Dr. Charlene L. Werner
DEVELOPMENTAL OPTOMETRIST

Hello! My name is Dr. Charlene Werner. I am a developmental optometrist who combines light therapy, vision training, and homeopathy. I have practiced developmental vision for 16 years, light therapy for 6 years, and homeopathy for 4 years. Each therapy can work incredible miracles, and I've found that combining them can bring stunning results as well. When combined, they are effective for depression and anxiety, memory loss in children with learning disabilities, dementia, and even Alzheimer's, and longstanding chronic diseases such as arthritis, chronic fatigue, as well as hormonal problems, including PMS and menopause. I've outlined the modalities below to help you see if you would like to pursue any of them.

Light Therapy

Although the mechanics are complicated, I'll simplify them. Do you remember studying prisms in school? When you passed light through a prism it separated into a rainbow of colors. Our cornea acts like a double-ended prism and when light passes through it, the light divides into spectral light, and our photoreceptors (red, blue and green cones picking up that specific frequency of light, and the rods picking up all the rest) absorb the light energy, which is then transmitted to the brain. It is the red and blue cones that actually have a stimulating effect on the autonomic nervous system.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with that system, I'll ask a question: Do you have to tell your heart to beat every minute of the day...your lungs to breathe...your food to digest? How do you do that? Most people say, "Doc, I don't know. It just happens." That is the autonomic nervous system - the system running all of your automatic functions. It is divided into two halves: the fast, or sympathetic nervous system, and the slow, or parasympathetic nervous system. Each organ in the body has both systems integrated into it.

What can drive the autonomic nervous system are the red and blue cones. When you think of red, you think of fast and hot, or the sympathetic nervous system - that's the red cone system working. When you think of blue, you think of slow and cool, or the parasympathetic nervous system - that's the blue cone system working. So, light stimulation can change physiological function through photoreceptor transmission.

What diseases are you more likely to suffer with when the red cone system is overworking? That's right: fast diseases like high blood pressure, anxiety, hyperthyroidism, arteriosclerosis, and cancer (make more cells) - a speeding up of the processes. What diseases are you more likely to suffer with when the blue cone system is overworking? That's right: slow system disorders like low blood pressure, depression, and low thyroid function.

Almost every disease process can be explained this way. So, light therapy essentially stimulates and enhances the ability of our photoreceptors to pick up light in a different way toward changing function in the body. It can create balance in the system and with balance comes better function.

Vision Training

I'd like to explain the vision system in terms of a computer system. The tiny photoreceptors in the eye are like the keys on your keyboard. We have approximately 1.2 million keys being clicked on and off every waking moment. When the keys on your keyboard get punched, the information is taken to the CPU (central processing unit), and then software programs run. In humans, the software programs run the heart, kidneys and adrenals, liver and pancreas, thyroid, lungs, sexual organs, muscles...you name it. Every part of the body has software programs driving its organ or tissue.

Most people who suffer from a physical ailment have the possibility of four problems with their visual "computer" system.

1. They aren't using all the keys on the keyboard to input information

2. The keys are all working but not efficiently

3. The wiring system from the keys to the hard drive may be faulty, or

4. The hard drive, or CPU, has only a limited amount of RAM and/or ROM.

In my clinic, there are some simple ways to test each part of the system for these problems. Once we determine where the system is breaking down, there are several possibilities for improving or repairing it. These include utilization of prisms and/or plus-and-minus lenses therapy with certain eye and body movements that change input into the brain, thus changing hardware access, which then produces changes in software access. This leads to changes in health, function, and performance.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a medical practice of finding a certain plant, mineral, or animal substance that matches a patient's energy state on the emotional, mental, and physical planes. The medicine, or remedy, is taken in the smallest dose that will create the largest effect. It wakes up the body's own healing abilities to correct the negative effects of stress that have become embedded within the cells. It has been used for over 200 years.

In 2005, the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital published a patient survey of 6,544 consecutive patients who were treated homeopathically, all of which had long-standing chronic diseases, including asthma, migraine, IBS, arthritis, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome. Seventy percent reported significant improvement in their condition.

The key to success is finding the correct remedy. This requires an interview using a technique that brings out one's true core issues. Otherwise, an incorrect remedy is selected, and you don't get the results you want.

I hope this helps explain some of the questions you may have. If you would like more information, just call me for a complimentary 15-minute telephone consultation.

I look forward to meeting you and working with you.

Much joy, peace, and love,

Dr. Werner

830-708-0275 The Eyehaus/ drwerner@axs4u.net