Natural Awakenings Twin Cities September 2020

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You are a Powerhouse
of Vision and Health
by Cassandra Rose
Often, after a degenerative eye disease diagnosis, life can
feel overwhelming and scary, so it’s uplifting to know
that you have powerful tools available to support your
eye health. The most powerful tool in your toolbox is you. You
are a powerhouse of possibility and vision.
A wonderful way to bring this into focus daily is to practice
eye massage with visualization. Directly massaging around
the eye can be very beneficial as it increases blood and lymphatic
flow. This allows more nutrients to reach your eyes and more inflammatory
waste to be carried away. Start at the inner corner of
your eyebrow and work all the way around the boney ridge that
surrounds the eyes. You can use small circles or gentle lifting and
pinching of the skin. Close the session by rubbing your hands
together until they are warm and then cup your palms over your
eyes while you picture your health vision and all that you want to
see. Give your eyes some loving energy as the first and last thing
you do for your day.
Nutrition also plays an important role in eye health and
is something you can do for yourself daily. According to a 2002
study by Sackett & Schenning, supplementing with carotenoids,
vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc reduces the risk of macular degeneration
by 25 percent. In a five-year follow-up of this supplementation,
there were no adverse health outcomes reported.
In addition, those taking the formula showed less circulatory
disease-related problems due to the zinc. This supplement is
often called AREDS after the name of this study and is readily
accessible in most stores.
Consider increasing these nutrients through the foods you
eat. Make a simple stir fry with plenty of yellow bell peppers—
they are full of carotenoids, vitamin C and deliciousness. Sprinkle
sunflower seeds on your salad to increase vitamin E. There are so
many easy, nutritious and delicious options to explore.
Another way you can protect or improve your eye health
is with exercise. In a
meta-analysis of nine
studies, it was found that
exercise played a significant
role in delaying the
onset and slowing the
progression of macular
degeneration. A daily
exercise routine can
bring so much benefit
to your life, including vision. The type of exercise most beneficial
to the eyes is cardio. Just like massage around the eyes, it can increase
blood and lymphatic flow and it does that for your whole
body. A good goal is to break a sweat at least once a day. Start
slow and check in with your doctor if you are new to exercise.
Incremental change is powerful and sustainable.
Perhaps the most important thing you can do for yourself
is to be patient and kind. Think of how you would want to
take care of your friends and loved ones. Now, give all that love,
kindness and patience to yourself. There are a whole range of
outcomes that can be considered successful when thinking about
chronic degenerative diseases. The following two cases show the
range of possible success from the very rare to the very common.
Patient number one is a 46-year-old mother diagnosed with
macular degeneration. During her initial consultation, she reported
mild visual distortion in her right lower visual field. Without her
glasses, her acuity test showed that her right eye was 20/320 and her
left eye was 20/250. She experienced a great deal of irritation in her
right eye and it was visibly red and slightly puffier than the left eye.
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