﻿In today's video, we can be talking about
MSM, a product that many people use for a wide range of different things,
but we're going to be today looking specifically whether there is any possible
use case for MSM as a treatment for eye floaters.
What's happening, this is optometrist Martin Oguzie,
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So this video, we're going to cover a couple of things.
So first of all, we'll do a little bit of introduction about what MSM actually is
and then we'll talk about some of the huge cases that people have for MSM
and then I'll take a deeper look into the possibility of MSM being used
for the treatment of eye floaters and possibly other eye conditions as well
and then I'll give you my final conclusions and thoughts on MSM. Now
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So what is MSM?
Well, MSM stands for
MethylSulfonylMethane
and with a name like that,
you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's a synthetic man-made compound
but the reality is that MSM exists
in nature and is something that as humans that we all have an essential need of.
When we look at the structure of MSM,
we see that there are essentially two core functional groups that make up
the structure of MSM and these are 2 Methyl groups and also a Sulfonyl group
and it seems to functional groups
that give MSM the wide range of use cases that people have found for it.
So just some of the ways that so far is really important in our bodies is the fact
that it's responsible for making some of the essential and non-essential amino
acids that our body needs in order to make all the proteins that our bodies rely on.
That's not uncommon for people to become
deficient in MSM and Sulphur because of the way that we prepare our food
in the freezing process or
the hydration process of food and then the fruits and vegetables that we rely
on to get our supplies of MSM can become depleted because it kind of degenerates.
So I really look at some of the general claim benefits of MSM,
here are a list of some of the things that people use MSM for.
Arthritis is a common one, whether that's rheumatoid or
osteoarthritis, a lower back pain, headaches, migraines, muscle aches.
People use it in order to be able to speed
up their recovery and to improve the healing process.
Also, people with restricted movement
because of joints and tendon tightness tend to use MSM for that, hair restoration,
as well as a use case that some people use it for,
also, allergies such as hay fever is one as well that people might use MSM for.
I have to say that from research point of view, many studies that have been done
on MSM, it appears that the kind of consistency
of results and findings doesn't seem to be kind of found and doesn't seem to be
corroborated by all of these studies consistently.
However, anecdotal data tells us that many
people are reporting benefits for a wide range of different things by using MSM.
So keep that in mind and keep in mind
that, you know, science,
it doesn't give us a firm confirmation that MSM actually
does all of these things all the time for everybody, specifically for the eyes.
We know that many people use MSM for dry eyes as some people use it as well,
and claim benefits for its use has help for cataracts
and then what we're going to kind of go
into a bit more detail here is the use case for eye floaters.
Now, for my research, the five common factors that seem to link all of these
different conditions that people claim MSM is helping them for are as follows.
Number 1. Membrane Interactions.
We know that MSM has the ability to penetrate membranes.
It's essential for membrane health in your
cells, in all cells throughout our whole body.
Many kind of research studies have found
that MSM does improve the permeability of membranes
and this appears to also be the case in the cornea as well.
Number 2
Antioxidant properties.
So you know that again, MSM
is very important for creating the essential and non-essential amino-acids
that our body needs, and many of these are antioxidants and powerful antioxidants as
well, that and that is really helpful for our bodies
and it seems that many of these conditions
that benefit are benefiting from extra antioxidant properties of MSM.
Number 3 is Anti-inflammatory properties.
So we know that many of these conditions that people use it for are inflammatory
conditions, know the MSM has the ability to control or impact cortisol levels
in the body, which is a hormone and has, as well as other important roles,
has the ability to control and to reduce the process of inflammation that goes
on in the body.
Number 4
Is collagen and connective tissue manipulation.
So it's well documented as well.
The MSM has the ability to loosen her tight connective tissue and, you know,
situations, for example, where people have scar tissue,
where the fibres have really thickened, or if they've got tight tendons and things
like that, then it appears that MSM is able to kind of loosen the range
of movement in these stiff connective tissues.
And then number 5 is pain relief.
This is because, again,
MSA is documented as being a natural analgesic as it's called.
That means it's able to kind of block our
receptors, pain receptors, and as a result,
have people find that they get good relief from painful conditions and that may be
them once used for things like back pain relief.
Now, with those five factors in mind,
I'm going to have a look at how that might make sense then for liquid MSM eye drops
to possibly be beneficial for people, particularly in the case of eye floaters,
but also in other conditions as well, like cataracts and dry eyes.
Now, just touching out quickly
in the case of dry eyes then that, you know, certainly makes sense to me
because one of the main issues with dry eye is the fact that it's
a condition that causes inflammation of the eyes
and the inflammation is one of the biggest problems when it comes to dry eyes.
So when you're applying a product like MSM on your eye and it has this powerful
antioxidant property or it's able to work at the level of the mucous membranes
of the the conjunctiva and the cornea, if it's able to bring more
anti-inflammatory benefits on that surface, then it is no wonder that dry eye sufferers
will find MSM being beneficial for them in a way that,
you know, just standard eye drops may perhaps not be enough.
And in the case of cataracts,
this always struck me as, you know, one that appeared to be more
a case of wishful thinking more than anything else in terms of whether MSM
would be able to reduce cataracts, improve cataracts
but certainly I can imagine a situation
where if MSM was able to penetrate the cornea and then,
you know, get around the crystalline lens, then particularly in situations where
people have had invasive eye surgery, such as a vitrectomy or something like
that, where there may be some risk of oxygen getting into the eye and around
the the crystalline lens, then the presence of MSM certainly
post-operatively, might be something that's beneficial
to counter-act any oxidation process that might happen around them
and as we said, MSM has antioxidant properties,
then that could be one way that perhaps it could be applied and used and may be
beneficial in stopping the formation of cataract post surgery.
Now, there's also talks where some people
have said that they might have the ability to remove the toxins in the crystalline
lens and by making the crystalline lens more permeable.
So some of the content and things come
out, I think potentially that could be the case
but we also know that some of the reason
why people get adulated cataracts is a result of old redundant cells that have
migrated towards the centre of the crystalline lens.
So it may not be that those can be
resolved with the use of something like MSM.
Now on the subject of eye floaters.
Then again, this is one that, again, could appear quite far fetched
but again, we know that MSM is really powerful in terms of its ability
to interact with free up and loosen collagen fibres.
Well, we know that the vitreous has collagen fibrils
in there and floaters are essentially the clumping together
of college fibrils, so we know that there is a potential for
MSM to be able to easily permeate through cell membranes and we
can permeate through the cornea and get into the vitreous area then
potentially is what it can do its magic, if you like, on the collagen fibrils.
So if you've got larger clumps that have
come together causing annoying floaters and it has the ability to loosen them
and separate these clumps, then that could be one potential mechanism
by which people who have floater are using MSM may find that it has helped them
in some way and reduce their awareness of their floaters.
Now, you know, a lot of people who use MSM for floaters
also take other things with it as well, such as vitamin.
I think people use vitamin D,
some people might use hyaluronic acid as well
and the thinking here may be that the fact that MSN improves permeability
of these other products as well, that people are taking
and then there may be this cumulative this combined effect of whether it's hydraulic
acid, vitamin D, as well as the MSM that they're taking as well.
So that's one kind of line of thought and one possible way that
it could be explained that MSM could be beneficial for eye floaters.
As I said, you're probably not going
to find any consistent studies saying that this is the case.
However, one of the things I've learnt is
that studies don't often give us the full picture of everything
and I think one of the most important
things, though, is if you're going to consider trying
something like MSM, you want to know in the first instance
that it's going to be safe for your eyes in the first place
and it's not there's not going to be any
side effects or risks and things like that.
So as far as I can see, MSM appears to be perfectly safe
it's actually something that's very well tolerated.
So I think from a safety point of view,
MSM use obviously sensibly shouldn't be an issue at all
from that point of view, there's a whole lot that we can say about
medicine and, you know, get into the science of it
and initially was like this video
I was just getting into the widths of all of that detail
but you know what we've kind of just got
covered, really just the crux of what is the essential kind of understanding
and that might give you the confidence to go ahead and try it yourself.
So I'm certainly not recommending it for anybody to try.
If you want to try, then obviously kind of do your own research yourself
but hopefully that kind of outlines some
thinking along the lines of how it may be possible that MSM could be beneficial.
Having said that, you know, I'm thinking that I might well
get hold of some MSM liquid MSM myself and try it and definitely be interested
to know what you guys think, whether that's something you'd be
interested in, knowing how it works out with me.
If you are, let me know in the comments section below
should I try liquid MSM eye drops
for a stretch of time and see whether that does anything for me?
I certainly my floaters have been getting
worse, so it'll be interesting to see whether this is something that could help.
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