The #1 Ultimate Cure for Cataracts - Dr. Berg Explains
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Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to take a look at a simple natural solution for cataracts. Cataracts can be described as cloudiness or opaqueness of the lens of the eye. They are the number one cause of blindness and are typically treated with surgery.
Too much oxidative stress can lead to cataracts. Oxidative stress occurs when there’s too much oxidation in the body and not enough antioxidants.
Too much oxidation in the eye mainly stems from sugar consumption. If you have too much sugar in your blood, four main tissues are affected: the nerves, kidneys, arteries, and eyes.
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that creates inflammation and glycation—and it tends to accumulate in the eye, creating cloudiness.
Sorbitol can affect the retina of the eye and the cells that compose the myelin in your nerves. It can also increase the pressure in your eye, contributing to conditions like glaucoma.
If you have cataracts, you need to change your diet and eliminate sugar. There is also another solution that may help.
L-carnosine is a powerful antioxidant that works within the mitochondria and has anti-glycation and anti-aging effects. It also acts as a pH buffer.
L-carnosine is an excellent option for the prevention and reversal of cataracts, but on its own, it can’t penetrate the eye. N-acetylcarnosine (NAC) is a compound that allows carnosine to penetrate the eye.
Research has shown promising effects of using a one percent solution of NAC for conditions like glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration.
Try using one to two drops of N-acetylcarnosine in each eye two to three times per day. Also, try taking NAC with zinc. Zinc is a powerful antioxidant and is important for NAC to be properly utilized in the body.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk about the ultimate cure for cataracts. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness. |
| 0:06.0 | The main treatment for it is surgery, so if there's things that we can do to prevent it, |
| 0:10.8 | and even if we get it, possibly possibly reverse it we need to know about this |
| 0:14.9 | first I want to just share what is a cataract it's a cloudiness, |
| 0:18.7 | opaceness of the lens of the eye okay okay? And apparently what causes it is too much oxidative stress. |
| 0:26.8 | Now, what does oxidative stress mean? |
| 0:28.5 | Think about oxidation is kind of rusting out something. |
| 0:31.8 | I was raised in Wisconsin, we have a lot of salt and we have a lot of rain and we have snow and our |
| 0:37.3 | cars are rusted out. So when you think about oxidation, think about rusting, we have a lot of oxidation and not enough antioxidants, okay? So that's a protective thing against this oxidation. So if we have this situation going on in the eye, chances are you're more likely to get a cataract. So where does this oxidation come from? It comes mainly from sugar, right? If you have high levels of sugar in your blood, there are four main tissues that are affected, kidney, nerves, arteries, and the eye. |
| 1:07.3 | So in other words, this high sugar in your blood ends up with high sugar in your eye. |
| 1:12.7 | And about one third of it converts to something called sorbitol. |
| 1:16.1 | And sorbitol tends to accumulate |
| 1:18.8 | in the lens of the eye. |
| 1:20.8 | Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol, and it's not a good thing if it ends up in the lens of the eye because |
| 1:26.7 | when it accumulates, it creates inflammation, it creates what's called glycation. |
| 1:32.6 | So just think of it like the proteins are binding to the sugar, |
| 1:36.8 | like glue in your lens, |
| 1:38.8 | and that creates the cloudiness. |
| 1:40.1 | Now what I didn't know about the lens, |
| 1:41.6 | which I just learned about, which is actually quite fascinating. |
| 1:44.7 | Early on when we were very young the lens of their eye does have certain things in it like |
| 1:50.9 | mitochondria but as we get, they tend to go away. And so the oxygen and the nutrients in the |
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