
People have been asking me to share my story on how my eyes changed colour after eating raw vegan for nearly 6 years.
Before I went raw, my eyes were a dark green hue with some brown specks and a freckle in one eye. Now, they’re a very light grey-blue with green hints and a brown ring surrounding my iris. Why did this happen? I was interested to find out, so I dug a little deeper…
Eye Color Change
I wanted to start off by saying that this probably sounds weird to a majority of the people reading this article. Just because my eyes changed colour doesn’t mean I didn’t love my eye colour before hand. This article isn’t bashing different eye colours, but simply explaining the transition of colour my eyes have taken since adopting a raw plant-based lifestyle.
The picture below is a photo of my eyes before I went raw vegan – around 2007. You can see how they are much more green with more brown surrounding the pupil.

The photo below you can notice that the iris has much more blue tones. The photo was not manipulated, so it might have just been a very blue sky that day, or more bright, so it accentuated the hues.

Since the two images definitely have different lighting, I took an updated photo of my eyes present, compared to the photo above.
So here is a photo of my eyes present (March 2020) compared to that photo I took back in 2007.

So why did my eyes change colour?
The eyes are not only a window to your soul, they are also a window to what’s going on inside. The colour, clearness and clarity of our eyes is a direct reflection of how clear (and clean) our body is on the inside.
Dr. Morse (N.D., D.Sc., M.H.), a detoxification specialist, mega-healer (he has an 85% healing rate of success and has treated over 250,000 patients), and iridologist has made a series of videos on how raw diets can actually change the colour of your eyes.
Iridology is based on the scientific study of the iris (the coloured part of the eye). Like markings on a map, the iris reveals physiological conditions, health risks, challenges and strengths of various organs. For example, if you look at the chart below, you see that the top quadrant of each eye is related to brain health (specifically the cerebrum and cerebellum), and the innermost circle of the eye is related to digestion (the stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum).

A yellowish colour around your pupil is the main indicator of how toxic your body is, so less yellow means lower toxicity, and more yellow means higher.
If you think about all of the toxins we consume on a day-to-day basis, and how our eyes reflect this toxic build-up, then eye-colour change (after healthy eating) doesn’t come to much of a surprise. When I was younger and into my teen years I ate a lot of chips, candy, sweets, pizza, and a hoard of other junk food. My mom always made home-cooked meals, but they were high in fat and didn’t contain the level of health my body required. I had major digestive issues, and became over weight at the age of 8 and well into the age of 15.
Our health begins in the colon, and when you are consuming foods that increase the toxic load in the body, you get “bunged up” to put it bluntly. When things are not moving efficiently and we become constipated, toxins build up in the colon due to improper elimination, and our eyes directly reflect this effect.
Raw Food Diet and Eye Color Change
When I switched to a raw, plant-based diet, my digestion improved and irritable bowel syndrome symptoms went away completely. Adding in more fibre to flush out excess toxic waste, and learning to properly combine foods greatly helped improve the function of my GI tract. As I healed my body with raw foods, my eyes went from a murky greenish brown colour to a much brighter blue-green hue. The whites of my eyes also significantly cleared up, which is another major tell-tale sign of health.
Not only the colour changed, but different fibres of my iris have changed, and the freckle in my eye has completely disappeared. So I’d also like to make note that someone who is severely overweight (or underweight) and has blue eyes doesn’t mean that they are necessarily healthy. It’s not just about the colour, but the way the fibres are shaped. Some areas of an eye may contain a yellowish coating which can indicate sulphuric acid levels in the body and the level of acidity in the organs and glands. For some people, this yellow colour can cover the entire iris, which will make an eye appear brown or hazel, when the true colour underneath is green or blue.
The take home story of this article is that the cleaner you become, the clearer your eyes become, and the better you will feel. I still find it incredible that my eyes have actually changed colour, but really, it should come to no surprise. Your eyes are a direct reflection of your health, and after 6 years of being raw I can say that I have reached a level I never thought possible.
Not only are my eyes happier, but I am happier too! My eyes will probably continue on changing (as they continually get more blue), but until then, I will just trust in the process and allow my body to continue detoxing out the old and blessing me with the new.








This is very interesting to me because I was born with blue eyes, but over the years (Im 19 now) My eyes have slowly looked more green. I looked at my eyes closely to find that they are blue, but with a lot of yellow surrounding the pupil so they appear green, so I just say they're green. Reading this is really shining a light on me because the whites of my eyes aren't clear anymore like when I was a child, and the blue color is clouded with yellow. I am starting my journey to being healthy, and in the past I have lived a very toxic and unhealthy lifestyle so this makes a lot of sense to me why I have the yellow in my eyes, and just goes to show how vital it is to treat our bodies right!
That's awesome Ellie! Hope your eyes will start clearing up as you clean up your diet 🙂
Very informative post ! Makes me optimistic about my own health journey. Thanks !
amazing stuff – i was looking for an article with before/after pics!
Glad you liked!
You mean it had nnithing to do with taking pictures inside under incandescent lighting and then taking pictures outside in sunlight?
I'd be less skeptical if your lighting was identical. Just sayin'.
I also agree with you – my older camera was in hues that were very warm, but I can attest to the fact that my eyes have indeed changed colour since going raw – even my friends and family have confirmed this. I am going to try to find a way so that my pictures look similar!
What about those with brown eyes? Is there as drastic of a change?
Thanks
M
I don't believe so – brown and blue are true colours whereas those in between are not. Brown eyes will get clearer though, like a sharper brown.
hi! I always thought I had brown eyes – kind of tea color, ever since childhood pics (8 y.o. or so), but now that I am fasting and on a mainly raw vegan, my eyes are starting to change and I find a much lighter kind of very pale blue or light grey undertone where the nerve rings cut through, and it has started to appear a darker grey in other areas, with warm kind of brown only closer to pupil. So yeah, "brown" eyes can change, too – if they are not actually true brown color but rather lighter – there is is either biliary color (a mix of two) or a blue co, or underneath. IF you do a simple search on this, there is lots of info on iridology sites – 3 colors, two primary , one mixed. Thank you for the article and the pictures – very mice to see someon else has gone through this! xx
Thanks for getting back to me on this. From the stuff I read, I heard that brown and blue eyes are colours that wouldn't change, but just "brighten up" I suppose – but maybe I am wrong. Most of the brown in my eyes has disappeared, and the striations have cleared up. They are also much more blue and green than they ever have been, so I am convinced that a cleaner diet improves the quality of our eyes and also the colour.
I believe you….my husband had tummy problems all his life and he had a green-yellow tint to his eyes when his stomach was very bad. He was a vegan but for milk, he had a love/hate relationship w/ milk and it showed in his eyes.