Seeing Health At Eye Level
Your eyes are incredible; as an extension of your brain they use one third as much oxygen as the heart, need ten to twenty times as much vitamin C as the joint capsules that move your arms and legs and require more zinc (our intelligence chemical) than any other organ system in the body. When combined with your brain, they make up 2% of your total body weight and yet consume 25% of the nutrition we take in every day. (14)
It’s no wonder then why blindness is such a concern for diabetics. Your eyes are unable to protect themselves like other tissues from too much insulin in the blood stream and because both insulin and vitamin C resemble one another in structure, the doorway for each cell to let in the vitamin C (an antioxidant) is blocked from the excess amounts of insulin that compete to get in. When you then realize that the vast majority of diabetics do not exercise, (a requirement to increasing the bodies ability to acquire and use oxygen), you can begin to see a recipe for disaster. See yourself clear to understanding how your body really works and you will gain the power to experience health without limits.