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more and more people are developing

cataracts as they age typically what a

person will do is though they may get

surgery well sometimes there are

complications to that surgery it’s not a

complication free or side effect free

surgical procedure I mean in one study

42 percent of people who get cataracts

develop dry eyes a 20 get the droopy

eyelid and there’s other complications

like floaters so personally I would try

more of a natural route first since they

have very little side effects people

will say well where’s the scientific

studies there’s no studies that validate

using this natural remedy which

basically cost enemies that can

potentially help you there’s not a lot

of science-based evidence to show that

that’s going to be effective well guess

what I have news for you there won’t be

who’s going to invest the thousands or

tens of thousands or even millions of

dollars

on studies that involve natural remedies

it’s not going to happen you can’t

patent these things instead why don’t we

take a look at the mechanism of what

causes a cloudy lens which is a cataract

and then use some type of natural remedy

that makes sense that really has very

minimal downsides compare two drugs and

surgery the first thing you should know

about the eye is this it’s one of those

tissues that is highly affected by

blood sugars your blood sugars are high

the eye is very vulnerable to high

sugars because when the sugar is high it

creates a tremendous amount of oxidation

or oxidative stress and so that is the

one thing that we know about cataracts

and you can think of oxidative stress as

something rusting out so let’s say for

example you have your car and it has

rust spots because of all the salt on

the roads whatever if you’re raised in

some place like Wisconsin which gets

really cold and so we have to put a lot

of the salt on the road to melt the snow

it can also create chemical reactions

with the metal in your car and it can

actually rust out the same thing

happening with the eyes in relationship

to diabetes and pre-diabetes and just

having a high carb diet you get this

chemical reaction that creates a lot of

damage especially as we age because of

this our bodies produce something called

endogenous antioxidants those are

antioxidants that our body makes to

protect against all this oxidation and

free radical damage as we age we make

less of those antioxidants and also if

our diet is not right or we consume a

bit too many carbs things can definitely

go south in the area of vision and eyes

including age-related macular

degeneration is in difficulty seeing at

night now we can tap into Mother Nature

into various plants to use some of their

compounds that they have developed or

eons of time in the area of plant

pigments those pigments that make up

certain colors and these pigments are

very potent antioxidants they have

anti-inflammatory properties and they

can help counter the effects of this

oxidative stress especially in the lens

of the eye and the two categories of

these pigments that I want to mention

are one carotenoids okay which include

like beta-carotene which is the

precursor for vitamin okay it’s not the

active form it has to be converted into

Vitamin A only animal products have the

active form and then you have also other

types of carotenoids called lutein and

zeaxanthin which are more known for the

age-related macular degeneration and so

the color of carotenoids would be like

the yellow the orange the red

purple vegetables and even you find

these in egg yolks which are yellow but

you also find these in grass-fed meat as

well which is interesting simply because

cows eat grass which has an abundant

supply of carotenoids but you’re not

going to nearly find the quantities in

like grain fed beef that the

conventional beef that you would get at

the grocery store same thing with eggs

you know like if you get a pasta raised

organic chicken eggs much higher

carotenoids now it is true that

conventional eggs do have these

carotenoids but there’s a dirty little

secret that they can give these chickens

synthetic pigments

because they’re confined to huge Barns

and are fed grains that have very little

pigment left but there’s another

category of pigments that I’m going to

focus in on and that’s called

anthocyanins and so the color of these

anthocyanins would be like the red

a purple

and the blue and this pigment has quite

an effect on your eyes especially if

there’s oxidative stress and it may help

reduce the risk cataracts and

potentially even reverse cataracts if

you catch it early enough so this is

like the active compound in bilberry it

can help recycle something called

rhodopsin which actually can help you

see in the dark it can also reduce the

risk of age-related macular degeneration

it can relax the ciliary muscle that is

connected to the lens that is usually

strained when you’re doing a lot of

computer work or reading for a long

periods of time so it can help take the

strain out of the eye and it has been

known to help with cataracts and a lot

of other plants are also loaded with

anthocyanins as well so we have the

bilberry we have the blueberry we have

the Blackberry we even have red cabbage

and by the way is a side note the red

cabbage Sprouts are way higher in this

anthocyanthems than adult cabbage but

out of all the plants the choke Berry is

the highest now the remedy that I’m

going to recommend to help potentially

decrease the risk of cataracts it’s

going to be a shake it’s going to be

composed of berries

as well as kefir because kefir also has

some interesting things in it that can

also help reduce the risk of cataracts

and one being dietary calcium there’s

definitely this association between

getting enough calcium from dairy and

having less

cataracts then you also have all the

probiotics in kefir which by the way is

way more than yogurt and there’s even

some interesting studies on yogurt

helping with cataracts well Kefir is

much stronger than yogurt kefir also can

help with other things like infections

in the eye like pink eye and anytime you

do in kefir I highly recommend that you

get the unsweetened version of kefir

get the whole milk kefir not the low fat

and make sure the Kefir is from

grass-fed animals whether it’s a goat

sheep or cow so you’re simply going to

mix one cup of berries with one cup of

beefer and you’ll blend it up

and you’ll drink it down now sometimes

the Kefir is pretty thick so in that

case you might have to add a little bit

of water to thin it out or you can just

consume it with a spoon now the question

is what kind of berries should you use

you can really just use any of the

berries because they’re all pretty high

in anthocyanins and what you’ll do is

you just take a cup of that mix it with

the kefir

blend it up and consume that once a day

combination of this high quality kefir

with this

anthocyanin Rich Berry mix is going to

produce a really cool effect on your

eyes and not just for the lens but for

the macular which is the back part of

the eye and the other tissues it could

help counter some of the complications

of all this oxidative stress now

parallel with this I would definitely

make sure that your diet is very low in

sucrose fructose and I would not

actually recommend consuming milk okay

because that also has lactose in it as

well but when you have a fermented milk

product that’s going to be a lot better

now there’s some other things that you

can do okay

there’s a nutritional remedy called NAC

in a drop form that you can use on your

eyes and the NAC remedy I’m going to

recommend is kind of confusing because

there’s two types of NAC out there one

is n acetyl carnosine and that’s the one

that you want you don’t want to get the

n-acetyl cysteine

okay now that’s good for other things

like addictions especially a fatty liver

but the one for the eye and acetyl

carnosine is very specific as an

antioxidant

to help reduce cataracts now the

carnosine that acts as an antioxidant

can’t really penetrate the surface of

the eye and that’s why this other

compound is added to carnosine the N

acetyl part of this compound that allows

it to penetrate into the first chamber

of the eye and that’s where the lens is

so it can do its work so these NAC drops

are another thing you can add to the

protocol I would also recommend

consuming eggs especially the egg yolks

and make sure that they’re runny as well

because egg yolks are just loaded with

carotenoids which is good for the eye as

well as anthocyanins

as well as something else called oline

and choline has some additional cool

effects to counter dry eyes now let’s

say for example

you already have the cataracts okay and

you have complications is there anything

that can be done for that and the answer

is potentially yes

there’s another product that you can get

called

oculotrophin PMG it’s from a company

called Standard Process I’m not

affiliated with that company but

that’s something I used to use in

practice for anything related to

post-surgical in the eye

or injury to the eye

so if you’ve scratched your eye if you

had some type of eye damage that’s a

really good product to help you now

there’s some other things you should

know that go beyond just this remedy for

cataracts and I think you really like

what I have to add about cataracts in

this video right here