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.
The yellowing in eyes is a sign of how acidic your body is. It's ph balance. When you eat a lot of junk food, which is highly acidic, your eyes will end up with a more yellow hue. Has nothing to do with being vegan, just balancing the ph through proper food combinations. Meat eaters can have the same effect! Just stick to an organic life style as much as you can and learn to make things homemade. There seems to be an epidemic of acidic bodies these days as a result of pharma drugs that cause acidosis, so you also need to consider this! Pain meds caused it with me and an Alkaline diet helped to relieve the "symptoms" but cleansing the liver fixes the problem by getting rid of the residue left from pharma drugs that accumulate over time in the liver. To keep your body alkaline in this situation, avoid meat with starches, but don't eliminate starchy foods because they're good for you too!
Do you need to be raw to notice a change?
That's only when I started noticing. I think the main thing was water fasting and juice fasting though.
Hi there I have browny yellow green eyes (a real mix!) I'd love to share a picture for you and/or anyone else to share any thoughts on them? Thanks 🙂
Yeah that'd be super cool!
Hi.. loved reading your article.
I have medium brown eyes with a blue ring around them If I go on a vegan diet will the blue ring disappear or will my eyes lighten.. Just curious because my grandmother as she aged her brown eyes turned blue and, her skin turned fair (she’s indian) and the blue ring runs in the family.
You eyes sound like they are very beautiful – my eyes only cleared up when I went raw and completed a bunch of water fasts and juice fasts. I was only vegan for 1 year before I went raw vegan, so I can’t really say. You would just have to try it out! If you want to go vegan, go vegan for health, not to change your eye colour.
🙂 Yh your right. Thanks x