like wavy vision visual field defects loss of central vision.

So conditions like age-related macular degeneration, discovering tumors in the choroid and metabolic disorders are part of the things that happen when there’s calcium deposits in the choroid or the retina. Sometimes we can find calcium plaques in the sclera, which is the white part of the eye and some of the systemic clues in terms of symptoms would be a dry mouth, dry eyes, possible autoimmune disease.

Sam Berne (03:59.404)

calcium magnesium that ratio and if there’s a lot of calcium that shows up in the hair, we call this a calcium shell and what’s happening is the calcium that’s supposed to be absorbed into the bones gets pushed out into the soft tissue area of the body. That’s why we call it a calcium shell and one of the places that it will deposit is in the skin and also the eyes.

I often will see a correlation if we get that calcium shell that the adrenals are overworking. We’re under a lot of stress. Our sympathetic nervous system is overworking and this is what creates the calcium shell. Now there’s several ways that eye doctors can diagnose this condition. One is using the microscope called a slit lamp where we can magnify and look at the tissues to see if there’s any calcium deposits.

We can also take retinal photography and do a test called an optical coherence topography. Some doctors will use an ultrasound B scan and an orbital CAT scan. If you’re going to do a blood test, I would recommend a serum calcium test, a test that analyzes the parathyroid, check phosphate and vitamin D levels and check ACE levels and sarcoid markers. Before I give a holistic protocol, I want to do a disclaimer that this is just educational only.

And I would recommend working with your doctor. Okay, here we go. The first thing I would recommend in a holistic protocol magnesium helps direct calcium back to the bones and it moves it away from the soft tissue accumulation that I referred to a few minutes ago. I would start with 200 milligrams twice a day. I would take a vitamin D 3 K 2 combination K 2 can help prevent arterial accumulation of calcium.

Sam Berne (06:21.056)

And I’d make a formulation either using I bright chamomile red raspberry leaf tea as a compress on the eyes use one teaspoon of one of those herbs in an 8 ounce glass of water make it into a tea. Let it cool strain it into a liquid put it into an eye cup and then you can put it on the eyes do not use if you’ve had recent eye surgery or if you have a bacterial infection in the eye and hydrate

Drink six to eight glasses a day of water. It could be hydrogen water, Kagan water, structured water. This helps detoxify and cleanses the cells. It also add high quality electrolyte drink. This will help you absorb your trace minerals better. Stimulate your lymphatic system either through craniosacral therapy doing my palm hum exercise. Consider castor oil packs over the liver for one to two weeks.

Remember the liver rules the eyes in Chinese medicine and it helps detox the eye, especially if the liver is working better nutrition wise. You want to have your kale parsley and nettles which are high in magnesium organic dehydrated nuts and seeds. This includes pumpkin seeds sunflower seeds and chia seeds and make sure to eat some fatty fish. This could be sardines mackerel.

Again, the DHA in these omega-3s help repair the retina and you could do a zeolite cilantro or chlorella which helps boost your detoxification pathways. I also recommend red light therapy. Dr. Jeffrey’s study on red light showed that it can actually reduce drusen in the eye. Obviously red light improves the mitochondria function in the eye and this is most important stress reduction.

Sam Berne (08:42.589)

to help reduce the calcification that can occur in your eyes. So if you’ve got more questions, feel free to send me an email. Hello at dr. Sam burn.com. That’s our show for today. Thank you so much for tuning in until next time. Take care.

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holistic vision care, eye health, functional medicine, nutrition, antioxidants, blue light, eye strain, vision improvement, myths about eye health, grounding

Summary

In this conversation, Dr. Sam Berne discusses the importance of holistic vision care, emphasizing the role of nutrition, antioxidants, and lifestyle changes in maintaining and improving eye health. He challenges common misconceptions about aging and vision deterioration, advocating for a proactive approach to eye care. The discussion also covers the impact of blue light from digital devices, the significance of grounding, and practical strategies to mitigate eye strain.

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00:00Introduction to Holistic Vision Care

Sam Berne (00:00.12)

Welcome, Dr. Byrne. Thank you. Great to be here. So as I mentioned, you know, we’ve had so many speakers speak about whole food plant based nutrition. We speak about it all the time and we’ve kind of ignored eye health, kind of just taken it for granted. I guess I started this when I was in my 40s and my eyes were pretty good. we didn’t really think about it, but for anyone that’s having challenges with their eyes,

That’s really a huge concern. we certainly would rather be proactive than reactive on this subject. If you could just take a minute maybe just to introduce yourself and tell us what you’ve been doing with your career for the last, you know, 10 years 20 years and then I’ll start asking you questions. Okay, thanks. So for the last 20 years, I’ve been doing patient care research and teaching.

And my mission is to bring holistic vision care to the mainstream. I have a pretty active social media following also have a podcast and I’m just inspired to help people take back their vision.

Great. Okay. I’d like to try if it’s okay with you to ask you quite a number of questions. So instead of feeling like you have to cover everything on every question, I’ll ask you a lot of questions. You can answer just that and then we’ll go on to the next question. So you have a chance to talk about a lot of things. Does that sound good? Yeah, fire away, Steve. Here we go. So could you elaborate?

Sam Berne (02:19.992)

affects the micro capillary circulation and the mitochondria function in the eyes because after about age 40, we start developing oxidative stress and inflammation and then we go to a traditional eye doctor and he starts diagnosing with a variety of conditions or you know, if you wear glasses or contacts your eyes get progressively worse. So in functional nutrition, I’m looking at

What are the best foods we should eat the best best lifestyle practices? And so that’s the first category. The second category is, you know, when you get your exam where most eye doctors just have you read the distance chart and that’s really your eyesight. It’s not vision. Vision is how the eyes in the brain and the body integrate and work together. So it’s a brain experience.

So how you use your eyes functionally affects the structure anatomy of the eyes eventually. So if you’re in a repetitive state of movement with your eyes and vision or you’re wearing glasses or contacts that perpetuate or reinforce a weakness, then it just gets worse and worse. So in functional vision therapy.

What I’ve developed is a way to help re-educate the habits and bring people to a better space around their vision functionally and this reverses the structural deterioration.

Sam Berne (04:21.549)

And then number three is to protect yourself from the damaging blue light emitted from our screens and using iridology, you know, analyzing the patterns of the iris. We can look at your constitutional type to see whether or not, you know, what

What specific health practice you can do to mitigate any deterioration and then in addition to the Constitution, we can look at the different patterns genetic tendencies and nurture points and our glands organs and digestive areas and then we can really fine-tune and pinpoint what foods you should eat what lifestyle changes you should make and in all of

the cases, I recommend boosting mitochondria function in the eye either through red light therapy. could also do methylene blue, which is kind of an it kind of amplifies the red light therapy or you can do certain foods that stimulate mitochondria function. So if you do all those things, you are being proactive in interrupting and in many cases reversing the deterioration in these eyes.

diseases. Say one more thing with cataracts. If you catch it early, if you increase your glutathione and vitamin C, those two ingredients have been found to be really potent for slowing down the aging process in cataracts or macular degeneration.

Sam Berne (06:31.809)

The intraocular lenses don’t even have any blue protection in them. So this is where lutein and zeaxanthin become even more important. Now dosage on a daily basis. You should be doing about 16 milligrams of lutein and about four to six milligrams of zeaxanthin daily.

Couple things though. These are fat soluble vitamins. So you want to make sure your liver gallbladder are working well because you can be either taking the supplements or eating the you know, the rainbow vegetables. But if you’re not absorbing the fat soluble vitamins because the liver gallbladders is not working are not working well, then what’s the point? So you’ve got to make sure your liver gallbladder are

working properly so you can.

Absorb them. There’s one other one that you haven’t mentioned, but I think I should mention it. It’s called astaxanthin. So astaxanthin is a third carotenoid. It’s actually a marine carotenoid. You can get that from wild-caught salmon, you know, the pink seafood. You can also if you’re vegan or vegetarian, you can get it from algae. So you want to get four to six milligrams a day of the astaxanthin. The astaxanthin along with the lutein and the

Sam Berne (08:19.439)

considered a crucial antioxidant for eye health and what dietary sources or supplements might you recommend? So glutathione is a powerhouse antioxidant. It’s produced in the liver and some of the best foods that you could get glutathione from would be either the cruciferous vegetables or garlic onion.

those things or I would recommend a liposomal glutathione. So that means that it’s kind of fat molecule and it’s sublingual and so I’m not recommending any companies but you can do your research, but you want to get a liposomal

glutathione because it’s going to be protected in a fat molecule. So when you swallow it, it’s not going to get, you know, eaten up by digestive enzymes. So either or another thing you could do is get IV glutathione, although it doesn’t stay in the body that long. But certainly I’ve had many patients going for IV glutathione and they will say immediately their eyesight is much clearer. So

glutathione is one of those really power houses of antioxidants and it’s in a high concentration in the lens of the eye as is vitamin C. So if you’re developing cataracts, you’re probably low in those two antioxidants. I would start boosting them either through supplementation and or foods. Okay, you might have just answered this but how do omega-3 fatty acids and DHA

Sam Berne (10:18.745)

It is a requirement that if you’ve been diagnosed with glaucoma, you should start taking at least two to 3000 milligrams a day of a really high potency DHA EPA primarily DHA and then with any kind of retinal disease. Again, omega-3 is critically important as an anti-inflammatory agent, but also just feeding the retina. Also omega-3 has been shown to

help mitigate some of the dry eye symptoms. Now dry eyes a complicated condition. We can talk more about that because there many levels and layers on why we develop dry eye. But you know, I think that everybody should be on a good omega-3 because we don’t produce it in the body and you know, you need to do your due diligence on companies that do their third-party testing, but it’s certainly it’s essential.

For high health. Thank you. What are the primary metabolic factors contributing to cataract development and how can these be addressed holistically? Well, one of the main ones and I’ve heard some of your speakers talk about it is the process called glycation. So in the lens what happens is the glucose molecule binds itself to the protein molecule of the lens and this creates cloudiness.

And you know, in all the patients I’ve seen over the years, and this is also in the literature, if you have a difficult time with glucose metabolism, you’re probably going to develop cataracts and possibly even, you know, diabetic retinopathy or wet macular degeneration. So the key here is that you need to really take care of your pancreas health.

Sam Berne (12:46.029)

because that glycation molecule will attach itself to the protein molecule of the vitreous the gel sack and this also is a creation of floaters. So glycation wreaks havoc on the eyes as it does on the body and it really accelerates the aging process. So we’ve had a lot of speakers talk about diet and we’ve asked them a lot of questions. And when it comes to supposedly healthy fats meaning raw seeds.

nuts, raw organic seeds, nuts, avocados, olives. Those four things, that’s question one. And then question two would be olive oil, hemp oil, flax oil. So question one, seeds, nuts, olives, avocados. Question two, supposedly healthy oils such as hemp, flax, olive. How do these affect eye health?

Well, it’s obvious big time, know, when we do seeds and nuts again, you know, I like to do dehydrated and organic if possible chia seeds are a great source of omega-3 and of course walnuts. You know, we’ll recommend something like a smoothie where we’ll use a few seeds and nuts and cacahuas 70 % and that’s a nice way to get

your fats and all the great stuff that’s in cacaua avocados. You’ve got lutein in in avocados, which is great. And you know, when I travel, I always bring an avocado on the plane and that’s one of my snacks. And in terms of the fats, you know, three six and nine again, I’ve heard some of your speakers talk about how we get too much six or nine and not enough three. I think it’s a balancing act.

Sam Berne (15:09.863)

So I, you know, I’m with most of your speakers around. need more healthy fats three, six and nine and you know, you’ve working with a functional medicine doctor that can help fine tune, you know, exactly what you need. But you know, it’s essential for your eye health. You challenge, thank you. You challenge the idea that the vision must deteriorate with age.

What are some fundamental strategies to maintain or even improve vision in older adults? Number one only wear your glasses when you need them take them off and go without your glasses and non demanding and non threatening situations. Number two get morning sunlight at least 30 minutes every morning number three limit your screen time.

Take frequent breaks. If you’re on screens phone tablet or computer number four, your lifestyle is such where you want to get out into nature and get away from the EMFs because that actually affects your eyes and number six heal your emotional health because emotions definitely have an effect on the eyes and number seven.

cultivate your liver gallbladder thyroid and pancreas health and we see this again in our iridology readings and we can tell if there’s you know, genetic tendencies or nurture points, but you know doing a liver cleanse once or twice a year is awesome for for clearing up your eyesight and reversing the aging in your eyes.

Sam Berne (17:24.301)

Those are really simple practices for supporting liver health.

Sam Berne (17:59.772)

That blue light is an issue when you need special blue light blocker glasses. What is blue light? Why is it a concern? What should we do? Not all blue light is bad. But if you look at the nanometers between 405 and 455, that is a chaotic blue wavelength. And when that blue wavelength touches your eyes, it creates dryness. also can over time.

create eye strain or eye fatigue. And so on the in the short answer is that when you expose yourself to the 405 to 455, you’re setting yourself up to have this I call it a neurotoxin that’s coming into your eyes. And the French government did 400 page paper on the ill effects of blue light.

from children to adults in the US and I just attended a conference. It was a mainstream allopathic eye conference. They did not really think blue light has some issues. However, blue light definitely is going to affect your pineal gland. It tricks the melatonin and it can create sleep problems.

The thing with blue blocking glasses is that it’s in the marketplace. So there’s a lot of predatory products out there that say, you know, they do this and they do that even the best blue blocking glasses only only cut out about 30 % of the blue light. So it’s not a hundred percent. That’s where you have to take your carotenoids. You have to you know, get out in the natural sunlight. I do think that blue protecting lenses.

Sam Berne (20:17.227)

So there’s some things that you can do functionally. There’s some functional vision therapy exercises that you can do obviously nutrition and diet and it’s just like anything else. You don’t want to be running marathons with your eyes and that’s what people do on their screens. So it’s all moderate, but I would say that blue light definitely has an ill effect. And if you’ve had cataract surgery, you want to definitely protect yourself from blue light.

because the IOL they’re putting in doesn’t correct you or protect you and you’re not told that in in the surgery. So those would be some of the things I would spotlight and blue light. It’s definitely an issue. the way, how many eye doctors in the country have your knowledge base? Is this there a lot of people that know this or is this unusual because I haven’t heard

I wasn’t I’m not aware of that many that speak with the wealth of knowledge on this that you have. Well, I you know, I can’t speak for for others. I am doing a practitioner training now. So I know that the people that I’m training they’re going to they’re going to get my knowledge. There is an organization called covd.org and there are a group of behavioral optometrists who do some form of vision therapy to what

A degree. I don’t know. There’s also a group called the College of Syntonic Optometry and they do light therapy. Again, I don’t know what their database is. I know for me, I had some really great mentors who aren’t alive anymore who really, know, I was 28 years old and I had five 70 year old behavioral optometrist developmental optometrist.

Sam Berne (22:39.833)

You know, that’s that’s what I do and I’ve been doing it 40 years. So I’ve got a big base of patients and you know, that’s why I keep doing it because it’s great and on social media, you know, we have over 280,000 followers. So something is getting struck there on the cord of you know, the information I’m conveying. Thank you. What are some common myths about eye health that you frequently encounter and would like to dispel?

Number one, you don’t have to live out your doctor’s diagnosis doctors allopathic diagnosis number two, your eyes don’t have to get worse as you get older. They can actually get better and number three, you can improve your vision at any age. I have patients between 85 and 90 that are improving their vision. They’re either reducing their prescription their

getting their driver’s license renewed, even if it’s just daylight. They’ve had pretty severe diagnoses that we’ve been able to reverse in terms of diseases. So, you know, when you go to the regular doctor again, if they don’t see it in their mind that you can improve it, then of course they’re going to stay in their indoctrinated ways. I’ve had the good fortune to see a lot of healing with people’s eyes and vision.

So I can recognize if somebody is open to do it and their body intelligence says, hey, I want to do this. I’m doing it in other areas. We find this all the time that even giving somebody a reduced prescription can actually improve their eyesight and vision and this happens all the time. And then if they want to go deeper, you know, the longer they work with me the more benefits they get.

Sam Berne (25:01.465)

Okay, so a disclaimer. I do not distribute any products because the product markets that I see do not meet my criteria for safety and protection of the consumer. So that being said, I’m just going to speak generally here. And what I would say is that you know number one

And I’m to go in a little different direction here. I think the thyroid health is really important. A lot of people have low thyroid. So seaweed, dulse and kelp are really important in terms of liver health. The three herbs that I love. So I’m going more herbal than just, you know, vitamins and minerals. Burdock root, yellow dock and milk thistle that combination. If you want to do a really good liver cleanse, that’s a great

combination. I think that if you can, you know, do like eye compresses things like dandelion, rude or golden seal, chamomile, eye bright, although that’s hard to get even colloidal silver. If it’s a really high quality that can be really good at, you know, as an antibacterial agent. I also do a lot with essential oils and my number one

essential oil is frankincense and I’ll put it on the temples massage it on the back of the neck and on the third eye. We did a we did a post on Facebook on frankincense that very thing and we got over 1 million views. So something is is resonating with people using frankincense as a way to improve the vision. Obviously, we talked about Omega 3’s those are really good.

Sam Berne (27:09.775)

and rainbow diet. I love doing smoothies like vegetable smoothies like using ginger root, turmeric root, beets, celery.

cabbage, wheatgrass, you know, and use a hot tea. So if you’ve got, you know, say issues with your bones, I would do something like oat straw tea. You’ve got respiratory issues, Mullen tea, and that’s a hot tea that you would put in the blender or the Vitamix. Getting those plant enzymes is really, really important in the morning. I find that people aren’t getting enough really good enzymes and you know, you can take supplemental enzymes, but

It’s not the same as you know, getting into your Vitamix and working that way. So I don’t know if I answered your question, but those are that’s my that’s my perspective on on what you asked. Thank you. What are your thoughts on wearing contact lenses full-time versus allowing the eyes periods of rest without them? Well, I definitely think contacts are great part-time sports and social.

You don’t want to for near-sightedness. You don’t want to get over corrected for distance with contacts because then you’re going to need reading glasses over the contacts. So tell your doctor you want to be a little bit under corrected for distance and near-sightedness in far-sightedness. If you were contacts again, you don’t want to wear something so highly magnified because then you’re going to lose your distance.

Sam Berne (29:16.229)

You get to allow your system to relax and your point is well taken around the contacts because it can create a dryness. It can affect the ocular microbiome. That’s right. We do have a microbiome and so taking the lenses off allowing your eyes to breathe and just being moderate when you wear the contacts. I think they’re a great, you know, a great optical system to use.

Just as a general answer, not best case scenarios, how likely is it that we can improve our eyesight? I know a lot of what we’re talking about is how to prevent our eyesight from getting worse, but in your experience, not the couple of cases where everything went great, the average person who’s using glasses and contacts, are you saying that we can maintain our eyesight or are you saying you could actually have better vision? What are we, what is the, end?

New York Spurgeon. So who who’s the population? it in this conference or is it more in the general mainstream where they’re not in this conference? Who who are you targeting here? A motivated person that was saying I would be very interested in. Okay, if they’re motivated and they have some, you know, background in holistic health.

Then I would say it’s probably a 95 % chance that there can be some improvement. And what I see with people when they when they take that on the release around them actually experiencing the improvement reduces their stress by about 250 % and I see it all the time like people come in. I don’t know exactly what you do. I’ve heard good things.

Sam Berne (31:38.637)

Thank you. Tell me or tell us about LASIK or the equivalent of LASIK. What you know what it is how well it works if there are side effects and also for someone who’s already undergone LASIK and is experiencing returning vision issues. What holistic strategies you might recommend. So LASIK is a refractive store refractive surgery and a long line of refractive surgeries that used to be called PRK back in the day.

Basically, what the surgeon does is he’s changing the shape of the eyeball, the front of the eyeball to reduce the prescription in the eye. And one of the sayings we have in our practice is it’s not the eye that causes the prescription. It’s the programming behind the eyes that causes the prescription and that’s an important point because if you do believe that it’s the

Programming that causes the prescription. Well, what you’re changing is just the end result symptom, which is the prescription in the eye. That’s what you’re doing with lasik, but you’re not going back to the operating system and reprogramming that so now you have the lasik surgery and the operating system is still operating in the old model, which is I’m going to still

have the same programming and then you’ve got this new hardware. That’s like it’s not fitting. So what you have to do is you either have to ignore the programming and then you’ll probably stay more in a success space. You know that sweet spot where you go. Hey Lasix great. There’s no problems, but you’ll see it in other areas either in the body intention that you carry or other weird.

Sam Berne (33:53.612)

that can help people post surgically integrate what the lasik surgery has done to the eye. You know, we have eye surgery, but we never do physical therapy after it. In fact, it’s invalidated. It’s taboo. If you bring it up with your surgeon, they always say, that doesn’t work. It’s, you know, mumbo jumbo, but you go have a knee operated on or a shoulder and you go to physical therapy.

Remember, I said about 10 minutes ago, I’m a physical therapy optometrist. So when somebody is at surgery, we need to do surgery. We need to do physical therapy afterwards so that they can integrate the programming the operating system with the new information that’s in the eye. If you do that, you can mitigate a lot of the deterioration that comes in the last point. I want to make and I mentioned this at

class is that in 2018, the New York Times did an expose on the FDA FDA and Lasik surgery and actually the person who helped approve the Lasik surgery worked for the FDA was quoted in the article saying that he probably wouldn’t approve of the surgical procedure today because he’s seen so many horror stories and that article really reveals the shadow side of Lasik surgery.

Even though you know on the mainstream media, it’s really, you know, very popular and celebrities and athletes that do it and it really can create confusion between the eyes and the brain.

Sam Berne (36:06.869)

Well, grounding and earthing is an opportunity for you to get into the energy fields of the earth and all our shoes are rubber. We don’t walk barefoot anymore and we’re spending all of our time either in cars or cement. We’re not in nature. And so the emf’s build up and

One of the places that I see emf’s really cause problems is if you wear metal glasses. Sorry Steve. It conducts emf’s into the ice. So you want to go more with a plastic frame and taking your lenses off. We use grounding. We have mats that you can, you know, actually put your feet on when you’re working on the computer. We also have it on our massage table.

When I’m doing crania sacral, you can even put a grounding mat on your bed if you want to so kind of depends on your environment. I mean if you live in a city where there’s a lot of wireless and you can’t get yourself into a barefoot place in nature that I would definitely get grounding and earthing in your apartment or your house definitely helps. Now if you can get out into nature and you can get into the Schumann wave, which is a very slow

Frequency that comes into our body and resets us if you can do that and you can meditate and you can walk in bare feet and then, you know, you don’t need the grounding map. But I think it’s really important. A lot of holistic health practitioners talk about it. It’s the real deal.

Sam Berne (38:05.547)

But that prescriptions for 20 feet and so when they use it at the computer, it’s going to create eye strain. It’s too strong for them. That’s on the near-sighted side on the far-sighted side. If you’re wearing reading glasses, like when you look at your phone, that magnification is going to be too strong for you at the computer so that you want to get a weaker magnification lens at the screen distance. I think it’s important to at the very least take

frequent frequent blade breaks set up things where you can deflect the EMFs whether it’s crystals or you can get these EMF protectors. Very important. I think getting out in the morning natural sunlight is also critically important. Of course, blue protection is part of it and hydrate hydrate hydrate hydrate. I don’t know if anybody at your conference has talked about

the benefits of hydrogen water. We’re using it now to be part of the support of macular problems and cataracts. So hydrogen water, structured water, I’d be drinking really high potency water, really, really good. And, you know, I use essential oils. We might distill those in the environment. So you’re oxygenating and hydrating.

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Here for my interview on KKCR, Public Radio Kauai. I was here about a year and a half ago and back again with my friend Tracy Shavarone, who’s gonna have me on and interview me. So stay tuned.

to Dr. Sam Berne. Aloha Sam. Aloha. So nice to see you in person. I know we’re face to face. We’re face to face. Eye to eye. Welcome back to Kauai. Yeah, feels great to be here. We just had 15 inches of snow in Santa Fe so nice to be in the tropics. Isn’t that kind of unusual to have that much snow this early? Well it used to be with climate change you know we’re

getting that much snow but back in the 90s yeah we used to get that kind of snow end of October beginning in November what a blessing you know it lowers the fire risk and

Anyway, it’s great to be here in the humidity. was mentioning I was in New Mexico in October and it was very, very dry. I definitely had to put lotion on my skin. It is a high desert environment. I have to warn people about that. It was so beautiful. Mexico is just spectacular.

It really is the land of enchantment. really is and so much space there, open land, great hiking, nature, Chaco Canyon and all those magical places.

Sam Berne (01:34.765)

Yes, well I’m a behavioral optometrist, doctor of optometry, but I have studied many different healing modalities and my mission is to help people regain their eyesight if it’s deteriorating, improve their vision as they get older, work with kids with learning problems and the spectrum disorders, autism, the ADD, there’s a very big vision component.

to it, traumatic brain injury, people that want to reduce their prescriptions. So I’ve devoted my career, you know, it’s four decades, and still going strong, helping people with their health and their vision.

But you do use it well, except your holistic approaches. Yeah, well, know, when listeners, you go to the eye doctor and they give you a stronger prescription and they tell you how you have a disease and you’re going to lose your sight or drug surgery and needles. That’s the,

the standard care. So just learning things like functional medicine, what do you eat to preserve your eyes? How does the sun affect your eyes? What about being on computers? You know, so there’s a lot of things that you can do to take better care of this major modality that we relate to the world with. And usually I get people where they’ve gone to the doctor and it’s, my goodness, I’m going to lose my sight or I have to get surgery. And that’s where I come in and I can…

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circadian rhythm and it puts you into a better mood and it’s great for your eyesight and vision. Number two, eat a diet that involves the rainbow of vegetables and if we think about the red, orange, yellow, green vegetables, those feed the retina, the macula and the cornea.

And so if you eat a healthy diet, low processed or no processed foods, and reduce or eliminate sugar, you have a great chance to preserve your eyesight. And number three, eye exercises work really well to improve the circulation and oxygenation in the eyes. One of my famous ones is called the palm hum exercise. That’s where you rub your hands together for a few seconds

you cup your hands over your eyes and you breathe in through your nose and on the exhale you make a humming sound and you do about six or eight of those after a day on the computer and that will improve your circulation, oxygenation, lubricate your eyes and balance your nervous system. So those are three simple things that you can do to preserve your vision.

And those are all totally doable. And I love the rainbow vegetables because for me I like to have a lot of colors in my food because I feel like I’m also nourishing my chakras when I eat all those colors on that more esoteric level. Yeah, well, there’s a camera that I use called a GDV camera. This measures energy fields, chakras, and acupuncture meridians. And we did research on how the chakras were impacted when we fed people

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our meridians and so yeah very much so. If you just tuned in I’ll speak with Dr. Sam Byrne and so Sam I’d love for you to give out your website and like any other information if you want to give out your phone number how long will you be here on Kauai? I’ll be here through next Wednesday and we have a workshop scheduled this Saturday. The registration closes tomorrow morning.

So you can call me 505-9200-317. I’m also doing some private sessions. So if you want some one-on-one time, give me a call. My website is drsamberne.com. I’m also very active on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. So you can type my name in and I have thousands of free videos.

a membership so if you want to go deeper with me you can do that. Lots of ways to learn about what I’m doing. you mentioned like I think every social media out there so I’m just curious what how has social media changed your ability to assist people in their lives?

Well, it helps me connect to people that probably would have never heard from me or about me. And I have a international following. So people say in Germany or Australia, you know, they get to see my content and it gives them another opportunity to, you know, to help themselves. My mission is to educate and I give away my content for free. I also have a podcast.

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So once again, if you just tuned in, I’m speaking with Dr. Sam Byrne. And now I know you have authored quite a few books, and do you want to just mention some of those? Because I know you were here, was it last year, or was it this year when you were here for your latest book? It was last April, and it was a book called Vital Vision, and that’s my newest book that’s been out about a year. You can get that on Amazon, both ebook and also written. I’ve written, my first book was called Creating Your

personal vision. I wrote that in 1994. I did a new edition about two, three years ago that has eye exercises in it. I also wrote a book about nutrition called Taking It In and how foods affect our vision and our brain. And then I wrote a book called I Sense, How to Play in the Field of Healing, where I talk about energy, medicine, and my research swimming with the wild dolphins on the Big Island and how that impacted

people’s energy fields and chakras and did that. Our last trip was 2020 before COVID. So there’s books on my website. You just go to DrSamBurn.com and you can order them if you want. So now the workshop, the workshop on Saturday, we want to talk a little bit about what that format will be.

Well, you know, people bring their individual situations to the table. And so we’re going to figure out what each person’s goals and objectives are. And then we’ll tailor the workshop to how it’s going to help people. And it could be through somatic movement. It could be through color therapy, vision, physical therapy, exercises. I also do something called iridology that’s being able to read the iris. You take a picture of the iris.

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And once again, how can someone register for that? Just give me a call 505-920-0317 and we can do the registration process on the phone. Also, if you want to do a session, we can book one. I am licensed to practice optometry in Hawaii, which is an advantage. So if you need prescriptions or anything like that, I can certainly address those needs for you. And your website again?

www.drsamburn.com. B-E-R-N-E. Check it out, there’s a lot of great stuff on there.

Yeah, if you want to interact, just send me an email and we can talk. So you’re offering private sessions. now, I mean, know, of course, you customize those to what the people’s issues are. But is there anything in particular, things that you are always sort of working with with people? What does the private session entail? mean, do you do it, do you take an iridology picture? mean, what does that entail? Well, you know, people have

problems. so listening is very important and meeting people where they are around, know, what are their symptoms? And of course we want to treat the cause, not the symptoms. So it could be anything from, for example, somebody’s prescription is too strong that they’re wearing and it gives them a headache. So how to reduce it but still allow them to see clearly, maybe giving them some eye relaxation exercises if they work on screens a lot.

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the eyes to increase the mitochondria function. And when you increase the mitochondria function, you reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. So there’s a way that I’ve developed red light therapy for the eyes that’s not too bright, and it allows a reversal of certain eye conditions. So Glenn Jeffries was an ophthalmologist in the UK who did a study on red light therapy and macular degeneration. You could Google that.

So there’s lots of different techniques with the overall intention is to help people move out of the danger zone if things are deteriorating.

Sam Berne (13:48.813)

And is there any particular area of the island where you are seeing patients just so people know? In the Princeville area. But if you contact me, I can give you directions. And it’s a nice, comfortable house. So it’s great. Just want to let people know, you’re visiting from the west side, it’s on the North Shore. Sure. We’re on the North Shore. Yeah, exactly.

again your website? DrSamBurn.com. And do you have your own YouTube channel? I do DrSamBurn you can go on that we post our video podcasts we do YouTube shorts long long material so we have tons of free videos on YouTube if you want to go there just type in my name and

Watch away. Watch away. So now you said you also have a podcast. where is that? Well, I do both an audio through Apple iTunes and Spotify and all the major sites. So that’s audio. Some people like to walk their dog and listen or they’re commuting in the city. And then we do a video version which we post on YouTube. So yeah, there’s a lot of different ways to reach that podcast. It’s called the burn podcast. And I’ve done hundreds of shows on a variety

of different subjects.

Sam Berne (16:00.783)

So let’s get back to eyes though. So you mentioned something about the screens, we’re on screens a lot. I know for my glasses I have one of those, what is it, that like blue thing that supposedly helps your eyes when you’re using screens, I forget what it’s called. Yeah, it’s called a blue protection lens or a blue filter or something, you know, depends on the company. So basically what’s coming off screens these days is chaotic blue light. And over time,

this blue light can dry your eyes out, can create inflammation and eye strain, dryness. So the blue light is definitely, in some circles they’ll say it’s actually even like a neurotoxin. So by doing blue protection on the lenses, you can actually get a screen protector as well on your phone or your tablet or your computer.

It’s really important to take frequent breaks on the computer and after 6 p.m. when you’re on the screens, the blue light tricks the pineal gland to reduce melatonin, which is our sleep hormone. So it’s a little more difficult to go to sleep if you’re on your screens before bed. I would stop using your digital one hour before you go to sleep, allow yourself to get away from all that chaotic screen time.

do those things and then get out in the natural sunlight, look out into the distance, you know, then you have a good chance to reduce eye strain and dryness. so there three main things just to keep it simple. Number one, get morning natural sunlight about 30 minutes a day, studies of

Sam Berne (18:22.707)

Eliminate processed foods, eat a rainbow diet of vegetables. I’d probably add berries. That’s a really great food for night vision. So the red, orange, yellow, green vegetables are really, really important and that feeds the macula and the retina. And then number three, my exercise called the palm hum. You could Google it and you can watch a demo. Basically you rub your hands together for a few seconds, palm your eyes. You’re breathing in through the nose on the exhale.

you do a hum and you do about six humps and that’s going to bring more oxygenation, circulation and relaxation to your eyes and your nervous system. If do those things, you’re going to preserve your eyesight. Well, I love all three of those and they’re so doable. And just thinking about that, know, palming your eyes and humming, because I know, you know, there’s, of course, there’s all, you know, sound therapy and stuff, but when I think of humming, it’s sort of like your whole body kind of vibrates. it seems like, you know,

would just help with your parasympathetic nervous system. You know, in so many ways it could be beneficial. Parasympathetic nervous system, nitric oxide, which is an ingredient as a natural vasodilator. And your hands are like tuning forks. So when you’re humming and you get that vibration, that sound is going into the compressed tissue of the eyes. Sound is one of the best ways to release compressed tissue, whether you’re basically doing your own sound bath. I like that.

I love sound baths too. they’re great. loved by other people as well. So this is more of a self-produced sound bath that you can direct and regulate which is wonderful. And it’s the Palm Hum by Dr. Sam It’s the Palm Hum, yes. So Dr. Sam Byrne, thank you so much. Once again I’d love for you to give out your website and your phone number. Sure, website drsambyrne.com and my number is 505-920-0317.

Sam Berne (20:39.56)

website? Is that on your Facebook page too? yeah, so it’s a lot of different places, but you can just give me a call and we can talk about it. So Tracy, thank you so much for having me on and best wishes to you. Well thank you Sam, it’s so good to see you again and I know I’ll see you in the course of the week. So, Aloha!

Today I give you a view into a session I did with some parents. This is a child who has been diagnosed with his right eye being very nearsighted, and his left eye being very farsighted. And he’s gone through a lot of learning challenges and developmental delays. I’ve been working with him for over two years and he’s made some incredible changes. So I thought I would give you some insight into how we did that. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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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.

So, you know, if we go back to his like, his exam, that is right, I was nearsighted in his left eye was farsighted. And so if he’s actually seeing clearly at the distance with his right eye, that means his near sight in this has reduced. He’s not as near Well, according to Dr. Slotnick, she speaks Okay, so he’s, we’ve released some tension in his right eye, because myopia is a lot about tension. And so through vision therapy, his right eye is engaging. Now, what’s interesting about the left eye, yeah, that’s farsighted, he should be able to see pretty well in the distance. And you’d have more difficulty seeing up close with the left eye. So that’s kind of odd. That he can’t see things with his left eye. So I’m not sure I’m up close. So his right eyes had historically his right eye is the reading on his left eye is the distance high, just based on nearsighted, farsighted, so the right eye was nearsighted, that’s the eye he reads with the left eye is the far-sighted eye, that’s the eye, he looks into the distance. So he’s gonna have difficulty reading with the left eye, and he’s gonna have difficulty looking into the distance with his right eye. So it doesn’t quite match up with the fact that his right eye sees really well. So he’s got less nearsightedness. But I don’t know about the right or the left eye. You know, if I look at one of Dr. slot next earlier prescriptions, it was, even more, this is the prescription with the prism, the right eye was a 2.75 with prism. And the left eye was a plus 5.25. With prism. Well, that was crazy. So then we 350 went from a five to a 350. And, or a 275. To a, oh, he actually went up in his myopia II, and he went down as far-sighted i. So I didn’t know we’re getting kind of mixed signals there. It’d be interesting to have more of the patch, and read with each eye and see how he does with that. Like patches left eye and give him a book to read. Or give him an iPad. And see if he has to hold the iPad close. Or can he see it is you know, Harmon distance that’s knuckled to the elbow? And then can he read with the left eye? You know, really the best eye screenings are to test how a child reads the print up close. That’s a better telltale signal than reading a distance chart.

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That’s not a very good screening device, honestly. Because a lot of kids have their struggle with reading. And yet that’s not tested at all. So a lot of kids fall through the cracks. You know, when they’re screened, right, so, and the other thing you can do is when you give him something to read, watch his behaviors. You know, watch how he holds his posture, his body, his neck, his facial expression, you know, is he struggling to see it? Is he able to read it easily? I think those are gonna be really good indicators observationally on how he’s going to do with his, his vision, with or without glasses. And if we do prescribe something, it’s going to be on the minimal side. Just to give him some help and support. Yeah, because we don’t want to lock in something too strong. I mean, that’s what the other doctors were doing in prisons. That’s crazy. We’re not going to do that when you were a prison. Um, a basic, you know, imprison your eyes to lock into a certain position. And so there’s no growth and development, it’s basically you know, like wearing a splint, on your leg or you know, so it’s, you know, there are times and places when you might use prisms, you know, in an exercise context, but when you start giving kids prisms, first of all, doesn’t hold, so they need more prisms, stronger prisms. And so what we’ve been doing is the reeducation of getting the two sides, collaborating, talking, communicating, and working together. And we’re doing that mostly through the body, and through the brain, and some through the eyes. And that’s why, you know, I’m asking you to do things like hopping and snow angels, and, you know, the heart chart with the ball bounce, and, you know, things like that, with each eye, giving each eye The, the opportunity, especially with the ball bounce, or the swing ball, the Marsden ball, you know, getting him to develop a better understanding of spatial decision making and movement. And that’s really what vision is, and when somebody is nearsighted, their spatial perception is very tight and compressed. And in farsightedness, it’s almost too loose. It’s, it’s too spacious. So they can’t bring it into a focal point. nearsightedness, you bring it into too much of a focal point. And you forget about the surroundings. It’s too much agency and the left eye, not enough agency. So that’s, that’s kind of how he rolls, it is or how he did roll. And that’s why you’ve been introducing this whole collaborative movement of the right side, left side, jump rope, hopping, skipping, you know that by lateral movement stuff. And with school, this is where some of the stress comes in. So finding the time to support him in doing something to continue, wow, you’re asking me to do these two things that are opposite together. And that’s not normal for him, you know, so go easy with it. And maybe you demonstrate it, you do it first. See if you can follow me, you know, there’s something about you’re

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demonstrating it, and then seeing if he can learn it through watching you do it. That’s, that’s another option. And, you know, you can also give it a break, as well, because we don’t want to frustrate the heck out of them. But it’s a hard one for him. And it also is a kind of an indicator that some of those early primitive reflexes may not be fully integrated. And that’s what we’re trying to do with the duck walk pigeon lock. So use your judgment on it if on how, how much you want to press him on it. And but the other thing is, is just by having him trying it, you’re getting therapeutic value. Whether he’s successful or not, doesn’t really matter. It’s in the attempt, okay. I’ve seen so many kids that could never do it. But they’re reading better their coordination on the soccer fields better there. You know, all of that kind of stuff. So, yeah, so it’s it’s a little different than say going to, you know, a Fitness Studio and having to do the exact technique perfectly. This is about neuroplasticity, how can we introduce new experiences to him, and that’s what you’re doing. You’re introducing all these new things to him and you’re reaping the benefits and so is he’s in good hands. And if we don’t have to do the glasses, that would be better. But if we need to do something to support him, I can help you come up with a prescription that you can get filled, and he could just use it part-time. So my expectation is that he most certainly can look behind him to navigate to not look backward. Right now is kind of the advanced Ph.D. Certainly high high-level athletes. He has a 360 presence of where am I in space. And I see with Maddox, he most certainly should look behind him. Now, there is the visualization piece of this, which is Kenny look at the obstacle course before he starts. And then from memory, have a sense of where things are behind them, and do it that way. But he still can look, and he can look at any time. But a higher level of functioning would be to just have a sixth sense of, I know where I need to go. And I know where the objects are. And but I think, for now, if he can just look behind him, this could be for galloping. It could be for hopping, it could be for skipping, it could be for walking, could be for crawling, bear walk, I think this is very important, I’m glad you’re bringing this up. Because I think it’s a very important skill for him to continue to cultivate, which is his spatial understanding of where he is in relationship to the world. That’s a really important metaphor for spatial understanding. Because if you have good spatial understanding, it’s actually going to help your spelling, it’s going to help your math, it’s going to help your ability, to project problem-solving. On a more cognitive level, like mentally, they would say, executive function later on, where the motor is not involved, called motor free. Right now he’s in the motor stage of

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orientation, where am I in space? Where do I fit? Where have I been, and where am I going. And orientation is really important, as you know, because if you know where you are in space, then you have a reference point on where you need to go, and where you’ve come from. And you also have a better sense of your arms and your legs, and where your body and, and where the world begins. So like in athletics, for example, people that get injured a lot, there, sometimes they don’t have good control of their body sense in space, where their arms and their legs, you know, their control body control, one of my teachers used to say, you know, learning in school starts with having good body control. When a child has good body sense and body control, then they can learn the higher, you know, the higher facts. But it starts with body control and regulation and processing and focus and all those things. So I think this is his growing edge this week, is I really want him to see if you can make a leap in motoring backward. And he’s allowed to look as many times as he wants to and out whatever motor, you know, a motor skill you want to offer him. Now, while it’s going to really challenge him would be the duck walk and the pigeon walk. I mean, he can barely go forwards with that. But ultimately, if he could do the duck walk pigeon walk, obstacle course backward, that would be amazing. for him. So right now it’s just yeah, I’m just getting the movements down. So on that one, but maybe like bear walk or maybe, you know, just walking or something. And another thing with the bike riding and this may be more for DOM is can you follow Dom on a bike? Can he do the obstacle course, and you know, maybe at a park or if they’re there that day, or a soccer ball, you know, or a basketball you know, their basketball drills where he Dom could be dribbling and Maddox has got to follow him, you know, up and down the court or up and down the soccer field. Those are really important things where he brings his vision into his body and movement because that’s going to help our sports a lot. And I still contend he could occupy his eyes more. When he’s moving his body in space. I think it’s gotten better. I think he’s acknowledging. But for now, I think he most certainly can look when he goes backward. And that’s actually really great coordination of all Like, I look over my right shoulder, my left shoulder, you know, how do I, how do I navigate this navigation? And so, and this is more advanced. So this is not a requirement, but it could be extra credit. What if you did the motoring going backward with one of his eyes covered, and to watch how differently, he motors through the world and comprehends the world, through his right eye, and then through his left eye. Because, again, if we look at historical data, he’s processing the world through his right eye very differently than through his left eye, if, in fact, you know, he’s got that different prescription going on. And vision is a lot for him right now is about how can I develop my spatial understanding? And how can I trust it? And how can I trust it with both eyes together? I don’t know if you remember this one if you even have it, the swinging ball, you put a piece of cardboard underneath the ball is just, you know, hanging without moving, and you put a piece of cardboard down, and then he swings, you swing the ball. And he’s got to walk through the swinging ball by putting his foot one of his feet on the square as he walks through the swinging ball, or he dodges the ball.

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We call it motor planning. Did we ever do that one yeah? And, and so going backward. And the two ways to swing the ball one is just like a pendulum back and forth. But another way to swing the ball is in a circle. And he’s got to walk back through this the ball spinning? That’s really hard to do. He’s got to develop a rhythm and timing and judgment on where that ball is, where is that ball in relation to the movement, and my body and my vision. So I missed the ball. As I’m walking through the ball, yep. So you know, you’ve may have done that one. But the going backward is that’s big. In this clinic that I consult with the autism add, we do a lot of things moving backward. And this is when the kids start reading this is when the kids start, there’s something about developing the backspace, that spine, the back body, because we’re taught the thrust forward, always looking always. And that creates the tunneling the agency that and we forget about our back body, but when we start remembering our back body, it kind of opens up the brain more because the backside of the brain is our vision center. So we’re not just in the frontal brain, it’s thrusting. It’s grabbing, it’s, you know, what we’re doing? We’re driving, we’re looking at a computer. And so developing that, that back vision is really, really important in the balance of the whole person. So that’s an emphasis I would, you know, this still in, you know, maybe drip it in. But if he’s successful at it celebrated, like we’ve talked about, wow, you were able to go backward, you know, and it’s the same with that jump rope, can he? Can he swing that rope behind him? And even walk over it? Or Kenny, jump backward? You know, if you’re having the rope attached to the chair, and you’re raising it a little bit, we need to develop that backspace more for him. I think that’s something and then back to the ball bounce. Well, can he do the right hand of the left hand in the bounce? Can he do it from the left hand to the right hand? Can you do both hands? Yeah, I know. You might try that. Yeah. And it’s Yeah, it’s coming. But that’s, that’s and then of course with the swinging ball. So now the ball is swinging towards him and away from him. Can he hit the ball with the chicken he alternates, just to his right hand just to his left-hand alternate? That’s also another you know, technique that brings in his, you know, his integration, and its visual motor integration. And I will tell you something else with the visualization, maybe bringing back the blocks and blindfolding him and having him feel your block design, and then making his block design based on feeling years without actually seeing or drawing letters on his back and drawing letters that make a word. So that’s a visualization Or if you have little letters, you know, if you have the letters, blindfold them and give them a letter at a time, can he feel the letter and tell you what the letter is? I think as we go into school visualization is a very important skill in memory. And so, and problem-solving, eventually, can I hold it in my brain? How do you feel his memory is, you know, another thing that a great game to do in the car, and I don’t know if he’s ready to do this is to start telling a story, you know, but you make it up as you go. So you, you start taught telling a story. And then he’s got to add his part of the story. So he’s got to really listen to what you’re doing. And then you add to his story, and then he adds to your story. It’s

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a lot of talking. I mean, it’s for verbal, but storytelling, you know, can he tell you a story? Give you read a story to him, ask him the next day? Hey, what was that story that we read? You know, anyways, you know what to do, but I would keep accessing that memory piece. Get them talking about it, and developing the time-space orientation piece to it. I mean, if if you let’s say you were here, let’s say you were in office, and we were, I would really be working a lot in combination with the motor things with the cognitive memory, and spatial things that require thinking, Visual Thinking, developmentally, he’s moving into that phase. I mean, just seeing him today, he’s a completely different boy, compared to when I first met him. And yeah, part of it is just his growth and maturation, but he’s just so much more together. And organized.

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And that’s the work we’ve done together. But I would start doing a lot of Visual Thinking stuff, you know, getting him to think about, hey, we’re going to Xyz store. How would you get there? Can you give me the directions? Well, you up the route 77 you make a left turn and then I mean, again, give him things where he’s got a problem solve it.

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Question 1: What are your thoughts on Hypochlorous Acid? Question 2: I have droopy eyelids and want to know if there is a non surgical way to lift them. I have used products and actually egg whites to try and lift them but no success. Do you recommend laser technique to be able to tighten that skin above my eyes or is surgery my only option. Thanks for your input which I truly appreciate. Question 3: What can you do for the Posner Schlossman syndrome?

In this podcast, Dr. Sam gives a presentation on Eyes, Vision, and Somatic Movement at a Continuum Movement teacher’s training in Florida. This is part 3 of his presentation.