Toxicity is an Obstacle to Healing Your Eyes

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. In 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.