How Intermittent Fasting Affects Your Eyes and Vision

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this podcast, I want to talk about how intermittent fasting has the potential to improve your vision greatly.

Let’s start by looking at one of the biggest causes of poor vision—diabetes. When you’re a diabetic, there are four main issues that are affected: kidneys, heart, nervous system, and the eyes.

There’s actually a condition caused by diabetes called diabetic retinopathy. This is damage to the retina. There’s also a chance of developing glaucoma when you’re a diabetic.

When you have a blood sugar issue, it destroys the tiny vascular system that goes to the optic nerve. This can cause blindness.

We also have another problem called macular degeneration. This is another situation where you have poor circulation in the back of the eye.

And finally, we have the common issue of cataracts. Cataracts are very common in diabetics.

What these all break down to is insulin resistance.

So if insulin resistance is a cause of poor eyesight, then doing the opposite could help reverse the damage and help improve eyesight.

Intermittent fasting is fantastic for insulin resistance. It helps normalize your blood sugar, and it helps your body run on ketones, which also helps with blood sugar levels.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting
0:05.3	keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product,
0:10.6	call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. I want to talk about why fasting could potentially greatly improve your vision.
0:50.5	Now, one thing you can do, if you really want to figure something out, and if we're talking about what can improve your vision, you look at the opposite thing. What actually destroys your vision? Okay. And one thing that destroys the vision is being a diabetic. When you're diabetic, there's four main tissues that are affected. One is the kidney, one is the heart,
1:13.7	one is the nervous system, and then the eyes. So there's a condition in diabetes called diabetic
1:19.3	retinopathy, which is damage to the retina. Also, there's a higher risk of getting glaucoma when
1:26.0	you're diabetic, which is interocular pressure.
1:29.2	So the inside of the eye has a lot of pressure.
1:31.8	And that pressure causes a blockage on the little hole where the fluid should drain.
1:37.2	So we don't get the drainage and it backs up and then the pressure destroys the nervous system.
1:42.0	It's the number one cause of blindness.
1:45.4	The retina is basically an extension of your brain. You have part of your brain sticking out in your eye that's collecting
1:50.2	information and pulling it in there. So when you have a blood sugar issue, the excess sugar
1:55.7	destroys the tiny vascular system that goes to the nerve, and it basically starves off the nervous system,
2:03.6	and you can go blind. Then we have other conditions of the eye, like macular degeneration.
2:08.9	Another situation where you're getting poor circulation in the back part of the eye,
2:12.4	and it's involved in a lot of different conditions, and even aging will cause degeneration of the macula. And then you have
2:19.3	the cataract, which there's an opaque white cloud on the lens of the eye. And this is also very common
2:25.8	in diabetics and even pre-diabetics or people who have insulin resistance. So if a high amount of
2:32.1	sugar in the blood destroys the eye and the vision, then doing the
2:36.9	opposite and reversing that is going to improve your eyes in different aspects. And this is why
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