more and more people are developing cataracts as they age typically what a person will do is though they may get surgery well sometimes there are complications to that surgery it's not a complication free or side effect free surgical procedure I mean in one study 42 percent of people who get cataracts develop dry eyes a 20 get the droopy eyelid and there's other complications like floaters so personally I would try more of a natural route first since they have very little side effects people will say well where's the scientific studies there's no studies that validate using
this natural remedy which basically cost enemies that can potentially help you there's not a lot of science-based evidence to show that that's going to be effective well guess what I have news for you there won't be who's going to invest the thousands or tens of thousands or even millions of dollars on studies that involve natural remedies it's not going to happen you can't patent these things instead why don't we take a look at the mechanism of what causes a cloudy lens which is a cataract and then use some type of natural remedy that makes sense
that really has very minimal downsides compare two drugs and surgery the first thing you should know about the eye is this it's one of those tissues that is highly affected by blood sugars your blood sugars are high the eye is very vulnerable to high sugars because when the sugar is high it creates a tremendous amount of oxidation or oxidative stress and so that is the one thing that we know about cataracts and you can think of oxidative stress as something rusting out so let's say for example you have your car and it has rust spots
because of all the salt on the roads whatever if you're raised in some place like Wisconsin which gets really cold and so we have to put a lot of the salt on the road to melt the snow it can also create chemical reactions with the metal in your car and it can actually rust out the same thing happening with the eyes in relationship to diabetes and pre-diabetes and just having a high carb diet you get this chemical reaction that creates a lot of damage especially as we age because of this our bodies produce something called
endogenous antioxidants those are antioxidants that our body makes to protect against all this oxidation and free radical damage as we age we make less of those antioxidants and also if our diet is not right or we consume a bit too many carbs things can definitely go south in the area of vision and eyes including age-related macular degeneration is in difficulty seeing at night now we can tap into Mother Nature into various plants to use some of their compounds that they have developed or eons of time in the area of plant pigments those pigments that make
up certain colors and these pigments are very potent antioxidants they have anti-inflammatory properties and they can help counter the effects of this oxidative stress especially in the lens of the eye and the two categories of these pigments that I want to mention are one carotenoids okay which include like beta-carotene which is the precursor for vitamin okay it's not the active form it has to be converted into Vitamin A only animal products have the active form and then you have also other types of carotenoids called lutein and zeaxanthin which are more known for the age-related macular
degeneration and so the color of carotenoids would be like the yellow the orange the red purple vegetables and even you find these in egg yolks which are yellow but you also find these in grass-fed meat as well which is interesting simply because cows eat grass which has an abundant supply of carotenoids but you're not going to nearly find the quantities in like grain fed beef that the conventional beef that you would get at the grocery store same thing with eggs you know like if you get a pasta raised organic chicken eggs much higher carotenoids now
it is true that conventional eggs do have these carotenoids but there's a dirty little secret that they can give these chickens synthetic pigments because they're confined to huge Barns and are fed grains that have very little pigment left but there's another category of pigments that I'm going to focus in on and that's called anthocyanins and so the color of these anthocyanins would be like the red a purple and the blue and this pigment has quite an effect on your eyes especially if there's oxidative stress and it may help reduce the risk cataracts and potentially even
reverse cataracts if you catch it early enough so this is like the active compound in bilberry it can help recycle something called rhodopsin which actually can help you see in the dark it can also reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration it can relax the ciliary muscle that is connected to the lens that is usually strained when you're doing a lot of computer work or reading for a long periods of time so it can help take the strain out of the eye and it has been known to help with cataracts and a lot of other
plants are also loaded with anthocyanins as well so we have the bilberry we have the blueberry we have the Blackberry we even have red cabbage and by the way is a side note the red cabbage Sprouts are way higher in this anthocyanthems than adult cabbage but out of all the plants the choke Berry is the highest now the remedy that I'm going to recommend to help potentially decrease the risk of cataracts it's going to be a shake it's going to be composed of berries as well as kefir because kefir also has some interesting things in
it that can also help reduce the risk of cataracts and one being dietary calcium there's definitely this association between getting enough calcium from dairy and having less cataracts then you also have all the probiotics in kefir which by the way is way more than yogurt and there's even some interesting studies on yogurt helping with cataracts well Kefir is much stronger than yogurt kefir also can help with other things like infections in the eye like pink eye and anytime you do in kefir I highly recommend that you get the unsweetened version of kefir get the whole
milk kefir not the low fat and make sure the Kefir is from grass-fed animals whether it's a goat sheep or cow so you're simply going to mix one cup of berries with one cup of beefer and you'll blend it up and you'll drink it down now sometimes the Kefir is pretty thick so in that case you might have to add a little bit of water to thin it out or you can just consume it with a spoon now the question is what kind of berries should you use you can really just use any of the
berries because they're all pretty high in anthocyanins and what you'll do is you just take a cup of that mix it with the kefir blend it up and consume that once a day combination of this high quality kefir with this anthocyanin Rich Berry mix is going to produce a really cool effect on your eyes and not just for the lens but for the macular which is the back part of the eye and the other tissues it could help counter some of the complications of all this oxidative stress now parallel with this I would definitely make
sure that your diet is very low in sucrose fructose and I would not actually recommend consuming milk okay because that also has lactose in it as well but when you have a fermented milk product that's going to be a lot better now there's some other things that you can do okay there's a nutritional remedy called NAC in a drop form that you can use on your eyes and the NAC remedy I'm going to recommend is kind of confusing because there's two types of NAC out there one is n acetyl carnosine and that's the one that
you want you don't want to get the n-acetyl cysteine okay now that's good for other things like addictions especially a fatty liver but the one for the eye and acetyl carnosine is very specific as an antioxidant to help reduce cataracts now the carnosine that acts as an antioxidant can't really penetrate the surface of the eye and that's why this other compound is added to carnosine the N acetyl part of this compound that allows it to penetrate into the first chamber of the eye and that's where the lens is so it can do its work so
these NAC drops are another thing you can add to the protocol I would also recommend consuming eggs especially the egg yolks and make sure that they're runny as well because egg yolks are just loaded with carotenoids which is good for the eye as well as anthocyanins as well as something else called oline and choline has some additional cool effects to counter dry eyes now let's say for example you already have the cataracts okay and you have complications is there anything that can be done for that and the answer is potentially yes there's another product that
you can get called oculotrophin PMG it's from a company called Standard Process I'm not affiliated with that company but that's something I used to use in practice for anything related to post-surgical in the eye or injury to the eye so if you've scratched your eye if you had some type of eye damage that's a really good product to help you now there's some other things you should know that go beyond just this remedy for cataracts and I think you really like what I have to add about cataracts in this video right here
