﻿Now, on the face of it, bromelain pineapple extract appears to be just another one of the
supposed wonder treatments for vitreous eye floaters that has a huge claims around it,
but very little in the way of substantiated results.
Now, while we've witnessed a lot of sufferers will go to great lengths to explore options
that are non-surgical to treat our floaters, even we won't try anything for the sake of it.
So if you find yourself in the same boat, then keep watching this video to find out why,
for top reasons why I'll be trying bromelain pineapple extract over the next two months to
see whether there's any truth behind the hype that's causing all the fuss around bromelain.
Hey, what's happening? This is Martin's eye tips with me optometrist's Martin Oguzie,
and this channel is all about helping you see better, see more comfortably
and be less anxious about your eyes. Now, if that sounds remotely interesting to you,
then please subscribe to the channel, hit that notification bell as well. So
you get reminded every time I release a new video. Let's get started with today's
video all about bromelain. I purchased the 60 capsules supply of bromelain from Amazon UK.
It contains 1200 GDU of bromelain per capsule, which is equivalent to 480 milligrams per capsule.
And GDU, by the way, stands for Gelatine digesting units. Now they advise on the
instructions that you take between one, two, three capsules per day. For the purposes of my test,
I'm going to simply use one capsule per day if it interest you I'll leave a link
to this product or an equivalent product in a description box for you to check out.
So why am I going ahead and using Bromelain? Well, first of all, lots of people asking me
about it. They've been asking my thoughts on it and whether I've used it, I haven't looked into
it. I then felt that it's a safe enough product to use and test out for the purposes of dealing
with floaters. Now to be fair, over the next two months, my expectations are not that this
is going to be a miracle cure for floaters, but what I do want to see is some kind of glimmer
of hope that this could be making some kind of difference to the floaters, whether that's making
them less visible and more translucent than just any kind of indication that it's worth extending
that two months and continuing to use it is really what I'm looking for in this period.
So with that said, here are my four top reasons why I found bromelain interesting and worth trying
out. So number one bromelain has a long history of therapeutic use in traditional and herbal
medicine, now bromelain is an enzyme that's fine in all parts of the pineapple, also from the stem
to the fruit. And in countries such as Central and South America, it's been used for centuries
for medicinal purposes. Now some parts of the world bromelain has achieved fullwide-ranging
medical approval as a topical cream for skin burns because of its ability to remove dead skin cells.
The range of things that people use bromelain for is quite wide-ranging. But the common
applications are for inflammatory conditions like arthritis, sinusitis, bronchitis, as well as these
anti-inflammatory benefits of bromelain. People perceive it to also have benefits in helping
with cardiovascular conditions. Or if you are somebody who is at risk of heart attacks, stroke,
angina, then that's one of the applications that people will usually turn to bromelain for. If you
are somebody who's already taking prescription medications from your doctor to thin your blood,
then you don't want to start on bromelain without consulting your doctor because it can really make
your blood dangerously thin and that can lead to, you know, unwanted problems and complications.
So this is why the use of bromelain and this established use of bromelain over time assures
me that it's a safe product to use. And that's important because it means then that it's not
just a novel product with unknown risks. Number two, bromelain is a protein digesting enzyme. So
why is that important? Well, the main way that its claim that bromelain is able to help is by
dissolving vitreous floaters. Now, before we can take such a claim seriously, we have to first
establish that bromelain even has that theoretical possibility of being able to dissolve floaters.
So we know that vitreous floaters are caused by collagen fibers, which exist naturally in the
vitreous anyway, clumping together and causing these thicker clumps of collagen, which then
cast shadows on the retina. And we perceive that then as these moving floaters in our vision, it
turns out that bromelain is indeed a proteolytic enzyme, which means that it's able to catalyze,
or to speed up, the breakdown of protein chains into their smaller amino acid blocks. And it turns
out that the collagen fibers that vitreous floaters are made out of are also proteins.
So in theory, bromelain can break them down and can then I suppose in theory dissolve your
vitreous floaters. But it seems that we can tick off reason number two for plausibility. That is,
of course, if we can figure out how bromelain is going to get into the vitreous in the first
place. And that brings me nicely onto reason number three, Stem bromelain can travel through
cell membranes. So we know that the vitreous fluid is encased by the hyaloid membrane.
So for bromelain to be able to access the floaters and to be able to break them down,
it somehow has to be able to make its way into the vitreous. So in order for it to do this,
presumably it has to somehow make its way across this membrane to into the vitreous humor. Now,
there are two bromelain enzyme classifications found in pineapple, the first one is called a
fruit bromelain, and that's extracted from the fruit itself and the second
one is called Stem bromelain, and that's extracted from the pineapple stem. Now fruit
bromelain and has the ability to break down the proteins, as we talked about.
So, too, does stem bromelain. But to a greater extent, it appears that bromelain from stem is
able to interact and affect a greater part of the body than perhaps fruit bromelain is able
to do so. And the reason for this may be that it has either a greater or enhanced ability
to pass through a cell membranes. Now, this may well be the reason why a lot of herbal
and traditional remedies are made out of the stem bromelain rather than the fruit bromelain.
And the supplement that I have is made out of the stem as well. And typically,
you just need to look out for the name Ananas Comosus, which is the extract of the stem,
the word to describe the vitreous as being a closed system. And this is true to the extent
that within an intact membrane, the vitreous humor fluid doesn't get a fresh reproduction of vitreous
humor coming in and draining out all the time. It's essentially a stagnant pool of this fluid.
Now, unlike the Aqueous humor in the front chamber of the eye, the aqueous humor gets
freshly produced all the time. So you get new aqueous humor produced by the ciliary processes
in the ciliary body. And then the old aqueous humor drains out via the trabecular work. This
just doesn't happen. We don't get that inflow and outflow within the intact vitreous membrane.
And so therefore it is kind of really an enclosed system in that sense. However,
this doesn't mean that a nutrient can't necessarily come in and out.
And this was what was proposed and suggested by Maurice in 1957. So based on his experiments,
which appeared to show that his radioactive salt sample was able to work its way from in
the vitreous out into the anterior chamber, his conclusion was that there is a mechanism
by which the membrane allows things in and out. And he also suggested that this might explain why
the aqueous humor and the vitreous humor are almost identical in terms of their make up of
the actual fluid part of the vitreous humor and the aqueous humor based on what we've said about
stem bromelain and perhaps bromelain in general, this ability to be able to penetrate membranes,
it may well be that a possible pathway for bromelain to make its way into the vitreous might
be that it works its way into your bloodstream and then it works its way into the aqueous humor,
the aqueous humor is actually kind of the fluid is derived from plasma in your blood anyway and
is kind of released by the ciliary processes in the ciliary body. So bromelain can work
its way into the aqueous humor in that way. And then based on a Maurice's 1957 theory,
then it could be that bromelain can make its way via the anterior membrane of the vitreous
into the vitreous humor. And once it's there then of course it may well be able to then
digest your vitreous floaters. So that is one that highly theoretical mechanism and
pathway that bromelain can make its way into the vitreous perhaps very oversimplified by
me and I hope that make sense and for those who have that question of how it was going
to be able to get into this supposedly closed system then hopefully that makes sense as well.
Now finally number four there is some research and anecdotal evidence to suggest that bromelain
may have some benefits against vitreous floaters. Now it's always desirable and
welcome to have a research that supports any possible treatment that you are thinking about
in the case of bromelain there is many people will be aware of this Taiwanese based research
which suggests that pineapples will have a benefit on vitreous floaters and as well as
that there are many people swear by bromelain for its benefits in pain relief and you know
anti-inflammatory properties etc. I think it's worth having a healthy dose of reality when it
comes to what bromelain can do and especially with some of the anecdotal evidence that you
hear about people saying that it's beneficial to them and then they've noticed something,
there aren't very many people who are saying yes it's cured my floaters and
you know I'm running down the street saying they're miraculously healed and recovered
there you know a lot of people who feel that bromelain hasn't made any noticeable difference
to them whatsoever so it's worth keeping all that in mind and keeping everything in perspective but
all things considered and with the points that I've highlighted up above I think bromelain is
definitely worth my consideration and for that reason I'm gonna over next two months
give it a try, initial try anyway and not gonna get too hung up on the dosages etc
that I'm taking but I'll use this 480 milligram kind of capsules that I have and I'm going to
take one a day over there certainly over the first month and then perhaps in the second
month then I may up that to two capsules a day maybe even three so based on how things go.
Now that's how I've arrived at my decision to give bromelain a go,
for some of you who might be wondering I'm not just eating fresh pineapples as
much as I love pineapples I can only eat so much before it starts to give me acid
indigestion so it's not something that is a realistic option for me.
Besides that I think I really want to try the stem extract of bromelain rather than the fruit
itself just because I think that possibly could be more effective. Let me know in the
comment section below if you have any questions whether you've used bromelain yourself. I'm also
going to leave a link in the description box to our Facebook group that I've recently joined,
I'm not the owner of the group but I think it's a big group of people who live with floaters a
great place and a resource for people who you know might want to find other people
going through floaters and themselves to make a discus to share their experiences. So I'll
leave a link to that group in the description box as well as the link to the supplement that
I have here this bromelain supplement or the next kind of best recommended one that I find.
Thank you for watching please remember to subscribe to the channel to like this video
hit the notification bell and also sharing this video as well it really helps the channel out.
Thanks for watching and I look forward to seeing you in my next update. Take care.