The #1 Remedy for Cataracts
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
More and more people are developing cataracts as they age. Typical treatments for cataracts have side effects, so today we’re going to talk about natural alternatives for cataracts.
The eyes are highly affected by your blood sugar levels. When your blood sugar is high, it creates a lot of oxidative stress in different tissues, including the eyes.
Our bodies produce antioxidants to protect against this oxidation and free radical damage. But certain things, like age and diet, can cause our bodies to make fewer antioxidants.
However, plants also make potent antioxidants that we can take advantage of to help counter the effects of oxidative stress. The two categories that we’re focusing on today are carotenoids and anthocyanins.
Foods high in carotenoids:
• Yellow, orange, red, and purple vegetables
• Pasture-raised egg yolks
• Grass-fed meats
Foods high in anthocyanins:
• Bilberries
• Blueberries
• Blackberries
• Chokeberries
• Black currant
• Red cabbage
Here is the best natural remedy to potentially help with cataracts.
Ingredients:
• 1 cup berries
• 1 cup kefir (grass-fed, whole milk, unsweetened)
Blend the above two ingredients, using any of the above berries you like best. Use water to thin the mixture if needed, or consume with a spoon. Have this once a day.
Along with this remedy, make sure your diet is very low in fructose, sucrose, and milk.
Other natural remedies for cataracts:
1. NAC drops (N-acetylcarnosine)
2. Egg yolks
3. Oculotrophin PMG
DATA:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-018-1647-8
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| 0:00.0 | More and more people are developing cataracts as they age. |
| 0:04.0 | Typically what a person will do is they may get surgery. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, sometimes there are complications to that surgery. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not a complication-free or side-effect-free surgical procedure. |
| 0:16.0 | I mean, in one study, 42% of people who get cataracts develop dry eyes. 20% get the droopy eyelid, |
| 0:24.6 | and there's other complications like floaters. So personally, I would try more of a natural route first. |
| 0:31.0 | Since they have very little side effects, people will say, well, where's the scientific studies? |
| 0:35.4 | There's no studies that validate using this |
| 0:38.3 | natural remedy, which basically cost pennies that can potentially help you. There's not a lot of |
| 0:44.2 | science-based evidence to show that that's going to be effective. Well, guess what? I have news for you. |
| 0:49.8 | There won't be who is going to invest the thousands or tens of thousands or even millions of |
| 0:55.6 | dollars on studies that involve natural remedies? It's not going to happen. You can't |
| 1:02.5 | patent these things. Instead, why don't we take a look at the mechanism of what causes a cloudy |
| 1:08.9 | lens, which is a cataract, and then use some type of natural remedy that makes sense, |
| 1:14.1 | that really has very minimal downsides. |
| 1:17.1 | We can compare to drugs and surgery. |
| 1:19.5 | The first thing you should know about the eye is this. |
| 1:23.0 | It's one of those tissues that is highly affected by blood sugars. |
| 1:30.3 | If your blood sugars are high, the eye is very vulnerable to high sugars. |
| 1:35.3 | Because when the sugar is high, it creates a tremendous amount of oxidation or oxidative stress. |
| 1:40.8 | And so that is the one thing that we know about cataracts. And you can think of oxidative |
| 1:46.0 | stress as something rusting out. So let's say, for example, you have your car and it has rust spots |
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