so seeing eye floaters can be very bothersome and you may know them as
those drifting little spots or cobwebs in your vision and in this video I'm
going to be reviewing some new research on a natural eye floaters remedy let's
take a look hello and welcome this is dr. Allen here from the dr. eye health
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of my future videos and today I'm reviewing some new research on a natural
cure for eye floaters and no I am NOT just holding on to this pineapple just
for fun there's actually reason for it and we'll get to that soon also if you
actually want to read the research yourself I'll include a link to the
article along with some extra a health tip educational videos and resources in
the description below so chances are if you're watching this video you have
already experienced eye floaters in some form you know them as those little
drifting spots in your vision and they can be really annoying for some people
or some people they are just tiny little black or white spots that drift across
your vision when looking at something like a computer screen or maybe when
you're going outside and looking up at a gray sky or something like that you
might see those little drifting spots for other people they look like giant
cobwebs and for some people who have actually developed what is called a
posterior vitreous detachment or a PVD then these little floaters can actually
be quite large and very bothersome and can even obstruct vision now I'm not
going to go too much into exactly what these floaters are I have covered that
in other videos and I'll include a link to the entire video playlist about
floaters up here in the YouTube card up above as well as the description below
if you want to go back and check that out now floaters are so extremely common
it's rare that I'll ever have a day in the eye clinic where I won't see a
floater at least discussed floaters in some fashion historically we haven't
really had good ways to get rid of floaters other than what's called a vitrectomy
where they removed the gel inside the eye a YAG laser vitriolysis
where we can actually use a laser to zap away the floaters inside the eye or the
ever-famous just waiting and monitoring and hoping the floaters resolve on their
own and guess for most people after they first start experiencing floaters they
do usually neuro adapt and just kind of get used to these floaters in their eyes
but I have actually had a lot people asked me if there was some form
of a natural cure for floaters whether it could be a supplement they could take
or something they could change in their diet to actually help these floaters
resolved and honestly I have never really had a good answer for this until
more recently there's a cool study I want to share in April of 2019 a pilot
study was published in the Journal of American science describing the pharmalogic
vitrolysis of vitreous floaters with a three-month supplement
of pineapple. YUM, but wait pineapple well the whole idea of this
study was based on that pineapple actually has a protease or enzyme called
bromelain and if you're an author of this study or you think you know a lot
about this substance then please go ahead and comment the section below
because I'm not exactly sure how to say this correctly but bromelain is supposed
to be an enzyme that is believed to help really dissolve the aggregating collagen
that creates these floaters inside the vitreous gel inside the eye in the first
place so in this research what do they do and what do they find out in this
study they took 388 participants and separated them into two different
branches of the study I do want to point out that 388 individuals in this study
is a pretty small sample size in really large scale studies that a lot of
medical real facts and treatment is based off of our from large-scale
repeatable studies but for this one at least they did do a really good job of
vetting which participants or in the study these were actually individuals
who actually had to have a dilated eye exam they observed that they had at
least had one or multiple different floaters these individuals developed
these floaters and had been stable for at least six months and they didn't
develop them due to trauma or surgery and they didn't have any other real
serious medical issues such as diabetes high blood pressure or some form of
uveitis or inflammation in their eye not only did they record the presence of
floaters through a dilated eye exam with an eye care professional but they
actually measured them objectively with a bee scan ultrasound of the eye as well
as with an optical coherence tomography or an OCT which actually allows us to
actually physically see the separation of the vitreous interface from the
retina inside the eye it's pretty cool now remember there are two branches to
this study in the first branch so they actually took a hundred and ninety
people and they separated them in two individual groups a hundred and
twenty and these people only had one single floater inside the eye while the
other 70 participants had at least multiple or at least two different
floaters inside the eyes then they took these two groups and they actually fed
them slices of pineapple and the pineapple had to be measured out to be
about a hundred and 120 grams of pineapple and they actually fed them two
slices every single day after lunch for 90 days and so after three months they
then actually measured where all the floaters were and these were the results
they actually found significant improvement in both groups this first
group with only one floor about 120 people that actually decreased to only
35 individuals with floaters after the three months and then in the group with
multiple floaters actually went from about 70 individual cases down to only
about 19 cases honestly I think that's pretty incredible
now get this because I find this part to be very interesting in the second branch
of the study they actually took 198 individuals really about 66 people into
three different groups first group was only a low amount of pineapple where
they served just one slice of pineapple a day this medium group of
pineapple eaters which was two slices of pineapple a day and then a large amount
of pineapple served which was three such as a pineapple a day again 66 people and
each one of these groups the no real count of how many Florida's they had at
least one again each slice of pineapple is about 100-120 grams and they served
them every single day for 3 months and the results were as follows and the
first group was people only taking one slice of pineapple a day for 3 months
after the 3 month period they actually had a 55 percent improvement so 55
percent of the cases of those 66 individuals actually had improvement in
their floaters the people who are taking 2 slices of pineapple a day had about a
2/3 of cases in proof and the people taking 3 slices of pineapple a day 75%
of the cases of those 66 individuals actually had improvement and what's
special about this branch of the study is that it showed that it was dose
dependent meaning that individuals who were being treated with more pineapple
actually ultimately had better resolution of their floaters now
certainly the study was not perfect even the authors
addressed some of the faults in their own study I know when I was reading the
study I actually had some questions about some of the math that they did
overall I do find that their actual methods as well as their intro and
discussion section of the actual study was very informative and again if you
were really science he or you just want to know more about this stuff I again
have included that link in the description below
now wait before you start running off to the grocery store and start loading your
cart full of loads and loads of pineapples as a few safety things we
really should talk about now remember this whole study was really about
testing whether pineapple and the enzyme bromelain which is inside the pineapple
actually helps reduce floaters but it's important to remember that bromelain has
never been actually F proven to be effective at treating any disease and
has not been approved by the US FDA for treatment of any sort of disorder now if
you read the research they actually did address that bromelain is available in a
powder cream and tablet form however for this study they specifically used
pineapple and they cut it horizontally because bromelain is actually included
more in the stem as well as the flesh of the pineapple now I'm not sure if you've
ever eaten pineapple before but most of the time whenever I see pineapple made
the core is usually not eaten in fact it's usually sliced off and removed but
here in the study they said to cut it horizontally which honestly I have no
idea what that means if I'm cutting it this way or am I supposed to be cutting
it this way I'm not really sure also a hundred grams forgive me for being from
the US but usually people don't have any way to measure actual grams in the
kitchen unless there may be a pharmacist or perhaps you do because you're just a
big fan of the great british bacon competition either way I actually did
measure it out about 100 grams is equal to about a half a cup of pineapple but
hey if you actually have any tips for me and how it kind of pineapple go ahead
and comment in the section below let me know because I need some help if you
think there's somebody who's gonna go out now and eat lots of pineapple every
day do keep in mind that some people are allergic to bromelain and pineapple in
general certainly something you don't want to be doing all the time
I do also believe that pineapple is very acidic can can actually affect your
taste buds as well as other problems with your gums and teeth also keep in
mind if you are a diabetic or very sensitive to high sugar foods pineapple
has a lot of sugar in it and that's actually one of the reasons why in the
study they limited the maximum amount of pineapple to be eaten was only three
pieces a day but again this study was not perfect I do hope however that this
opens up more avenues for research with more participants and that
maybe will at one point have a medication or at least some sort of
actual cure for floaters from Mother Nature
so last question of the day have you ever noticed if your floaters actually
improved somehow do you think it was just due to random chance or was it
something in your diet go ahead and comment and connect in a section below
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