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.
Florian says
"and learning to properly combine foods…"
do you have any suggestions for that / information on it?
Greetings
Carly Fraser says
Here you go: https://livelovefruit.com/how-to-properly-food-combine/
sam says
What’s a typical day of eating like for you? Do you eat gluten or other potential allergens?
Carly Fraser says
I eat mostly raw during the day and a cooked meal at night. No gluten, no soy, no refined sugar. I do not eat processed foods either! I will have a big smoothie for breakfast, and then snack on some fruit and have a big green juice later in the day, and then a large raw meal at night or cooked!
simone goldberg says
Hello ?? iv just started eating raw and I am so happy and feeling incredible, when did u notice your eyes changing ? And when did u see a great change ? I can actually already see my eyes changing and it hasn’t even been a week 🙂
Carly Fraser says
I would say after the water fasts and juice fasts was when they really started to clear up 🙂
c says
Do you have before and after pics of the eye color change? I ate vegan for 3 months and didn’t notice anything amazing. I have green/hazel eyes but from a distance they just look yucky brown.
Carly Fraser says
Yes, the main image is my before and after pic. There are before and after pics all throughout this article! 🙂 They are all my eyes. I noticed change after I went *raw* vegan, and had done multiple juice and water fasts over a period of 3 years. “Eating vegan” could mean anything, and even I did the “junk food vegan” thing back in the day. My eyes only started changing once I cleaned up my diet, did a series of 10-15 day water fasts 3-4 times a year for 3 years, along with many juice feasts, and sticking to raw for over 7 years to this day. Also, brown eyes are not “yucky” they’re quite beautiful, and truly brown eyes will not change color. Only hazel eyes will budge.
I should also mention that those with truly brown or blue eyes would still have detoxing to do if they aren’t eating healthy. The tone of blues and browns might change, as well as the muscle fibres in the eyes. What I am saying is that people with hazel eyes aren’t the only ones who need to clean up their diet 😉
Mateus says
Hello my name is MATEUS I am Brazilian I have very greenish eyes but only in the sun they appear, I really wanted them to be the color that stays in the clear, my diet and really bad I am overweight I consume a lot of oil, a lot of sugar, referring, etc. . all of this is very bad, will my eyes become clearer with this diet?😊
Carly Fraser says
Yes, they should become more clear when you eat a high percentage of your calories from raw fruit and vegetables.
Linda Kitt says
I really enjoyed reading the vegan dating a nonvegan. I would love to read more like it. I’m still chuckling over it. I’m vegan and my husband is far from it.he really doesn’t care how the food on his plate got there. Keeps trying to.tell me that I wouldn’t be so much healthier if I just ate like normal people. I don’t know much about a raw vegan diet. My husband thinks I’m already crazy ! I would love to read more of the same.
Carly Fraser says
Hey Linda – that’s too funny! If you download my recipe eBook, I have quite a few raw vegan recipes in there 🙂 https://www.go.livelovefruit.com/freedom-from-inflammation