What if I told you that after a decade of relying on glasses every single day, I healed my eyesight dramatically without surgery or meds.
Each morning, wearing my glasses, putting them on, gone. And it all started with a patch.
Stick around and hear how this miracle happened. And it does feel like a miracle.
And why the eye care industry, they don't want you to find out about it.
Welcome back to those of you who are regular listeners and welcome to anyone new that's here.
My name is Jake and I like to explore investing through the lens of humanistic, intellectual and financial capital.
And this episode is a classic example of humanistic capital.
In particular, I love real life stories, which is why this is actually something that I've done.
I have proof. I tried it on myself. It's benefited me.
and I believe if you're someone that struggles with your eyesight, it can also benefit you
or anyone that you might know that struggles with their eyesight.
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Now, let me set a bit of a picture.
So my father, he wore contact lenses all the time and glasses.
And I always wondered when I was growing up, I was like, huh, is that ever going to happen to me?
Like many things, you know, you're growing up, you're asking questions.
And the truth is, yes, it was going to happen to me.
In my late teens, which is apparently very common, I was at uni and I'd be walking across the park
and I actually couldn't see the detail of someone's face until they got closer to me.
So often people would be like saying hello to me.
and I would be basically blanking them.
I wouldn't even know who they were.
Or I'd get into the university lecture hall
and I'd have to sit in the front few rows
because I couldn't see what was on the slides.
It's like, shit, my eyes are getting worse.
And so you go and get an eye test.
They're like, yep, you're short-sighted.
Like, oh, crap.
So what have I got to do?
And you go and fiddle around in the glasses section.
You try and choose a pair that you think you like.
They're just such a foreign thing to wear
that you just hate all of them.
and you buy the pair that you like the least
or that you hate the least, sorry.
And, you know, you whip them out in a lecture hall
for the first time.
And everyone's like, oh, glasses, nice.
You're like, oh, shit, okay.
I'm a guy that wears glasses.
What's going on here?
So I decided I liked wearing contacts, you know,
because people couldn't tell.
But I lived in a house with seven other blokes
and it was a crazy time to say the very least.
And through that process, it's like,
oh, I was just really bad at looking after contact lenses.
And so it didn't really work from that perspective.
Because I would get sore, dry eyes.
I'd be trying to pull them out like a late day of partying,
like put them back into these little containers.
You're like, is this right?
My hands even clean?
I didn't know what I was doing.
And it was just crap, right?
You're looking after something in a way that you hadn't had to experience before.
Like, how do I figure this out?
What's going on?
Why have my eyes got worse?
now when I got into to work as a broker um 23 turning 24 and suddenly you're in an office
environment you're looking at you know computer screens for multiple hours per day and you just
you cannot wear contact lenses in that environment in my experience because your eyes just by the end
of the day they're just so dry from wearing contacts that it's just horrible so you start
wearing glasses a lot lot more and that was really the beginning of what was basically a decade-long
process where i just wore glasses all the time and like i touched on at the start like i'd wake up
in the morning the first thing i'd do is put on a pair of glasses everything i did until like perhaps
like just before jumping into a pool or jumping into the ocean or perhaps playing football but
even playing sport i would prefer to wear contacts because i couldn't see the ball properly unless i
was you know wearing a pair of contacts but then i wore contacts less and less and then i didn't
have them at home and i was like i want to play some sport but i can't i tried playing golf being
being short-sighted, like hopeless.
Driving, another big one.
You can't see the signs properly
until they get much closer.
Anyway, I used to love wearing
a particular brand of glasses called Moscot.
And you get used to them, right?
That's the style that I like.
And I'd have slightly different colors in them.
And then I would get these clip-ons
that would come on for when it was sunny.
And I was like, oh, this is actually a great way of doing it.
Like I get sunglasses all the time.
You know, you're out traveling or commuting to work.
You're like, sweet, well,
I've already got my sunnies on me essentially.
And they're just a little pouch
that would pop into your pocket.
You're like, okay, cool.
Well, that's awesome.
I'm handling this problem.
But of course, like you're glossing over
what is the ultimate problem here.
You can't see properly.
And you kind of forget like, what does that mean?
If I can't see at distance,
like I don't have the capacity to function correctly
in many ways.
Now I've got the solution.
I can use glasses.
I can see so much better.
It's in many ways,
it radically improves your life you're like oh great why wouldn't i use this tool all the time
and you know you go into the optometrist and it's it's so fascinating this because
there's all of these beautiful designer glasses on show and you come in and there's this like
trendy looking dude who might serve you and before you know it you walk out it's like okay well the
frames cost me 250 quid then the glass lenses themselves cost me another hundred or so quid
but i went for the ones that were like the blue light blocker as well and you've been upsold every
step of the way having had like an eye test then you've got the glasses then you've got the backup
concept lenses you spent 500 quid you know a thousand dollars is gone in the optometrist you like okay well maybe that just something i have to deal with because my eyes are bad and i want to wear a pair of glasses every day that i actually like you make all these justifications and you thinking okay well cool whatever but but like
in life many things they things change and things pop up and new information appears and that is
what the story of this episode is going to be about it's like what two years ago maybe you know
I'm 35.
I've been wearing glasses constantly for 10 years plus.
And my wife starts sending some things on Instagram.
A guy called Cultivate Elevate.
He's got this really interesting Instagram page talking about lots of alternative health practices and cell supplements.
And I'll link this in the show notes so you can go and check it out.
But a supplement that he has called Pearl Powder.
You're like, okay, what the hell is Pearl Powder?
and he was talking about rubbing it on your eyes like this literally as simple as that
and having it in supplementation so in certain drinks you might have or in certain foods
okay well that that sounds awesome like can that be true and for the first time in my life
someone was speaking about the ability to regenerate your eyesight and that caught my
attention of course it did because oh what if i could get through every day with without wearing
glasses and you know i suddenly started seeing a few photographs of myself and i was like god i'm
literally wearing fucking glasses all the time everywhere you got pictures with your kid or
whatever the case might be like your life is going through the lenses he's a glasses wearer and that's
okay if you choose to be like that or if you feel like you have to be like because of your condition
but what do you mean you can regenerate your eyes and i'm like well i'm skeptical but let's try so
I started playing around with pearl powder as a supplement.
As I said, go and check out the link that I'll put below.
The truth is I didn't have much success.
I dropped off pretty quickly.
That's in spite of there being a really good background
as to why pearl powder is helpful from an eyesight perspective.
It has proven to work.
It's not something I would write off.
Do go and have a look at it.
The real turning point came,
Shout out to Dr. Simon Floriani.
Simon, who's been our chiro for a number of years now and helped hugely with our young family and all sorts of different things.
But we went to see him once.
He's like, oh, mate, you've got to try these X39 patches.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
And he starts banging on about this cool company called LifeWave and how interesting a form of stem cell regeneration technology it is.
A non-invasive process.
You're like, wow, this is really cool.
so that conversation and that was probably at the very beginning of 2024 so about 18 months ago
that has changed my life like absolutely 110 percent like thank you simon for introducing me
to this new healthcare product that for me that the risks were clearly very low because of the
type of product that it was but equally like the benefits have been absolutely incredible and not
just for me there's other people that i'll explain in a bit so like what the hell is x39
and who are life wave um well it's a type of what's called phototherapy and it's a small patch
it's the kind of thing that looks like what you would wear if you're giving up smoking right the
nicotine patches that people wear and what it does is it harnesses the body's infrared light
right this is something that you emit naturally and it reflects it back via organic crystals in
the patch to stimulate acupuncture points on the skin you're like what what the hell so you're
basically walking around wearing this thing having an acupuncture session at the same time so there's
no drugs it's completely non-invasive um it's called non-transdermal now i don't know exactly
what that word means that's what came up in part of my research so i'll have to have a look into
that myself but it's quite an interesting concept elevating your copper peptides something called
GHKCU and it activates your stem cells for regeneration. Now like a lot of things right
I don't know how my iPhone works but it works. I don't know how my car works but it works.
Same thing here right I don't know the intricacies of exactly how this develops
or what the technology is but I thought fuck it let's try. What have I got to lose right
and the long story short of what the the product is designed to do is it kick-starts a natural
repair process within the body so in the same way that you might go to an osteopath session
they help move the energy around and spark a a regeneration in your body or an acupuncture
session is another great example of that this is the same thing but with a wearable it's like does
it work and you can go and find out more details i listened to the founder he's a guy called david
schmidt he described himself as an inventor which i really love and he spent a lot of time developing
all sorts of different technologies um in the podcast episode again i'll link this in the show
notes below so you can go and go and listen to it yourself just a great story of someone who is an
entrepreneurial innovator that's right on the cusp of a certain type of technology now he also
references the military and part of this technology came out of working with submarines
and it's it's kind of a similar process to a lot of things that we have in day-to-day life where
a government funding program and military requirement develops a technology that ends
up being commercialized into the um into the wider space for the public and that's obviously
to me at least that a clear innovation path that i seen before and i really respect right It works And it was created and built by people that know what they doing right
So LifeWave itself is now a big business, but it's focused on holistic health.
And it's got a really interesting marketing program that I'll also explain in a bit where
it's very similar to a company called doTERRA, if you know who they are, in that you can
sign up as a reseller.
and they have people, if you sign up a reseller underneath you,
then you benefit from the sales that they create.
And essentially, when you dig into the details,
it's such a nice alignment for a customer and a company
when the sales revenue is generated by a team of people
that benefit from the product itself and who they're selling to.
So I like that incentive alignment.
And long story short, the business is disruptive, right?
It's using forward-thinking technology that is actually having benefits, right?
So I'm going to pop in the show notes a link where I'm also a reseller.
It's something I do casually.
You don't have to use my link.
By all means, use another, but you get a discount if you do it through me.
And the benefits of the product are brilliant, right?
So I'm going to share exactly how I did that in just a second.
it's not just transformed my life in terms of how I go about my day-to-day because my vision has
improved but there's other people that it helps as well so my wife uses a slightly different form
of patch to help with her sleep at night time and a friend of mine shout out to Vonnie her elderly
mother was struggling with her eyesight and heard about the story of my eyes improving and they
bought some x39 patches for their mother I think she was about 90 years eight 90 years of age and
she's seen huge improvements as well so it's it's anecdotal yes but go and try it out right
i've seen great benefits um now how right that's what you're probably thinking right now so okay
jake you've told us the backstory you've explained to us this kind of eureka moment it's like how do
you actually do this so 2024 jan i think was when simon told me about the patches so i went ahead
and I bought three months worth.
And what I started doing was
I would apply one on this temple on my right
overnight, 12 hours.
And then the next night I'd switch it to the left.
And I'd try and alternate from temple to temple
with the idea of it like focusing here
on my eye area in specifics.
What I now do, frankly,
is I just wear them on the base of my neck each night.
And I find that that's easier
because otherwise I'd forget which temple I'd had it on, right?
now within three months and i'm not joking like miraculous shift and what started happening is my
eyes i noticed i was getting headaches it's like god damn it why am i getting headaches i was
getting headaches because i was wearing glasses that were too strong for me it's like oh well
this is interesting and so i'd be like walking around i could see more stuff without the glasses
on i'd be driving i could see signs better it's like oh my gosh my eyesight's changed and i didn't
get them tested and stupidly I didn't test them directly before starting this process it would
have been a better kind of scientific exercise but my eyes had been minus 1.5 or minus 1.75
short-sighted for a decade but they really hadn't got any worse or any better than that range right
and so I wore these things for three months and I just started noticing I could see better and my
as I said I was getting headaches from glasses that previously were suitable to me it's like
right i've got to go and get my eyes tested and it's like holy shit you've only got 0.75 minus
short sight what so i'd i'd improve my eyesight by 50 like not like oh one or two percent better
like literally like they were half as bad as what they were and the optometrist that did the testing
was like completely blown away and and tried to say that oh well you know you've moved out of the
city up to Byron Bay and therefore it's an environmental change or you're not doing as
much laptop work so it's probably because of that or you're not wearing glasses as much it's like
anything that he could try and use as a reason for the eyesight's improving that wasn't the patches
he was trying to you know peg it on right cool cool whatever of course you're you're not going
to see it how I see it he then shared with me that he was using a drug to try and grow his hair back
and to me that's someone who is a pharmaceutical maxi that's interested in the outcome that he's
sold but doesn't look at the negative externalities of what those drugs may or may not do it's like
okay cool that's your choices please proceed but in this case it's like what were the side effects
of this well it's a non-invasive non-drug non-surgery based process like it's it's got far
fewer negative externalities and i've not found any myself it's like hang on a sec so i've just
improved my eyesight by half like half of my problem has gone you're like wow that is a massive
change now i should point out that that was let's say it was q1 2024 when i started wearing these
things we're now like the end of q2 and i've had my eyes tested and my eyes have radically improved
so in the middle of last year and i thought fuck it i'll wear these things a lot more and i wore
them again for another three to six months have my eyes tested again and the improvement had plateaued
So they still sitting at minus 0 But what does that mean on a day to day basis I no longer reach out for glasses every morning Like I don wear glasses any longer except for if it potentially sunny except if I watching TV at night And if I driving when it dark it helpful to have a pair of glasses on that a massive massive massive change and how cool is that right like I healed my eyesight to an
extent where it's radically improved my life now what this means is like the body is a healing
organism right like the the optician or the eye care market it's selling a plaster to a symptom
it's selling a cover-up or a solution that is only surface level it's not actually looking at
the root cause and that's where this is so cool and the fact that my eyes are still at 0.75 shows
that the improvements that have been created although they've stalled at this at this level
not like 20-20 eyesight but it's stayed like that it hasn't then retreated again you hear stories
for example of people that go and get eye surgery or laser treatment and their eyes go back to being
just as bad a couple years later. It's like, shit, what are the negative externalities of that?
They might be blind when they're older. Who knows? I joke because I haven't been down that rabbit
hole far enough, but I'm like, I didn't like the idea of having my eyes lasered. But the point is,
is we can self-heal. And so why aren't we spending more time? This is a classic humanistic
investment, right? It's not about the cost financially. It's about what do you get from it?
And it's hard to create an ROI on your eyesight, right?
But the optician business is massive.
Like, of course, they have an incentive to keep selling your glasses,
keep selling your contact lenses.
What a lovely little subscription model they've got there.
They have no incentive to heal the root cause.
In fact, that's why that guy was trying to tell me
that it was all these other different environmental factors
that had improved my eyesight rather than being like,
oh, maybe this new tool is better at healing eyes
than what I've been trained my whole life to do.
so that to me is like that's an interesting insight right why aren't more people trying
this and hence the reason for this podcast like how is it not the case that your health
is part of your wealth and I had a great uh there was a great talk I went to once so what's the
point of multi-generational wealth without multi-generational health there's no point in
the wealth if you're not healthy and so starting to spend time thinking about this stuff is really
really important and in this case incredibly easy buy a bunch of these patches whether at night
when you're sleeping and you might just heal your eyesight right now i also believe and this is where
this gets a little bit more spiritual and philosophical that by improving my eyesight
it's actually helping me think more clearly and have a better decision making process
like i'm just a i'm a better human being because of having better eyesight so it it links nicely
that that sense of sovereignty right i'm not i'm no longer connected to my glasses
and the flip side being like what does it mean when every day you wake up you're putting on
glasses you can't you can't see properly right one of your senses is is dulled when it could
it could be reversed by trying a process like this like the the well the opportunity is yours
of course right when this information enters your life you have to do something about it if you
choose. So when I started reading about pearl powder, all these X39 patches, I could have done
nothing. I could still be wearing glasses today, but I haven't. And I did something and now I've
healed them. And it's incredibly empowering. It's like, well, what else can I heal? There are other
things that I want to improve about my health and I will. And I'll share as I get the benefits or
the disbenefits of whatever I try. So I no longer need the crutch of a set of glasses.
like that's fucking awesome so it enhances my life it makes my decision making better improves
my presence i think it actually gives me a better um way of seeing into other people as well like i
have better eyesight i can see i can see okay that person's going to cause me some trouble
oh this person's the right way to go and it really builds into this idea of okay every single day
what can you do with ease, kindness, and grace?
And if you're able to operate
at those very, very high frequency levels,
then you are making better decisions
and your life is progressing faster
than it could be elsewhere
and you're living the best life you can.
And that's ultimately what this is about,
this humanistic side of capital.
If you're not harnessing humanistic capital,
if you're not nurturing humanistic capital,
you will burn out and you will die
or you will get very, very sick
and you won't be able to carry on doing what you've been doing.
Like my father, for example, shout out to him.
He worked himself to death.
48, had a heart attack.
And it's because in my opinion, you know, RIP dad,
he never slowed down and focused on this humanistic side of things
to the extent that it just completely blew him away.
He thought he could just outwork all his problems.
But was that true?
And I think we all know people like this in our life, right?
Everyone's just absolutely hammering it, hammering it, hammering it, hammering it.
But at what cost?
What's your eyesight like?
Is it good?
Is it bad?
Could it be better?
Have you ever tried something like this to improve it?
Your body can heal if you give it the right tools, like some of the tools we've explored today.
So reach out on email, hi at jakewoodhouse.io if this was interesting.
Tell me about what's wrong with your eyes.
like ask me is it going to help in the situation you're in um and i will link in the show notes
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