How Your Body Transforms On A Vegan Diet Part 2
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2017
- New studies, more changes, and more interesting facts about how your body physically changes on a vegan diet.
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Part 1: • How Your Body Transfor...
Inflammation Studies:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
ALS, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Vegan Diet Lowers Inflammation Intervention Study:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
New Vegan Diet Weight Loss Study (BROAD):
www.nature.com/nutd/journal/v7...
"vegetarians' microbiota...degraded up to 100% phytate."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
Vegan Gut Study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Vegans have lower IGF-1:
cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/...
Laron Syndrome Article: www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Vegans have 15% lower total cancer:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
Vegans had 29% lower female cancers:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Barnard Intramyocellular Lipids Quote Study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Vegans have lower intramyocellular lipids study:
www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v...
Vegans had higher levels of testosterone study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Period pain intensity and duration lower on vegan diet study:
www.pcrm.org/sites/default/fil...
Whole food vegan diet unclogs arteries clinical trial: dresselstyn.com/JFP_06307_Arti...
Vegan Rice Diet unclogs eye arteries study:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10...
I've been vegan for three months and I feel AMAZING!! And lost about 17lbs 💕💕🌱🌱🌱
Congrats!! :D
FATtoVEGAN! !! not only did you lose weight but you significantly healed your body, the planet, and spared the lives of many people and animals. So you are pretty much a hero.
Alex Beau Thank you!
LiveLikeIt's2007 my body feels like it's healing everyday!! Thank you!! 💕💕
FATtoVEGAN! !! ♡♡♡♡♡ thats wonderful!!!!!
Can confirm all of it! Going vegan saved my life.
Yup I believe around 300 animals a year? Not to mention the torture of cows for their milk and chickens for their eggs, that I didn't support. But to me the ethical side was just a bonus in the hindsight, like for the most long-term vegans I guess. Non of us is a saint. ;)
Me too. I went to my high school weight and gained mass as my strength went through the roof.
I wish my parents weren't sheeple and I could have been vegan from the start.
I feel for you, but you're doing a good thing by going vegan. If you die it won't happen any animal. So stay strong.
Miss Deluxe I can really relate to that.. It's incredible before I went vegan I didn't care much about farmed animals although I was vegetarian but mainly for health. Then vegan at first for health but now I think the ethics became even more important to me and I'm just happy that it happens to be the healthiest diet as well. Also aesthetics are an important reason now why I'm vegan I just find dairy (pus) and corpses often contaminated with fecal bacterias just too disgusting to consume lol
+ Miss Deluxe im the opposite when i learn of people doing horrible things i have to deal with violent homicidal thoughts
I went Vegan 2 months ago and I am in love, I wish I would have done it years ago... oh, and I have lost 30lbs! I'm so excited!
LoL you are being malnourished like all vegas follow this supposidly valid scientific studies and youtubers.. after 2 years you will leave veganism because of health issues ... guaranteed.
Earthling Ed convinced me to go vegan for ethical reasons, but weight loss would sure be a nice perk... I'll probably have to cut back on the delicious chocolate almond milk though :P
@@duchas you do know that veganism is not new and there are people who have been vegan their whole lives or most of their lives?
@@duchas Healthy doesn't mean malnourished dumbass
Honeymoon phase... been there done that after a few months it’ll all change just make sure u listen to your body cuz believe me it won’t last too long Angela good luck 🙏
Been vegan for a week. Gotta start somewhere! Here for the long haul and you keep motivating me. Thanks for all your videos :D
Han Boetes I am planning on getting my family onto a vegan diet. I am currently 32 , almost 33 weeks pregnant and knowing I plan to have this little one Vegan from birth excites me. My children are still young as well (5 year old and 3 year old) where I am excited about them going through the little changes now so they crave the healthy foods as adults. *we dont eat super bad now...but knowing we can do so much better for our bodies excites me to make the change* ♡♡
I am 26 years old, hubby is 27 and better now then never is how I view it.. I didnt really know much about Vegan eating before recently.
So greatful for these videos and all the Vegan Vloggers for sharing facts and helping others become educated :D
Any time is the best time to go vegan. I absolutely love it.
Congratulations on making a great decision for yourself, for the environment, and for the sentient creatures of this planet! I went vegan over three months ago, and it's easily one of the best decisions I've made. You should check out the Vegan Corner on UA-cam for some great recipes (100% free, with video guides!)
Tim D'Egidio I will, thank you! I'm 19 and I aim to be vegan for the rest of my life. I'm finding it so easy. There's no challenge for me when I compare it with the lives of animals. I've been cooking so much and I'm just throwing myself into the lifestyle, I love it! ❤️
Kayla Crane Lol you spelled educated wrong.
vegan for 1 1/2 years 😎 my fitness is unbelievable. I lift heavy weights in the gym, ride my bike 3-4 times a week for an hour.
never sour. unlimited energy. vegan lifestyle totally recommended👍🏻
I can't help but hope that my back pain will decrease enough for me to ride a bike. I have not done so in 24 years. Looking forward to enjoying lots of physical activity. The vegan lifestyle is new to me; I started a week ago. But, it is easier than I thought, and I will be able to stick with it.
I get so fucking excited when you post! Thank you for your hard work.
Period pain?
1. Go vegan, or, at least cut out dairy, sugar, and other refined foods.
2. TAKE YOUR PERIOD VITAMINS, especially MAGnesium!!! (Take mag 2-3x in the week before)
3. Drink a sufficient amount of water.
4. Enjoy a shorter, non-painful period.
Also eat a lot of soy :)
Lots of Vegan girls have hard problemsmwith period and fertility.. I mean its good that you stopped eating trash foods thats why some people get better but going to herbivore diet ( that we are not) will bring also problems time to time..
@@duchas We are frutivores. Hush with your nonsense
I went vegan because of animal rights/ethics, and at the time I thought I might be compromising my health by doing so. Your channel, along with others and my own research, has helped with my peace of mind on this issue. Haven't had a blood test yet, but I feel better, and haven't gotten sick once since changing my diet. I used to ALWAYS get sick.
Congrats on 100k!! Yet another great video.
I used to catch colds whenever they came around, especially during Winter... After going vegan, I had one mild cold last Winter, and was otherwise healthy. :)
Great 👍. But dont forget b12 supplement
I literally use your videos to shut down everyone who argues with me 😂 don't stop doing your thing . so good.
literally...
Same 😂😂😂
Even as a junk food vegan I lost 15 pounds and it's crazzzzyyyy how my mile time went from 9:30 to 7:31 without even trying.
I’ve been a vegan for a month and 2 weeks ... best decision I ever made .. I have more energy , less cravings and I lost weight !
Same!!
Been vegatrian all my 51 years,been vegan for the last 4 weeks and fill the improvement in my health,I have lost 7lbs in weight, got more energy at the gym and fill positive that am doing no harm to animals,bless all you vegans for doing what's right and proper,love from London
Been watching your vids since the start of this year and I just wanted you to know that you are what really kicked off my transformation from meat eater to vegetarian to VEGAN 😄 I really like your videos and the way they're done and I'm so happy I found this channel 😊
OMG, the inflammation part is so true,I have endometriosis and was at healthy weight when I turned vegan so i didn't really have any weight to drop but within 3 weeks I lost 2inches of my hips and my pants did not fit anymore, didn't workout at all and did not lose a gram on the scale , 2 inches just disappeared!
Thanks, Mic, for all your help. I was a vegetarian for over 36 years for moral reasons but I was afraid to go all the way to vegan because I didn't understand the science. More recently I was eating two eggs a day from the chickens in my neighbor's backyard You, and others, have helped me understand that I can maintain my own health while saving the animals and I have happily and proudly become a vegan. Thanks you so much for what you do.
I've been vegan for 2 months and I have lost 9lbs, and my acne improved a lot. And I feel great
Been vegan going on 5 years now and I've never felt or been better in every measure of health! I actually never even dreamed that my health could reach levels like this. It blows my mind every day and it just keeps getting better every year! I'm so thankful and utterly awestruck.
Edit: Example A - I never enjoyed working out. Even when I would work out extensively every single day and developed a significant amount of muscle, I enjoyed the benefits, never the working out. After switching to whole foods, plant-based my energy levels rose, I began to ENJOY exercise (something that had NEVER happened to me before), and eventually those both itensified to the point that I will just get bursts of nearly uncontrollable excitement energy that just feels like joy on caffeine, and it drives me to work out! I LOVE the feeling of working out and will go harder than ever during these energetic bouts, simply releasing excess energy by default. As a baseline, when I push my body, it feels great. When I rest, I feel great. When I eat, I feel rapturous for some time after. Something truly breathtakingly precious has happened to me
I unfortunately didn't lose much weight, but my stomach has never been more flat!
I actually go to the gym so no need for pointless walking. And yes, it may be bcuz I'm gaining muscles, but all my fat ain't gonna turn into muscles so I should lose like 5kg or so. I'm 5ft.3 and 57kg so I'm not fat, but I'm not a stick figure either so idk why I'm not losing anything.
@@TheLanuella Eating too much sugar?
@@niijigod3864 No papa
@@Kurostyle21 Yes
Try checking out the starch solution
How does it feel that you have become the one that literally EVERY lazy vegan refers to.. Like, the amount of times I've heard or said the phrase "I am pretty sure Mic. The Vegan has a video on that" is beyond me :D your channel has become the vegan Google. It has everything we need.
that's hilarious! I wish I could say the same, but I don't even know one single other vegan
Been vegan for a year now and your videos help me to keep gaining knowledge on proper nutrition. Thanks mike
I've been trying to inform my friends that are suffering with lower back pain, but they just want to keep getting back surgeries, popping opiates, and sucking on bacon.
I know the struggle but in the end of the day they are grown ups and have to pay the consequences of their choices. Something I've learned is that people won't change if they don't have the will to do so...
remnantofgod.org/
Jill Aaron I hear ya I'm vegetarian transitioning to vegan no one in my family gets it they gave a history of diabetes and strokes high blood pressure
It boils down to fear of the unknown. Adopting new habits is a huge hurdle for most people. The first step is adopting a more open mind set. Then you need repitition. You have to stay mindful. Most people are on an autopilot program most of the time.
Oh my god I used to have lower back pain all the time and I don't struggle with it anymore! Never correlated it with being vegan.
been vegetarian for over half my life, but as i become more 'body positive' and actually care about myself the more i find myself naturally adopting a vegan diet, these informative and most importantly factual videos are the push i needed to really cut out the remnants of any animal produce and the few processed foods left in my diet.
really enjoy the content you produce, i love that you break down actual peer reviewed journal papers and disseminate the facts and the truths of the matter.
You have my respect and my thanks :)
I like that he backs up his information from peer review journals and posts the info to where we can view it.
I went vegetarian for a year & my eyesight improved . The optometrist had to decrease the power of my glasses. He couldn't believe it. Checked 3 times. So that led me to going vegan. I am new to being vegan & still learning. I have lost 11 lbs & have noticed my energy level has increased! Thanks for these videos! 😋
congrats on 100K :) been here for a while and great to see you getting more recognition
this is actually so very true about the "eat as much as you want and you'll still be losing weight" thing. ive started off as a junk-food addicted vegetarian and its been two years now, i'm vegan, i still love junk food (eventhough i don't eat as much of it as i used to) and i was shoked to see that i've lost 37,5 lbs. weight loss wasnt even my goal initially but im so happy about it hehe
Been whole food vegan for almost 2 weeks. All body odour is gone and my shoulder impingement injury and tennis elbow have 99% disappeared. Finally working out intensely again and two kg down and building some new muscle!
going into my 3rd month vegan and I never want to go back. anyone else walk by the deli section in the grocery store and smell road kill? ugh
I smell class one carcinogens
Cortney Stetson no
One weird thing that happened to me is that now when bacon is cooking, i notice a strange underlying note of pig manure. It's so weird. Most people love the smell of bacon but it smells like literal shit to me now.
Congratulations on 100k! Thanks for all your hard work, distilling all this information down for us!
Was about to comment that :)
He deserves this (and more) so much,
Vanessa Parks great achievement 😍
Such an important milestone for youtubers like us! Congratulations Mic, this is really well deserved, hope to reach it sometime!😁
Thanks so much! It's been hard work but it feels like play most of the time.
Mic. the Vegan being vegan is so much fun! Now all the animals I see are friends instead of "lesser and eatable" beings :)
You're a true hero mate.
Weeee congrats on 100K! Honestly I wish I could get my family to watch this video because they think the solution to diabetes is eggs and bacon and skipping the toast. -_- When they see me eating rice -- "Careful there; diabetes runs in the family."
🤦🏻♀️
and thank YOU for making these types of videos - as much as I want to be a well of data/information to share with other people, I'm not gonna lie.... it takes a lot of time and patience to read studies and I don't always feel like it or have time. Watching your videos is much more entertaining and easy, and I know I'm getting good information~
Thank you so vary much for all your work with these videos, as a Heart attack survivor in 2003 changing me to a vegetarian than on to being a vegan. im alive and still here thanks to Veganism. thanks !!!
and Congratulations on your 100,000 subs
Just subscribed. Great information. Was primarily vegetarian for about 20 years. Back in the day I suffered from chronic fatigue. I basically had the health of a 50 year old when I was 27. Been vegan for over a year and I feel better than ever. I am now a cyclist. I'm about to be 47 and I have so much energy. I feel like I can do anything.
Watched FoK back in January of this year, never looked back. I've lost 30lbs in 4 months. Need to lose another 60, but I'm not stressed about getting there - I know it will happen eating this way.
Hey Mic - Thats great info - I am both Vegan now and athletic - Its totally transformed me - I can run and cycle at speeds beyond many of my peers 20 years younger - My VO2 Max just hit 66 - I am 57 !!! Not to mention the healthy weight loss!! Never felt better or fitter. Keep up the good work.
I’m so glad I went vegan!! I love it and the health benefits are mind blowing. Great video!!
10000,000! Way to go! You have earned it buddy. Keep up the good work. My labs are great and I am an old woman who doesn't exercise. but my diet is excellent.
I've seen a huge difference in my 7 year old who was diagnosed with asthma when he was 2. He runs and plays and hasn't needed his inhaler (rescue). My 3 year old is having a sleep study in a couple of weeks because he would stop breathing and would choke in his sleep, not anymore. This is with 3 weeks into a vegan diet. We see their doctor in 3 days to follow up. So excited!
I admire Mic
All videos evidence based and presented in a factual and light/hearted way
For all the reasons you mentioned I follow a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle for almost 7 years now
Well done Nic; the more people follow this lifestyle the better for your own health, for animal welfare and for the planet (pollution, air, water and soil).
the part at 2:23 is mad because I've been vegan 8 months an lost almost exactly 24lbs and 4 inches from my waist! that study is scarily accurate for me
Hi Mic, you're GREAT!!
Today I made some whole food Gado Gado and baked some potatoes in the oven and some sweet potatoes by first coating them a little with brown almond butter, my children were just shocked and said they were the best tasting potatoes they had ever had. Also the first time ever they hadn't even noticed there were sweet potatoes in there. They were the Japanese ones, that look white when pealed. The gado gado I made with some blendered pear to sweeten, and some apple vinegar to sour, then started by baking some onions and garlic in some water with tahini, and added curcuma in the mixture. Then after that I added some water again with the cabbage and pear, also some pear chunks. To salten it slightly I used some mild tamari. Then put the lid on for about 5-10 minutes to soften the veggies. It was downright delicious!! Finished the whole off with some chopped almonds.
Such a wealth of knowledge! I can assure you that ridding myslef of diary from my diet was the best thing I could have done to fix my acne woes. Cleared up my skin and no more do I have an oily face after literally just one week of no diary products. (I used to eat a lot of cheese along with yogurt and milk)
Congrats on 100k mic! I love how informative your videos are ❤️
Love all the info you gather and research! Thank you!! :)
Turning up the humour dial... awesome vid. Congrats on the 100k
Great video Mic! Thank you for all that you do!!
Congrats on 100,000 subscribers. Keep up the the great work, you Champion.
I just discovered your videos, and I’m loving them! I especially like all the science, your clear and concise way of speaking, and even your humor. Keep it up!
That study at 02:00 I was lucky to meet one of the doctors. Was life changing for so many people involved as they didn't have much of a clue how to keep weight off and they were all very sick with diabetes and other major health issues. In a matter of weeks they were healing and they were so enthused with their results they just won't return to their old foods.
www.newshub.co.nz/home/health/2017/03/plant-based-diet-could-help-you-avoid-taking-pills.html
PS: Great to have been watching ya Mic the Vegan for the last 2 months. I seriously appreciate all your hard work calling out a lot of these so called myths, studies and detractors. Congrats on you 100k subs, wish ya many more 🖖🏼👍🏼
Keep doing what you do, Mic. Love this channel and your videos!
Love your videos! Congrats on 100k you deserve it! :D
Yay! Congrats on 100k!!🎉
Thankyou so much for these video you are truly are a fascinating mind I feel so expanded mentally from just watching your videos
Awesome!! Thanks Mic! And congrats on the 100!!! You deserve millions though
Been vegan for over 47 minutes now and what you said at 0:38 couldn’t be more true. My hair is as messy as Nick Nolte’s mugshot and my beard is as red as the bloody crimson shits I used to take when I was a murderous meat eating douche bag 48 minutes ago. This stuff really works guys! Go Vegan! 🌱
100K! Thank you. So nice to see your channel growing. As it is the best it should also be the largest. one mil next time ;). Keep doing your thing!
thanks so interesting.inspiring and awsome as always.could listen your videos endlessly if i had time
I honestly look forward to your videos more than most other of my channels. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This particular subject is highly motivational for me. The health benefits of veganism is phenomenal and I am 5 weeks in as vegan and holding strong, being strict and not cheating. I do eat over on calories some days, but I don't cheat going off-vegan stuff or oils, nuts/seeds.
Congratulations Mic, you do great work and inspire many people. Long may it last!😊
very excited about the e-book!
Mic, you are my lifeline for motivation. When I get a strong vocal push-back from my family and friends (mostly the men in my life) about my recent lifestyle change (8 weeks completely vegan), I turn to your videos and the scientific research you present. Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into compiling all the data and making the videos. I hope you know your work is appreciated. I am sure I am not the only life you have literally saved. Again, thank you!
OMG congrats on 100K, literally you deserve like ten times but happy to see you hit such a big milestone!
Congrats on your 100K subscribers! Well deserved! Your videos are based on sound science and are entertaining at the same time! Good work!
I'm 26 and I'm a transitioning vegan.. I grew up in a jamaican household and this is a huge challenge for me. I'm only doing this because I want to reverse the fibromyalgia symptoms and eventually stop taking meds. I definetly don't want to lose weight since I'm only 100 lb.
Congrats on the 100K subs!!!!!!
congrats on 100K ! and thanks for the videos :)
Mic! Great follow up video, and you hit 100k followers! Keep spreading your positive, evidence backed message! You're awesome!
Stoked for that ebook!
I was on a meat and fat based Keto diet trying to lose weight, and felt like death was incoming. My fitbit showed a 10 bpm average increase in heart rate from the time i started tat diet, to the time i ended it. i was getting chest pains, poor sleep, lethargic, belly pains, the list goes on... when i had an unexplained heart rate jump from doing nothing, i started to look for a change.
that's when i fond Mic. the Vegan! you convinced me that i could reverse the poor way i felt by eating vegan, so i dove in full force. it was a leap of faith, and i have never made such a good decision in my life! my heart rate is normal again, i sleep, i have energy, my... "man bit" is noticeably bigger... my digestive system is active and healthy feeling, that bowel inflammation clearing out is a unique experience when you realize how easy it gets to move things along.. lol
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE MIC. THE VEGAN !!! I feel so much better lately :D
I am happy your channel is growing fast! It is amazing! Thank you for working so hard to spread the very important message of veganism. You have probably made so many people reconsider their destructive food habits, and change them. You are making a huge difference, it is so inspirational.
Congrats for 100 k subscribers! You deserve it. I really enjoy your videos!
Very good again.Thanks. Somehow I missed this video, saw it only now. Great going. 👏💐.
Amazingly helpful video BTW, your effort is genuinely appreciated.
I have been vegan for six months now. I can confirm it all, it's mind-boggling why people don't switch, it's literally like some kind of vegan magic. Amazing ❤️
Congrats on 100k! You deserve it! Xxx
Awesome. Love this channel. Way to go!
Your videos are amazing, thank you, thank you, thank you for all the information!!!!
congrats on 100k! you put in the work my man, such great content
Okay...My gut's been telling my to do this for years and I finally went vegan on April 21 - It is June 18- I'm down 20 lbs... really easily, i might add. I eat piles of fruits, veggies, potatoes... and some bread ( veggie sub maybe once a week.)...some vegan Indian food from a place nearby.... I love this change in my eating. I now know SO MUCH of my health stuff was about inflammation - not age. Within 2 days it felt like i lost "inflammation weight" somehow.
Wow.... so grateful for all this info online about veganism.
Congrats man, and welcome to the fam! Chana Saag is a really good vegan Indian dish I highly recommend, btw.
great video and I look forward to the ebook
Great video. Very informative. Thank You.
Keep up the good work. Thanks for the knowledge
WOW I hadn't even noticed, your channel has grown so quickly :-o You deserve every single sub and more.
Congratulation Mic.
I'm a newbie and your videos are helping me so much.
Truth. My glasses prescription went down an entire point in each eye and I couldn't be happier! Call it dumb luck or wearing my glasses less now that I'm not in school, but I blame it on the veggies.
Tell me more about this, the mainstream generally tells you myopia is irreversible.
Exotic Parallel Sure! Love to! Yeah, that's what my jackass optometrist said when I asked if I could fix it and his response was laughing at me and telling me to get LASIK.
I had an eye exam in 2014 and one eye had improved a quarter of a point within 9 months of me being done with school so less computer time and less reliance on glasses for class, I can see how that might happen, or at the very least I can see my vision not getting worse. That was also a change measured over the course of 4 years since my last exam had been in 2010. But a year after that 2014 appointment I went vegan and a year and a half after that, my prescription had gone down an entire point in each eye. Prescriptions are said to be good for 2 years and then they may change a little, but 6 months after my prescription allegedly expired, there had been a drastic change. I asked what my prescription was, my new doc casually told me what it was since she didn't know my old prescription and I said "NO WAY, that's crazy!!!" She looked at me like I was indeed nuts, but at least she didn't say that it shouldn't have happened when I told her why I was surprised. It was more of a "good for you! Now go look at frames while your eyes dilate," kind of thing. The only thing that had changed from my previous appointment (aside from a horrible concussion that if anything probably would have made things worse) was the change in diet, and it makes sense to me.
Reduce inflammation in your body and your eyes will stop puffing in weird shapes? Like how when you get a stomach bug so you take it easy for a while with a lot of clear liquids and things get better since your body isn't using all of its energy to digest your food. And I know the whole "carrots improve your night vision" thing was an explanation our military gave Germany to hide our radar technology, but if you're eating a more nutrient dense diet with a lot more calories, then those nutrients are going to go in and fix what's broken without your body worrying about having enough energy to keep you vertical. Really, the widespread plague of craptastic eyesight has only kicked in in the last couple of centuries as far as I can tell, and that's about when we started hardcore messing with our food supply and eating a lot more animal products. Sure, one could argue that cars were slower or nonexistent and classes were smaller and street signs weren't as prevalent so someone may not have noticed if they had bad eyes as easily as we do now, but they looked at the stars for a sense of direction and that's pretty important so I feel like if you couldn't tell where you were going you would know there was an issue.
I've read some commentary and some people have been vegan far longer than I have and their eyes have gotten worse so maybe they had some genetics at work there or I'm just lucky, but the basic science makes me feel like my reasoning is somewhat sound. It could also be partly that the arteries cleared out and improved circulation, similar to the erectile dysfunction solution that Mike frequently sites, although myopia being a lense shape issue my money would go on the bulk of my improvement being due to the inflammation side of things. But I'm not a doctor, just someone who would love to see some research done on this stuff and is super excited to pop some weak lenses in her frames!
Sorry, that's a lot of rambling but my science brain likes to argue different theories and play devil's advocate with me. On the bright side, in really comes in handy when I have to circumvent internet troll responses (and I've been doing that a lot lately)!
I undertand what you are theorizing but what you just said was a lot of pseudoscience. Diet has implications for macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetetic retinopathy and other degerative eye diseases. But myopia is NOT a disease or illness.
I don't know your exact circumstance of the condition you have, but from the research I have done there is no evidence that diet leads to myopia.
(BUT WAIT THERES MORE)
The myopia industry is even worse than the whole animal products industry in a lot of ways. The people that make money off of lens sales and surgery will tell you either myopia is genetic or there is no cause. But the cause of myopia is known well in science.
Your eyes are designed for distance vision, when you are constantly looking up close it causes the action of your ciliary muscle to shape the lens in your eye so you are able to see up close again. After a long time, this muscle becomes strained. Think of what happens when you close your fist tightly for a few minutes and then try to open it again? Your hand will spasm and struggle to relax. Now imagine repeating this action 10 hours a day each day for months or years. The Same action happens within your eye, wherein when your ciliary muscle becomes fatigued, and now you perceive a blur. it is like you are (stuck in close up). After a long time, this issue can become chronic. This is a known as Near Induced Transient Myopia in clinical optometry.
Now what happens is you go to the optometrist and this SYMPTOM is misdiagnosed with minus lenses. If the client is not told to limit the near induced stimulus then the initial problem COULD become worse. Here's why. What you have to understand is minus lenses are a fixed correction, it does not change. But the advanced biology of your eye doesn't know that. Now when you look up close again when using these lenses, the focal plane (where light focuses) is now behind the retina, and this is known as hyperopic defocus. The eye is abe to understand what to do to correct this defocus, to shape the ciliary muscle to regain focus. However if the ciliary muscle is unable to regain focus, the eye must formulate a new response.
What happens next is your optic nerve sends a signal to the visual cortex that there is a defocus that the ciliary muscle cannot correct for any longer, a signal is then sent back to the eye to activate neuromodulators on the retina to increase the axial length (length from cornea to the retina) and make the eye longer so that the focus is put back onto the retina and stress is taken off of the ciliary muscle. (This is all shown in thousands of clinical epidemiological studies as Pseudomyopia, or Near-Induced-Transient-Myopia, we will call it NISM from here on out)a hormone is released that causes the sclera tissue to become kind of elastcy so it can stretch. And a collection of neuromodulators than regulate the corneal thickness, anterior chamber depth and most importantly, axial length.
Axial length is the distance from the rear cornea to the posterior retina. And this is the main issue in myopia. The eye will regulate its growth until proper focus is regained.
NISM may be the result of just a ciliary spasm or a few microns of axial elongation, however, the result is the same, a new problem has occurred. That is when you now look into the distance you perceive a slight blur, this takes years to develop and is very slow. So what do you do? You go to the optometrist and they give you a minus lens. It seems like when you put these glasses on that the problem is fixed, but really what happened is it has compensated for a defocus by curving the light for you. But what happens when you now look up close? Now there is a major defocus causing the eye to rapidly increase the axial length and depending on various factors like length of time in near, genetics, depth of field, level of defocus your eyesight in the distance will again be off, and now you need to get new glasses to see once again, this cycle continues for however long you allow it to, despite the popular myth optometrists like to tell that "your eyes are growing" or "getting used to". I know people and I'm sure you know people who have gotten there the first pair of glasses in their thirties.
HOW TO REVERSE MYOPIA:
In the same way, myopia is induced with a minus lens and close up, it can be reversed with a reduced minus lens and distance. This means finding out your prescription and reducing it down until you can see 20/50 on the eye chart. Now what happens when you look in the distance is your visual cortex receives a signal that there is a defocus again, but this time the image is perceived in front of the retina, rather than behind as before. If the visual cortex can perceive which direction this defocus is coming from it will give the opposite effect and tell the eye to shorten axially, this includes corneal thickness, as demonstrated in hundreds of studies on animals and humans alike.
Here is the important part, the hardest part about this is to get the visual cortex to understand which direction the defocus is coming from. This was shown in a study that was unsuccessful in reversing myopia. The researchers concluded that this was a result of the visual cortex being unable to detect the direction of defocus and thus grew longer in response. Other studies, however, have proven without a doubt that the retinal control system and axial elongation and shortening of the human eye do happen, as previously discovered in animal studies. So the question is how to get the visual cortex to understand the defocus and what the to do to correct it, this is where you can look into active focusing which seems to be the most successful method.
Look up endmyopia on youtube he has hundreds of videos talking about all of this stuff and inks studies.
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