What Causes Eye Floaters and Dry Eyes?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’ll discuss some common eye problems and the nutrients that can help. Dry eyes and night blindness are often caused by vitamin A deficiency.

Vitamin A deficiency can be caused by a diet high in junk food or an issue with the gallbladder.

Egg yolks, liver, butter, and cod liver oil are the best sources of vitamin A. Plants are not a good source of vitamin A because they only contain the precursor, beta-carotene.

Zinc is essential for vitamin A to work properly in the body. Red meat, oysters, shellfish, and liver are the best sources of zinc.

Retinopathy is often caused by diabetes. Excessive amounts of glucose can create oxidation in the nervous system. Benfotiamine, a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1, can penetrate nerve tissue.

Consuming protein with sugar causes a chemical reaction called glycation, which can cause floaters in the eye. A low-carb or carnivore diet may help. Intermittent and prolonged fasting allow your body to recycle damaged proteins through autophagy and may help with floaters.

Macular degeneration is often said to be age-related. However, blue light, alcohol, smoking, sugar, and seed oils may contribute to it. To improve eye health, try lowering your seed oil consumption and increasing your intake of omega-3 fats.

Lutein, zeaxanthin, and meso-zeaxanthin are carotenoids that protect your eyes against macular degeneration. You can find these compounds in the following foods:

• Green vegetables

• Orange fruits and vegetables

• Yellow fruits and vegetables

• Egg yolks

• Seafood (Salmon, shrimp)

• Grass-fed meat

Glaucoma is an eye condition in which excessive pressure causes damage to the back of the eye. Research has shown that vitamin D can be an excellent remedy for glaucoma. High amounts of vitamin D can also be beneficial for cataracts.

N-acetyl-carnosine and zinc contain antioxidants that protect the eye and improve cataracts. Dark purple, red, orange, and yellow fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants that help support eye health.

Can This Reverse Glaucoma: ▶️ • This Vitamin Reverses GLAUCOMA?!

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0:14.4	So some years back I moved from one state to another we packed up this massive trailer that I was going to drive to another state and tow my car on the back and then my wife and kids were going to fly to where we're going and we'd meet them at a certain location.
0:15.9	So I'm driving on the street and I'm actually taking these small little town roads in the middle
0:22.4	of nowhere and I'm driving along and all of a sudden my
0:26.9	eyes are really dry and so I'm blinking my eyes really sticky and I close it and I open up and my cornea rips and now I can't see.
0:37.4	So I could barely drive with one eye and I'm driving down the street and I'm like, now what?
0:41.6	I need to pull off and maybe get some rest right so I
0:45.8	pull off somewhere in some little town in the middle of nowhere and I find a little
0:50.9	motel six or something and I go in there and I'm gonna just take a nap right so I lay there for a couple hours
0:58.4	fall asleep and I'm like okay good so it's all healed up, I don't feel it, and I open my eye,
1:03.2	and it rips again.
1:04.9	I'm like, no, I need to find an eye doctor. It's a Saturday, okay? So, I start walking on the side of the street looking for an eye doctor, you know, just
1:16.2	stumbling around and I happen to look up, it happens to be an eye doctor right down the street. I'm like, p I go up to the office, knock on the door, they
1:26.6	says, oh yeah, we can't see you until Monday because we're really backed up. And I'm like,
1:32.1	no, I need to get on the road because I have to meet my my wife and
1:36.4	kids very soon and so they said I'm sorry we can't see you and I just basically walked right
1:41.4	back to the doctor's office and I said,
1:43.0	listen, I need your help. I need to, you need to do something with my eye.
1:46.7	I cannot see I have to drive back. So it gives me a little couple drops of
1:50.4	medication. Now I can see because it numbs the pain, I get back on the road, and then
1:55.2	I eventually make it to my destination. What that was was something called dry eye.
2:00.6	So let's take a look at my whiteboard here. Dry eye. Little did I know that this was a
2:05.6	Vitamin A deficiency. So be sticky and it can rip your cornea and it's very irritating.
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