Hi guys, an amazing highly evolved spiritual teacher has shared with me an incredible ancient chinese remedy for ALL eye problems. After taking these for the first day my kidneys got really hot and I began to sweat out of them. Two wet spots on my lower back began to form where these organs are located. It is said these “tonify and purify” the kidneys and liver. It has been known for years that the kidneys and liver link to eyesight in TCM(traditional chinese medicine). It’s unbelievable how clear my eyesight has become!!!! Try them for yourself and find out!!!!!

Here is what others have to say about these Goji Berries (aka “wolf berries”, lyci berries to name a few other names…)

They are known as Goji Berries.

Take a look at what others have to say about this mysterious ancient eyesight remedy:

I’ve had eye floaters for a number of years. They started out as spots that would float across my eyes. They progressed to a spider web type floater which impaired my vision. I talked with a lot of people my age who have them, too. My doctor said there was nothing short of surgery that could be done. She said most doctors, including herself, perform such surgery only in rare instances. She said that often times the brain would adjust and that even though I still had them I wouldn’t be so aware of them.

I’m happy to say that since I’ve started drinking goji, my eyes have gotten better to where now I rarely have any floaters at all! And my night vision is better too!

Bob W., California

I have been drinking goji for the last five months. There are some things that happen in my life that I sometimes don’t believe. I had one eye that could not see very clear and after drinking goji I have seen changes. I can now see things at a distance where I could not before. Just having sight in both eyes has made me feel whole again. Thank you for giving me my vision back. I feel so blessed to have Goji in my life.

Bill T., New Zealand

Never, in all the years I have gone for eye appointments, has my vision ever improved, until my appointment yesterday, Friday, March 4th.

My optometrist stated that not just one, but both eyes, have improved a full 1/2 a point each.  She was surprised, but I wasn’t!  The information on why we should drink Goji and documented scientific research says one of the many benefits is that it “supports eye health and improves your vision.”

My appointment confirms that research and statement to be absolutely true. I am looking forward to increased good vision and more changes to help me with my high risk of retinal tears and holes resulting in detachments.

This is only one of many improvements goji has made to my health. I love my Goji and will not be without it.

Karen L., Surrey BC Canada

I’ve been taking goji for 2 months. Some things that happen are very subtle and some dramatic. My eyesight has improved tremendously. I’m able to read small print on the television in my room. I always needed my glasses to do that. I can’t even look through my glasses anymore.  I thought there was something wrong with the glasses, but it’s my eyesight that has gotten better!

Linda, Florida

I wore glasses for distance vision since I was 11 years old; as of this date, I am 64. During the years, as I aged, my eyes got worse and at one point the doctor told me that I was considered legally blind without glasses; my vision was 220/20 in one eye and 230/20 in the other. At age 17, when I acquired my first driver’s license, it was  marked on my license that I was required to wear corrective lenses.

After I started drinking Goji Juice, I noticed that I could no longer see with my glasses and thought that my eyes had gotten worse. When I went in for new glasses, the doctor told me that my prescription was “too strong” for me and made me a new pair of glasses with weaker lenses; my vision then tested out to be 150/20. A short time later this happened again. I then noticed that I could no longer see with that second pair of new glasses and stopped wearing them completely. I could see ok …didn’t even bother to go back to the doctor this time.

But the real test came when I moved to Colorado and had to get a CO driver’s license. I had it in my mind that I would go back to the eye doctor if I didn’t pass the eye test. Guess what? I passed the eye exam with flying colors and, after all these years, that “Corrective Lenses Required” is not printed on my license!

Vivian from Colorado

Enjoy your clear vision – we love you!!! Read more here: Miracle Goji Stories.

P.S. We have found this organic (highest nutrient dense quality) retailer the best and cheapest(you can grow your own using the dried fruit as it contains the seed!!! They are very easy to grow yourself, but take time to start producing fruit. Put three of the dried berries in a small pot of damp compost. Seedlings will grow within 3 weeks. Once they are 10cm tall transfer them to a bigger pot. The plants can’t quite make up their mind if they are a bush or a vine. They will climb to some extent. They grow to about ten feet in 3 / 4 years. They like practically any soil, shade or sunshine. A high phosphate fertilizer will help; use it in spring. You’ll need to protect them from slugs – they love the leaves. (Rabbits like them too unfortunately) The plants flower from June, producing attractive pale blue-lilac blossoms. Berries grow from the fourth year and you’ll need to protect them from birds who also love them. We have ours where we grow roses and hawthorn bushes.).

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Love,

E.I.N. Staff.

(Note: Some of the suggestions are way too far out there, but the majority of them are great such as the amla + water in the morning and ginger lemon onion eye drops.)

amla – indian gooseberry.
mishri – sugar crystals.

This week we are very excited to have a very informative guest article written by Martin Sussman, a pioneer in the natural vision therapy field to say the least. Enjoy!

The visual system — the eyes, muscles, nerves and vision centers of the brain — is one of the most complex and highly demanding systems of the body.
More than 25% of the nutrition your body absorbs goes to feed the visual system. The visual system consumes one third of all the oxygen that you take in. Metabolism in the eyes is faster than anywhere else in the body. The concentration of vitamin C and other important nutrients is higher in the healthy eye than almost anywhere else in the body.
It’s not surprising, then, that proper nutrition plays an extremely important role in preventing and treating all of the common eye problems — myopia, presbyopia, cataract, macular degeneration and glaucoma. Nutrition’s exact role is becoming more and more clear. Some facts are already well documented and pioneering doctors are uncovering other directions that are very promising.

Before we can discuss each eye problem in greater detail, it’s important to keep in mind some general nutritional information:

1. Proper balance is important. The body does not use each vitamin and mineral in isolation. The absence of one may affect the body’s ability to use another. For example, proper amounts of magnesium and vitamin D are needed in order to absorb calcium efficiently and completely. And, without adequate levels of zinc, the body cannot utilize all the vitamin A it receives.

2. The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) suggested for most vitamins and minerals are most often only the minimum levels needed to prevent deficiencies. However, visual health – and total body health – most probably requires supplement levels that are significantly higher than the RDA. Cataract prevention, for example, may require the intake of vitamin C at a level 15 times greater than the RDA.

3. In today’s society, it is probably not realistic to expect to get all of our nutrients from food alone. No matter how wholesome and pure our diet might be, there are other factors that affect the nutrient content of the food we eat. How food is grown, how it is stored and how it is cooked all affect its nutrient value. Besides, the amount of nutrients a particular food is supposed to contain is measured under ideal laboratory conditions, which probably don’t reflect the food you are actually eating. Most of us have long known that carrots and vitamin A are supposed to be good for the eyes. Even so, 68% of the population is deficient in vitamin A. Over the last 50 years, the carrot has lost 75% of its magnesium content, 48% of its calcium, 46% of its iron and 75% of its copper. Modern farming methods have depleted the soil of trace minerals vital to our health, such as selenium, manganese and vanadium. Even calcium and vitamin C are found in lower levels in fruits and vegetables now than they were 50 years ago.

4. On the other hand, “popping” vitamin pills is no substitute for a wholesome diet. The body loses a significant amount of nutrients depending on the kind of food we consume. For example, we lose the trace mineral chromium as our body tries to absorb white sugar. And caffeine, refined flour, medication and preservatives also leach trace minerals and vitamins from our system. Also, there may be as yet undiscovered vitamins and minerals in food that someday will prove to be very important to our health.

5. Age, activity level and stress affect what your body needs and how well your body can absorb and use what nutrients it does get.
Keeping these general ideas in mind, let’s look at the role that nutrition may play in myopia. In the next issue we’ll look at other eye conditions.
Myopia
Myopia (nearsightedness) is a condition that affects nearly 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Yet, only 3 out of every 100 myopic people are born that way; for everyone else, myopia is acquired at some point during their life span.

Myopia is the result of a degeneration of some part of the visual system. It’s so common to see someone wearing glasses that we forget that it is not natural. Myopic people are also more prone to develop more serious eye conditions, such as retinal detachment, glaucoma and cataracts.

The search for nutritional answers to myopia has focused on two different parts of the visual system: the shape of the eye and the functioning of the lens.

Let’s look at each of these separately:

One possible explanation for myopia is that it occurs when the eye elongates, stretching from front to back. Distortions as small as 4/100 of an inch are enough to produce extreme degrees of myopia. Exactly what causes this stretching is not clear, though it seems to be due to either increased intraocular pressure or excessive tension in the extra-ocular muscles.

Dr. Gary Price Todd, a North Carolina ophthalmologist, has been using nutritional and metabolic healing for different eye problems for more than 20 years. He is trained to do all the standard surgeries for the eyes, but he prefers to promote the natural healing of the eyes whenever possible.

Dr. Todd believes that most myopia develops in children during growth spurts. If the child is not receiving proper nutrition, the body literally takes minerals from the eye to use in the growth of the body. The resulting mineral depletion in the eye weakens its structure, making it susceptible to the forces and stresses involved in prolonged near work, including reading, studying, watching TV or using a computer — all of which are common activities for most of today’s children.

Dr. Todd has success in arresting the progression of myopia in children that he treats; in some cases, the degree of myopia has decreased. Dr. Todd achieves these results just by recommending that children under his care supplement their diet with a total vitamin and mineral formula which is particularly rich in the minerals selenium, chromium and zinc. The formula that Dr. Todd originally developed for eye and body health is EYEMAX-plus.

Dr. Ben Lane, New Jersey optometrist and another pioneer in the role of nutrition in myopia and other eye diseases, concurs in the importance of these trace minerals in maintaining the strength of the eye. Dr. Lane has found that chromium levels in myopic children are 1/3 that of children with normal vision. (It is interesting to note that chromium is depleted in the body by white sugar, eaten all too frequently by many children today.)

Calcium levels are also lower in nearsighted children. Dr. Lane found that children increasing in the degree of myopia have diets extremely deficient in calcium. Dr. Lane thinks that in the face of this dietary deficiency, the body takes calcium from the eye to help support bone growth. This calcium lack then makes the eye susceptible to the forces playing on it during prolonged periods of near work and visual stress. Dr. Lane has also found that these children also eat too much meat protein (a poor source of calcium) and too little calcium-rich milk products and stalky vegetables. Caffeine (found in soda as well as in coffee) is known to leach calcium from the body.

Dr. Lane has also found that Vitamin C is important. He has noted that low levels of dietary intake of Vitamin C are associated with increases in pressure in the eye. This increasing pressure also is associated with the visual fatigue that can result from extended periods of near work. The focusing mechanism needs adequate levels of vitamin C and chromium for efficient functioning. Adequate levels of Vitamin C are also needed to ensure the strength and structural integrity of the eyes.

Vitamin C is leached from the body by artificial flavors and ingredients and aspirin. It is generally recommended that an adult take between 500 and 1000 mg. a day, increasing the quantity during periods of high stress (including visual stress and extended periods of near range work).

Another vitamin that Dr. Lane thinks is of critical importance is folic acid, which helps the eyes to maintain near focus for longer periods of time as well as increase the eyes’ ability to absorb nutrition from the body. He thinks that folic acid should come from food sources rather than from vitamins.

Drs. Todd and Lane have focused their studies on the nutritional factors involved in maintaining the structural integrity of the eye. Another explanation for myopia, also incorporated in Dr. Lane’s theory, is that the lens has lost some of its ability to change focus, due to the constant pressure placed on it to maintain near point focus (e.g., when reading, writing, using a computer).

According to this theory, myopia occurs when the lens becomes “stuck” for near point vision and is unable to shift its focus to distant objects. Normally, the lens has the power to change its focus more than enough to compensate for individual differences in the length of the eye.

Dr. David A. Kubicek, a California doctor of chiropractic, explored the role of the lens in a research paper he wrote in 1988. This is a synopsis of his theory and his recommendations:

The ciliary muscle (which controls the focusing of the lens) is itself stimulated by both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerve systems of the body. Parasympathetic stimulation increases accommodation — the lens’ ability to focus on near objects. Sympathetic stimulation decreases this ability, allowing the lens to focus on distant objects. Clear vision at all distances requires the nervous system of the body to constantly balance and re-balance these two types of stimulation.

Nearsighted people, Dr. Kubicek reasoned, would lack sufficient sympathetic stimulation to bring distant objects into focus. Farsighted people, on the other hand, would show a weakness in parasympathetic stimulation.

To test his theory, Dr. Kubicek devised a simple muscular test that would tell him which system was weak for an individual. By performing only this simple test, he was able to predict — with 100% accuracy — which subjects were nearsighted and which were farsighted. Dr. Kubicek was then able to use this procedure and his knowledge of biochemistry to devise the right combination of nutrients that could promote proper functioning of the lens and thus help to improve vision at all distances.

Certain nutrients are known to increase sympathetic activity and others are known to increase parasympathetic activity. Nutrients that might be beneficial to nearsighted people would be vitamins B-2 and B-6, folic acid, niacinamide, zinc, magnesium and phosphorus, among others. (On the other hand, Dr. Lane cautions against phosphorus intake. His research indicates that what is most important is maintaining the balance in the body between calcium and phosphorus, a balance which is upset by the intake of too much animal-derived protein.)

The answers aren’t all in yet as to the exact role that various nutrients play, but it is clear that the onset of myopia can be an early indicator of nutritional deficiencies and imbalances in the visual system – and in the entire body.

BIO:
Martin Sussman, an internationally known expert in holistic vision care, is the author of five books, audio courses and DVDs, including the #1 best-selling The Program for Better Vision and the Read Without Glasses Method (for middle age sight). He is the founder and president of the Cambridge Institute for Better Vision, which he established in 1977. He can be reached at marty@bettervision.com. Information about his approach to vision improvement that is more than eye exercises can be found at www.bettervision.com. The nutritional formula for vision he recommends, EYEMAX-plus, is available at a special discounted price for readers of this column.

“Approximately 143.2 million American adults or 64 percent of the adult population wear glasses.” — VisionWatch, June 2006

Almost half the population in America wears some sort of artificial lens, glasses or contact lenses. Artificial lenses may help improve your vision, but it is just a temporary quick-fix. Glasses and lenses can never fix your eye problems. Artificial lenses can help you see things more clearly, but they are mainly for the symptoms of eye problems and do not cure the actual ailment.

The main problem with artificial lenses is they teach you bad habits and allow your eyes to work incorrectly. They reinforce strain and frozen staring, which is the cause of poor eyesight in the first place. You quickly become dependent on the lenses and keep your eyes from healing themselves. If you can teach your eyes to be more relaxed and utilize essential daily eye habits, the need for glasses and lenses, as well as all your eye problems would go away completely.

The main cause of most eye ailments is mental stress and strain on the eyes. The key is to learn how to avoid strain in the first place. That is not always possible, so learning new habits to deal with strain is the next step.

One of the largest problems with artificial lenses is finding the perfect prescription. Your eyes are constantly changing. Many things play a factor in how well you can see. Weather, health, mood, distractions, and outside stressors all play a part in your vision. When it’s sunny and bright out our moods are usually better and so is our eyesight. For a doctor to find the perfect prescription is impossible. You may go to the doctor when you are in a bad mood and its dark and rainy out. Your prescription will reflect this making them not work at all when you are happy and it’s bright out.

Try going without your glasses for a few weeks and see what happens. You may be surprised at the results. Of course at first things may be blurry, but once your eyes start to adjust to a life without artificial lenses things will become clearer. The trick is to make sure you are free of too much mental strain. Try some relaxation techniques and rest your eyes when things start to get out of focus. Accept your blur, love your blur, and know oneday the blur will be gone because ultimately it is just an illusion, a warning sign symptom letting you know you need to be easier on your visual system and take care of it better.

Wearing artificial lenses can make our eyes lazy and teach us many bad habits, as well as amplify and prolong eyestrain. Concentrate on fixing the problem of mental strain and don’t just cover up the problem. If the engine light in your car turned on, you wouldn’t go patch a piece of black duct tape over it would you? Thank your body and its’ natural healing processes for blurring your vision, letting you know something is awry about your visual system, and that thankfully it can and will be reversed.

Good luck, and remember go without your glasses as much as possible (especially outdoors) but NEVER drive without them or partake in activities that would endanger your safety or the safety of others.

Sure you’ve heard it before, “Relax your eyes!” “Just relax!” “Quit being so nervous and shaky, just relax!”

Surely you would if you could!

“Okay okay I’m relaxed!” You have probably said before.

But are you really?

Here’s an excerpt taken from a forum conversation…

“I tried palming for 30 minutes before falling asleep Saturday night. Wow, I had the most restful sleep in months! Also, I now know the benefit of palming for longer than 5-15 minutes. After some time, my thoughts, although pleasant, suddenly just stoped, I suddenly relaxed, and everything just felt more peaceful. Then I understood for the first time what it should really feel like to palm and relax.”

Response: “EX-ACTLY. I used to palm for like 20 minutes and always wonder why I didnt feel anything but sleepy and/or wet eyes after. Then one night I tried meditating with holosync for the first time and suddenly my thoughts stopped and I felt this deep deep indescribeable feeling, I quickly fell asleep and awoke the next morning at 7am BURSTING with energy. The most refreshing sleep I’ve had in YEARS. Literally. I read somewhere that we tense even in our sleep, which drains energy TERRIBLY. Try squeezing your hand. Imagine doing that ALL day in MULTIPLE PARTS OF YOUR BODY unconsciously for hours at a time. Energy sapping? Shallow exhausting sleep? Crappy health? Stress? You bet. Once you really hit that DEEP relaxation your thinking stops being so compulsive(better concentration) and a warm gooey feeling of deep relaxation (like telling a fish he’s wet.. the fish wont understand, your concept of relaxation and my concept are two separate entities entirely.) My vision is also getting sharper and more clearflashes / movement is sensed.”

A note on holosync, many of our customers and staff use this program daily, the way it deeply relaxes your muscle tissues, mind, body, and emotions is incredible. People report having drastically improved health, energy levels, and of course permanent clearer vision within the first week or so of using. It is an essential part of our daily routine, we wish we found it earlier in our lives! To learn more information about it check out holosync.

Relaxation is also extremely important for overall health. One thing we noticed when we began meditating was that our facial muscles became soft and warm. More color was brought to our faces as the deep structures of the facial muscles began to relax, increasing circulation and blood flow. Deep relaxation also reduces stress and helps the body calm down and sleep more soundly. Relaxation relieves unwanted tension and gives an overall good feeling. Relaxation also helps the eyes see more clearly and focus better.

The hardest part of relaxing is silencing the mind. Thoughts move at a rapid pace and as the ‘to do’ list grows so do the racing thoughts. Shutting down the mind is the tricky part of total relaxation, but it is possible. The key is to move all that energy stuck in the head down through the entire body and out the feet. May sound like hocus pocus, but it actually works through a process known as ‘exhaling through the feet’.

Here’s how it works. Lie on your back in a dark room, works great just before bed. Imagine your breath moving from your lungs down through the entire body. As you exhale, picture the air moving down toward your toes. Picture your breath passing through every organ, heart, liver, kidneys, and continuing down the thighs, calves, ankles, and toes. Exhale completely, until all the air is out of your lungs and the next breath naturally comes. Inhale naturally, don’t force anything, and let your body do its own work. Once the lungs are full once again, start the process again of picturing the air moving through the body.

Repeat the process as many times a possible until you fall into a deep sleep. The next morning you will feel relaxed and refreshed ready to face the day. A great night’s sleep is important to reduce stress and strain and start the day out right. Staying up late and waking up early, leaves us feeling groggy and lacking sleep. This can leave us ‘off’ for the remainder of the day. We are not as productive and the eyes are straining through the day. Plenty of rest, but not too much, starts the day out right and in a positive mind frame. We will feel more productive and happy to get work done.

Learning to relax is an important habit to pick up. Once you learn good relaxation techniques, getting to sleep will come more naturally. Your body and eyes will thank you.

Children have a natural curiosity to learn new things. Ask any kindergartener or first grader if they are excited for school and they will almost always say yes with genuine enthusiasm. Ask the same question of a junior high or high school student and they will moan at the thought of going back to school for another year.

Why the huge difference between the two? School is too disciplined and children are forced to spend hours each day learning and memorizing things that don’t interest them. Any subject that is uninteresting causes more concentration and the eyes to strain through. Not every person enjoys the same subjects, yet all children are forced to memorize and learn things in an uninteresting way.

The eyes strain when forced to concentrate on images that don’t interest us. Like numbers on an analytical report for work isn’t going to interest all the employees, mathematics, science, and English won’t interest every student. This doesn’t mean that have a well-rounded education should be thrown out the window. It simply means there needs to be a change in how children are educated.

The Bates Method was discovered by Dr. William Bates, a famous eye doctor. In his method, Dr. Bates put together a large, poster-sized card covered in common shapes and letters familiar to most school age children. The card was hung at the front on the classroom and offered the students something to look at when they were feeling tired or overwhelmed. The purpose of the card was to give the children a chance to relax their eyes. Looking at new material puts strain on the eyes, but familiar objects allow the eyes to relax.

Teaching children not to strain their eyes from a young age will help keep their vision sharp for years to follow.