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[muzzlecough]

Has any one else had their eyes change color when taking supplements?

My eyes were a med-dark brown. Now, they're a med brown with a subtle band of gold around the outside of the iris. The change appears to have happened in the past three or four days. This sounds crazy, but my wife has noticed it too. The lighter, more golden color is closer to what they were when I was a kid. I'm nearly 40 now. Perhaps related, the dark circles around my eyes are gone.

The recent changes in my supplement intake:

• 4 weeks ago started on 30g of lecithin with 3g of piracetam.
• 3 weeks ago stopped taking Effexor.
• 1.5 weeks ago started taking 1g of ALA and 1g of ALCAR.

I'm not worried about the eye color change because I've had profoundly positive effects from the four supplements (not the Effexor). But I am curious about it.

Any one have any ideas what's happened?

[lynx]

Maybe the ALA has been chelating iron from the eumelanin in your eye? pure informed speculation.

[muzzlecough]

Wouldn't my skin also lighten? Now that I think about it, I'm getting a strange urge to moondance and hold babies over ledges. Come here, Bubbles.

[ntenhue]

Wouldn't my skin also lighten? Now that I think about it, I'm getting a strange urge to moondance and hold babies over ledges. Come here, Bubbles.

*moonwalk

[muzzlecough]

Ha. I'm so hip.

[Heliotrope]

my eye color also changed!! though I DON'T take the supplements you guys take.

I think it's too much TV watching and computer screen staring and contact lens wearing, but my eyes used to be dark brown/nearly black colored. iris that is. Throughout puberty, it lightened. It now lightened to nearly hazel/yellowish hue but specks of dark still can be observed if stared in the right angle lines etc. the lighter hue is in the inner part with the dark perfect circle/ring around it, kind like what muzzlecough had as a kid , now opp tho . totally diff from pics when i had as a young boy. seem to lose my childhood's innocent bright-eyed look but with a more devilish side too it now..., , especially bloodshot at times and permanent purplish blood vessels very noticeable when peeling the eyelids to show more whites of the eye. even when i sleep a lot the red only subsides a bit, I wish i had my childhood's pure midnight blackish eyecolor back when it was much more uniform . i wonder what i can eat to get a better color

Edited by HYP86, 05 May 2008 - 03:37 AM.

[krillin]

I wish i had my childhood's pure midnight blackish eyecolor back when it was much more uniform . i wonder what i can eat to get a better color

Google Xalatan. (Use not encouraged.)

It also appears that there used to be a scammer who sold eye drops with the same chemical that Mengele used in a ludicrous attempt to turn eyes blue.

[Heliotrope]

I wish i had my childhood's pure midnight blackish eyecolor back when it was much more uniform . i wonder what i can eat to get a better color

Google Xalatan. (Use not encouraged.)

It also appears that there used to be a scammer who sold eye drops with the same chemical that Mengele used in a ludicrous attempt to turn eyes blue.

yeah but i don't want to turn my eyes blue, just wanted my childhood eye color back . It's already possible with wearing color-tinted contact lens and some laser-surgery / micro surgerical procedures that can change eyes to lighter shades eventually light blue/grayish or even almost no color at all . However, with surgery , the procedure is irreversible right now and can only go lighter but not the other way around. If i live long enough, i may eventually experiment with new colors , like purplish- blue-green eyes

Edited by HYP86, 05 May 2008 - 09:13 PM.

[spacetime]

My iris color has also changed to a lighter brown. As a kid they were dark black like my pupils but started to lighten as an adolescent. Now they are a reddish brown but will probably be a golden yellow color in another decade, given the rate of change. Optometrist said it's a normal condition and is probably just genetics and nothing can really be done about yet. Yet my siblings all have deep dark brown eyes. My eyesight has also deteriorated quite a bit and I wonder if my excess computer/cellphone use is somehow related.

[Heliotrope]

My iris color has also changed to a lighter brown. As a kid they were dark black like my pupils but started to lighten as an adolescent. Now they are a reddish brown but will probably be a golden yellow color in another decade, given the rate of change. Optometrist said it's a normal condition and is probably just genetics and nothing can really be done about yet. Yet my siblings all have deep dark brown eyes. My eyesight has also deteriorated quite a bit and I wonder if my excess computer/cellphone use is somehow related.

Your eyesight deterioration is most likely due to computer/cellphone use, but i doubt your eye color CHANGE is due to genetics, a little maybe, 5-10%, i'd say they're almost completely (90%) due to environment similar to my eye color changes, changing progressively lighter and a "shitty" color and not as uniform. My iris colors are now a medium brown instead of dark-dark brown or deep black. I couldn't even tell exactly the border of my pupil or pupil size from even from a relative short distance from the mirror. that was when I was still young enough, like younger than 10 or 11.

Edited by HYP86, 10 May 2008 - 05:49 AM.

[Heliotrope]

Looking at my young, pre-puberty photographs, it looks like the same color as my pupil, ~indistinguishable in color like the medical condition of Aniridia. they were indeed WAY DARKER than they're now. My dad started with the black iris color too, now turned golden yellowish colors. My mom doesn't read from screens that much, except watching one hour of TV per day or so. Her iris remains black or a very dark brown, difficult to tell where iris begins and where pupil ends even just sitting from across the table.

I've also noticed that when I stopped using computer/screen-staring for an extended period of time , like on vacation for a couple of weeks or only using computer/TV very sparingly for some weeks while just reading from paper/printed material like when it happend occasionally during teen years, my eye colors seem to grow darker. There are also slight variances after a well rest/ long sleeps. The longest "experiment" i did on this was about a month or so and they reverted back a bit. Could also be due to the tanning effects! as the pigments tend to build up like skin darkens under tanning. My eyesight also deteriorated, now nearsighted/myopic though both parents and all grandparents had normal visions. I experimented with both glasses/contact lens, sometimes only wearing glasses all day in school for a month and sometimes only contact len s throughout the day, . I think the contact lens wearing/solution chemicals etc also contributed to eye color changes.

I've heard people's eye changes also change slightly for a short time when angry or experience other extreme emotions/mood swings. I haven't tested that on myself. They only change slightly due to my level of rest/relaxation/health conditions and status, definitely getting less and less pigmented as a general trend . At this rate, they'll be golden/yellow/amber/"hazel within 5-10s years! just a bit concerned about diseases

like threadstarter, not that worried, just on exactly why they changed and still seem to be changing gradually.

Edited by HYP86, 10 May 2008 - 05:58 AM.

[mitkat]

I've heard people's eye changes also change slightly for a short time when angry or experience other extreme emotions/mood swings. I haven't tested that on myself. They only change slightly due to my level of rest/relaxation/health conditions and status, definitely getting less and less pigmented as a general trend . At this rate, they'll be golden/yellow/amber/"hazel within 5-10s years! just a bit concerned about diseases

like threadstarter, not that worried, just on exactly why they changed and still seem to be changing gradually.

I've known a few girls like this (not that it only happens to girls, but boy's eyes I don't gaze into as much) and both parties have commented that eyes in question change slightly from day to day it seems, even in the same light. It sounds doubly subjective but these differences were significant enough to notice!

[VictorBjoerk]

Are there any proof that any particular supplement really changes the eye colour?

[drmz]

great article about this on the well known and respected Wonderquest site : Linky Linky

[Heliotrope]

great article about this on the well known and respected Wonderquest site : Linky Linky

thnx! i'm like most of the ppl mentioned in your linky linky, eye color goes lighter w/ age. I'll check with a doc to see if there could be disease, which is unlikely since apparently it's due to genetics. will check with an eye doc on the disease factor. only for aesthetic reasons, i wanted it to be a bright/shining color (whether very dark brown or blue) and uniform throughout (not mixed or some in-between color), but plenty of other things to worry about.

Edited by HYP86, 10 May 2008 - 04:51 PM.

[kurdishfella]

As you age your intestine gets worse at absorbing nutrients.

I was watching a poverty video and there was a starving african kid who had blue eyes. I belive it is from a severe nutrient deficency. Your eye colour breaks down faster than skin more quicker to change first.