Protecting eyesight is important. We really don’t fully appreciate our vision until something comes along and alters it. Aging can have it’s effects if we don’t care for our eyesight appropriately.
Your eyes, like all the other cells of your body require specific nutrition to remain healthy and replace worn out cells with healthy new ones. Nutrients like zinc, which is more commonly associated with male and female hormones and insulin production is important for the health of the eyes, and is commonly indicated in conditions like macular degeneration.
As with all cells, how our body delivers nutrition and removes waste products can have a dynamic impact on how healthy your vision remains. Because of this, any impairment in circulation can result in vision damage. One of the major issues seen in diabetes is associated with vascular damage, which can destroy tissues throughout the body. This is why it’s important to monitor the health of the eyes in diabetic patients.
Because circulation is critical to eye health, the use of Bilberry, which is vasoprotective and anti-inflammatory, is being used more and more for eye care. It’s use is specific in diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, and macular degeneration. It can assist with eyestrain, night blindness, and glaucoma. Many eye supports are now including this herb.
Another support for vascular issues involves the use of Ginkgo biloba to improve blood flow to the eyes. When blood flow to the retina is impaired, the body will attempt to save the tissues by increasing the number of blood vessels serving the area. When this happens, it’s like when a freeway goes through a residential district, taking out the houses that were there. In the retina, these are the rods and cones, which register what we are looking at. They are done away with, causing loss of vision. That’s what macular degeneration is all about.
To stop the macular degeneration it’s critical to improve the existing circulation instead of making new vessels. Cleaning up the arteries and capillaries can involve using supports like soy bean lecithin and a rutin rich support like cyruta, created from the ruin rich buckwheat leaves. Since this compound assists the body in healing radiation injuries, it would be a first choice if I had a patient with an eye injury from welding or inadvertently looking at an eclipse without proper eye protection.
Once there’s eye damage where nuclear material may have entered the general circulation, it’s important to use the DNA component of the eye as a means of stopping any kind of auto-immune damage that may continue to advance. The only place I’m aware of that provides such a therapy is Standard Process. Dr Royal Lee understood the mechanism behind autoimmune disease long before the rest of the world even knew it existed. He realized that if the isolated DNA could be consumed on an empty stomach, it would act as a decoy for the circulating auto-antibodies and turn off the damage while the appropriate nutrition was given to repair the tissues.
Vitamin A is the vision vitamin. Any reserve is stored in the liver. In cases of night blindness, it’s important to be aware of the health and function of the liver. The production of Rhodopsin, known as visual purple is impacted by the health of the liver. Since vitamin A is a fat soluble nutrient, proper fat digestion is also important. Avoid excessive intake of high potency synthetic vitamin A products. Green leafy vegetables are one of your best sources.