The Blind Biohacker Victor Mifsud

This episode focuses on his journey of seeing the world through a new lens as he overcomes life’s challenges. Victor shares the importance of vision care and different approaches on maintaining proper care. He will also open up on encountering neuroplasticity, red light therapy, and peptides and how it all improved his well-being. He will also share how his documentary called “My Neuroplastic Adventure” is one of his personal works yet.

Episode Highlights

3:23 How his struggles got him to be passionate about vision

7:40 On neuroplasticity and what it means to be seeing with the brain

9:26 Misconceptions of blindness and the different cases of Retinitis Pigmentosa 

13:17 Why eye exercises are important and how it helps with vision issues

17:43 Victor’s discussion on why the eyes need to move and see properly (and not focused in one place)

23:29 How ancestral trauma impacts the physical conditions of the body

26:51 On discovering peptides, how it works, and its benefits

34:21 How he made remarkable improvements on his eyesight

36:24 Why light is considered as the medicine of the future

41:45 Victor’s health hacks on absorbing natural light amidst cold environment

45:51 On his personal film “My Neuroplastic Adventure”

51:31 How Victor resonated to being beautifully broken

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (00:03.32)
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Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (02:17.718)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. I'm here with a very special guest as always. We have Victor Mifsud, who is, you know, essentially he's a, he's a citizen scientist, much like myself, biohacker, national or I'll say natural vision educator, psychedelic advocate and filmmaker. He is here because we're going to talk about many things. His story with

moving his vision forward. But also it's so cool because Victor has just come out with a full length documentary called My Neuroplastic Adventure, which we're going to talk about how you can get access to and see. Vision is something that, my goodness, I think about it all the time. What an input as far as the supercomputer of the human being, all the information we get from vision. So we have so much to talk about. Victor, a big heartfelt.

Thank you and welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here and I'm excited to have this conversation with you. Victor, can you give us a little background? You know, I would consider you after hearing you talk a couple of times in clubhouse, you know more about vision and eyesight and the mechanisms to which we utilize that in the body than anyone I've ever heard speak. So why this passion about vision? Well, at nine years old, I was diagnosed with a rare

genetic vision condition called retinitis pigmentosa. And I was told I was going to go blind by the time I was 30. And I was told that there's nothing that can be done about it. I was just trying to prepare my life to go blind basically. And it was a slow progression. And I was actually able to get my driver's license at 16 because my eyes weren't that bad. And then by the time I was 21, I lost my driver's license. So that

loss of my driver's license was a big hit on my mental health, my independence, you know, my body's not doing what it's supposed to do. You know, I'm at the prime of my life, you know, lost my license and it was very hard. It was like the bigger picture of am I going to go fully blind? Am I prepared to go blind? And it was a lot to take in and just kind of fast forward things. uh,

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (04:43.184)
I came across some really, really interesting books in the realm of neuroplasticity, holistic vision care, and just the power of healing. And I was blown away at the body's ability to heal from these seemingly untreatable conditions. And I thought, if this body is so intelligent, how can I hack into that? And how can I use that for my advantage? Because I was dealing with quite a few things, vision loss, severe mental health issues.

learning disabilities or learning dysfunctions. And those affected many aspects of my life. My involvement in relationships just felt completely misunderstood by a lot of people. I just felt stupid. And on top of that, I was going blind and this vision condition has a lot of like social implications because it doesn't, it often doesn't appear that there's anything wrong with, with my eyesight.

you unless I use my white cane, which I, which I have. so it was really, you know, kind of like tough, tough pills to swallow and a lot of things to deal with. And I just thought I was stuck the way I was. And you know, like life is just going to continually snowballing and getting worse. So I eventually took my health into my own hands about 10 years ago. And after reading Deutsch's book, the brain that changes itself, I found out about a school called Aerosmith school that's in Toronto. It's actually

worldwide now where they use these cognitive exercises to help reverse learning challenges. It made a huge impact on the way my brain started to function. And that was a big step. And I also learned about, you know, since the brain can change, then we see what the brain's on with the eyes. So I thought maybe that can apply to the eyes as well. Cause you know, there's this big

myth. It's like, is the eyes the only part of the body that's not capable of self healing? People wear glasses, people are wearing glasses for life. People have vision problems and they very rarely do hear somebody learning to see again. I don't know where this myth came from. It might be a little more complicated than, you break your arm, you put a cast on and the bone just kind of fixes itself. But I think once you realize what the environment is, whether it's a quantum, quantum inner world environment, quantum outer world environment,

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (07:07.236)
All these factors that we can't see actually have a huge implication on our health. But once you kind of start acknowledging these quote unquote invisible aspects of the universe, you can tap into these healing modalities and you can change your environment. You can't get well in the same environment you got sick in. So once you realize what environment really means, the spectrum of the environment, inner environment, outer environment,

You can make some really interesting changes. Incredible. Victor, you said the brain that teaches itself, and then you followed up with a really profound statement that hit me. It said, we see with the brain, not the eyes. Yeah. Can you break that down a little bit just for everybody out there? Cause I mean, in my, in my head, I see with my eyes, but I would like to hear the pathway to which you are going to frame that. When the brain is being developed, the eyes are essentially squeezed out of the brain. I mean, there's video of this showing like,

kids in utero of the development of their, you know, the body, the head, and the eyes are essentially an exterior extension of the brain. I mean, just think of where they're placed and think of the word there. just right connected to, the brain. And the most of what we see happens in the brain, not in the, in the eye itself. So yeah, incredible. Yeah. And once you kind of look at it like that,

and kind of see how neuroplasticity fits into effect. The same thing applies for the eyes. Can you also break down just the term neuroplasticity for people listening at home that might not necessarily know what that means? Right. Yes. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change itself. And that could be a positive thing or it could be a negative thing. Neuroplasticity could go both ways. Depends on the stimulus.

you're providing. I mean, you for years, we thought the brain was static. And after a certain age, that was your brain for the rest of your life. You can't change it. You can't do anything. You know, you can't teach a old dog new trick sort of thing. But that's not the case. The brain can change it at any age. Again, given the right stimulus. the other thing that I wanted to just kind of unpack is you were kind of giving us our download at the top. Retinitis pigmentosis. So, you know, we

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (09:33.944)
I guess in my brain, my understanding of we think about people losing their vision. Like you said, you start to wear glasses, you're nearsighted, you're farsighted. What was the degradation or the down regulation of your vision? What did that look like for you? Well, vision loss, you have to understand is a spectrum. Most people say or most people think that when people are blind, Tyler, you can't see nothing at all or you can see.

So blindness is a spectrum. So there's so many different types of things that can go wrong with the eye. And in my case, retinitis pigmentosa or RP for short, basically consisted of my visual fields. My tunnel vision has been slowly shrinking from the outside inward. So I look at things in a whole. So when I'm looking,

straight at this device into this camera to look at you, I can't see my hands here if I'm just staring straight at the camera. I can't see them here unless I move them into this field. So this is out of my visual fields and I can't see it. But I can see whatever is in that tunnel. I can see in perfect clarity color. So it's like I'm looking my life through a toilet paper tube or something like that.

And it also shifts during the day where there's more available light, the visual field actually expands a bit. And that night I have a night vision issue. the vision, the tunnel drastically shrinks. the rods or the cones, I always mix those up of the eye are not regenerating. They've been dying out and not replacing themselves. And basically what ends up happening is that tunnel was to shrink and then totally

cancel out all my vision. So that's retinitis pigmentosa. And even retinitis pigmentosa can vary in people. Some people get it, you know, when they're 19 and by the time they're 21, they're just completely blind. It just comes on right away. But mine sort of happened from, you know, while I was diagnosed at nine, you know, was a very, very, very slow progression. And I think wherever my health was in maybe not the best places, the vision loss accelerated. So that's where I have to make sure like I have to

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (12:01.656)
be as healthy as possible and really look into what's causing that to see if I can slow this down or stop it or reverse it. You know, there's so many other types of vision issues. There's stargardt's disease, which is very different. Cataracts, which I actually ended up getting at 32. So I had cataracts. That's where the lens of the eye ends up having this white little film over it. That actually made me feel more blind than my retinitis pigmentosa because it's like this

Somebody's smearing butter on a pair of glasses that you can't wipe off. So no matter how much you have these glasses on, glasses aren't going to change this focus because you're still looking through this cloud on the lens. at 32, I got both of my lenses replaced in my eye. cataracts, you think about it, cataracts is an issue that hear old people get. So why was I at 29 starting to get cataracts?

you know, and, and again, on top of dealing with my retinitis pigmentosa, I was like, man, something's going on. I like, this is not looking good. So again, I had to, take my health into my own hands and, really find out what I can do to at least slow this down. Let's talk about some of the things that you did and some of the things you found to be the most efficacious to slow. was this one book that absolutely changed my life.

And it's by this one author. actually has three books, which are all kind of related to vision. One of the books was called Take Off Your Glasses and See by Dr. Jacob Lieberman. And this work is based on, there was a doctor about a hundred years ago named William Bates. And he pioneered, you know, the movement that we can change our eyes, that we can actually strengthen and relax our eyes to

basically help with the most common vision issues. Cause you know, we, we, every morning we wake up, we brush our teeth, we take a shower, but what are we doing for maintenance for our eyes? We just take them for granted. We open them and then we close them, but nobody's taking care of them. You know, hardly anybody's taking care of them. Like what are they doing? They're just kind like going about their day, rubbing their eyes and that's it. But there's a lot of exercise and relaxation techniques that

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (14:29.68)
to have a profound effect is basically sight needs to be an effortless view. And what I mean by that is we don't realize that we have these muscles in the eye, behind the eye that are being stressed. And once they stress the system, it leads to blood loss to the eye. It also leads to, I'll use this example, I'm holding this little eyeball in my hand and we have these muscles surrounding the eye.

You know, there's times when you're stressed during the day and you don't realize that you've been clenching your jaw. wow. And you have to take like this a second to really analyze the goal. I've been clenching my jaw this whole time. And, you kind of feel the strain going on until you stop it. The same thing happens with the eyes and the sense that these muscles could be strained. And what I'm what I'm doing here is squishing the ball. But when I squished this, eyeball.

the shape of the eye changes. And when you change the shape of the eye, you change the refraction. The distance in the eyeball is squished, so it's further. So the refraction changes. So your eyesight is blurred because the distance has changed. So one of the debates method has this technique called palming. it's just, you just take the palms of your hand here and then you kind of put them over your eye.

you're not squishing in, you're just kind of like holding them there. And you do this five, 10 minutes a day. And it's just allowing your eye to actually be held as opposed to the muscles, having them on. it gives a chance for them to truly relax. That is one of the big, simple techniques that can help relax the eye muscles. And there's another one too. It's a, it's a swinging technique as well. It's almost like a Qigong exercise where you're just, you know, swinging from like side to side.

It actually is very beneficial too if you're doing it in a great light source as well because you're allowing the eyes to relax. And then there's other exercises where you look up, look down, left, look right, look top right, top left, et cetera. So nobody's exercising or relaxing the eyes and it has a profound effect on blood, providing oxygen to the eyes. So it's just really

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (16:54.904)
it's really important. And I think these simple techniques can be very beneficial for helping people restore vision issues. mean, those common stuff can be changed, you know, like a presbyopia and myopia are like this, the most simple vision issues. So those can be changed. And this book also taught me that there's a big, big connection between, you know, vision loss, blurry vision and certain vision issues to trauma.

You know, trauma like childhood trauma, just trauma in general. And there's a lot of evidence showing that the body, if something happened at a certain distance, the body couldn't handle seeing it. So it didn't want to see it. So what does it do? It manifests into not seeing it by blurring it out for you. There's actually, it's funny, you're talking about all this. I, and I just remembered it popped into my head. There was a therapist I worked at one time and what she would do is

she would actually, and it's so funny, and it was one of the most profound experiences I had in cognitive therapy. She would actually, she would play this music from, I think it was David Grand. And it was just these scrolling waves and background music, viral beats, maybe. And she would actually have a puppet on a stick. And she would take it across my visual field. And she goes, tell me when you want the puppet to stop, know, left and right. And I was like, are you kidding me?

You know, but there would be a time when almost like I'd watch it and my brain would like get tight or my eyes would get tight. And she goes, whenever it stops, you're going to stay with that. The aspect of this little puppet until you feel the tension unravel. And I would do that. And, you know, we would, we would do this for 45 minutes. And it was so funny because it was like $225. And I just said, do a lot of people come here and sort of laugh. like, am I paying you to move a puppet across on a stick? And she goes, yes. So

What I would experience is elation. would have these, I would leave the sessions and have so much joy in my body and be so, would, I was experiencing these levels of de-burdening, less stress. And what she had explained to me was that's your body allowing trauma to unravel. And there's a somewhere in your visual field that has so much tension around it that's connected to a different part of the brain. I wish I could remember what the exact therapy or the science was.

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (19:19.9)
EMDR is, is, and I've done that as well. I've done the EMDL with the, with the little buzzers and you're looking back and forth. This was different. It was, it was very slow. was like following the little puppet, but in the similar field. And I'm sure they work the same way. I've, I've had great response from both an amazing releases from emotional EMDR. I mean, just incredible releases. mean,

screaming or crying and just unbelievable like a well was untapped within my body from this therapy. And again, on the other side, feeling my heart was open, I was more empathetic, I was more engaged in the human experience. And again, it's eye movement. So really fascinating the overlap of how the eyes can access different emotional components in the brain. Well, yeah, prime example of that is

accessing emotion or ideas. Like I was watching your eyes when you were telling the story and your eyes, I if you can see them, when you were looking, when you're telling your story, you were kind of doing this, looking up, looking to the top right, to the top left and down. It's like, what are you, what are you looking at? But you're, that's how you access emotions. Like if I asked you a couple of questions, like what was the name of the first street that you grew up on?

Yeah. just move upper Holly road. Yeah. And then, you know, like what's your, what's your mother's maiden name? my God. That's so weird. Linda Peters. Yep. That was different. They were both different spots. Yeah. Yeah. So the eyes help access. And if a lot of people don't understand is when they start wearing certain types of glasses, especially from a regular optometrist, the way these modern glasses are designed,

They're designed to keep your eyes fixed to dead center, always in focus because of if you have a stigmatism compensation that that crutches the side and then depends on the prescription that you have. The dead center of each of the glasses is in clear focus. Your eyes aren't going to want to move away from that fixed point, even though it's not necessarily natural to have that. So there is the issue of modern optometrists accentuating

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (21:35.118)
the epidemic of glasses and vision issues because they're not providing, you know, the, facilitating the change in the eyes. So they're almost locking. It's like, it's, they're, they're building infrastructure to lock trauma into the body. Cause the body's going to through entrainment, not going to be accessing memories in the same way. Possibly. Yeah. And it doesn't, because the eyes need to move to see properly. And if it's not moving, it's, it's, it's, if you don't, if you don't use it, you lose it.

So there are ways to actually get a pair of glasses to allow your eyes to move a little better by either removing the stigmatization, compensation, eventually like lowering the diopters. So a lot of people who get glasses, they say like, they give me a headache and the eye doctor, the optometrist is like, you'll get used to it. That saying of you getting used to it is one of the worst things they could possibly say because that's not right.

So basically I'm just here to empower people that the eyes can change if you kind of give them the right stimulus and look a little further into that possibility. mean, my RP was a bit more ingrained in the system because it was a genetic condition. whether that means it could have been an ancestral trauma in my system. That's why these genes kind of got handed down. And I believe it was up to me in my...

lineage to kind of put a stop to that, whether locate the ancestral trauma that was associated with it or really kind of go at my eyes with different techniques to heal. And that's where I kind of got into peptides and red light therapy for the eyes, syntonic light therapy, psychedelic therapy have all been big game changers in facilitating

the improvement of my vision. I want to talk about peptides, the psychedelics. I want to talk about red light, but first I want to go to, and I think I'm of your belief system, that ancestral trauma is something that we do benefit from addressing, looking at it. I almost look at it like breaking the chains forward and backward. What would you say, you know, to somebody listening and they're like, wait a minute, like,

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (23:53.944)
He's not just going to work on his physical body. Now, what do mean on working on ancestral trauma that could have an impact in a physical condition in your words? mean, at first it does seem a little woo woo. But if you think about it, if something's genetic, it gets handed down from your ancestors. Why did this gene go off in the first place? I mean, it's now there's a lot of data, a lot of science from a neuroplastic perspective, from an epigenetic perspective, from that.

ancestral trauma, if not alleviated, turns off genes. You know, the work of Dr. Gabramonte as well shows that childhood trauma can affect gene expression and unresolved childhood trauma can lead to autoimmune issues, cancer, and that's in our time. But if you have these genes from your ancestors that were, that they had a trauma that wasn't resolved, it has an effect on the system. And there's a, like I said, there's a lot of science. There's an amazing book by Mark Wolin.

called It Didn't Start With You. And it's all about the science of ancestral trauma. And it's quite fascinating how it does manifest. Beautiful. Yeah. I'm a believer. Check that book out. It blew my mind. He's a very interesting fellow. He actually had vision loss himself in his 30s. And he said he was going to go blind. he eventually got to alleviating his ancestral trauma. He got his vision back.

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This is a beautifully broken podcast stamp of approval, five stars. Now let's get back to the show. If we can pivot back to, you mentioned some awesome biohacker things that I've talked about from show to show. We had red lights, we had peptides, we had psychedelics. Let's jump into the peptides for our listeners. just to frame it for people, a peptide that you've definitely heard of is insulin. It's essentially a string of amino acids that's going to substitute in the body.

We can have big peptides or small peptides. Some of the littler ones, it's almost like they can do anything in the body. They can input and help the body heal. I like to give the example of it's like the word the in Harry Potter. It shows up a lot of times. So some of these small peptides can be a great facilitator in your story. So Victor, what's worked for you as far as peptides and how did you get into that?

Peptides are signaling molecules. The body creates peptides all the time. Your thyroid creates peptides. As you mentioned, insulin was one of the first peptides as well. And I got into peptides about three years ago when I was just digging around and found this research from Russia and these bioregulator peptides that they've been using for the past like 30, 40 years.

And these bioregulator peptides work on the target individual things like the brain. There's a peptide called epitalon. And that's an amazing, very small peptide that has profound effects on longevity, pineal gland, circadian rhythm, dreams, sleep, increasing telomere length. then

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (28:33.902)
There's immune system peptides, thymus and alpha one, thymus and beta four, which you can have profound effects on people dealing with stubborn autoimmune issues. There's a lot of amazing data about thymus and alpha one, probably one of the most important peptides out there right now. And then there's BPC 157, which is such a versatile peptide for muscle repair, ligaments, stomach issues, cognitive enhancement.

dopamine regulation. So all these ones I'm listing is the ones that I've taken for my protocols. And then one of the biggest, most important peptides that I came across was this retinal, a retinal peptide called retinamelin or norm of tall. And again, a very small peptide actually actually has a very similar signature to the brain peptide epitallium, but it has a bit of a twist. And the data on that showing that it's

had a drastic reversal for my specific condition retinitis pigmentosa. I was like, my God, I need to try this thing. I've, again, there's quite a few videos about the Russians and the peptides and the bioregulators. So yeah, so I'm actually running my second course of this vision peptide protocol. And in the meantime, I was doing a lot of other stuff to kind of keep the immune system up, like taking the thymus alpha one.

Thymosine beta-4 BPC, those are kind of like on the regular. I actually have an eye drop that's made from TB4 Thymosine beta-4 eye drop that's custom made for me. I actually found a good company that makes a great liquid stable BPC where I drop in my eyes as well. So I'm doing that. And then there's a few other brain peptides. It's cerebral lysine, which is being shown to actually help, again, the brain and retina because it has BDNF, brain drive neurotrophic factor. So

You know, just really do what I can to enhance cognitive ability, brain function, BDNF, growth hormone, squashing inflammation, supporting detox with like another peptide I'm taking that's an eye drop is L-Carnicine, which you can buy over online relatively easily. It's L-Carnicine drop and it's a profound peptide that can help detox the eye and lubricate the crystalline lens of the eye, making it a little more

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (30:58.445)
flexible because as we age, if we don't do that, kind of like it's a, the lens hardens a bit. And that's why when people get older, they, they need the readers to see. So it's, again, it's increasing the antioxidant power in the eyes and helping to lubricate things. And then there's a few other peptides VIP, which is intranasal. Some are now being available intranasal as you just spritz it up your nose.

again to help. Essentially it's going directly to the brain, right? Through the nose. that's a pretty good delivery system. Most peptides right now, unfortunately are delivered subcutaneous injection or intramuscular injection, which is not so bad. I I was eeked of needles and then I said, screw this, if I'm to have to try and take my health to the next level, I'm down for...

injecting myself. Yeah, it can be a little bit of a barrier to entry for people, but it really is just like a little diabetic needle and it's, totally, you know, it's, totally easy. It's like a little beast thing and it's not that bad. And like you said, they are starting to formulate some, I've worked with companies that deliver these through a patch. Like you said, the drops and the sprays VIP very interestingly is that that's vasopressin.

I think so. forgot what the, I forgot what VIP stands for. Anyway, that's big in the mold community and that's big and regenerating the neuroplasticity of the brain. know brain fog cognitive function is one of the first things to go. And I know that was, that was one of the things that was prescribed to me after it's actually, yeah, they're studying it for everything. Even the long haul vasoactive intestinal peptide.

But they're studying it for many, many, many, many things, actually restoring the sense of smell and taste from people with long hauler symptoms of COVID. So it's many, many applications out there and just something to, again, it's, it's not something you're going to get from your medical doctor. This is something that you're at this point, you're going to, maybe you're going to have a functional medicine doctor to guide you, but it's, this is kind of, you know, the international man of mystery scientists that you need to be to come up with some of this stuff.

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (33:13.443)
I maybe would suggest that it is possible, depends where you are located. If you can look up the SSRP website, which is started by Dr. Seeds, he has a list of qualified trained peptide doctors that are in the United States and Canada. Dr. Seeds is my doctor. I'm working with him on peptides.

And he's like, we worked for the NFL, dancing with the stars. And, you know, he's, he kind of popularized, he was the head of the Internet International Peptide Society as well. So he actually came out with this book called Peptide Protocols Volume One, which is, is a good entryway into learning about what peptides can do, how they work. That's great. Yeah, I feel honored to be working with him. He's provided me a lot of

interesting guidance and, you know, I'm getting to try all these fun peptides as well. I'm his, he big. And what's been your experience so far? What have you noticed from peptides? So when I, before I started about, I started November, 2019 is when I flew to Ohio to visit Dr. Seeds at his facility. And so before that I went to my optometrist and said, let's do the full Monte vision test.

peripheral vision, visual fields, everything, eye pressure. And so I had a baseline. So then I went to go visit him and I've been getting peptides for the past year and a half. Six months ago, I went to go check. My visual field has been slowly increasing. So my is actually expanding, which is supposed to be unheard of with my condition.

And I went again, two and a half weeks ago. And again, still continuing to expand my visual fields, which again, absolutely unheard of. Let's just take everybody listening now. If you're driving a car, take one hand on the wheel, throw one hand up, do a little shimmy, go ahead and clap at home. Go ahead and make a noise for, for Victor. Cause that, that goes forward and backward in time. That's dude.

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I mean, I wish I had the crowd sounds on my podcast, like the cheers of the NFL stadium, cause I would throw that right now. That's, that's awesome, man. Yeah, it's, I still kind of can't believe it myself. I mean, I, I've been doing a lot and I, and I, I don't know. I think it's the peptides that actually helped kind of move the needle. I've also been doing a lot of, red light therapy as well. red light therapy in the eyes can be

quite profound if the timing and distance and the correct wavelength nanometers are applied. So I've been doing that as well. And there's a lot of really interesting data showing that it has a profound effect on again, my condition right now, spigmentosa and a lot of other vision issues. Yeah, I'm actually doing a webinar with my light guru tonight, Scott Kennedy. He has a company Light Path LED.

And it's really, really fascinating because what he's doing is obviously the red light industry, it's, it's well known. think the bio-optimizers biohackers after workout recovery. But what's, what's really interesting is the overlap of this energy medicine and frequency work. And what Scott's done is he's actually has panels where you can put zero to 10,000 Hertz in the panel. you can change, change the wavelength of these.

the two different spectrums like 660 and 810, whatever those are, that kind of range. And it's really amazing. I mean, you can feel that the depth of penetration changes. You can feel the different energy I get like this, which doesn't happen with all red lights, but my body releases so much nitric oxide that my lips get like red and tingly. Like I can feel when I'm on different wavelengths, the change in that just cause I'm very, very sensitive to energy.

I'm really excited for people to have access. I would say 99 % of the people are going to be like, I'm such a believer. Like get a red light, have it your home, like turn it on and off, be in front of it 10 to 15 minutes a day. And then if you're somebody that's, you know, dealing with a little more intense health condition, then look at these multi-wave panels because it's, it's really, really exciting. Some of the things you're going to be able to do in your home just to manage your wellness. Well, light is the medicine of the future.

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I really believe there's a another profound book by Dr. Jacob Lieberman. This was written in, think in 1994, really profound. It touches upon the impact of light and health and syntonic light therapy, which is something that's been around for almost a hundred years as well, where it's subjecting your body to a prescribed color light that once this is Sean,

shine through the eyes and through this Sintonizer color light machine. It has quite a profound effect on mental health issues, vision issues, just basically rebalancing the system through light and color. And again, it seems pretty woo woo and weird, but you know, if you look at the work that Dr. John thought,

He wrote this book, Health and Light. He actually used to work for Disney. was the grandfather of time-lapse photography. And he was responsible for, I can't remember what Disney cartoon it was, you know, where these pumpkin patches were really growing wild and he was producing big pumpkins, but indoors using different tined colored lights. It sounds like Cinderella.

Yeah, yeah. And there was another one I can't remember. I think it could be easily looked up, but he was fascinating. There's an amazing documentary. It's a bit dated, but I mean, came out in the late 70s, maybe early 80s. It's called Exploring the Spectrum. And the first half is about the colors and lights effect on plants. And the second half is its effect on animals, children as well. mean, he's doing these experiments on children, which probably wouldn't be allowed to be done these days. Nothing bad or harmful, but

Yeah, it's really profound. And this is all done on people living under these certain colored lights for extended periods of time and then showing either beneficial results or like extreme ADD symptoms or even cancer growth. And again, we can't see these things. We just think a light is on or off. So it's like, it's not going to affect. That's why people living indoors, like under artificial lights, staring at their computers all day,

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completely disrupting your circadian rhythm has a mass effect on health. know, like we're supposed to, we were meant to wake up in the morning, get outside, look at the morning sun, the low angle of the sun has a profound effect of this color signatures that we can see and can't see that turn on the spectrum of information via the suprachosmetic nucleus to tell hormones what they do, dopamine.

It starts the birth of melatonin for later on during the day. All these signals are created with morning light. And most of us now get up, look at our phone, which the blue light phone signal just throws off your circadian rhythm right away. Sunrise is mainly about 42 % red infrared. And even the lux of just being outside to wake up the system is so important. Then you can't get that inside.

So, and most people live this indoor life existence, staring at their computers and the eyes again, the eyes need to see stuff far away to sort of get that practice to like look far, look close. Cause when I grew up in school, I was under crappy fluorescent lights, which are brutal on the system. And not to mention they have a flicker and you know, if you're just staring at the classroom and the chalkboard for whatever eight hours a day, five days a week,

You know, just asking for these vision issues. So I have a question for you. So you live in Toronto, correct? Yes. So how do you living in an urban environment? How do you, aside from the red light, like what kind of lifestyle hacks do you use to expose yourself to more natural elements, more dirt, more full spectrum light, more outdoors? Cause right now in Toronto, it's cold. It's bitter cold. is. Yep. It's March and it's cold. Supposed to actually warm up a little bit today, but,

I must admit it's a bit harder to get that, to get grounded. mean, who, I mean, we all know what the importance of grounding walking barefoot. So obviously in the winter when there's snow on the ground and ice on the ground, it's hell of a lot harder. So basically what I do is I wake up in the morning and just, the first thing I do is just, just get outside, whether it's cloudy or gray, it's much better than being inside regardless.

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So you'll still get that benefit. If you had like a light spectrometer meter, you look at the light signal, what you're picking up inside versus outside the Lux, even on a cloudy day, it's a hell of a lot stronger. So your body needs that signal to like, Hey, wake up. So a summertime, it's a lot easier. like, just, I'm lucky I have a backyard and in the morning that's where the sun kind of comes up in the backyard. So I wake up in the morning and

make like a, you know, make my morning coffee and just barefoot. It's not like sunrise coming up right from the horizon, but it's better than nothing right now. Do you ever see yourself living somewhere in more nature? Yes. Yes. Yes. boy. My God, my God. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. And that's a big, big, big part of my health journey was

where I felt stuck and like, what is wrong with me? Why can't I still get to the next level? Feeling better, feeling more energized, better sleep. But was only until I really affected my light environment is when the big changes happened. So I decided three years ago that I didn't want to spend winters in Toronto anymore. So I fly to Playa La Carmen, Mexico. I have a buddy, he's kind of moved there for the same reason. So he let me stay with him. Good.

good friend Andrew. And when I did that, I'm 42. So I've spent 42 winters in Canada and that accumulates into, you know, negative health. I mean, I'm Mediterranean. So my haplotype was used to like a sunnier climate. then from one generation being used to stronger sun, the other thing that a lot of people don't know about when it comes to vitamin D or hormone D is that

If you're above the 37th latitude parallel from, you know, in the North hemisphere between October to April, the angle of the sun is too high up to give UVB signal. And UVB signal is vitamin D signal. So for three, four months out of the year, if you're thinking you're outside and it's sunny in the winter, you just think, I'll get some vitamin D. You're not getting any vitamin D.

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And vitamin D is really the best received from lights as opposed to taking it in any capsule form. So that's another factor of living here and not, you know, we're light beings and color beings and we need full spectrum lights. That's the other thing. We're clothed and we're all wearing hats in the winter. we're not, that's why get yourself a red light panel in the winter. If you're living, I have a, just right here, I have a vitamin D lamp.

by spurty. I have a big panel, four spectrum red led panel, and I actually use a black light as well. The two fluorescent black light tubes that I turn on just to kind of fill in the reds and the purples of the spectrum from indoor lighting. Wow. That's a great health hack way to hack the environment. Victor, you and you also, we mentioned just right at the top that you had a documentary that's out.

Right now, can we talk a little bit about the film so people can do a deeper dive on your story? Yes, sure. The film is called My Neuroplastic Adventure and it is a personal film about my healing journey. You know, for the past 10 years, people, amazing people that I've worked with, Barbara Aerosmith is in my film. She's the woman who changed her brain. She's got a very interesting book out. She kind of developed this program, fixed her own learning issues through

these cognitive exercises that she created and founded a school. I speak with Professor Magda Havish. She's like an EMF expert up here in Ontario. She's actually world recognized for her work on electromagnetic fields, the harm of, and she also studies PMF too. So she's, she knows the harm and the benefit of certain EMF fields. And I, there's also, I touch upon somatic therapy.

sound therapy, sound healing. You know, there's an interview with me and my psychotherapist, my somatic therapist. Like I said, it's a very personal film where I talk about my struggles with complex PTSD and the lengths that I went through to try and work through this stuff, including I worked with Dr. Gabor Mate, who's a world renowned trauma expert based in Canada. He's written some amazing books, one called Scattered.

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minds about the true origins of a deficit disorder and when the body says no, which is about trauma manifesting into autoimmune issues. And at the same time, he was looking into ayahuasca, which is a psychedelic plant medicine from the Amazon, showing that it had profound effects on people who had complex post-traumatic stress disorder, stubborn depression, anxiety issues, where these plant medicines worked

wonders on the system and alleviating trauma. So that's in my film as well. He's been a mentor of mine. And I also talk with somebody who was in Norman Deutsch's book, The Brain's Way of Healing. His name was David Weber, and he was the blind man who learned to see. He had uveitis, a vision condition, and he used the Feldenkrais method.

and ended up regaining a lot of his sight back by differentiating certain systems in the body and by using these Speldon Christ techniques, which I took one of his classes in the film and we kind of go through it. gives me a couple of lessons on how to use the power of the body and the mind to promote blood circulation, oxygen. So it's sort of very similar to the Bates method, but a bit different, but also very interesting. So

Yeah, the film is just about my journey. And like I said, it's a very personal film where I just talk about a lot of what I went through. And I see it as a roadmap for people who were going through very difficult times and was told that, you're stuck this way and nothing can be done about it. And, you know, it's just all about me, you know, not taking no for an answer and just digging and investigating the ancient wisdom, modern science approach to getting well.

Amazing. then Victor, how can people connect with you offline? and, know, I imagine you're, have this incredible amount of resources, especially in this area of expertise. Do you coach or guide people that are kind of looking for a roadmap through improving their vision, improving their health? do. Yes. I can be, you know, Instagram blind biohacker at blind biohacker. That's a quite common way to reach me. I've put together the vision optimization summit.

Freddie Kimmel and Victor Mifsud (49:40.269)
So if you go to visionoptimizationsummit.com, as of April 2nd, all eight talks will be available by Barbara Aerosmith is doing a talk on neuroplasticity. Dr. Seeds is doing a talk on peptides and the body and the eyes. There is a red light rising people. It's a red light company talking about, you know, the power of red light on the body and the eyes. There is a talk on behavioral optometry, the impact.

Dr. Jacob Lieberman, whose books I recommended, he's a part of the summit as well. He talks about trauma's effect on the eyes and what can be done about it. And there's another talk on syntonic light therapy and psychedelics. So the power of those kind of combined, it's going to be a very interesting summit. And there's a talk on the Bates method as well. So it's quite covering all the bases on what Goldilocks environment might be needed to change.

the mindset, change the eyes and facilitate that. So yeah, if anyone wants to go get tickets, they can just register and they'll have access to all the talks. Incredible event. Awesome website. We'll put all these things in the show notes. you've said so many resources. I'm sure we could do like three or four podcasts. I mean, I'd already open invitation to come back and do a deeper dive on any one of these things.

as people, um, you know, get in and I implore people to go watch the documentary, go to the summit, you know, go to the summit. I guarantee you know, so many people in your life that could benefit this. And for the $40, that is the price of a dinner and Applebee's. So two dinners at Applebee's, but you should go do it. You know, take action on some of this stuff. It's awesome to listen, but it's, it's awesome. It's way better to move on it and put it in your life. Kind of, you know, wrapping up our hour, Victor, just one last question.

beautifully broken podcast. What does it mean to you to be beautifully broken? means a lot. really like the name. It really resonated with me and I can most definitely relate to it. It took me a while to understand that I was beautifully broken, but I often say going blind taught me what it really means to see. So I think that kind of fits in there with that. Just accepting that my vision loss at first I hated it.

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I was ashamed to tell a lot of people about it and it was an interesting ride, but it's brought me here and I feel blessed now to have gone through that and whatever I'm learning, whatever new things I'm learning and just my goal is to share what I've learned to help people. And that's what I'm here for is just to serve. So it shows up in everything you're doing, man, in your voice and the resonance of your work and

easily one of my most important podcasts ever approaching a hundred episodes. So I'm super excited for people to have access to this and, again, to collaborate on more things. So there will be more Victor. Thank you for being a guest, my friend. Namaste. Thank you. Namaste. Namaste. Does anybody think that these health upgrades sound expensive? They can be an investment, but after truly learning how many works,

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