Get Rid of Puffy Eyes for Good (Updated Version)

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you how you can easily get rid of puffy eyes. Puffy eyes are also referred to as eye bags or periorbital edema. Puffy eyes are often treated medically with steroids, antihistamines, and other medications.

Cucumbers and undereye patches can provide temporary relief but do not solve the problem.

High levels of sodium can cause puffy eyes, and the kidneys are often involved, but the root cause of puffy eyes is too much sugar in the bloodstream.

When you have too much sugar in your bloodstream, you also have too much insulin in your bloodstream. This can eventually lead to insulin resistance and cause your body to retain sodium.

After long periods of excessive sugar consumption, your kidneys can become overloaded. This often shows up in the eyelids before other parts of the body.

Excessive sugar consumption causes fluid retention and sodium retention along with the following:

•Decreased potassium

•Activation of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight)

•Increased renin

If you want to get rid of puffy eyes, you need to remove the sugar from your diet. You should also increase your potassium intake.

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0:00.0	I'm going to show you how to get rid of puffy eyes.
0:02.5	Okay, it's so easy.
0:04.0	All you have to do is understand the mechanism.
0:06.2	There's a lot of fancy terms for puffy eyes,
0:09.0	periorbital edema.
0:11.5	All you need to know is it's called eye bags and unfortunately the medical profession treats this condition with drugs, steroids and histamines, all sorts of medications.
0:23.8	And I'm not telling you not to take your medication.
0:25.7	I just want to give you another viewpoint on this.
0:28.2	I mean, if you look up the Wikipedia page,
0:31.2	it'll say potentially it could be caused from the hypothyroid. Insomnia, infection, allergy, and a whole bunch of other causes which are so rare and the bigger cause the more common cause isn't even a mention at all.
0:46.5	And the reason I know a lot about this is I had puffy eyes for many years.
0:50.4	I didn't know what it was, but once I did this one thing, it completely cleared up.
0:55.7	Now on the wiki page, there was two little things that were interesting, okay?
1:00.8	They did mention one cause being high levels of sodium, okay, which is definitely true.
1:05.8	And also they mentioned a low-carb diet could help prevent puffiness of the eyes, which
1:11.2	I found very interesting too.
1:13.0	And they had also a little data, you know, using cucumber slices on your eyes or coal packs.
1:18.0	Yeah, maybe that might help for a second, but it doesn't really correct the problem.
1:23.6	Yes, many times the kidneys are involved,
1:26.7	and yes, there is usually a sodium problem as well.
1:29.2	But both of these conditions are stemming from too much sugar in your bloodstream. I mean even if you take a
1:36.1	look at the number one cause of kidney disease, it's diabetes. What is diabetes? High levels of
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