﻿Have you been keeping up with my videos
on Bromelain for eye floaters in the past, you know that I've tried it myself
and you'll also know that I reported back at some point that Bromelain appeared
to be making more floaters move way more than I had perhaps been aware of before.
Now, while I couldn't 100% say
that it was bromelain causing that, it was fascinating to me at all that,
you know, there could be any possibility that Bromelain could even do that.
I've had people contacting me asking whether this might mean that Bromelain
could make their floaters worse going forward.
So in this video, we're going to just reflect
on that and just share with you some of my thoughts on Bromelain for eye floaters.
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First of all, if you haven't watched any
of the previous videos on Bromelain, then you might want to check that out
and I'll leave a link there for the most relevant video on Bromelain.
And in previous video that talked about I described a mechanism that Maurice
in 1957 in his research found as a possible way and mechanism
for the vitreous to be permeable or selectively permeable to some things.
And that could be one mechanism by which
things like Bromelain can work their way into the vitreous.
Having sat back and thought about it some
more, you know, this really kind of one of two things going on.
First of all, this could all just be a big
coincidence and it's got nothing to do with a Bromelain whatsoever.
And then secondly, Bromelain could actually be making his way
into the vitreous and impacting the vitreous in some way.
And that's really powerful if it is,
because it means, you know, there is of the possibility of some kind
of oral treatment, that oral medication or something, that you could take
supplements that could impact the vitreous in a direct way like that.
Now, the question is, though, whether
if Bromelain is impacting the vitreous and making it more liquid,
whether this is en route to making your floaters less visible or, you know,
could it actually be leading to your floaters getting worse?
Because as we know from the vitreous
and how vitreous changes with age, one of the mechanisms that leads to your
floaters forming in the first place is that the normally quite solid vitreous
starts to break down, becoming more liquefied.
And when that happens, then the collages of fibriods that exist
in the vitreous where they start to come together.
And this clumping together is then what
leads to the floaters being visible when kind of the shadow that is
caused from these clumps of collagen and then get cast onto the retina.
So really, it would be natural to kind of be concerned outside of the fact
that if Bromelain is making the vitreous more kind of liquefied, more mobile,
you know, then there's a very real possibility then
that you may actually see more floaters and it could make the situation worse.
So one of the things I've kind of really decided to do is really look
into the matter a little bit more, doing a little bit more,
digging through some of the research into floaters and the pineapple studies
and, you know, looking out for a couple of things.
First of all, want to see whether any of the subjects of these are research
studies at any point reported that they noticed more movement of their floaters
if they did and things went on to improve in terms of, you know,
their perception of their floaters seem to get better according to the studies,
then this may be positive for anybody who wants to try Bromelain and but, you know,
notices that their floaters start to move more.
It may well be a comforting finding to know that many of these people
in their study did notice more with their floaters en route to improvement.
Now, yeah,
I don't think many of these studies will necessarily have that level of detail.
So it may not be the case that we can find that
but I'll have a look around,
see what I can dig up and certainly report back to you guys, even if we cannot prove
that Bromelain is able to work its way into the vitreous.
Now, there may be many of you guys out there who may be still quite sceptical
about whether Bromelain can actually have any impact on floaters whatsoever.
You know, and I think that's certainly very valid to question.
However,
it's worth being aware that Bromelain is an enzyme
that is able to break down proteins also known as a protein-enlytic enzymes.
Now we have other use cases of protein-elytic enzymes.
One of the kind of most dramatic ones I can think of is if you are somebody who is
going to have a vitrectomy, for example, and it's determined that because you've
got retinal issues, your vitrectomy needs to be
released to kind of involve removal of the entire vitreous.
Now, one of the ways that they'll do that is to induce or create an Artificial
Posterior Detachment PVD and the way that they do that is with a drug that's
injected into the areas where the the vitreous attaches to the retina
and that drug that they use is called Ocriplasmin.
Ocriplasminm is protein-enlytic enzyme
it's a recombinant protein enlytic enzyme, which means that it's been modified,
you know, from in the lab environment basically
but when it's applied,
it has the ability to break down the connective areas where the posterior
vitreous attaches to the retina leading to that PVD.
So that tells us the power of these protein enlytic enzymes.
And so we factor that in with what we know
about some people's reports of Bromelain being helpful for them.
Then we may be able to come to the conclusion that Bromelain may well
be actually effective and certainly more effective than many
of us may give it credit for in being able to deal with these vitreous eye floaters.
Now, of course, all of this is still very
hypothetical and theoretical, but, you know, because it's just so
fascinating, I think from an interest point of view, I'm going to look into it.
And for those of you guys who are interested in what I want to follow along,
then please just stay tuned into the channel,
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And in the meantime, I do want to hear from you guys who have experienced anything at all
with Bromelain, whether positive or negative.
Ironically, in the last couple of days,
I've had two people contact me with both sides or opposite ends
of opinions when it comes to the use of bromelain.
So one guy said that,
you know, he thinks Bromelain doesn't do anything and if it does,
is likely to cause a total kind of destruction within the eye.
And on the flip side, the individual has said that they've been
using Bromelain and for them it has worked.
It's made a big difference and reduce a lot of their floaters and down
a significantly and that I should, in fact, carry on using Bromelain myself.
Just to point out as well, I haven't been using Bromelain now
for the last maybe three months or so when I ran out.
And also, yeah, I was a bit uncertain about what exactly was going on
so,
you know, after kind of thinking this
through a bit more than I'll make a decision about whether I'm going
to resume Bromelain a further and continue on with it over a longer stretch of time.
So all in all, I think I've been taking Bromelain for about six months
continuously up to the point where I stopped.
So I think will do for this video and really appreciate you guys.
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