The Berne Podcast with Dr. Sam Berne

Seeing Through the Haze: Reversing Eye Calcification


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Show notes:
Keywords
Ocular calcification, vision therapy, holistic health, eye health, calcium deposits, Dr. Sam Berne, vision improvement, eye conditions, nutrition for eyes, alternative therapies

Summary

In this episode, Dr. Sam Berne discusses ocular calcification, its symptoms, causes, and holistic approaches to eye health. He emphasizes the importance of understanding calcium deposits in the eyes and offers practical advice on nutrition and therapies to improve vision and overall eye health.

Takeaways

• The documentary ‘Beyond Sight’ explores visual healing.
• Ocular calcification can lead to various eye symptoms.
• Chronic inflammation is a significant cause of calcium deposits.
• Holistic protocols can help manage ocular calcification.
• Magnesium is essential for directing calcium back to bones.
• Red light therapy improves mitochondrial function in the eyes.
• Nutrition plays a vital role in eye health.
• Hydration is crucial for detoxifying the body.
• Stress management is important for preventing eye issues.
• Regular check-ups with an eye doctor are necessary for monitoring eye health.
Sound Bites
• “This powerful film shares patient stories.”
• “Symptoms include dry eye and blurred vision.”
• “Stress reduction is crucial for eye health.”
Chapters
00:00Introduction and Announcements
01:58Understanding Ocular Calcification
05:49Holistic Approaches to Eye Health

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Sam Berne (00:00.078)

Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast today. So before we get started, I have a few announcements to make my documentary beyond sight a journey into visual healing is available for streaming this very powerful film shares patient stories therapist testimonials the science behind vision therapy. If you want to explore vision through a holistic lens, I highly recommend streaming this you can do so on my website.

Dr. Sam burn.com also on my membership site and my new book beyond the lens. The AI visionary playbook for entrepreneurs and business leaders is on Amazon. Whether you’re in health wellness or innovation. This is your practical guide to becoming an AI powered visionary. I have two online seminars starting in August. The first is called vision reboot.

And this starts August 13th. It runs for six weeks. You’ll learn about some of my most favorite and effective vision therapy exercises healing techniques all with the upgrade of improving your vision and a bonus. If you’re one of the first 10 signing up will include a 30-minute free consultation included in the tuition with me and on August 28th. I’m starting a parent’s online workshop. This is four weeks.

So parents if you’ve got a child that’s struggling in school with a vision related learning problem kids on the spectrum disorder kids with strabismus and leopia.

This course is for you. I’m going to be sharing physical therapy exercises, nutritional tips, and you’ll learn some of the things that I shared in the documentary, but we’ll be taking a deeper dive, especially in the area of the postural reflexes, primitive reflexes, vestibular therapies and more. So to sign up, you can go to my website, dr. Sam burn.com.

Sam Berne (01:58.591)

Okay, let’s move to the show today. So I’ve received a number of questions from patients about having calcium deposits in their eyes. This is actually called ocular opacification of calcium.

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)

There’s a condition called show grins. I’ve done a podcast on that chronic muscle cramps and kidney disease. So how do you diagnose this condition? Well through eye exams, blood work, fluorescein analysis, imaging, and even a hair mineral analysis. So in a hair mineral analysis, we cut some hair from the nape of the neck and we send it off to the lab and we get many trace mineral ratios. One of the ones we get is

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 K2 also helps reduce the soft tissue buildup and D3 helps in the absorption of calcium. I would recommend one to 2,000 milligrams a day of the D3 K2 and I would do it while you’re eating some healthy fats. This will help you absorb the supplement better. Phase two would be to take a supplement that combines Boswellia with turmeric curcumin.

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)

So doing things like my palm hum or my somatic exercises are really important to help you move away from that sympathetic overdrive, which is one of the biggest contributing factors to this calcium shell calcium being absorbed in the soft tissue and I would give it about three to six months. You can get retested keep going to your eye doctor to have them look at the eye. But these are the things that you can do.

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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