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Correction: My drops are NAC - N-acetylcarnosine and acetyl-L-carnosine are two variations on the same animo acid.

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I recently saw something from Cultivate Elevate channel about pearl powder used topically around the eyes reversing cataracts. Try it maybe.

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Interesting thread. I debated using the drops for dogs eyes on my dog. And we moved into a new home in 2017. It was of course a required code for LED. In ways, I love the clarity my LED lights give me. I can't stand LED light in car headlights or streetlights. And my dog as his cataracts got worse, was paralyzed when we would walk at night and we would approach street lights with LED. We ended up turning our lights down real low as my pups eyes worsened because he would not come into the open space with the LED lights dimmed up. I use FLUX on my computer to screen out light and find it helps my eyes. And I say, go natural and see if it helps. The less medical care I need or use, the healthier I feel! And I do feel all this energy saving LED light is not good for our biology.

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I've seen a few videos advocating for putting castor oil in your eyes... not sure it sounds like a good idea but hey some people are drinking their own urine.

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Castor oil for eye issues is an old Ayurvedic remedy. Not sure if it helps with cataracts though.

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Apr 18Liked by Stephanie B.

👍 Interested in seeing your results, so I hope you keep us posted.😊

Re the progressive rise in eye conditions, and especially cataracts and myopia, has very interesting correlations with the transition from candlelight to incandescent, influx of fluorescent, but REALLY interesting patterns are seen in the adoption of LED.🤔😉

The catch 22 is as the general public eyesight deteriorated, car manufacturers and streetlight designers, began releasing brighter and stronger LEDs, which then forces the eye to adapt further.😐

Combined with our increasing indoor lifestyles, the regulatory and healing function that full spectrum sunlight has on our eyes, and our circadian rhythm (specifically through the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGC) that connect to our suprachiasmatic nucleous in our brain), means that we are essentially conducting self directed evolution🤔😉 ourselves.

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That's interesting, hadn't thought of that. Also, I had to take flonase when I got severe vertigo and cataracts are one of the so-called "rare" side effects!

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Interesting. I had not heard of Acetyl-L-carnosine eye drops for cataracts before. Can you speak about the dosage you use? I've got an old cat that's getting pretty blind w/ cataracts that I may want to try them on, if I can figure out how to scale the dosage down appropriately. Knowing a human dosage would help for starters...

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People do use them for pets, I would contact one of the companies selling them to ask about dosage for animals.

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PS I had a variation of the animo acid in my original post - you can also look for NAC eye drops, same thing basically.

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I had cataract surgery in my right eye in January. I had the laser to break up the lens and my surgeon (without telling me) injected antibiotics into the eye instead of me using three different types of eye drops for a month. I had an extreme amount of floaters due to the injections into my eye that gradually cleared up in a week or so. I’m having the other eye done in a few days. My eyesight is now very good in the treated eye and hopefully the other one will be as good. I wish I knew about the natural remedy a year ago. Best of luck with your treatment.

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I'm told that cataract surgery can be a real eye opener. :)

Best of luck with your own other eye too. It's good to read about other people's experiences with medical procedures, especially if they go well.

As sixty-five and with some floaters and a mild cataract condition, I am a candidate for future surgery, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible, until they develop the full Six-Million-Dollar-Man technology with telescopic vision for the left eye and a microscopic for the right.

A good friend who had both eyes done at the age of eighty told me that the world had become much brighter for him. he had to wear sunglasses for two weeks before he got used to the improvement.

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I’ve heard that NAC eye drops can also reverse and prevent cataracts.

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Oops, thanks for inadverently giving me a heads up - these *are* NAC eye drops. The Acetyl-L-carnosine is just another form of the same amino acid so basically the same thing.

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