8 Things Your Mind Can Help Your Body Heal All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 56 - 8 Things Your Mind Can Help Your Body HealPodcast: Download (Duration: 21:33 — 29.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis is the eighth of eight podcasts, where we have been talking about the different pieces of our Better Eye Health program, more specifically, on what your doctor does not tell you. Your doctor does not tell you these diseases can be improved, that there are things you can do to reverse vision loss, and there are things under your control that make a huge difference in not only your health, but the health of your eyes. 8 Things Your Mind Can Help Your Body Heal. Part 8 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 056 OMDPodcast 8Things MindBody-8of8CarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller. This is Carlyle Coash. How are you doing today, Dr. Miller?Dr. MillerI am happy to tell you that I am doing well today, and I am grateful for that and for today. How about yourself, how are you doing?CarlyleI am still in one piece. I am walking and breathing, mostly. The air quality has been better since all of the fires, but I am still here breathing. Dr. MillerIt is almost like the like icing on the cake, you cannot go out to mingle because of the pandemic. Now, you are not able to even go outside for a walk because the air is so toxic, but what are we going to do? CarlyleSmall victories. Dr. MillerYes, it is.Today is the eighth of eight podcasts, where we have been talking about the different pieces of our Better Eye Health program, more specifically, on what your doctor does not tell you. Your doctor does not tell you these diseases can be improved, that there are things you can do to reverse vision loss, and there are things under your control that make a huge difference in not only your health, but the health of your eyes. We have talked previously about the different pieces to our Better Eye Health Program, like microcurrent stimulation, color therapy, and supplements. We also recommend the elements of Oriental Medicine, like needleless acupuncture and exercises, which are important if you have already developed an eye disease, or if you have a predisposition to it. The piece we have not spent much time talking about is the fact that if you want to make your eyes healthy, you need to take care of your health.This sounds too easy and too good to be true, but the things you do to take care of your health have a huge impact on it. That is a dirty little secret about modern medicine, most of what you can do to be healthy, and even to reverse significant disease, is under your control and based on choices you make every day. We are here to help you make good choices and give you some good information about what you can do to take care of yourself. With western and allopathic medicine, they talk about the body and mind connection, but they do not really know what to do about it. This leaves us with just body, so we are going to be talking not just about your mind, but of your spirit and body. We will go over all the things you can do to take care of these three important pieces. I am going to start by discussing the body because I am an MD, and that is what I was trained in. Then Carlyle will go over the mind and spirit because this is his expertise. He has been working for decades with people on their mind and spirits. The basic thing about our body is pretty simple stuff, eat a decent diet. We should not be eating too many processed foods or sugar. If you drink alcohol, it is toxic to the brain and eyes, so you should stop drinking. The same goes for smoking cigarettes, they impair the circulation to your brain and eyes, so you should stop smoking. This is especially true if you area already impaired by a disease; these can all make it worse. You can find out more about what eating a decent diet is, by doing our Healthy Eating Workshop. We should do whatever it takes, even if it means giving up alcohol and smoking. We can talk about alcohol in moderation because everyone has a different idea of what moderation is. It is usually more than what I recommend. We also need to get some exercise, even if it is only taking a stroll around the block. Exercise is important and it does not have to be in training type atmosphere, like an Iron Man, but you want to move your body parts around, keep your joints supple, and keep your muscles strong. You need to do what it takes, and it will help serve you. Even more important is I want you to avoid the idea that there is a quick fix for your health. We need to step back from the global and integrated view of dealing with your health because it does take time. This includes your mind and spirit. If you have challenges with your health, you want to avoid the quick fixes because most of them are going to deal with symptoms, not cause. Chinese medicine has a great way of talking about it, using a tree as a metaphor. They talk about dealing with the root of the problem, not the branch. This means you want to work on the source of the problem, not only with the symptoms of it. This is a topic with a big discussion, so I am only going to introduce it here. You also want to avoid taking too many of the prescriptions that are handed out for the diseases. This is especially true with eye diseases because they can compromise your eyes for things like allergies and immune function. You can even get heart disease, high blood pressure, and have urinary problems. These drugs really have a negative impact on your eyes, so you want to find a way to deal with these problems without taking the drugs. There has been a lot of work done looking at how the health of your digestive system, heart, and cardiovascular system affects your brain and eyes. You cannot isolate to only taking care of your eyes, you need to take care of your whole body, it is one big package. This brings us to taking care of your mind and spirit. One of the differences I was taught with how oriental medicine looks at the notion of spirit is that 95% of all the people who come to you are dispirited, and this is at the root of the physical problems one is having. If you do not care for your spirit, you are not going to make it better. Fortunately, oriental medicine is full of ideas, tools, and techniques for touching someone's spirit by lifting, helping, and supporting it. This notion can be found in some early textbooks of western medicine. I am not sure if it still true today, but when I was going through my schooling, if you wanted to become board certified in internal medicine, you had to read Harrison's Textbook of Internal Medicine. I believe I had the 27th edition, and you had to basically memorize his textbook, which was very thorough. You can then go on to take the boards and become board certified in internal medicine. In the introduction to a few of the original additions, when he was alive, Harrison says, “Doctors, I need to let you know that 80% of the people who come to you are dispirited.” He says 80% and oriental medicine says 95%, but the point is that a big majority of people we see has an issue with their spirit that needs to be dealt with. This was understood with doctors in the past and passed on to me by one of my mentors, who was a country doctor. He would divide his day up, in the morning he would see people who needed quick fixes, like adjusting their medications or removing stitches. He could see five or six of them in an hour. The afternoon was saved for longer, almost hour-long sessions. He would see ladies who needed to come in to talk about their health problems, but had also recently lost their husbands; he knew it was their grief. They needed someone who cared and would listen them, so he scheduled longer appointments for people who would be working on their spirit. It worked very effectively. It may not be easy dealing with it, but you can do it and will thank yourself in the long run. CarlyleYou certainly will, and I have seen so many people get better. I was thinking back when I took a session at Stanford, based around spiritual, existential, and cultural perspectives around illness. I ended up teaching the course for a number of years, after I was two or three years into it. It was only a small module set in a larger set of modules that the medical students would take during their many days and hours of lectures. They would go through all different medical topics, then throw this class is, almost as an afterthought. I initially started with an hour and a half session, but as the years progressed, it went down to an hour, then 45 minutes. At one point, I asked a group of doctors and nurse practitioners in the session, how many other sessions they had that were like mine. They had different sessions on all sorts of topics and I was curious to know if they had any other sessions focusing on the body, mind, and sprit. After being stared at silently for a moment, I am told this is pretty much it. They do not have anyone coming in talking about social work stuff, it is all the logistics about discharging. I found it really interesting that they were spending hours upon hours learning all they can in the medical field, but the mind and spirit, which are very important pieces, are thrown in as an afterthought. I believe this led us to have the mindset of having a quick fix for everything, including our mind and spirit. We want to be handed a pill that will make us “better”, but this is not the best approach. We need to look at the long-term goal when working on these things. Every day we are deepening the understanding we have of our emotions and how they play out in our lives. One of the things I teach comes from a Buddhist tradition. Buddhism is an incredible heritage that is almost 3000 years old. In Buddhism, we are looking at our minds, emotional state, and how our emotions play a role in our actions. Take struggling with anger for example. When the anger arises in you, chances are it arises in a similar pattern. Your body may also feel a certain way, or even have a certain color, texture, or quality when it arises. The Buddhist tradition would say it is not enough to only speak of the anger, like telling yourself you get angry sometimes when you are hungry, or when you are not at 100%. I would hear this all the time growing up, my dad would get a little grumpy, so my mom would ask him if he ate anything today. We are taking something that we manifest and give ourselves the step-by-step guide on how to manifest it. When we are ready to work on this, we cannot only do the surface level. This is not unique to only Buddhist traditions, but they want you to go down 15 levels and take the take time to evaluate every aspect of that anger. By doing this, you will be able to map out how the anger is triggered when it does arise in your body. You will find, and start to notice your body’s early warning signs of the anger, like tightness in your chest or you start to feel flushed. This map will bring you mindfulness to your situation and you will be able to do something different about it and change it. Again, this does take time and effort to figure it out and build your resilience to have that resource for yourself. This can be a hard mindset to overcome, almost every day I see articles about mindfulness or meditation, and how you can do it quickly. Most of them say you only need a few minutes of your day for it to work. If you only have two minutes a day to do any meditation, that is good. However, you need to understand it is also about building a long-term approach, by looking deeper in yourself and not only for the coming moment. You need to understand how your mind, how it works, and how your stressors work, so you can manage them. Next time you are in a moment of stress, you will know you have the support in you de-stress yourself and move through the situation. We have also talked some on our inability to grieve and work with change in our lives. This is woefully under represented, certainly in our culture, and globally because we all face struggles and stressful situation. How often has a loss or stressful moment happened, and you push it down and make your way through it by grinning and bearing your teeth. Many of us do not do the work, respect the grief, or go through the grieving process.This will continue to apply itself to situations down the road and can profoundly impact our ability to do basic coping. Since grief has such a huge impact on us, we started working closely with our friend from West Africa, Sobonfu Some, and have been working with her for a number of years now. Her community knows deeply about grief, and she taught us a great deal during her time on this planet about how to grieve and how to integrate it into our everyday life. Most people think if you grieve, it will somehow destroy you or you will see ourself weak as a result of it. When I see people truly working on their grief on a regular basis and incorporating it into their health plan, if you will, are almost always stronger because of it. We have not really mentioned grief before, but it is very important and is worth repeating. We do not have to become a Buddhist to work on these things in ourselves, but this notion that there is a way for you to experience these things in your body and it is not only in your mind can be very useful. It is so easy for us to fall into our thoughts and mental state and just keep spinning, but you can stop the spinning by asking yourself some questions. Where is your mental state at? Where are you feeling this in your body? Where is this in my body? Most of people do not think this way, most of the time, so it gives you a way to objectify and work with it. Your body and mind will really appreciate the attention and will be happy to hold onto the good things for you. I am going to go one step further to say this is something I hold to be true; your mind and body will have an engagement with one another. This is found in many cultures, but there are things that happen for a reason. Unfortunately, bad things happen in our lives and the world, but it is bad to try to brush things off or be judgmental. We need to change our mindset of needing to get past the situation quickly, we need to make ourselves more of an observer. Start opening your mind and notice what is going on in and around you because you are never going to change anything if you do not see it. Do not be deterred because there are things you can work with when you are dispirited. You can work with the ways your mind is frazzled or confused and you can work with the way your body might be not functioning at its peak. The whole point is that all these things are connected. You are one person – one package, that contains many different aspects. When someone experiences a trauma or loss of someone important, it hits all of you. It will affect your body, mind, and spirit. If you want to pull yourself out and start to heal, you need to deal with all of the different aspects. We will come back to talk more about dealing with the your spirit and mind because it is part of taking a global view of your health. This integrated view is missing in much of modern medicine. It is so easy for us to look up any issues we are having in a web search and it will tell you what drug to take, but it will not tell you how to deal with the root of the problem. We need to deal with the causal factors, and it is up to ourselves to make the change. Dr. MillerThank you, that was great. Again, this is the last of an eight-series podcast. We are looking to put this together into a book, and call it Eight Things Your Doctor Does Not Tell You That You Need to Know to Heal Your Eyes. I am glad you and I are doing well. We will be back, but you can also check out another podcast of ours, on how to deal with healthier lungs in the midst of all the smoke. If you live in California, Oregon, or Washington, you may want to check it out. Please also like and subscribe to our podcast and help share the word. This is Dr. Damon Miller, here in Northern California. Thank you, Carlyle. CarlyleThank you. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 56DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Mind Can Help Your Body Heal. Part 8 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 58DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Here are Some Powerful Tools to Regenerate Your Vision All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH Podcast 54 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 6 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:17 — 29.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreIn this podcast, we are going to jump in with both feet and talk about a subject that is at the core of our work in the Better Eye Health program. There are powerful tools that support regeneration, and it is important to understand the notion of how you can help your eyes if you do have a serious retinal challenge, like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt’s disease, etc.I am not some magic sorcerer that has a way to take cells that are damaged and replace or repair them. I do know the body knows how to do this; your body can help you heal your eyes. I cannot heal your eyes, but I can help your body have the tools and resources it needs. We make sure everything that needs to be working is working, so your body can heal your eyes. 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 6 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 009_OMDPodcast_8Things_RegenerationCarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller, and myself, Carlyle Coash. Welcome back Dr. Miller, how are you doing?Dr. MillerI am good, it is good to hear your voice Carlyle. CarlyleIt is good to hear yours.Dr. MillerI really enjoy doing this, it is a good day for a podcast. Today we are going to jump in with both feet and talk about a subject that is at the core of our work in the Better Eye Health program. There are powerful tools that support regeneration and it is important to understand the notion of how you can help your eyes if you do have a serious retinal challenge, like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt’s disease, etc.I am not some magic sorcerer that has a way to take cells that are damaged and replace or repair them. I do know the body knows how to do this; your body can help you heal your eyes. I cannot heal your eyes, but I can help your body have the tools and resources it needs. We make sure everything that needs to be working is working, so your body can heal your eyes. Through research, we now know when something gets regenerated in your body, it involves our adult stem cell system. We are born with this elegant system, full of stem cells that are able to go where damage has occurred and help is needed. Your adult stem cells completely restore and regenerate, leaving the cells that were damaged, like new. You have the best stem cell system in the body and we are here to help you support your own stem cell system. We have seen it work and now we understand why it works. The results are far better than anything recorded, like injecting stem cells. CarlyleStem cells work from birth until death. There may be times when they slow down, and not work as well or be as effective, but they are always doing something. Take cutting your finger, for example. After it is cut, your finger heals and this is your stem cell system working. Dr. MillerExactly, breaking a bone is a great example too. CarlyleBasically, all of the tissues in our body regenerate numerous times throughout our lives because your system is constantly working. It can be hard to realize, but our body has so much going on and is always doing so much for us. Dr. MillerOur body is constantly regenerating and repairing the parts of us that need fixing, but we only found out recently this is true for every tissue in our body. It was not that long ago that I was in medical school where we were taught the brain and the central nervous system tissues, like the eyes and spinal cord, do not regenerate. It was taught that you are born with a certain number of cells and that is it. Through Nobel Prize awarded research, it is now understood all of these cells and tissues regenerate. The cells in your brain and eyes are turning over at least every ten years, possibly more often. These are the most complex tissues in the body and they do not repair or regenerate quickly, but are capable of it. Our program will help you with this, but you must do the work and stay with it. If you do everything we show you to do, it will work. You are going to improve the vision and health in your eye, but you may work on it for year before you see any benefit. It takes a certain mindset because you are in this for the long term. One of the tools we use in the program is something called micro-current stimulation. Our motivation to use this micro-stim unit, came from early work from an orthopedic doctor that was looking at why certain animals, like frogs and salamanders, can regenerate limbs. Is this possible to do in people? The doctor showed we the ability to some extent, but we are not able to go full force. When you amputate an arm off a mammal, the body can heal the wound, but it does not go as far as to regrow the arm. Through some very elegant research, he found he could use these externally applied electrical fields and actually regrow a limb on a mammal that had been amputated. With this finding, Grace Halloran, PHD., a woman I worked with until the end of her life and did much of the pioneering work with degenerative eye diseases. We thought, if you can grow an amputated limb on a mammal, maybe we can use this technology to help regrow cells in the eye. Among other things, she found with this micro-stim technology, you actually can. We have seen people regenerate their retinas and regain vision, in a long-lasting way. It does takes times and patience though. There is no single, “magic bullet”, where you can throw some electrodes on your eye, treat for a while, then all of a sudden everything is better. Some of the tools we are use are important too, like the oriental medicine of acupuncture. Instead of needles though, we use acupressure, which stimulates the acupuncture points by using pressure. This has turned out to be extremely effective. Our program offers things you can do to improve circulation in your head and eyes because you need to be bringing in nutrients and oxygen to them. We have learned some simple exercises from physical therapists and chiropractors to improve circulation in the brain and eye. We offer color therapy, which we consider more of a special treatment. Certain colors stimulate circulation in the retina, so we have these lamps that expose the eye to those colors. Then of course, the micro-current stimulation. Whether you are using it in the eye or on a broken bone that is not healing, it will improve circulation, remove toxins, and stimulate the health of the cells. The micro-current stimulation does is draw circulating stems cells to the area being treated. We go into more details of the mechanisms, science, and research that discovered and proves this in the book Stem Cells Heal Your Eyes. You can get that book on Amazon as a large print book, audio book, and Kindle. The final thing I want to touch on is about the physical aspect of degenerative eye disease. Let’s use the most common form of eye diseases, macular degeneration, as an example. The most common form of this is age-related macular degeneration, ARMD. It of does not show up until a person is in their 60s, 70s, or 80s. People go their entire life with great eye sight and being very healthy, then suddenly their vision starts to deteriorate. They go see their ophthalmologist and are told they have a degenerative disease. One thing we have learned is that just about everyone who has this problem, has an abnormal gene that predisposed them to it. There are a lot of people who have the abnormal gene who never experience any problems at all. I am telling you now, if you a diagnosis of macular degeneration, you have a gene that predisposed you to it. The question you want to ask yourself is how did you get to 60, 70, 80 years into your life with no problems in your eye. The reason you have been able to do this is because your body was taking care of you and your eyes. Your body was fixing things faster than they could break and was keeping that gene suppressed. If all we do is address and support those systems responsible for regeneration, and give it the resources it needs, your body will continue to fix your eyes, like it did for the first part of your life. I cannot fix your eyes, your body can. What I do know is how to support your body so it does the work. The theory behind this is stems cells heal your eyes. It is a complex, but know that it works. You do not need to understand why, you just need to do it and it will work. It is more a question of will you do it, not does it work? Some of this has a relationship to how the mind and body work. How do you commit to something to salvage something really important to you? Why do some people do it and other do not? When you have trauma in your life, or face any issues like it, the scars you are left with are both physical and emotional. This is what we mean by mind and body medicine. If you get whacked by something in your life, it will whack you emotionally and physically. Very often, we have seen people with an abnormal gene for macular degeneration and go their whole life without a problem. This may have to do with some emotional things, like things in your life that were hard to see or look at. I know you, Carlyle, have seen the poetic ways of how the mind and body works when you have worked with people with very dire health situations. Our mind and body are effected by the things that happen in our life.CarlyleIt can be very power. If we are willing to acknowledge it is possible, then something can happen. We often see with these eye diseases, activities a person has done their whole life, like playing golf, bridge, and doing outdoor activities often disappear. It is going to be harder to do these things that you have normally done. I believe this is because the message many receive is nothing can be done. I have known people who had macular degeneration and their eyes are seriously deteriorating. I suggest to check out our program and Dr. Miller because he has done this for a long time and seeing really good results. They rebuttal saying nothing can be done because this is what they were told by their ophthalmologist, and they are the expert. Dr. MillerIt is medical hexing, yet again. CarlyleAnother therapy we do, in terms of the regeneration, is visualization and this can be pretty important too. This is the case with a lot of healing. Take for example a person who was in a horrid accident and could no longer walk, who is now walking again. If you talk to them about what they did to get there, many of them are visualizing walking again and setting their mind to it. Usually, the most important piece is a visualization of you can get there. You may not know how you will get there, but you will be there again. This can help with challenging situations, like hiking up to the top of a mountain. You are at the base of the mountain, realizing how hard it is going to be. Picturing yourself at the top of the mountain can help pull you through this challenge laid out right in front of you.Dr. MillerThere has been research done on visualization and shows very good data. What is the most interesting is the data on the value of visualization at improving, healing, and repairing, has better results than some of the studies that justify drugs doctors prescribe daily. When I look through literature on the work of visualization, it always seems to work the best. You do not want to try to micro-manage your body by trying to help it improve by opening up the little vessels in your eyes and bring the vitamins to your eyes. You want to give your body the long view and using your mind to let your body know where you want to be. In the case of eye disease, visualizing something twenty years down the road where you are in the park with your family having a nice picnic, it is a beautiful sunny day where you can smell the flowers and the birds are singing. You played golf that morning, you drove to the park, and you are playing bridge later that night with your friends. Your vision is perfect. This is where you want to be. If you can create a strong vision of where you want to be, your body will want to be there too and will figure out a way to get you there. Athletes and soldiers use this technique routinely because it is so powerful. It is unfortunately not used in medicine as it could, and should, be. We are bringing this up because it will benefit you. Not only does it help the healing, it addresses things you need to get done every day. Having this kind of clear vision that you hold onto, helps your mind and body find the motivation to keep you doing those things. Keep eating well, exercising, and doing everything you need to do to stay healthy.CarlyleThe film, The Peaceful Warrior, is a great example of this because the gentleman who wrote it, was an athlete who had a very serious injury. He recovered to the point where he competed in the Olympics with his injury that should have resulted him never competing again. He explored visualization that is used in sports a lot, like seeing oneself cross the finish line. As you are about to start a race, you see where you are headed, and see yourself running through the tape first. Setting that idea strongly in our mind, helps it focus and give us a point of reference for the future.Dr. MillerI do find it interesting that not that long ago when the San Francisco 49ers, were a dynasty. They were just winning title after title, year after year. Word got out that one of the things they were doing was not using special supplements or hidden steroids. The whole team was really engaged in mind and body medicine. They were meditating, visualizing, and they learned techniques of breathing so that they could go out on the field and not have their heart race. They were just serene, primed and ready to go. The other teams did not think it would help them win the Super Bowl, but now all of these teams are implementing it. I just want to recap the things we do in the program that we know support regeneration are visualization, exercises, micro-current stimulation, acupressure, and some supplements. It will work if you do it, so just do it. If you need help call us If you have questions, read the book Stem Cells Heal Your Eyes. You will see we are dealing with something real here. CarlyleI look forward to having you all join us for part seven.Dr. MillerOkay, thank you.CarlyleThank you, Dr. Miller. Dr. MillerThank you Carlyle. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 54DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 6 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 54DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Your Genes Are Not Your Destiny All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 55 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 7 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 17:11 — 23.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis is the seventh of eight talks that we are putting together about the eye work we do to help people who have chronic degenerative eye conditions, like macular and retinal dystrophies. Some of the specific names include macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and cone rod dystrophy. We also help people who have severe glaucoma and separated retinas. Our eyes need a lot of support to be able to heal itself because it can. Today, we will be talking about the genetics behind these diseases. Especially, the idea that your genes are not your destiny. Let me say it again, your genes are not your destiny. 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 7 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 055_OMDPodcast_8Things_Genes-Not-Your-Destiny-7of8CarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller. This is Carlyle Coash. How are you doing today, Dr. Miller?Dr. MillerI am doing pretty well during these tough times, by the grace of whatever. History will look back on this time, shake its head and wonder how we all got through it. I am grateful to be here because we are going to be talking about some important things. It is good to hear your voice, are you doing well?CarlyleI am holding up, as you said, by whoever is handing out grace. It seems to be helping to, at least, get through the day.Dr. MillerThis is the seventh of eight talks that we are putting together about the eye work we do to help people who have chronic degenerative eye conditions, like macular and retinal dystrophies. Some of the specific names include macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and cone rod dystrophy. We also help people who have severe glaucoma and separated retinas. Our eyes need a lot of support to be able to heal itself because it can. Today, we will be talking about the genetics behind these diseases. Especially, the idea that your genes are not your destiny. Let me say it again, your genes are not your destiny. Carlyle and I have been working with people for a couple decades now, and we see people in all different types of domains of their life. What we find of most people is they assume if it runs in their family; they will have and do the same thing their parents did. Your genes are not your destiny.CarlyleInstead of medical hexing, like we have talked about, we can say it is like a family or gene hexing. As opposed to seeing the pattern and looking to change it. Dr. MillerI see people respond to it if we can put it in some familiar ways. Without getting into a significant talk about genetics and epigenetics, consider the most common of these eye problems. Take the most common form of macular degeneration, called age related macular degeneration or ARMD. As it says in the name, the degeneration shows up in people when they are in their 60s, 70s, or 80s. From the time they are kids to the time they retire, there are no problems with their eyes. All of a sudden, their eyes start to fall apart. You need to be asking yourself if these diseases have a strong underpinning of some genetic predisposition, meaning you have a gene that predisposes you to the disease. We know that almost everybody who gets macular degeneration has some sort of abnormal gene. How is it that you can live to be 60, 70, or 80 years old, and have no idea that you have any kind of a genetic problem? You have had the gene from birth and your body has kept it suppressed. If it starts to rear its head, your body is able to fix things faster than they could break. This is true of many other diseases. Another bit of data that is interesting are the genetic testing kits, which look for genetic abnormalities. It is so common now, for only $90 you can get an at-home test kit that shows you any tendencies you may have for all these different dispositions. I do not recommend these tests, for most people, because they will get scared to death of the results. It may show you have a gene for diabetes, breast cancer, colon cancer, etc., but a lot of people have these genes. It shows us people with macular degeneration, have some of the genes that predispose you to it. There are tens of millions of people who have done this genetic testing and the gene is pretty common, yet the gene is much more common than the disease. Most people with the gene never get the disease. The same goes for people who have the gene for diabetes or breast cancer, most people will still not get them. Yes, there is a gene there, but the disease does not necessarily come with the gene. Well, what would make your gene get expressed then? We are going to shift gears a little so we can understand the basics of genetics, specifically about your DNA. This is the six-foot long piece of double helix; the base pairs that defines how you put together, like what eye color you will have. This is your genetics, and is what the genetic tests look at. Sitting on top of your genetics are epigenetics, which are the things sitting on top of the genome of your genetic sequence. They are incredibly tiny, barely the width of a wavelength of light, and involve things like proteins and histones. Every cell in your body has a six-foot strand of DNA, along with the epigenetics, and are not thrown together, like a bowl of spaghetti. They are carefully packaged, wrapped, and folded together. It is what is going into the folding up of the DNA that also controls the DNA. The reason you do not randomly start making tissue in your body is because the expression of the genes in your body are very tightly controlled. This is especially true when you are first forming as a fetus. Everything is very carefully controlled and orchestrated as you grow in the womb. Your neural tubes, ears, and everything else, can form at the right time. We do hear people saying there will be a drug or technology someday that will affect this. We just saw this week, the announcement of the Nobel Prize winner in biology. It was shared by two women for their development of CRISPR, which is the ability to modify your DNA sequence. This is one way to affect your genetics, by modifying the gene itself, but nobody has found a way yet to sell you a kit to modify your epigenetics. There is no drug, surgery, or technology for it.Epigenetics raises some interesting questions, like how does our body decide when a gene should get expressed and not? There are things that can change if you modify your stress level, diet, and lifestyle. These have a profound effect on whether or not an abnormal gene gets expressed. I know you have seen this in all the work you have done with people. CarlyleI certainly have. It also struck me when you mentioned how so many people are testing their genetics for all sorts of things. I hear more and more people doing preventative surgery, only because there is a chance the abnormal gene will turn into a disease. This is an odd term to use, but it is very “hot” right now to do these preventative surgeries to remove the issue before it starts. Yes, you can do this, but it is a very extreme measure of prevention. The focus goes to getting rid of the thing that might be a problem. If you know you have a propensity for macular degeneration, are not going to remove your eyes ahead of time? With this notion of epigenetics and its ability to affect an aspect by managing your stress, diet, all of the things we have talked about in the last few podcasts. There is a way we are committing to our resilience by building our resilience. As we have talked before, when it is flu season we find ourselves taking more vitamin C, D, and A, we make sure to eat healthy foods, and we are managing our stress. The core of your immunity is stronger, helping you to get through any flu or COVID season, whatever may be happening at the time. The same is true here because you have this gene, but it does not mean it will ever manifest ever. There are things you can do to improve your situation, so why not try them first, as opposed to a dramatic surgery that may not be needed. Surgery puts a lot of trauma and stress on your body, but it is a crazy choice people are making. We are living in a very interesting time right now, but we need to build our resilience. We must look not only at our physical health and the things we do to support our immune systems, but also how we manage our stress. We have all fallen into the assumption that nothing ever changes, that we will go on in life because everyone is going to live forever, and no loss will be experienced. Sometimes people think they will never have any stress, will have any job that makes endless amounts of money, and nothing is ever going to happen to the economy. If this is true for you, great, but if you have been on the earth for any length of time, you know that is not true. Things will always happen, there will always be change, and these things are unpredictable. We can have things in place for ourselves that will manage our stress on a daily level. You will be able to stay pretty full of physical, emotional, and spiritual nourishment, using the tools we have when outside circumstances shift and change. Let’s take for example losing your job, or there is an illness or death in the family, or you have relationship stress. Whatever it may be, you will have the tools because you have worked on your own self. In terms of stress, being able to relieve and nourish those moments can help you manage it long-term. You will have the work you have done and use it as an ally, where we can rely and draw from it. The road in front of us can be bumpy with uphill climbs and steep downhill falls or can be smooth sailing; sometimes it is all of the above. I think many of us assume that by continuing to make the choices we do in everyday life, will somehow work out. I really hope it does, but why not try something beneficial if it does not require a lot of extra time.Dr. MillerWhat you are talking about, Carlyle, is not just a good idea, it is something that has been proven. You can change whether or not an abnormal gene gets expressed by doing the very things you are talking about; it is an idea with proof behind it. You can see hundreds of references and a more detailed description of the science of epigenetics and what is known about it, by reading the book we wrote, Stem Cells Heal Your Eyes. You can find a cheap copy of it on our website, BetterEyeHealth.com. Also, as you were talking early about people doing preventative surgeries, like having a bilateral mastectomy before being diagnosed with cancer. Nothing in medicine, or your body, is black and white. The gene that predisposes you to an aggressive form of breast cancer, is also very much related to ovarian, uterine, and pancreatic cancer. Are you going to start removing everything? Breast cancer may be the most common disease from the particular gene, and people think of these things a little too mechanistically. Science may be an exact study of the body, but it misses the fact that the genes do not exactly correlate with it. These abnormal genes cover many issues, and this is certainly true with eye diseases. The genes that are labeled to predispose you to macular degeneration, are also found in people who have been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt's disease. The geneticists still do not understand why these diseases all have such an overlap, in terms of the genetics, but it is well documented. Epigenetic is the real story, and is something you can affect with tools that are available to you, without seeing a doctor or having a genetic test done. In our next, and final, talk of the series we are going to go over taking care of your overall health, having a global view of healing, and dealing with the mind, body, and spirit. Know that these things will help you, and even if you have the abnormal gene, you will be able to avoid disease or have the ability to heal it. Keep an eye out for our eighth podcast, where we will continue and wrap our discussion up.Thank you, Carlyle.CarlyleThank you, Dr. Miller. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 55DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 7 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 55DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Toxicity is an Obstacle to Healing Your Eyes All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 53 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 5 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 36:57 — 50.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreIn this episode, we are covering toxicity, which is part five of the eight part series about things your doctor does not tell you when you are diagnosed a retinal disease, like macular degeneration, Stargardt’s, or retinitis pigmentosa.Toxicity is something I wrestle with while talking with people in my office all the time. It is not the cause of a disease, it is an obstacle to getting better, no matter what kind of health problem. No matter what you are doing, toxicity gets in the way and it can stoep any progress from happening. It has to be addressed. People wonder all the time if they are toxic, but how do you find out? 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 5 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 053_OMDPodcast_8Things_Toxicity-5 of 8Carlyle Welcome to the organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller, and me, Carlyle Coash. Welcome back to our interesting, ongoing conversation about bettering your health. How are you doing today, Dr. Miller?Dr. Miller I am doing well today. We are recording this while the great fires in Northern California are happening. It is bad enough that we are stuck here because of social distancing due to the pandemic, but it is almost dangerous to walk outside. It is getting better, and it is a good day to record a podcast. Today, we are covering toxicity, which is part five of the eight part series about things your doctor does not tell you when you are diagnosed a retinal disease, like macular degeneration, Stargardt’s, or retinitis pigmentosa. Toxicity is something I wrestle with while talking with people in my office all the time. It is not the cause of a disease, it is an obstacle to getting better, no matter what kind of health problem. No matter what you are doing, toxicity gets in the way and it can stoep any progress from happening. It has to be addressed. People wonder all the time if they are toxic, but how do you find out? There was a large study done to help find the toxins we have in our bodies. The study group consisted of hundreds of people, who were all seemingly healthy. They chose a healthy group of people to study toxins in, so they would have a control group to compare with those who have a disease or illness. Samples of everything were taken, stool, urine, spit, hair, and even skin biopsies. They tried to get as much information they could possibly obtain and came up with a list of about 150 toxins. The results were astonishing. Everyone had every toxin on the list, and in dangerously large amounts. This sparked a lot of interest in toxicity when the results were published in 2000 and doctors wanted to know if their clients were full of toxins. It was a mini industry for a number of years and some of the centers where the study was taken, put an elaborate test kit together. Doctors would get these kits with different tubes, vials, and envelopes to gather all the information from their clients; everything would then get sent back to the centers. This kit cost about $4,000 and you would get a 13-page printout back showing the results. This did not last for long because every test came back completely positive for toxins, everyone is full of toxins.This is a long conversation and we have a course on Do It Yourself, Detox. This first piece of work helps you mobilize the toxins in your body because they need to be shaken loose from where they have been stuck. This will help you from being sick while the toxins are floating around until your body can figure out a way to excrete them out. The toxins that are stuck are for a good reason and if it cannot deal with something it buries it in your solid organs, bones, tissues, brain, spinal cord, and in your eyes. This is so the toxins are not freely floating around your body, poisoning you; it is poisoning wherever it is stationed though. There is not much done for toxic testing anymore, but there are still some doctors who do. When we look at toxins, like heavy metals, through a hair or urine analysis, the results only show what is being excreted by the body, giving inconclusive results. The issue we run into when trying to address the toxins, is not that they have been exposed to the toxins, but their body is, in a sense, crippled, and cannot get rid of them. Out body is able to excrete heavy metals through urine or hair, but only if the toxins are not sedimentary. You may be full of lead or mercury and not even know it. A workaround to this is to give an agent that will mobilize the lead or mercury; when the test is repeated, there is usually a huge spike in the new results. This tells us that yes, you do have toxins, but taking an agent to mobilize them may be useful. Usually, the people doing this testing have the intention to do intravenous chelation. Chelation is the process of getting metals out of your anything, including your body and farmland. It has leading agents that bind up the metals so they can be either sequestered or removed. This is very profitable for doctors, but they need proof that that risky technique is justified. You have to go out of your way to get some data on paper that showing you really have these metals. They explain why they did this and apologize for causing any damage, but it was worth it because it was needed. It is completely the opposite. There have been people excreting metals out of their body for many more years by using oral medication, not intravenous chelation.This leads us to another part of our discussion on toxicity, which we will deal with for the rest of our lives. We live in a very toxic world, and will always be taking toxins into our bodies, no matter how hard you try. Some of these may already be acquired, and they can take many years to finally clear. It will take good habits of detoxification and getting rid of the bad habits, which you know a lot about, Carlyle. Your dad had habits he needed to change, and it is a very motivating story. Carlyle He had a clear understanding of his issue with his gallbladder because he ate very heavy and rich foods. He had the option to change his diet or remove his gallbladder, but he hates surgery and did not see it as an option for himself. He opted to make a change in his diet, started taking lecithin, along with some other supplements, and he lost a lot of weight. He knew he had to keep a healthy diet for the rest of his life, and he did. I was about eight years old when he started making these changes and had many more life experiences with him because of it. Along with changing his diet, he set a routine for himself. By setting a routine, he would be able to stick to the changes for rest of his life and knew if he goes back to eating like he used to, the issues with his gallbladder would arise again. If he stopped doing the things that helped him get to this place of feeling great, he would be right back in the same place. Usually, you are not just cleared and recovered for the rest of your life. It is different with a broken arm, once it has healed, it will not necessarily continue to break in the exact same location. We are talking about toxins and other health issues, which require changes you make for the rest of your life. Change is always hard at first, but once you are comfortably in your routine, it will be like second nature to you. In today’s time, we want a quick solution and never have to think about it again. The world is toxic and it does not seem to be getting better anytime soon, so we need to balance it out. The same can be said with COVID or the flue, we all need to do things on an ongoing basis to keep your resilience high. You are likely always going to get exposed to something like the flu bug or COVID, even if you take precautionary measure. We need to keep our immunity boosted by taking vitamin C and D3, so when you are exposed to something, it will not have the same effect. Dr. Miller I heard someone refer to this as fragility, when you are trying to avoid a state where you are vulnerable to whatever comes in from you. This says it perfectly and will bring our discussion into the habits we have. I have some inspiring papers on habits, that are written by someone I have known for years, and we will have a segment on our habits in the future. Carlyle I experience this in my own life when I am not feeling well or under the weather. If I reflect on myself and think about the last couple of weeks. I realize I have not been taking my vitamin C, D3, or my diet has not been that great. I need to make sure I am, at least, drinking some juices or smoothies so I can get the healthy greens and nutrients in my systems again. When I do not do this, my body has much more work to do to maintain, regulate, and give my body the resources it needs. We need to ask ourselves if we want to have a cold now or feel rundown in a week. None of us do, but we can lose track of it. I used to think I do not get sick in summer, but the worst colds I have had have been in the summer months. Having the cold or flu is more prevalent in the winter months, but it is still around. It is not like these bugs take a vacation from getting people sick, it will accompany you on your trip to Hawaii. We need to continually help our body, so it can fend off different illnesses. Dr. Miller We need to do these things that will keep us healthy, and continually do them. More and more, we are seeing people who are willing to engage and do the program we are talking about. They let us know years down the road that they are still feeling so much better. By taking care of their health, they can now sleep better, have more energy, and have not had a cold in years. We receive feedback from a broad range of people, and I have been seeing this since I left the hospital-based practice and stepped into integrative medicine, two decades ago. I wanted to address the root of the problem more than the branch; I did not want to keep treating symptoms with drugs. I have always had a bit of a skeptical mind, asking myself if these drugs are really useful and if they actually work. I also wondered if it was worth people taking the effort to do our program. It was worth it. We have helped so many people already and want to continue doing so. Our Better Eye Health program does take commitment, and if you want the detoxification to work in your body you will need a 10-year commitment. In terms of eye disease, specifically, to avoid taking toxins into your system you want to clean up your body, get toxins moving out, and clean up your environment. We have found this simple, general work is important for everyone. We also incorporate microcurrent stimulation, which has shown to improve detoxification at the area you are treating. When you treat your eyes with microcurrent stimulation, day after day and week, after week, you are receiving localized detoxification in those tissues. There are similar effects with people with Parkinson's disease, which show a clear connection between toxicity and Parkinson's disease. Along with changing your diet, a simple change is starting to eat organic foods. This is not a popular idea, but there is so much information written about the value of eating organic foods. You still get equivalent nutrition in the non-organic foods, but your urine will be full of agricultural chemicals, which are toxins to the body. Carlyle It is almost like our brains want to be convinced that organic foods is a hoax because it has the same nutrients. Organic does not mean Superman fruits. They are normal fruits and vegetables, but you are not ingesting the chemicals sprayed on and processed through it. Dr. Miller A great benefit to organic food is knowing where it came from, so start a little garden and grow your own food sources. You can taste the difference. The last thing I want to talk about it emotional toxicity, and I know you are an expert on this, Carlyle, from the work you have done. It is major and one of the hardest things to address. Emotional toxicity is when you cling onto something, and we have a habit of clinging to the negative things. We will all experience troublesome, difficult, and sometimes traumatic occurrences throughout our lives, and there are things and ways to live your life so these negative toxins do not become corrosive. Would you please share about how someone might address their emotional toxicity?CarlyleTo some extent, it is very much connected to be able to grieve and move through things. It is one of the places that is most underestimated, processing what it means to be in a life with changes happening all the time. We may not want to acknowledge the changes happening, but they are. We each may have a day to day routine to help us feel consistent, but everything around us is constantly changing. I certainly saw this while working in hospice, my family, and in supporting other friends and their family. Whether it is trauma or grief, if you have things that are not resolved or worked on, they will stay stagnant and eventually become poison. I have people in my family who have some mental health issues and this can help drive some of the activity and toxicity levels. I know of others who created a lot of turmoil and agitation for themselves and others around them because they were not working on these core things. They had something going on and they would not let go of it. These toxins are stored in you, just like the toxins in your body. If we are not able to process the unworked emotions and grief, it holds in a certain part of the body and builds a pattern of how one deals with things. There are no statistics to show, but if you were to do interviews with people who have struggled with any type of addiction, like alcohol, drugs, or food. An addiction is when you are out of control, and so much of the time we see a root of something unresolved or worked on. You may not feel like you have the mental capacity to deal with your feelings and emotions, and sometimes we do not want to talk about it. Maybe you were raised in a family that did not talk about anything and everything gets shut down. This is when masking your feelings by food, drugs, and alcohol can become an addiction. You realize the first drink or bite takes away your negative feelings, but this action destroys you and exacerbates the trauma. Your behavior starts to turn worse and worse, leading you to act out more. We need to take emotional toxicity as seriously as cancer because it is a deadly chemical that is lingering in you. It might be slower acting, but I have seen what happens when you do not deal with it, over and over again. Once you do deal with it, it may not be fully done, to some extent. This is something you will work on your entire life, especially if it connected to a trauma or loss. There may be things you do not understand, like the impact of a loss, until you are in a place that triggers this understanding. I will use my mother’s death as an example. There were things from her death that I did not understand that would impact me, like when I got married. I wish my mom was there to be part of the supporting unit for me at my wedding, but she had passed quite before it happened. When you are in the situation and come to the realization they are not there, it brings up the grief again. I had to work through it and relate to that pain again, which is fine because I have done the work for myself. I have made a commitment to not only work on it, but be willing to work on it. It may not be perfect, and I have people in my life that can look at me and tell something is going on. I can talk to them about what I am going through and see if it connected to a past loss our trauma. Part of that honesty is to be able to explore in yourself because I might be affected, and may be causing the choices I am making now. I have known people who would say were not drinkers their whole life, but when something triggers them, and they start to drink. This may have happened over 20 years ago, but it can still be active because life has a tendency to bring up situations that triggers us again. There may be something we do not understand about the loss, and that is okay. We are not in any way a failure with our experiences, we are human and constantly changing beings. I am not stupid or broken for having these feelings of my mother’s death, even though she had passed more than 15 years before, and I cannot hold that in. I know people who become ill and it is directly connected to an experience they had. Dr. Miller can attest to this, when someone comes in and gives a list of what they have going on. So many of us are used to the western medicine mind of having a diagnosis for everything going on with us. I have always appreciated your more eastern medicine approach by being more curious about the person and asking them more questions. You want to hear the story about them and see if they have been triggered by something in their past. How often do you see someone and you ask to hear a bit about their story about the story of what this problem might be. They tell you they have this, this, and this going on and what they were doing when it happened. Well, maybe some of it is connected with what you are experiencing now, and they suddenly start talking about it. Doing self-exploration and talking about experiences can help you and other issues will start to calm and resolve. I have seen this so many times, especially working in hospice and bereavement groups. A person is having real, genuine emotions about a loss that they have experienced. It can be overwhelming, so they go to a therapist and are immediately put on Zoloft, which shuts your whole process down. People want to be given something for the easy fix, especially when overwhelmed. This is all too easy, and our medical system is happy to prescribe anything. If someone has been crippled by their illness, sometimes a medication can help bring some balance, but we need to deal with the grief and the things happening around it. I have seen so many people in bereavement groups that come in five years after the loss happened. They were immediately prescribed Zoloft, so they felt better and did not work through the grief. After some time, they stop taking the medication because they were feeling good, then crash hard when they do. The emotions and feelings have not disappeared, it was just masked over, and now you have to deal with it again. The same is true for alcohol, the drinking will deaden or smooth things over, but it is still there to be dealt with. Doing the work can be in conjunction with medication, but you will find yourself in a different place. Dr. Miller Western medicine has started to notion there is a connection between the mind and body, but it does not know how to make the connections. You need to understand this is real and it is important. It can be hard to deal with, but it is not hard work. The work you do will do on your emotional and physical detoxification is hugely helpful. Carlyle The obstacle we all seem to face is time, but that is what it takes. With the general healthcare system, many physicians are only given a 15-20 minute window to meet with their patients. We have all experienced this, and have been trained, in a sense, to have a quick fix for your issue. There are practitioners out there who would rather not talk, and I have seen this meeting with them at different hospitals. They would prefer to focus solely on their specialty, and not necessarily spend 40 minutes talking to you. This is part of the reason why I stopped working as a chaplain because it was becoming more and more standardized. When I did, I got permission to spend to spend a couple hours with a family and would still get questioned why I took so long. To get where we need to go, they have to be able to trust me, to get into it and work through it because it cannot be prescribed. We cannot get ample work done if I have to do everything in a 20 minute window. These practitioners need to look productive, so they need to have so many visits per day. What is being productive though? Dr. Miller, you are productive with each person because you can spend as much time as you need with them; and you want to do it. This does take some time, you do need to put some effort in, and you will need some energy to be willing to do it. You will do some work in the beginning when you start to dig in, but will end up with the resources you need to help you in the long-term maintenance. You will be ready when situations arise because you will have done a lot of the work already and have new tools to use in the future. You will be able to take on the new, emotionally toxic experience, resolve it relatively quickly, and move forward. Dr. Miller There is a huge payoff to this, but you do not really get it until you have done it. When you are not drowning in grief and need for forgiveness your anger and actions, there is an immediate payoff just terms of feeling better. We only briefly touched on toxicity today, and I am sure there are more questions about mobilizing toxins and getting them out. We need to keep ourselves healthier when living in a toxic world, so we do have a course. We will send out notifications when we will be doing our Detoxify Your Body, Detoxify Your Home course. Please make sure to subscribe so you will be notified. We are also going to look at making a new course that will deal with emotional toxicity because it does take time. We will end it here for today, but I want to urge you all to contact us. If you have any questions or have ideas for topics to cover in the future, please let us know. You can subscribe and like our podcast, so you can see our upcoming discussions. It also helps us get the word out to more people.This was huge, thank you. There is so much we can say about this, but we will save it for the future. I really appreciate you, Carlyle. Thank you.Carlyle Right back at you, Dr. Miller. Thank you for joining us. Check back in for Part Six, which is coming up soon. Thank you. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 53DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 5 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 53DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Heal Your Diet and You Can Heal Your Eyes All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 52 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 4 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 16:46 — 23.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreToday, this is the fourth of eight podcasts on Organic MD. We will discuss our Better Eye Health program that helps people with serious eye diseases, like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and Stargardt’s disease. We have a very effective program for stopping and reversing the progression of these diseases. To some extent, allowing people to get vision back that has been lost. I want mention how important your diet is – what you choose to eat and how you eat it, not just taking supplements. Our title of this podcast, the benefits that come from improving your diet can go beyond your wildest dreams, says it all. 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 4 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 007_OMDPodcast_8Things_DietCarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller. I am Carlyle Coash. How are you doing today Dr. Miller? Dr. MillerI am doing well today. I am very grateful. We are in a time where we get to spend more time listening to podcasts. Grateful for that and making our offering here. Today, this is the fourth of eight podcasts on Organic MD. We will discuss our Better Eye Health program that helps people with serious eye diseases, like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and Stargardt’s disease. We have a very effective program for stopping and reversing the progression of these diseases. To some extent, allowing people to get vision back that has been lost. I want mention how important your diet is – what you choose to eat and how you eat it, not just taking supplements. Our title of this podcast, the benefits that come from improving your diet can go beyond your wildest dreams, says it all.CarlyleI would agree. We talked a last time about my dad making his diet choice. Among other thing he did, the main shift was what he ate and how he ate it. From the time he made the change to the next 30 plus years, he kept to it. There were times he may stray and have a meal that was a little more heavy or cheesy. He would suffer a little, but would say it was worth it because he did not get to eat it that often. He was suffering at the other side of it though. You have talked about this many times over the years, your health can start reflecting the types of food we are eating and putting into our system. Our body works with what we give it, to some extent. If you are giving your body not-so-great-things, it will do the best it can to process them, but your body may take a hit for it. Dr. MillerYour dad was motivated. The doctor said he could lose some weight, but they would end up doing surgery anyway to take out his gallbladder. Your dad wanted to try losing the weight first. This is the basic philosophy here at Organic MD – when you have multiple things to try, go with the safe ones that easy, simple, and cheap. It may take some work, motivation, and effort on your part, but if there are options to surgery, we want to exhaust them. I cannot tell you how many people I have seen go into a fairly simple surgery and come out very scarred or dead. This is also true with a degenerative eye disease, like a retinal disease, or macular degeneration, etc. Will changing your diet reverse these diseases? It is not clear. There are many things you can do to take care of your health that are worth mentioning, in terms of the science behind it. When we talk about macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa, we are talking about problems that almost always have an underlying abnormal gene that predisposes you to it. I choose these words very carefully – predisposes you. Having an abnormal gene does not mean that gene is your destiny. We have another topic we will be talking about in a later podcast called epigenetics. This is the information that sits on top of a gene. The gene is simply the strand of DNA holding the information. It is wrapped around all of these complexes of proteins, histones, etc., that are bundled up and control which parts of the gene gets expressed. Whether or not a gene gets expressed is as important, if not more important, than whether you have the gene. Macular degeneration is a perfect example of this because it is the most common form of the age-related macular degeneration, ARMD. Often, age related macular degeneration, does not show up until the sixth, seventh, or eighth decade of life. Everyone with this has had the gene since birth, yet somehow their body has been keeping this gene suppressed. If there was any damage being done by the abnormal gene, the body was healing the damage faster than it could show up. In terms of the science of it, everyone now understands there is such a thing as epigenetics and how important it is, but seem to be looking for a drug that can be given to suppress a gene. How are we going to develop that? There has been a lot of work on epigenetics and with this work, there have been no drug…nada, nothing, zip, zero. This research has shown is that changes in diet and lifestyle will change the epigenetics. In other words, do things we know how to do to make you healthier. In our program, we are usually working with people at the later stages of the disease and they have already have quite a bit of damage done. You need to be doing a lot to regenerate and rebuild these cells in the eye. After all, they are the most complex tissues in the whole human body. When we are talking with the family members who have parents with this disease, the assume they have this gene too. We have also spoken with people who did a test found they have the gene. They are all asking what they are going to do so they do not have the same problems later on in life. If you eat well, take care of yourself, change lifestyles, do no drink too much alcohol, and do not smoke. We need to get a good sleep and destress. Basic, basic, basic things. We consider working with your diet is so important that I am going to talk about our Better Eye Health program. We do many things in the program, one of them being a module we added almost 18 years ago, our Healthy Eating Workshop. We work with you to find what is the best diet for you. What is the diet that is going to energize you, keep you healthy, and keep your cholesterol down? When you start working with a good diet, it solves all kinds of problems. People find that their blood pressure and sugars normalizes, their glaucoma goes away, their skin clears, and their joints feel better. The list really goes on and on. You need to be eating well. You would not believe what a difference it makes when you start eating a healthier diet. Keep in mind that a healthy diet for one person, may not be a healthy diet for another. It goes back to the old notion that you are what you eat. How often have you heard that? I have heard that my entire life, is it ever true.CarlyleI think you have said that your grandmother would say the fastest way to get in a box is to eat out of a box, or something like that.Dr. MillerThat was Adelle Davis, she was considered a the diet guru back in the 50s and 60s. She would always say, “The fastest way to end up at an early age in a box, is to eat out of a box.” There is a lot more wisdom where that comes from, not necessarily from Adelle Davis. Let me get philosophical for a moment, the reason that we are all here today is because we had grandmothers and ancestors who had figured out how to keep the family and the community healthy. It is not because of modern medicine. The wisdom we have been losing sight of is what does it mean to be healthy and what do you do? What is the healthiest lifestyle for you? There is a lot of valuable information and just another thing we do here at Organic MD. We are also trying to include more “ancient wisdom” in the podcasts and on our webpage. The most basic of it is you are what you eat. CarlyleBe curious of the things you are eating and what is in this product. Next time you eat something that is a processed, ask yourself what ingredients are in it and where did it come from? Especially when you are dealing with an illness, just asking those basic questions and thinking about it the next time you order something. This is also true when you are going to make something yourself. The next time you are at a supermarket and pull an item off the shelf, ask yourself if it will help you with the illness or issue you are relating to. You might have to put the box back…I go to Trader Joe’s and there are plenty of things that speak to me when I am in the aisle. The dark chocolate peanut butter cups literally talk when you walk by saying, “Wait, come back and get some! You need me, I am really good!” They are so good that you want to eat the entire container. I know I have to be very sparing or I will eat them all the time. In chocolatier terms, there is an aspect of chocolate that is good for you. The sweets and other processed foods contain so much fat, salt, and sugar. This mirrors back to what we have been talking about, which is for these things to change. You need to be more engaging, question things, and be mindful. Maybe pass on having three sugars in your coffee. Start with little things that you can shift in order to maintain that wellness. There are of course the rare examples, like George Burns. He smoked cigars his entire life, and probably ate pretty rich food, and drank too. He was fine, but that is not the case for the majority of people. We have to find our own path. Dr. MillerGeorge Burns was a pretty functional guy up until the end, but we are here to talk about the value of a good diet in the context of trying to stop and reverse a serious disease and keeping people on a good diet. One final thing about what happens when you eat well and make good choices about your food. It is not necessarily about peanut butter and chocolate and other sweets, but the techniques that are used in the modern industrial agriculture that ends up leaving a lot of toxins in our foods. In one of the next podcasts, we are going to be talking about toxicity. A lot of the toxicity that gets into our body comes through our food, so you do yourself a great service by eating food that is clean. How do you figure that out? I am sure if we could talk to your dad, he would confirm this. He had a very specific reason why he changed his diet. He had a problem and was told he had two options. He could try to lose some weight, but they would just go ahead and do the surgery they say he needed. He did not want surgery, so this motivated him. He changed his diet, and he kept it up for the rest of his life. This is most likely because he liked the way he felt eating healthy.CarlyleDefinitely, and he was still able to eat well and enjoy some great meals. There is a thought out there that if you are eating healthy, you are going to be eating sand and cardboard – this if far from true. He also realized he needed to exercise more. He started enjoying walking places and going on hikes. He started to do these more and they were some of his great joys. Dr. MillerFeeling good starts to become a new addiction, if you will, when you go down this path. Putting eye disease aside for a moment, I have worked with more people than I can think of who changed their eating habits and saw improvement in other areas of their health. One thing we do with everyone we work with is look at what you are eating. What does your diet consist of and will it serve you well? I have people come back after some time and tell me they are not doing so well. I ask them when the last time they felt really well was, they would say it is when they were doing everything I told them to do and eating a healthy diet. They come back, and pay me to tell them to try eating the diet again or going back on the program again. Sometimes it is that simple. That is all we have for today. Eat well because you are what you eat. It can reverse and fend off serious diseases. Next time we come back, we will talk about toxicity. Thank you, thank you all.CarlyleThanks for joining us. Check out the website and links. We will see you soon!Dr. MillerYes, please “like us” and subscribe to the podcasts. It helps get the word out. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 52DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 4 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 52DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 4 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 007_OMDPodcast_8Things_DietCarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller. I am Carlyle Coash. How are you doing today Dr. Miller? Dr. MillerI am doing well today. I am very grateful. We are in a time where we get to spend more time listening to podcasts. Grateful for that and making our offering here. Today, this is the fourth of eight podcasts on Organic MD. We will discuss our Better Eye Health program that helps people with serious eye diseases, like macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and Stargardt’s disease. We have a very effective program for stopping and reversing the progression of these diseases. To some extent, allowing people to get vision back that has been lost. I want mention how important your diet is – what you choose to eat and how you eat it, not just taking supplements. Our title of this podcast, the benefits that come from improving your diet can go beyond your wildest dreams, says it all.CarlyleI would agree. We talked a last time about my dad making his diet choice. Among other thing he did, the main shift was what he ate and how he ate it. From the time he made the change to the next 30 plus years, he kept to it. There were times he may stray and have a meal that was a little more heavy or cheesy. He would suffer a little, but would say it was worth it because he did not get to eat it that often. He was suffering at the other side of it though. You have talked about this many times over the years, your health can start reflecting the types of food we are eating and putting into our system. Our body works with what we give it, to some extent. If you are giving your body not-so-great-things, it will do the best it can to process them, but your body may take a hit for it. Dr. MillerYour dad was motivated. The doctor said he could lose some weight, but they would end up doing surgery anyway to take out his gallbladder. Your dad wanted to try losing the weight first. This is the basic philosophy here at Organic MD – when you have multiple things to try, go with the safe ones that easy, simple, and cheap. It may take some work, motivation, and effort on your part, but if there are options to surgery, we want to exhaust them. I cannot tell you how many people I have seen go into a fairly simple surgery and come out very scarred or dead. This is also true with a degenerative eye disease, like a retinal disease, or macular degeneration, etc. Will changing your diet reverse these diseases? It is not clear. There are many things you can do to take care of your health that are worth mentioning, in terms of the science behind it. When we talk about macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa, we are talking about problems that almost always have an underlying abnormal gene that predisposes you to it. I choose these words very carefully – predisposes you. Having an abnormal gene does not mean that gene is your destiny. We have another topic we will be talking about in a later podcast called epigenetics. This is the information that sits on top of a gene. The gene is simply the strand of DNA holding the information. It is wrapped around all of these complexes of proteins, histones, etc., that are bundled up and control which parts of the gene gets expressed. Whether or not a gene gets expressed is as important, if not more important, than whether you have the gene. Macular degeneration is a perfect example of this because it is the most common form of the age-related macular degeneration, ARMD. Often, age related macular degeneration, does not show up until the sixth, seventh, or eighth decade of life. Everyone with this has had the gene since birth, yet somehow their body has been keeping this gene suppressed. If there was any damage being done by the abnormal gene, the body was healing the damage faster than it could show up. In terms of the science of it, everyone now understands there is such a thing as epigenetics and how important it is, but seem to be looking for a drug that can be given to suppress a gene. How are we going to develop that? There has been a lot of work on epigenetics and with this work, there have been no drug…nada, nothing, zip, zero. This research has shown is that changes in diet and lifestyle will change the epigenetics. In other words, do things we know how to do to make you healthier. In our program, we are usually working with people at the later stages of the disease and they have already have quite a bit of damage done. You need to be doing a lot to regenerate and rebuild these cells in the eye. After all, they are the most complex tissues in the whole human body. When we are talking with the family members who have parents with this disease, the assume they have this gene too. We have also spoken with people who did a test found they have the gene. They are all asking what they are going to do so they do not have the same problems later on in life. If you eat well, take care of yourself, change lifestyles, do no drink too much alcohol, and do not smoke. We need to get a good sleep and destress. Basic, basic, basic things. We consider working with your diet is so important that I am going to talk about our Better Eye Health program. We do many things in the program, one of them being a module we added almost 18 years ago, our Healthy Eating Workshop. We work with you to find what is the best diet for you. What is the diet that is going to energize you, keep you healthy, and keep your cholesterol down? When you start working with a good diet, it solves all kinds of problems. People find that their blood pressure and sugars normalizes, their glaucoma goes away, their skin clears, and their joints feel better. The list really goes on and on. You need to be eating well. You would not believe what a difference it makes when you start eating a healthier diet. Keep in mind that a healthy diet for one person, may not be a healthy diet for another. It goes back to the old notion that you are what you eat. How often have you heard that? I have heard that my entire life, is it ever true.CarlyleI think you have said that your grandmother would say the fastest way to get in a box is to eat out of a box, or something like that.Dr. MillerThat was Adelle Davis, she was considered a the diet guru back in the 50s and 60s. She would always say, “The fastest way to end up at an early age in a box, is to eat out of a box.” There is a lot more wisdom where that comes from, not necessarily from Adelle Davis. Let me get philosophical for a moment, the reason that we are all here today is because we had grandmothers and ancestors who had figured out how to keep the family and the community healthy. It is not because of modern medicine. The wisdom we have been losing sight of is what does it mean to be healthy and what do you do? What is the healthiest lifestyle for you? There is a lot of valuable information and just another thing we do here at Organic MD. We are also trying to include more “ancient wisdom” in the podcasts and on our webpage. The most basic of it is you are what you eat. CarlyleBe curious of the things you are eating and what is in this product. Next time you eat something that is a processed, ask yourself what ingredients are in it and where did it come from? Especially when you are dealing with an illness, just asking those basic questions and thinking about it the next time you order something. This is also true when you are going to make something yourself. The next time you are at a supermarket and pull an item off the shelf, ask yourself if it will help you with the illness or issue you are relating to. You might have to put the box back…I go to Trader Joe’s and there are plenty of things that speak to me when I am in the aisle. The dark chocolate peanut butter cups literally talk when you walk by saying, “Wait, come back and get some! You need me, I am really good!” They are so good that you want to eat the entire container. I know I have to be very sparing or I will eat them all the time. In chocolatier terms, there is an aspect of chocolate that is good for you. The sweets and other processed foods contain so much fat, salt, and sugar. This mirrors back to what we have been talking about, which is for these things to change. You need to be more engaging, question things, and be mindful. Maybe pass on having three sugars in your coffee. Start with little things that you can shift in order to maintain that wellness. There are of course the rare examples, like George Burns. He smoked cigars his entire life, and probably ate pretty rich food, and drank too. He was fine, but that is not the case for the majority of people. We have to find our own path. Dr. MillerGeorge Burns was a pretty functional guy up until the end, but we are here to talk about the value of a good diet in the context of trying to stop and reverse a serious disease and keeping people on a good diet. One final thing about what happens when you eat well and make good choices about your food. It is not necessarily about peanut butter and chocolate and other sweets, but the techniques that are used in the modern industrial agriculture that ends up leaving a lot of toxins in our foods. In one of the next podcasts, we are going to be talking about toxicity. A lot of the toxicity that gets into our body comes through our food, so you do yourself a great service by eating food that is clean. How do you figure that out? I am sure if we could talk to your dad, he would confirm this. He had a very specific reason why he changed his diet. He had a problem and was told he had two options. He could try to lose some weight, but they would just go ahead and do the surgery they say he needed. He did not want surgery, so this motivated him. He changed his diet, and he kept it up for the rest of his life. This is most likely because he liked the way he felt eating healthy.CarlyleDefinitely, and he was still able to eat well and enjoy some great meals. There is a thought out there that if you are eating healthy, you are going to be eating sand and cardboard – this if far from true. He also realized he needed to exercise more. He started enjoying walking places and going on hikes. He started to do these more and they were some of his great joys. Dr. MillerFeeling good starts to become a new addiction, if you will, when you go down this path. Putting eye disease aside for a moment, I have worked with more people than I can think of who changed their eating habits and saw improvement in other areas of their health. One thing we do with everyone we work with is look at what you are eating. What does your diet consist of and will it serve you well? I have people come back after some time and tell me they are not doing so well. I ask them when the last time they felt really well was, they would say it is when they were doing everything I told them to do and eating a healthy diet. They come back, and pay me to tell them to try eating the diet again or going back on the program again. Sometimes it is that simple. That is all we have for today. Eat well because you are what you eat. It can reverse and fend off serious diseases. Next time we come back, we will talk about toxicity. Thank you, thank you all.CarlyleThanks for joining us. Check out the website and links. We will see you soon!Dr. MillerYes, please “like us” and subscribe to the podcasts. It helps get the word out. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 52DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 4 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 52DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Supplements Are Necessary But Not Sufficient All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 51 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 3 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:08 — 18.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More We are continuing this series on macular degeneration, and specifically things that we can do around it. Today we are focusing on something you mentioned in the last session, which is really exploring supplements as one of the many things we can do. One of the first things that your ophthalmologist may suggest or do is hand you a little packet of vitamins as they are hustling you out the door. They offer a consolation prize, one piece in an array of things you can do to help reverse the situation of degenerative eye disease. 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 3 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve. 004_OMDPodcast_8Things_2-SupplementsCarlyleWelcome to the Organic MD podcast. My name is Carlyle Coash and I am here with Dr. Damon P. Miller II. Hello Dr. Miller.Dr. MillerHey Carlyle, it is good to be hear. CarlyleWe are continuing this series on macular degeneration, and specifically things that we can do around it. Today we are focusing on something you mentioned in the last session, which is really exploring supplements as one of the many things we can do. One of the first things that your ophthalmologist may suggest or do is hand you a little packet of vitamins as they are hustling you out the door. They offer a consolation prize, one piece in an array of things you can do to help reverse the situation of degenerative eye disease. Dr. MillerAt the beginning of each podcast, we will briefly repeat what we covered in our last sessions. To start, the whole focus of this is for you to realize if you, or someone you love or know has one of these retinal diseases: macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa, cone rod dystrophy, etc., that there are things you can do to regain vision lost to these diseases. We know this to be true and we are here to tell you what we know about it, so you can do this for yourself or your loved ones.This is not something your eye doctor is going to say, but it is something we help with all the time. The eye doctors tend to tell you, if they are compassionate and honest, they do not have anything to offer you. There is no drug or surgery. If they are operating more from a typical script, they might say there is nothing that can be done. If they do not have anything to offer you, there is nothing that can be done. There are things that can be done. More recently, one thing the eye doctors do offer after making the diagnosis, like Carlyle was saying, is recommend taking certain vitamins – a brand called, Ocuvite. This is done routinely now because of the ARED Studies. The Age Related Eye Disease Studies is trying to codify what has been seen in research since the 1940s and 50s. A huge body of hundreds and hundreds of peer reviewed papers, looked at what supplements, vitamins, other herbs, etc., that we could do to try and help people with these degenerative eye diseases. The ARED Studies have found, if this is the only intervention you do is take vitamins and supplements, will slow the progression of the disease. These are progressive diseases – they never get better over time, but they do get worse. There is no single vitamin, supplement, or combination of the two that has shown to stop the progression of or reverse the diseases. I stand by that statement. I will say it again, “Vitamins and supplements will slow the progression, but they will not stop the progression of the diseases. They will not reverse the diseases and they do not lead to the recovery of vision that is lasting.” You need to do more. We will be discussing this topic over the next sessions. Today is our second of the eight-part series, and we will be talking about the things you can do. We want to be clear that supplements are necessary, but they are not sufficient. One important thing to keep in mind as we are laying out the program, where you can expect regeneration of some of the most complex tissues in the body – the retinal tissues. We are going to help you regenerate these, but you need the raw materials. These building blocks, like taurine, DHA, omega-3 Fatty acid, and lutein, will help rebuild retinal cells.You will need things that are going to block some of the inflammation that can occur. There are supplements that will, in a mild way, restore normal blood flow, and protect the health and integrity of the blood vessels. We also have some very specialized supplements that can actually help with regeneration. Different forms of therapies, like Improcitine, will be discussed too. This is a complex subject that we are going to devote an entire podcast to. Episode six is when we will go over the tools and supplements that can safely support regeneration and backed by peer reviewed research. Again, supplements are necessary…they are not sufficient. We are going to talk about specifics of these later.Basically, we recommend the things I named earlier: taurine, lutein, and DHA. It is a broad spectrum of vitamins and minerals, which matches some of the things that were in the ARED Studies. There are some specialized supplements that improve some adult stem cells, which helps with regeneration of anything that breaks in your body. In the beginning, there may also be some probiotics to support gut health because everybody has a bit of an unhealthy gut. We would like to note that we do not like any of the one pill from one bottle, be it a multi-vitamin or mineral. We find the supplements the ophthalmologists give out do not work very well and we will have more specifics on particular recommendations, like brands. We do not manufacture anything, but we do have brands we like. The simple thing about supplements that people tend to think is, “This pill is going to help me.” Carlyle and I have talked about this type of mindset before. CarlyleIt is so powerful when you become invested in your own knowledge and curiosity. This could be applied to an array of things. Taking the time to learn what is in the supplement you are getting. Can you be more precise and really evaluate it? Dr. Miller, I appreciate that you have really taken the time to look at all of these different supplements and find the ones that are the most effective over the years. You need the self-knowledge of being aware. You can do your own research by taking the top level of information that you are given and do a little further exploration. It does not mean weeks and weeks taking an intense deep dive. I remember the talks you have done around healthy oils and many people think if you take fish oil, you will get everything you need from the it. This is true, but the source of that fish oil is important. You pointed out the things that are beneficial in fish oil is not because the fish naturally have it. The fish get the nutrients from the food they eat, like kelp, that have all these great nutrients in them. This is stored in the fat of their body and we get the benefits when we eat the fish. A farm raised fish is given, what you called, Purina Fish Chow, and does not give them any adequate nutrients. Yes, this is a fish and therefore, fish oil, but does it actually have the nutrients we need? We need to take the time to learn how we get these nutrients. Ask questions like, “Why is this version D3 better than that one?” or, “Why is it that one can work and the other one does not?”. Dr. Miller, you have done a majority of the work for people, but I also encourage people to always be curious, look at labels, and do a little research. What we have talked about today is not a cure. There is still an underlying issue because it is a degenerative disease that is connected to something deeper, in terms of genetics. You still need to do these things to help manage and treat the issue so that it does not manifest as strongly. It does not necessarily mean that you are going to be cured of it. I think it is important to know that it does not have this as an end result. Dr. MillerWhat you are saying there is true of most things that challenge our health – we are managing it, not trying to cure it. In the first podcast, I mentioned if you have one of these degenerative retinal diseases, like macular degeneration (the most common), Stargardt’s, RP (retinitis pigmentosa), than you have an underlying genetic problem that predisposed you to it. There are many people who have this abnormal gene and lived to be 90 to 100 years old and never have an eye problem. Your genes are not your destiny.If you do have a gene that predisposed you to it, you need to try to keep yourself healthy enough so that gene never gets a chance to express itself. In a sense, you are managing your health in your favor to fend off chronic disease and degenerations. This is true if we are talking about cancer, an infectious disease, an autoimmune disease, diabetes, a heart disease, etc. I think about Nature’s rules of order, you are what you eat. CarlyleThat is right. If you start eating Purina fish chow, it is probably not going to help you.Dr. MillerNo, it will not and that would be a podcast on its own. I think we have milked this one for all its worth. I want to just leave you with one thing, supplements are an important part of taking care of your eye health, but they are not sufficient. In our next sessions, we are going to be helping you learn about what you can do to reverse vision loss that has occurred because of degenerative eye diseases, like macular degeneration, Stargardt’s, and retinitis pigmentosa. Thank you. We will see you again in about a week.CarlyleHave a great day.Dr. MillerThanks. Bye-bye. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 51DOWNLOAD 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 3 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 51DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
You Need More Than What Your Eye Doctor is Offering All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 50 - 8 Things Your Doctor is Not Telling You About Your Eye Disease, Part 2 of 8. Hint: Your Vision Can Improve.Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:16 — 26.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreWelcome to the Organic MD podcast with Dr. Damon Miller. I am Carlyle Coash. We are continuing our discussion about health, wellness, and the things we can do to improve all of these in ourselves.We are going to be talking about what we can do to maintain your health. If there was ever a time to be attending to it, that time is now. Today we will begin talking about our Better Eye Health Program, which will be a total of eight podcasts. We work with people who have serious eye or retinal diseases, like macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, and retinitis pigmentosa. Our program has shown to be highly effective for helping people with these diseases. Continue reading
8 THINGS YOUR DOCTOR DOESNT TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE MACULAR DEGENERATION, STARGARDT OR RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 49Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:34 — 18.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreWe're here today for the first of an eight part series. Don't glaze over, stay with us here. The first of an eight part series soon to be a major book. But we wanted to kind of introduce it in pieces here just to get you going. And if you have or know someone close to to you that has been diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, things like macular degeneration, that's the most common stargardt disease, which is basically just the juvenile form of macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and then a few other odd ones, cone rod dystrophy and things like that. You know, those are diseases that are now the major causes of blindness in people over 65. And they're diseases that just by, I don't know, by the miracle of how life works, it turns out, we've found in our practice ways to work with those to deal with those and even to reverse the vision loss, that those kinds of diseases cause. And that's really what we're here to talk about. It's not something you're going to hear about from your board certified ophthalmologist. Even if they know about it, they're not going to tell you about it. But they are going to tell you that they don't have anything to offer you. So hopefully you found this podcast you found us because you're not going to accept that there's nothing you can do. You're out there looking And you found us. And so we're here today to begin to tell you about the things you need to know. So that you can heal your vision. 8 THINGS YOUR DOCTOR DOESNT TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE MACULAR DEGENERATION, STARGARDT OR RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA 049_OMDPodcast_8-Things_1_of_8CarlyleHello and welcome to the OrganicMD podcast. My name is Carlyle Coash and I am here with Dr. Damon P. Miller II. How are you doing Damon?Dr. MillerWell, it's an odd time in the world, but I'm doing pretty well. I'm really glad to be here. You sound strong. You sound good. I'm glad to hear that.CarlyleI'm doing what I can. Dr. MillerThank you. Okay, well we're here today for the first of an eight part series. Don't glaze over, stay with us here. The first of an eight part series soon to be a major book. But we wanted to kind of introduce it in pieces here just to get you going. And if you have or know someone close to to you that has been diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, things like macular degeneration, that's the most common stargardt disease, which is basically just the juvenile form of macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and then a few other odd ones, cone rod dystrophy and things like that. You know, those are diseases that are now the major causes of blindness in people over 65. And they're diseases that just by, I don't know, by the miracle of how life works, it turns out, we've found in our practice ways to work with those to deal with those and even to reverse the vision loss, that those kinds of diseases cause. And that's really what we're here to talk about. It's not something you're going to hear about from your board certified ophthalmologist. Even if they know about it, they're not going to tell you about it. But they are going to tell you that they don't have anything to offer you. So hopefully you found this podcast you found us because you're not going to accept that there's nothing you can do. You're out there looking And you found us. And so we're here today to begin to tell you about the things you need to know. So that you can heal your vision. So, Carlyle, what do you thinkCarlyleIt's essential that we remember that the body has this incredible ability to regenerate to heal itself. If we give it support to do that, and this is something that we're Yes, we're talking about degenerative eye disease, and these next few episodes. This can be applied to so many other things. So the same template, I think, plays out for a lot of different illnesses and issues. And so I think, even if you're like, well, I don't have I don't have this issue. You might actually know someone who does. So that's also important to remember. But even if that's not the case, listening to the kind of things that we're talking about here will inform how you could approach something else that you're doing and we've seen Over and over again. There's certainly plenty of films and research and things done about this where people are taking these What are considered maybe alternative or different approaches and finding results. And it's because it's connecting to some inherent wisdom that our body is able to, to heal and rebalance itself if we give it a chance.Dr. MillerThat's really what it's all about here at organic MD. And, you know, this, things like the degenerative eye diseases, they're sort of the perfect thing to use to talk about just what you were saying there. Carlyle, about how, you know, we were talking about dealing with a particular subset of challenges that people have in terms of eye disease, but the approach really has much broader application. This is the the kind of story I hear all the time. People come in they've been diagnosed with macular degeneration and like Carlyle said, you probably know somebody there, it's estimated there's probably 25 to 28 million people in the United States alone, who have macular degeneration. It is a genetically determined disease, meaning you probably have some gene that predisposes you to it, although the majority of the people with that gene and we're going to talk about genes much later in the series of podcasts, but the majority of people with that gene never have any problems at all. And, but if you do have a problem, you probably have an abnormal gene. And it you know, when it's when you're talking about, you know, one in eight people or something like that, in the United States having this problem, you know, in your workplace in your church, you know, go to the grocery store, I mean, there's, there's bound to be somebody there who's got it. So you do know people with this. But I mentioned the genetic part, because it it really helps you understand how a program like what we're going to be talking about can work. But usually what happens is people get diagnosed. And you know they have a $10,000 workup in the eye doctor's office that their insurance pays for. And after all that incredible workup, the doctor comes in, you're sitting there kind of quaking, wondering what they found, sits down next to you, the doctor puts their hand on your knee looks at you and says, I'm so sorry. These problems you're having with your vision. It's not that you need a new pair of glasses, you've got a degenerative disease that's destroying your retina, and it's called macular degeneration. That's the most common are retinitis pigmentosa or stargardt. Doesn't really matter. They're all very similar. And we really don't have anything to offer you. We don't have a drug. We don't have a surgery. We've got some procedures we'll talk about in a bit that might be needed. But, you know, we really, we don't have anything to to help you and, and then the doctor gets up and walks out of the room. And you're just they're going Whoa, what am I supposed to do? And Well, the first thing you do is you get pretty depressed. But you know, we'll be dealing with that too. But the, the point is, is that you, you know, just one, I guess I'll just keep it simple. Just consider this. I've said that virtually 100% of people who get macular degeneration, well, we're going to talk about macular degeneration, not name all the other diseases because these diseases all respond very well to the kinds of interventions we're going to talk about. And macular degeneration is the most common and stargardt the juvenile form of it, so we'll, we'll stick with those but realize I don't care which particular diagnosis name, your eye condition was given if it's a degenerative retinal disease, or retinopathy or a maculopathy, that you know, all these fancy words, but we're talking about you. If you have one of those, and you understand that there's a gene that predispose you to it, and macular degeneration, the most common form of that you don't even have problems Until you're in your fifth or sixth or seventh or eighth decade. In other words, you're, you're pretty old by the time you even realize you have an eye problem. And you've probably been pretty healthy. This is not part of a syndrome, not a lot of other problems associated with it. So, you know, if you ask yourself the obvious question, Well, hey, I've had this abnormal gene from birth. How did I get to be 70 years old, I don't have any troubles in my eye. Well, that happens because your body has been working on your behalf, healing, whatever damage and degeneration was occurring. For all those 70 years, something has happened that's robbed you of a little bit of health. And now your body can't keep up with the forces of degeneration. And so you start to notice problems. But if you understand that we're not trying to repair the most complex tissue in the entire body, we're simply trying to make your eyes in this program, you know, five years healthier, you know, give you the eyes you had when you were 65 when everything was fine and it You know, that's that's doable, making your eyes a little bit healthier. Suddenly, everything that's kept your eyes healthy for all those decades kicks in again, actually repairs things you regain vision. And I'm not going to tell you that it's easy, it takes some diligence and work but it's doable. We've seen it over and over again 10s of thousands of people, and not just me, but the other people who do this kind of work. So you just need to realize that that kind of medical hexing that doctors are so famous for, you know, just gloom and doom and nothing you can do and sorry, you know, just get prepared to go blind.Dr. MillerThat is probably malpractice. Certainly uncalled for. And it's wrong. There are things you can do. These diseases can reverse themselves, you can regain vision with a bit of work. Eye cells, brain cells, spinal cord cells, they can regenerate. The body is just, it's an amazing healing machine. CarlyleI was just gonna say one of the things that you You've talked about that is been a change is that you do see ophthalmologists before they leave the room say, Well, there are, you know, here's this packet of supplements or vitamins like we're trying to maybe work, but still there's not a lot of guidance around it. And then I think there's this piece around the, you know, diagnosis and prognosis. So sure, yes, diagnosis gives you information about something. And I think where you have this sort of medical hexing, if you will, is in this prognosis of, there's nothing that can be done. But the thing that's interesting to me is that I think the folks I know who are really good physicians or good medical practitioners or health practitioners are able to say, Okay, here's the limit of what I'm able to do as this discipline. So, since my discipline is surgeries and etc, etc. Well, the situation you're dealing with, I can't help, there's nothing that I do that will be of benefit. So that and then being able to say, So, okay, here's my limitation. However, here are other things that do have shown to potentially be effective. Let me get you to those practitioners, or to those things like that, to me is awakened medicine, if you will, or balanced medicine, where that practitioner can actually just be humble enough to say, yeah, here is my limit. Doesn't mean that that's it totally. Do you know what I mean? Like, there's this whole thing that that at least we see some people have gotten success from. And here, let me let's, let's see what what that's about. But what tends to happen is well, my expertise says there's nothing else to do. So we're done. And you're done. You're done. Like you just have to Give up now. Yeah, that that that's that piece that is, you know, is the limit that's, that's unhelpful and lazy, I think a little bit because you're, you're, you're just voiding the whole conversation you're voiding out the conversation, and what can go forward.Dr. MillerWhat I see, most often if we're going to see anything that's positive is rarely do the ophthalmologists actually point you in the direction of something even if they know about it, but the one thing they can at least do and I and I hear, you know, this this does happen is they would say, you know, there may be things out there, go look around, see what you can find. If you find something that works, come back and tell me about it. So they don't, they at least don't discourage you. You know, they encourage because that's really what this about what we do what we'd like to see all doctors do is encourage not discourage. And I'm here to encourage you, there are definitely things you can do. We're going to be talking about him in the coming podcasts and the supplements are a good, a good point that's going to be a later podcast that we do is talking about, you know, the half century of research about supplements for treating degenerative eye disease. And kind of what what the state of that work is and how it plays a role in what you want to be doing for your eye disease. Because it is a piece, it's necessary, but it's not sufficient. You need supplements, but supplements alone won't do enough and we're going to talk more about that in a later podcast. So I don't know. Do you think you think we got the point across Carlyle?CarlyleI think so. Okay, okay. We're sharp people, we don't, belabor the point.Dr. MillerWell, and they found us somehow because they are out there looking. So we have good information for you. Check back. We're gonna probably put these up in about one every week for the next eight weeks. Okay, wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then also, just also at this time, check out the other podcasts. We've got things there about the Coronavirus. The other thing that's going on right now as we record this, okay, thank you all. We'll see you in a week. Bye Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 49DOWNLOAD 8 THINGS YOUR DOCTOR DOESNT TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE MACULAR DEGENERATION, STARGARDT OR RETINITIS PIGMENTOSABETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 49DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
Healing From the Toxic Wildfire Smoke All Podcast Better Eye Health Better Eye Health Podcast By Damon Miller Share BEH PODCAST EPISODE 48 -- Featuring Dr. Damon Miller with Christine RoschePodcast: Download (Duration: 25:49 — 35.4MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More Welcome to the OrganicMD podcast. We're here today. I'm still in the midst of the wildfires in California, and it's become such an issue that Christine Rosche and Dr. Miller decided to get together and devote an entire podcast to dealing with the smoke, with the focus on the kinds of things you can do to protect yourself from the very toxic smoke from these wildfires. The smoke is now blanketing the entire earth! You know, when you're out, if you're, if you're following the air quality index, you know, if the air quality index is 200 parts per million of the small particles, being out in that air for any length of time, it's like smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day or more. So it's, it's pretty serious stuff, but there are things you can do.As always you will find the link to the Podcast, as well as the full transcript. You can also download a PDF of the transcript down at the bottom the page. Enjoy! BEH PODCAST EPISODE 48 - HEALING FROM THE TOXIC WILDFIRE SMOKE Dr. Miller: (00:00)Hi, this is Dr. Damon Miller. Welcome to the OrganicMD podcast. We're here today. I'm still in the midst of the wildfires in California, and, it's become such an issue that we decided to devote an entire podcast to dealing with the toxic smoke, the kinds of things you can do to protect yourself from the very toxic smoke from these wildfires. The smoke is now blanketing the entire earth! You know, when you're out, if you're, if you're following the air quality index, you know, if the air quality index is 200 parts per million of the small particles, being out in that air for any length of time, it's like smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day or more. So it's, it's pretty serious stuff, but there are things you can do. Dr. Miller: (00:51)And we're going to talk about that. I'm going to be doing this today, with Christine Rosche. so Christine Rosche is a master of public health and a certified nutritional specialist. And she's, worked for years and years as a specialist with the microbiome and digestive health, is an expert that's developed an integrative approach to health and stress management, and has had over 25 years in this field, including a lot of years recently here in the San Francisco Bay area, working at Stanford. She's written a couple of books, and it's just a really good on this. Now you ask how is a bowel specialist useful here, you want to understand that in most of the major medical systems in the world, besides Western medicine, you know, Vedic medicine, Oriental medicine, and even a lot of the indigenous medicines, there's a clear understanding that the lungs and the gut are linked. The health of one depends on the health of the other. I like the poetry of it in Oriental medicine. The lungs are responsible for bringing in pure energy from heaven and the bowels are responsible for getting rid of everything you don't want. So anyhow, let's, let's just say hi to Christine. Hi Christine. Christine: (02:05)Thank you so much, Damon, and, I'm delighted to be here with you. I also want to introduce Dr. Damon Miller, who is a functional medicine physician in private practice, practicing in Redwood City. And, he's been doing this for many years, since 1985 and detox is an integral part of his practice and helping you with the root cause of your health issues. Dr. Miller: (02:34)Well, thank you. Thank you. So Christine, start us off here. You've been doing a lot of research in preparation for this talk. So, I know we're going to be talking about a number of things, just basically how to protect yourself from the smoke, how to detoxify from the smoke. some things that can be done, in terms of herbs and supplements and, you know, and different kinds of essences and, and how to work with the bow, which we have said is a critical part, keeping your bow functional, healthy, moving, is an important part of all this. So go, go ahead and take, take, take off with this here. Christine: (03:10)Thank you with aim on one of the key pieces of research that came out recently is that people that had a healthy microbiome back at bacteria that was balanced and was effective at removing the toxins actually were less susceptible to flus colds, and also to infections such as the SARS COVID virus. So they show that giving people in these experiments, you know, specific types of viruses that people that have the right colonic microbiome balance, which meant no, not very much overgrowth of bad bacteria, very strong, healthy microbes that really helped them absorb that just their food and boost their immunity actually have much better outcome. They actually had a 75% reduction in flu cases with people in the lungs themselves with lung issues that had a healthy gut. So that's why I'm focusing, in this podcast on helping you to, with the organs of elimination that got colon is one of the most important ones, just like the, also the lymphatics, the kidneys. Dr. Miller: (04:17)Yeah. Well thank you. Yeah. And if you poke around, you know, we did a previous podcast about COVID and bowel health. So that's, there's much more information on that. Yeah. Christine: (04:25)Yes. And, and you know, exactly. And so if you, one of the things that's very important for you to know is I'm offering as part of this. so we're going to have, of course, specific things posted here with detailed information for you. And I am also offering a personalized cleanse of your, of your digestive system that will be individualized for you as well as a test. If you would like to take a test, I'll help you find the right test for you that helps you assess your microbiome. And to do that, and get that information, please go to www dot digestivehealth dot center, or call me at (650) 856-3151. Well, one of the most important things is the air. You breathe the inside air because it's very important for you, you know, to stay inside during the high levels of smoke pollution as Damon was indicating. And so, so you need to know that your heating and air conditioning can really help you with that. If you have, you know, a forest or forest, the air system, but type of system, you have, you can do a great job at filtering the air by making sure that you get a mers filter that's at the 300 or higher level, the medical grade in your furnace system, that can make a really big difference. Dr. Miller: (05:54)Yeah. And you can, you can find those at your local hardware store, home Depot, you don't have to, you know, go searching all over the world for those. That's a common thing. You just need to make sure you got that in your filter. Christine: (06:03)Yes. Very, very critical. And also the other is, you know, when you are outside, if you must go outside, I've done a lot of different research for which masks are best for you, which will be included as part of this podcast. You can see the handout with what we provide you with. just very specifically, I want to say that the best mask is the one that provides you with a filter to breathe for, and also virus protection and smoke protection. So that's the key. Dr. Miller: (06:34)Yeah. And just, we are gonna, we don't want to flood you with too much detail on this audio podcast, but if you go to the podcast page or you go to Christine's website, you'll find, easy links where you can download all this information and much more than we're actually speaking, you know, some of the detailed stuff she did research on with the, the masks and the indoor air filters and, you know, so that's, that's going to be there for you to download and read. So just, you know, we'll try and keep this smooth and easy and short here, just for your listening pleasure. So, so Christina, what about, we had talked to about the Molekule filter, the, the it's it's a bit pricey, but boy, is it a great indoor air filter? Christine: (07:20)Yes, that's really very important. because most of us are working from home. Now we spend so much time indoors as it is. And research shows the indoor air is actually sometimes even more polluted without even without the smoke than the outdoor air. So the Molekule is the one that I have used for myself. Most of the physicians use it, that I worked with. many patients, I highly recommend it. We'll have a link to that for a special offer for you. When you go to the supportive documentation, there'll be a link together. Yes. The other is, you know, hydrate, hydrate, then most important thing is in order for the lymphatics, you know, in all the organs, kidneys, bladder, you know, the colon to eliminate drink lots of hot liquids, chicken soup, or herbal teas stimulate the filaments, the cilia filaments, they cover yourself. So these cilia will help remove mucus and foreign bodies from yourself and so hot liquids, get them moving more quickly to flush it, toss it away. Dr. Miller: (08:26)And again, when we're talking about all this smoke and the lungs, you know, assuming you haven't, you know, been smoking cigarettes for the last 20 years where you've killed all the cilia in your lung, but if you've got reasonably healthy lungs, you know, our bodies have a way to get rid of all this garbage that falls into them when the air is so full of toxic smoke. And it's those little cilia, they're remarkable things, they sort of move and they, they lift and pull all that stuff out of your lungs and dump it, your throat where you can swallow it. So, again, you know, the best thing for most problems is to really support the natural systems that are already there. So, you know, drinking fluid, keeping your lungs and the lining of your lungs, moisture is one of the kindest things you can do. And do you want to say something about, N-acetylcysteine? Christine: (09:16)Exactly that is so critical that research has shown that at least 1800 milligrams a day during the smoke exposure will help your lungs to create the right type of fluid or liquids to help expel some of these irritants. So N-acetylcysteine is a critical part of the protocol take 600 milligrams, three times a day or 900 milligrams twice a day. Minimum. Some of you that have more compromised lungs, you can take a little bit more than that. If you need to. The other, is quercetin very important to take as much quercetin you know, 350 milligrams, a couple of times a day will really help to reduce the inflammation in your air passageways. Dr. Miller: (10:02)Yeah. And just, I just, for the NAC, the N-acetylcysteine, you know, most vitamin companies that sell it, just refer to it as NAC Thorne makes a very good one. that, that originally kind of came to be understood as something valuable for the lungs in work with, the, people with cystic fibrosis. You know, fortunately, most of you don't know anybody with cystic fibrosis, it's a genetic disease where you don't make the right kind of mucus and it becomes really sticky and clogs up your lungs and your gut and you die if you don't do something about it. Well, the modern treatment for cystic fibrosis is a whole lot of NSF teal system for these kids every day. And so, you know, there's been, you know, this is one of those things that doctors just don't go after natural treatments, but this stuff has been published over and over again, in all kinds of peer review journals, the new England journal had new England medical journal had a great review article over 20 years ago about how this was useful for all kinds of things like emphysema and asthma. Dr. Miller: (11:05)And, and basically all it does is that, you know, when your lungs are irritated, they make mucus to try and, protect themselves. And also to just in response to the irritation. And so that's the, that's the phlegm you cough up when there's all this stuff in the air. But if that, if you're not hydrated or if that's gets sticky, it's hard to get it out. And so just something as simple as an asset deal, Sistine works miracles to keep that phlegm that your lung is producing soft and loose so that you can move it out of your lungs with all the garbage that it carries with it. And it's just a, if you did that one thing alone, you would, you would find amazing benefits. So, and it's cheap. Yeah. Christine: (11:46)Thank you. also rinsing your nasal passages, you know, exposure to smoke makes you a nasal passages, irritated, dried out, use a neti pot, or use some of the nasal rinses. And you can also make a steam pot with dry time leaves. If you refer to that, through that, that has very good antimicrobial antiviral factors. And I also recommend, you know, peppermint tea is fantastic and, and you can make a ginger tea cause ginger is one of the best herbs for long purification add lemon to it, which eliminates toxins from the respiratory tract. You can also add a little bit of tumeric for the inflammation. So a great tea is either peppermint in nature. Tea will support the inflammation, ginger root and ginger lemon tea with tumeric and raw. Honey is one of the best things you can do for that. For the, Dr. Miller: (12:41)If you have a Trader Joe's near you, they make a really beautiful and very inexpensive ginger and turmeric tea. and I just, you know, in addition to the teas, I just want to say that they're some of the things that you take in with this smoke do actually become systemic. In other words, they, they are toxins that don't stick in your lungs, they get into the rest of the body. And it's a little much to talk about everything that you can do to detoxify your body because of this toxic exposure. But one of the things that a course that we've offered an online course that we've offered for many years now, and that we're going to be doing again in the middle of October. And you can find a link to that on our, on the podcast page or on the webpage at organicmd.com. And that is just a course on detoxifying your lungs, sorry, Detoxifying Your Body And Detoxifying Your Home. Dr. Miller: (13:38)You know, toxicity is just a fact of life in the 21st century. It's not the cause of all disease, but it isn't, it is an obstacle that if you don't deal with it, it will become a major obstacle in the way of your healing yourself. So there are things you can do on your own, in your own home that can detoxify your body and detoxify your home. And it's a very worthwhile course. I strongly recommend it, because we'll be dealing not only with the lungs, but detoxifying, everything else, heavy metals and all the other crap that fills us up and poisons us. Christine: (14:12)Great. Thank you, Damon. the other is, you know, if you have burning eyes, you can make a poultice from chamomile. Many of my clients reported quite a bit of eye irritation is last week. So, you know, having that, I poultice this with chamomile and also sometimes with lavender or other things you want to add to that a really effective. Dr. Miller: (14:36)And the easiest way to make a chamomile tea poultice is get some chamomile tea bags, make a cup of tea, drink the tea, take the tea bag, ring it out and put it over your eyes. Christine: (14:46)And that also recommend, of course, good bowel motility is the number one. Like you want your lymphatics to move. You know, you want to drink enough water to help your colon. And the main organ of elimination is to work on bowel motility. And this would have to do with looking at what you're eating and what is making it easier for you for good bowel motility is actually consuming some vegetable juices. You can try celery juice, cucumber juice, Spanish, black radish, and daikon, a wonderful remedy for diphoresis, which means opening up those organs is radishes and lemon with olive oil. It's really great for promoting diaphoresis.Dr. Miller: (15:31)Yeah. And, and radishes, you know, we're in the fall now, at least out here, radishes are not exactly in season, but, turnips and radishes are pretty much genetically identical. So you don't think about that, but, you know, if you can't find radishes use turnips and, and the, the other thing just with the, bowel motility, I just want to say, you know, the, there's an epidemic of magnesium deficiency in this country. we just don't get, I mean, magnesium is hardly even a vitamin. It's actually a macro nutrient. You need a lot of it. And if you're just taking a multivitamin, you're not getting anywhere near enough. So if you've got constipation or any kind of a neurological condition, whether you've got a heart arrhythmia, or you're having leg cramps at night, or you've got, you know, some, some sort of a nervous problem, including that your gut isn't working well enough to get past the stool out. Dr. Miller: (16:27)Just taking magnesium every day is a very useful thing. We recommend magnesium malate as the form of magnesium because the malic acid. So it's a assault between magnesium and malic acid. Malic acid is actually quite soothing to the gut. So it's sort of a two for one thing for your gut using magnesium malate and just up the dose until you get diarrhea. The only thing that happens if you take too much, magnesium is you get diarrhea. So if you're constipated, you probably don't really need to worry about that. Just take enough so that your bowel start moving once or twice a day. Christine: (16:59)Great. And then also, you know, if you have an infrared sauna, that's a really good way to remove the toxins. And, and with that, making some vegetable healing, broths and soups can make a big difference. And vitamin C has also been shown to be very effective in helping detox from the smoke. So generally speaking, what's recommended is the product vitality C, which I know Damon and I use from American nutraceuticals. And you take, you know, as a maintenance, there was a lot of people on with smoke, take at least a thousand milligrams every couple of hours during this stressful time. Dr. Miller: (17:38)Yeah. I mean, doctors tend to not understand vitamin C. I just want to remind people that Linus Pauling, you know, the physician one, two Nobel prizes on his own unheard of in science, usually have to share it with somebody because the work has done together. Two Nobel prizes, both for the work. He did the very amazing work on vitamin C. And since he won those prizes, did all that work. Other doctors have come along, published books, published articles, all in peer reviewed stuff. vitamin C is just a very useful thing. The vitality see that Christine just mentioned the thing that's nice about that is it's a sodium ascorbate. So it's a sodium salt of vitamin C, not a calcium salt, which is much better tolerated by the gut. And then you combine with that, it's a bound to a five carbon sugar ribose, which doesn't affect cancers or blood sugar or anything like that. Dr. Miller: (18:33)But it does allow the vitamin C to be sucked out of the gut almost immediately. It starts getting absorbed even in your stomach stomach. And the, the reason for that is that you can start taking pretty large doses and it doesn't upset your gut. So if you start trying to take, you know, anything more than four or five, six milligrams a day of calciascorbate, you're going to have the runs. You're going to have an upset stomach. People take, you know, depending on what kind of medical condition they have, they take 20, 30, 40 grams of vitamin a vitamin C in the form of vitality C every day. And, it just goes into their body to help them. It doesn't make their, doesn't give them diarrhea. So yeah, vitamin C is a great one. Christine: (19:16)Also, you know, many of us, of course, having to be inside for the whole last week in the Bay area, found that rebounding on a rebounder. If you have a rebounder, if you don't, you can do the same thing just by pumping and moving your feet as slightly, you know, up and down and for about five minutes or so a day, or because that's what gets the limp activated. So one of the things that's so important is movement to remember if your camp, if you have to be inside through some type of movement to get your lymph flowing and rebounding is, is only one of one of the movements. Dr. Miller: (19:51)Yeah, no rebounding is great. Any of these things, little things that you can do indoors, we're assuming that you're doing something to be purifying your indoor air, that your indoor air is cleaner than what's outside. and that can be just as simple as, you know, shutting all the windows and, you know, letting, letting whatever garbage is in the air, settle out, or gets sucked up by your furnace filter. but yeah, so there's, there's a lot more that we can talk about. We're going to be having this course on detoxifying, your body in your home, the things that Christine's doing with the bowel health, the gut health. And, do you want to just say a little more about the, the kind of guided bowel detox that you're gonna be? Christine: (20:35)Yes. it's very important to look at, you know, basically you're a history I'm going to be doing a detailed intake to see what your digestive history is. You know, what you've been doing the last few years, what your diet is because part of the bowel detox is we want to make sure that you'd be toxified the right level. So I'm going to be putting together a customized nutrition plan. And what I use for that also is different types of juices and herbal teas between the meals. And sometimes it's, you know, it's a couple of days of certain types of meal replacements that you drink that open up your phase one and phase two detox systems. It actually helps your liver to pack up the toxins and then open them up. So you'll, you'll be doing many different types of vegetables, juicing, herbal teas, also other kinds of bath things in the bath. In addition, we will assess very carefully how to customize the detox for you. I'm also going to look at the microbial balance of your gut. how many of the good microbes do you have and how many bad and what's missing to help you absorb, digest your food and remove toxins. Dr. Miller: (21:49)Yeah. And, you know, that's that kind of, this is the wisdom of the grandmothers that we're dealing with here. I mean, you know, back in the twenties way, back in the 20th century, I mean, it was understood by people who were really interested in, how do you make a person healthy that health begins in the gut. you know, that an unhealthy gut is behind a lot of illness and, you know, come into the 21st century. And some of the tools that Christine uses, you know, you can really analyze this in a much more detailed way, come up with plans for correcting things when they're off. and it, it makes a huge difference. It really makes a huge difference. Christine: (22:32)They, you know, I have, I had so many clients this week or reported that they found the root cause of the digestive issue by doing the gut test, which is found at www dot digestivehealth dot center. We have all many different levels of gut tests and they are within just two months, they are finding relief from things they've been working on for the last 10 years, you know, with no results in the standard way of treating those things. Dr. Miller: (23:03)Right. Right. You don't need more proof than that. So, Christine, what's your phone number? Christine: (23:07)(650) 856-3151 Dr. Miller: (23:13)Thank you. Yeah. And you can reach me at (888) 838-3937 (888) 838-3937. Or you can find [email protected] and again, go to the podcast page, the podcast, you can find it on your favorite podcast service, just search for OrganicMD. And you'll find the podcast page where you will find this posted within about 24 hours. And, on that page, you'll be able to download, you'll find links to download the papers that we're offering. That, have the information that we've been talking about here with a lot more information as well. So I think we've probably overwhelmed people with more than they wanted to know, but, you know, do you have anything else to add here at the end? You want to mention a followup to this? There was something we're gonna do another one to this podcast. Yeah. We're gonna come back. sort of as an introduction to the detoxification course, which is a four week course, it combines a one, a one hour video each week, and then a one hour conference call with Christina, with me, and talking more, talking about detox in a broader, much broader way, detoxifying your body, detoxifying your home, not just focusing on the lungs. Dr. Miller: (24:37)And so we'll be doing another one following up on this new things we find out about the lungs, but also just sort of introducing the broader course. So you can make a decision whether you want to do that or not. And the link to sign up for that course, we'll also be on the podcast page. Great. Okay. 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