If you been keeping up with my videos on Bromelain for eye floaters in the past, 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, 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 blog post, we’re going to just reflect on that and just share with you some of my thoughts on Bromelain for eye floaters.
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 below for the most relevant video on Bromelain and in the 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, 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 be making his way into the vitreous and impacting the vitreous in some way and that’s powerful if it is because it means, there is 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, could it 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 lead 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 fibroids that exist in the vitreous where they start to clump together, 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 gets 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, then there’s a very real possibility then that you may see more floaters and it could make the situation worse. So one of the things I’ve kind of really decided to do is 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, 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 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 but 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, 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 can work its way into the vitreous.
There may be many of you guys out there who may be still quite sceptical about whether Bromelain can have any impact on floaters whatsoever, and I think that’s certainly very valid to question. However, it’s worth being aware that Bromelain is an enzyme that can break down proteins also known as protein-enlytic enzymes. We have other use cases of protein-elytic enzymes.
One of the kinds 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. 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 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, from in the lab environment basically but when it’s applied, it can 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 conclude that Bromelain may well be effective and certainly more effective than many of us may give it credit for in being able to deal with these vitreous eye floaters. Of course, all of this is still very hypothetical and theoretical, but, because it’s just so fascinating, I think from an interesting 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, 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 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 reduces a lot of their floaters and down significantly and that I should 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, I was a bit uncertain about what exactly was going on so, after kind of thinking this through a bit more than I’ll make a decision about whether I’m going to resume Bromelain further and continue with it over a longer period, 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 now and appreciate you guys and I look forward to catching you in the next one.
Take care.
