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Updated: February 20, 2025

A. WHAT IS A CATARACT?

A cataract is originally —so, from before the era with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation from nuclear warfare and nuclear power plants, medical ionizing radiation in hospitals and in medical practices of for instance dentists, and in an increasing speed developing series of generations of cellphones, wireless [non-ionizing] radiation— only related with a natural aging process of the eye lenses, at an old age. The lenses can become orange and even brown. This means that the colour blue is slowly fading away, that lines become lesser clear, and that one finally needs at least reading-glasses, and later, also glasses during other activities. At the end, glasses are not sufficient anymore.

A cataract can be diagnosed in just one eye, but also in both eyes. Eye-controls, including also scans, which show eventually a cataract, and how severe the cataract is, or not, are necessary.

Note: a cataract is not per se visible, not even when it is time to have an operation. There are pictures on the web with photos of eyes with a cataract, that covers the pupil completely with a grey layer. My eyes were the same as everybody’s eyes. With a black center (pupils), and a coloured iris. Like on the picture.

A cataract cannot be healed. A cataract worsens slowly, or quickly, can take years to develop but also just a short time, and finally one will become blind. To avoid blindness, surgery is necessary.

The surgery is 100% painless, the otherwise disturbing automatic blink reflex is not functioning because of anesthetic drops, and lasts about 10 – 15 minutes, but the total of care and self-care before and after a surgery lasts, like in my case, 2 months before both operated eyes can function properly again, and new reading glasses can be ordered. Why such a long time? Answer, confirmed by the ophthalmologist assistant: both eyes have the natural need to adjust optical information with each other, and especially during the time between two operations, when the not operated eye is not able to adjust itself to the other eye, this creates a feeling of being split into a left and right body-side, including the head (plus brain)

One can feel out of balance, and that can create anxiety, which is understandable: from the moment of birth both eyes have been in a constant cooperation with each other, via brain, muscles, nerves, and info, collected since then, created our perception of the reality around and inside us, and that is suddenly very different.

A cataract operation creates therefore not only physically but also emotionally and mentally an intense process that should not be bagatellized. It is an utterly tiring process, sometimes even exhausting, and therefore one experiences the need to avoid stress, even people. One cannot force this natural process.

Dr. Sam Berne explains in these videos that it is indeed not so simple as some ophthalmologists say, or know:

What to Try Before Cataract Surgery | Cataracts Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1csgeSZFk4
What to Consider if You Need Cataract Surgery | Cataracts Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GRoJwaNQ8c
What to Do After Cataract Surgery | Cataracts Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjtvBD6_fDA

How Blue Light Affects Eye Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQUXiNUwp4

B. CATARACTS CANNOT BE HEALED: SURGERY IS NECESSARY

In first-world-countries patients only pay a small part of the total costs, or even nothing. There are many countries however where only the rich can afford a healthcare insurance: the operation takes place in a hospital, the costs of a bill of a surgery are extremely high, and it is therefore a must to have the costs covered by a health care insurance, offered by the state, to undergo clinical or polyclinical treatments. This means that on the moment, 2025, many millions are at risk to become blind in the (nearby) future. Not only because of a natural aging process, but because of the use of wireless devices. Who is going to care for them?

Cataracts have been diagnosed also in young people, even children, and babies. Cataracts can have several causes, like aging, but one of the other causes is ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Non-ionizing radiation is spread by all sorts of wireless devices and internet connections, also cellphones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, cell towers. Cellphones not only create cataracts, but also all sorts of cancer, related with the spot where the cellphone is kept on the body when one does not use it but kept “on”. Options to protect oneself against an overdose of radiation are: 1. flymodus, 2. limiting the use of wireless devices, and 3. using ethernet. Directors of all sorts of companies and industries, but also politicians and health care practitioners, medical doctors, should take their responsibility and accountability. But let us start with WHO, that should disband ICNIRP, and start cooperating with the International Commission on the Biological Effects of EMF: ICBE-EMF

We are not protected. Read ICNIRP (2 pages), containing 74 paragraphs with reviews, videos, articles, reports, etc. collected since June 2019, about WHO’s not reliable International Commission on Non Ionizing Radiation “Protection“.

Note: scroll down for advice to prepare yourself on a cataract surgery, and how to support the healing process.

C. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ARTICLES ABOUT CATARACTS

Cataract and cell-phone radiation
Published in March 2003 in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 45(1):171 – 174
DOI:10.1109/MAP.2003.1189664
Source IEEE Xplore | Published in ResearchGate, October 22, 2024
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3305047_Cataract_and_cell-phone_radiation
James C. Lin

A concern that is often expressed about microwave radiation is the induction of cataracts. The formation of lens opacities in the eyes of laboratory animals following acute microwave exposure is well established. It is generally accepted that acute exposure to higher levels of CW radiation causes various degrees of lens opacification in laboratory animals at many microwave frequencies. However, the exact conditions under which these changes may occur in human beings are a subject of debate. Nevertheless, linear extrapolations of computed results indicate that the incident density required for the human eye to reach the cataractogenic threshold may only be slightly lower than that needed for rabbits.

Cataract and cell-phone radiation
Published in March, 2003, in Semantic Scholar
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cataract-and-cell-phone-radiation-Lin/7cc2bd4c5b7f4d3d9b1bc3c96309b5e03e273772
James C. Lin

More about James C. Lin: Multerland blog articles¹²³⁴

OTHER STUDIES AND ARTICLES (1976-2022)

2022 – ScienceDirect – American Journal of Ophthalmology
Increased Incidence of Mental Disorders in Children with Cataract: Findings from a Population-based Study
Authors: MOUG AL-BAKRI, ANNE METTE SKOVGAARD, DANIELLA BACH-HOLM, DORTE ANCHER LARSEN, VOLKERT SIERSMA, LINE KESSEL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002939421004992

2019 – PubMed
An update on effects of ionizing radiation exposure on the eye
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8519632/
Nobuyuki Hamada, Tamara V Azizova, Mark P Little

Children’s Hospital Colorado
Cataracts in Kids
https://www.childrenscolorado.org/conditions-and-advice/conditions-and-symptoms/conditions/cataracts/

Stanford Medicine – Children’s Health
Cataracts in children
Radiation cataracts. Some cataracts start after exposure to some types of radiation.
https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=cataracts-in-children-90-P02105

2018 – Nature
Electric cataracts: a cause of bilateral blindness in Kashmir
Authors: Rayees Sofi, Tariq Qureshi & Viney Gupta
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-018-0128-x

2015 – Blog Einar Flydal
My cataract, the death of Milton Zaret and Jon Fredrik Baksaas’ retirement job
https://einarflydal.com/2015/08/16/my-cataract-the-death-of-milton-zaret-and-fredrik-baksaas-retirement-job/

2015 – American Academy of Ophtalmology
Pediatric Cataracts: Overview
https://www.aao.org/education/disease-review/pediatric-cataracts-overview

2012 – Microwave News
Milton Zaret, an “Early Prophet” of Microwave Hazards, Dies at 91
U.S. Military Sought To Discredit His Theory of Microwave Cataracts
https://microwavenews.com/news-center/milton-zaret-early-prophet-microwave-hazards-dies-91

“Dr. Zaret was an extraordinary pioneer who showed that microwaves have a profound effect on the eye,” said Paul Brodeur, who chronicled Zaret’s career in The New Yorker more than 35 years ago and in his subsequent 1977 book, The Zapping of America. Brodeur called Zaret an “early prophet” of the biological hazards of microwaves.

2011 – Radiation Safety Institute of Canada
Radiation Induced Cataracts
https://radiationsafety.ca/radiation-induced-cataracts/

2008 – PubMed
Non-Thermal Electromagnetic Radiation Damage to Lens Epithelium
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2694600/ Authors: Elvira Bormusov, Usha PAndley, Naomi Sharon, Levi Schächter, Assaf Lahav, Ahuva Dovrat

Environmental stress, including electromagnetic radiation, has a negative impact on the lens and is considered a risk factor for cataracts [3,6]. In this study we show non-thermal effects of microwaves at the same frequency that is used in cellular phones on the intact lens in organ culture.

2008 – ScienceDirect
Chapter 10 – Attribution of Radiation Effects and Probability of Causation in a Specific Individual
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780721602004100101

2008 – ScienceDirect
Radiation Cataract
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/radiation-cataract
Fred A. MettlerJr. MD, MPH, Arthur C. Upton MD,

1988 – PubMed
Cataracts induced by microwave and ionizing radiation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3068822/
R M Lipman, B J Tripathi, R C Tripathi

1985 – Book
The body electric: electromagnetism and the foundation of life
Authors: Robert O Becker and Gary Selden
Note: the man-made electromagnetism from wireless devices does NOT match with natural electromagnetism and this is the reason why it is dangerous. This is explained in the interview with Arthur Firstenberg, and published in Multerland blog: The Hidden Dangers of Wireless and Cellphone Radiation https://multerland.blog/2019/01/20/arthur-firstenberg-the-hidden-dangers-of-wireless-cell-phone-radiation/

1976 – PubMed + BMJ Journals
Cataract after exposure to non-ionizing radiant energy.
M M Zaret, W Z Snyder, L Birenbaum
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1042782/
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/60/9/632

D. SOME SUGGESTIONS TO PREPARE ON A CARACT SURGERY AND HOW TO SUPPORT THE HEALING PROCESS.

1. Start at least one week before the operation with Dr. Bach – Rescue Remedy: add 4 drops in a small bottle with water and drink during the day little nips, refill when empty. You can take the bottle and the Rescue Remedy as a spray with you in the handbag, on the day of the operation. The spray can be used directly on the tongue. Rescue Remedy is 100% safe to be used and does not interact with other medicine. Rescue Remedy relaxes immediately, on a deep level. You sleep better, feel calm, and you keep a clear mind. The remedy also supports a harmonious healing after the operation, helps to assimilate your experiences, and to prepare eventually on the next operation.
2. Also helpful is the tincture of the herb Avena Sativa, available in every good-health shop. It relaxes and nourishes the nervous system. It can be used next to Dr. Bach’s Rescue Remedy. Read the text on the box carefully.
3. Use sunglasses also in the house, in the first days, weeks, after the operation, as long as needed. My experience is that this helps to avoid overtired eyes, because of an overwhelming light experience, and seeing more details than before the operation.
4. Sleep, also during the day, when you need it. Sleep is also a remedy. Silence is a remedy.
5. Avoid stress.
6. Unnecessary to mention, but anyway: turn off Wi-Fi, put the cellphone in flymodus, and work at a cabled computer – check if Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are disabled. The radiation from wireless corrupts the healing process, and your sleep.
   • Videos with transcript: The Hidden Dangers of Wireless and Cellphone Radiation https://multerland.blog/2019/01/20/arthur-firstenberg-the-hidden-dangers-of-wireless-cell-phone-radiation/
   • Book: The body electric: electromagnetism and the foundation of life https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277641.The_Body_Electric

E. DR. SAM BERNE – EMF POLLUTION AND EYE HEALTH

Website: Vision
YouTube: Dr. Sam Berne

Dr. Sam Berne is an established expert in the field of holistic optometry, vision therapy, and nutrition to improve eyesight, vision and overall wellness. He has been running his private practice in New Mexico for over 25 years. Dr. Berne holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College and did his postdoctoral work at the Gesell Institute in collaboration with Yale University.

Dr. Berne has been awarded The Special Awards for Service from the Behavioural Optometrists in Mexico for his innovative and holistic work with children. His revolutionary approach provides individuals with natural alternatives for improving vision and overall health.

Footnotes James C. Lin:

1. How to deal with inconvenient findings about mobile phone radiation and cancer, published July 23, 2024 ↩︎
2. Clear Evidence of Cell Phone RF Radiation Cancer Risk, published September 23, 2018. ↩︎
3. Former ICNIRP member advocates that wireless must get a more stringent cancer risk class, published January 27, 2020. ↩︎
4. ICNIRP/BfS studies: Scientists demand withdrawal ↩︎

Header: The eyes in the featured picture are a detail from “Afghan Girl“, a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula. File: Wikimedia Commons.