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let’s discuss the foods for dry eyes now

the glands that produce tears in the

little ducks that the tears drain

through

are controlled by vitamin a so vitamin a

has everything to do with controlling

what those cells that line the inside of

the

gland and also the inside of the body

like the little ducts

and also other tissue that line the

inside of your body

so if there’s a vitamin a deficiency the

inner lining of the

ducts as well as the gland kidney

form it can get thicker the tissue can

get

rougher and the actual production of the

tear or fluids

diminish so an average person who has

dry eyes

not knowing this will tend to get the

drops in the eyes

and hopefully they won’t go to the

steroid drops because that creates all

sorts of

side effects so the three top

vitamin a symptoms would be number one

dry eyes

night blindness you can actually go

blind there’s

quite a high percentage of children in

certain countries

that are vitamin a deficient when

they’re very young and they go blind

so there’s a huge connection between

vitamin a and your vision

and then blurred vision now vitamin a

does a lot of other things too

related to your immune system your

mucous membranes

but for what we’re talking about dry

eyes is definitely a vitamin a

deficiency

now i don’t recommend you go out and buy

a vitamin a for this simply because

a lot of the vitamin a out there is

synthetic and that comes with the

package there’s a lot of side effects

but here are the foods that are very

high in vitamin a the top one is cod

liver oil you can also get

cod liver in a can it’s actually quite

good i put a link down below

liver has a lot of vitamin a

fatty fish has a good amount of vitamin

a

butter and ghee have vitamin a

cheese has vitamin a especially if it’s

fatty or cheese

egg yolks are loaded with vitamin a and

beef

has vitamin a now unfortunately the

actual

definition of vitamin a also includes

pre-vitamin a beta-carotene and

some other carotenoids

this is not actually vitamin a even

though it’s classified as vitamin a it’s

because it has to be converted into the

active form of vitamin a which is

retinol

so when you buy food and you look at the

back of the label and it says has this

much vitamin a

don’t be deceived because they could be

talking about the precursor

now what is the significance of that

well the conversion

to the active form of vitamin a is not

that great

in other words it takes 20 molecules

of the precursor to convert into one

molecule

of the active form of vitamin a

not only that 50 percent of the

population

has a genetic variant it’s called a

polymorphism

which prevents this conversion to a

certain degree

so don’t depend on your vitamin a for

the precursors

now beta-carotene and other carotenoids

which are phytonutrients

have great benefits other great benefits

their antioxidants

they do a lot but they’re not the same

as retinol

so if you’re trying to fix your dry eyes

and you’re taking beta-carotene

it may not work retinol is

only in animal products so if you’re a

vegan in your dry eyes

this could be the reason you’re not

converting to the active form of retinol

now there’s other problems as well let’s

say you’re consuming these foods right

here

and you still have dry eyes well it

could be you have inflammation in the

gut

because you had a history of antibiotics

it could be because you have some

problem with your liver

fatty liver or your gallbladder or you

had your gallbladder removed and you’re

deficient in bile

or you have sibo small intestinal

bacterial overgrowth which

robs certain nutrients the way you would

know that is

every time you eat you feel extremely

bloated especially with

fiber and vegetables and i already

mentioned fatty liver but it could also

be

an inflamed liver so anything wrong with

the liver can impair the ability

to absorb vitamin a and vitamin a is

stored in the liver

but as it starts to fill up with fat you

lose the ability

to store vitamin a and other fat soluble

vitamins

all right i think i covered everything i

wanted to cover thanks for watching

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