Ask Dr. Kondrot a Question September 14, 2026

0:00Well, good morning or good afternoon or good evening wherever you are. This is Dr. Conrad and welcome to Substack, yes, Dr. Conrad, a question. And I would of thank all of you for being members and participating. Your tuition helps my wife and I on our mission work. And we're planning a great trip to Vietnam in about a month. We're going to be teaching four doctors here how to do corneal transplant surgery. So this is a very exciting trip for me and very exciting trip for my wife since she's from Vietnam. Anyway, let's open it up for questions. Mary, I see your hand there. Welcome to Substack and thanks for participating. Hi, thank you. I need I knew sunglasses. I have glaucoma and cataracts. What do I need and what don't I need with sunglasses?

1:03Well, that's a good question. And I think I want to ask you what is the purpose of your sunglasses? Do you spend a lot of time outdoors or is this something you'll be using occasionally? No, I spend a lot of time outdoors and the light bothers my eyes. Well, probably you do need some type of UV protection. But I'd like to make a comment our body needs ultraviolet light. So blocking ultraviolet light completely, I think, can be hazardous and detrimental. I usually recommend to people that they're going to be spending all time, you know, a lot of time outdoors, the beach or in the sun, the hiking, they probably do need some type of ultraviolet protection. I hear some other thing that you have to be careful with sunglasses just because the sunglasses are dark doesn't mean they're going to have the UV protection. And by a pair of very, very dark glasses, almost a pink.

2:07And if they don't have any UV protection, what's going to happen is your pupils are going to open, dilate and more harmful ultraviolet light will get into your eyes. So there's a delicate balance between our bodies need ultraviolet light and protecting them from excessive ultraviolet light. You know, one of the biggest deficiencies we have now is vitamin D deficiency. And the reason for that is we're not getting enough ultraviolet light. But then again, a lot depends on where you live. If you're living in Phoenix, Arizona, high altitude low humidity, the ultraviolet light to the extremely hazardous. But if you're at sea level and Seattle, that's a whole different situation. So every every. Well, Michigan is you get a lot of clouds and I'm sure you don't have that many sunny day. So I think water water to monitor ultraviolet light protection would be needed.

3:08Remember our body needs ultraviolet light, not the ultraviolet light sunlight. No one on earth would exist. Sunlight is necessary for the conversion of a chlorophyll and plants to energy. And the energy that is produced with plants kind of sustains all of us. So we need ultraviolet light. All right, we're good luck. How are you doing Pat? I'm doing well. I was really excited to find you. My girlfriend sent me something anyhow. So diagnosed with, I guess it was early macular degeneration back in 2012 when I was 63. So I'm 78. It has progressed. My right eye sees quite well at my left eye. It's still dry, but the geographic atrophy is coming in.

4:09So the left feel, the left center of both eyes is not good. The left eye is much worse. But I test my eyes daily with, I don't know if you know about no, no television foresee home. No, I'm not familiar with that. Oh, wow. Well, it's, it's just monitors. It doesn't diagnose, but it takes a baseline. And when you baseline changes, you know, you notify, notifies the doctor. You, I look through them. Kind of an OCT machine. But anyhow, so my question to you is, as my left eye is progressively getting worse, I don't know if it'll stay dry and just get total geographic atrophy or if it'll turn wet. I read your information about not getting shots for wet and doing something different.

5:11And so I was wondering about that you talked about having a consult with you. And I want to be prepared if it turns wet because I go to my eye doctor. And I know you said, if we get a scan, I see him in a week or two. And I'm going to get copies of my scans. So I was wondering, you said, if, you know, we can get a consult with you. So I would like to know how to arrange that and get prepared in case it turns wet. Well, number one, I think if you haven't read my book, Ted Essentials to Save Your Right, I highly recommend you read that, especially in the first three chapters. And that's a free download. You can go to conjradbook.org. I think I've done that, but. Make sure you read, read the book. Okay, first you first check. Okay, okay. Condra.com. Condra.book.period.

6:12I got a. Org. Condra.book. Not.com. Or not. Or. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Now, number number one, I think the most important thing is our diet and nutrition. And there's been a lot of studies to link macular degeneration to the unhealthy diet that we all have in the world. Not just in the United States, but all over. Of course, it's more of a problem in the US and it is in Europe, especially the introduction of seed oils. Right. There's some good studies that the seed oils that were introduced in the early 1900s have contributed to a toxic buildup of products, leaving to macular degeneration. So there was the point that is addressing that factor. Okay. Can I just interrupt you for a second? So I haven't done seed oils in many, many years. I treat myself with homeopathy. I take no pharmaceuticals.

7:12I don't go to doctors. Only when I have well that may be a little misleading. You can go to the finest health food store and you buy salad dressing. And it has to know the one. So you can go to the best health food store. I don't buy salad dressings. We make our own. We rarely. Well, then you must, you must be very, very unique then because it's all around us. And it's very difficult to avoid it, completing. There has to be another factor that. And that would be heavy metals. You know, heavy metals, especially Michigan. You know, there's better reports with what's lit Michigan and that mercury and all of these factors. And that's my job. I believe it can. Well, you have the pesticides and all the pollution from the cornfield. So. Right. Anyway, it's my job as a detective. And I really can't go into all the details now. Right. But it's categorically speaking. One of the biggest issues is. Our nutrition. And second is exposure to heavy metals. Right.

8:12And the third is probably stress and, you know, other factors that are causing problems. That's, you know, I mean, I think that's the most important. It's about everybody over the age of 60 will get early. Nuclear degeneration. It's aging changes. Just because you have those aging changes. Doesn't need to. Needs to lead the vision loss. So. That's why. I, you know, highly recommend you read my book. And I do have a free console. Well, you just send me your records. I mean, really no way to prepare for a console. As long as I have your records, I'll ask you the appropriate questions. It's not like you have to prepare for a test. I'm going to probe and try to find out what's going on in your life. And then we'll try to come up with a treatment program. Right. But I would definitely start with my book that has essentials to save a site. And the first three chapters are extremely important to get a handle office.

9:13Okay. We'll send them to you and set up a console. All right. Thanks for being part of the sub stack. And you really look carefully at your diet. I think there's probably some type of missing missing link there. So let's move on to Rick. Rick. Welcome to the sub stack. Dr. Conrad. Sure. Appreciate your help. Mine is kind of a data. I'm just creating this. You probably have heard from many people to navigate. Also, without the modules and specialists and so forth. At times with all the corporate takeovers. And which my ophthalmologist has has had happened. So she's harder to see. So I tried a new, which I thought was not the malgis turned out to be more of a cat or ex-specialist. And her thought was that based on the fact that I'd had, she called it a, a tear. My ophthalmologist says I had a retinotate attachment. But I have a pucker.

10:13And I also have what has been diagnosed by the retinotate special. February is a little bit late or whole. She said that the cataract pretty advanced. You didn't give me the grade that she said that the surgery would not be highly beneficial. Because of those two conditions. Have you heard of that before? So many times you're looking at the reason for your decrease in vision. You have to locate the area of the, the apology. And it sounds like it's the macular hole at the retinal problem, not the cataract. Right now I have a plus two cataracts, which most ophthalmologists would consider to be significant enough to merit surgery. Except my vision is 2020. And I'm actually doing cataract surgery on my mission work. Certainly I don't want to undergo cataract surgery. It sounds to me like it's the retinal hole. Well, I'm getting, I'm getting conflicting. So when I saw the retinotate special, it's in February.

11:15He said that the lamella hole was stable. And he said if you run and prove your vision, he would rep them and cataract surgery. When my ophthalmologist saw the results from this other doctor, she's wants to send me to another cataract specialist said that's based on the notes. Since April, my cataract has progressed and she disagrees and thinks that that's the major reason. So what I have done is confusing. I think you might agree with us. I just scheduled an appointment with my retinotate special to see him again and have him analyze and get his thoughts on where my retina is right now. Well, I'd be happy to take a look at your eye records and give you my opinion. Yeah, I think the best approach would be to try to treat the underlying cause. Why has your body produced this macular hole and why are you getting a cataract? So let's begin some type of treatment with looking at your diet carefully,

12:16maybe taking care of heavy metals and different toxins in your body and looking at other health issues that may be contributing to this problem and treat those. And even if you do need surgery, your results should be better because we're treating the underlying problem. I agree 100% on that. The one thing that I guess I have some anxiety because when my health amologist called and said she disagreed that I had a suetal hole. That was what she had diagnosed it later. I went to the retina specialist. He said it was a macular, a lamellia hole. And the retina specialist that I saw at the end of August referred to it in her notes, apparently as a macular hole. So I thought, first of all, just go to the retina specialist and find out what exactly is my situation and not going to progress with anything and then circle back to you, but just knowing where I am would probably be the first place to go. Would you agree? Well, I'd like to take a look at your records and I've actually seen the photograph of the eye, the scene, the extent of the retina hole.

13:20Yeah, they found a lamellia problem. They factored that my ophthalmologist covered it with me and disagreed, but then I found out she didn't have any received the facts as they didn't send the scans. And so the scans went to the retina specialist and the results where he would like to see me to see where I am. Yeah, well, there's nothing like an in-person visit where you know a scan may only cover part of the retina area. But we do a physical examination here actually look in the eye and you can carefully study all the areas of the retina and the macular, the bleeding effect, the vision. And also then the doctor can actually look at the density of the cataract. But it's interesting. I could look at the scan and I can tell the density of the cataract because if you have a dense cataract, you're not going to have a very good scan. The scan is going to be for the quality is going to be for it's like trying to take a picture through a dirty lens on your camera. What kind of high speed film you have and the lens is dirty, you're not going to get a good picture.

14:23I can evaluate that by just looking at the quality of the scan. But if the scan is perfect, and I can see all the detail, that means that the cataract can't be that significant. So there's ways that we can get around that. Yeah, that's what I was trying to decide is I would think that versus her scan, which they fax. So it's not going to be as good a quality. If I see the retina specialist and get a scan this week, then I can get that if the making over to you. Yeah, well, the other problem is this that you know, if you go to a cataract specialist, he makes his business doing cataract surgery. We don't claim the cataract to cause the retina specialist is going to claim it's the retina. Does he make since business retina surgery? Yeah, I just find out exactly what I have. Do I have a memory hole? Has it progressed? And then at that point, know where I am. And then I can get those over to you. Does that sound like probably the best? Yeah, but let me ask you this question. This question asked all my patients. How much is this limiting you in your activities? Right.

15:23Just if you're not limited, if you're not limited, you're able to function driving on your hobbies. That would be well enough. And to get a program of just trying to improve your overall, I have. But then again, if you're disabled and you can't do your job, and you're not enjoying your hobbies and you can't drive, then you know, something has to be done. Yeah, the only concern that I have is my ophthalmologist who had been holding me back from even talking about surgery. And her phone call last week said that you don't want to wait too long because if you wait too long, they become harder and thicker. And it's a more intensive surgery. Do you agree? Well, that's the scare factor that they use. You better give it that an hour. Your eyes will explode. Okay. Yeah. And she said, I'm afraid you're going to fall and break your hips. And I'm very active in a good shape. I think I mean, and she's not a, she is my ophthalmologist, not the, so. I will do that. I'll see the retina specialist this week. I'll get the information over to you and then we'll set up an appointment.

16:23All right. Great. Thank you for all your time. Okay. Yeah. Thanks for being part of the substep. Yeah. Okay. We'll move on to windy. This one. How are we doing? I'm good. Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you, everybody, for your shares. I have lots of good notes. I would have had more questions, but now I have answers. Good. Yeah. Every question, answer somebody else's problem. So don't be shy out there. It really is true. I have so two things going on. I have one thing. A friend of mine came out of brain surgery. I had a tumor on his brain and then he did some next surgery according to the surgeon. And I just saw them yesterday. And he said they went to Atlanta to see an ophthalmologist because he has double vision. So I'm just wondering, hmm, does the brain have to do with a double vision or is it something that needs to be studied from the ophthalmologist up in Atlanta? They said they didn't couldn't find anything to help them. I was going to ask them. Well, typically I get a lot of referrals with people that have double vision.

17:26The first thing I do is look at their motility of the eye. Highly eyeballs lose in the first question I asked them. Does the double vision go away when you close one eye? Hmm. The double vision goes away when they close one eye. That means it's a binocular problem. It's the eyes are not working together. In other words, one eye is still in the north while the other eye is still in the south. That would be me. That would be me. I have that. That quite double vision, but I hear that. Yeah. And I also talked about no peripheral vision, which is not helpful for them. And sometimes muscle surgery can help or prisons or eye exercises can help. And we want to identify the muscle that is involved with the double vision that we take appropriately and steps many times. This will resolve it to the three and six months. Right. I've seen many people with double vision. I said, just wait. Let's see what happens over three to six months and it could

18:26resolve by itself, especially if you have recent brain surgery. There's probably a lot of inflammation. The body and the brain has a hill yet and that could be causing problems. Okay, so that's very helpful. I was going. I sent them all the information I caught about you. I sent it over to them and I told them about today. I know that his wife is working. I'm not sure what he's doing. He's retired because of the brain surgery. And also the neck. I concerned about the neck one, you know, C12 and three. They did bones for on that. I felt way too soon after the brain surgery. So I'm right with you on the inflammation idea. And also depends on the area of the brain that they operated on. Is it close to the centers of the muscle control with the eye? And if that's the case, then that could be more likely. But a good neurologist or a good neurosurgeon would be able to detect a specific muscle problem. Oh, that's good. They talked about seeing a neurological optimologist.

19:29And the neurologist is kind of like the top level here. They actually look specifically as the cause of the double vision. But like I said, the first question I wanted to know is, does the double vision go away if you close one eye? Oh, that's close. If you close one eye and you still have the double vision, then that could be another issue. It could actually be a cataract or it could actually be a macular hole or a pucker or a retinal problem. So that would be made on the macular. My macular, my macular double vision or double vision with one eye only is a whole other list. Usually it's not neurological. It is sometimes a structural problem in the eye. Okay. Okay. You are answering so much about my left eye when I close my right eye. I've got a little shadow line behind it all the time. It's worse than my right eye. So that's not really double. That's boosting.

20:30Yeah. I think I needed to know is that double vision would be the quality of the images or the same. Okay. He said double vision. Yeah. The ghosting is when you see a good quality image. And then the other image is kind of like the dose. They believe it or not. That could be due to astigmatism. Simple astigmatism in the eye and a pair of glasses could correct that. I hope so because I did one eye doctor already and I got the script and it was still there. The ghosting but it was even clearer. So I knew I need time with you. What did I do with all my patients? You got double vision in one eye. I would get a piece of paper eight by 11 inch piece of paper and poke a hole in the center of paper with a safety pin and look through that little hole. If the double vision goes away. That means it's probably a refractive here. You just need proper pure glasses. If it doesn't go away. Then it probably means it could be a cataract or a retinal problem or some other problem.

21:31So that's a quick test to differentiate whether it's a refractive problem. Meaning you need to change your glasses or a special type of glass with astigmatism. Okay. See, lots of answers for me. I can share with them now. When do we get our replays from you? Because they. That should be that should be posted almost immediately after after we're done with this session. I downloaded from the. I post it. Where? I never. I'm on. On. Substack. In fact, all of the replays are posted on. Substack. There's probably a area on. Substack with every one of. Ask Dr. Conrad. A question is posted. Oh, thank you. I'm only done your emails. I love the emails that you send and all the information on it. I just encourage me. I know where the replays are. And I want some replays. So go to the. Substack homepage. And there's a listing of all the replays. So we say we save all of them.

22:33Oh, thank you. I know I've been to several of yours before this and want to be a place. Did you get it? So I'm asking my question. I don't want to take too much more time. You're always very. I don't see any other hands up here, but I do want to say a load of Dr. Fisher. How are you, sir? And Dennis. Reverend Dennis. Good. Hi, Dr. Conrad. Good to see you. Thank you for sending me a lot of your educational emails. Reverend good enough education. A lot of things he finds online. So thank you. My pleasure. Dr. Conrad. I had. I was a student at S L T. I surgery about two months ago. And immediately after the surgery. My left eye pressure was 15 and my right eye pressure was 17. I went back for another check up.

23:34And. They put me on these prednisone eyedrops for my right eye. Well, one of the risks of the S L T. It can cause inflammation and actually cause the pressure to. Brides. Unlikely. See, the S L T procedure for those of you may not be familiar with it. It's a glaucoma procedure. And the analogy is like cleaning the drain in the bathtub. If you're sitting in the bathtub, taking a shower in the bathtub. So we're flowing. You look at the drain. And usually you'll see a lot of hair and lint and debris. So essentially with the S L T procedure, does it glaucoma? The pressure is increasing and we're cleaning the drain of the eye. Now, if the eye has a lot of pigments. Sometimes doing the procedure can cause inflammation. A pigment dispersion and that pigment can actually block other areas. If the drain and the eye and. Cause of the increase in pressure. So people that are heavily pigmented, we have to be careful when we do that procedure.

24:37That's one of the reasons why you mentioned that there's a new variation of the S L T. When they blast everything at once, it only takes a couple of seconds. I kind of don't like that procedure mainly because. I would rather selectively hit different areas of the eye and know what I'm doing instead of the computer. But on the other hand, A I's going to be taking over the world. So let me enjoy my work while I cast it. So, so doctor, I had another appointment to check up the last week. And I took my eye drops early in the morning and my. I took my eye pressure at about four in the afternoon and. My eye pressure on my left eye was 18 and the right eye was 24. So yeah, that's not good. That's not good. So I wondered well, maybe I should have taken another set of eye drops before.

25:40The examination, but the bottom line was is that he's good. Well, I think we're going to have to do a. He recommended the to recollect me. Well, let me make a comment because if you start chasing your pressure value. Normally, there is a diagonal pressure variation that you have to go. Come on, the pressure is going to be different in the morning that is indeed. And we just don't look at one number. In other words, I've seen glaucoma patients that have a pressure of 25. And they never, never lose vision. And I've seen glaucoma patients with a pressure 10, which is low and they're going blind. So the bottom line is it's how the pressure affects the nerve. And the only way we can accurately evaluate that is by actually measuring the thickness of the nerve. It's called the nerve fiber layer. We actually measure the health of the nerve in terms of microns, which is a thousands of a millimeter.

26:42It's a very, very precise way of measuring the health of the nerve. So typically with glaucoma patients, we need to get stereo measurements. What is happening to your nerve fiber layer over time? Is it decreasing? If it is decreasing, then we have that's an alert. The alarm bell goes off and we've got to do something. But if the nerve fiber layer is stable. And we don't see a decrease in nerve fiber layer, then that's the reason to celebrate. Even though your pressure is made vary from 17 to 24, your body is healthy enough to keep that nerve healthy. And of course, that's why I'm a big advocate of what can we do to keep the optic nerve healthy? And number one is prayer. You're a reverend. I don't have to tell you that. And you may laugh. Not only do you get God's help, but prayer has a way of relaxing your other non-mic nervous system.

27:44And when you're under stress, remember it's God's will, not your will. So when you put things over to the Lord, sometimes that helps relax your body and you just know further, refreshing. And of course, doing all the other things is good nutrition, exercise, weight reduction, all these things can help the optic nerve, increasing the blood sling through the optic nerve. All these things are extremely beneficial. So it's more than just taking eye drops and lowering the pressure. It's taking care of the health of that optic nerve. I think you recommended there was a specific nitric oxide that you recommended in one of your videos. We read the red beaks. Neo 40 is a product. The nitric oxide helps improve the blood flow. But that's what many things to improve the blood flow. I would say that's the only thing you can do.

28:45You're simply walking in meditation and prayer. You know, moderate exercise. Well, fruit of blood flow too. You don't have to take a product to do that. And keeping yourself well hydrated. You know, let it pick. And it's not able to float in those tiny capillaries. That could be a problem. What about the possibility of doing another sLT at a later point in time? Yeah, definitely studies have shown that repeating the sLT. In fact, if you were my patient, and I was repeating the sLT, I might use a lower energy and do fewer spots. See how the body reacts. Okay, but I recently, I recently had a patient her pressure was 31. And after sLT, it came down to eight. And that was just doing, you know, selective. It's called selective laser, trivectal of blasting.

29:45Meaning we select certain areas. We want to look to where the drain is blocked. So it's just as a random blasting of the back of the eye. You know, with laser. It's finding out where the, where the drain is blocked and using that. But I would probably recommend doing another sLT before because you're talking about a trivectal, a trivectal, a trivectal is actually where you go in surgically. You may make a little hole. But I think there's other procedures that can help open up the drain. I was looking at a video about the potential risks versus the benefits. And I didn't like the risks, you know, with like excessive. I don't like the, the trivectal. It's a, it's a complicated procedure. It's, you know, it's, it's the last resort. And on the other hand, if your pressure is elevated and we have evidence that your nerve is losing its health.

30:51Then, you know, we're between the rock and the heart like she knew God, you got to do that procedure. In my case, I think it was just a case of an elevated eye pressure at the time I went in. It's just like I've gone in and had high blood pressure. And that's what they call a white collar syndrome where you go into a doctor's office and automatically your blood pressure rises. And a, a rising blood pressure apparently can cause a rise in interocular pressure. Now, I don't know if I agree with that. I think there's been no correlation between elevated blood pressure and elevated eye pressure. In fact, it's the opposite. Studies have shown that when you have a drop in eye pressure, that's when you get damaged at the nerve. Because you'd be thinking about it logically. We want that optic nerve to be proscused with blood. And people that have low blood pressures.

31:53We're taking medications and there was a study done that men that wear neckties. Have a greater risk of progression of glaucoma because the necktie is tight. And it's cutting off the blood flow to the brain. So I see that you don't wear necktie. You're the casual, casual minister, right? Just one final point. I heard somewhere that the eye drops that have the preservatives in them. Is that the BAK? Yes. Other preservatives too. I don't know if this is correct or not, but I think one I doctor on the internet said that it eventually can cause damage to the. Tribretular nest work. Well, the danger is if you have an allergy to the preservative, you know, what happens when you have an allergy gets swelling. So the very effect that the eye drop is going to produce. Maybe we'll have the opposite effect. It's actually increasing your pressure.

32:54But now with most of the brands, they do have preservatives free. Well, that's what I'm taking right now is the preservative free. Yeah, they're a little bit more pricey, but then if they cause the right. Give me the right result and it's well worth the investment. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Dr. Condra. Thank you, Reverend God bless you. Thank you. God bless. God bless you. Yeah, thank you. All right. And the other questions out there. Looking here. Yeah. Yeah. No questions in chat either. So I guess there's no other questions. I'm a path is. Yeah, may I agree? Well, I have lots of macular degeneration questions. I didn't want to hog the show. Can any any of the drusans be reversed?

33:58Is there any kind of improvement? Definitely. I've seen that all the time. Really? With diet with other therapies that I'm interested in. The microcurrent, which is a low level electrical stimulation. And also light therapy. Kulation detoxing all of these therapies can, including homey other. All these things can help reduce the drusans. Now, drusans by themselves. Does not. Correlate to a progression. Or severity of macular degeneration. My late mother had drusans that was scary when I look inside her eye. It was like drusans all over the place. And she had excellent vision until she passed away. In fact, when I referred her to the retinal specialist, I got a call from the retinal specialist because I'm a fellow ophthalmologist. Dr. Conjara never seen such horrible bruising. But I'm surprised that her vision is so good.

34:59And the reason why her vision was so good, she was. She was a health nut. She really watched her diet. And she was very influential in my life. And looking at alternative treatment. And I'm wondering if that's why I was diagnosed 16 years ago. So I'm wondering if that's why I'm doing as well. I am. I mean, I've always had a good diet. Of course, the seed oils. When we finally learned about them a while ago. But, you know, and I do all the kale. And, you know, I've taken arids forever. But anyhow. And I exercise, I'm doing it. And, you know, I've taken arids forever. But anyhow. And I exercise daily. In fact, I missed my class today. So I could come to your session. But, um, yeah. But if there's things I'm not doing, that's why I'm really excited to talk to you and maybe, you know, get into some of these alternatives. I, you know, we do everything with our eyes.

36:00And I've got my little, my little extra lights here. And, you know, I've got all sorts of things to help me see. But, um, I just can't wait to have a consult and go further with you. Because maybe you want to look at heavy metal toxicity. That's a big problem here. You live in Kansas and all the best sides and sprays. And farm equipment with diesel fuel and lead. Right. Soil. It's definitely could be a contributing factor. So one of the things I do for all my patients is we do a heavy metal test. Now, one thing about testing for heavy metals, you go to a traditional doctor, they'll do a blood test or a urine test that a protechine has normal. But you could be dying of lead poisoning. And there's not going to be any lead in your blood or your urine. Because the lead goes into the tissues, your fat, your muscle, your brain, and your eye. It's locked in there.

37:00The only way to accurately measure heavy metals is, you know, your and challenge tests. You take some capsules, which kind of bring out the lead that are deep in the tissue. Then you collect your urine. It's called the urine challenge test. And most doctors who do this professionally in terms of detoxifying patients and up to them with heavy metal poisoning, use the urine challenge test as kind of a standard for measuring the lead. And that's what we did. We said, you know, urine kit. When some capsules, you take those and then you collect your urine over six or time, very sensitive to that. But unfortunately, just about everybody that I test has some degree of elevation of lead or mercury. It's just everywhere in our environment. I can remember when I was in grade school, I would be playing with mercury in my hand. In the teacher was, you know, like, what we did wrong with that. You broke the thermometer and then you sucking, sucking on a lead pencil.

38:04Right before you're exempt to reduce your nerves. And I find this out that even though they're calling it, I'm let it gasoline. It still has a small percentage of lead in it. So if you're living your highway, every day, you're breathing fumes if you take lead. Well, that's what I'm talking about. We'll definitely go further with that with you because I really want to do that. And I have on my homeyopathy. I do take some stuff from my eyes right now. I do homomalous and arnica every day. And, you know, there are detox heavy metal remedies that I haven't done because I don't know that I need them. But I'm going to find out from you. I'm going to pursue this further. I really, I was so excited to find you. And I'm just not that happy with my retina doctor. They're just typical physicians and.

39:05Not very satisfying. So thank you. Well, it has to do with medical education and, you know, unfortunately. Healthcare is controlled by a big pharma. That's right. Yeah. That's a great example of the research. I can remember my first day in med school. Here I am a. Tibbed. College graduate. You know, going to the university. And a guy put his arm around. He said, welcome to Honda doctor. And I turned around, I'm, uh. Bill Smith from Eli Lilly company. And here's the. the PDR for you and here's a best step to scope and anything I can do to help you. That was my first in-documentation to Big Pharma. Well, we know they, you know, I know all about the history with Roosevelt and, I mean, FDR, yeah, what's his name? Anyhow, and the Flexner Report and... I know how it is. The Flexner Report, yeah.

40:05And Brocka Feller. And, you know, Brocka Feller, till the day he died, had homeopathic doctors. Yeah, but then he spent all that money. They wanted to make the entire medical system, biochemical system. He's the one who destroyed it. That's right. So... He used it himself, so by Ronik. Yeah, well, I will be in time. Anyway, thank you. There are a lot of good, good homeopathic doctors out there. I belong to an organization called the American Institute of Homie Optically. Yeah, me too. You can Google that organization. I do. Interestingly, yeah, interestingly, most of the doctors there, I used to think that homeopathic doctors or doctors that weren't smart enough to get into medical schools. I decided that, well, let me become a homeopathic biocharacter. But interestingly, most of the doctors that belong to that organization have practiced traditional medicine for 10 to 20 years.

41:06And they realize that they're really not helping people, and they discover homeopathy. And that's kind of like my story. I thought, I don't have all the answers with eye surgery and with medications. And then, when I had a personal health issue, and almost died from a dump onset, as far. And I thought, I had all the top homeopathic doctors, and everyone told me, there's no cure, take your asthma medication. But then it was one homeopathic remedy that cured me. And it wasn't my first remedy. First remedy didn't do anything. Was it carbovets? No. But you know what, there isn't one remedy for asthma. Right. You treat, in homeopathy, we treat the person with a disease, not the disease in the person. So when I do a homeopathic consult, I want to find out more about the person. Their likes, their dislikes, their hobbies, their temperature with them, you know.

42:08And associated problems, habit diseases, and that leads us to the right homeopathic remedy. I study all of Joachal breezes. I've taken all of her courses. I haven't done her academy because I'm 78 and I'm beyond that. But I'm going to keep... Well, on a month, on a month, it is best work at age 83. So don't tell me that. That's true. His last five years were his best years. That's right. Yeah, he was 83. Right. But I just keep studying and yeah, I'm, you know, practical homeopathy is my jam. And I've got all my remedies sitting here. Anyhow. But I'm glad you... Well, the other thing is you have to be careful with over-prescribing. I see a lot of people who are in the homeopathy are taking a different remedy every day and every week. I'm a classical constitutional prescriber. Okay. I'm telling you of symptoms and I focus in on the disease, how it's manifesting in the body. And I look for that one remedy. And it could be any number, as you know,

43:10of over 3,000 remedies. So certain remedies have a greater affinity to the eye that it could be anything. It could be anything. But only opathy is tough. It's not like, you know, here, take this... Right. We're really treating the person. Then you start to get into a psychological and emotional factors that are a contributing factor. But opathy is wonderful. That's my number one passion. And believe it or not, I have any study group with about four or five doctors. We meet every Sunday and Wednesday. And we take cases and we study the effects of remedy. So... And you stick to classical, you don't do any protocols? Never. I don't think there's any merit. Well, I take that factor. They help me. They're a lazy way. Well, they may help you, but they may be suppressing the disease deeper. And that's the problem.

44:11You can get a superficial. And why are you here at this meeting with your macular degeneration? The protocols help. You should be better. I can totally... That's why I'm going to come to you. Protocols... Protocols are a lazy way to practice homeopathy. Interesting. It's a lazy way. Okay. And I know there's a lot of homeocassia. They have these standard protocols, you know, taking five or six different remedies. You're changing them all the time. You're changing post-and-seats. The... Boyles my blood when I see that. That is not classical homeopathy. At 99% of homeop's homeopaths in the world don't practice that way. Okay. It's the high volume homeopaks that practice that way. They can see a lot of people quickly. And oh, you have macular, think it's protocol. It's the eye protocol. It's not homeopathy. That is big pharma. Oh, Joe, I have a big, very upset to hear you say that.

45:14Well, I'd be happy to have a debate with our on that. Well, I look forward to consulting, having you consult with me and I'll yield the floor. All right. Well, there's no other hands up. So there's no other questions. Thanks everybody for joining. I can't believe summer's over. You know, winter's coming and when the days are short and the nights are long, we have more time to focus on our health, I think. All right. Blessings to everybody. And thanks for being part of the sub-stack. Thank you.