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Welcome to episode 44 of Behind the Shield podcast.

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My name is James Gearing,

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and I am recording this a little bit early

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because we have a very angry young lady

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bearing down towards Florida named Irma.

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And I'm gonna have to go to the station in a moment

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and be the crew that rides it out.

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So this week, I really wanted to delve into the world

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of eye health and vision.

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This is an area that we really don't discuss very much

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that anywhere in the fire service specifically

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in the military, we touch on hearing a lot

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because of the noise of the sirens and the weapons

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and all those things.

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But eye health, vision as an obstacle getting

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into the career, how to change your vision,

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how to protect your eyes themselves.

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This is an area that aside from you need

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to wear safety glasses, we just don't touch on at all.

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So this week's guest is Dr. Michael Lang.

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He's an optometrist here in central Florida,

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very well respected nationally and internationally,

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also a nutritionist and a psychology major.

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So very interesting perspective on overall health

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rather than focusing just on the eyeballs themselves.

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So we delve in to my story, which is basically

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I was told as a young man in England,

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you can never be a firefighter because you're colorblind.

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Absolute BS.

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So we'll talk about that story.

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And we're gonna come up with some solutions

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to people that have things like that,

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the trip hazards as far as entering the profession.

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We're gonna talk about how to maintain your eye health,

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not just with corrective lenses and those kinds of things,

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but also nutrition, hydration areas there.

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So that's gonna tie into the overall health.

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We're gonna talk about how to protect your eyes,

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what kind of products are out there,

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what to look for if you're in certain fields.

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And then we delve into a number of other things

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from A2 milk to nutrition, obesity in the US.

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So this was a great conversation I had face to face

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with Dr. Lang in his office.

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So I'm gonna keep this intro short.

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I'm gonna go pack my bag and drive south

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when everyone's driving north.

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And just before I leave, don't forget,

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rate us on iTunes, share an episode,

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be part of the solution of spreading each

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and one of these incredible episodes around the planet.

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So without further ado,

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I introduce to you Dr. Michael Lang.

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Enjoy.

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Welcome to Behind the Show.

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Dr. Lang, how you doing?

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It's great to be here.

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Thanks for having me.

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Thank you very much.

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We are sitting here about two or three days

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from Hurricane Irma showing up.

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So I think the whole state of Florida

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is wondering what the hell's gonna go down.

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So we're gonna go to the top of the hill.

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And this is where the lake will be.

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I think the whole state of Florida is wondering what the hell is going to go on.

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But, all right, so I want to kind of paint the picture before we delve into

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eyes and nutrition and all the other things that we're going to talk about.

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Can you give me a background where you were born, what your family unit was like?

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Right, absolutely. So I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana,

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geez, September 15th, 1961. I'm 55 years old now. My dad's a rheumatologist, so I came from

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a medical background, and I actually was racing motocross at a competitive age. Started out about

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10 years of age. I rode the minibike nationals, and I went up and started riding 125, expert,

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and very competitive. I ended up in the Grand National Championship, broke my leg in my back,

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broke my leg in five places, broke my back, ended my motocross career at 19 years of age.

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And so then I started thinking, well, I got to go to college. And I actually was going to be an

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orthopedic surgeon, and my dad being a rheumatologist said, well, you know, that's a lot of school.

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And I mean, we were going to think about 15 years more of school, you know, with college,

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or even more fellowship training residency. I just don't know if I want to do that. So then

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I started thinking about optometry. And my dad said, that's a good profession. So I ended up

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going to optometry school. And that's how I ended up going to optometry, because I wanted to do

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something to help people want to be in the health profession, but I didn't want to go 16 years of

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school. So you know, in four years of college, got a degree in psychology, then I got another

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degree in physiological optics, then I went away to optometry school for four years. And then I

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also became a certified nutritional specialist after the fact at the American College of Nutrition.

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And I did that because I was tired of seeing my patients really age right before my eye,

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age very rapidly macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma. And so I started working with nutrition

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and started seeing how we adjusted their diet and adjusted the supplements they were taking,

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that we could actually slow down the aging process in the eye and thus the entire body.

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And then I started my own vitamin company called four to five items. And we'll talk about that a

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little bit more. But that's how I kind of got interested in the field. The motocross accident

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triggered me to go to college because I wasn't going to go to college. I was going to be the next

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you know, world champion Bob Hurricane Hanna. And that went by the wayside. But now I'm racing cars.

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Brilliant. Yeah, those safer than a motorbike though. Yep. Four wheels on the ground and a roll cage.

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So you said the first area you went into was psychology. Why did you choose that on the way

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to optometry school? Well, that's a good question. You have to pick something in the sciences that

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are going to enable you to get all your prerequisites. Pre-requisites are very hard. I mean,

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they're physics and chemistry, organic chemistry, calculus, trigonometry, all sorts of biologies.

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And so and psychology. And so I didn't love biology. I didn't love chemistry, but I really

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like psychology. I really liked, you know, understanding why people react the way they do,

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why people act the way they do. And so I, that's why I got my degree in psychology. And for people

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that are listening out there, don't go into psychology. You're not going to make a lot of

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money because with a degree at a BS level in psychology, you cannot get a job and make anything.

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You have to go into the master's program or your PhD and become a clinical psychologist.

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So that was just a stepping ground to get my prerequisites done and to get a degree so I could

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get into optometry school. Okay. Now just to kind of educate the listeners, I'm aware of how

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optometry schools are in the U.S. because my wife is an optician and she's on her route.

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And she used to work with you and she's on her route to optometry school.

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A, the prereqs are insane. The high level math that they need, the Rain Man stuff to go in there.

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But secondly, it's kind of unique. And if you could tell us a little bit more about it,

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there's only a certain number of schools in the whole of the U.S., aren't there? Roughly how many

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are there? Optometry school is very competitive. I mean, it's tougher to get into optometry school

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really than medical school. Because you think about medical school, there's, you know, five or

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six, seven or even more, depending on the state, medical schools per state. And optometry school,

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I mean, I think there's 17 or 18 optometry schools in the entire country. And so there's a lot of

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people that want to become optometrists because it's a four-year program after college. You know,

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you can make a lot of money. It's good money. You're helping people. And depending on the state,

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you can do eye surgery. You can prescribe any medication. Orals are topicals now. Optometry

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has really gone into that next realm and expanded their scope. I really think an optometric physician

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or an optometrist is your gatekeeper, your primary eye care physician. And they'll see you for

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everything from glaucoma treatment and pink eye and corneal lacerations to stye removal, even laser

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procedures. And then when you need, you know, major surgery, you would go to the ophthalmologist that

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is fellowship trained in that arena. So a retina specialist for retinal surgery, corneal specialist

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for corneal surgery, oculoplastics for, you know, plastic procedures. So ophthalmology has become

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very specialized. It's very rare you see a general ophthalmologist anymore because the optometrist has

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really taken over that whole realm of eye care and are trained very well at doing it.

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Right. Now we only have one here in Florida and that's Nova down in Fort Lauderdale.

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Do you see, and this is for Becky as well, do you see another one opening up in the state of

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Florida anytime soon? You know, I've had rumors, rumors about, you know, opening in Tallahassee,

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opening in Gainesville, Orlando, Tampa. But as far as I know, they're rumors.

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Okay. Cause that'd be a long drive when she gets into school, but that's,

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that's a whole separate thing. All right. So you weren't able to do motocross. So while you were,

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you know, transitioning through school, did you take up any other sports instead?

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Yeah, I actually got into road biking and mountain biking, triathlons. You know,

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I competed in a lot of that. But you know, mountain biking is really one of my passions

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and road biking. And now I'm doing recumbent biking as well because now at 55,

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I'm starting to develop a little degenerative arthritis, especially in my back, my neck

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and my knee. And you know, the triathlon bikes, you've been over, you know, almost in a question

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mark position. And if you're going for a 50 mile bike ride, I got some lower back pain and neck

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pain after being in that position that long period of time. So I went to our carbon fiber,

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recumbent bicycle and you know, you sit back, it's almost like an lazy boy and you really

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hits different muscle groups and hits your glutes, your calves, your thighs,

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even better than road biking does. It's pretty amazing. And now it's interesting when we think

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about this, because you know, being a male, we got to be concerned at 55 years of age about prostate

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issues. Okay. And so when I'm right, I made some YouTube videos all about, you know, biking on a

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recumbent bike and I'm preserving my prostate is what I'm telling people. Because when you're on a

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road bike, even a mountain bike, but more on a road bike, you have that pointy little seat,

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and it goes up there and it hits that nerve right near your prostate. And it can cause prolonged

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inflammation of the prostate. So there is some potential evidence, let's just put it that way,

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that people that bike long periods of time with those little race seats can aggravate their

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prostate, maybe even cause impotence. Nobody wants that. Heck, I have four kids though, and I'm 55.

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I don't need any more kids. But sterility and impotence can occur from people doing road bike

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for long, long periods of time. So I think the recumbent bike, a lot more people are going to

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start riding these recumbent bikes and even the trikes, the cat trikes, they're carbon fiber now,

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so they're very light. Actually, I go about one mile an hour faster than I did on my triathlon

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bike on the recumbent bike, as it's so low and aerodynamic and sleek. You just prompted me to

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bring up an episode I had episode 11, which is Dr. Eric Goodman. He has a thing called foundation

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training. And some of his top clients are Lance Armstrong, I think the US or British cycling team,

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and it's a lot of the same problem. They have back problems from being in that hunch position

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and the whole posterior chain getting very weak. So that's something to me passing to you.

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Foundation training, it was so good. I healed my back with it. I actually went out to California

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and got certified. So amazing, amazing thing, especially for cyclists, because they get the

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short hamstrings and that almost fetal position that they're in for so long.

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And I think it's a good idea to mix it up a little bit. That's why I still ride my road bike.

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I do the mountain bike. I do the recumbent bike. I also have a trike. And so you can mix it up a

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little bit. And then I just got into a sport now since we live on the bay, I'm doing a lot of

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sculling. So it's a row and you go out and skull and that amazing amount of workout you get for

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your legs, cardio, upper body. I mean, I think for overall exercise, rowing in a skull is probably

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one of the best forms of exercise. But you know, in order to slow down the aging in our body,

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and thus our eyes, you have to be cardiovascularly fit. You got to exercise. I always tell my

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patients, my listeners on my talk show, I tell them, you know, 20 minutes minimum, five days

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a week of cardiovascular exercise, preferably more, but 20 minutes minimum, 30 minutes in the

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gym pumping iron, preferably more than that as well. But that's an absolute minimum, 30 minutes

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of weight bearing exercise, 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise. A lot of my patients

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will come into the office and say, well, I, you know, I walk five miles a day. That sounds

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impressive. Right. But then I tell them, get up, show me how you walk. And they just a little

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stroll. Their pulse isn't going, you know, over resting. So it's not doing much for cardiovascular.

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So I tell them the power walk, you know, they don't have to go five miles. I can power walk

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for a half a mile. But you know, interval training is great, but we got to do cardio,

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we got to do weight bearing exercise that combined with the proper sleep, the proper diet,

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the right amount of sunshine. Sunshine is very important. We've been brainwashed, stay out of

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the sun because it causes skin cancer. There's actually studies that indicate people that are

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out of the sun are more prone to get skin cancer, herniated skin cancers than people that are in it

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a moderate amount. So you don't want to get sunburned, but you want to be out there in the sun.

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And the combination of all of that is anti-aging. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm known for just wearing

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shorts when I work out and, you know, shoes, hardly ever as well. But I noticed that myself,

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you know, I mean, I'm from England and I'm able to tolerate the sun here in Florida. Fine. As long

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as you're not out there for too long. And the more I read, the more they seem to be linking a lot of

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the cancers to the sun blocks and sunscreens that they are in the actual sun itself. I haven't used

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a sunscreen in probably 20 years, you know, maybe more than that when my mom made me use a sunscreen

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because I think there's a lot of chemicals in those sunscreens. And who knows if those chemicals

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aren't some of the culprits for the basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas that we see. It's

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interesting. My dad has never used a sunscreen, grew up as a farm boy in South Dakota, never used

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sunscreen, never had any skin cancer. My mom, on the other hand, has used sunscreen all of her life,

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Montgomery, Alabama. So there's a different genetic there, but she's had some horrendous

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skin cancers. So there could be a point there. Remember everything in moderation. You don't want

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to be out there and get totally burned. You just want to get, you know, a little bit of sun. And

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most, most studies indicate, you know, 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the size, your weight,

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and the color of your skin. So I'm blonde hair, green eyes, about, you know, 195 pounds. So 20

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minutes to 30 minutes a day is plenty for me. And I've tested my 25 hydroxy. That's a blood test.

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And my blood levels of vitamin D range between 80 and 90. And that's where I tell people try to

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get theirs between 80 and 90. But if you're darkly pigmented and you're overweight, then you got to

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be out in the sun longer than that, probably 45 minutes to an hour, and you won't get burned.

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But that vitamin D deficiency is linked with macular degeneration, linked with tri-I,

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linked with diabetes, many forms of cancers, rheumatoid arthritis. Remember, vitamin D is

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a potent steroid hormone. So it's an anti, not only is an antioxidant, but it's anti-inflammatory.

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So we got to get our vitamin D. Then people say, well, I take vitamin D. My doctor prescribed

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vitamin D. It's different. People don't have the digestive enzymes, the probiotics, the intrinsic

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factors in their stomach to actually absorb the vitamin D orally the way they do when they go out

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in the sun. And some people are taking way too much. If you take too much vitamin D3 orally,

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it can actually increase your risk of atrial fibrillation, a heart problem we don't want.

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But you won't get that from the sun itself. Now, another little tidbit of information that people

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don't realize, when you're out in the sun, don't go get in the soapy shower right afterwards.

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Because the soaps are going to wash off the oils that are allowing the vitamin D to absorb.

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So most studies indicate six to eight hours after being in the sun before you're using the soap on

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your body. Now, let's say you're out for 30 minutes in between your lunch break and you got to take a

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quick shower so you don't stink. Well, get in and wash under your arms with soap, but just use

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regular water on the rest of your body so the vitamin D will actually absorb.

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Okay. Brilliant. Yeah. I know that the percentage you absorb through sunlight is just a huge amount

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more than you can orally as well. So I mean, it's a no brainer and it's free.

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Right. And vitamin A will block the absorption of vitamin D. And so,

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vitamins that I've developed have no vitamin A and no beta carotene in it. Vitamin A actually

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blocks the absorption of D3. So if you have a multivitamin out there that has vitamin A in it,

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it's blocking the absorption of the vitamin D3. And if it has beta carotene in it,

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it's blocking the absorption of the xanthophylls, lutein, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin that are

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incredible for the skin and the retina, thus your vision. So beta carotene and vitamin A,

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I don't like those in multivitamins. Copper and zinc, I don't like in multivitamins either.

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Right. Okay. Well, we're talking about vision. So let's kind of bring in the whole first

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responder thing. So I'm going to start with a very, very brief story of why I wasn't a fireman in

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England. So I grew up, had basically a very poor vision in my right eye. And then when I did the

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color vision tests, the ink block tests, whatever the official name is, I can see some of the numbers,

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not others. So in the British medical system, they said, James, you're colorblind. You can never be a

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fire pilot, a fire mineral in this other list of cool jobs. Here's the crap ones left for you to do.

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So I literally went years, I trained some, one of my friends to become a fireman on the fitness side.

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And it wasn't until I came to the U S and I don't even know what clicked in me, but one day I realized

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I can see these different colors. I can, I can differentiate the traffic lights. And really it

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was just a kind of leap of faith. I went through fire school everywhere. I did the medical and they

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just showed me the little pegs they have outside the doctor's office. And they asked me just to

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read those colors. And I read them off perfectly. All right. They checked the box. And I was like,

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okay, so, um, with color vision specifically, I realized, and correct me if I'm wrong, that it was

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like vision that you want either completely gray blind or perfect color vision, that there was a

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spectrum in between. And I was not too far off normal. I just would never be a fashion designer

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probably. So, um, let's talk about color vision first. So a, how, how valid is that color vision

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in 2017? Well, it is a very valid test, but it's almost a useless test. And the reason for this is

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you have a color deficiency. Nobody's really truly colorblind. It is very rare. Colorblind means you

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only see in black and white. And that's a very, very rare. I've never seen it in my life. Color

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deficiency is very common. And you probably have a red green deficiency. We have red green deficiencies

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and blue yellow deficiencies. And so that means yes, a job like a fashion coordinator, all right,

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probably wouldn't be ideal because you have trouble differentiating between different hues of reds

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and different hues of green. But if you, if I hold a cap, there's red and one green, you can definitely

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say it's red and green. It will not affect your life in anything you do unless you're having to

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match colors that are very similar. So you could be a jet fire pilot, you could be a policeman,

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you could be a military. It's not going to affect you at all. But for some reason, if you want to

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go into the military, even the coast guard or anything like that, you know, you have to pass

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these color plates, Ishihara color plate test. And then we have Farnsworth-Lantern test, which is

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even more difficult. And it's interesting because a lot of people don't get the job they want because

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they're quote colorblind and all there is have a very mild color deficiency that won't affect them.

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I've gotten many people able to fly helicopters and become jet fighter pilots, commercial airline

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pilots by simply writing a letter. The eye doctor writes a letter and they're able to get that

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job. If they require you to pass an Ishihara color plate, well, we do have contact lenses. Not many

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doctors know about this. They don't know how to fit them. They don't even know they exist. It's

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called X-Chrome. X-Chrome is a contact lens, soft lens you wear on your non-dominant eye. And you

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could pass every single plate on the color plate test. So that's something that's available,

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X-Chrome for color vision anomaly. So anybody listening, if they want to go and pass those

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color plates, ask your local optometrist to fit you in. We'll call around first because 90% of them

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have no clue what you're talking about in an X-Chrome contact lens and you'll pass.

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That's fantastic. Because like I said, that was the only stumbling block. I'm not saying that I

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was maybe physically ready. When I was 18, I was very small and everything and life unfolds the way

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it's supposed to. So I was obviously meant to become here and become a fireman and also be a

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medic at the same time. But that literally was the only stumbling block and was totally discounted

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the even possibility of doing it because there was none of that conversation. So I'm hoping that

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someone out listening now, that might be the only thing that's in their way. And there you go,

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you have a solution. So with the vision itself, my left eye to this day is amazing. Did all the work

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for my right. My right was crap. And I went and had LASIK done, which I mean, I could pass the test

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with the glasses on. But can you tell me something about LASIK? I have to say LASIK to me worked

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phenomenally well. The recovery wasn't even close to as quick as they said it was going to be. I

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had dry eye and itchiness for months, but I've still got 2015 on the test these days. So can

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you give us a little history about that? And then, you know, is the current one the best one or is

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there even better stuff coming? Absolutely. LASIK surgery has come a long way. I was actually with

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Steven Brent, Dr. Steven Brent at the Eye Surgery Center of Louisiana, New Orleans in 1991, when he

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did the first LASIK procedure in America. And then I opened three LASIK centers here in Florida.

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And LASIK is really in the hands of a competent LASIK surgeon with new generation technology.

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It's an amazing procedure, right? Remember what your mama said, you get what you pay for.

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If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Be very leery or weary of these bait and switch

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organizations that are claiming $199 per eye for LASIK surgery. Nobody's doing LASIK surgery for

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$199. You're going to go there and then you're going to say, oh, Mr. Smith, your parameters aren't

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correct. Now you've got to go up to $1,500 per eye if you want to have LASIK surgery. So, you know,

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the going rate right now is about $1,500 an eye, about $3,000 to have LASIK. I always recommend

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asking how many procedures the LASIK surgeon has done. You want that LASIK surgeon to have done

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over 10,000 procedures. Simple as that. I mean, many of my colleagues have done over 100,000

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procedures now. So, you want at least 10,000 because you don't want to be the first on the

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block of the first 10. You want to have somebody that's very seasoned, a veteran at this. You want

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to use new generation technology, not old technology from 20 years ago, 15 years ago. So, ask how old

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is their laser. You want an all laser procedure where they create the flap with the laser, an all

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laser procedure. I like the Allegretto. It's one of the best lasers out there, but many of the

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companies make great lasers now. So, remember, good technology and a great surgeon with a lot

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of experience. But also, you have to go two consecutive years with no change in your vision.

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So, go see your local optometrist. If you're a minus two mile, that's a number. And then next

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year, you're minus 250, you've progressively got a little worse. You should not have LASIK surgery.

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Go two years with no change. Then you can have LASIK surgery. It's great for people that are

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athletes. It's great for firemen, police officers that are in a potential situation where if their

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glasses fog up or their contacts come out, their life could be in jeopardy. You know, racing cars,

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racing motorcycles, things like that is great for those people. On the other side of the coin,

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there's an old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if you can wear contact lenses

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successfully or you like wearing glasses and you have no problems at all, why do surgery?

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All right? Because surgery is not without potential complications. Remember, we minimize the

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complications with good surgeons, a lot of experience, good technology, but even with the

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best and most competent hands, the best technology, something can go wrong. You know, it's obviously

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not purpose, purposely, but something can go wrong. Everybody's eye reacts differently to surgery.

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So once again, if you have no problems, you know, why do surgery? But if you're a fireman,

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you know, law enforcement, military, you know, a big athlete, extremely near sighted, where when

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you take your glasses off, you can't see at night. So you jump up, you don't know if it's your wife

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or a burglar in the house, then certainly these people are great candidates for LASIK surgery.

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Yeah. See, the area where I found I had a problem was not so much in a fire because you can't see

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anything anyway, pretty much, but it was driving to and from, especially at dusk. You know, you've

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got your sunglasses and I think it's changed a little bit more now, but at the time it seemed

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like you could just get the serial killer looking prescription sunglasses and then you'd have to

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switch to the clear ones as it got towards night. And then having these two pairs, you know,

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it would always fall over and then land on the diamond plate and get scratched or I could lose

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them or I'd step on them. So that for me was a huge thing. And then obviously then when I was on a

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scene, I could see a little bit more detail. I could see if someone was, you know, hanging out

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of a window, even if it was several stories up versus that slight blurriness I had before. So

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for me, it worked very well. I only had one eye done. That's all I needed to have done.

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And it was about exactly like you said, about 1500. But I would say that investment was well,

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well worth it. Right. Once again, it's your livelihood, the job that you're doing,

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perfect for you. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. So the next was kind of transitions quite well.

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I want to talk after this about some of the common problems that you see with vision, but

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the one thing that LASIK doesn't fix is the aging of the eye, isn't it? So can you tell us

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the difference between what LASIK does fix and then what happens as we age? Right. So when we

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hit the age 40, that's called presbyopia. That's when the human crystalline lens in the eye loses

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elasticity and we lose that ability to focus up close. LASIK will not fix that. So if you have

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LASIK at 21 years of age, you're going to have great vision. When you hit 40, 45 years of age,

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your arms aren't long enough anymore. You'll find you're holding things out further and further

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to see clearly. And that's when you have to wear reading glasses or bifocals or progressive lenses

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or a multifocal contact lens. However, there is some evidence now, and I've been leading this

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whole field, this arena and research, there is some evidence if we consume certain foods,

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more of certain foods, we can actually improve the focusing ability in our eye. And the big food,

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one food that's a power food is wild Alaskan salmon. Oh, really? So wild Alaskan salmon,

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not only very high in omega-3, but high in a super carotenoid called astaxanthin. This is what gives

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the wild Alaskan salmon its orange color. It's the algae, something called hematococcus, that the

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little fish eat and then the salmon eat the little fish and they get this astaxanthin into their body.

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It improves muscle endurance and muscle recovery in the body. It improves night vision, reaction

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time. Great for a firefighter, all right? It also helps impregnate into the macula zone,

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helping to filter out some of the harmful blue light that can be very damaging. It actually

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impregnates into the skin so you don't have to use a sunscreen, but it will not block the vitamin D3

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absorption. So wild Alaskan salmon, if you eat that frequently, then your focusing ability will be

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better. Now you have to eat it almost every day. Now most people aren't going to do that. And it's

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got to be wild salmon, not farm-raised salmon. So I actually developed a supplement called Fortify

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Focus. And this is about eight years ago now. I've gone into the fourth revision of it,

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and we've taken carotenoids, lutein, zeaxanthin isomers, and six milligrams of astaxanthin that

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was in all the studies. And I'm 55 years of age. I've been on it six years now. When I was 49,

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I had to wear reading glasses for anything up close. Now at 55, if I'm going to sit down and read a

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small print book, I will put reading glasses on if I'm going to sit down and read it late at night

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for a long period of time. But for my job purposes, I can read anything I need, my cell phone,

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I can see anything I need up close ever since I've been taking this one little pill, Fortify Focus,

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once a day. So remember, aging is oxidation and inflammation. And so astaxanthin is the most potent

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natural anti-inflammatory known to man. And then the lutein and zeaxanthin in it add more oxidative

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stress, combating against free radicals. So lutein, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin,

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those three combined help to combat against free radical damage, which is oxidation, or the rusting

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of our body. So I call it a little anti-aging pill, combating against oxidation and inflammation in

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the entire body, but targeting the eye. It actually crosses the blood retinal barrier,

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getting into the eye. And now you've got to think about this. Everybody is on a digital apparatus

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these days. We're all on an iPhone, an iPad, a laptop, a computer. We're watching TV on LED

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screens. We have LED lighting now. So all of this emits blue light. And I've done a lot of research

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in this area. Blue light is very damaging to your eye. We're seeing children now at very young ages

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developing a form of degeneration in their macula that they shouldn't be getting until

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they're 75 years of age. And we're just about 100% know now it's related to all this blue light

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exposure. And so you can wear lenses now that actually guard against blue light. Blue light

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defense is a great lens. And you can take a little pill that has the carotenoids. Remember,

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lutein, zeaxanthin, isomers, and astaxanthin act like an internal blue light filter. And so my 11

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year old daughter, Mackenzie, I make her when she's doing her work at night wear blue light

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defense lenses and take one little pill a day of the Fortify Focus. I take it. My 89 year old

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parents take it. I think I've got 250,000 people throughout the world that are taking it now. So

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remember, if you eat the foods, you don't need to take the supplement. But realistically,

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are we all eating wild Alaskan salmon, organic kale, organic orange bell peppers, and goji berries

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on a daily basis? Probably not. Okay, well, a couple things I want to touch on from what you

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were talking about. The very first thing was you talking about elasticity. A few years ago,

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it seemed like one of the optical buzzes were exercises that you could do for your eyes.

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Was there any validity in that? The see clearly method? Yes. Yeah, it was like, I don't know,

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89.99 or something like that. Three easy payments. You know, that one, there was a class action suit

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against them and they had to give all the money back is last I heard. I, they did a lot of marketing,

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a lot of advertising for this. I had people that brought this into my office, the whole packet,

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the book, everything and say it didn't work. It didn't work. It didn't work. And they were

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actually targeting talk shows. All right. There was on talk radio, where people that are, you know,

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between 25 and 55, 65 listen, the people they were going after were the LASIK markets. And it does

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not work for that. You can do eye exercises all day long. I don't care if you're a minus four mile,

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that means you cannot see in the distance at all. You got to put your glasses on your contacts and

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you can do these exercises all day long. It's not going to change that. Now, that see clearly method,

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it did have some validity to it. I mean, a behavioral optometrist, a vision therapist

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can use that. I mean, that is tried and true for helping children in the developmental stages,

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children that have a lazy eye, an eye that turns in or out, children that have accommodative and

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focusing problems. They over-focus, they under-focus. Absolutely. That system is probably

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really great for that. But to target people that are wanting LASIK surgery, it wasn't a good thing.

395
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Right. Okay. So, so there's, there's some validity, but it's more of a narrower field than they let us

396
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believe. Right. I think at the age from birth to about probably 14 or 15 years of age, certainly

397
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the right forms of eye exercises can help the eye. And even as you get older, I mean, it can help

398
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improve circulation to the muscles in the eye. So I even tell my elderly patients just to gaze left

399
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and right on the wall, up and down, you know, just to get some extreme gazes in, you know,

400
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can help probably strengthen the muscles a little bit. It helps improve circulation. Right. So,

401
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or just go outside and be in nature where you'll naturally look around anyway, instead of at a

402
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screen like we all do these days. Okay. So one of the, one of the big things that I harp on in,

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in these podcasts is the ill effects of, of many of our jobs on us. And some are out of our control.

404
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Some, I think we can take more of a control, but one area is sleep deprivation. Is there a specific

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effect on, on the optical side as far as sleep deprivation is concerned? Sleep deprivation is

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huge in this country. I was probably the biggest sleep deprived person you've ever met, you know,

407
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and has developing six companies over the last 25 years. And I sleep like a baby now. And one of

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the reasons for sleep deprivation in today's society is, is the blue light, right? It's everywhere. So

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what happens is that blue light goes into the eye. It tells the pineal gland in the brain,

410
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do not secrete melatonin, melatonin levels do not go up. Then you go to bed at night. You don't sleep.

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You turn and flip over and you don't get a good night's sleep. You're not dreaming. When you dream,

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that means you're going through REM phase of sleep. And that means you're sleeping. You're sleeping in

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the right phase of sleep that is restful, that lowers cortisol levels, which is a stress hormone

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in your body. But if you sleep deprived, cortisol levels go way up. Inflammation goes way up. People

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get anxiety disorders, panic attacks, arthritis, all sorts of problems just from being sleep

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deprived. Remember when we were talking about anti-aging, one of the biggest things is getting

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a good night's sleep. So as a rule of thumb, I mean, one time I actually went, took the kids up

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to the mountains up in Tennessee and we got there and it's up on the top of this big hill. We were

419
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going mountain biking and kayak and white border rafting. And the actual cabin had no electricity.

420
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It had electricity, but the guy had not paid the bill. And so our cell phones didn't work up there

421
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either. I got to tell you, we did not, it was, it was around Halloween. So it was kind of cool. It

422
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wasn't hot. So it wasn't that bad. We actually did, we were there for five days. We read everything

423
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by candlelight at night. When it got dark, we actually went to bed. It's the best sleep I've

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gotten probably in my entire life. We felt so rejuvenated after that five, six days because

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we were sleeping. I mean, it gets eight o'clock at night. We got in the bed and we went to bed.

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And it's because our melatonin levels were going up. We didn't have all this artificial lighting

427
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that's simulating the sun telling the brain, don't secrete melatonin. So as a rule of thumb,

428
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to sleep better at night, you make your room as dark as you can. You don't want any

429
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LED light is from anything. LED lights, take some electrical tape, put it over the smoke detector,

430
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the carbon dioxide detector on your TV, unplug the clock radio, unplug anything within 15 feet

431
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of your bed. You don't want any electrical current within 15 feet of your bed. Put your cell phone

432
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in the bathroom, put it on high so you can hear some emergency if you're on call, but don't put it

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by your bed. So everything away from you, make your room as dark as you can and turn the air

434
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condition down as low as you can tolerate it. Dark and cool and you'll sleep a lot better.

435
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So rule of thumb, you don't want any visual stimuli three hours before bed. Now that's hard

436
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because people want to watch TV, they want to watch the news, but if you really want to sleep

437
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well and practice anti-aging, no computer work, iPhone, iPad, television for three hours before bed.

438
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Well we had two episodes now in sleep. One was Kurt Posse, he was a Navy SEAL turned MD.

439
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And then just about two episodes ago I had Nick Littlehales who is sleep coach to some of the top

440
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sports teams in the world. And he was saying that recently he's done exactly that for his own home

441
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where he's just trying an experiment where he does candlelight as soon as it gets dark.

442
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And I think he reported pretty much the same thing. So it's amazing when I start having these podcasts

443
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overlap with each other and blue light is a massive one. And he was explaining that the light

444
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from a fire, light from a candle, light from the stars, because it doesn't have the blue light,

445
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you don't get that stimulus of it's daytime now. And they had the technology of when you do work

446
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some wonky hours, you need to kind of break that cycle and then simulate the daylight. Then you

447
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deliberately put the blue light into your life. Right. And you can go to a website I created

448
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called bluelightdefense.com. And people can go to that bluelightdefense.com and you can see links

449
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to some studies from Harvard, some really legitimate studies. You can see some of the stuff

450
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that I've written on there about blocking and filtering the blue light. I mean, it's a problem.

451
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And the optometry and ophthalmology is seeing that now we're trying to address what can we do. So

452
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right now the best is to take the supplement that I talk about, the Fortify Focus, to block it with

453
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the correct type of lenses. A lot of lens companies are now coming out with lenses similar to blue

454
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light defense lenses that are filtering the blue light. The thing about blue light defense,

455
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it blocks 99.9% of the most detrimental to your retina blue light, which is 411 nanometers.

456
00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:23,900
It blocks 99% of that. Right now most companies are blocking 20 to 30%. So that's why I like the

457
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blue light defense. There's a few other lenses on the market that do that, but they're few and far

458
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between. But I predict in the next year, and I know this for a fact, that some of the big lens

459
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manufacturers are going to the same monomer that's used in the blue light defense lens. So it's going

460
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to become mainstream in just about all glasses soon. Right. My wife just got it and she hates

461
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:50,860
going in any stores that have the artificial light. It gives headaches and all that kind of thing.

462
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And why wouldn't it? I mean, it's not light. It's not something that we're used to looking at.

463
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Okay. So specifically then we talked about sleep deprivation and inflammation. Are there any other

464
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eye problems that you tend to see a lot in police officers or firefighters or paramedics

465
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or military even? Well, you know, I see a lot of cataracts. Okay. And that's because a lot of these

466
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people are around toxic chemicals, they're around a lot of heat, trauma, all right. You can get

467
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trauma as a fireman or a policeman. So, and then a lot of times their primary care physician is

468
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putting them on steroids for the inflammation they have in their body. All right. Things like

469
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prednisone and delta zone. And that creates cataracts as well. A type of cataract called

470
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posterior subcapsula cataract. The good news is cataract surgery is relatively simple. It's a

471
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10 minute procedure. It's painless, no needles anymore. It's almost an all laser procedure and

472
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a little ultrasound. But I do see a lot of cataracts. I see a lot of dry eye in this area.

473
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So using some good lubricating eye drops periodically. Believe it or not, taking a good omega-3

474
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fish oil is a good idea. Omega-3 has been shown to help quell the dry eye, help reduce dry eye

475
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symptomology. Hydration is very important. Most of us do not drink enough water. If we're drinking

476
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water, we're drinking this purified water. Not to mention any names for legal ramifications,

477
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but there's a lot of bottled water. Quite frankly, the majority of bottled water people drink,

478
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it's purified. So it's either reverse osmosis or distilled. You want to buy something, a bottle

479
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water that says spring water because it's alkaline and has minerals in it so the minerals don't

480
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leach out of your body when you're drinking something due to the laws of osmosis. So hydration

481
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is important. Using artificial tears, taking omega-3, that'll help the dry eye. Dry eyes,

482
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sandy, gritty, burny, teary, itchy eyes. And you know, you guys are on call all the time.

483
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And it might be a long day and then you have to wake up in the middle of the night to go to a fire.

484
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Well, your eyes could be dehydrated. They dehydrate when you sleep at night. By the end of the day,

485
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they're starting to dehydrate. And if you're having to drive relatively fast through a dark,

486
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you know, dark area, your vision has to be good. That's why you had LASIK surgery. Well, if your

487
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eyes are dry, the optics of the eye can drop as much as 75% at night. So that's why it's a good

488
00:41:14,060 --> 00:41:20,300
idea to have some artificial tears handy at the firehouse. And right before you get out in that

489
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:25,100
rig to go drive to the fire, you know, put some lubricating eye drops in the eye, especially if

490
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it's in the evening because it's going to improve optics dramatically. Race car drugs,

491
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it's going to improve optics dramatically. Race car drivers that do it, if you have 12 hours of

492
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Lamans, 24 hours of Daytona, you know, race car drivers will put artificial tears in their eyes

493
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because the optics of their eyes are going to work a lot better while they're driving.

494
00:41:42,540 --> 00:41:47,820
Okay. Now is, is, I know it's very simplified, but is the eye repairing itself when it's closed

495
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during sleep? Absolutely. The cornea is one part of your body that regenerates. And so when you

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sleep, let's say you scratch your eye, all right, you get a corneal abrasion. It's a lot of pain

497
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because the cornea has more nerve endings than any part of your body, but close your eyes. When

498
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you go to bed at night, that epithelium starts to heal and grow back. And so I can see people with

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horrendous corneal abrasions or pieces of steel in the eye and we have to remove the rust. So we

500
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have to use a drill in the cornea to remove the rust. And you know, we've iatrogenically created

501
00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:25,980
a massive abrasion on their cornea. They're in severe pain. Well, 24 hours, it's healed 80%,

502
00:42:25,980 --> 00:42:32,060
48 hours, it's usually healed almost a hundred percent. So the cornea does heal very rapidly

503
00:42:32,060 --> 00:42:38,860
in most healthy, non-immune compromised people. But as you get older, right, and you become immune

504
00:42:38,860 --> 00:42:43,900
compromised with different diseases, then the cornea doesn't heal. And that's one of the biggest

505
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:49,500
avenues that I see that patients come in with severe dry eyes, but the Lang I Institute, my

506
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:55,820
average age patient's 75. So I see patients over a hundred. And so these people just simply using

507
00:42:55,820 --> 00:42:59,740
artificial tears isn't enough for them. Right. Yeah. Cause that's another thing about every

508
00:42:59,740 --> 00:43:03,500
third day, us being awake. I mean, some departments awake pretty much all night.

509
00:43:04,460 --> 00:43:09,020
That's one day in three that they're not able to repair their eyes. So I'm sure that has a long-term

510
00:43:09,020 --> 00:43:16,060
effect too. Absolutely. Okay. All right. So I was just going to transition to something. I forgot

511
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what it was now. Oh, that's right. So you were talking about foreign objects in the eyes. So

512
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that's a real bone of contention for us on the EMS side. We'll, you know, we'll get called for a 911

513
00:43:27,260 --> 00:43:33,180
call and it will be, you know, foreign body corneal scratch. And, you know, these patients are expected

514
00:43:33,180 --> 00:43:40,700
to be taken to the ER. Let me put it very bluntly, who is the best kind of professional to treat

515
00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:46,540
that kind of injury? Not like a knife sticking out of the eye, but something a little more minor.

516
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:51,420
I mean, the emergency room isn't the best place to go because they're not prepared for that. You

517
00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:55,660
know, go to your local optometrists or local ophthalmologists because they have the slit lamp,

518
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the bio microscope, they have the technology, they have the training. We have certain types of

519
00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:07,740
Alger brushes, spuds, things that we can get foreign bodies, microscopic. I mean, we can magnify

520
00:44:07,740 --> 00:44:13,580
things a thousand times or more if we have to. And so we can get the smallest little particulate

521
00:44:13,580 --> 00:44:18,140
matter out. A lot of times you'll go to the emergency room, not to put down the emergency room,

522
00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:22,620
great place, but you know, you have a red irritated eye and they think you have pink eye. They put you

523
00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:27,900
on an antibiotic drop, okay? When it wasn't pink eye, it wasn't, it was something that was in the

524
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:33,820
eye that they didn't know you had that was creating this problem. Or it was a virus and an antibiotic

525
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:38,460
does absolutely nothing. So the gist of this story, if you learn anything from this podcast,

526
00:44:38,460 --> 00:44:43,820
if you have a red irritated eye, go to the eye doctor, whether it's the optometrist or the ophthalmologist,

527
00:44:43,820 --> 00:44:49,100
it doesn't matter. Both of them are capable and trained to treat it medically and even surgically

528
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:55,340
if necessary. Okay. So then, um, this is kind of a general question, but at what point would you go

529
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to the ER? Are there any specific, uh, anatomical signs for the eye where you're like, okay, this

530
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:06,860
is out of our, our non-emergence state? Yeah. I mean, it depends on the emergency room, right?

531
00:45:06,860 --> 00:45:11,260
So here, luckily enough, we have, you know, university, Florida, shans, uh, university,

532
00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:17,580
South Florida, Tampa general. So these emergency rooms do have ophthalmologists that are on call,

533
00:45:17,580 --> 00:45:23,420
residents that are on call. So if you have a sudden loss of vision, you know, um, a whole curtain

534
00:45:23,420 --> 00:45:28,300
comes over your vision and it's, you know, it's midnight. You can't go to your local eye doc.

535
00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:35,820
Well, you could go to an emergency room that has ophthalmology on call. If they don't, if it's a

536
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:40,300
hospital, uh, it doesn't, then it's waste your time. You can't go. They can't do anything. And

537
00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:43,900
you're going to sit in the emergency room for seven hours and they're going to charge you $1,500 and

538
00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:49,100
they weren't able to do anything. So usually a university based emergency room, uh, you know,

539
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:53,100
if it's a, you know, 30 minutes more to drive, that's where you need to go. If you're having

540
00:45:53,100 --> 00:45:56,940
some kind of significant eye problem. Now, obviously if you get an acid in your eye or

541
00:45:56,940 --> 00:46:00,700
something like that, you can go to the local emergency room, but the key for something like

542
00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:05,340
that, a chemical gets in your eye of some sort, whether it's a base or an acid, you got to irrigate

543
00:46:05,340 --> 00:46:11,420
your eye out and the faster you irrigate out the better. So here's an example. Let's say you're

544
00:46:11,420 --> 00:46:16,140
drinking a Coca-Cola, believe it or not. And somehow acid just gets in your eye immediately.

545
00:46:16,140 --> 00:46:20,220
Don't go upstairs and go in the shower, throw that Coca-Cola in your eye, believe it or not.

546
00:46:20,220 --> 00:46:25,820
If you can drink it, you can put it in your eye immediately. The faster you neutralize the chemical

547
00:46:25,820 --> 00:46:31,420
in your eye, the better. And then get to the sink and lavage your eye for, you know, 10, 15 minutes.

548
00:46:31,420 --> 00:46:35,900
Then you can go to the emergency room because they can help with the pain and they can help with it.

549
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:41,420
So that's an emergency. A true ocular emergency is any type of chemical, acid or base in your eye.

550
00:46:41,420 --> 00:46:47,180
That's an emergency, has to be treated immediately. A central retinal artery occlusion is an emergency,

551
00:46:47,180 --> 00:46:52,140
but most emergency rooms aren't going to handle that. That's when an artery gets occluded. They

552
00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:55,900
have to give you a clot buster. And usually it's a retina specialist that would do this,

553
00:46:55,900 --> 00:47:01,100
or they got to do central paracentesis where they puncture the eye, lower the pressure immediately.

554
00:47:01,100 --> 00:47:05,660
And so very rarely would the emergency room even know what's going on there.

555
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:11,980
An acute angle glaucoma attack is also something that's when you get severe pain in the eye,

556
00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:17,740
blurred vision, and you're actually throwing up. You throw up severe pain and blurred vision.

557
00:47:17,740 --> 00:47:23,900
That's usually an acute angle glaucoma attack. The pressure's gone up to 70, 80 or even 90 in your eye.

558
00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:28,700
And I guess you definitely could go to the emergency room for that. They probably won't know what to do,

559
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:33,900
but they could call a doctor on call and they could start an IV. They could give you a diamox.

560
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:39,900
They could put some drops in their eyes. And many emergency rooms should be aware of what that is

561
00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:45,260
also. Now emergency rooms are starting to check the pressure in the eye, and that is a true emergency.

562
00:47:45,260 --> 00:47:48,780
So that's another one you could go to the emergency room for as well.

563
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:52,780
Okay. Because there are two things. Firstly, what you just described from the paramedics point of

564
00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:57,020
view, we would think that was probably a bleed, cerebral bleed with the blurred vision, the

565
00:47:57,020 --> 00:48:01,820
vomiting, but it would be obviously intracranial pressure that was going up. And then what you

566
00:48:01,820 --> 00:48:07,660
said about the ophthalmologist being on call, the two hospitals that you named were what we call in

567
00:48:07,660 --> 00:48:11,740
our field level one trauma centers. So that's kind of a good correlation as well. If we do have

568
00:48:11,740 --> 00:48:19,180
something where there is more trauma to the eye, knowing that those kind of doctors are on staff

569
00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:23,900
there too, I think is very helpful for me as a medic to know that's part of the chain of care.

570
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:31,020
All right. So one last one with optometry before we transition into the supplement size. What are

571
00:48:31,020 --> 00:48:36,060
some of the biggest myths in optometry by the general public?

572
00:48:36,060 --> 00:48:41,180
Right. Well, you know, they're thinking, oh, an optometrist isn't an eye doctor, okay? An optometrist

573
00:48:41,180 --> 00:48:46,620
isn't trained, you know. If you're not an ophthalmologist, you know, you're not a doctor,

574
00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:51,820
which that's crazy because you have to go to four years of college and then four years of optometry

575
00:48:51,820 --> 00:48:57,100
school at a minimum. And now many optometrists are doing a one year in a residency or two year

576
00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:02,860
residency and another year to two in fellowship. And they're trained every bit as good as an

577
00:49:02,860 --> 00:49:08,860
ophthalmologist in disease management and treatment of diseases like glaucoma, conjunctivitis, you

578
00:49:08,860 --> 00:49:15,180
know, lacerated corneas, and now surgical intervention as well. So depending on the state,

579
00:49:15,180 --> 00:49:20,940
many optometrists are doing laser procedures, photorefective keratectomy, which is a form of

580
00:49:20,940 --> 00:49:28,860
lasik surgery, you know, glaucoma laser procedures and things like this. So it's changed dramatically.

581
00:49:28,860 --> 00:49:36,140
I mean, I think 80 years ago, optometry was a two year program. But now an optometrist is,

582
00:49:36,140 --> 00:49:42,620
like I said, your primary eye care physician that would do everything except major internal

583
00:49:42,620 --> 00:49:47,420
surgery. Then they'll refer you to the ophthalmologist that's fellowship trained in that

584
00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:53,820
particular area. So it's just like if you got a little ache in your knee, you don't go straight

585
00:49:53,820 --> 00:49:58,300
to the orthopedic surgeon and have knee surgery, right? You go to your primary care physician,

586
00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:02,460
you got a little arthritis, you go to the rheumatologist, but you don't go straight to

587
00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:07,820
the orthopedic surgeon. You can think of it like that. The optometrist is kind of like the primary

588
00:50:07,820 --> 00:50:12,540
care physician of the eye and the ophthalmologist is kind of like the orthopedic surgeon. It's the

589
00:50:12,540 --> 00:50:19,180
surgeon of the eye. Okay. Now one more optical question I just realized I missed. You are

590
00:50:19,180 --> 00:50:23,820
developing a form of eye protection for extreme sports and I'm assuming it would probably be very

591
00:50:23,820 --> 00:50:28,140
pertinent to tactical athletes as well. Could you tell us about that? Right. I've been working on

592
00:50:28,140 --> 00:50:34,140
it for many years and I've got some really cool prototypes. I'm testing one right now driving

593
00:50:34,140 --> 00:50:41,180
200 miles an hour and I've done things like we've gone kayaking with them and flipped over in rafts

594
00:50:41,180 --> 00:50:48,300
and mountain biking and put all the elements on the lenses to see how they react. So what I wanted

595
00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:54,620
to do is develop a lens that is almost impermeable to scratching, that's impact resistant to a 22

596
00:50:54,620 --> 00:51:01,820
caliber bullet, that increases your contrast. So depending on the particular sport, it can

597
00:51:01,820 --> 00:51:07,180
benefit you whether you're golf or baseball or driving a race car, whatever you're doing,

598
00:51:07,180 --> 00:51:12,460
it's going to increase visual performance. A lot of sunglasses have terrible optics. A lot of the

599
00:51:12,460 --> 00:51:17,260
lenses are made in China and the optics are terrible. You put them on and you actually see worse

600
00:51:17,260 --> 00:51:25,500
than when they're off. And so polarization isn't always ideal. Polarized lenses are great for if

601
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:30,300
you're on the water. If you're a fisherman and you're on the water at the pool, it blocks the

602
00:51:30,300 --> 00:51:36,540
glare. But polarization blocks one whole meridian of light. And so if you're on the water, you're

603
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:41,100
going to see a light. And so if you're mountain biking, you're going down a jagged downhill under

604
00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:47,260
the canopy of oak trees, it can be very dangerous wearing polarized lenses because you can't see

605
00:51:47,260 --> 00:51:51,420
the detail of that jagged and you're going to hit one of the rocks and you're going to endo and

606
00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:56,700
potentially break your neck. Also, if you're riding a motorcycle, a street bike, we call them

607
00:51:56,700 --> 00:52:02,300
crotch rockets or even just a cruiser, you never want polarized lenses because when you're coming

608
00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:08,460
down a turn relatively fast and it has an oil slick in that turn or a water slick, you don't see it

609
00:52:08,460 --> 00:52:12,780
because you don't see the glare because the polarization blocks the glare. So the only time

610
00:52:12,780 --> 00:52:18,620
I recommend polarized lenses are for people that are fish or on the water or if you just want

611
00:52:18,620 --> 00:52:23,580
driving glasses and you're not an aggressive driver, then absolutely polarized is good. So

612
00:52:23,580 --> 00:52:29,420
I'm trying to develop lenses that have extreme optics. They're non-polarized with different

613
00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:33,900
dimensions, totally impact resistant, but that are very comfortable and we're trying to work

614
00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:40,060
in an ergonomic design that if you're playing a sport where you bend over or you look to different

615
00:52:40,060 --> 00:52:44,140
extreme angles, you're not going to see the frame. It's not going to interfere with your vision.

616
00:52:45,260 --> 00:52:51,100
So we try to take all that into consideration and I'm still in the process of working on it in my

617
00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:55,340
free time. Okay, because yeah, I mean the way you describe it, that would definitely be something

618
00:52:55,340 --> 00:52:59,660
that we want because I know just the scratch. I know my wife's not going to listen to this,

619
00:52:59,660 --> 00:53:05,420
so I'm going to say it. She bought me some Oakleys with her discount voucher she gets at her place

620
00:53:05,420 --> 00:53:10,700
and I took my shirt off, the damn things fell off my head and then time little scratch already in

621
00:53:10,700 --> 00:53:17,180
them. So the scratch resistant in our profession is huge because we're not walking around just

622
00:53:17,180 --> 00:53:23,100
getting them to put them neatly back in the case and clean the lenses. Sometimes we get a few

623
00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:26,460
seconds to put them down when we're getting toned out for a fire or something like that.

624
00:53:26,460 --> 00:53:30,460
So yeah, there is technology out there that can make the lenses almost impervious, but it'd be

625
00:53:30,460 --> 00:53:36,380
scratching in a plastic type of monomer, not a glass lens. It's just that it's relatively expensive

626
00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:41,580
and I want to make these sunglasses cost affordable. I don't want them to be $300.

627
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:45,260
I want them to be at an affordable price for most people.

628
00:53:45,260 --> 00:53:52,140
Brilliant. Okay, so the other area that you are very entrenched in is nutrition. So I'm going to

629
00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:55,420
start with a very blanket statement and then we can kind of hone in and talk about some of the

630
00:53:55,420 --> 00:54:02,380
things that we were talking about before we started recording. What are some of the biggest

631
00:54:03,820 --> 00:54:08,940
nutritional errors that we're making as a nation that are causing so much disease that we're seeing

632
00:54:08,940 --> 00:54:15,660
at the moment? It's our diet. The typical American diet is pro-inflammatory. It's very high in omega

633
00:54:15,660 --> 00:54:24,460
6, very high in sugar, carbohydrates, and it's pro-inflammatory. And so that's why our country,

634
00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:29,340
everybody's obese. They're overweight and they have inflammation that's on fire in their body.

635
00:54:29,340 --> 00:54:34,940
Remember aging, oxidation, and inflammation. So the number one thing, and I preach this to my

636
00:54:34,940 --> 00:54:40,540
patients, to my radio listeners when I lecture, is you got to adjust your diet. I like the paleo diet

637
00:54:40,540 --> 00:54:45,660
the best. You know the paleo diet, you don't have to be on a low carb diet. You don't have to be on

638
00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:49,900
the Atkins diet. I mean some of these diets are very bad for you because there's no nourishment.

639
00:54:49,900 --> 00:54:55,260
There's no vitamins. A lot of people lose weight very quickly on them, but they become immune

640
00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:58,540
compromised because there's no nutritional value. There's no vitamins and minerals,

641
00:54:59,260 --> 00:55:04,460
but they do lose weight and that's important. But you can lose weight and be healthy at the same time.

642
00:55:04,460 --> 00:55:10,060
Actually I created a diet, you can google it, the Lange diet, Lange diet plan, and it's a modified

643
00:55:10,060 --> 00:55:16,060
version of the paleo diet. And the paleo diet uses what God put on this planet. No processed,

644
00:55:16,060 --> 00:55:21,740
no overly processed foods. There's no pasta, there's no bread, really there's no rice,

645
00:55:23,340 --> 00:55:28,700
nothing that doesn't grow from the tree or that's natural. You can eat beef, you can eat chicken,

646
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:35,340
you can eat turkey, you got to prepare it, fish, you can eat fruits and vegetables. Milk is not

647
00:55:35,340 --> 00:55:42,060
really in the paleo diet, but that's where I disagree with it. We use goat milk and A2 cows

648
00:55:42,060 --> 00:55:47,180
milk in the Lange diet because I think it's actually very good for you. So we got to get

649
00:55:47,180 --> 00:55:52,140
rid of the typical pro-inflammatory diet. I mean you ask people what do they have for breakfast.

650
00:55:52,940 --> 00:55:59,100
And most of my patients had a piece of toast, had a bagel and a cup of coffee. I had some cereal and

651
00:55:59,100 --> 00:56:08,940
orange juice, sugar and more sugar. I had a donut, I had a pop tart. The most important time to eat

652
00:56:08,940 --> 00:56:15,340
protein is breakfast and supper. And it should be protein and vegetables. So an egg omelet, free

653
00:56:15,340 --> 00:56:21,340
range organic eggs and saute it in coconut oil and put some kale and spinach and maybe mushrooms

654
00:56:21,340 --> 00:56:27,420
and bell peppers sauteed in there and a big glass of spring water or green tea. That should be your

655
00:56:27,420 --> 00:56:32,380
breakfast. Or you can make a smoothie with a good whey protein we'll talk about in a minute, but stay

656
00:56:32,380 --> 00:56:36,860
away from those carbs. Remember your blood sugar is as high as it gets first thing in the morning

657
00:56:36,860 --> 00:56:41,020
and then you're putting sugar on top of it and you wonder why your kids aren't making good grades.

658
00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:50,060
You're giving them the colorful sugary cereal that they love, a glass of chocolate milk and then they

659
00:56:50,060 --> 00:56:55,420
can't pay attention in class because their pancreas over secretes insulin and then they drop. They

660
00:56:55,420 --> 00:57:00,140
start to go down and they mind can't think, they can't concentrate. So they get labeled as attention

661
00:57:00,140 --> 00:57:06,460
deficit disorder, learning disabled, hyperactive and it's the breakfast. Breakfast is most important

662
00:57:06,460 --> 00:57:12,940
meal. So start using protein and vegetables. I don't even like fruit for breakfast. Fruit is for

663
00:57:12,940 --> 00:57:19,580
snacks or for lunch. No fruit for supper. Supper should be like boiled chicken and some boiled

664
00:57:19,580 --> 00:57:25,980
broccoli or some tuna fish and a tuna salad or something. You know a salad and a lean piece of

665
00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:33,980
grass-fed organic beef and some vegetables. Fruit is for lunchtime or for snacks. You know you can

666
00:57:33,980 --> 00:57:39,100
have a little slice of pineapple and a handful of nuts as a snack in between meals. We should eat

667
00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:44,460
five meals a day. Three regular meals and then two small meals or two snacks in between. That keeps

668
00:57:44,460 --> 00:57:51,740
our metabolism going. Keeps our blood sugar from yo-yoing up and down, up and down. But yeah the

669
00:57:51,740 --> 00:57:57,260
diet is the number one thing we need to adjust and we need to go to a anti-inflammatory diet.

670
00:57:57,260 --> 00:58:01,980
And it's hard for people to do because a lot of people aren't liking fish and they're not eating

671
00:58:01,980 --> 00:58:09,580
the fish that helps give them the omega-3 that they so urgently need. So taking a good omega-3

672
00:58:09,580 --> 00:58:14,780
fish oil is a good way of even if you're eating that Burger King Whopper every now and then.

673
00:58:14,780 --> 00:58:20,460
Let me remember everything in moderation. Taking a good omega-3 fish oil between 1500 and 2000

674
00:58:20,460 --> 00:58:27,420
milligrams of fish oil in the triglyceride form. I created one called Fortify Super Omega.

675
00:58:28,140 --> 00:58:35,020
Will help lower the inflammation in your body related to that nasty diet. So that's a good way

676
00:58:35,020 --> 00:58:39,820
because a lot of people aren't going to change their diet that much but they could certainly

677
00:58:39,820 --> 00:58:46,140
take two fish oils a day. Now when we talk about omega-3, over-the-counter omega-3, you can people

678
00:58:46,140 --> 00:58:52,300
can test their omega-3 and find out if it's good or not. Simply bite your omega-3 in two, squeeze it

679
00:58:52,300 --> 00:58:57,100
in a styrofoam cup and see what happens. If within 10 minutes it rots a hole through that cup you

680
00:58:57,100 --> 00:59:02,540
got to think twice about putting in your system. 95% of all fish oil you buy over the counter is an

681
00:59:02,540 --> 00:59:07,260
ethyl ester molecule. That means it has ethanol attached to the backbone. They use that in the

682
00:59:07,260 --> 00:59:12,300
distillation and purification process. They don't take it out because it's expensive to remove.

683
00:59:12,940 --> 00:59:18,620
We do a process like that but then we remove the ethanol and replace the triglyceride backbone the

684
00:59:18,620 --> 00:59:23,580
way fish naturally have it in the sea. Makes it absorb much quicker. It doesn't go rancid.

685
00:59:23,580 --> 00:59:31,260
You don't get the fishy burp back either but it lowers inflammatory markers in your body.

686
00:59:31,260 --> 00:59:37,900
So C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor, arachidonic acid, things like this go down if

687
00:59:37,900 --> 00:59:42,700
you're taking the proper omega-3 fish oil. So I always preach that to patients. If you're going

688
00:59:42,700 --> 00:59:47,260
to take anything, if you only took one pill, not a multivitamin, it'd be a good omega-3 fish oil.

689
00:59:47,820 --> 00:59:53,420
Not krill. I think krill is a nutritional scam personally because there's no omega-3 in krill.

690
00:59:53,420 --> 00:59:59,020
The small little pills they're giving you in these omega reds has less than 100 milligrams of omega-3.

691
00:59:59,020 --> 01:00:05,100
So you'd have to take a whole bottle to get enough. So take a good triglyceride form omega-3 fish oil

692
01:00:05,100 --> 01:00:09,420
and you'll find that next time you go to get your blood chemistries done at your primary care

693
01:00:09,420 --> 01:00:16,940
physician, they're starting to normalize. Okay. Yeah. I think one of the best catch phrases I

694
01:00:16,940 --> 01:00:21,340
guess you could say is I think it just hits it right on the head about where we're at at the moment

695
01:00:21,340 --> 01:00:26,220
is that we're overfed and malnourished. And those two don't make sense initially but as you were

696
01:00:26,220 --> 01:00:31,580
saying, if you're not having that spectrum of color on your plate, you can be completely stuffed and

697
01:00:32,220 --> 01:00:37,420
put nothing but bad stuff in your body versus as you're saying, smoothies and salads and

698
01:00:37,420 --> 01:00:42,860
vegetables that will still be delicious and fill you up but now you're nourishing instead of harming

699
01:00:42,860 --> 01:00:48,300
your body. Absolutely. Colorful, especially vegetables. So you get kale and spinach,

700
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:54,380
orange, red, and yellow bell peppers, put some onions and some broccoli and some radishes and

701
01:00:54,380 --> 01:01:00,380
you know, put a little salad dressing on it or gently steam it, gently saute it, and a wild piece

702
01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:07,660
of Alaskan salmon or some chicken or some beef or pork or whatever, that's a meal. You know,

703
01:01:07,660 --> 01:01:11,580
you don't have to have, and you know I love spaghetti and meatballs, let me tell you,

704
01:01:11,580 --> 01:01:15,980
and every now and then you got to have some lasagna, some spaghetti, but for the most part

705
01:01:15,980 --> 01:01:20,540
you don't because most of these are filled with gluten and a lot of people have gluten sensitivities,

706
01:01:20,540 --> 01:01:25,260
they have celiac disease, but the thing I don't like is most of this is genetically modified so

707
01:01:25,260 --> 01:01:30,060
there's a lot of pesticide and that's why we see so many people with irritable bowel syndrome and

708
01:01:30,060 --> 01:01:36,540
acid reflux. It's from the foods they're eating, all the gluten, the FODMAP vegetables, these are

709
01:01:36,540 --> 01:01:41,500
fruits and vegetables that cause fermentation in your gut. A lot of people have reactions to

710
01:01:41,500 --> 01:01:46,220
these type of fruits and vegetables, not everybody, so I can actually listen to my patients and I'm

711
01:01:46,220 --> 01:01:51,420
their eye doctor but I'm also their nutritional guru and I can find out based on their history

712
01:01:51,420 --> 01:01:56,460
and their diet, you know, what's causing their bloating and what's causing their lack of energy

713
01:01:56,460 --> 01:02:02,060
and we can simply totally adjust their diet, take the foods out without even doing any blood tests

714
01:02:02,060 --> 01:02:08,700
and anything to look for sensitivities just based on the case history and looking at their stomach

715
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:13,020
if it's bloated and tender, we can adjust their diet and their lifestyle a little bit and help

716
01:02:13,020 --> 01:02:19,020
them dramatically, but they go to their primary care physician oftentimes and they prescribe

717
01:02:19,020 --> 01:02:24,540
an antacid and that's just masking the problems and actually it's creating problems down the road

718
01:02:24,540 --> 01:02:30,540
because these antacids actually block the absorption of many nutrients causing a malnourished

719
01:02:30,540 --> 01:02:35,740
environment. Yeah, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, don't a lot of these antacids actually cause

720
01:02:35,740 --> 01:02:42,060
more pyruvic acid as well? Right, they secrete because it's an antacid so your body overcomes

721
01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:47,180
by secreting more acid and so it can actually, in the short term, it can be beneficial but if you

722
01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:52,460
use them chronically long term it can be a horrendous problem for people. Right, brilliant. All right,

723
01:02:52,460 --> 01:02:58,460
so we were talking about dairy and I told you that, you know, my story and I think anyone who's

724
01:02:58,460 --> 01:03:04,380
listened to all the podcasts probably heard this, I had IBS, I had stomach issues my whole life,

725
01:03:04,380 --> 01:03:10,940
grew up on a farm, drank milk by the pint like it was water and then four years ago stopped dairy

726
01:03:10,940 --> 01:03:16,140
and almost overnight realized that that was the underlying cause of a lot of my stomach issues

727
01:03:16,780 --> 01:03:23,020
but we talked about A2 milk and I literally, I think it was either today or yesterday, saw a

728
01:03:23,020 --> 01:03:27,660
commercial for the first time, never even heard of it. So could you tell us what A2 milk is and why

729
01:03:27,660 --> 01:03:33,500
you do use that in the goat's milk? Right, I started, you know, promoting A2 milk about two and a

730
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:39,260
half, three years ago now and now it's becoming very vogue and maybe it's due to my radio program

731
01:03:39,260 --> 01:03:47,420
but so thousands of years ago the typical cow went through a genetic mutation and the beta casein

732
01:03:47,420 --> 01:03:54,940
protein actually went through this mutation and it's an A1 beta casein protein is linked to irritable

733
01:03:54,940 --> 01:04:02,140
leaky gut, cancer, diabetes, and autism in children and think we all know people that have all these

734
01:04:02,140 --> 01:04:06,540
things and they've been drinking milk all their life. So goat milk has never gone through that

735
01:04:06,540 --> 01:04:13,340
genetic mutation. It has a beta casein A2 beta casein protein. It does not cause any of those

736
01:04:13,340 --> 01:04:20,300
things, all right. People don't like the wild taste of goat milk for some reason. You acquire the taste,

737
01:04:20,300 --> 01:04:26,700
all right, but now the A2 cow company from New Zealand is now in the United States and they

738
01:04:26,700 --> 01:04:31,900
actually genetically test every cow to make sure that they haven't gone through the genetic mutation

739
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:38,620
producing A1 beta casein and so I have many patients, many colleagues, many friends that

740
01:04:38,620 --> 01:04:42,620
were in the same situation with you and they thought they were lactose intolerant. That was

741
01:04:42,620 --> 01:04:47,820
the problem and they can drink A2 cow's milk and have no problem at all. So you're getting the

742
01:04:47,820 --> 01:04:52,940
benefits and I like the whole milk because that fat in that milk is actually good for you. This

743
01:04:52,940 --> 01:04:59,740
is a grass-fed A2 cow so try drinking A2 cows. Promise Land is another one you can buy that's

744
01:04:59,740 --> 01:05:09,660
from A2 cows or goat's milk and it's great because milk has eight grams of protein in one cup. So if

745
01:05:09,660 --> 01:05:14,380
you're making a protein drink, a lot of people are using almond milk or coconut milk or soy milk,

746
01:05:14,380 --> 01:05:22,860
God forbid, stay away from soy, all right. It screws up your hormones but there's no protein

747
01:05:22,860 --> 01:05:28,380
once again but milk does have protein. Two cups of milk is going to have 16 grams of protein.

748
01:05:28,380 --> 01:05:34,140
So that and some eggs in the morning for breakfast with some vegetables and you're in good shape.

749
01:05:34,140 --> 01:05:38,220
And then so adding to that, you were telling me about your recovery shake that you

750
01:05:38,860 --> 01:05:43,660
developed or come across. Well interesting, you know, during some blood studies that I've done,

751
01:05:43,660 --> 01:05:48,140
I've done thousands of blood analysis on my patients with macular degeneration over the last

752
01:05:48,140 --> 01:05:54,300
15 years and one of the biggest nutritional deficiencies macular degeneration patients have

753
01:05:54,300 --> 01:06:00,780
and then patients, people over 50 in general, is glutathione. And so I tried using L-glutathione,

754
01:06:00,780 --> 01:06:07,500
inocetyl cysteine, different things to stimulate glutathione. Nothing really worked but whey protein

755
01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:14,140
does. Whey protein concentrate much better than an isolate because it has the good fats which has the

756
01:06:14,140 --> 01:06:20,780
imuglobulins in it and so I actually was using some whey proteins that you can only get prescription

757
01:06:20,780 --> 01:06:24,700
wise. They were very expensive because the whey proteins you buy over the counter are kind of like

758
01:06:24,700 --> 01:06:30,380
the fish oil you buy over the counter. Most of them are coming from China, not to knock China,

759
01:06:30,380 --> 01:06:35,340
but I wouldn't consume anything in my body that came from China right now and most of them,

760
01:06:35,340 --> 01:06:40,620
the protein has been bleached, most have been filled with growth hormones to produce more milk,

761
01:06:40,620 --> 01:06:47,660
antibiotics, steroids, and then the grass if they are dewy grass has pesticide on it but most of

762
01:06:47,660 --> 01:06:53,820
them are fed grains and so the grains are genetically modified grains skewing the whole omega 3 profile

763
01:06:53,820 --> 01:06:59,340
in the milk. So I started researching because I wanted the best of the best for myself, my family,

764
01:06:59,340 --> 01:07:04,700
and my patients and came to the conclusion New Zealand is the best place to get these cows.

765
01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:12,380
So we went and started a company well years ago, four to five vitamins, but we used this to be able

766
01:07:12,380 --> 01:07:20,540
to buy bulk direct from New Zealand and we're using A2 cows and it's not necessary for whey protein

767
01:07:20,540 --> 01:07:25,340
but we're using because the whey protein removes all the casein protein but we're still using that

768
01:07:25,340 --> 01:07:32,940
herd and we're using a concentrate non-bleached whey protein concentrate. This is non-denatured

769
01:07:32,940 --> 01:07:38,780
because New Zealand does not heat the protein to denature it the way America does over 300 degrees.

770
01:07:38,780 --> 01:07:45,180
So the protein molecule is much more bioavailable all the immune globulins remain intact something

771
01:07:45,180 --> 01:07:51,020
called covalent bonded cysteine is in it that converts to glutathione. Remember glutathione

772
01:07:51,020 --> 01:07:56,540
is this big deficiency in most people over 50 and most patients with macular degeneration.

773
01:07:56,540 --> 01:08:02,060
So I developed fortify super protein we have it vanilla chocolate and now one called naked

774
01:08:02,060 --> 01:08:07,900
fortify naked super protein and I think it's the ultimate protein in the United States right now.

775
01:08:07,900 --> 01:08:13,900
And so what happens is I also developed for my patients so they're not having the bagel and

776
01:08:13,900 --> 01:08:19,180
orange juice for breakfast. They're having a protein smoothie they take a scoop of this

777
01:08:19,180 --> 01:08:24,780
they can take some white A2 milk or goat's milk put a little kale maybe a banana and some blueberries

778
01:08:25,420 --> 01:08:31,180
peanut butter or almond butter blend it all together and they got a protein packed smoothie

779
01:08:31,180 --> 01:08:36,780
smoothie with antioxidants anti-inflammatory for breakfast keeps them going until lunch.

780
01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:43,500
So post-recovery is something that's really great and I did a lot of research on this.

781
01:08:43,500 --> 01:08:49,020
You can type in Google the ultimate post-recovery workout drink I come up number one in the world

782
01:08:49,020 --> 01:08:58,140
and so after a lot of research it's very simple it's chocolate milk watermelon and fortify super

783
01:08:58,140 --> 01:09:05,100
protein one scoop. So one scoop of fortify super protein has 21 grams of the fastest acting whey

784
01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:14,860
protein two cups of chocolate milk not the organic chocolate milk A2 chocolate milk or harai or um

785
01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:20,380
promised land chocolate milk or goat's milk if they make a chocolate milk and that's giving

786
01:09:20,380 --> 01:09:26,780
you another 16 grams on top of the 21 grams of protein and then a big giant wedge of watermelon

787
01:09:26,780 --> 01:09:31,180
and you blend it together you drink it one minute to 30 minutes after working out whatever your

788
01:09:31,180 --> 01:09:36,380
workout is bike rider triathlon swimming hitting the weight the gym you know the weights you know

789
01:09:36,380 --> 01:09:41,820
boxing whatever it is rowing and it's the best post-recovery workout drink because right after

790
01:09:41,820 --> 01:09:48,300
working out you want to have high glycemic index chocolate is high glycemic index watermelon is

791
01:09:48,300 --> 01:09:54,700
the highest glycemic index fruit known to man so you have that watermelon is high in l citrulline

792
01:09:54,700 --> 01:10:00,860
that converts to l arginine vasodilating the blood vessels bringing the combination of whey protein

793
01:10:00,860 --> 01:10:07,180
and long acting casein protein from the good milk to your muscles it's an amazing post-recovery

794
01:10:07,180 --> 01:10:13,820
workout drink it works i've got literally thousands of patients taking it now body builders

795
01:10:13,820 --> 01:10:20,060
you know power lifters professional athletes all doing amazingly well okay i might have to try that

796
01:10:20,060 --> 01:10:26,620
because i'm working towards uh kind of like the the hell week the of the fire service that we get

797
01:10:26,620 --> 01:10:31,100
to volunteer for and pay for in the fire school here um so i'm doing a lot of training and gear

798
01:10:31,100 --> 01:10:36,300
and all that kind of thing so it'd be a good time to try that and see if i can tolerate the a2 as

799
01:10:36,300 --> 01:10:41,500
well so i think i'll remember that post-workout yes pre-workout you don't use chocolate milk

800
01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:48,220
pre-workout and you don't use watermelon you lose low glycemic index so blueberries strawberries

801
01:10:48,220 --> 01:10:56,060
uh a scoop of the protein white a2 cow's milk or um goat's milk and you can put a little manuka

802
01:10:56,060 --> 01:11:02,620
honey manuka hundi is uh also gives you some prolonged energy very good for digestion as well

803
01:11:02,620 --> 01:11:07,340
okay fantastic now i'm gonna wrap up in just a moment um but i want to touch on one thing that

804
01:11:07,340 --> 01:11:17,340
we just just glossed over so um from my understanding soy in in the japanese um original form where it's

805
01:11:17,340 --> 01:11:23,340
uh uh i'm forgetting the word now but um fermented um is it is a very good source of protein and in

806
01:11:23,340 --> 01:11:29,260
the healthy version but what is it that we do here that makes soy bad and what is it doing to the

807
01:11:29,260 --> 01:11:34,060
human body yeah the only soy that's any good is organic fermented soy and then again in

808
01:11:34,060 --> 01:11:38,940
moderation i wouldn't do it every day uh the fermentation process you know really releases

809
01:11:38,940 --> 01:11:44,140
probiotics and enzymes that are incredible for the digestive system so i have a little miso soup and

810
01:11:44,140 --> 01:11:49,660
a little tempeh and that's in the lang diet uh that's once or twice a week on the lang diet plan

811
01:11:49,660 --> 01:11:57,260
the problem with the soy here 99.9 percent of it is all genetically modified and uh you know that's

812
01:11:57,260 --> 01:12:04,300
a whole nother talk show and i personally would stay away from gmos no matter what anybody tells

813
01:12:04,300 --> 01:12:11,020
you right and there's a lot of evidence why um so genetically modified products you just don't want

814
01:12:11,020 --> 01:12:18,380
to ingest but soy uh even edamame you know it's most of that's genetically modified if you can find

815
01:12:18,380 --> 01:12:24,300
you know um organically grown soy and they can guarantee it's non-gmo which i don't think it's

816
01:12:24,300 --> 01:12:30,940
almost impossible these days then in moderation it's okay but soy is a phytoestrogen just like

817
01:12:30,940 --> 01:12:36,140
red wine is so men out there especially you don't want to eat a lot of story you don't want to drink

818
01:12:36,140 --> 01:12:41,820
a lot of red wine women maybe but not men because it's going to lower your testosterone and raise

819
01:12:41,820 --> 01:12:48,060
your estrogen levels and you don't want that men don't want that right i've seen a lot of men doing

820
01:12:48,060 --> 01:12:54,620
the wine tasting that explains a lot yeah remember everything in moderation a good a little pino noir

821
01:12:54,620 --> 01:13:00,300
pino noir has the highest amount of resveratrol which is very good for the retina all right but

822
01:13:00,300 --> 01:13:04,220
these are patients with macula degeneration that are 85 percent of the time they're in the

823
01:13:04,220 --> 01:13:10,220
macula degeneration that are 85 years old and they're probably not you know ravaging a 30 year

824
01:13:10,220 --> 01:13:13,900
old woman they're probably not having a lot of sex and they're certainly uh not going to have

825
01:13:13,900 --> 01:13:19,420
any more children so you know if you're going to have something that raise your estrogen lowers

826
01:13:19,420 --> 01:13:23,420
your testosterone if you don't want to go blind that's a different story but for most men virile

827
01:13:23,420 --> 01:13:28,940
men you know a little wine in moderation is okay if you're going to drink it drink a pino noir from

828
01:13:28,940 --> 01:13:34,220
the northern region of either new york or oregon uh that has the highest amount of resveratrol but

829
01:13:34,220 --> 01:13:39,260
remember everything in moderation a good beer is probably better for you than than wine they add a

830
01:13:39,260 --> 01:13:43,900
lot of sulfites to the wines these days too if you get them from europe it's different they're not

831
01:13:43,900 --> 01:13:49,740
adding additional sulfites sulfites occur naturally in the wine we don't have to add more the fda makes

832
01:13:49,740 --> 01:13:54,460
us add way too much that's one reason you get headaches you know you have five or six glasses

833
01:13:54,460 --> 01:13:58,860
of wine and you feel in no pain and then you wake up in the morning you have one of the worst headaches

834
01:13:58,860 --> 01:14:04,060
it's the sulfites preserving your brain ah yeah see i i get migraines so that was one of my

835
01:14:04,060 --> 01:14:10,060
triggers and like when i go home and uh portugal and france where my mom and dad live um yeah i

836
01:14:10,060 --> 01:14:14,140
never have an issue with that at all but here i mean there's certain wines now yeah it's obviously

837
01:14:14,140 --> 01:14:20,380
getting more progressive in the stores but yeah i find a good organic wine that says no added sulfites

838
01:14:20,380 --> 01:14:26,380
on it very difficult to find all right so i'm going to wrap up with some questions you've been

839
01:14:26,380 --> 01:14:31,100
very very generous with your time and uh we need to get and uh get out there and do some preparations

840
01:14:31,100 --> 01:14:38,620
for this hurricane um so uh very first question uh is there a book that you recommend to people

841
01:14:38,620 --> 01:14:44,060
can be about this or it can be about something completely different or a fiction wow a book

842
01:14:44,700 --> 01:14:49,020
somebody asked me that and i was being interviewed before i i just you know i don't have a lot of time

843
01:14:49,020 --> 01:14:55,020
to read um i haven't read a lot of books i mean because i've been working literally since uh you

844
01:14:55,020 --> 01:15:02,940
know college started and since i work i'm 18 19 hours a day uh sleep deprived um i read a lot of

845
01:15:03,580 --> 01:15:07,500
journals all right that are directly related to the businesses that i'm in

846
01:15:08,860 --> 01:15:15,180
i think people that have the time and the ability to sit down and read a book by candlelight very

847
01:15:15,180 --> 01:15:22,220
relaxing you know if you want to fall asleep war and peace right sit down and try to read war and

848
01:15:22,220 --> 01:15:27,820
peace candlelight i guarantee you'll get tired and you'll fall asleep yeah or any college textbook

849
01:15:28,940 --> 01:15:36,460
all right so what about a movie and or documentary wow my favorite movie

850
01:15:39,580 --> 01:15:42,780
i tell you one of my favorite movies it was a long time ago was the champ

851
01:15:42,780 --> 01:15:49,740
you know and the reason for that is you know i i people say i'm not that sensitive but i actually

852
01:15:49,740 --> 01:15:55,660
nobody knows this but i actually cried in that movie it's the only movie ever in my life that i

853
01:15:55,660 --> 01:16:00,780
shed a few tears and the champ was a long time ago you can probably rent it and look at it but

854
01:16:00,780 --> 01:16:06,860
it really got to my sensitive side it's the only movie ever oh really um i like gladiator too

855
01:16:06,860 --> 01:16:11,420
gladiator is a great movie that was yeah i cried like a little girl in a lot of movies so i guess

856
01:16:11,420 --> 01:16:16,220
i don't have the same problem um all right so what do you do i mean like you said it yourself

857
01:16:16,220 --> 01:16:21,180
you work very hard you've poured yourself into not just this business but multiple businesses

858
01:16:21,180 --> 01:16:28,540
so what do you do to decompress well i try to i try to get to the gym every day if i can every

859
01:16:28,540 --> 01:16:33,020
night at least and usually it's working out later in the evening or early early in the morning

860
01:16:33,580 --> 01:16:41,340
and then try to get some cardiovascular exercise usually on uh saturday morning or sunday morning

861
01:16:41,340 --> 01:16:49,180
sunday monday and tuesday i try to bike 50 miles on each of those days um or row so i'm either

862
01:16:49,180 --> 01:16:54,780
biking doing some form of you know fairly extreme cardiovascular exercise hit the gym and then

863
01:16:55,900 --> 01:17:03,180
every other weekend i'm racing cars now so um i'm actually scca full competition license

864
01:17:03,180 --> 01:17:12,140
i'm driving a 2017 viper acr extreme voodoo 2 there's only 31 of them in the world i put michelin

865
01:17:12,140 --> 01:17:18,620
slicks and some headers and did a little engine work and and you know racing in the advanced class

866
01:17:18,620 --> 01:17:23,900
and doing quite well just won the class at sebring last saturday and heading to new

867
01:17:23,900 --> 01:17:32,380
orleans to raise i gotta tell you um and there is one thing about releasing adrenaline when you

868
01:17:32,380 --> 01:17:37,260
release adrenaline you also release beta endorphins beta endorphins are natural pain relievers

869
01:17:37,900 --> 01:17:43,820
natural anti-depressants and i tell you when i i have a need for speed that's why i did the whole

870
01:17:43,820 --> 01:17:52,700
motocross thing and until racing cars i i couldn't find a sport that really released the adrenaline

871
01:17:52,700 --> 01:17:57,260
made me feel young and made me feel good i mean golf doesn't do it for me fishing doesn't do it

872
01:17:57,260 --> 01:18:02,780
for me mountain biking does a little bit road biking definitely doesn't do it for me triathlons

873
01:18:02,780 --> 01:18:07,980
don't do it for me but i noticed when i was driving my car on the streets too fast on the

874
01:18:07,980 --> 01:18:13,420
interstate on the verge when you're waiting for the blue lights behind you um that did it and so

875
01:18:13,420 --> 01:18:18,780
you can't really do that on the street so i went to one of the track days at sebring and got

876
01:18:19,420 --> 01:18:25,180
really interested into it and then i took the bondurant race school courses over in arizona

877
01:18:25,180 --> 01:18:30,460
and did formula one race cars and i got addicted to it about four or five months ago

878
01:18:31,180 --> 01:18:37,020
and so uh that need for speed's coming out but i mean after i'm in a race i feel i get out of the

879
01:18:37,020 --> 01:18:43,180
car i don't feel 55 i don't have knee aches neck pains i literally feel 21 22 years of age

880
01:18:43,180 --> 01:18:49,260
and i think everybody needs to find a way to help release their beta endorphins you know it's like

881
01:18:49,260 --> 01:18:53,500
when you're doing when you're running and you hit that wall okay when you hit that wall and you run

882
01:18:53,500 --> 01:18:59,340
a little bit more then boom you start feeling good again that most people don't get to the wall but

883
01:18:59,340 --> 01:19:04,460
you know people that do marathons they understand this and triathletes and iron man competitors

884
01:19:05,340 --> 01:19:09,980
because that's the release of beta endorphins and everybody needs to figure out a way especially as

885
01:19:09,980 --> 01:19:15,900
you get older how can they release the beta endorphins safely yeah well we've we've narrowed

886
01:19:15,900 --> 01:19:20,700
our field so much as far as safety as well we're in this comfortable little box and i think a lot

887
01:19:20,700 --> 01:19:26,460
of people that i've interviewed that have you know broken out of that have had you know success and

888
01:19:26,460 --> 01:19:32,220
happiness and and all these other areas because you think about original man we weren't sitting

889
01:19:32,220 --> 01:19:37,580
in a climate control box watching electrical devices all day we were out you know running for

890
01:19:37,580 --> 01:19:41,820
our lives and hunting and fishing and swimming and running and all these other things during

891
01:19:41,820 --> 01:19:45,980
storms yeah so i think that i mean it makes perfect sense martial arts is mine and having

892
01:19:45,980 --> 01:19:51,820
someone try and knock me out is kind of adrenaline rushed yeah absolutely so all right so my next

893
01:19:51,820 --> 01:19:57,740
question is is kind of a new one i started asking um can you think of a person who would be an

894
01:19:57,740 --> 01:20:02,220
invaluable guest on this podcast to talk to the first responders of the world

895
01:20:08,700 --> 01:20:15,500
i tell you if my dad wasn't 89 years old my dad okay would have been would have been great he's

896
01:20:15,500 --> 01:20:21,020
been a guest on my radio show many times i gotta tell you my success is directly related to my dad

897
01:20:21,020 --> 01:20:27,900
you know he taught me the value of hard work all right um you know you don't get anything for free

898
01:20:27,900 --> 01:20:31,820
no matter what you do he didn't push me into medicine you know he said whatever you do

899
01:20:32,380 --> 01:20:37,420
you know do the best job if you dig in a ditch be the best ditch digger and you're going to own the

900
01:20:37,420 --> 01:20:45,820
company and i think my dad instilled moral values in me and and work ethics that quite frankly i

901
01:20:45,820 --> 01:20:52,540
don't see these days in employees so yeah but he's living in mississippi half in new orleans it'd be

902
01:20:52,540 --> 01:20:58,140
difficult to get him here but if i had to pick somebody it'd be you know my mentor is is is my

903
01:20:58,140 --> 01:21:04,380
dad and he's probably one of the reasons i'm where i'm at today uh is because of the values that he

904
01:21:04,380 --> 01:21:10,460
instilled in me brilliant okay i love that answer all right so to wrap it up then so people listening

905
01:21:10,460 --> 01:21:14,940
now um where can they find you where can they find the fortified products everything we've talked

906
01:21:14,940 --> 01:21:20,620
about today right so um the lang i institute is based in the center of florida in the villages

907
01:21:21,500 --> 01:21:27,980
you can learn a lot more about what we do at dr michael lang.com don't spell doctor just dr

908
01:21:27,980 --> 01:21:33,900
dr michael lang.com that actually will link up uh to a section social media you can follow me

909
01:21:33,900 --> 01:21:42,620
on twitter facebook pinterest google plus linkedin instagram from dr michael lang.com and that will

910
01:21:42,620 --> 01:21:51,580
also link you up to my other companies of fortify vitamins which is fortify.com you can learn about

911
01:21:51,580 --> 01:21:56,700
the research behind the products that we've developed a whole line of whole body supplements

912
01:21:56,700 --> 01:22:03,820
not just i vitamins paleo simplified is a company of mine where we make paleo bars paleo granola

913
01:22:03,820 --> 01:22:09,500
that's uh from the website blue light defense uh and a few other companies all link from

914
01:22:09,500 --> 01:22:16,140
dr michael lang.com so pretty much that website will also give you some videos uh of me racing

915
01:22:16,140 --> 01:22:21,100
or you can go to two youtube channels which i think are also on that website either dr michael

916
01:22:21,100 --> 01:22:27,580
lang youtube or ocular health channel youtube and they've got a lot of videos of my radio shows

917
01:22:27,580 --> 01:22:34,700
um and also me recumbent biking or car racing even some motocross videos okay and what's the radio

918
01:22:34,700 --> 01:22:42,220
show called uh ask the doctor i've been hosting ask the doctor uh since march of 1993 non-stop

919
01:22:42,220 --> 01:22:48,220
wow a little bit longer than me i'm hitting 10 months right now all right well thank you so

920
01:22:48,220 --> 01:22:53,260
much i think we've really delved in some things that and i love podcasts and i delve into a lot

921
01:22:53,260 --> 01:22:57,820
of fitness and health um we just don't discuss a lot of things that we talked about today i

922
01:22:57,820 --> 01:23:02,620
haven't heard anything talked about with the a2 milk and and you know many of the areas so it's

923
01:23:02,620 --> 01:23:06,620
it's definitely going to be another gold mine i think for people so i really appreciate you

924
01:23:06,620 --> 01:23:10,780
giving me the time especially the end of your work day here we're sitting here it's dark outside now

925
01:23:10,780 --> 01:23:16,300
so thank you so much fantastic i enjoyed it anytime you want to do it again just let me

926
01:23:16,300 --> 01:23:26,140
know i'll always be available for you brilliant well thank you