Research supports Vitamin D to help with eye conditions including Glaucoma.
In 2014, a study involving over 6,000 people in Korea showed a very high correlation between people with low vitamin D and glaucoma. People with glaucoma had three times more problems with the vitamin D receptor.
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Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness. Find out about one of the best natural remedies for glaucoma.
Dr. Harald Schelle Link:
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DATA:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11525790/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26997809/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33004198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586712
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32234407/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.01112/full
0:00 Introduction: What is glaucoma?
0:46 Facts about glaucoma
1:38 Glaucoma and vitamin D
3:29 Vitamin D resistance
5:05 Vitamin D dosage
In this video, we’re going to talk about one of the best natural remedies for glaucoma. Glaucoma is a condition where there is increased pressure inside the eyeball. This puts pressure on the optic nerve and can diminish your vision and cause blindness.
Around 80 million people in the world have glaucoma, and 50% of them are unaware that they have it. Research suggests that glaucoma could be an autoimmune disease, which would explain why this natural remedy is so effective!
In 2014, a study involving over 6,000 people in Korea showed a very high correlation between people with low vitamin D and glaucoma. People with glaucoma had three times more problems with the vitamin D receptor.
A German doctor named Dr. Harald Schelle uses high doses of vitamin D for numerous eye problems. Many autoimmune cases of glaucoma have a genetic problem with the vitamin D receptor, the conversion from the inactive to the active form of vitamin D, or an issue with vitamin D absorption. Collectively, these problems are referred to as vitamin D resistance.
To combat vitamin D resistance, you must increase your dosage. The standard recommendation for vitamin D is 20 ng per ml, however, this is outdated and inaccurate. Dr. Schelle says we should have between 100 to 150 ng per ml of vitamin D.
Dr. Coimbra from Brazil has also seen excellent results using high doses of vitamin D for autoimmune conditions. He recommends starting with 1000 IUs of vitamin D per kilogram of body weight. For example, a person weighing 84 kilograms would need 84,000 IUs of vitamin D3 daily.
To minimize the risk of calcium buildup in the arteries, try the following:
- Don’t take a calcium supplement
- Reduce your consumption of calcium-rich foods
- Drink 2.5 liters of fluid daily
- Take 100 mcg of vitamin K2 for every 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3
- Take 600 mg of magnesium daily
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Thanks for watching! I hope this explains the benefits of vitamin D and how it can be used as a remedy for glaucoma. I’ll see you in the next video.
Transcript
Let’s talk about the best vitamin to fight glaucoma. Now, before taking any actions that I’m about to recommend, make sure to check with your doctor. I’m not telling anyone to come off their medications. What I’m trying to do is to put this on your radar, because this data has been really hard to find, so I want to share it. If you have glaucoma or know someone who does, they need to know about alternatives.
Glaucoma is a situation where you have increased pressure inside your eyeball. The danger is that this can put pressure on the optic nerve, diminishing your vision to the point where it could potentially cause blindness. In fact, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness. There are 80 million people in the world who have glaucoma, and 50% of them are unaware. What I stumbled upon regarding glaucoma is quite fascinating—I had no idea that glaucoma could potentially be an autoimmune disease, which would explain the natural remedy I’ll discuss.
If you typically research glaucoma and natural remedies—for vitamins or nutrition—you are not going to find much. There are some papers that say there are no results and that you shouldn’t even try. Of course, that doesn’t convince me, because who is going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in research studies on natural remedies for glaucoma? Should we just hope and pray that one day someone will do research, or should we try something natural to see if it works, especially when you hear about the relationship between glaucoma and vitamin D?
In 2014, a study done in Korea with over 6,000 people showed a very high correlation between low vitamin D and glaucoma. People with glaucoma were found to have three times more problems with the vitamin D receptor. In this video, I’m going to summarize a book I found by a German doctor, Dr. Harald Schelle, who uses high levels of vitamin D for many eye problems. He discusses the great results he’s seeing, and some fascinating information about vitamin D that caught my attention.
Nearly every part of the eye has a vitamin D receptor. If glaucoma is truly an autoimmune disease, then vitamin D is involved. In autoimmune diseases, you have antibodies that attack your own tissues, causing inflammation by your T cells. This prevents your body from functioning normally, but vitamin D suppresses this reaction. The problem is, if you are already deficient in vitamin D or have resistance to vitamin D, taking normal amounts will not provide a therapeutic benefit. The immune system then remains overactive, and the inflammation doesn’t resolve.
As a side note, there is something called steroid-induced glaucoma, where taking steroids can also cause glaucoma. Many autoimmune cases have a genetic problem with the vitamin D receptor, the conversion from inactive to active vitamin D, or an issue with vitamin D absorption. Collectively, this is referred to as vitamin D resistance. To overcome this resistance, the dosage of vitamin D needs to be increased.
Standard recommendations for vitamin D are pretty outdated. Some sources say that below 20 ng/mL is considered deficient, but Dr. Harald Schelle says the normal range should be much higher. The original vitamin D norms were established based on certain healthy people living at specific latitudes and did not consider all the therapeutic benefits of vitamin D. If you are just trying to prevent bone loss or rickets, maybe a small amount is enough, but Dr. Schelle says you need levels between 100 to 130—or even 150—ng/mL for therapeutic benefit. A typical doctor may consider those levels dangerously high and worry about too much calcium in the blood, but it’s important to get all the information before drawing conclusions.
There is also interesting data from Dr. Coimbra in Brazil, who treats autoimmune diseases and gets great results using high levels of vitamin D. He recommends starting out with 1000 IUs of vitamin D per kilogram of body weight. For example, someone weighing 84 kilograms would need 84,000 IUs of vitamin D3 every day. When you take that amount, you will get a lot of calcium absorption.
One thing to realize is that, when testing vitamin D in the blood, you are actually testing the inactive form, which the body has to convert via various pathways. If you have vitamin D resistance, even taking large amounts may not connect to the receptors. The protocol allows you to gradually increase vitamin D until resistance is overcome and it connects to the receptors, creating a therapeutic benefit for the immune system.
The big question is, how do you know it’s connecting to the vitamin D receptor? You can check your parathyroid hormone; when you increase vitamin D and it connects with the receptor, your parathyroid hormone will go down. That means it is having an effect. Start with 1000 IUs per kilogram for a few months, keep adjusting the dose, and continue until your vitamin D tests between 100 and 150 ng/mL, or until your parathyroid hormone is in the low-normal range, then give it some time to work.
To minimize the risk of calcium buildup in the arteries, do not take calcium supplements, reduce calcium-rich foods, drink at least 2.5 liters of fluid a day, take 100 mcg of vitamin K2 for every 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3, and also take about 600 mg of magnesium daily. Magnesium also helps prevent calcium buildup.
Even if you do not currently have glaucoma but have a family history—parents or grandparents—you may want to take more vitamin D as a preventative measure, since so many body problems may involve autoimmune conditions, including glaucoma. This video is meant to update you on the most recent data and provide alternatives to typical treatment.
If you have not seen my video on vitamin D toxicity, that is a good one to watch as well, to understand the risks involved.
