The #1 Best Way to Prevent Cataracts

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about the best remedies for cataracts and how to help prevent cataracts naturally. Cataracts are a problem with the lens of the eye—the lens becomes opaque and is difficult to see through.

Glycation is one of the top causes of cataracts. Glycation is a term to describe the combining of sugar with protein or sugar with fat. The more glycation occurs in a person’s lenses, the more eye problems they could experience.

Glycation could be why people with diabetes have a higher risk of cataracts and another reason why a low-sugar, low-carb diet is so important.

Top causes of cataracts:

• Glycation

• Aging

• Chronic use of steroids

• Chronic stress

• Alcohol

• Smoking

• Exposure to microwaves

• Junk foods

• Exposure to certain chemicals

• Oxidation

• High-sugar diets

The best natural remedies for cataracts:

1. Intermittent fasting

2. Cruciferous vegetables

3. Egg yolks

4. Selenium

5. Vitamin C

6. Vitamin E

7. Zinc

8. NAC

9. Thiamine (vitamin B1)

10. Riboflavin (vitamin B2)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Let's talk about cataracts, which are actually very common.
0:04.2	68% of the population over 80 years old have cataracts, so it's a big deal.
0:10.9	And cataracts are a problem with the lens of the eye, where the lens becomes opaque and
0:16.8	you can't see through it.
0:18.2	And so before we get into what to do about it or how to prevent it or what to do if you
0:21.6	haven't, it's very important to understand what is so unique about this lens.
0:27.2	It's actually quite fascinating.
0:29.4	It's a piece of tissue that is extremely robust, okay?
0:35.0	It has no blood supply, no lymphatic system, it repairs very, very fast.
0:40.8	It even has its own unique immune system, it's called immune privilege, which basically
0:47.0	makes it less immune responsive, especially to what's going on to the rest of the body.
0:52.7	If you have grafting going on or some type of transplant of your lens into your eye,
0:58.4	it's very unlikely that you're going to be rejected.
1:00.8	As compared to getting other organs donated into your body, your immune system will attack
1:04.8	them right away.
1:05.8	And so your body really considers this lens very, very important for survival because if
1:10.5	you can't use the lens and you can't see, you don't survive very well.
1:16.3	And so the reason why we probably don't have blood vessels is because we can't have blood
1:20.2	vessels because they would obstruct our vision.
1:23.6	But the lens has a very unique type of protein that is different from the rest of the body.
1:29.4	That is just this transparent protein.
1:33.0	And the lens also is attached to a muscle that allows the shape of the lens to be changed.
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