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Could Your Eyes Be Causing Dysautonomia, Brain Fog, and Anxiety?

In this episode, Dr. Hugh Wegwerth explains how your eyes may be adding stress to your brain and nervous system.

You will learn about a simple visual test called the Troxler Effect. This test uses a red dot and a green circle to see how well your brain filters out things that are not changing.

When your brain and eyes are working well, the green circle should fade away. If it does not fade, your eyes, brain, vestibular system, or cerebellum may be under stress.

This may be linked to symptoms like:

• Dysautonomia
• Brain fog
• Brain fatigue
• Dizziness
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Racing heart
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Blood pressure problems
• Blood sugar problems

Dr. Hugh also explains why vision is so important for brain health.

Your eyes send a huge amount of information into your brain every second. If your eyes are not moving and focusing the right way, your brain may stay on high alert.

This can make your nervous system feel like it is always looking for danger.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What the Troxler Effect is
• How to use the Brain Toolkit app
• Why the green circle should fade
• What it may mean if the green circle does not fade
• How your eyes may affect dysautonomia
• Why vision can impact anxiety and panic attacks
• Why concussions, inflammation, mold, heavy metals, and gut issues may affect eye function
• Why a functional neurological approach may be needed

This episode is not about guessing. It is about asking a better question:

Could your eyes be one missing piece in your brain and nervous system problems?

If you are dealing with hard-to-explain symptoms and want help finding what has been missed, schedule a Zoom call with Dr. Hugh.

Schedule a Zoom call here:
https://drhughwegwerth.com/discovery-call/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

If I can show you a very simple app that you can put on your phone to determine if your eyes may be causing your dysautonomia, your brain fog, your brain fatigue, your dizziness, your anxiety, your panic attacks, constipation, diarrhea, that's what you want to stick around for because there actually is a very simple app that you can use, put on your phone, and check to see if your eyes may be contributing to your neuroinflammation and your dysautonomia. So stick around here and let's go through this. So what we want to try and do is this app is called Brain Toolkit. Brain Toolkit is the app that you're going to want to download on your phone. In a little bit, I'll show you exactly what you have to do. It's a $15 app and can actually change your perception of what's actually happening with you. So what we want to do is when we open this app up from the Brain Toolkit, we're going to be looking at this thing right here, which is this green ring. And what this test is called, it's called the Troxler effect. So what the heck is the Troxler effect? So what this is, is you're going to be looking at basically something similar, just like this on your iPhone. And you're going to be looking at this red dot right in here. Now, what happens is when you look at this red dot, if you have, if your eyes don't move, if your eyes are not moving very microscopically, you're going to look at this red dot and the green periphery will disappear. This is normal, healthy visual optical perception. Now, if you have an eye involvement with your dysautonoma, your anxiety, your panic attacks, what's going to happen is that green layer, the periphery, is not going to disappear. It's going to stay there, stay there. And that indicates that this is coming from something to do with your eyes, your vestibular system, your cerebellum, some neurological component that has to do with your brain. Now, why is that? Now, when you look at this dot, normally this green, I should say this green ring, normally this green ring in normal, healthy humans should disappear in less than 10 seconds. So in mine, it dep it disappears in 10 seconds. If you're over 20 seconds and it's still there, or 30 seconds and it's still there, this is uh indication of your eyes not functioning well. So this is a screening tool. It doesn't tell you what's what's the matter or where the problem is at. It tells you that some involvement of your eyes is involved with your condition, your neurological condition. And this is a very simple test. So your brain filters out what doesn't change. Vision isn't like a camera. Your brain decides what matters. Here's the critical thing: your brain decides what matters. So let me read this definition of what the troxler test is actually doing. Okay, so to understand the troxler test is doing, what the troxler test is doing, it helps to know the fundamental truth of your brain. The fundamental truth of your brain. Your nervous system is designed to completely ignore anything that isn't changing. So why is that? Because if it's not changing, it's not a threat. This is the key thing. 2,000, 3,000 years ago, if we saw something in our periphery change, we got scared because that thing could potentially kill us. So if your nervous system is designed to completely ignore things that that aren't changing. Your brain is a change detector. So your brain is detecting changes constantly 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It actively filters out constant or unchanging background data so it can focus its energy on detecting new things. Detecting new things like a sudden movement, a change of sound, or a potential threat. So this is the key thing. Your eyes, if it's going to focus, it's it's going to eliminate or not put any emphasis on things that are not moving. If things are moving, your nervous system is going to be in a heightened alert. That's the crux of the whole thing. The Troxler tests uses a clever visual measurement, how effectively your brain helters, uh handles this filtering process. Okay. So when we open this app, I'm going to show you a little video here in a second. What should happen here? You see the 10 to 20 seconds? You're going to open this app. You're going to focus on this dot right here. Now, if your eyes are stable, if your eyes are stable, this green area is going to disappear. Now, why would that green area disappear? Because it's stable, it's not moving. If it's not moving, your brain's going to ignore it because we know that's not a threat. Like if we're out here in the periphery and we see something outside, it could be a tiger or a lion, whatever, that's a threat. Your nervous system is going to be at heightened alert, right? So just imagine your immune system, or not your immune system, your eyeballs and your brain being at heightened alert. You're going to be in a dysautonomia state, dysregular heartbeat, anxiety, panic attacks. You go out driving, you get a panic attack. You go in the grocery store, you get panic attacks. This is a heightened alert. And we can contribute this as a portion to possibly your eyes that aren't functioning and they're not fovealizing what that's a fancy word is, staying on this dot right in here. Okay, so let me pull up this video here. So you're going to go to the app store and you're going to down this right here. Download the brain toolkit.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Okay, so we're gonna go with a brain toolkit right here. I'm gonna play this video.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

So why in the Troxler test does the green circle stay? Because you have neuroinflammation, your eyes are jerking, your eyes are drifting off, or you have brain inflammation. All these things are classic signs on why that green circle is not moving. Now, in here, I want to go over a couple crazy statistics, and this is gonna tell you how much neurological emphasis God, when God designed us, put us, put that in our eyes. All right. So in here, 50% of your brain is involved with vision. So 50% of your total brain capacity. Now, when we talk about the brain, there's lots of things that make up your brain, your whole cortex, your brain brain, your midbrain, your spinal cord, your uh medulla, all these things are part of the brain. So 50% of the whole entire brain is involved with vision. So that's highly, highly neurological. And if you cannot focus on that red dot, you're getting a huge amount of input going into your brain. Now, when we just talk about the cortex, cortical, okay. So let me just define that. There's a whole brain that includes all the deep center, autonomic, midbrain, cerebellum, uh, pons, medulla. Okay, then we're just gonna talk about the cortex on this side. So the cortex is basically the just the outside, is the outside of the brain. So the cortex is just basically like this part in here. So 30% of your cortex is used for vision. Okay. Now you can see right back here is actually the vision in your brain is actually in the back of the head, it's in your occiput. Now let's look at these other statistics. So 30% of your cortex is used for vision, 8% for touch, and 3% for hearing. So you can see that the eyes are a massive amount of neurological impact going into your brain. So if your eyes are not functioning properly, now why would your eyes not function? Because you've had concussions, maybe you've had your bell rug, maybe you've played a lot of sports, maybe you got a motor vehicle accent, maybe you uh slipped on ice, maybe you have leaky gut, maybe you have leaky brain, maybe you have constipation, maybe you have diarrhea causing chronic inflammation. Maybe you don't have enough omega-3 fish rolls, maybe you don't have enough phosphatylcholine, maybe you have mold, maybe you have have have have heavy metals, maybe you have environmental pollutants. You can see the list goes on and on and on and on. So, what this is about here today is not like let's resolve the problem. It's is this a problem? Do the test, download it, and if that doesn't go away in 10 seconds, that's telling you there's some involvement with your eyes that's probably contributing to your neurological condition that no one can ever find a reason or rhyme for. And you got to do a neurological, a functional neurological program that includes a variety of different things. Okay, more statistics just on the eyes. And this is pretty uh this is pretty crazy right in here. Is there's 2.4 million active connections, 1.2 million per eye, 1.2 million per eye. So this is where all these nerves they cross here and they cross here. Basically a combination of 2.4 million active connections, which means that each second there's billions and billions of data points that are going into your brain. Now remember the last statistics is 50% of your total brain is dealing with your vision. So if your eyes cannot folize on that red dot and your eyes are moving around and your periphery, it sees the green circle all the time, firing massive amounts of information into your system, deep into your midbrain, which has to do with anxiety, dysautonomia, racing heart, even blood sugar problems, blood pressure problems can be all be caused because deep in your brain is getting too much stimulation from your eyes. Your eyes is a major, your eyes are a major component of basically healthy function. Now, here's some other crazy statistics. There's 126 light sensors in your eyes. So, what we call here, like what are rods? Like rods are they detect motion and then they detect vision in the side. So there's 120 million of them, and then there's what we call cones, and cones, um, they deal with color and sharp detail. And you can see this is a great graphic right in here. So this is the optic nerve that comes right down in here and goes down here. So all this information is coming in here, going in the optic nerve. So there's tons of information that your eyes are bringing to your brain, and you have to make sure that the eyes are functioning normally. Now, here's another crazy statistic. It's up in here is the six eye muscles. Uh, the six eye, the six muscles moving each eye are the fastest, most precisely controlled muscles in your body, reaching up to 50 times faster than leg muscles. So each eye has six muscles, six muscles, they're highly innervated, and they're 50 times faster than your leg muscles, 50 times faster than your leg muscles. So that is telling you that the information that is going in your brain is very, very critical. Now, we talk about 100 hertz. What the heck does that mean? So your eyeballs, your eyeballs me move 30 to 100 times each second, very, very microscopically. Okay, so what happens now? Let's say that you're moving at 30 times per per second, but their your eyes are moving very large. It's not microscopic, they're very large. So when your eyes move very large, what happens is when you're looking at the red dot, you cannot focus on the red dot because your eyes are moving too many too much. All the things I just mentioned: concussions, mold, heavy metals, uh, poor, poor uh hormone status, poor EPA, DHA, all these things will contribute to your eyes not moving smoothly and symmetrically. So if your eyes are moving, but very broad, very wide, right? That's gonna cause your eyes not to focus on the red dot. That's gonna cause the green circle, the periphery, never to go away. And what does that indicate to you? That indicate indicates to you that massive amounts of information are bombarding your brain, causing dysautonomy. Remember, we do not want to see that green circle. We don't want to be aware of that because it's non-threatening. But when your eyes don't move, the green circle is always there. That information is being bombarded in your brain. 50% of your entire brain is perceiving visual sensation.

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Right?

SPEAKER_00 13:19

So I've helped lots and lots and lots of people with a variety of different conditions because we're looking at a functional medicine, a neurological functional approach that gets sick people well. Right? God designed you to be well. You deserve to be well. If you're not well, you just have to figure out what's hindering your body's ability to get well. This is my website. You can go to my website right here, Dr. Hugh Wagworth, right there. If you want some help, you simply click this button right here. Talk with Dr. Hugh and find out what's been missing. I do telemedicine. I have people all over the world with complex cases. So if you enjoyed this content and it's on YouTube, give me a thumbs up, share it. We need the message out there. And remember this where there's help, there's hope.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Take care. Bye bye.